[jimlee]
Here is a scan of one of the Batman and Robin covers in progress. On
something this complicated to avoid over-smudging the piece, I put down all
the important lines down with a bit harder F grade lead. Once the structure
lines are down, I use a HB grade lead to lay down my shadows moving left to
right.
Then I go back in with a sharp HB pencil, usually a .3mm or .5mm mechanical
pencil (to save time resharpening all the time) and make all my shadows and
smudges into "something." It can be little AC units or water towers or
windows on the buildings but the idea is to play with contrast, black and
white, and detail and pattern.
As I move left to right, I tighten up all the linework on the figure as
well, highlighting the angles and emphasizing lineweights where needed to
separate planes. Then I redid the process all over again with the Batman
cover.
Here is a closer look.
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7 comments:
With the amount of detail that went into this cover, how long did it take to create this piece? All those building are very elaborate, did you use photo reference or did they come from that great creative mind of yours? As always, nice work Jim. Scott Williams have fun inking this cover.
Yeah, I was thinking that much detail must take FOREVER. Inking it must be a serious job. Great work.
Thank you a lot for those advices ! I'm gonna use them right now !
This is a magnificient piece !
Bravo !
Thanks, I love getting to see the behind-the-scenes kind of stuff like this. And I can't wait for "Allstar" because I just read the end of "For Tomorrow" and I guess now that I've finished it I can say that I'm disappointed. The artwork was great and I loved especially the scenes with Supes and the preacher inside the cathedral, but the story was blah. And that's weird that I say that because I love Brian Azzarello's 100 Bullets and can't get enough of it. Oh well, they can't all be winners. At least I got to see a little more Jim Lee-Superman out of it all, right? Best of luck, thanks, all that jazz.
Jim Can I ask you in what Robin are you basing yours?
I can defineltely recognized the Batman and the influences but what about Robin?
I love the great detail on the page...Great work Jim!..JESUS ANTONIO
mr williams must be crying right now (or thinking if he should outsource the background to someone else!) ;-)
fantastic detail, jim. shows how dedicated you are to your art and the type of pro you are. i mean, you can draw a blank piece of paper and people would still buy it and yet you do something like this.
i noticed that you are using the same background for both covers but at different angles. did you ever consider having the 2 covers line up together like your 215 issue of superman?
thanks for again sharing with us our weekly JL fix.
patman
b&W covers? am sure it's gonna come out as RRP edition comics. ganna burn a hole in our pockets, that's for sure!
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