Hey guys, thanks for the response, and I owe Jose Villarubia all the credit for his colors making my art look better here.
About the reference to Adam Hughes, yeah, I owe him credit here too.
When preparing for the look of this book, I wanted to really embrace the comic book look of things while keeping things looking realistic as well, and I'm a big fan of Adam's ability to do that, (one of the reasons I asked him to do a Kabuki cover for me, which is one of my favorites) and I was looking at a lot of his work, among others, as a kind of training wheels in considereing styles, and getting started on this issue. Particularly in that he also captured a Native American ethnicity so well.
As you know, I've usually painted echo to communicate that ethnicityl and I was exploring successful ways that can be communicated with line art as well.
This was one of the first pages that I drew in this issue, getting into the vibe for the series and you may be right that I referenced it too heavily. Sometimes when you are getting rolling on a project it takes a few pages to work the influences out of your system.
So props to Adam, you have to give credit where credit is due, and I hope this will be viewed as more of an homage and not be distracting to you in the context of the rest of the story.
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