Transmetropolitan Art Book - Colours

And this is how I coloured the piece.

Hope it's to your liking and all of you grab a copy of the book when it's available.

~Richard

Transmetropolitan Art Book -- Inks

Ink on 2-ply Strathmore Plate Bristol.

I still don't do enough of the "traditional" colours under inks so I always end up trying to paint where most everything was already handled by the rendering.  Need more practice!

Also - -didn't like the signature on this one do I deleted it and redid it digitally.

Transmetropolitan Art Book -- pencils

Just got the go ahead to post my contribution for the Transmetropolitan Art Book.

There was a moratorium on posting finished art prior to the fundraising ending, so I was good to post everything earlier.  No biggie.

I've decided to stretch it out a bit anyway.  Above are the pencils for the piece.  I reread all my Transmet issues prior to starting and the issue that really stuck with me was #9 with Spider (literally) stomping around a series of Reservations that not only preserve culture but history as well.  I scribbled off a list of different historical periods and places and decided on Classical Rome.  While digging up reference Frank Frazetta's great Seven Romans painting showed up and that was that.

I drew the pencils on 14x17" bond paper -- they're looser that my usual pencils as I'm trying to draw more while inking to make things more spontaneous and energetic.

Transmetropolitan Art Book Sneak Peek - Colours

It's all done -- nearly had to pull two all-nighters.

Soon as I get the word that it's okay I'll post the whole thing.

Transmetropolitan Art Book Sneak Peek - Inks

Just have colours to wrap later today and she's done!

~R

Transmetropolitan Art Book Sneak Peek

Here's a peek at a small portion of the piece on my table I'm working on for the TRANSMETROPOLITAN art book.  Actually -- it's a pic from quite a bit earlier in the process from where I'm at now.

It's turned into a bit of a Frank Frazetta tribute as well as a bit of a tip on which was one of my favourite issues of the series.

It's all for a good cause(s) -- read more about it here.

Not sure when it would be best to show the whole finished piece, so i might string along a few more in progress shots well after it's all done.

~R