ART/COMIC BOOKS – Betty and Veronica Bikini Archie Comic Sketch Cover And Process

Who doesn’t like Betty and Veronica at the beach? Hopefully, nobody.  This week, I decided to try my hand at drawing an Archie comic sketch cover. I also added how I drew the cover.

I created this cover specifically to be sold, so I picked a subject that I hope people would like.

Like I said, I hope people do.

The Process

Like I did with the Yvonne Craig, Batgirl Batman ’66 cover, I started this one digitally. I used the scanned Batman ’66 cover as a template:

I drew the backside of the cover, only to find out that the Archie comic didn’t have a backside to draw on.

Once I was happy with the drawing, I printed it out and cut down the paper to only the parts I needed:

Then I turned it over and rubbed graphite all over the back of the area were the drawing was, so I could make it like carbon paper:

I then took some removable tape, lined up the paper to the cover and taped it down:

Using a mechanical paper, I drew over my rough blue lines, pressing down so that the drawing would be transferred onto the cover.

This is the result:

Once I had that down, it was just a matter of inking over the pencil lines using a Micron pen and a Pentel pocket brush pen.

The result is the drawing up top.

What do you think?

OH! And by the way, this Archie #1 comic is a great read.