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X-Men First Class has been a blast to work on.
From Jeff Parker's great writing to Roger Cruz's :iconrogercruz: awesome art, I've been fortunate enough to be on this book since the beginning.

They haven't kicked me off yet, which I take as a good sign that I'm doing something right! :D

Roger's latest pages are even more fun because he's been using digital zipatones and halftoning to create some of the shade values, which looks fantastic.

Anyways, this is a giant cover that spans the entire upcoming Finals mini-series (AKA: they sliced it up to make the 4 covers of the mini-series).
I'm crossing my fingers they make a poster of it, but we'll have to wait and see.

I'm trying to find time to get into using Painter.
I love Roger's own work where he's been doing digital water color. That's the exact style I've wanted to do for quite some time, so hopefully I'll get a chance to start playing with style variation in 2009.

I've actually wanted to do both a water color style, and a marker based / colored pencil style for years. I just need to get off my butt and DO it.
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Mood: Wow! *orabich Oct 4, 2012
great work!

:gallery: [link]
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*valstaples Oct 10, 2012
Thank you! :-)
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~barneybluepants Oct 1, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Outstanding !!!
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*valstaples Oct 10, 2012
Thanks! :-)
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*RawSunlight Jul 18, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
beautiful colours, Val... love the depth you've given with the faded background narrative!
Could I ask how long it took you to colour?
I just did a piece for a the very talented Jess Stokely here on DA, which took me a bit over 2 1/2 hours; it's a very different, more french graphic novel style but I have absolutely no idea whether 2.5 hours is realistic or not?
If you could give any pointers or thoughts, it would be very, very much appreciated, although I do understand that you must be very busy :)
Here's a link:
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Thanks and again, awesome work
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*valstaples Sep 14, 2012
Time is relative. Spend the amount of time required for you to be happy with it. :-)
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~joeljseguin Mar 2, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
That's pretty freaking rad!! I love the shiny suits!
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*valstaples Mar 2, 2012
Thank you! :-) I still love that piece. I wish I had a poster of it.
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~crashmurdoch Feb 18, 2012
This would make an amazing back to a GM screen as well Val
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*valstaples Feb 20, 2012
A GM screen? :-) As in the car manufacturer?
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