{"id":250,"date":"2016-07-25T13:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2016-07-25T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:43:45","slug":"dc-super-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"DC Super Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/?attachment_id=1387\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1387\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1387\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Cover001Flat640w.jpg\" alt=\"Cover001Flat640w\" width=\"550\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday at DC&#8217;s Young Animal panel at San Diego ComiCon, this image was released. It&#8217;s the wraparound cover for the upcoming Super Powers comic by Tom Scioli. Here&#8217;s a quote from Gerard Way and Jim Lee regarding the series:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/?attachment_id=1388\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1388\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1388\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/quote.jpg\" alt=\"quote\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the process that went into making that image, starting with the inital thumbnail:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/?attachment_id=1389\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1389\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1389\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Thumbnail\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then comes\u00a0a sketch the size of a printed comic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/?attachment_id=1390\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1390\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/sketch.jpg\" alt=\"sketch\" width=\"550\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then the sketch is tightened up via lightbox:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/?attachment_id=1391\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1391\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/finalBW.jpg\" alt=\"finalBW\" width=\"550\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pencil tones are added. Formerly crayons were used for toning, but crayon sticks to scanner glass and is difficult to clean:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/?attachment_id=1392\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1392\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1392\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tones.jpg\" alt=\"Tones\" width=\"550\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tones are combined with a layer of flat color:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/?attachment_id=1393\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1393\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Flat.jpg\" alt=\"Flat\" width=\"550\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the elements are combined with some digital trickery for\u00a0the final image:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/?attachment_id=1387\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1387\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1387\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambarb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Cover001Flat640w.jpg\" alt=\"Cover001Flat640w\" width=\"550\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday at DC&#8217;s Young Animal panel at San Diego ComiCon, this image was released. It&#8217;s the wraparound cover for the upcoming Super Powers comic by Tom Scioli. Here&#8217;s a quote from Gerard Way and Jim Lee regarding the series: Here&#8217;s the process that went into making that image, starting with the inital thumbnail: Then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/?p=250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DC Super Powers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomscioli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}