Before Alan Moore, before Steve Bissette, there was Len Wein and Berni Wrightson. While Moore and Bissette discovered depths to the character no one previously imagined, no matter how old I become, when I think of the character, Berni Wrightson's cover for Swamp Thing no.9 will be the image that comes to mind.
I worried about this piece a good deal before coloring it. How do you improve on something so beautifully attuned to the mood of the image as the coloring for Wrightson's magnificent drawing? The answer--you don't. So---I had two choices--copy it as closely as possible--or do something entirely different. I decided for the latter, and here's the result. Hope you enjoy it.
2 comments:
One of my "break throughs" in drawing as a teen came from doing my version of this same image. Still sticks in my head as the definitive Swamp Thing as well...cheers!
Impressive, man - The '80's team were brilliant, but Wein and Wrightson - nothing touches those two.
cheers, A.
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