Thomas Vera commission step-by-step

[Steve Hubbell]

January 19, 2018

Finished up a commission for Thomas Vera. Ink and watercolor on 11x17 inch, 4-ply, 500 series Strathmore Bristol.

I had drawn Rocket before, but first time for Kung Fu Panda.




Thomas Vera did not specify if he wanted portrait or landscape format so I did rough sketches for both. He went with landscape.

These were done on one 9x12 inch sketch paper.




Full size drawn with .5mm HB mechanical pencils.




Inked with Koh-i-Noor Art Pen and Platinum Carbon Black ink and erased with Sakura Sumo Grip eraser.




He did not have a preference for background color, but mentioned blue so went with that.







Worked on Rocket first.







Did a really dark gray for KF Panda. It is much more subtle on the original art.




Used a dilution of the same gray for the tones.




Worked on Usagi, a few details like the flame coming out of Rocket's gun, and finished.

[Mayhem]

Love the commission, shudder to think how much it cost mind you heh...

[Patton]

Love it too!

[Chopalong Slashity]

I am now wishing so hard a Kung-Fu Panda/Usagi crossover was a thing.