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Carmen Bernardo
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You won't be the only one who was influenced a bit by the Buscema brothers.  I had a bit of my own exposure to them (especially John in the old Conan comics, and How To Draw Comics the Marvel Way).  Gotta like the Lemmy-Hulk, though.  I'm a big fan of his old band (pre-Motorhead), Hawkwind.

My primary influences remain John Byrne, Walt Simonson, and John Romita Jr (along with a few Japanese artists), though.

 

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Carmen, I think every artist who loves comics should have a copy of How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way.. I learnt so much from that book.

Nice artwork by the way! I can definitely see the Japanese influences :)
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A preview clipping of a sketchdump post I intend for DeviantART.com...

My current method is to go into a word processing program to compose a column of text to be pasted to a sheet of Bristol board (I use the Strathmore brand), then make sketches directly to the remaining space on the sheet.  I did start out cutting and pasting digital scans, but felt like it was a bit time-consuming and tedious.  The new method started out pasting the sketches to the Bristol board, but that risked getting the sheets of paper on which the sketches were drawn all folded up if I laid it down too quickly, so I switched over to just drawing on the base medium itself.

As the text above shows, I've started using Copic Multiliners for inking, and have confirmed that it will not smudge if marker color is applied to the drawing (once you let it dry completely).  The old dip pen method left too much ink pigment on the surface which could get smeared under a marker nib when you delivered a stroke to the art.  Eventually, I'll be switching from Prismacolor Premier art markers to the Copic Sketch brand, replacing spent markers as I go along.

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Sue Ward
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Very nice work Anthony well done.
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Anthony J Lombardi
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Thank You Sue
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I like the second one!
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Thank you Joe.
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Nice work Anthony! What media did you use?
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 Simon it was done in Photoshop.
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Here is a smaller version of a recent commission I just finished. It was one of the more enjoyable  ones I've done.
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