First the rough sketch. This is were I nail down the composition. I'm mainly just concerned with shapes, figures, some of the lighting and overall ideas here. I don't worry about details in this stage and try to keep things loose. It's more experimenting and searching at this point.
![](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b386/piranha7/09c14460.jpg)
After I create a comp, I'm happy with, it's on to penciling. I light box the original sketch to better paper (bristol board), so I have a clean start. In the case of the Titans cover I penciled it very tight, figuring out all the details of anatomy and lighting.
![](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b386/piranha7/a7f9b500.jpg)
Pencil Detail:
![](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b386/piranha7/1786e322.jpg)
The ink stage was just making everything solid and flow together. And here's the final inks, scanned straight off the drawing, without any computer coloring or altering.
![](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b386/piranha7/cef3f75f.jpg)
Awesome. Quick question if you don't mind. Do you ink right on to the pencils scan or do you lightbox the inks too? Thanks ahead of time =)
ReplyDeleteI ink right over the pencil version... The scan above is just before I inked it. I think it would drive me nuts to ink on a lightbox.
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ReplyDeleteabsolutely fantastic man, thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteHow large do you work? The detail is faboo!
ReplyDeleteThis is 11 x 17... I do most of my cover type art at that size.
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