I started doing more complex drawings because they're harder to steal...plus I'm doing subject matters that.a certain someone isn't interested in. Believe me, I miss the easier pictures, lol. This took two weekends. Lately I've got a big piece going on in the background with some smaller ones to make the difference if I'm not ready to post yet. Pretty sure no one is jonings for my pictures anymore anyway since I stopped doing DC pics.

Well, I re-drew everything instead of photoshopping changes, so I had more control over where things fell, picking colors, and so on. I used an actual older but cleaner comic cover for the template of colors I needed, but also used some of my own judgement for ones that weren't so obvious. I think as fans we're used to a muted or dusty look to the art work give it's either aged or comes from newsprint. Modern Archie just has the pure crisp colors because that's how it always looked in the studio. Now that its the digital age and printing methods are better, their recolors look too saturated. If you look at the Digezts, they still are printed on the cheap and still "feel" right. So I think the issue comes with Archie Comics not downgrading their stuff. I have one of the Dan DeCarlo Best of books and since the paper is nicer the colors are crisper there too. BUT yeah, for all the chances I wanted to do, it was just easier to draw it instead of ps everything, which I had done to get a template to go on, but I didn't have to worry about making it look pretty because I was going to do all that myself. I took the opportunity to fix up some proportions mistakes as well. Whether it was DeCarlo just squirting it out quick or the image I had was warped, Veronica just looked off from her model. So I fixed that too. The hardest parts were the text and small details like Ronnie's bikini, jewelry, and sand piles.