I don’t usually draw mainstream superheroes-in-tights very much nowdays, so I don’t get to draw like this very often. However, my friends Kevin and Christina are getting married in October, and Kevin wanted them both to be superheroes for a “portrait”-in-frame piece they’re using as their guestbook. This is what I came up with:

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Kev and Christina needed to look “superhero-ish,” so I went for a very clean, tight inking style. However, the original piece is also meant to be displayed, so the piece needed to be free of inking mistakes – no smudges, white-ink corrections, etc. It took awhile due to a few throwaways (because, dammit, I’m hard to please!), but this was the result. I like the way it turned out.