(left,top to bottom) *Sal's pencil art * Inked art w/o logo
Sal Velluto's Art Soup
This was my sixth commission from my Namor fan client Jeff & the ump- teenth with Sal. This one had an interesting history. Sal rendered Namor for the cover of BLACK PANTHER # 28 (2001) but decided on a better pose & rendered that one into what became the actual cover (left). This left the original, fully-rendered Namor on a board with nothing else on it. The client later purchased the art and commissioned Sal to finish the art as a faux cover showing Namor confronting the evil Llyra with the Lady Dorma in her clutches (Llyra incidentally murdered Dorma in the printed comics ages ago). The client later commissioned me to ink it. We decided that the cover logo might look spiffy on it so that was later added on. The 11 X 17 commission was inked with brush, marker and some white dot zip used on the floor for effect. It was completed on 1/21/03. Jeff later had Tom Smith color the art on 8/31/05 (right).
Comic Art Fans: Tom Smith