Totally Awesome Hulk #9 Cover

Ships this week from Marvel Comics.

I will be doing a step by step on this soon!

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Civil War #0 Captain Marvel Variant Cover Step by Step Part 1 Line Art

Variant cover art Rachel Dodson and I did for Civil War II #0.

Done for Fan Expo Canada.

Details here-

Fan Expo Store

And how we made the art!

Pretty simple concept

  

Captain Marvel V Iron Man - and as I love Captain Marvel I had her being "attacked" by Iron Man!

Marvel requested Iron Man head in background - no problem!

Roughs were drawn at 2" x 3" in my sketchbook using Warm Grey Copics then colored in Photoshop CS3.

Initial Pencils drawn in Light Blue and HB lead on 11" x 17" Bristol Board

Observant readers will notice I assumed pose and attitude to her first appearance in Astonishing Spider-Man #8 which I drew 3-4 years ago...

I scanned in the pencils, roughed in the Iron Man head and then traced off on my trusty Huion Light Table - which I love!!!

Detail of Upper Body

Rachel Dodson's inks

Rachel inks over my pencils with a Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic Ink

Yeah, more details of Rachel's inks...

In Part Two, COLORS!

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CIVIL WAR II #1 Variant Cover Step by Step Part 2 Color

And now the colors ....

FLAT COLOR

The first stage of color is called flats - flatting allows me to choose an area to color at any point throughout the coloring process.

Generally, I hire someone to do this for me - a "flatter".

At this stage I go and adjust the colors to their medium value or imprimatura - I use this as the starting point for the piece. - the first part of coloring. 

INITIAL COLORS

I colored this on my Cintiq 13 HD using Photoshop CS3 after I scanned the original line art.

Used Paint Bucket to readjust the colors.

Used a big Pencil tool to rough in at 100% of color then used lower % to work to add lighter and darker values.

BACKGROUND

Used a Custom "Cloud" brush to rough in the background. 

COLORING LINEART

Converting Lineart to Color.

Adding Reflective color.

General cleanup especially all those big brushstrokes...

Revised Final Colors

That background really bugged me - pretty simple compositional rule - repeat angles and opposites - that background echoed the foreground characters so I slanted the background the opposite way.

Plus some additional clean up on the characters.

Detail of coloring...

The printed cover.

Out Now

Part 1

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CIVIL WAR II #1 Variant Cover Step by Step Part 1 Line Art

So Axel Alonso offered me  cover I couldn't say no to - the Team Captain Marvel Hip Hop Variant Cover to Marvel Comics big summer event - Civil War II.

So the idea behind this one was to do something inspired by the Ultramagnetic MC's cover.

Cover Sketch

Roughs were drawn at 2 x 3" in my sketchbook using Warm Grey Copics then colored in Photoshop CS3.

Initial Rough in 

Light Blue Col Erase Pencil

Staedtler HB Lead/Holder

12 x 18 Bristol Board

Next stage of finishes

Final Pencils

Gave She-Hulk more "back of her head"...

Rachel'sInks

She Hulk Detail

Rachel inks over my pencils with a Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic Ink to ink the covers with.

Captain Marvel Detail

Great variety of lines created just with the brush!

Spider-Man Detail

Love how Rachel cross hatches - I give her tons to do because she excels at it!

Ok, next time - colors!

Part 2

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Captain Marvel Civil War Variant Cover Art

Variant cover art Rachel Dodson and I did for Civil War II #0.

Done for Fan Expo Canada.

Details here-

Fan Expo Store

I will be posting a Step by Step soon!

TD