Star Wars #13 Cover by Rachel and Me

 

Out now from Marvel Comics!

Pencils by Me

Rachels Inks

Colors by Me

Color Detail

REYLO

Here's the Star Wars Greatest Moments Cover we did for Star Wars Doctor Aphra #40, out now from Marvel Comics!

Pencils

Rachel Dodson's Inks

Colors

TD

Jabba, Wonder Woman, Mr. an Mrs. X, oh my!

Action packed week of covers from Rachel and I at this week in stores!

Check them out!

TD

Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Leia, Tarkin, Han and Boba Covers

Our first four covers for the Star Wars: Age of Rebellion are out now in stores from Marvel Comics!

Four more to go!

May the Force be with you!

TD

Star Wars Age of Rebellion Leia Step by Step

COVER SKETCH

The cover concept I sent into Marvel and Lucasfilm for approval. 

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

We had a pretty good idea of what the cover was going to be so not much of a change from my concepts.

PENCILS

Initial Rough In

Drawn in Light Blue and HB Lead on 13" x 19" Bristol Board 

INKS

Here's an in process shot of Rachel Dodson's inking...

Rachel inks with a Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Royal Talens India Ink.

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

Adding the highlights

The final art!

TD

Out Today - Beckett #1 and Avengers Wakanda Forever

There are two new covers by Rachel and I out this week!

Star Wars: Beckett #1

Avengers: Wakanda Forever #1

Both from Marvel Comics!

TD

Star Wars #50 Step by Step Part 3 Color

Our variant cover for Star Wars #50 - out now from Marvel Comics - a family portrait!

Check out how we made it.

PART 3

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.

First thing I did was lay an orange color over the whole piece to harmonize the colors and get the "old fashioned movie poster" feel I was going for.

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 .

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

Using the Pencil Tool (Hard Round pixel Brush) at 100% to to begin and then switch to lower 30-50% to get the right value of color for the next stages of rendering.

RIM LIGHT

 I added the yellow rim light to Luke using the Pencils tool at 100%

 GRADIENT and ROSY CHEEKS

Used the Gradient tool to fade out the background

I added Rosy cheeks to Leia

Used the Lasso and Gradient tool to define Leia's jaw line.

COLORING THE LINE ART

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

I colored a lot of the black lines - notice the lips, flesh outline clothes and SFX in the background.

TOUCHES

Adding an extra layer of depth to Luke's eyes to help them POP.

PART 1

PENCILS

PART 2

LINE ART

TD

Star Wars 50 Step by Step Part 2 Inks

Our variant cover for Star Wars #50 - out now from Marvel Comics - a family portrait!

Check out how we made it.

PART 2

LINE ART

Rachel Dodson's initial start on the line art on this cover.

Rachel inks directly over my pencils.

TOOLS

Rachel inks with a Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Royal Talens India Ink.

Love how the strap  by Luke's head turned out.

I  love how she creates "grey".

And notice the details on Luke's ventilator tube.

Check out how Rachel makes the explosion details with Pro White.

I inked the ships with Pigma Micron 02 Pen.

I also fudged her eyes a bit with the pen, to make them a bit more Leia-esque...

FINAL LINE ART

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

COLOR

Next time in

PART 3

And

PART 1

PENCILS

TD

Star Wars 50 Step by Step Part 1 Pencils

Our variant cover for Star Wars #50 - out now from Marvel Comics - a family portrait!

Check out how we made it.

COVER SKETCH

The cover concept I sent into Marvel Comics and Lucasfilm for approval.

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

I had a pretty idea of what I wanted to with this one so you can so I set up a pretty simply design with just some editorial tweaks for background figures.

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 I'm happy with the layout I proceed to penciling - using Staedtler HB lead.

Detail - notice the TRACING PAPER over Leia's face so I don't blur with my hand.

Here I used a Micron Pigma 02 Pen to ink the Tie Fighter

Almost Finished Pencils

And the scan of the pencils....

Next time, 

PART 2

INKS 

TD