On Friday at DC’s Young Animal panel at San Diego ComiCon, this image was released. It’s the wraparound cover for the upcoming Super Powers comic by Tom Scioli. Here’s a quote from Gerard Way and Jim Lee regarding the series:
Here’s the process that went into making that image, starting with the inital thumbnail:
Then comes a sketch the size of a printed comic:
Then the sketch is tightened up via lightbox:
Pencil tones are added. Formerly crayons were used for toning, but crayon sticks to scanner glass and is difficult to clean:
Tones are combined with a layer of flat color:
All the elements are combined with some digital trickery for the final image: