Here's a good one from the
Vault...
A while back when I was working on
Don Chin/
Dynamite Ent.'s Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, I would take scans of certain steps just for shits and giggles. Fortunately, I scanned the entire process of the cover to Issue #4, portraying the hamster
Clint in a cool poster shot wielding a Magnum. Writer extraordinaire
Keith Champagne asked that I add a simple but dramatic "Dark Knight Returns" flare to the piece.
So without further adieu, here are the progressive stages (click on each pic to make bigger):
Roughing it out very lightly. Just a normal pencil; the drawing area is 11 X 17 inches. Here I'm just trying to get the pose down and properly fitting it within the frame.
Some refining of Clint's figure; I've ruled in the perspective lines of the gun with the vanishing point being around Clint's chin.
The helmet and shirt is added. Always rough out the understructure before you add accessories so that the drawing is stronger and is "held together" better.
I've tightened the drawing with some detail and rendering in preparation for inking.
Using the straight-edge and french curves, I begin inking the parts that require a clean line (gun, whiskers).
Taking my #2 Windsor & Newton sable brush with my waterproof india ink, I begin inking the the big, broader areas on the drawing. I'm a little looser with the background lightning as the the area behind it will be all black.
More ink added...now you see some feathering and detail going on....
Finishing up with all the linework and details...I believe moving down to a #1 size brush.
Here all the black areas are filled in and the contrast adjusted. Just adding in the blacks makes a huge difference in the art!
And here is the final print version of the cover all colored. On the inside cover, the interior colorist is listed as "Inlight Studio," so I will assume they did this cover piece as well.
Camel Toes
Some random chick and a UFC chick....
Later, dudes...
TOM
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