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Thursday, May 8, 2025

Original art for ADVENTUREMAN: Family Tree #2 Cover

Original art for ADVENTUREMAN: Family Tree #2 Cover featuring the new Adventureman, Claire Connell, Sally Sweet, Tommy and Cross Draw on their ADVENTURECYCLE!

Original Art is 13" x 19" with brush and ink on Bristol board

Out now from Image Comics!

Preview the issue

PREVIEW

Monday, September 25, 2017

Astonishing X-Men #1 Cover Step by Step Part 3 Line Art Bonus

Here's the Astonishing X-Men #1 Variant Cover featuring Fantomex and Psylocke!

By Rachel Dodson and Me.

Out now from Marvel Comics.

Now for Part 3 of the Step by Step making of the cover art -

Video of Rachel inking this...

LINE ART BONUS

Next time -

COLOR

PART 1

PENCILS

PART 2

LINE ART

Sunday, July 16, 2017

Astonishing X-Men #1 Cover Step by Step Part 2 Line Art

Here's the Astonishing X-Men #1 Variant Cover featuring Fantomex and Psylocke!

By Rachel Dodson and Me.

Out now from Marvel Comics.

Now for Part 2 of the Step by Step making of the cover art -

LINE ART

Rachel Dodson inks directly over my original pencil drawing.

Rachel inks with a Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Dr. Martens Hi Carb Ink.

Rachel likes to start in the foreground with the main face.

Detail of same

Now on to the background figure

Detail

Guns and SFX are last

Artwork is scanned into Photoshop at 800dpi Gray full size. I then go in and convert to Bitmap and clean to prepare for....

Next time,

PART 3

LINE ART BONUS

PART 1

PENCILS

Friday, July 7, 2017

Astonishing X-Men #1 Cover Step by Step Part 1 Pencils

Here's the Astonishing X-Men #1 Variant Cover featuring Fantomex and Psylocke!

By Rachel Dodson and Me.

Out now from Marvel Comics.

Now for Part 1 of the Step by Step making of the cover art -

PENCILS

COVER SKETCH

The cover concept I sent into Marvel Comics Editors Mark Paniccia and Christina Harrington for approval.

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 on 12" x 18" Bristol Board

Quickly roughed in the drawing making sure the composition still help.

I printed out my rough in light blue on the paper to ensure the composition was positioned correctly.

Now that the composition is set and initial drawing in, I moved to my Staedtler HB Lead Pencil.

Since I'm convinced that the figures are good, I go ahead and move to the faces (as that is my strength).

First up is Psylocke - close but no cigar....

Slight tweak on Psylockes faces and bring her hair down.

Start to tighten her "roundness" of figure.

Fantom is in a good position to start finishing.

Work on finishes on the figure of Psylocke and prepping Fantomex.

Decide to push Psylocke's expression a bit more.

Finishes on Fantomex.

Finish the SFX and Psylocke's "wrap".

And nail lighting on Fantomex.

FINALLY get Psylocke's expression! JEEZ! It's either right or wrong - no middle!

DETAIL

FINAL PENCILS

Next time,

PART 2

INKS

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Infinite Crisis #1 Slumber Party Harley Quinn Variant Cover Step by Step PART THREE Color

Here's a look behind how the SLUMBER PARTY HARLEY QUINN variant cover of INFINITE CRISIS #1 was created (out NOW from DC Comics).

And now finally, how I colored this…

The first stage of coloring is to have the art "flatted".

Flatting allows me to choose an area to color at any point throughout the coloring process.

At this stage I go and adjust the colors to their medium value or imprimatura - I use this as the starting point.

Knew exactly how I was going to color this so quick stage for me...

My initial rough in of the colors, done in Photoshop CS3 and Wacom Cintiq 13HD. I add darker values first and then the lighter values.

Already happy with how this is going I move right into altering the lineart to color.

Initial coloring pass.

Screenshot detail

Finalized version

Printed version

PART ONE

PART TWO

You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer

http://www.comicshoplocator.com/Home/1/1/57/575

And digitally at

https://www.comixology.com/Infinite-Crisis-Fight-for-the-Multiverse-2014-1/digital-comic/98728

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Legendary Star-Lord #1 Variant Cover Step by Step Part ONE Pencils

Here's a look of how we created the Variant Cover to Legendary Star-Lord #1 by Marvel Comics.

The book is out now written by Sam Humphries and drawn by Paco Medina.

So we start off with the initial stage of creating the cover, the pencils...

This is Variant Cover for Midtown Comics - I was given the assignment of Rocket Raccoon hitting on Kitty Pryde with a stunned Star-Lord entering the scene - fun stuff!

These are sketches I sent in to Mike Marts at Marvel.

These were drawn at 2x3 inches in my sketchbook in pencil and Pitt/Pigma pens and Copic Grey Markers and then cleaned up and colored in Photoshop.

This is one of those covers where I know exactly what I want so I dive straight into it!

My initial pencils, drawn in Light Blue and HB lead on 12 x 18 Bristol Board. I was happy with everyone but wasn't sold on Kitty Pryde's expression and this cover is all about acting...

So did some refining and a 2nd pass on Kitty, but the expression was good - she got a little too goofy looking.

So, my 3rd attempt at Kitty - success!

Nailed down the rest of the details - easy!!!

Details

Next time - Rachel's Inks!

You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer

http://www.comicshoplocator.com/Home/1/1/57/575

And digitally at

https://www.comixology.com/Legendary-Star-Lord-1/digital-comic/114525

Friday, June 27, 2014

Vampirella #1 Cover - Step by Step Part THREE - COLOR

Here's a look of how we created the cover to Vampirella 1…

The book is out now written by Nancy A. Collins and drawn by Patrick Berkenkotter.

Final stage, the icing, the COLORS….

Yeah, flats…

The first stage of coloring is to have the art "flatted".

Flatting allows me to choose an area to color at any point throughout the coloring process.

At this stage I go and adjust the colors to their medium value or imprimatura - I use this as the starting point.

Knew exactly how I was going to color this so quick stage for me...

My initial rough in of the colors, done in Photoshop CS3 with my temporarily owned (I'll explain later) Wacom Cintiq 21UX. I add darker values first and then the lighter values.