Darkhawk © Marvel Comics
Final Color
By Corey Breen
Darkhawk © Marvel Comics
Photoshop Color Flats
By Corey Breen
Darkhawk © Marvel Comics
Digital Inks w/ Cintique
By Corey Breen
Darkhawk © Marvel Comics
Bitmap File
By Corey Breen
Darkhawk © Marvel Comics
Scanned Light Boxed Pencils on 11 x 17
By Corey Breen
Darkhawk © Marvel Comics
Finished Pencil Drawing
By Corey Breen
By Corey Breen
After my friend, coworker, AMAZING artist, and all around good guy, Steve Wands finished inking my drawing of The Comet a couple of months ago, he made a request for what the next drawing for him to work on with me should be. He requested Tom DeFalco and Mike Manley's Darkhawk from Marvel Comics. Not the new War of Kings Darkhawk, but the old school, 1990's Darkhawk! It was an odd request, but one that I was happy to do, since I too liked the old Darkhawk, but even more so because it was yet another chance for me to work with Steve.
So after a couple of weeks of procrastinating not doing the piece, I finally laid out a really cool pose for us to do, and then looked up some reference of the character. I decided not to change anything about the costume, and just do my best to try and capture it. It is not an easy costume to draw. After I figured out some elements of the costume, I completed the pencils, and was very happy with it. I threw it on a light box, and much Like the Neon Spidey and Grendel pieces, scanned in a basic line drawing. I gave the original art to Steve for him to ink.
I told Steve to do what he does best, even though the line drawing is kind of a paint-by-numbers kind of thing. One of my favorite pieces Steve has inked and colored for me was the Hellboy piece years ago. That was also done using this process I've been using, and I tried to mimic that this Darkhawk piece.
While Steve is off still inking this piece by HAND, I decided to ink my own version digitally on the cintique. It took me all all about a half hour. No joke. It was so easy. Just bump the threshold way up, bitmap the file, zoom in, fill in some missing or dropped out line work, then fill all the blacks. So cool. LOVE this new process. Gotta love the Cintique!
Then I threw some colors on for flats, and colored the piece much like I did Neon Spidey. I LOVE how this piece came out, and I can't WAIT to compare the digital inks I did with the MANUAL inks Steve is doing. Once I get the piece from Steve, I will post it up side by side and show you all. I think it'll be really cool to see. Not just to compare digital inks with inks done by hand, but also to show you how GOOD Steve is at inking, and what he brings to the piece instead of my inks with are so straight forward, simple digital inks. Steve brings style, and energy and a cool factor that I kinda lose sometimes. That's why I love working with him, because he makes my art have way more life then I usually can make it have.
So when Steve is ready, I will post up his inks, but until then, I hope you dug this inside look at the process of how I work in creating the pieces you've seen this past week or so. It was really cool to show all of you how I work, and what I've been doing as far as combining hand drawn and digitally hand drawn art. I think the computer is JUST another tool, and as you can see, can be a really awesome one to use to make some kick a$$ comic book art.
Enjoy, and until next time,
CjB
So after a couple of weeks of procrastinating not doing the piece, I finally laid out a really cool pose for us to do, and then looked up some reference of the character. I decided not to change anything about the costume, and just do my best to try and capture it. It is not an easy costume to draw. After I figured out some elements of the costume, I completed the pencils, and was very happy with it. I threw it on a light box, and much Like the Neon Spidey and Grendel pieces, scanned in a basic line drawing. I gave the original art to Steve for him to ink.
I told Steve to do what he does best, even though the line drawing is kind of a paint-by-numbers kind of thing. One of my favorite pieces Steve has inked and colored for me was the Hellboy piece years ago. That was also done using this process I've been using, and I tried to mimic that this Darkhawk piece.
While Steve is off still inking this piece by HAND, I decided to ink my own version digitally on the cintique. It took me all all about a half hour. No joke. It was so easy. Just bump the threshold way up, bitmap the file, zoom in, fill in some missing or dropped out line work, then fill all the blacks. So cool. LOVE this new process. Gotta love the Cintique!
Then I threw some colors on for flats, and colored the piece much like I did Neon Spidey. I LOVE how this piece came out, and I can't WAIT to compare the digital inks I did with the MANUAL inks Steve is doing. Once I get the piece from Steve, I will post it up side by side and show you all. I think it'll be really cool to see. Not just to compare digital inks with inks done by hand, but also to show you how GOOD Steve is at inking, and what he brings to the piece instead of my inks with are so straight forward, simple digital inks. Steve brings style, and energy and a cool factor that I kinda lose sometimes. That's why I love working with him, because he makes my art have way more life then I usually can make it have.
So when Steve is ready, I will post up his inks, but until then, I hope you dug this inside look at the process of how I work in creating the pieces you've seen this past week or so. It was really cool to show all of you how I work, and what I've been doing as far as combining hand drawn and digitally hand drawn art. I think the computer is JUST another tool, and as you can see, can be a really awesome one to use to make some kick a$$ comic book art.
Enjoy, and until next time,
CjB
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