Ms Marvel Auction Sketch Step by Step

Drawn at the Boston Comic Con Charity Drink and Draw, Friday, August 11th - for the 

Mike Wieringo Memorial Art Auction, 

which benefits not only the Ringo Scholarship at SCAD but also the Canadian Cancer Society in 

memory of Darwyn Cooke. 

Ms Marvel by request

Initial rough in

Col Erase Scarlet Red Pencil

Drawn on 9" x 12" Canson Mi-TeintesPastel paper

Decided on "Joke"

Finding the drawing with a thin pen I can go over with the Copics to avoid bleeding blacks.

Pigma Micron 03 Pen

More "finding" the drawing...

Copic Warm Grey 2 Marker

Punchline to Joke found :-)

Check!

Copic Warm Grey 3 Marker

Pitt S and F Pens to bulk up Line Art

Copic Warm Grey 3 and 4 Marker

Copic Warm Grey 4 and 6 Marker

Pitt big B black pen

Little more tightening up drawing with 

Pitt F Pen

And a Prismacolor White Pencil for Highlights

And done!

And the CHAOS going on around me while I drew...

Concentrate concentrate...

Ended up going for $500 for a good cause - yay!

TD

Batman Rebirth #1 Step by Step Part 4 Colors 2

Our cover art for Midtown Comics Batman Rebirth #1 - a full color and black and version are available here-

LINKY

And here's Part 4 of the Step by Step of how we made the art!

Colors 2

On to the next level of rendering and smoothing.

Nailing the rendering on Selena's face... 

Working on the jewels, goggles...

And see all the layers I'm using here as I add little gradients to smooth out things - which when satisfied I merge...

Now time to convert line art to color...

Skin tones, rim lights, jewels...

This is the fun polishing part of the art.

Sharp eyed viewers will notice the inclusion of Darwyn in the BG. Rachel finished inking this on the 14th of May - the day that Darwyn Cooke was announced to have cancer. I started coloring the cover that same day and continued to work on it Saturday, the 15th of May, when Darwyn passed...

Shocking stuff!

For numerous reasons, it just felt right to include his name on this.

The finished art

All the final line art conversions, glows on signs and gems and final highlights!

Details

So, Pinky...

On the morning of May 14th when Rachel was still wrapping the inks- we took our cat, Pinky, back into the vet, for blood tests and x-ray at 8:00 am as she had not been week that week.

At 10:30 am, we received a call that Pinky had an inoperable tumor on her liver that had been the cause of all the problems that she had been suffering for months and culminated that week.

So needless to say it was a difficult day or two wrapping up this cover but it was great to get her memorialized on this cover as a thanks for being such a good pal!

Our studio has felt much smaller without her in it...

PINKY 

2002-2016

See the Pencil version here

PART ONE

and Inks here

PART TWO

Colors 1

PART THREE

TD