A VINTAGE CON SKETCH repurposed for a cover illo!
Added 2021-02-12 14:01:02 +0000 UTCBehold—if my worthless, garbage-tier DSL will ever stay connected long enough to allow me to post this morning—an unusually strong 2005 con sketch that I wound up repurposing as the illo cover for the concluding issue #6 of the Livewires Marvel miniseries.
I had stalled out on working up one final cover for this clearly ill-fated project either from burnout or demoralization, as by this point we'd seen just how brutally low the miniseries' sales figures were turning out.
So, out of sheer desperation, I asked my buddy Ryan Kinnaird, who'd colored all the other miniseries' covers for me, to convert this con sketch of Livewires' POV character Stem Cell into a viable illo. And lo, he succeeded, by painting over my linen-finish B&W sketch in Photoshop:
And here's the final, printed cover, which I've just noticed features a few more "gaseous FX" streaming off Stem Cell than the previous jpeg:
The Livewires miniseries is long outta print, but is still available in superior digital form (as the small-format TPB of the series was tragically burdened with very poor repro quality) over on Comixology.
NEXT MONDAY ON THIS HERE PATREON: Yet another double dose of life drawings (and high-res Photoshop scans) from 2017 & 2018, as usual!
Comments
This is my favorite cover of the entire series.
KranberriJam
2021-02-13 18:47:02 +0000 UTCRight! Because that's kind of an important story point in the final act.
andrew
2021-02-12 21:40:39 +0000 UTCI feel obliged to point out that Stem Cell was the one with the productive belly; Confed's beefy body mass was used to house a surfeit of supercomputing "smartware," if I recall correctly.
Adam Warren
2021-02-12 19:30:53 +0000 UTCLoved the hell out of this series, really sorry it didn't go further. Probably should have robbed a bank and bought a tractor-trailer's worth.
PixelThis
2021-02-12 17:00:32 +0000 UTCPoring out a (figurative!) bottle of Diet Mt. Dew for "Livewires." This mini-series rocked my world at the time. To this day I envy Cornfed having a nano-printer in his stomach. That would be d--- useful! Always a pleasure to see Stemcell showing up.
andrew
2021-02-12 14:49:15 +0000 UTCI read Livewires in TPB form, probably well after the original run, and I really liked it. Interesting story about this cover!
infernalperson
2021-02-12 14:37:00 +0000 UTCPretty awesome for the original commissioner!
Ross Fisher-Davis
2021-02-12 14:12:42 +0000 UTC
