Wacky Reference Wednesdays, No. 9
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Labels: Mythos / Spider-Man / Wacky Reference Wednesdays![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK8STgQUqsusYopgALU5UpGiSJYuz51K6SV4eeyCvopoj5HE1EgOMQyLLBFWi-96ma93PeXau_Y68xF-IFJoLhyphenhyphenz8k51yOZR0QaN0aZd3u7tF7GHov9MQ43BG9AhH8tgXUWvAgrrl-Qc-N/s400/MYTHSM001004p1.jpg)
Nothing too "wacky" about today's reference — just a street scene from Mythos: Spider-Man that required some authentic details. The shot also required a lot of planning that will (hopefully) be taken for granted by the viewer. This is the first panel of a new scene, so I needed to establish a number of things. Our narrator, Peter Parker, is about to be bitten by a radioactive spider. He begins the scene inside the science fair, but ends up outside and up a wall.
At the very least, I needed to include a busy street with traffic, a side street, a fire escape, science fair banners, and a building facade. Luckily, I already had reference for most of this, and the rest was found through a Google image search.
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This was taken from Midtown Comics in, well, midtown. I was just there to buy comics, but thought I could eventually use a shot like this. I try to bring my camera with me whenever I head into the city... and if I ever find myself up above street level, I almost always take a picture. You never know.
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And this is the Hershey store in Times Square. I liked the windows and lower facade, but the interior was a scary, scary place.
Thanks for sharing your process, its very insightful, I fell I learned more than a few good tricks :)
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