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I did a tight drawing in pencil. I used a 70s era version of the character.

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I inked the drawing, using a brush as I could as I would need to recreate the lines later in acrylic

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Then I colored the image digitally. I experimented with some other backgrounds, but I wanted to stay away from primary colors, and magenta/purple did the trick

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I used a grid to transfer the image to the large canvas in charcoal.

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I traced the image in Sharpie and began painting. I started with the background colors

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Then the orange and yellow. You can see the printed image with the grid.

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Then I added the highlights and shadows. All the colors were appropriate to the 64 color palette used in old comic books.

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Next I did the black lines. I tried to use a bold classic looking comic book line.

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I pulled off the tape and did some final clean up and the painting was done!