Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Wyatt Earp #2 Cover

This is one of my all-time favorite pieces. Largely due to the fact that there is absolutely NO Photoshop work in this one at all! All colors and textures are done in Expression 3 (soon to be Microsoft's Acrylic). Every brush stroke and fill is vector-based with bitmap art applied and rendered to it. It was great fun but a little time consuming. I have used this software solely on covers and spot illustrations. Not really good for paneled pages. But as you can see the end result is dynamite!

Art: Enrique Villagran
Colors: Mike Kowalczyk
Title: Wyatt Earp: Dodge City (Moonstone)