This was my second commission over Mitch. I instinct- ivelly placed all my 'x's out where the blacks would go and framed those areas. Unfortunately, AFTER I did this and started inking I realized that I wanted to do a grad- uated spatter effect in the background. The effort proved futile since, as you can see in the top left image, the areas covering the 'x's with white correction fluid showed up way to bright under the black ink spattered back- ground. Since this was distracting the buyer preferred the background to be filled in solid black as was originally labeled and he requested that I spatter some stars in which I did but to a lighter, more realistic degree than the Silver Surfer piece that preceeded this one. It was completed late October 2002.
(top left) the unused first version (above) Mitch' colors (right) Mitch' pencils
Mitch Ballard's Album: current commission gallery