I Have A “Pulse”
Awhile back, Jen from the PULSE over at Comicon.com did a short interview with me that is now posted. Below is a screen grab of the article.
Screen Grab: Pulse Interview
Here’s the link to the PULSE interview!
“Marvel Saga #19″ cover re-creation inks
Marvel Saga #19 Re-Creation : Pollard - Pencils // Beatty - Inks
Back in late 2008, I took on this commission to re-create the cover inks to “The Marvel Saga #19″ over Keith Pollard’s pencils.
Uploaded is both the pencils and inks.
Unlike some re-creations, Keith didn’t just enlarge a copy of the book and trace off his lines. As I inked the cover, I noticed he had repositioned and made some other changes from the “original” cover.
I think this re-creation keeps the flavor of the “original” but also makes it an “original” piece unto itself!
I appreciate Michael, the person getting the art, being patient with my work schedule.
Hopefully…not that I have much time left at the end of the days, due to obligations with DC Licensing, I’ll try and pick away more at my commissions list!
When another is done…I’ll be posting! For those of you waiting, be sure that I’m aware that I’m a bit behind and will try to catch up. My main priority is to NOT scarafice your work just to get it done and out to you.
“Patience is a virtue!” Those words are SO true!
Thx-
-John
DC “75″ Years: Cover Project
Well, I think from my last post we’ve dried out. But have had two fairly good rains the past couple of days…OK…we don’t need the rain anymore! And as of June 1, we are now in “hurricane season” for the next 6 months! 
I thot I’d share a step by step on the “DC project” I’ve mentioned here before, so that you would get an idea of the work I’ve been doing. While it’s not a “glam job”, it does have it’s interesting points, many of which are getting to see a lot of old DC covers, and re-creating them in a digital format for the upcoming “DC 75 Years” celebration.
Cover: Wonder Woman #45
Wonder Woman #45 Cover Scan
Depending on the cover, DC either supplied me, along with the others on this project, which was being over seen by my friend/collaborator: Mike Zeck, a cover scan from the DC files library.
Some were black and white, and had not fared well thru the years, due to the aging, or just not having a “good” scan to begin with, others needed just some cleaning up and strength to the line-work before coloring. [ Those that could be cleaned and colored easier, were done in Adobe PhotoShop, but will be vectored also. ]
With this example, all I could get was a scan of the cover to work from.
So, from there we took the covers and “re-created” them using the scan as a template.
Wonder Woman #45: My re-created black and white artwork
Taking the scan into Adobe Illustrator, I began to re-work the entire cover from the ground up! Including all the text and figures, objects, etc…everything on this on was recreated. We do have logo files which were built by the team working on this job, so those we get to reuse.
I should also note that all the artwork here is layered in the Illustrator file, so that should DC or a vendor want to just use the figure of Wonder Woman, they can remove her from the file and use it as needed! All text is on it’s own layers too, so anything can be removed for use.
Wonder Woman #45: My re-created color file
After completing my black and white file, a color file must be completed! Again, in Adobe Illustrator, the color is put in as close to the “original” cover as possible. Changes are minimal, however we noted that since working off a scan can bring color shifts and age can bring “yellowing”, we made choices as to the colors. Keeping them as true to the original as we could, but making them clean and bright, so when printed, the cover will look like new.
It’s a long process to do. Many hours of work and it can get tedious.
So…this is what has been keeping me busy…and we are still working on it! Phase “1″ is completed, but the project as a whole is not, and that’s to begin ASAP…like today, I believe.
I’ve been trying to catch up with everything going on, and will soon return to some commissions that I need to do.
Thx for the patience of those waiting and I’ll see what I can do in the coming weeks to get some of those off my wait list and completed.
Anyway, hope everyone has a great weekend and I’ll try to post sooner! 
Best-
-John
Well…we did need the rain…
But after 4 days…ENOUGH!
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