Al Rio art
(top left) Al's prelim layout sketch (above) my loose pencils
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Michael's 19th assignment was a challenge. He had an Al Rio prelim, rendered loosely with only outlines for a suggested cityscape and he asked me to 'finish' it. Unlike some inkers who dive right in over the prelim with ink, I needed to better render the pencil drawing first so I finished it loosely in pencil and then I finished it in ink, further adding & editing from the pencil guide. This art filled up the entire board which was larger than 11 X 17, but the board didn't lend itself well to inking because when I was lifting a low-tack frisket sheet from it (after spattering the rooftop) some surface paper lifted off the board around Spidey's left thigh and I did my best to re-ink that section. I used my brush, Pitt brush marker, markers, zip, dry brush, and black ink spatter. My only 2nd Spider-man commission met fruition on 11/10/07. "Thwip!"