My Pink Deedee character cosplaying as the Hal Jordan Parallax. Directly drawn onto Zero Hour #0 from DC Comics (the series where he was the main antagonist). The latter information may be considered a spoiler, but seeing as this comic is almost 20 years old and DC has announced that the storyline doesn't apply anymore, I doubt anyone would bother reading it.

I wanted to try my hand at drawing on a blank comic book cover and it was quite an experience.

First I chose this cover as I knew a few local stores that would have the comic for cheap (I got my hands on 3 for under $3). I knew that though it was a blank cover, it wasn't meant to be drawn on. But I still wanted to try it out.

When I first tested the paper, I noticed that my usual stick-eraser was picking up the printing of the barcode (you can even see the first number of the sequence was lightened up as a result). An omen of things to come.

The pencil didn't leave strong enough marks for me to see, but after a while I realized that erasing on the paper before drawing allowed darker penciling (I hope the act didn't remove some sort of important chemical off the paper).

The toughest part was the inking. My palms started sweating in my fear of the lineart smearing (which just increased the chances of smearing). I wound up using a trick I read in a how-to-draw book; using a paper towel under my hand to pick up sweat or excess ink.

Then came the erasing of the pencil-work...and surprisingly enough the inkwork. Turns out the paper allowed my inkwork to be erasable. Completely even. So here I had to lay down the inks again!

So what have I learned? If I do this again: use an eraser before drawing and the eraser can pick up inks so BE CAREFUL!

In the end, it's good for a one-day turn-around. Though my arm muscles feel sore for the extra amount of work I had to put into it. Fun, but I don't think I'll do this that often.

Parallax, Zero Hour (C) DC Comics
Pink Deedee and art (C) ReDaDillio