It was a fun exercise to reminisce about my time at Twins. A great time working with friends that I miss.

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I won’t get into the whole write up about the creation of this website because I actually kept a running “Twitter diary” of the process. You can see the step-by-step process at my agency’s Twitter page. The page was left as a generic-looking account because I didn’t want anyone to know which website we were working on at the time. The “Twitter diary” was fun and productive.  It’s been handy at times to go back and view how I handled different issues.

So far I finished inking all four characters, plus the head shots in the spotlight box. My next step was to place the text and logos on the cover.  I ended up recreating the X-Men logo from scratch using Illustrator because the logo that I previously used was from the mid-90′s.  It’s a slight difference, but there is a noticeable difference.  I then reset the type.  Even though the text directly above the logo, “Special Double-Sized 150th Issue!” was hand-lettered, I opted to use a font.  For the “vs. Magneto! ‘Nuff Said” part, I redrew that in Photoshop. It was fun doing a little of that classic horror ’60′s lettering style.

As of now, I have the drawing inked and lettered and ready for coloring.  The only part of the original pencil image that didn’t make it to the inking stage is the special effects.  Since I’m doing everything myself from start to finish, I’m going to tackle the effects in the color stage. 

To see the pencilled piece and the inked piece, you can click on the image to the right.