Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Pencils for the Legends of the Dark Knight #101 cover

Brian Stelfreeze very generously and patiently walked me through this painting process:  Tight pencils on a gesso surface, airbrushed acrylic sprayed over the pencils to add color and fix the graphite, then more acrylic applied with a brush and finally some rendering and detail work with colored pencils.  It worked so well that on a simple piece like this, I could finish an entire painting in a single day.
Posted by Kevin Nowlan at 7:49 PM

5 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 7, 2009 at 9:12 PM

    You make airbrushing seem... not cheesy. I can't help but think of car hood art or panoramic portraits of galaxies sold in Time Square when I usually see airbrush work. You always succeed in making the medium work for you and not the other way around.

    Nice pencil work, too. Thanks for sharing your process and tactics with the world!

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  2. Jake EkissApril 7, 2009 at 9:33 PM

    Yeah man, Brian's an f'ing genius. Virtually everything I know about color theory and much of what I know of painting I picked up form him.

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  3. flavianoApril 8, 2009 at 6:23 AM

    glad to see you have a blog, i always enjoyed your flickr page!
    keep posting!

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  4. PatrickWedgeApril 8, 2009 at 7:28 AM

    Interesting to see the pencilled version compared to the finished version. The thing that kind of surprised me is how the pencilled version had a lot of your feathering and rendering details and yet when painting, you couldn't really get in there and use that technique. Granted, you could use the paint to blend in the shading and such but I'm really impressed that once explained, you knocked this out in a day.

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  5. ricoApril 8, 2009 at 11:38 PM

    I never would have thought there was a such a tight pencil underdrawing for this cover! Thanks very much for sharing this!

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