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Helloooo.......Above is the cover I did for the latest
JUDGE DREDD MAGAZINE 294, out in stores in the next few days, you lucky ladies!
The Mighty Tharg asked me to come up with a cover based on the cliff hanger ending of the previous episode, with a werewolf pouncing on Dredd...have a guess which version he picked....
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So going with my first idea, with Tharg asking me to flip the image, I went to pencils....though would you believe I actually drew this bugger out at least FIVE times! I was never happy with the Dredd/werewolf ratio, as well as deciding whether or not to show his free hand--in the end, deciding not to as I'd have to make Dredd smaller to fit it in, and I also knew that text would cover that section anyway. But here's ONE of the pencilled pages....
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Inks...this actually took a couple goes to get right as well...it was part nerves as well, knowing it was my very first Judge Dredd cover, and not wanting to balls it up.
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This here is the rocky background I decided to add on a separate layer so that the graphic design droids at
2000AD wouldn't have to "cut around" the werewolf that I knew would be going over some of the logo.
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Colours next...no problems here for once!
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I faded out the dense blacks on the background so that the foreground characters could stand out more.
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All that was left was to dim down the lights, put some Barry White on, and leave these two alone in a room for 20 minutes...eventually they made this....
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Ok, that's your lot for now.....NOW GO AWAY!!!