TOMB RAIDER BY JIM BALENT: Commission

I got this loose convention sketch of Lara Croft, Tomb Raider by Jim Balent from Gary Wayne. My first inks over Jim, this is my second shot with Gary as he was pleased with my previous inks on the loose convention sketch of Wonder Woman by Mike Deodato, Jr., the entry that started this new commission gallery. I tightened up some of the drawing and inked it with brush, Pitt brush marker, and other Pitt and micron markers on the 11X17 2-ply board supplied to me and it was completed on 5/17/10.

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Jim Balent’s sketch

Bob’s inks

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Bob is the inking half of the Sal Velluto art team collaboration on such projects as Marvel’s critically-acclaimed BLACK PANTHER,’99-’02 leading to a 2003 Comicboards “Ooks” Award for “Best Inker” & two “Squiddies” awards for “Best Inker” (2001 along with “Best Creative Team” win and 2002 tied with Mark Farmer and tied for “Best Multi-Part Story”), and many other projects with Sal since 1997 and other artists at Marvel, DC, Acclaim, Malibu, Penny-Farthing Press, Power Comics, IDW, Kingstone, Thrilling Nostalgia Comics, Harris Comics, Topps, Wildstorm, New England Comics, Valiant and several others. While he’s been primarily an ink artist he’s also been a columnist for Sketch magazine and First Comics News. Bob’s a comic book collector and unofficial historian who has acted as a “Master of the Obscure” at the Marvel Appendix site, been a longtime member of the “Jarvis Heads” and a “group expert” at Facebook groups. He’s the founder/director of the official non-profit Inkwell Awards and advocate since 2008. Bob has been credited with “Special Thanks” along with his “Storyteller” colleagues Christopher Priest & Sal Velluto in the record-breaking film BLACK PANTHER (2018) and BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (2022).

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