Wonder Woman #34 SELFIE Variant Making of … PART TWO COLOR

How we made the SELFIE Variant Cover to Wonder Woman #34 (out now from DC Comics by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang).

And so the colors…

I use  Photoshop CS3 and Wacom Cintiq 13HD to color with.

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

Initial rough in color of the colors - just using a big pencil 100% and a little lasso and gradient.

Start adding volumes to the characters and adjust the background colors.

When I'm comfortable with the colors I go in and adjust the lineart - from black to whatever is the appropriate color I want it to be.

The final colors.

Art director Mark Chiarello suggested the outdoor sky for more "pop".

Details

The printed version

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/Wonder-Woman-2011-34/digital-comic/130411

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Wonder Woman #34 SELFIE Variant Making of ...

How we made the SELFIE Variant Cover to Wonder Woman #34 (out now from DC Comics by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang).

As usual we start off with the cover sketches - obviously this is WW taking a selfie of herself. Cover Editor Mark Chiarello suggested the dichotomy of goofy WW with a stoic Statue.

So came up with these, Mark was happy with these but just had me push the "goofy"

et voila, you get WW sticking her tongue out at the camera! A was chosen.

The sketches are drawn at 2x3 inches in my sketchbook in pencil and pen and then cleaned up and colored in Photoshop.

REFERENCE

So before I started in on this I had to draw 2 things I hadn't drawn before, a Dianaesque Statue and the New 52 Wonder Woman so to the web…

I didn't want to copy a statue so I found a bunch of different ones and made a Frankenstein'ed version.

DC sent WW ref.

To keep the proportions right on this, I enlarged my approved sketch and printed it out in blue line on my cover paper.

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

This went pretty fast so no intermediate steps.

Pencils

Rachel's inks

Rachel uses Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic Ink to ink the covers with.

Then scanned and ready for color…

Next Time...

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/Wonder-Woman-2011-34/digital-comic/130411

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