Rogue One: A Star Wars Story #1 Cover Step by Step Part 2 Line Art

Our variant cover for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story #1 from Marvel Comics

Check out how we made it.

RACHEL'S INKS

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.

At this point, I grabbed the art and finished up the pencils for Rachel...

And then...

Rachel's finished the inks.

K-2SO Detail 

Yay!

Check out the variety of grey Rachel creates -

 this is why I haven't gone fully digital!

Jyn Details 

All Brush

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

COLOR 

And for PART 1

PENCILS

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Medusa Inhumans Vs X-Men #5 Cover Step by Step Part 3 COLOR

Inhumans Vs X-Men #5 Variant Covers featuring that magnificently tressed Inhuman, Medusa.

By Rachel Dodson and Me.

Out now from Marvel Comics.

And here is Part 3 of the Step by Step -

COLOR

FLATS

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

I try to adjust the colors to their medium value or imprimatura - I use this as the starting point for the piece. 

INITIAL COLOR (ROUGH IN)

I colored this on my Cintiq 22 HD using Photoshop CS3 .

Here I rough in quickly all the medium lights and darks on the figures and cast initial shadows.

Using the Pencil Tool at 100% to knock those in.

BACKGROUND 

Creating the background with 7 different colors in 6 color rows...

ADDITIONAL ROUGH IN

I went on the rest of the figure and face and knocked the next lights and darks using the pencils tooling at 70-80%.

I go to the next level of darker darks and lighter lights

RIM LIGHT

 I then added the rim light on another layer

REFLECTIVE LIGHT

 And reflective light on another layer as well

COLORING THE LINE ART

This is the icing on the cake step of the process.

FINAL ART

And DONE!

And for PART 1

PENCILS

PART 2

INKS 

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Medusa Inhumans Vs X-Men #5 Cover Step by Step Part 2 Inks

Inhumans Vs X-Men #5 Variant Covers featuring that magnificently tressed Inhuman, Medusa.

By Rachel Dodson and Me.

Out now from Marvel Comics.

And here is Part 2 of the Step by Step -

RACHEL'S INKS

Rachel Dodson inks directly over my original pencil drawing.

Rachel inks with a Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Dr. Ph. Martins Black Star Hi Carb Ink.

Here's Rachel inking those hairlines!

And what it looked like after inking the hair in the video.

Detail

Still all brush...

I love the white line on the upper part of the glove...

Hair detail...

Rachel's final inks.

Detail

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

PART 3

COLOR 

And for PART 1

PENCILS

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Rachel Dodson inking RED ONE

Detail of Rachel inking Vera's hair!

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Batman #50 Variant Cover Step by Step Part 1 Lineart

Here's a look at how we made the cover to Batman #50 guest starring Supergirl!

This was done for Midtown Comics and my DC editor was Mark Chiarello!

This is an interesting assignment as it lines up with the Superman #50 Variant so I had to design them to fit together ...

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

Pencils drawn in Light Blue and HB lead on 12 x 18 Bristol Board

I  roughed in while drawing in the Superman Cover at the same time so it lined up correctly and then it was pretty simple to finish up.

Detail

First time for me drawing this Supergirl outfit - lots of double checking...

Not a lot of intermediate steps on this one - really up against the deadline here so just going as fast as we can...

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.

Next - COLORS!

TD

HOLIDAY Work in Progress Part 2

Rachel Dodson using a Windsor Newtown Series 7 #2 Kolinsky Sable Brush and Deleter Black 4 Ink to ink over my pencils.

More to come...

TD