I’m excited to start the digital painting process by laying in the colored flats on the toned ink wash artwork for this new Nyx cover illustration for my indie comic magazine Unique Realm Illustrated Issue #4 featuring the story of Twisted Fate.

Here is a look at the final painting process for this Iron Man Sketch Cover commission. I started this last stage by outlining the right leg armor area with n to painting the gold armor first and then moved on to painting the silver area. Lastly, I moved on to painting all the red armor areas to complete this sketch cover painting.
This stage was was rendered with Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pens, Golden Acrylics, Princeton Select Brushes and Liquitex Softbody Acrylics.

Here’s a glimpse of the latest progress made on this Iron Man Sketch Cover commission. I started this stage by outlining the right arm armor with Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pens. With the outlining done, I moved on to painting the gold armor area first and continued by painting the red armor areas of the arm. Next, I outlined the left leg armor area. From there, I painted the gold area and then the silver area. Lastly, I painted all the red armor areas to complete this painting stage.
This stage was was rendered with Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pens, Golden Acrylics, Princeton Select Brushes and Liquitex Softbody Acrylics.

Here’s a glimpse of the latest progress I’ve made on this Iron Man Sketch Cover commission. I started this stage by painting the stomach area first and then moved to painting pelvis and hip red armor areas. Next, I outlined the left armor with Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pens. From there, I painted the gold arm armor area. With that completed, I painted the red top arm area first and moved down to the elbow, forearm and lastly the fist area which completed this painting stage. The main technique I used for this painting stage was dry a brush technique.
This stage was was rendered with Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pens, Golden Acrylics, Princeton Select Brushes and Liquitex Softbody Acrylics.

Here’s a look at the some of the progress I was able to make on this new Iron Man Sketch Cover commission. I stared this stage by outlining helmet, shoulders and stomach areas. Then I painted the gold face plate first and then moved onto the helmet red areas. Next, I moved on to painting the neck area and shoulder armor. Lastly, I painted the chest, rib, and a couple of the stomach armor areas.
This stage was rendered with Faber-Castellated PITT Artist Pens, Golden Fluid Acrylics, Princeton Select Brushes and Liquitex Softbody Acrylics.
