the assassin's cover

you can see and hear more about my process and inspiration for the new cover here.

Supergirl: Lost Daughter of Krypton 19

Right, so here's the cover art for episode 19.

As you can see, Kara's eyes are green. Woops.

And the lemonade isn't entirely yellow.

And we're back to colored pencil, with the continued loss of my tablet pen. =sniffle= Which means that mistakes I make due to a mild case of low lighting are incredibly hard to fix. >.<

Yay for...whoever fixed Kara's eyes to blue. XD


Although I have to admit - this whole bit with the Kara pointing upwards was a result of cracking up after hearing TWIP and thorougly on purpose. It combatted with my original idea to have Kara looking out at the corn fields and have the corn fields turn into the yellow flowers. But the funny won over. >.<

Superman: Last Son of Krypton Issue 47

Hey everybody! Your commentary is here. Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving!

Catwoman Issue 3

Hey all,

Here's my drawing for Issue 3. I did it differently than what I normally do. Usually I use photo references and draw from those. This time I drew freehand from my mind and then shaded it like I normally do. The only photo reference I used was the gun (an Uzi.)

In this scene Catwoman is sneaking around a compound in Cancun and the hoodlums below keep walking by and leaving. So I decided to go for a low view point with a close up of the hoodlum and his mean looking gun, with Catwoman in her element sneaking around the wall. Kind of like a cat walking along fences at night.

I used a B pencil to quick sketch it. Then used a 2B to outline the characters and wall. After that, I used stomps to blend in the shading and there you have it!

See ya

Paul

(next time, I'll scan the drawing step by step and post the steps.)

the Wedding episode

heres my inks for the cover. fairly simple but i liked it a lot. i meant it to be a little sexier than it turned out, her expression turned out so shy, but that's okay. i liked the subtle hatching i used, and being a female i was drawing i tried to restrain the rendering because it is really easy to over do it and make her look old or just plain ugly. but all in all i think it was very successful. you can see the colored final version on my deviantart or on the pendant website.

Hi all,

Here's the Halloween drawing that Kristy, Kristen and I came up with. I'll post a comment shortly, and Kristen and Kristy might as well. Just posting it so everyone can take a look and see what we came up with.

Enjoy!

Paul

Ok, here's the commentary....way late.

We got together for the halloween jam and came up with the idea of putting the DC girls in each other's costumes to go out trick or treating. They all happened to meet at the same house while trick or treating. As you can see, Wonder Woman looks peeved at Catwoman wearing her costume. Catwoman looks coy wearing hers. And Kara looks like she's happy to get some treats. The kiddies are kind of surprised to see them and their costumes.

I did the pencils, Kristen did the inking and Kristy did the colouring. It was fun to jam on this. Hope to do it again.

Supergirl: Lost Daughter of Krypton 18

Here is the cover this month. You may notice a lot of the lines are incredibly sloppy and the line art itself is sketchy. Right, so, this week has been busy.

But on another note - you may be asking why Metallo and Kara are frolicking. It's inspired by an insinuation Steve makes. And I thought them frolicking would be funny.

As far as what I wish I had time to change (I drew this in essentially 16 interrupted hours)...the biggest problem is Metallo's hand, if you ask me. That should be properly colored. The fact that there's a lot of places where other colors cross lines they shouldn't. I should have fixed the sun in the background, and whatnot. Kara's face transgressed 6 years back to the drawing style I had in 8th grade (I guess I can blame this on being in a car (I took every moment my hands weren't doing something to work on this)).

I have to say, though. I like how the pants turned out. They /were/ the first thing I started fixing up as soon as I'd gotten the base colors down. The method I used for working on this cover were sketching out the shapes with a light blue, making another layer to draw the sketchy lineart, and then getting rid of the shapes (except I was horribly sleep deprived and didn't quite do this. The shape layer ended up on the same layer as the skin and pants). Anyways, the thing I did after laying down the colors (on varying layers depending on when I would remember to make new ones), was go through and shade with some degree of properness whilst also fixing up the lines so they weren't so sketchy and bad. And I still managed to miss a lot (particularly Metallo's hand) due to the sleep deprivation.

Which brings me to the following conclusion and moral of the story: I need to a) remember I need to draw things once a month and b) not procrastinate.

However, this was a terrible week for me to get anything done without being sleep-deprived. I just got exceptionally busy over the past four days, and have been doing my best to get it all done in time.

I also had the misfortune of losing my tablet pen about a week and a half ago, and have been searching for that frantically ever since. This cover was brought to you by the kind heart of my best friend (and her tablet-lending fantasticness).

I'll stop rambling, as now I'm trying to get a certain something else colored with as much goodness and quickness as possible. The tablet has to go back to my best friend today. (Then I have to write a script, storyboard, schedule and budget a film in a day. Oh good god).