MARVEL ADVENTURES SUPER HEROES #23

Here's a comic with my inks over Ray Anthony Height's pencils.  The project was completed sometime last year around January of 2011, but it wasn't until recently that it was published.  The work was probably used as an inventory which was used later when needed.  I almost forgot about this one until Ray Height posted it up on Facebook a couple of months ago.  Here's the comps I got...

The Thing and his bubble baths.

Same page as colored by Jordie Bellaire

There's the title page.  All those little guys you see may look like stats (same image that are duplicated), but I actaully hand inked each and every one of them.  Ray did the Photoshop magic in Photoshop and I dipped inks by hand.

Same page in colors.  Letters by Dave Sharpe. 

GRIFTER #6

Here's something interesting that I helped out on.  It was only over two pages of Scott Clark's digital pencil work for Grifter #6.  Here the comps that DC sent me.  It's the last book I've done for DC which has that older DC swish logo on the top left.

For the two pages I worked on, Scott Clark drew them digitally, so there's no pencil on bristol boards, Completely digital.  All I had to do was print out the digital drawings on blue-line and ink over that traditionally.  Here's how one of the pages turned out.  I'll explain the grey backgrounds a little later.  There's a lot of back and forth tasks going on here, so it if gets a bit confusing, don't worry about it.  Sometimes my brain works funny that way.

What I sent back to Scott Clark, so he can add his own backgrounds digitally.

It was my first time working with Scott and he requested the files to be sent back to him in Photoshop layers.  So with the traditional way of working, comes some digital work as well.  First, I inked only the panels and scanned that up.  I'll explain this as well a little bit later.

Panels

Then I moved on to inking the Daemonites in panel 3, as shown below in a separate layer.

Daemonites

The Daemonites' body where see-thru, so you can see their bones.  So I went in there and created another layer in photoshop and inked that digitally inside the body.  Creating a grey fill with  the original Daemonite layer and making it opaque, so I can see through their bodies to the bones below.

Daemonite bones

Then I went back to the bristol boards and inked the rest of the figures by hand.  Then scanned that up.

Figures

Once all that is done, I inked the character Carver in panel 4 in a separate layer in Photoshop.  Her hair had to be done a certain way as requested by Scott, so I did that in Photoshop.

Carver

After all that traditional hand inking and digital inking, I put them all together and created the first image above with the grey background.   The grey, I added in with a separate layer to I can see what's going on with all the other layers above.  Otherwise it's a mess for me visually.  Finally, remember the panel lines I first inked above?  I created a white stroke in Photoshop around the line work and added that on top of the page.  It helps separate the panels which also gave Scott a choice of using it, or getting rid of it all together after his added backgrounds.

Action Comics commission piece over Arthur Adams

Another commission piece.  This time, it's over a fill size 11x17 preliminary drawing for Action Comics that Arthur Adams drew.  Quite a bit of work and I'm happy with how it turned out.  

Roll over for the original preliminary pencils by Arthur Adams.  Click on for a larger view of the inks.

This commission piece went out to Australia.  

Thanks to comic book colorist, Nolan Woodard, for the roll over effect.  Check out his site here.  Very cool! 

UNCANNY X-MEN #2

Here's the cover to Uncanny X-Men #2 where I helped out on a few pages.  Two pages over Carlo Pacheco and one page over Rodney Bushemi to help out on deadlines.

Even though I only worked on a few pages, it was exciting to be a part of this.  Mainly for the image below...  My first published piece inking over Carlo Pacheco.  In a way, it feels full circle for me... I'll explain why below.

My inks over Carlo Pacheco.

Colors by Rachelle Rosenberg

I've inked over Carlo Pacheco a long time ago.  None of that was ever published because those were just inking samples.  Stuff I've done before I started working in comics.  Samples I've used to show Publishers and Editors what I can do to try to get the work.  Here one of the sample pieces...

Inking sample over Carlo Pacheco

Both Pacheco and my style has evolved over time as you can see.  Coll thing is, I've finally got to ink over Pacheco!  Someone whom I've wanted to work with before I got into this business.

DC UNIVERSE VS MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - SUPERMAN vs. HE-MAN

Here's the last of the DC UNIVERSE VS MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE  action figure packaging art. My inks over Bob McLeod's pencils.

Superman

He-Man

Originally, the He-Man art above was done first.  After editorial approval, we needed to give him a haircut...

He-Man with bowl haircut and bangs

Greyskull background

DC UNIVERSE VS MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE 2-PACK ACTION FIGURES - Red Tornado vs. Syclone

Like the previous post, more of the artwork I've done for DC UNIVERSE VS MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE action figure packaging.  I've been told all the toys were made and I've also been told that the line was cancelled.  In any case, here are more of my inks over Bob McLeod's pencils.  

Red Tornado

Syclone

cloud background

DC UNIVERSE VS MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE 2-PACK ACTION FIGURES - Green Lantern vs. Zodak

A while back, I did a whole bunch of work for some action figure packaging.  DC UNIVERSE VS. MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE 2-PACK ACTION FIGURES.  You can see some of the other postings here.  I usually wait to post stuff until I get the published book, or in this case, the manufactured action figures in packaging.  But since I know they've been out for some time, I'll post them now.  My inks over Bob McLeod's pencils.

