Batman vs Bat-Bane Variant Cover art

First, I struggled with the layout, trying to find an angle that would show both characters clearly...

Wrightson's Solomon Grundy pencils, page 22

In case some of us have forgotten, this page shows how skillfully Bernie arranges areas of black and white.  He mastered "chiaroscuro" before most of us could spell the word. It's all there in the pencils, which makes an inker's job a lot easier.

As discussed elsewhere, this story was written, pencilled and inked in 1997, but remained unpublished until 2010, in "Batman's Hidden Treasures".

Outsiders Annual cover art

I hadn't seen this one for several years but the owner of the original painting posted a scan on the CAF site recently so I thought I'd update my old post, showing the sketch and pencils:

I'd forgotten how bad those old seps were. They really washed out the colors.

Batman, Batgirl and Robin

Step by step, from layout to final inks:

Batman pin-up: Inks over David Finch pencils

This one was inked over a blueline copy of the pencils:

Batman: Sword of Azrael TPB cover art

From 1993. Pencils by Joe Quesada. Sorry for the poor quality of the pencil scan.

Batman specialty piece

Preliminary pencils and inks:

Batman Gargoyle

It looks like this piece was drawn in 2009, before the other three Batman gargoyle pin-ups.  Layout, pencils and inks:

Old Superman and Batman commission

I think this one's from 2007.  Sketch, pencils and inks:

The Outsider #1 cover art

Here's a gesture that threw me; a guy brushing dust off his suit. Sounds simple, but I had to do a lot of sketching before I came up with anything that even came close to suggesting the movement I was looking for. As a last resort, I was going to try for a "strobe" effect but I didn't want to overdo it and call more attention to the action than I needed to.

Monsters in the Closet: page three

These pencils are incomplete. After inking the lettering, I inked the portions of the art that looked okay, then finished up the background, pencilling and inking in more or less one step. It would have been better to finish all the pencils at once but I often resort to this tentative, wishy washy approach to keep things moving and avoid getting hung up on the details that I'm not sure about.

Batman and Solomon Grundy: page 17

Bernie Wrightson pencils, my inks, Ron Marz script. Drawn in the late '90's and published earlier this year in Batman Hidden Treasures #1. Sincere thanks to Mark Chiarello for rescuing this story from the DC flat files.

Batman Confidential #28, page one

This third issue in the "King Tut" series was a delight to work on. José did full, finished pencils and spotted the blacks. As you can see here, those strong shadows in the last two panels all came from José. I was just along for the ride.

Superman, Wonder Woman & Batman

From 2003:

Batman Confidential #26 cover

Pencils by the supremely talented José Luis Garcia-Lopez.

Batman art for a charity auction

Did I already post this one? It was drawn in 2007 to help raise money for the CBLDF.