Comic Book Cover Illustration, Star Trek, DC Comics. Brush and ink, china marker.

This cover benefited from the extraordinary painting skills of noted artist, Jason Palmer. He's a dear friend of mine, and also has art samples on this site. Check him out, and be humbled.

The classic Star Trek fan would observe that this is a younger Spock, as he appeared in the pilot episode, and premiere. Nimoy's make-up is a bit different from later episodes, and his uniform is also an earlier version.

Jason painted over a bluelined representation of my original art which was then laid on top using an acetate overlay, a process akin to cel animation. The main difference is that paint is applied to an opaque board chemically treated to absorb light, and transfer the black line printed on the acetate overlay. When ready, the acetate overlay is lifted, and the color artist paints on the board using the blue lines as a guide. This process was also used on a couple of my DS9 covers, painted by Richard Ory. The computer has made this process obsolete, but I still appreciate the unique beauty of this type of artistic collaboration, and the old-fashioned ingenuity.