(top left) Paul Gould's pencils (bottom right) actual printed original image by Paul and inker Rob Stull
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I've begun an association with Bob Shaw's Strong Arm Studios and have been collaborating with artists Frankie Washington (see the next Superman/Cat- woman entry) who I inked on a commission some time back with Vertigo's character Death of the Endless as well Paul Gould who I worked on for the first time here. This piece here is a recreation of a published splash page that Paul originally rendered for Chaos Comics which was originally inked by Rob Stull. I used brush & marker and tweaked a few aspects of the illustration. I added some more definition and light & shadows to the cans, bottles & glass in the background assisted by using a grainy china marker. And I used dry brush to capture the transition of candle light to black background. I finished the 11 X 17 work on 11/5/03. UPDATE: STRONGARM STUDIOS UNFORTUNATELY FOLDED JAN. OF '04.