Vol.4 Cover by Deirdre de Barra
Smiling at the Sky cover by Ian Pettitt
Deirdre de Barra and Ian Pettitt have created the covers for the last two installations of Longstone comics. Their styles are varied and quite different from one another which really offers a great sense of variety for the comic cover. Deirdre has designed a cover for the comic before back in 2008/2009 for Vol.2. The key theme for it was a zombie on a bike and lets face it, zombies are friggin cool.
Most of Deirdres work is done in pencil then scanned in the pc and finished digitally. A combo of Photoshop and Corel Painter X helped to get some of the textures of snow and softness in the fabric. Her attention to detail can only be fulfilled with a hearty supply of tea and biscuits…without these it ain’t never gonna happen.
Ians cover is completed with pencils, watercolour and pen mostly. He finishes all his work by hand, including the lettering, and in some cases has been known to scan A3 pages on an A4 scanner and painstakingly merge them via witchcraft on his computer.
Either way, both styles and methods produce a fantastic end result.
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