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Black Cat from
Paradise
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If
you check out the pencil version, you'll see Terry (Strangers In Paradise)
Moore initially drew it in a sharp graphic style, adding some flat
grays for depth. Dot-pattern zipatone could've worked in the inking
translation, but it turns yellow and fades. I chose to ink the hard
angles first, then I blended 90% gray prismacolor pencil for the fades
and shades. It wasn't turning out the way I'd hoped, so I sculpted
a bit with some white-out. Some hard white lines to define the feet
& highlights on her midsection, then I drybrushed with whiteout.
This created a sumptuous leathery effect! I indulged on the platform
shading, cross-hatching over and over, then going back, cross-hatching
white-out with a brush.
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Doctor
Doom Comin' Atcha
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No,
Victor isn't doing the boot-scoot boogie, he's fixin' to fry your
backside. And all because he can't get over messing up his face in
college! He stopped getting invited to the keggers and mixers and
now the whole world has to pay! Thanks, Vic! Daryl Banks' very tight
pencils call for chunky, bold inks. The throne with the Old European
"D" is a nice touch. Quill and rapidograph all the way.
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Penciller: Daryl
Banks
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Spidey-Jam!
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Here's
the rundown: Kingpin/Neil Vokes, Rhino/Skottie Young, Silver Sable/Amanda
Conner, Lizard/J. Califore, Electro/Craig Rouseau, Punisher/Cully
Hamner, Peter Parker/Phil Noto, Green Goblin/Adam Hughes, Vulture/Sal
Buscema, Doc Ock/Damion Scott, Black Cat/Mike Wieringo, Spider-Man/Tom
Lyle, Mary Jane/Mike Turner, Qwen Stacy/Brian Stelfreeze, Mayday Parker/Joe
Linsner, Venom/Tone Rodrigues, Kraven/Bob Mcleod, Hobgoblin/Aaron
Lopresti, Scorpion/Andy Smith, Hammerhead/Mike Manley, Mysterio/Alex
Saviuk, Sandman/Lee Weeks, Prowler/John Romita, Carnage/Standford
Greene, Man-Wolf/ Ethan Van Sciver
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Mmmmm,
Love that Black Cat!
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If
you refer to the pencil version, you'll see that there were no black
costume details, so, thumbing through a Marvel Knights Spider-Man
that Terry and his wife Rachael did, I found some great lightsoursing
references that suggest leather, plus the little details, like the
underarm padding and furry forearms and legs. This was almost all
brushwork, except for her boots and face, which were done with rapidographs.
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Penciller: Terry
Dodson
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Cheshire
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One
of the sexiest bad girls of the DCU drawn in loving detail by the
hot new artist of the relaunched Justice League of America. I usually
ink the original, but in this case I was hired to lightbox over it
instead. I had started with slightly thicker 'original comic page'
paper, but the details were hard to see, and I was very dissatisfied
with the results. I was more than halfway finished, when I tossed
it in the wastebasket and started all over again, this time finding
the a leftover blank comic page that was thinner, just enough to make
a substantial difference. On the long fades, I used a rapidograph
and a ship curve. Everything else: quill
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The
Shadow
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I
was approached at a con to work from a very rough Kaluta layout, so
I bought the whole run of DC's Shadow comics from the 1970's for reference,
but Kaluta worked with such small panels back then, that I never could
cobble enough images to piece together a Kaluta-like image. Thankfully,
a friend found a scan of a finished commission, based on the rough
layout I had. When I offered my client a variety of choices, he chose
for me to lightbox over the Kaluta finished commission with a some
Geraci polishing. It turned into a great learning excersize for me.
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Avengers #4 cover
redux
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During
the Silver Age, DC had the slickest inkers that Marvel, being a barebones
operation at the time, couldn't afford. This led to Marvel settling
for choppy, rushed inks by whoever was handy. Despite that, it was
Jack Kirby's powerful storytelling that helped make these comics sell.
The original inker, George Bell aka Roussos, may have been an ill
fit, but that's because he mostly served the role of on-staff production
man and colorist who would pitch in on inks when deadlines loomed.
Roussos made major contributions to Marvel comics by coming up with
the color schemes of all the classic Marvel heroes and villains, plus
decades of eye-popping covers! On this revision of Avengers #4's cover,
Michael made some adjustments to the figures, and was influenced by
Syd Shores inks over Kirby for Captain America's face. I did my best
brushy Sinnott impersonation for this loving tribute to a classic
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