Tuesday, June 03, 2008


WAR HEROES COMPETITION


There was a recently announced competition to do a variant cover for Mark Millar and Tony Harris' War Heroes book. Thought i'd give it a go, so here it is....

























And also, the black-and-white original piece...

























There'll be a public vote as to who will make the final, and then the creators pick the actual winner, so i'll stick up the voting details once they're announced.

Dec.

3 comments:

jamie said...

that#'s a really solid piece,and deserves to win...
what's those pens you use for inking...?
the chinese brush pens?
is that what you used on this piece?

Declan Shalvey said...

Cheers Jamie,

I use Pentel Colour Brush pens for brushwork, Faber Castell PITT pens for linework in general and Staedtler 1 and .05 pens for smaller detail. Once inkied, i generally go back over the piece with a Tipp-Ex pan to add more gestural lines and then go back over those white lines with the Brush Pen again to help integrate them a bit more into the image.

Glad you like, hopefully more will too!

Dec.

Gillian Comerford said...

Cheers Dec.Fair whack to yourself! especially on the Batman sketches with brush and ink. Lovely!