Comics & Superheros...

As I have decided to go down the comic book route, I thought it would be wise to research comic art old and new... Looking for various ways in which I can pursue the film to become comic book like. I will be studying superheroes especially as this will be the only character in my scene...

The classic Superman art below without colour helps a lot with drawing the framework of my character. I will need to really push this superhero idea to make it work, hugely emphasising muscles and maybe tweaking parts of the driver character such as turning the scorpion jacket into a cape...

I really like the way the below image is coloured. I was done by hand using acrylic, you can tell this in the rough texture of the rich blue background. I like the idea of using such a rich colour in the background in my piece, maybe using bright headlights or lampposts shining through lighting up the driver...
These were done by the same artist, the same method has been used with colour, it almost looks as though it has been applied with a sponge...

I will be using some kind of comic book style type to say the words 'a real hero...' Either in a speech bubble or in a block corner like in the image above with a handwritten comic book typeface.

There is a series of comic called Commando based on stories and tales from the war. It was made in the 1960's and continued to be produced until the late 80s... They have now launched an iPad app with static images from the original comics themselves, this has been very helpful to look at, there aren't too many comics with actual figures of normal people in, they are all monsters and superheroes so it has helped me understand drawing peoples faces...

I bought some comics online for ideas... I got a selection of Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, a Vietnam war one and the graphic novel GhostWorld... They have been super useful as they all use different styles and have various characters whether it be a superhero, animals, architecture or real people...

The main thing I found in these old comics was how prominent the CMYK dots are. I absolutely love them and will definitely be using that kind of style in mine, there is a halftone dot effect which I can play around with in Illustrator, using various types of gradient I think it could create a really nice effect.