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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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:iconangbayani:
Teh awesome.

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:iconangbayani:
I'd love to get a poster of this and frame it it's that awesome.

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:iconmbirkhofer:
woah, awesome!

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:iconoicemano:
Amazing work mate!!
I love your execution on the costumes!!

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:iconrudesenhos:
WOW

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:iconwheels9696:
Looks great Val! I really like the tone shifts and the work on the main characters!
:iconparallel-shift42:
jaw dropping. tunning. beautiful.
cheers.

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:iconstratosmacca:
This is awesome stuff, Val! I'm really liking this new style and the experimenting you've been doing. I think this is the best I've seen your stuff look in a long time.

Can't wait to see you get into Painter. I've been experimenting with this sort of painterly stuff too lately and eventually I'd like to bring it to my own comic art, but right now I'm going back to basics for a while :)

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:iconrobtlsnyder:
That 36 flavors of kick ass. I love that BG.

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