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Batwoman cover 10

Below is the cover to Batwoman 10, in basic stages.

The very rough sketch for concept approval…

The black and white version, I decided to keep most of the rendering techniques out of this one excluding on Batwoman herself. As I wanted to get a different effect than previous Batwoman covers I’ve done…

The goal was to keep things almost monochrome, or a limited palette. Placing all of the focus on Batwoman through color use. And on the encircling villains I used only simple grey textures, just enough to darken the image, while retaining the graphic quality of that portion of the cover. And then by leaving the background white and digitally painting white fades over the edges of the villains gives this very nice tunnel effect, Batwoman emerging from the light into the threatening darkness…

The logo and text application needed to service the design much more than usual. Reinforcing the circular aspects of the image…

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Happy News!

Haden and I just found out that our work on Batwoman has won this year’s coveted GLAAD award for the comics category. This is extremely gratifying, because we’ve been working very hard to make this character multifaceted and someone to believe in, while showing her develop realistic personal relationships over time. So the recognition from the GLAAD awards bolsters us greatly. And thank you for all of the support the series has been getting from you all, the comics readership community.

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Event Reminder

Tomorrow will be the signing event at Blue Moon Comics. Haden, Wendy, and I will be there. We hope to see some of you sweet people if you can make it. We’ll be bringing art for show and tell, and copies of the sketchbooks from the online store with us too. It’s a two pronged event, day and night, details are on the Blue Moon site.

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