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DAREDEVIL #1 COVER. 2013. Ink(ed by Joe Rivera) on bristol board, 11 × 17″. |
Remember when
Daredevil relaunched? (No, the time after that.) I provided a variant cover for the issue, and these are the photos that went into its creation. I often take several photos to get the right "feel" for a character, and in this case I even had a second session in the midst of drawing (as evidenced by my beard density).
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2014 Baton Champion! |
Because of a snafu somewhere in the production chain, what ended up being printed was the raw inks. I was fine with that, though, and ended up liking the colorless version better (though some red on DD would've been even better).
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Black and white version |
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Inks by my Old Man |
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Pencils over digital sketch |
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Digital Sketch |
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Digital Layouts |
This Wacky Reference should be used as academic credit in a design school, great work, the central pic in the digital layout pic would be another great cover!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Dave! That background took me a while, that's for sure.
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