2019 HAPPY NEW YEAR
January 1, 2019 | Posted in site stuff | By Pepe
Happy New Year!!!
A huge thank you to everyone for your continued support with my art! I hope you all have an amazing 2019 of success and prosperity!!!
2018 ANT-MAN SKETCH COVER WIP03 AND FINISHED ART
August 12, 2018 | Posted in art | By Pepe
Here is the Ant-Man Sketch Cover finished painting. For the final stage of this sketch cover painting I worked on the finished black part of the costume. Then went back to the helmet and finished up all the red areas. Lastly, I painted the red parts of the costume. The brushes I used for this stage are the size 5 & 10 spotter, size 2 angle shader and chiseled blender. I continued wit the dry brush technique that I talked about in previous posts. Dragging the paint with dry brush also achieves a satin feel to the painting.
2018 ANT-MAN SKETCH COVER WIP 01
July 31, 2018 | Posted in art | By Pepe
Ant-Man Sketch Cover Painting is underway. Here’s the beginning process. I masked off the Ant-man with tracing paper and painter tape. Next I layered the paint background with sponges, cheap $1 paint brushes and Liquitex Freestyle Splatter Brushes.
2018 SINESTRO SKETCH COVER WIP02
July 14, 2018 | Posted in art | By Pepe
Here’s the next step in my creative process of adding color to this Sinestro Sketch Cover. Topic’s are very similar to watercolor. You have to start with the lightest color first and slowly build up layers of overlapping darker colors and tones. Like with watercolor paint you need to use the white of the paper for highlights throughout your illustration. So here is progress shots 2.
2018 SINESTRO SKETCH COVER WIP01
July 7, 2018 | Posted in art | By Pepe
Here’s my starting process to laying down color on this Sinestro Sketch Cover. Since the DC Sketch Cover surface takes markers well I’ll use a combination technique of Copic and Liquitex. After the base background is put down, I’ll mask off the logo and Sinestro with tracing paper and painter tape. The star field is achieved with Liquitex Free Style Splatter Brush. After the splatter paint is dry I’ll add the glow to various splatters along with burst to complete the feel of space.
2018 SUPERMAN RED SON SKETCH COVER WIP01
July 1, 2018 | Posted in art | By Pepe
Here’s a progress shot 1 of me adding color to this Superman Red Son Sketch Cover. Tried something different with the background this time. I used the Tom Holtz Collection Rays Stencil to help with the background. I like the effect and will try again with a future sketch cover. The coloring is rendered with Copic Markers. For the highlights in the hair I used a uni-ball Signo broad white gel pen.
2018 IRON MAN SKETCH COVER PENCILS
June 28, 2018 | Posted in art | By Pepe
Picked up this Iron Man Sketch Cover last Friday and was inspired to lay down pencils to it. Here is the finished up pencils. Looking forward to adding color to this in the near future.
2018 SAVAGE OPRESS SKETCH COVER PENCILS
June 8, 2018 | Posted in art | By Pepe
In between commissions and projects I’ve been laying down pencils on sketch covers to paint in the future when time permits. Here is the finished Savage Opress pencils.
2018 DEADPOOL SKETCH COVER PENCILS
June 1, 2018 | Posted in art | By Pepe
Here is a Deadpool Sketch Cover pencils all finished up. Hoping to add paint to this between current projects.
2018 LANDO CALRISSIAN SKETCH COVER PENCILS
May 27, 2018 | Posted in art | By Pepe
Here is the Lando Calrissian Sketch Cover pencils all finished up for the smoothes talking smuggler in the galaxy just in time for Solo. Hope to paint this in the near future.
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