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NSN Collection 
Member Since 2005
Posted on 6/29/2024
GORGEOUS! An homage to one of my favorite X-Men covers
Chuck Arnold
Member Since 2014
Posted on 6/29/2024
What a beauty. A more mature and refined White Queen. Frank Quitely is the greatest.
Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005
Posted on 6/30/2024
Quitely inking himself is a special treat. Thin hair and outlines in those fine needlepoint inks.
Matt Kennedy
Member Since 2014
2 - Posted on 7/1/2024
Marcus Wai wrote:
Quitely inking himself is a special treat. Thin hair and outlines in those fine needlepoint inks.
Malcolm will correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that's ink. Frank usually uses a 2H soft graphite pencil over his preliminary blue pencil layout and then has a digital inker do a light and dark scan of the final drawing, using the photoshop contrast and layer tools to blend the two scans for publication.
I think I like this better than the original published cover. I know that Frank was unhappy with changes that Townsend (and the four other inkers) did to the eyes and other subtle details on his New X-Men run. This redo is probably closer to what he had intended be published and it looks great. The zipper positions are a really nice touch. Quitely has no peer.
Malcolm Bourne
Member Since 2005
2 - Posted on 7/1/2024
Matt Kennedy wrote:
Malcolm will correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that's ink. Frank usually uses a 2H soft graphite pencil over his preliminary blue pencil layout and then has a digital inker do a light and dark scan of the final drawing, using the photoshop contrast and layer tools to blend the two scans for publication.
I think I like this better than the original published cover. I know that Frank was unhappy with changes that Townsend (and the four other inkers) did to the eyes and other subtle details on his New X-Men run. This redo is probably closer to what he had intended be published and it looks great. The zipper positions are a really nice touch. Quitely has no peer.
Yes, it's pencils over bluelines. I likely heightened the contrast for the scan - the bluelines and lighter pencils are clear on the oriignal art.
Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005
2 - Posted on 7/1/2024
Matt Kennedy wrote:
Malcolm will correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that's ink. Frank usually uses a 2H soft graphite pencil over his preliminary blue pencil layout and then has a digital inker do a light and dark scan of the final drawing, using the photoshop contrast and layer tools to blend the two scans for publication.
I think I like this better than the original published cover. I know that Frank was unhappy with changes that Townsend (and the four other inkers) did to the eyes and other subtle details on his New X-Men run. This redo is probably closer to what he had intended be published and it looks great. The zipper positions are a really nice touch. Quitely has no peer.
Thank you for always delivering and understanding how the sausage is made.
Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006
1 - Posted on 7/16/2024
Marcus Wai wrote:
Thank you for always delivering and understanding how the sausage is made.
Having done technical drawing thats too dark for a 2H, which is a light shade. Might be a 2B or above? 2B or not 2B? That is the question, Marcus.
Simon Ma
Member Since 2013
Posted on 6/30/2024
As good as, if not better than, the famous cover. Congrats!
Malcolm Bourne
Member Since 2005
3 - Posted on 6/30/2024
Simon Ma wrote:
Better! (Just had a look at it.)
I agree. Softer. I should market it as a recreation!! (I also wonder how her costume stays on....)
Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006
Posted on 6/30/2024
I note, without surprise, that Emma is still half zipped.
Malcolm Bourne
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 6/30/2024
Peter Sullivan wrote:
I note, without surprise, that Emma is still half zipped.
Quick costume change for the photo op
J. Sid
Member Since 2004
Posted on 7/8/2024
Exactly the commission I'd have asked for.... and it turned out perfect.
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