THE 2016 SKETCH COVER SUPER/MEGA THREAD

[ThatOneGuy]

Amazing Spider-Man 36 CGC SS 9.8 Signed and Painted by Clayton Crain on 9/11/16

 

 

WOW. That is fantastic!

[ivdyer]

I am really proud of these books, its been a long process from sketch, to ink and to color. but want to give a few thank you's to some important people that made these books possible.

 

Doug Peters for the Miller sketches, Klaus Janson Inking, tireless work, and patience with me.

 

Daniel Hoffman for persistence at the mess of a show that was Space City Houston, getting Rubenstein Inks and original sketches, and further submission at Alamo City

 

Bree Gregorio at CGC who has always gone above and beyond

 

Ash Gonzales, a friend, that does some killer art and did the color on the Millers that essentially covered all of Rubenstein's stray marks and wild inking that down graded the book initially from 9.8's to 9.6's,,,,books are now 9.8 because of him

 

Without further ado....

 

Initial sketch by Frank Miller

 

 

Additional Inks by Klaus Janson at ECCC

 

 

Initial Wolverines by Frank Miller

 

 

Inks and sketch on the back cover by Joe Rubenstein, These were graded at 9.6 from their original 9.8 due to stray ink marks and smudges from Joe

 

 

Colors by Ash Gonzales. I had Ash color and background to cover all stray marks and smudges...he nailed it in my opinion.

 

 

After CGC grading....thank you Bree

 

 

 

 

 

[Ryanmassacre]

Wow those turned out amazing!!!

[wamh0416]

 

Thanks for sharing the entire process - it looks awesome!

[Ron C.]

That is Really nice! I love that these guys will do this collaboration effort in spite of the work involved on everyone's part. Thanks for posting this.

[ivdyer]

Thank you.

 

Joe was as enthusiastic as he can be about inking Frank's work, I did grease the wheeels a bit by asking for some original work on the back.

Ash was concerned about coloring as he did not want to ruin what had been done by Frank and Joe. It was his first attempt at "cover-up" work. I have listed other covers of his on this thread, I had great confidence.

I love the art but I'm a grade guy as well. So I was bummed to see them come back 9.6's and immediately turned them over to be colored

[seanfingh]

A new one and a new one to me.

 

 

[Harley Troy]

Love that Giella Sean, very cool!

[A-DONIS]

I am speechless at all of the Miller stuff WOW!

[Ron C.]

Thank you.

 

Joe was as enthusiastic as he can be about inking Frank's work, I did grease the wheeels a bit by asking for some original work on the back.

Ash was concerned about coloring as he did not want to ruin what had been done by Frank and Joe. It was his first attempt at "cover-up" work. I have listed other covers of his on this thread, I had great confidence.

I love the art but I'm a grade guy as well. So I was bummed to see them come back 9.6's and immediately turned them over to be colored

 

Thanks again for sharing the process. I really love sketch covers!

[AnkurJ]

Excellent Millers! The Elektra looks stunning!

[nriccijr]

A little something from the Shellback closing and what will probably be Peter Laird's final appearance maybe ever

 

[Ultramanking]

 

Got this today, thks to Doug for this pretty head sketch by Adam Kubert

 

[millvilleresident]

A few more recent commissions arrived in the mail.

[millvilleresident]

I am so happy how this turned out.

Shout out to Kevlar for submitting this for me at NYCC.

[Praxis52]

Thanks Doug for the Timms sketch.

 

[KeithE]

Doug- huge thank you! Seriously you guys should have seen our PM threads, i pretty much asked every noob question about facilitation, I'll post my SS books in the infinite thread.

 

 

[Ron C.]

My latest Frank Kadar sketch cover commission. I love how this turned out:

 

[John91C]

Just got this one in!

 

Emanuela Lupacchino

 

[worldsbestcomics]

These came out fantastic!