Here's the work in progress colors - the issue ships in May from Christina Strain, Amilcar Pinna and Marvel Comics!
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Showing posts with label Jubilee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jubilee. Show all posts
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Generation X #1 Cover
Here's a look at my new cover assignment, Generation X from Marvel Comics!
Begins May 17, 2017!
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Friday, December 5, 2014
X-MEN 21 Cover - Step by Step Part 1 - LINEART
Here's a look behind the making of the cover to X-Men #21 from Marvel Comics - out in stores now!
The idea behind this cover was a Drew Struzan Movie Poster type cover - epic space theme with Rachel front and center!
The sketch was drawn at 2x3 inches in my sketchbook in pencil and pen and then cleaned up and colored in Photoshop.
After getting appr0val from Marvel Editor Daniel Ketchum I moved on to pencils..
Here's my initial rough stab at the pencils.
Pencils drawn in Light Blue and
HB lead on 12 x 18 Bristol Board.
Final pencils.
For solicitation there wasn't time to ink the cover so I colored my pencils.
For the final version - Rachel Dodson inks
Rachel uses Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic Ink to ink the covers with.
Then scan and clean in Photoshop
Next Time...
COLORS!
You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer
And digitally at
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Death of Wolverine #1 Variant Cover Step by Step Part 2 COLOR
This is how we made the variant cover to Death of Wolverine #1 Cover art.
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And so the colors…
I use Photoshop CS3 and a Wacom Cintiq 13HD to color with.
Initial rough in
of the colors - getting the midtone values/colors of the characters in and the Gradient Tool for the Background
Just using a big pencil and a little lasso and gradient to move to the next layer of color.
As I get closer to getting the coloring where I want it - I begin converting the lineart to color lines.
Final touches include more texture into the Background face.
Detail of Jubilee
Detail of Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey
Print version
You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer
And digitally at
https://www.comixology.com/Death-of-Wolverine-1-of-4/digital-comic/135396?ref=c2VyaWVzL3ZpZXcvZGVza3RvcC9saXN0L0lzc3Vlcw
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Death of Wolverine #1 Variant Cover Step by Step Part 1 LINEART
This is how we made the variant cover to Death of Wolverine #1 Cover art.
The idea behind this cover was "the women of Wolverine" - which ended up featuring Jean Grey, Storm, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde and Mariko - tried to squeeze in a few more but just too busy for me...
The sketches are drawn at 2x3 inches in my sketchbook in pencil and pen and then cleaned up and colored in Photoshop.
After getting appr0val from Marvel Editor George Beliard and Mike Marts I moved on to pencils...
Pencils drawn in Light Blue and HB lead on 12 x 18 Bristol Board.
Detail of Wolverine.
Rachel Dodson inks
Rachel uses Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic Ink to ink the covers with.
Detail of Rachel's inks...
Then scan and clean in Photoshop
Next Time...
COLORS!
You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer
And digitally at
https://www.comixology.com/Death-of-Wolverine-1-of-4/digital-comic/135396?ref=c2VyaWVzL3ZpZXcvZGVza3RvcC9saXN0L0lzc3Vlcw
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Saturday, August 23, 2014
X-MEN #18 Step by Step PART TWO Colors
How we made the cover to X-Men #18 (out now from Marvel Comics by Marc Guggenheim and Dexter Soy).
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 on color on Jubilee
Start adding colors to other characters and adjust the background colors.
Detailing Jubilee and Rachel.
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.
The actual comic in print.
You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer
And digitally at
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Friday, August 22, 2014
X-MEN #18 Step by Step PART ONE Pencils and Inks
How we made the cover to X-Men #18 (out now from Marvel Comics by Marc Guggenheim and Dexter Soy).
This bad boy had to be turned around really quick so not too many stages to show this time…
As usual we start off with the cover sketches
Editor Daniel Ketchum and I discussed this new story arc featuring the X-Men in Space so had a blast coming up with ideas.
B was picked.
The sketches are drawn at 2x3 inches in my sketchbook in pencil and pen and then cleaned up and colored in Photoshop.
Pencils drawn in Light Blue and HB lead on 12 x 18 Bristol Board.
Rachel Dodson uses Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic Ink to ink the covers with.
Next time - the colors…
You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer
And digitally at
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Friday, May 23, 2014
3 X-Men books out this week!
Wow, must be a movie coming out or something … 2 covers and 1 X-Men collection coming out this week from Rachel and I.
X-MEN MUERTAS
X-MEN 14 Cover
UNCANNY X-MEN 21 Variant Cover
You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer
And digitally at Comixology
https://www.comixology.com/X-Men-2013-14/digital-comic/100173
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
X-MEN #13 Cover - Making of PART THREE - Color
Here's a look behind how the cover of X-Men #13 was created (out in stores this week from Marvel Comics - written by Brian Wood with art by Clay Mann).
The first stage of coloring is to have the art "flatted".
Flatting allows the colorist to choose an area to color at any point throughout the coloring process.
My initial rough in of the colors, done in Photoshop CS3 with a Wacom Intuos Graphics Tablet.
This is pretty simple piece so in no time I moved to finishing details, such as turning all the black lineart of the fleshes and yellows to color lineart. I added more texture and color to the background.
Just a bit more polishing - note Jubilee's left forearm, her glasses, and her and Shogo's faces.
And the comic in print.
You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer
And digitally at
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
X-MEN #13 Cover - Making of PART TWO - Inks
Here's a look behind how the cover of X-Men #13 was created (out in stores this week from Marvel Comics - written by Brian Wood with art by Clay Mann).
Rachel Dodson's inks on the cover
Rachel uses Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic ink to ink the covers with.
Detail of Jubilee's face - all brush. Rachel uses an electric eraser to lighten some of the facial lines. Rachel uses Pro White for corrections.
More detail on the fabric and how the "greys" are created in the fabric.
Detail of Shogo's face.
The scanned artwork cleaned and "Bitmapped" - ready for coloring in Photoshop.
Next - the colors…
You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer
And digitally at
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Saturday, April 19, 2014
X-MEN #13 Cover - Making of PART ONE - Pencils
Here's a look behind how the cover of X-Men #13 was created (out in stores this week from Marvel Comics - written by Brian Wood with art by Clay Mann).
The first step is to send in cover sketches to X-Men Editor Jeanine Schaeffer. The idea was to have Jubilee protecting SHOGO.
Drawn at 2x3 inches in my sketchbook in pencil and pen and then cleaned up and colored in Photoshop.
It was decided to zoom in really tight and "E" was picked.
My initial rough in of the pencils, drawn in Light Blue and HB lead on 12 x 18 Bristol Board.
Did some corrections digitally on the figure as my drawing looked a little off and sometimes I can see the errors better on the computer.
Implementing those corrections on the actual artwork.
The final pencils...
Next INKS by Rachel Dodson!
You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer
And digitally at
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