Tuesday, May 18, 2010

New Mutants #51 page 21

Rough layouts, pencils and a scan of the original art, courtesy Mr. Simon Miller:




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  1. AnonymousMay 18, 2010 at 2:42 AM

    Seeing the sketch of that figure reminded me of South Park's Saddam. Like this... http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/south_park_satan_and_saddam%20thumb.jpg

    Rev. Dave

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  2. Kevin NowlanMay 18, 2010 at 7:08 AM

    Weird...

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  3. AnonymousMay 18, 2010 at 2:12 PM

    Hey Kevin, how you been doing?

    May i ask you something?What do you do to do those light effects like that on the window panel?Just using a eraser?

    Thanks!

    Hugo S.

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  4. Jordan RaskinMay 19, 2010 at 12:49 AM

    @Hugos S.: My guess is he used a razor blade to scrape off the ink after the fact.

    Kevin,
    I always felt your work on this job was ahead of its time. Loved this simplified stylized approach both here and on the Man-Bat job. Seems to be the norm these days, eh? Take a bow you trail blazer you -- ;)

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  5. Kevin NowlanMay 19, 2010 at 7:58 AM

    Thanks, Jordan. I missed Hugo's question.

    The light effect was drawn in the pencils more or less as you see it, with a little touch-up from an eraser. For the inks, it looks like I just ruled the lines with a rapidograph pen and lifted it slightly so that it would fade out at the end. The pen wasn't flexible so it didn't give me a tapered line but the texture of the paper made the line break up and gave me the effect I was looking for.

    It was strange, drawing this story in a pared-down style and getting hate mail, but when I did the Man-Bat story soon after, in the same style, it was very well received. I'm still not sure I understand why.

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  6. AnonymousMay 19, 2010 at 11:33 AM

    Thank you for answering Kevin. :D

    Hugo S.

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