I don’t remember where I got the lines of this, but it’s by Jimmy Cheung (pencils) and John Dell (inks). Captain America versus Iron Man for a two part cover during the whole Civil War storyline a few years (really? Years already?). This version of the cover had Cap winning, the other had Iron Man winning.

Did an even more complicated and labor intensive process on this. The previous technique I was using to color of grayscale had some flaws that made me have a lot more trial and error to get it right. This new way is more likely to get the results I want, but will take some time to streamline into a useful method.

Again, thanks to Matthew Clark for the excellent pencils.

A while ago, longer than I care to remember, I was hanging out at the Periscope Studio with Matthew Clark. At the time I was pursuing inking and he was generous enough to let me snag some scans of his work for practice. Fast forward, and now I’m coloring and doing concept work. Found this on my hard drive and thought it would make a good experiment piece. At this stage it’s part line, part paint. Next is to take it all the way to grayscale paint, then color.

Matthew’s original pencils:

Alright. Think this worked out about how I expected. Fun technique. Not real useful for sequential pages, but has a lot of potential for covers, commissions and concept work. Here’s the final and the process shots.

Couldn’t sleep last night around 3:30am, so got up and worked some more on this piece. Tried refining the grayscale portion of the process. Here’s the updated version.

Currently reading Neil Gaiman’s American Gods novel. Lots of great characters in there including one of my favorties of all mythology, Loki. So, today I was looking to play around with some techniques and I remembered I have a Loki & Thor sketch on my HD by Khoi Pham, a friend and past collaborator from Ten Ton Studios. This was more for the working out of a technique than anything, so I may not do Thor in the background. We’ll see.