ART/COMIC BOOKS – Yvonne Craig Batgirl Homage Variant Comic Book Sketch Cover

I was drawing Yvonne Craig as Batgirl a few weeks ago when suddenly the news of her passing occurred.  It was very odd and very sad.

My drawing was partially done when I found out. I’m currently drawing some variant sketch comic book covers on the side.  I’m planning to sell them at shows.

The first cover I decided to tackle was for Batman 66.  I wanted to draw a pretty girl on the cover and Yvonne’s Batgirl was the perfect candidate.

R.I.P. Yvonne Craig.

The Process

In order to draw this cover, I wanted a bit of control. I didn’t want to simply start drawing on the cover I wanted to have a clean worked out piece of art.

To do this, I started digitally. I roughed out the cover on my computer first:

Once I got everything working the way I wanted, I then printed out the cover on paper:

After doing that I took a pencil and darkened the back of the printed version:

Then it was just a matter of using it as carbon paper, by putting the printed version over the sketch cover and tracing over my drawing, creating a pencil version on the cover itself, which I then inked.