By: Kevin Levell,
on 7/1/2011
Now in Technicolor!
I'm just about done on the Wizard of Oz, Judge Dredd and Johnny Alpha cross-over commission.
There's still a decision to be made over the final dialogue though...
By: Kevin Levell,
on 6/30/2011
I've been working on a commission for another member of the 2000ad forum.
Ian Leonard asked if he could have a Johnny Alpha and Judge Dredd team-up, where those two bad boys were surrounded by mutants and zombies etc, but also including characters from the Wizard of Oz!
These are the cleaned up inks ready to colour.
The raw scan shows through where I've printed out a 'blue-line' version of my digital 'pencils'.
Here's a few stages of development, including the proposed dialogue on the first.
This is a ******* beautiful piece of artwork Kev. The commissioner should be over-the-moon with it.
This glorious colour is the icing on the commission cake. I really like the subtle colour palette shifts in the background mutants. The overall effect is very well balanced. I can really see the 'cowardly' lion taking down a zebra :-) Personally I think the dialogue adds that little extra enjoyable whimsy to the work, justifying just why the odd Oz lot are in there... you could also have "Johnny and Judge have a wizard day out"... although that does sound like an Enid Blyton book title too ;-)
lovely work indeed!
Rob E