After doing a few quick thumbnails and working out some layouts, I started on the characters. As of late, I've been drawing the characters separately from the background and I've been getting some good results. Let's see if I can keep up the trend.
First the Birdman pencils...
Followed by inks...
As you can tell, I finished the left leg in the inking stage and also altered his right hand. At first, I wanted a strong fist emitting Birdman's solar rays but rather than giving him two blocky fists, I opted for the open right hand. While most of the line weights are thick and almost brush-like, the lines under his energy shield are meant to be thinner because I plan to make the shield slightly transparent.
With the inks in the can, I scanned the pic and added the colors in Photoshop...
Overall, I'm really happy with the way this came out. To coinside with the Kirby-ish inks, I kept the colors flat to give Birdman a real retro cartoon feel. This is also the first time I've employed a color hold (shield, wings) and it turned out pretty good. I'm definitely using this technique again.
That's it for Birdman. Tune in tomorrow for Avenger.
Bernie
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