2019 BATMAN RED RAIN WIP01
September 22, 2019 | Posted in art | By Pepe
With my favorite holiday just around the corner. It’s got me inspired to create some creature artwork. So I’ve been wanting to paint this Batman from one of my favorite Elseworld stories. Haven’t done an illustration on black paper in some time and thought this Batman illustration would look good on it and capture the atmosphere I wanted to express with this piece. Here’s the beginning stage of my Batman Red Rain painting on Strathmore Artagain paper.
2019 PRINCE 1999 TRIBUTE ART
August 20, 2019 | Posted in art | By Pepe
With knocking out commissions, freelance projects and along with exhibiting at shows, I haven’t had a chance to share this with you yet. I was finally able to add background to this Prince 1999 inspired illustration.
2019 FLASHPOINT FINISHED SKETCH COVER
August 16, 2019 | Posted in art | By Pepe
Here is the finished Flashpoint Joker Cover. On this last stage, I stared with a base green color. Form there went back and forth with the different shades of green layering until the hair was complete. The background was lacking something for me so I added lightning to bring the whole cover together. Lastly, I didn’t like the way the yellow on the logo looked with rest of the cover so I decided it needed to change. Since Flashpoint Batman’s logo is black and red, I decided to change the logo to match that style. The change was made with a red copic maker by going over all the yellow areas of the logo. Once it was done, the cover come together fully. Rendered with Faber-Castell PITT artist pen, Liquitex paint and Posca paint markers.
2019 FLASHPOINT JOKER WIP01
July 8, 2019 | Posted in art | By Pepe
The art cave is busy with prepping for SDCC. Working on painting some sketch covers to have with me at Booth 1330. This Flashpoint Joker is currently on my art table.
2019 FINISHED VENOM PAINTED SKETCH COVER
July 1, 2019 | Posted in art | By Pepe
Found a little time between projects and prepping for Comic Con to finish this Venom Sketch Cover. I continued to work with more dry brush technique on the rest of the body area. Once Venom was finished up, I moved on to the logo area. For this area, I used uni POSCA paint markers to outline, fill and touch up the logo from the background paint that made its way into the logo. The painted cover was rendered with a combination of Faber-Castell PITT artists pens, POSCA Paint Markers and Liquitex Paint.
2019 VENOM SKETCH COVER WIP03
July 1, 2019 | Posted in art | By Pepe
Slowly making a little more progress on this sketch cover between various projects. On this progress stage, I moved on to rendering the the face area with dry brush technique to create the symbiote texture.
2019 VENOM SKETCH COVER WIP02
June 25, 2019 | Posted in art | By Pepe
I’m slowly making a little more progress on this Venom Sketch Cover between various projects. With the background all finished up, I moved on to painting the mouth area. I started painting the tongue first and built up the color layers with dry brush technique. Then I moved on to rendering the gums with the same technique.
2019 VENOM SKETCH COVER WIP01
June 22, 2019 | Posted in art | By Pepe
Started working on this Sketch Cover. With the Venom Sketch Cover pencils all finished up, I moved on to painting the background. Here is the process behind the work in progress 1. The background was laid down by layering different tones of red upon each other. Once the look I was going for was achieved, I moved on to adding more texture with Liquitex free•style Splatter Brushes.
2019 PRINCE DAY TRIBUTE
June 7, 2019 | Posted in art | By Pepe
In honor of Prince’s birthday, I decided to create a painting inspired by the 1999 time period. I listen to Prince while creating my personal artwork and his music helps to fuel my creativity.
Happy 61st Birthday Prince!
2019 DOCTOR DOOM SKETCH COVER WIP04
May 26, 2019 | Posted in art | By Pepe
Almost finished up on this Doctor Doom Sketch Cover. This stage moved on to rendering the hood area. Lots of going back and forth with layering build up to get a cloth texture feel. Rendering with Faber-Castell PITT art pens and Liquitex paint.
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