Batman Year One

It's been a while since I put anything up here and I just finished throwing this together so there you go.

I'm a member of a comic book club my friend put together and it's pretty fun. Like a regular book club we pick a graphic novel or collection every month to read and come together to discuss it at the beginning of the next month. Since it's a comic book club and we're all mostly artists, we added a fanart element to it. When we get together, if we wanted we could bring fanart of the book of the month.

Obviously, June was Batman Year One month. It was a quick read, but visually there was a lot for me to take in as Mazzucchelli is a master at the game and I wanted to soak in as much of his art as I could. One thing about Miller's story I realized is how much the Nolan Brothers are taking from it in creating their world for The Dark Knight movies.

I was experimenting A LOT here. Using real brushes for inking again which is still hard with these shaky hands, but worked for the look I wanted here. And, digital coloring using different techniques this time around. Again, a lot of playing around with layers and filters. Still don't have the hang of it, but again, it works for this piece.

Thanks for looking.