(above) pencils by Ken Hooper
Namor with his friend & ally Tamara Rahn are depicted in this serene shot drawn by artist Ken Hooper as my 9th commission for Jeff. This is my first effort working with Ken's work and I used brush & marker with a little white paint spatter and razor scraping added for effect. Ken unfortunately used smooth 'Blue-line' board which is among the worst to ink on IMO. There was a lot of ink bleeding even while using simply marker & brush. This especially made matters challenging since there are a lot if delicate details that were hard to render in ink without making a mess and I didn't find a thin marker that didn't bleed until I was halfway done with the job. So (with a lot of correction fluid:-)) I was finished inking this commission on 2/4/04.
(left) Jeff later hired Tom Smith to color the art and he completed the job on 8/31/05.
Comic Art Fans: Tom Smith