I am late, I know. But hey, I didn't get time to last weeks! I wanted to channel my inner David Mack. I am always blown away watching him sketch. So quick with the brush pen. So I gave it a try.

The Crow

I hate drawing long hair so I was kind of worried about how this would turn out. Then I decided to use a brush pen for the hair and decided to make it look like feathers. Added the feather texture in Photoshop to complete the effect. Always wanted to do a nice looking Crow piece and I'm really digging the way this turned out.

Happy Easter! Plus, Crow!

here's my crow submission.  i tried adding some color to this very black and white character without taking away from his dark gloomy-ness.  and happy easter, too.

That's SO (D)raven!

Feeling Much Better Now... by Samax Amen
Since I've still never read the comic, my piece is based on the movie version.
The Crow is still my favorite comics-to-movie adaptation, since The Matrix and Unbreakable technically don't count. anyways, this is 2 hours of my life in Photoshop, so I hope you like it!
-samax
(r.i.p. Brandon Lee)

The Crow

I remember growing up in Indiana, and going to my brother's friend Tim Roger's house, his brother Roy was the biggest Bruce Lee fan. He was a huge fan of Brandon Lee as well, and introduced me to the Crow comics. Then, when I was in high school I picked up the Alex Maleev drawn Crow comics. I always loved how expressive it was. So when I finally got to meet James O'Barr it was a treat, and every time since, he is extremely nice!

With this, I wanted to go with a different approach, I did the drawing about 2 1/2 inches tall, and got a really expressive and better composed design than if I tried to pencil it at full size. Then I scanned the sketch and blew it up on an 11X14 inch sheet and went to town with inks. I wanted to retain the expressive nature of the lines, so I went with a simple textured color approach on the figure and a gradient for the background. In all, tons of fun to work on!

The Crow

Here's my sketch! I grew up on Marvel & DC, so I missed the Crow in his heyday. But, I was a fan of the original film with the late Brandon Lee, and I always dug the general dark style of the character. I wanted to go a lot looser with this drawing than I normally do (been reading a lot of comics by Sean Gordon Murphy & John Buscema), so this was a fun one to do!

The Crow

More experimenting, this time with shapes and inking techniques. The rough pencils were very boxy and I intentionally left the shapes loose so I could have some freedom in the inks.

Also played around with some custom brushes and paper textures to add the grainy effect in the coloring stage. Total time spent on this; about 3 hours.