Thor V. Hulk W.I.P.

This is a small section of a digital painting I just started.  It started out as just another practice/portfolio piece when I found this kickass line art from Olivier Coipel and Mark Morales online, but as soon as I started it I thought it would be a nice challenge to turn it into a painting with my own feel to it.  I guess I was kinda inspired by the recent Marko Djurdevic paintover of one of Coipel's Thor covers.  Digital painting is something I've really gotten into and would love to get good enough to do freelance illustrations and possible cover work for Marvel and DC, so hopefully this turns out good and will make a nice start to a new portfolio.

I wanted to share the work in progress simply because I love to see others' W.I.P.s to see how they work and flesh out a piece.  You can see here that I start out very sloppy, roughly blocking out shapes and shadows, then working in colors and highlights before really tightening it up.  I don't use many layers either, I like to keep as close to real painting as possible.  I'm really still figuring it all out but this seems to be the most effective process for me.  I'll post this when it's finished with the line art for comparison.

Cover to Hulk #5:

Pencils by: Olivier Coipel, Inks by: Mark Morales, Paints by: me

-beefy