DC Super Powers
On Friday at DC’s Young Animal panel at San Diego ComiCon, this image was released. It’s the wraparound cover for the upcoming Super Powers comic by Tom Scioli. Here’s a quote from Gerard Way and Jim Lee regarding the series:
Here’s the process that went into making that image, starting with the inital thumbnail:
Then comes a sketch the size of a printed comic:
Then the sketch is tightened up via lightbox:
Pencil tones are added. Formerly crayons were used for toning, but crayon sticks to scanner glass and is difficult to clean:
Tones are combined with a layer of flat color:
All the elements are combined with some digital trickery for the final image:
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