Hulk Asunder cover

Using the technique from the previous posts on something a bit more pre-rendered, like I would likely get for a cover assignment. This is the cover to Hulk Asunder #1, pencilled by Marc Silvestri, and inked by Joe Weems.

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Loki & Thor colored

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.

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Loki & Thor grayscale

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.

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Loki & Thor color test

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.

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March Color Samples updated

Check out my new samples for March here:
http://colwellillustration.com/wordpress/coloring-samples

The samples represent a selection of my work published, solicited, or completed recently.

    Call of Wonderland [Zenescope], #01, Cover (solicited)
    Fury of Firestorm [DC] #6, pages 4, 5 (published as Hi-Fi)
    The Jungle Book [Zenescope], #03, Cover (solicited)
    Trauma, #0, page 1 (commission)
    Ted War, #01, Cover (commission)

Wormwood 2012

Based on the Ten Ton Studio sketch challenge prompt using Ben Templesmith’s cool, morbid character, Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse.

Zi #2 cover

Naveen Malli has updated his weekly webcomic, Zi, with issue 2.  I colored this cover for him in March of 2011.  Lines by Antonio Brandao.  You can read the whole series posted so far at http://www.zicomic.com/.

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Ted War

Another fun Ted commission.  Crazy anthropomorphic gangsta critters.  Lines by Orlando Baez.

TED #1

Orlando Baez, artist of IDW’s Pirat Tales, commissioned me to toss some colors on his new concept, TED. Can’t turn down gangsta teddy bears, so here you go. Enjoy.

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Trauma

I was hired to handle the colors for a pitch called, “Trauma” written by Curt Pires and drawn by Viktor Bogdanovic. I was immediately impressed with the concept and lineart, so of course I took the gig. I believe the plan is to start pitching it at Emerald City ComiCon in late March. I’ve been cleared to show a few pages though, so here are pages 3 and 5.

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