It’s the return of the bosoms, in this week’s installment of T&A Thursday. First up is the queen of all comic females, Wonder Woman (by Adam) - one of our favorite characters, and also one of the most seldom well-written. We highly recommend the Greg Rucka run on the title, but there’s a new ‘All-Star Wonder Woman’ coming down the pipe later this year or next written and drawn by Adam Hughes. And we all know how popular Mr. Hughes is over here…

 

The piece has a few breakthroughs for Adam - the first time he’s rendered clouds and mountains by hand, and the first time he’s figured out a realistic grass texture that doesn’t look like poo. Thank Comfort for that - she figured it out first and taught him. That’s why we’re a team, folks!

 

Next is Black Widow by Comfort. She’s something of a polar-opposite to Diana, both in style and ideology. She makes a nice compliment to the Amazonian princess, if only in the great contrast of the two pieces side-by-side. The piece works primarily due to the dramatic lighting effects that are sort of a hallmark of the Comfort Love style. Having spent a long time painting before getting into Photoshop, she knows that color is 90% lighting and light-effects. She uses these sorts of dramatic light setups often, and (Adam thinks) quite well. If Comfort’s learned a lot from Adam’s drawing, he’s learned a whole lot from her coloring.

 

It’s worth noting that these pieces were both inked prior to coloring. Worth noting because we almost never ink our work. It’s not that we can’t handle inking, it’s fine - it’s just that we prefer the gradation and texture you can get off of pencils that you can’t replicate with ink. In virtually all cases, when you see color work by us, it’s a nice, tight pencil drawing digitally colored without inks. It’s just so easy to mess up with ink, isn’t it? What do you all think - to ink or not to ink: does it matter?

 

We’ll be Back…

-Adam & Comfort