Batman inked sketch

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A Batman sketch I did while watching the snow pile up, and trees fall down, on Saturday October 29th.

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Power of Shazam #5 cover prelim

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Here's the marker prelim I used to paint the cover to Power of Shazam#5, with Mary Marvel and Madame Libertine.

In the finished cover, I flopped the composition. I may have drawn the composition this way at the start, I don't recall, but often I will tighten a layout on the reverse side of the tracing paper, to correct proportions where needed. Paint done in Dr Martin's Watercolor Dyes, Prismacolor pencils, and probably some gouache in spots as well.

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Adventures of Superman Annual#8 cover sketch

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Here's the cover prelim for a cover, done in 1996, when DC's Annuals theme was Legends of the Dead Earth , where each title showed a kind of alternate world futuristic version of the character(s). This one went so smoothly, the sketch served as a prelim, with no real changes in the finished cover. I love covers like that!

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Adventures of Superman#445 color guide

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Here's a neat color guide, done in the pre-computer coloring days, for the Superman books. This was also my debut as regular writer on this title, after John Byrne had left the books to return to Marvel. I HAD written a previous issue, but that had been intended for that year's Adventures of Superman Annual, and repurposed for a single issue when the schedule shifted.  A side note on this one, is that the printed cover was adjusted, at the request of the comics code, to remove the blood, and  shorten the needle so it didn't touch skin. All reasonable requests for a book that was done for "all ages." The Code was generally touchy, when it came to any kind of needles.

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Power of Shazam#3 cover prelim

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Here's an example of the stage before painting a cover-- this tracing paper full sized prelim, which was transferred to the art board and then painted. I drew this based on the cover sketch, which had been done first for editorial approval.

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Comics Greatest World: Will to Power#9 cover sketch

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Here's the last of three cover sketches done for Dark Horse in the 1990's. This one was revised by the time I got to the finished stage, to reflect a cleaner, more idyllic cityscape.

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This is a tight marker tracing paper prelim that I then transferred to art board and painted, for a Superman Earth Day special, written by Roger Stern, pencilled by Kerry Gammill, and inked by Dennis Janke, in the early 90's, I believe. This was a fun cover to do, and I think I  painted the actual cover in gouache, for a nice retro feel.

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Color guide for the cover to Superman#40

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Here's another color guide, done for the mechanical color separation process in comics, prior to computer coloring.This is a favorite cover of mine, as it's always fun to draw Kirby creations, like the four armed terror!

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Comics' Greatest World:Will to Power#8 cover sketch

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Another of the covers/ cover sketches I did for Dark Horse's "Comics Greatest World" series. Enjoy!


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