Son Of Origins Gene Ha cover restoration

Artist: Gene Ha (All)

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Son Of Origins Gene Ha cover restoration Comic Art

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Title:	Son Of Origins Gene Ha cover restoration
Artist:	Gene Ha (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	Inquire about restoration work by James Pascoe
Views:	1,333
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	5/26/2008
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This is another piece I was hired to restore. It was both a simple and a complex piece. The logo and text restoration was pretty standard - I digitally captured the text from the published book cover, removed the color, sharpened and resized everything. The result was printed on color matched, stat-like paper. The tricky part was the top part of the cover. You can see that the art ends there and the whole top is full of unsightly scribbling...hardly desirable for framing! On the published book cover, the color artist simulated the buildings in the background with blocks and blobs of color behind the lettering. My task was to simulate what the coloring had done which was consistent with the black and white art, yet retained the feel of the finished color piece. My solution was to create a color matched piece of art which I very lightly tacked down to cover the area full of handwriting. It bridges the art area with the blank area behind the lettering and replicates the look of the published cover... and it covers up all that nasty looking writing! I then placed a sheet of clear acetate over the art and pasted down the logo and lettering so the background would show through between the logo letters. The piece is now displayable in it's complete stage (image three), without the logo, etc, just by flipping up the sheet of acetate (image two), or even in it's original form, as the added piece of art is easily removable (though I don't know why anyone would want to!).

(James is available for hire to replace missing logos and lettering on comic book and comic strip art and to do cover re-creations and commissions. Please contact him with any questions or for a price quote. If you wish the restoration work to be private, upon your request, no images will be used in James’ public galleries.)

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Michael Mikulovsky
Member Since 2009

Posted on 3/12/2011

WOW James! Great job & very educational. I took commerical art decades ago, but got slightly injured while in the Marines. Hench, I can't draw any more to my regret. I even went to the same high school & had the same art teachers as my buddy Jerry Ordway. I was wondering how expensive it is to simply brighten, clean up pages. Maybe that's not a great idea though. I collect Man-God pages myself. But most are in great shape, nothing missing. Their in my gallery if you care to see them. I also wrote a tiny article on this story. Out next week in Twomorrow's Back Issue #47 & on the Diversions of the Groovy Kind website under Man-God.

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