I'm doing a cover featuring earth's mightiest of heroes, the Avengers! Marvel puts out these nifty blank covers for people to terrorize and customize. Want to
take a look? Here...oh...fuuuuuudge!
And this is what happens when we don't put the lid back on our inkwells. Admittedly, I'm notorious for it. Also, cats will LOVE to walk right across a freshly inked page leaving little black paws cavorting away.
Let's start over, the Avengers. Lets make it featuring the characters from the Marvel movies coming out next summer in their 616 modern representations!
Now, I'm going to take it in two directions, first, lets lay in the colors;
It might be worth noting, that although I've dabled in digital coloring for years, I'm more used to traditional watercolor techniques, and I've yet to full break myself of working light to dark, when I would probably be better served working dark to light. And so, the other direction I've gone is one full of light!
Then I more or less combine the two. Taking out parts of one and emphasising the parts of another, and then massaging them together. Also Bucky died in the middle of working on it, and I decided to change it to the returned Steve Rogers cap. Felt a little better that way to be honest.
The Avengers ported down via Bifrost into the heat of battle.
I still have a million and 2 problems and things to fix, but I spent longer getting this far than I intended, and I have other pages that are more of a priority. I learned a lot though, which is the point of these, and you can certainly look forward to more soon.
And here's an inked page that didn't get paw prints as a bonus:
That's Neil Gaiman's Sandman, and Spartan from WildCATS. There's a couple more pages in this vignette that are only partially finished. Hopefully, I won't actually have time to finish them for awhile.
Hope you enjoyed, still lots more to go!
-C
