I came across the pencils for this 2008 cover by Neal Adams, loving the energy. So this time out we’re going to go backward from the published cover to the pencils, and then back up to a new final version with inks and colours by myself.
The published cover
Colours by Moose Baumann
Inks by Neal Adams, showing how the art was constructed in two pieces
Pencils by Neal Adams with a bit of inking begun
Inks by Scott Dutton. I puts Adams’ pencils under a layer and inked the whole piece that way.
Colours applied
Re-created trade dress added
Putting the bad guy front and centre
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