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My favorite ever Marvel character is Jessica Jones. If you haven't read Alias or The Pulse, GO READ IT NOW. Seriously, though, she's a hero without the tights, a mom, a wife, and a woman who's been through hell and still keeps going.

I decided to get experimental with the style. I stuck to oil pastels, which I don't have a lot of experience in, and shaded my way to the finished product. I know, it's not my usual comic-booky style, but I wanted something a bit more emotional.

This was done as a gift for her creator, Brian Michael Bendis.

DS

©Jessica Jones - Marvel Comics
[Drawn and Shaded in Painter X with a Wacom Intuos tablet.]
[Touched up in Photoshop CS3]

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:iconswyndle:
Beauty. :)
I love the hair especially.

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" My power is absurd, defeat is everything... er, waitaminute..."
:icondarksakura:
Thank you so much! That was the part that gave me the biggest fits!

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~pie-cult EAT MY PIE!
:iconswyndle:
Hair, fire, metal and water are the ones that really get me. I've done some oil pastel work before, though never in Painter, I so suck.

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" My power is absurd, defeat is everything... er, waitaminute..."
:icondarksakura:
I really should hunt down my real oil pastels, but this just sorta randomly came out. I was driving home from work, imagined it, and drew it. LOL!

My hair technique is pretty simple. Big blocks of the base color, then sorta cell-shade style the highlights and shadowing, pick a few darker colors and run thick strands over each section using near shades. I blur it out just a bit, and then go back over it with a very fine brush and use my smudge tool if I'm doing it in Photoshop, or the Just Add Water blender in Painter. Gotta play with the strength of it a bit, and it's time consuming, but I like how it comes out!

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"Welcome to the Fantasy Zone. Get ready."

~pie-cult EAT MY PIE!
:iconswyndle:
If I ever take another crack at it, I'll have to try your technique out.

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" My power is absurd, defeat is everything... er, waitaminute..."
:iconmarron:
Came out nicely! She has very Asian features. XD

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"Remember the old adage: starve a cold, feed a fever, behead a zombie." --Stephen Colbert
:icondarksakura:
Thanks, Sos! Now that I look at it, you're right! Not the intention!

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"Welcome to the Fantasy Zone. Get ready."

~pie-cult EAT MY PIE!
:icondarksakura:
You'll have to school me in inking, you know! Your stuff's been amazing!

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"Welcome to the Fantasy Zone. Get ready."

~pie-cult EAT MY PIE!
:iconswyndle:
I'm really not sure what I can teach you there. I grew up drawing in ink. It wasn't until that someone convinced me I should pencil first to get proportion and all that before inking. Now I can't do an original without pencils to save my life.
As for my technique, digitally all I do is add a layer and go to it. Also, in painter I don't ink with a pen tool, I use an HB pencil. :D
=reiq has a lot of tutorials on inking and coloring that I've used to get to know the tablet better.

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" My power is absurd, defeat is everything... er, waitaminute..."

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