Sky Doll 02

I took the sketch and blew it up to full size, and redrew it...I added more mechanics to the little floating seat, and into the faux wings - not really sure how that's going to come out, since I haven't really tried hard surfaces yet. It's a little worrisome, but since it's a practice piece, there's no place to go but forward! Gotta learn how to do this someday...

Sky Doll 01

Who's familiar with Skydoll? My buddy scored the 'making of' sketch book at Comic Con some few years ago, and showed it to me; I ended getting obsessed over the artwork. I had seen their (Barbucci/Canepa) work with some European Disney titles and just loved it. So I ordered some of the books from Amazon.fr, paid INT shipping, only to have Marvel release it last year! At least I could read it now...

But, who doesn't love those big hardback albums, versus the US paperback trades?


So that's the next practice piece - I like that sitting pose on the little floating seat - that's the 'One.'

He-Man Final

And here it is. I'm fairly happy with (again the scan was a little uneven - the saturation is better in real life) but the face still bothers me, it seems to be a different style than the rest of the piece, or more comic book-y line art than a portrait?

And again, I re-learned a hard lesson about pre-production with that mist...not quite as dynamic as I envisioned, but that's because I winged it, instead of coming up with some designs beforehand. Professionally I never do this, but when it's just for fun, I always screw it up!

He-Man 05

So this is most of the pencil work, I actually hated the first face the somehow came out of the base drawing, so erased the whole thing down to the color, and redrew the face. So it's a little different - it's looks better, but it suffers from a bit of over-rendering. So now I'm going to break out the airbrush again, and add a bit more saturation to Skeletor and He-Man, and do some highlights.

He-Man 04

Colors now for the illustration. I went with a deeper orange for HeMan, trying to take what I learned from the Cap piece, so we'll see how that goes when then pencils take hold. I only used a matte for the background, the figures or over-sprayed atop each other, to hopefully make them come together despite being wildly different colors and tones.

He-Man 03

So much scarier with the blacks....BOO! All right, time to mix some colors...

He-Man 02

Here's the fleshed out drawing from the layout pencils, now I need to paint in the blacks and add some texturing.