Catskill Comics: Dick Ayers
(top left) Dick's pencil art (bottom left) Richard Bennett art
Stat time: this was my 1st time inking Dick Ayers, one of the Marvel silver-age legends, whom I've met at various shows. This is my 35th commission for Damon and my 4th Brass for him:-) In this case, Dick used the reference by Richard Bennett sent by Damon as inspiration for the character's pose. I also used the ref as ref in order to make the details a little more faithful but there are some deviations that we can call artistic liberties & vision that I chose not to redo. I presume that the pencil art was sprayed with fixative since I couldn't erase the graphite off so I tried to cover much of it up with correction fluid and I scanned the inked image with a lighter 'levels' setting than usual in Photoshop so that most of the pencil is gone. I used brush, Pitt brush marker & markers to do this 9 X 12 image which I completed on 8/1/05.