Batgirl #35 Halloween Variant Cover

You know... I really do love Mark Chiarello... and not just because he thinks of me when a cover like this comes up. He knew this was something I'd have a lot of fun drawing. He's the best.

Anyway, two preliminary sketches, then pencils, inks and final color:

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.

Monsters in the Closet: page seven

Here's what the pencils looked like when about half of the details were still unresolved. You can see quite a few changes that were made between these two steps; the mermaid's face, left arm, etc.

Monsters in the Closet: page four

This isn't the most interesting page in the story but I like the mechanical stuff in the last panel.  And it looks like I almost forgot the "CLICK" sound effect in the bottom left panel.