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Published: 2019-12-31 20:25:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 1419; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 12
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Continuing my cover recreation studies of great artists & covers...In this case, Swamp Thing #1 -
The original cover was created by Bernie Wrightson, copyright DC Comics.
The mini series I've been working on are super big, this is 18x24 bristol.
For this one, the client requested a wash for the background jungle/trees - I wasn't super comfortable with ink washes, but 30% grey art markers worked pretty darn well... French Gray even resembles the tone/hue of an actual ink wash.
Here is the original cover:
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Yo! I've been reading the Bernie Wrightson run of Swamp Thing lately, absolutely classic stuff. Your recreation is great, as always- and that "ink wash" looks really nice! I wonder how that effect was done for the original cover... duo-tone paper, or something?
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Thanks! I should probably read them, I never have!
The original cover art is just standard black ink (with some white ink/paint drizzled to make highlights on the branches) - so they likely just did a manual color separation and used no black ink for the background.
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Oh, that's interesting. I can't imagine how much work that would have been back then for the printers- having taken printmaking classes in the past, it was a huge pain even doing just one separate color. At least now we have Photoshop!
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It was done by the engravers, using manual techniques like rubylith overlays! I did some of that in high school and college printing classes/programs. back in the 80s.
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Man, that is so cool! I only really learned intaglio and relief printing, which are ancient techniques. It would've been nice to learn some more, uh, "modern" techniques...
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'Traditional' pre-press was really kind of fun (other than dealing with all the chemicals), I was pretty lucky to have been able to work my way through college doing it. I did everything from layouts, to darkroom camera (line negatives and black and white halftones), stripping (manual separations using negatives and opaque grid paper), to platemaking. The only thing I didn't do was the actual press runs.
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Nice ink wash hack—it’s not just the tool that matters!
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Thanks! I'm def keeping this in my toolset!
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