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Tagged comic book art, comic cover, digital Painting, Buffy, Willow, Spike
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – cover s10 issue 14
This originally started with Buffy walking through an attic, with the background/foreground assembling into a likeness of Spike. I was concerned about how well the likeness would read and decided to switch to the easier route and use a landscape...then going a step further I used a literal likeness of Spike carved into stone.
Spike Graphic Novel
My cover for an upcoming “Spike” graphic novel, written by James Marsters, and published by Dark Horse. There’s an interview with James on i09 here.
Angel & Faith comic S9, issue 20
I decided to go with a slightly pulp-ish syle for the lighting and rendering, because of the lighter context in the image.
Spike #2, Angel & Faith #14, and TPB #2 covers
Spike #2 cover variant
Angel & Faith cover issue 14
Angel & Faith TPB #2 cover, season 9
Spike variant cover, issue 1 of 5
Dark Horse requested that I use a more comic bookish look for these Spike covers, to create a better visual separation between my variants and the main cover art. I essentially used my sequential style, but I drew/colored it all in Photoshop rather than Illustrator, which had been my typical means of drawing sequential art. After finishing this cover, I realized I had gone a little too thick on some of the line art...so subsequent covers, for this series, will be on a line-weight diet.
By request, I'm adding the original line art, click through to see it...
