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Hellboy in the
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Here's
something you don't see every day: A Silver Age Master drawing a modern
icon who's headlined two recent hit movies! This is my third opportunity
to ink Gene Colan's pencils, and nothing is more artistically fulfilling!
I would've loved to work with Gene on a monthly comic, but I was born
a bit too late. A little drybrush, a little rapidograph lines and
some sculpting with whiteout! I strongly recommend the Twomorrows
book Secrets in the Shadows: The Art & Life of Gene Colan!
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Run,
Matt Murdock!
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Great
pose, mid-costume change. I like the longer hair here, as it reminds
me of how Matt was rendered during the all-too-brief Gil Kane/Klaus
Janson period (#147-151). This was surprisingly quick and easy to
bang this one out. Must've been a good day for me. I used brush on
the clothing folds with some quill touch-up. A little drybrush on
the fading shadow, and it's done!
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Penciller: Dave Ross
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Doom in Regal
Repose
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Friend
and big-time Doc Doom fan Gary Sella finds the most inspired commissions
from off-the-radar artists. Who else would get the man who inked Super-Villain
Team-up, Doom's 1970's team-up title to do a commish thirty years
later? Don became a hot artist on Valiant's Bloodshot, and the man's
still got it! If you check out the pencil version, you'll see that
he put all that detail in: I was just following the man's lead!
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Nexus
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This
was a cover prelim, as you can see on The Dude's notes, for
Diamond Distributors' solicitations. On Nexus' shoulder lightning-bolt
detail, I added a metallic sheen, similar to the early Nexus
logo from the Capital & First comics era. The halftones
were done with a 90% warm gray Prismacolor pencil. This is one
series I have the complete run and I suggest you pick up the
Hardcover reprints or scour back issue bins at conventions.
BTW, note the slight changes in the final printed version.
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Penciller:
Steve Rude
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Marvel
Superheroes
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This
was quite the time-consuming piece. I wrestled with a variety of styles
and textures in my attempt to translate the amazing nuances of the
pencilled version. I folded some thin rapidograph lines in with drybrush
as well as the 90% gray Prismacolor pencil. For Iron man, I went for
hard contrast and orderly-tapered fades using both a quill and rapidograph.
Finally, I embellished with Pro White to make Both Cap's chain mail
and Spidey's webbing pop. Fun and maddening at the same time!
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Penciller:Adi Granov
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The
Demon
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This was originally intended as a pin-up for Action Comics over 20
years ago! It went unused until now, thanks to Gary Sella, who purchased
it and asked me to ink it. This piece was very John Byrne-ish to my
eye, so I gave it a tech pen treatment, with a little splats tossed
at the top left. I added some black to the top of The Demon's left
leg to tie it in with the lava light source.
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Penciller: Val Semeiks
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Galactus-ka
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Here's a conundrum: Assign George Tuska to replicate a classic John
Byrne cover from Fantastic Four #243. But instead of adding his own
style, he lightboxes it to closer resemble the original. The details
are suggested, but not completed. The only way to tighten it was to
ink the details as Byrne did. So what you get is a darn good copy,
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