Acetate lettering title overlay on cover recreation

[rtecbot]

New area for getting art recreations for me, but wondering what is the best way of getting / doing acetate lettering overlay on top of comic cover recreations. Working on getting a cover recreation pencil copy inked but most artists are hesitant on the lettering. Overlay was suggested but what is the best way to execute?

[Phill the Governor]

You could have someone create an acetate overlay for the recreation afterwards.

 

I'm assuming you're going for an final result that looks similar to this?

[rtecbot]

Yes overlay to go where the title and captions are. With it being a recreation paper color should not be too hard to match up.

[alxjhnsn]

I bought a Dan DeCarlo cover that never had the paste ups and hired Chris Ivy to create them on an acetate overlay. It looks great and didn't cost much either. I can highly recommend Chris.

 

Click to embiggen and you can see it with and without the overlay.

 

[Artboy99]

I would be hesitant to do anything permanent over an original piece of art. With it being a recreation, I see no reason why the artist couldn't permanently attach the lettering to the artwork.

 

That is what I do and it creates an excellent final art recreation piece.

 

Example:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jick]

Here's a recreation done of Flash 254 (featuring the entire Rogue's Gallery), and I did the acetate overlays myself. I printed it in cardstock paper then pasted it on acetate. I think it worked out pretty good.

 

http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=890565