Lee Garbett

Friday, 3 February 2012

Spidey Annual Cover Pencils

Here's the cover pencils to ASM Annual 39 out soon. It was designed to be a throwback to the old style covers of the 60's and 70's that I love so much - and which also ties in well with the story inside.

Venom 13.1 Pencils...

Been a bit slack at updating the blog I know but it's been a crazy couple of months. Here's some pages from the new VENOM mini event taking place from issue 13. Despite the crazy schedule I had great fun with these. I hope you like 'em!

Monday, 28 November 2011

2000AD Cover Process

I was delighted to be asked to do a cover for 2000AD featuring Angel Zero. I had three rough ideas and Editor Matt Smith chose the nicest or most interesting of the bunch.

Once we had the idea down I set about the finished drawing. I decided to let Angel hang in space a little more in the final piece.

I had originally hoped to ink and colour the cover myself as I rarely get the chance to do this sort of things these days but a deadline was bumped forward and I ran out of time. Having worked with the wonderful David Baron before I knew he could go straight to colours from the pencils and I think he did me proud here.

There were actually two finished versions as I asked for a strong background colour as well as a simple white version to give Matt a choice.

And here's the final cover with the banners and the blurb. Matt and the designers at 2000AD did a great job of recognising and maintaining the negative space. A lot of folks get fearful of that and try to fill it with words or ask to add another character etc which can destroy the balance but here it's allowed to breathe.

Word on the street is that it's gone down pretty well with the readers so far which I'm incredibly happy about. I hope I'll get chance to do some more soon!

Cheers

Lee

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Wonder Woman 613 Cover Process.

Another cover for Wonder Woman. Pencils by me, Inks: Dave Meikis. Colours: Paul Mounts.

The original brief was for Wonder Woman vs Wonder Woman but it was decided last minute that we'd seen that idea a little too often and the enemy would be revealed as Nemesis.

Knowing Nemesis would have a Scorpion theme I put together a couple of alternatives but it was too late in the day for approval and so I went with the original concept, tweaked to fit the new character.

So, here's the final process, pencil through to colours. I hope you like it.

Monday, 20 June 2011

Wonder Woman 612 Cover Process

Okay, here's some more process, this time for a Wonder Woman cover...A change in the scheduled cover for issue 612 -

I worked on about 5 rough ideas. One theme seemed to work most and this one was the first version of the image...I then beefed up WW's part a little more to make her more proactive as the brief called for her to be punching something.

Then the finished pencils with added character bursting into dust to give WW something to hit.

As the deadline was so tight for the replacement cover I sent the hi-res file to my inker Dave Meikis to ink via blue-line. As always he did a wonderful job.