Comic Cover Recreation

When I woke up this morning, I had an idea that I didn't think would take all day, but it most certainly did. I picked out a cool cover from my Daredevil collection to redraw myself. I wanted to practice composition, posing, shading & inking, and color, so I figured a good way to do that would be to copy a pro, and hopefully absorb some knowledge from it. I chose issue 155:

I started out drawing in blue pencil, so the scanner wouldn't pick up the construction lines when scanned in black and white. This took about 2 hours.

Then about 2 hours of inking...

I immediately noticed that, despite scanning at 600 dpi, the scanned image looks much choppier than my drawing on the paper. Damned computers. Next, 3 or 4 hours of coloring in photoshop. Then about 1 hour to cut and paste the title bar and other word effects. TaDa!!!

Not too bad... if you don't look at Beast or Hercules' faces. I wasn't aiming for it to look identical to the original, so long as I got some practice with the inking, coloring, etc.

There ya go, an effective way to spend a day... my butt's a bit sore, though...