This is a cover I did last year for the GIJOE comic book. They actually used an alternate version though.

I posed myself for the Ninja fighters reference. I had a professional model pose for the Scarlet character. This piece took about 4 days. The most difficult part was to get all those ninjas in the composition. I recently retouched the original version a bit and gave it a more reddish overall tone.

Due to time constraints I painted the entire image in B&W first, then colorized it on separate color layers or using the curves tool. You can see an example of this technique in a tutorial ("Howling") on my website.

Client: HASBRO

Technique: Photoshop and Wacom tablet

Comments will be welcomed