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Hellboy
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I
thought Hellboy art was usually simple and graphic! Al's incredibly
detailed pencils nearly killed me!This was drawn on Al Rio's own brand
of original art paper, which, for whatever reason, wouldn't agree
with my brands of ink, whether applied by brush or quill. I had to
resort to inking the entire thing with a .005 Staedler Pigment Liner!
Once I finished, I erased, then spent better part of a day touching
up all the fades and other details. This is not an atypical page for
Al, as he generally fills pages with detail worthy of George Perez.
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The
Incredible Hulk
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pencils to this Hulk piece were used as Marvel's official style guide
for licensing. It may have been made in preparation for the Hulk movie.
Stuart usually employs more shadows in his work, but the style guides
are generally done in a straightforward fashion, so there's no question
regarding a characters features or 'costume'. I was trying to do my
John Dell impression in the inks.
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Penciller: Stuart
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Spider-Man: The
Death of Gwen Stacy
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For
you pencillers out there, this piece may be as controversial as Gwen's
death was thirty years ago: I was asked to change Spidey's head by
the buyer. If you check the pencil version, you'll see the original
Spidey head bowed down in grief. The buyer asked if I could make a
Bagley-style Spidey's face seen, so I did the best I could and, after
some trial and error, we were both happy with the results. The trick
was to turn Spidey's head up only a little, without having to do radical
surgery to his neck (something I'm well acquainted with!). I had my
usual fun with the smoke, using my worn-out Micron brush pen.
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Colossus & Nightcrawler
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Colossus' metal 'bands' or segmented area on
his arms, legs, etc. called for Rapidograph pens, ship curves and
the occasional ellipse template. Lots of post-inking whiteout touch-ups
on Colossus. For example, I had to ink the parallel-line fades on
his legs, then whiteout the gaps. You can't start-stop-start-stop
when you do fades like that. The rest of him was inked with my #104
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Penciller: Sean Chen
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Miracleman
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Ladies
and Gentlemen, once again, I present to you the understated beauty
of Chris Sprouse's art. # 8404 Raphael brush. Can't think of anything
clever or informative to add, so we'll leave it at that. |
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Aquaman (1990's look)
& The Hulk
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know Aquaman's gone back to his original costume and hairstyle, but
I've always liked this look. With the hook and the beard, he had an
'Old Man of the Sea' appearance. However, beards on characters with
their own books tend to have a 50/50 favorability split amongst fans.
Some think that beards on superheroes make them look 'old', but I
don't have a problem with older-looking heroes. They can't all be
teenagers. The Hulk looks like he's landing like a ton of bricks,
so I made sure to beef up his contour lines after erasing. |
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Penciller: Mike Wieringo
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Sub Mariner & Invisible
Woman
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Inking
over Silver Age artists is probably the most fun I have, and I wish
I had more opportunities to do so. This drawing takes me back to an
issue of The Human Torch reprint comic I had in the '70's, where Subby
fought Torch, drawn by Dick Ayers. Here, Subby's raised hand and lower
leg needed a little sculpting and his pectoral muscles were a little
too far apart. I softened Sue's facial features and sculpted her thumb
out more. Subby looks uncharacteristically happy to see Sue, and she
appears even more so! |
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