Super Dino Cover 5 Process

 Cover process time! The cover for issue 5 needed to represent our heros fight against the giant and evil Mega-Raptor!

This first sketch was OK but, we decided that more of the raptor should be seen and Super Dinosaur himself should be in his battle armor and more prominently displayed.

 Here is the revised sketch. Some color thrown in to help separate the elements.

The first 2 sketches were drawn in Photoshop with a Wacom tablet. Its hard to get much detail with it but very useful for figuring out design and composition stuff. This tighter sketch below was drawn by hand over a printout of the Photoshop sketch, then scanneed back into Photoshop where I could easily add perspective grid lines.

That was then printed out in light blue onto the Image bristol board. With a blue Col-Erase pencil I drew the finish detail and all the background stuff.

Then inked it with a mixture of pens and brush.

And finally scanned back into Photoshop for the coloring.

Refreshed!

Sorry things have been dead here for a while. I am have been swamped drawing. But I am back to getting my website current and alive again. Yay!

Things are going well with Super Dinosaur, I'll be putting a bunch of art from that up here. Still working on the gallery page, but  you can check out what's there so far, or go to my DeviantArt page if you want to see more art.

Here are a couple pages from issue 5 (in stores now!). Maximus' finally gets whats coming to him!

Fun with 21!

Hey ladies in the place I'm callin' out to ya! Or if you are a male I guess I am telling you also. Issue 21 of Wolf-Man comes out today. This issue has werewolves, a girl robot (of course), guns, jumping, bad guys, bad guys jumping, more werewovles and trees. Maybe even an airplane. So run out and make it your own. Ill be back before long with some of the pencils and such for this issue. Below is the cover.


Also, I thought you all should know that I have a new website. Yay! For now, I plan for the new site to be more of a gallery. So I will keep this blog rolling along, hopefully with more frequent posts. But check out the new place anyway. Tell your friends about it and link to it.
www.JasonHowardArt.com

Processy stuff.

Sorry to have been neglecting this place lately. I don't have a ton to say, but I figured I could at least show some of the pencil pages from issue 20.


And as an added bonus, the rough sketch, pencils and final colors for the cover to issue 23.

20 Time!

The big issue 20 comes out this week. I know finally, right? For those keeping track this issue was originally supposed to come out sooner. Hopefully the wait will be worth it. For those who liked the jatpacky goodness of issue 19, I think this issue will have some similarly cool bits. I have been drawing lots of pages lately ( though not all of them for Wolf-Man, more on this in the coming months), and I have been working super hard to both improve and get pages done quickly. I question the "either/or" logic some people tend to apply to things. In reference to art I often hear things like "you can either have it fast or good". Can't we have both? I understand that spending more time allows for more refinement and detail, but there exist artists whose work is awesome and they also get work done on a quick schedule. So shouldn't that be the goal? Sometimes I think artists give themselves an 'out' by saying either/or. So while I am neither as good or as fast as I want to be, I am trying for both :)

Here is a link to a 5 page preview of issue 20.
http://imagecomics.com/fivepagepreview.php?title=theastoundingwolfman20&page=cover&doubles=

And finally the cover. First the sketch, you may notice the parallels to this cover and the cover issue #1. That was intentional and awesome as it saved me the time of drawing a new background.
Now the final. Buy every comic you see this Wednesday that has this cover on it!

19 Pencils and stuff

Sorry I am slow with this, but I am finally getting a chance to put up some of my layouts/pencils for issue 19. This issue was way fun to draw.


I also have a couple smooth links for you. This first one is to a short story I drew for my good Buddy Paul Sizer's book Little White Mouse. I drew this several years ago, and he is now putting it up as a web comic. So if you want to see some of my old stuff, or just check out his cool book, click away- http://www.webcomicsnation.com/paulsizer/littlewhitemouse/series.php?view=single&ID=163540

Second is an interview with me about stuff- http://whoissaintjames.com/2009/11/02/jason-howard-talks-to-saint-james

19!

Issue 19 comes out today. This issue is a little bit of a departure from recent issues, and it was a ton of fun to draw. After looking through a copy my son said "daddy, this is the best episode of Wolf-Man you've ever written". So there you have it, a glowing review from a 6 year old.

Here is the cover so you know what to look for.


And to show some process stuff, here is the rough sketch for the cover.

For those who missed the con in Baltimore last weekend, you missed a great time. What a fun show, tons of cool artists for me to drool over (their work, not them as a person) the show had a great vibe, and seemed pretty busy for everyone. I met tons of Wolf-Man fans, did some sketches and hung out with the rest of the Kirk-crew (Ryan Ottley, Cory Walker & Nate Bellegarde). Thanks to everyone who came by and said hi.

Also, here is a link to short video interview that was done with me at the show about the upcoming end of Wolf-Man- http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0910/14/howard.htm