X-Men Wedding Special Cover Step by Step Part 2 Line Art

Here's a look at how we made the cover art for X-Men Wedding Special out now from Marvel Comics.

PART 2

LINE ART

Rachel Dodson inks directly over my pencils...

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

Using whites in the black areas to create depth

See how she makes the grey using feather lines...

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

Batman Rebirth #1 Step by Step Part 2 Inks

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

LINKY

And here's Part 2 of the Step by Step of how we made the art!

INKS!

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.

Rachel Inking Video 1

Crosshatching Arm and Chest

Rachel Inking Video 2

Chest Feathering and Arm

Rachel Inking Video 3

Lower body and blacks

And how it looks sitting still :-)

Rachel's in process inks...

Head detail

Arm

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Master scan - scanned at 800dpi greyscale on an Epson 11000XL Scanner

Detail 

Detail

You can watch all the videos on

Terry Dodson Art You Tube Channel

See the Pencil version here

PART ONE

and next time COLORS!

TD

Star Wars #17 Cover - Step by Step Part 1 Line Art

The cover art for Star Wars #17 - out now from Marvel Comics, Jason Aaron and Leinil Yu.

See how we made the Line Art for it!

So Luke piloting the Millennium Falcon - pretty good idea just tricky getting a good two shot of Han and Luke and that's still dynamic for a Marvel Comics cover.

My editors on this were Heather Antos and Jordan White at Marvel and of course the fine folks at Lucasfilm.

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

Initial Rough in with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil...

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

Of course, I drew Luke with the Ceremonial Jacket on!

SO... what does the inside of the Millennium Falcon look like?

A look at my desk while drawing this...

Finished Pencils

Detail

Rachel Dodson's inks

Rachel inks over my pencils with a Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic Ink

Larger than life detail...

Now, scan in and prep in Photoshop...

for the colors...

Next time!

TD

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