The Last Cover

The last in the series and I have to say it's my favorite one. For this one I wanted to do something special.... something a little different. Well that was the plan at least. DC needed the cover turned around ASAP (as usually the case with covers) so this was pretty much would I came up with in the time I had. I'm hoping in the future to explore this style more in upcoming covers/pages.

Final Crisis Revelations #2

Written by Greg Rucka; Art and Covers by Philip Tan and Jonathan Glapion

Cain walks the Earth with the Spear of Destiny in his hand, and the only one who can stop him is the Spectre! But the Spectre hovers at death's door, split from his host, and only one person can save him: Crispus Allen. Meanwhile, the Question, Radiant, and Huntress struggle to defend what's left of Gotham in the face of a Justifier siege.

The deadline blues...

So here we go again..... the sleepless nights, the endless cups of coffee and the dreams of just hanging out doing nothing. My deadline has tracked me down like the grim reaper. I have insane amount of pages due by the end of the week. 

I hate having to work like this. I mean how can you enjoy what you're doing when all you have consuming you're thoughts are being done. Generally I don't work well under this type of stress. On the upside in a way it's when you really discover what you are made of..... I guess. 

Well, back to the drawing board..... literally. 

Latest Commission

Since I've been away I've been keeping pretty busy with the typical deadlines and not your average Ironman commission. If you're thinking man this must have taken forever you're right it did. Some how I kept my sanity though so I'm up for more commissions...... I think? 

Pencils by: Philip Tan

Inks: J.Glapion :) 

Tools used: lots of coffee and excedrin.

Coming Soon.....

So it's been a while but I'm back. I've grown pretty tired of the old site so I'm putting artoficial dot com under the knife. It's taking me forever for two reasons, I'm doing the site myself, and my deadlines on Final Crisis: Revelations. So bare with me a bit longer. 

Demons of Mercy#1 WIP....

Here's another WIP, this time from Marvel & Maxum Games. This is one of the interior pages (inked about a month ago) penciled by Walter Geovani.

With this book I'm working over blue line (since Walter lives in Brazil) or should I say gray line. I don't like working over blue so I print any "blue line" type work in grayscale. I've found it's easier on the eyes and you don't miss any subtleties in the pencils.

BATMAN COVER WIP

It's been a while since my last post so I've decided to share a cover in progress.

Here I am working on an up coming cover for an issue of BATMAN penciled by Tony S. Daniel. I couldn't resist going straight to BATMAN, screw the side dishes for now. At this point I've pretty much used all nib. For spotting blacks I typically use a water brush (mostly just for filling in the larger areas) filled with ink. The upside to using water brushes are that you can work fast since you don't have bother with dipping and cleaning your brush (sorry I'm lazy folks). When I need to do more intricate work with a brush I use an Escoda #2 Kolinsky and my favorite brush Dragons Tongue #2.

Stay tuned more WIP's coming soon.......