(top) Sal Velluto's rough layout (above) Sal's pencil art
Sal Velluto's Art Soup
This was my 4th job with this client who has also become one of my regulars. He wanted Sal & myself to render what's known as a 'floating heads' image with Black Panther and was surprised that no one had yet commissioned me & Sal to do an image with Panther and his rogues before. We discussed which BP enemies to consider using as floating heads and, while I suggested some like Killmonger, Achebe & Malice, ultimately the top choices of Man-ape & Klaw were decided upon by the client and he wanted us to throw into the mix T'Challa's uber-ally and fellow Avenger Captain America. Inked with mostly brush, markers and some perspective zip-a-tone, this 9 X 12 image was completed on 4/26/04.
Speaking of floating heads images, here is a free convention sketch that I did for "Lenny Tibbit" of Alvaro's Avengers Message Board of Ultron surrounded by heads of Beast, Wonderman, & Vision at the Madison Square Garden Convention in June of 2002. Soon after he had Tom Smith color it.