My fourth Wyman commission, this is the kind of Marvel image I love to dive into. The challenge that I faced was to have Crusher Creel pop out with clarity in front of Hulk and me & the client also wanted his transformation to be clear. So I decided to spatter the rocky debris and then match the parts of his body that were rocky (legs, chest & shoulder) and spatter those areas as well to establish the consistency of texture as a visual cue. I also elaborated on the rocky parts & debris to make them craggier & grittier. I then used white paint to make other smooth parts of his body to be shiny (arms&hands, side & back of torso, head) to match the metal girders in the debris by making the surfaces reflective with white lines and dots over black areas. Using brush, marker, black & white spatter & black smudging, I finished the 11 X 17 commission on 1/16/04. The client was happy with the results. He then commissioned Tom Smith to color the art and this was completed 2 days later.
(above top) MC Wyman's pencils (above) Tom Smith's colors
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