Green Lantern

Zodak

Background for the action figures

Now, I didn't get any comps for these action figures.  However, I was able to snag some images off the internet of them.

Here's the mini poster with both the figures and backgrounds together.

The actual toys and the packaging.  If you look closely, you can see the background used for the blister card.

And the back of the packaging. 

BATMAN: THE RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE trade paperback

Got some trade paperback comps for Batman: Return of Bruce Wayne.  Reprints some of the work I've done in the past.  There's also a larger deluxe hardcover version of the same graphic novel out there.  This one is the regular sized trade paperback version.  More info here.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: TEAM HISTORY [Paperback]

Comp copy of Justice League of America: Team History in paperback.  I posted the Hardcover version release a while back.

More info at DC Comics website here.

SUPERMAN: LAST STAND OF NEW KRYPTON VOL. 1 [Paperback]

Here's a comp copy of Superman:Last Stand of New Krypton that I got from DC Comics.  I've posted this when I got the Hardcover.  This time, it's in paperback.

DC Comic's website about this paperback here.

BATMAN EYE OF THE BEHOLDER [Hardcover]

Every so often, I get comp copies of work I've done in the past.  Soemtimes they're trade paperback and other times, it's the nice hardcovers.  Always a nice surprise when the mail man rings the bell.  Here are a couple of comps for Batman Eye of the Beholder.

More info about this volume here.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: OMEGA [Hardcover]

Hardcover comp copy of something that reprints some of the work I've done. 

For more info on, Justive League of America: Omega, click here.

KLAWS OF THE PANTHER [Paperback]

Klaws of the Panther paperback that reprints some of the work I've done.

Marvel's website about this here.

SPIDER-GIRL: FAMILY VALUES [Paperback]

Comp copy of Spider-Girl: Family Values that I did some inking work in the past.

More info here.

CAPTAIN AMERICA BY DAN JURGENS - VOLUME 2 [Paperback]

Some Captain America work where I've inked over Dan Jergens has been collected into a trade paperback.

More info here.

DEADPOOL CLASSICS VOLUME 5 [Paperback]

Some Deadpool work I've done many years ago over Pete Woods pencils.  Including this cover for Deadpool Classic Volume 5 which was originally used for a one shot called, Deadpool Widdle Wade.

More info here.

DEADPOOL - VOLUME 6 : I RULE YOU SUCK [Paperback]

Comp copy of some work I've done for Deadpool. 

More info here.

DEADPOOL #44

Deadpool #44.  Cover by Dave Johnson.

Pencils by Carlo Barberi and Inks by Walden Wong.

Panel 2 above took some time to complete... the panel with the emergency stairs.  But that was okay.  Because panel 1 made up for it by being the quickest.  All it had was the words "Dr. Ella Whitby" that I inked over Carlo's pencils.  Humm... I wonder if that's considered lettering.  :)

Explosion with broken glass above.  And below, is a nice splash page where Deadpool opens up a fridge to get a snack.  

 Colors by Jorge Gonzalez.

DEADPOOL #43

Deadpool #43 is out in stores.  Cover by Dave Johnson.

Pencils by Carlo Barberi and inks by Walden Wong.

I used templates to ink all the cars.  Took quite some time to complete.  It's something I like to do to make the cars looks mechanical. 

More template work, brushes, and pens.  Hardest part was inking that big round  propeller precisely on the aircraft... No template for that, so I used a flex curve where I'll bend it to the right shape.

I could have stat some of the background on this page because they were the same in panel  1, 2 & 3.  But that would be more work in Photoshop to put them all together.  Inked it the old fashion way, where everything is hand inked.

Index Card 2

Not quite index cards.  But I'm still calling it "Index Card" just to keep the free sketch stuff in the same category.  It was one of those free sketch request I get every now and then.  Click here to see my first post about these free sketches. 

These were sent all the way back to Belgium.  Originally, I was sent the two comic books (The Spirit and The New Warriors) along with some blank paper.  The Spirit trade paperback was sorta cool because it was published in a foreign language.  The New Warrior comic was all English.  There was also letter asking for a Hercules sketch.  There were five pieces of blank paper.  So I decided I may as well sketch other stuff on them.  Also did a sketch of Spider-Man, The Spirit and Batman.

Now the other drawing was something I did at the spur of the moment.  I had one extra blank piece of paper and didn't know what else to draw.  I wanted to sketch on all five papers since they came all the way from Belgium and going back.  I thought to myself, what characters are out there that everybody knows of?  Then I looked over to the left and I saw my daughters big bucket of crayons.  I saw all those colors, tips of the crayon and they reminded me of a Pac-Man maze.  You know... the power pellets and the bright dots.  Then I said "I'm drawing Pac Man!  Wouldn't that be funny when they get it back and see this!"  And that's exactly what I did.  After I drew the four monsters, I then drew the fourth monster being gobbled up my Pac Man!   Then colored them with y daughters crayons.

Wonka-Wonka!