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WORK STAGES on a recent(-ish) illustration, part 1!
🕑 Added 2024-06-26 14:06:10 +0000 UTCSo!
During the first week of June or thereabouts, I worked up a variant cover for the upcoming series Time Waits (by writers Chip Zdarsky and David Brothers and artist Marcus To), a creator-owned title to be published by the company DSTLRY. The illo was set up in an interesting format, in that it's a wraparound cover that doesn't use two separate comic original pages (as is normally the case for all the "wraparounds" I've done), but instead is formatted so the artist can lay a conventional comic-art board on its side and draw the illo on a single original page.
My initial rough, which was leaning into the high-contrast B&W riffing I enjoy so much:
I had considered a very different pose for the couple on the cover:
...but elected to revisit the pose from the first rough:
I pasted the roughs into the DSTLRY wraparound cover template to get editorial approval:
Next up, my (very light) pencils for the illo, leveled up in Photoshop for legibility:
And the final inks, done with analog PITT Artist Pens and Sharpies and tweaked in Photoshop:
In fact, I have a lot more to say about these inks, and even a little to say about the firearms depicted, but no time to do so at present (as I grind away at the script for the new issue #1 of The Chaste and the Chained). So, I'll save that commentary for sometime next month, when I hope to show a decent jpeg of the final colors (which I currently lack).
Note that you can see the colors for at least the front part of the cover here.
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: No idea, TBH, but something should be coming up in the next M/W/F slot. Let's find out together, shall we?
UPDATE: Ehh, will likely be something in the Distressed Damsels vein for the $5+ tiers, as the g-d month is fast running out and I still need to put up at least one more post featuring such content.
Comments
Eric
Thank you sir!
Adam Warren
Probably on Saturday or Sunday!
Eric
Unique and interesting art. To ask, what's up for this months $20 tier stuff? Coming this weekend, or on Monday the 1st?
Will_K
In the 1970’s, for certain issues, Marvel had the artists draw 2 pages on a single sheet just as you've done. Although in the case of Marvel, these were just generic panel pages and not even double page spreads.
