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Wilson Mui
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Posted: 21 January 2008 at 11:06am \| IP Logged \| 1

What does it mean to do a wash over someone else's pencils? Is that another term for inking?

You may recall doing some for Curt Swan's pencils in the Adventures of Superman.

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Posted: 21 January 2008 at 11:14am \| IP Logged \| 2

I have been meaning to drop Jim Warden a line about that. He's using the term "was" to describe my use of DuoShade on those pages, and that's incorrect. DuoShade isn't a wash, tho in the right hands it can sometimes look like one. (Wally Wood was a master of this.)

An ink wash is ink diluted with water, to make it grey instead of black. This is applied for shading, and can be done in layers or with ink diluted to different degrees. I can't recall having done any washes in my professional work.

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Posted: 21 January 2008 at 11:24am \| IP Logged \| 3

I see, thanks. I love the DuoShade work.

How come you didn't ink on the pages directly?

Was that the first time you worked with Curt Swan?

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Posted: 21 January 2008 at 12:53pm \| IP Logged \| 4

How come you didn't ink on the pages directly?

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If I messed up the DuoShade, I wanted to be able to do it over!

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Posted: 21 January 2008 at 2:28pm \| IP Logged \| 5

Out of curiosity, did you *ever* in on the duo-tone boards? I ask because I picked up several Namor duo-shade pages from Jim several years back, which I assumed were all original art. More recently, I've started seeing both the original inks and the duo-shades side by side, which is when I realized that I might only have part of the art...

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Posted: 21 January 2008 at 2:30pm \| IP Logged \| 6

Toward the end of the DuoShade Period I gained sufficient confidence to ink
directly on the boards.

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