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Submitted: December 7, 2008
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Angel 16 Cover Close-upby *AlexGarner

Cartoons & Comics / Digital Media / Cartoons / Paintings

Thought I'd show a close-up of this cover and briefly discuss how I went about it. Yes, this is visually referenced from a photo of David Boreanaz that I kept on my other monitor. I don't know how to do likenesses otherwise. Tools: Wacom Cintiq, Photoshop CS3, and Painter X.

I usually begin every piece by very roughly establishing the values in grayscale and then, once the overall scheme is working to my satisfaction, I start adding color. After that, I blend the whole thing together with various Painter brushes, leaving kind of a blurry yet still textural mess. Even so, the overall structure of the piece is still intact and I can now go in and sharpen all the necessary planes and edges, making sure to leave alone the softer areas that already blend together well. Lastly, I polish/dirty it up with a wide variety of textural brushes to hopefully add some zip to the final art.

Still learning, but I'm beginning to get a consistent system in place.

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~jems007xxx Apr 20, 2013

great.....

~Nicollett Jan 23, 2013

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... perfection ... the perfect details ... great job.

~ClarkandLanaKent Jun 16, 2012

I'm not a fan of graphic novels and I refuse to follow the Buffy/Angel comics since I'm a Bangel and Spuffy fan, but this is very remarkable. You've captured DB and Angel's likeness so well, I just had to comment on it.

*Jrock-kodama Oct 8, 2011

Thank you for sharing the commentary on your methodology- I'd not thought of approaching it that way before... (I'm no professional, not even close- just a lady with an old MacBook's trackpad and GIMP opensource)