THOR BY ARIEL OLIVETTI: COMMISSION (blueline)

Client Christophe Palma (aka Kriss Palma) sent me his sixth commission, a blueline of a prelim drawing of Thor by Ariel Olivetti. This is my fifth solo Thor but my first work over Ariel. I found his final art for the prelim (in another medium) online and used it as a reference. I ink-finished or embellished it on 11X17 2-ply Kubert board with all of my normal tools plus added some dry brush. I completed it on 10/14/14.

Prelim pencils by Ariel Olivetti

Finishes by Bob Almond

Ariel’s completed art (used as a reference)…pastel on canson paper?

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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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