In my 2 years of drawing Spider-man for Marvel in various books, I've never had to draw Mary Jane for some reason which is a travesty since I think she probably the hottest girl in the Marvel universe. I've noticed that I haven't drawn many 'hot chicks' in my artistic career and needed to brush up on them since a lot of the best artists in comics are known for their beautiful women. For this piece I was thinking a lot about the master of beautiful women, Adam Hughes. he has the ability to draw the most gorgeous girls with just a few pencil strokes so I wanted to try and figure out what makes his drawings pop so well. Not that I was trying to imitate his style but more the technique with was originally made popular by the racey 'good girl' art posters of the 40s and 50s. So, in truth, I guess I was trying to illulate the poster artists that influenced Adam's work.
This piece was done entirely in Pencil and digitally colored in photoshop 5.5. Took me a while since I'm not a very fast colorist and I wanted to try a smoother style than the cell shading I usually do. I get a lot of messages asking how I color my stuff and, to be honest, I don't know. Everything I do is entirely trial and error so I don't have a technique I can share that would help anyone, sorry guys. Hope you dig it!!
"Face it Spidey, Mary Jane can take care of herself!"
wow this is great, that is a shame they haven't had you draw this hot ass red head! You did a great job and totally nailed her personality. I love it.
i know you don't "know" how you colored here technique wise i was just wondering what you did to make the inked lines the color of her skin?
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"If you cut the flesh, the body will heal. If you crush the bone, the body will mend. If you destroy the spirit, the body will die."
Holy gwokamolie, I'm lovin this (anyone mention the McDonalds slogan an i'll knock them out)
Ace job, and Mary Jane is defiently the hotest marvel universe girl. closely followed by the ultimised Gwen Stacy
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i know you don't "know" how you colored here technique wise i was just wondering what you did to make the inked lines the color of her skin?
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"If you cut the flesh, the body will heal. If you crush the bone, the body will mend. If you destroy the spirit, the body will die."
THE PIXEL OF DOOM IS MARCHING
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"I think the world will end in black-and-white, like an old movie. Maybe as long as we have colors we can keep on going."
no no no no no.
Ace job, and Mary Jane is defiently the hotest marvel universe girl. closely followed by the ultimised Gwen Stacy
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"Kiss my blinkey diodes, im the hero today!" -MachineMan, Nextwave
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