superman&lois

Another member of Strong Arm Studios, Frankie & I were excited to
collaborate on other work since our Death commission (on G2 p.1).
Our first reunion effort was Superman with Lois Lane and, like with
Death, I had many opportunities to play elements up in the inking
stage and I wouldn't prefer anything less. The only problem I had
was the the bristol board that Frankie used was so soft and the
surface was much worse than most boards I've worked on so that
it absorbed the ink laid upon it in large areas and the markers
caused bleeding which meant more errors to clean up later.
Besides brush & marker I used black spatter for the city scape fade-
off effect behind the cloud wisps, white spatter for the stars and
white building on the right to blend it into the the transition better,
and some 20% dot zip on Lois' boots to help define her up against
the rolling cape folds. I then added that zip to her top to balance her
ensemble:-) This 14 X 17 job was completed on 11/5/03.

Catwoman is the
follow-up 14X17
job w/ Frankie. I
tweaked a few
elements in the
image, like per-
spective, and tried
to really play up
on others. The
challenge for me
was keeping the
Egyptian relic from
competing w/ the
dimensional space
of Catwoman. A
heavy contour line
on her wasn't
enough. Zip was
the solution which
pushed back the
relic in the DARK
room. Along w/
my normal inking
tools I used zip,
drybrush, razor
scrapings, grainy
china marker and
some white paint
spatter. It was
completed 11/8/03.