I drew one of the covers for Robyn Hood #7 and and since I actually had scans of all the steps thought I'd put together a quick process post.

The cover concept was pretty simple "3 members of the Cabal walking down a blood splattered hallway". 

I worked up 6 cover thumbnails and sent them into the publisher. They wanted a combination of options 1 and 6 so I roughed out the final sketch at full size. With the final concept ok'ed I tightened up my pencils digitally in Manga Studio. The only tricky part was that once the pencils were approved I had about three hours to ink and scan the cover before I had to catch my flight to New York Comic Con. Luckily, the talented Ivan Nunes handled the colors and pulled the whole thing together.

Robyn Hood #7 By Pat Shand, Roberta Ingranata, Slamet Mujiono and Jim Campbell is in stores today.

A B&W preview from Robyn Hood 5 which hits stores today. With @PatShand on writing duties and Slamet Mujiono on colors.

Robyn Hood Villain Process

These are some development sketches for the one of the villains from my two issue arc on Robyn Hood. Due to the time crunch of monthly comics I’ll often only have time to design characters on the page (which can lead to headaches later on) so if time permits, I’ll work up a few loose drawings to solidify the direction I want to go in. Since this character doesn’t show up until halfway through the issue I chipped away at her design over the course of coffee breaks over a few days until it was time to finally draw her on the page.

The description in Pat Shand’s script read: 

“a very, very scary little girl. Her eyes are huge black holes, and her mouth is dripping with black liquid. Besides that, she is a normal little girl in a dress that wouldn’t look out of place on a doll.” 

The version on the top right is probably the creepiest take but I wanted the to keep the normal little girl aspect in the design so I kept going. I always feel these kinds of characters are a little scarier when there’s still some humanity peeking through. The final three sketches felt pretty close to what I wanted so I moved on and did a couple quick sketches to work out her proportions.

If you want to see the the final product, Robyn Hood #4 is on stands now and #5 hits stores on Christmas Eve.

Helsing Process

I actually remembered to take some process photos while working on Helsing #1 last week. I print out my digital pencils (done in Manga Studio) and ink traditionally on bristol board with tech pens, a quill and Raphael brushes.

So I completely spaced on promoting this here but I drew a short, 7 page story in the Grimm Fairy Tales Holiday Edition that came out today from Zenescope. The colors by Fran Gamboa came out great so I'm pretty proud of our small contribution to the book. You can see a couple preview pages at the Zenescope website check it out 

Recent Twitter Sketches

I post a lot of sketches and process stuff through my Twitter account (it's just easier to upload through my phone) and here's a smattering of recent posts.

Some More Sequential Work

Here's another batch of sequential pages. The first five pages are for a creator owned project I'm putting together (the text on the second page is just a placeholder).

Sample pages for Top Cow

and a couple sample pages for Zenescope

Development Sketches

Some development sketches from a project I've been working on.

Constable Bob

I don't know if Justified is the best show on television, but it's definitely my favorite. So for yesterday's warm up I sketched Patton Oswalt's Constable Bob.

"Where's Drew?"

"Who's Drew? Drew-Bacca? Drew-sutania?"

I miss Bob already.

Recent Sequential Work

I've been neglecting this blog, so I figured I'd post some of the recent comics work I've done:

Pants

Or lack thereof...I don't know, man.

Twitter Sketches

A collection of sketches from the twitter. 

Friendly Monster

A quick monster concept for a project I'm putting together.

Hatching

Did this some time last month. I couldn't sleep and this happened.

(various brush pens, photoshop and a dash of insomnia)

Sketchbooking

Packing up some old sketchbooks while getting ready for another move so I figured I'd grab some scans for a quick sketchdump. No real rhyme or reason just flipped to a page and if I liked it I scanned it.

Since I'm moving from Singapore back to California, my computer/scanner will be on a boat for a while and I won't be able to post much art here. However, I will be posting art through my twitter which you can find here: https://twitter.com/TonyBrescini

Shaggy

A coffee shop sketch (and a dash of Photoshop) that turned into Shaggy from Scooby Doo. Somebody commented that it looked like he had to put Scooby down but I definitely wasn't going that dark with this. I do wish I'd thought of that, though.

Here's the process for a piece I put together for the Dark Horse's "Draw the Goon" contest. I found out about the contest a few hours before the deadline and had to knock this out pretty quickly. 

Step 1: Quick sketch in my sketchbook that I scan, blow up and print out in blueline. Time permitting, I would have played around a bit at this stage to get a few more ideas out and on the paper.

Step 2: Loose pencils. 

Step 3: Final inks. I don't generally pencil very tightly and do most of my actual drawing in ink but in this case, I wish I'd done a bit more of the prep work in pencil.

I may go back and add some tones in Photoshop to punch it up but overall I kind of like it.

Rollerskate Skinny

A warm up sketch that I got carried away with. Brought to you by the Old 97's Rollerskate Skinny.

Twitter Sketches

Some sketches from the Twitter. The monkey was a result of mixing jetlag with cold medicine, the preppy guy is from the sheer amount of dudes here in Singapore that pop their collars (it's like an island full of 80's movie villains) and the westside guy...um...that just happened. Also, I tend to update that more frequently since it's a bit easier to do. You can check it out here: https://twitter.com/TonyBrescini

Sydney Travel Sketches

Some sketches from our trip to Sydney a couple weeks back. I usually just had my moleskin sketchbook and a pencil on me so there wasn't a chance to ink them, hope they show up OK. Australia was awesome by the way, I can't wait to get back there again.