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WORK STAGES: Another shockingly difficult pin-up, pt.1!
🕑 Added 2022-09-07 13:01:04 +0000 UTCI'm more than a tad dubious about posting DC or Marvel stuff here, so keep this to yourselves, okay?
Anyhoo, following up on a previous Harley Quinn variant cover, this time around I tried a fantasy-RPG-oriented cover concept, which of course would be more relevant to future work such as The Last Party (aka the new comic project that merges characters from Hushed Half-Elf and Party of Two).
So, I worked up a rough in Clip Studio Paint via the ol' Wacom Cintiq:
Harley's figure looked more than a tad misproportioned and stumpy, so I tweaked it in Photoshop a bit:
..and, temporarily, thought the result was an adequate improvement. I sent the rough off to my editor, got approval on the image, and started the theoretically final pencils for the cover—in analog media, you'll notice, using Wildstorm/DC art board acquired during my Gen13 run 22 years ago (ouch):
...only to belatedly notice that Harley's figure was still misproportioned and stumpy. I scanned the piece, and once again did a whole bunch of rescaling and tweaking to her image in Photoshop:
The results were still more than a tad wonky, but not quite so eye-gouging to me, so I rolled with this revision. Teeth gritted, I erased her figure from the original art board, traced the image via printout and lightboard, and proceeded to the really-final-this-time pencils:
...which, as I type this text at 7:30am, I am about to continue inking for the second straight day; I spent all of yesterday inking g-d thorns, and haven't yet touched a PITT Artist Pen to even one of the illo's figures.
Yes, folks, this new cover has turned out to be just as difficult, frustrating and time-consuming—in fact, more time-consuming—than the g-d cyberpunk-y "hardsuit Harley" after all. Golly!
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Ehh, 'tis time to start getting either my Life Drawing (for all Patron tiers) or Distressed Damsels (for the $5+ tiers) mandatory posts for the month outta the way, so you can expect to see one of those on Friday.
Comments
Strypgia
Appreciate how she doesn't look like a 100lb skin and bones runway model.
MisfitRogue
It'll all be worth it, Adam. When it's done, it's gonna rock! 🤘🏿
Aidenke
Oooh -- this is going to turn out real neat. Digging the fantasy-vibe more than the cyber-punk, can't wait to see how this is going to come out in colors after you finish the inks-quest!
Dean Reilly
So I assume that your next cover will feature emoji Harley or balloon-animal Harley, or something similar.😄
Burninator
Thanks for the Distressed Adam post. Seriously, though, looks great.
