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Who'd a thought Vol de Galle was such a softie! The talented artist Eve made this adorable animation (click the image above) of the Marquis and an apple craving devil~ too cute! You can see more of Eve' artwork on her cool DeviantART page, including some other Marquis drawings (that I'll be posting in future Diableries too!)

Eve-the-Strange

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Sorry about the lack of recent updates to more of the amazing Marquis guest art I've been receiving~ like this great surreal illo from Indigo Kelleigh of the Marquis' body made of the swarming souls of the damned! You can see more of Indigo's cool art over at his blog!

Indigo Kelleigh

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At the last Emerald City Comicon, the always amazing Gabriel Hardman traded me this incredible shot of the Marquis lurking in the shadows of Venisalle, and I definitely got the better end of that trade! Be sure to check out the rest of his stunning brushwork via the gallery link below!

Gabriel Hardman

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Another round of great Marquis guest art Diableries starts with this cool rendition by Joel Carroll, who gives us this wonderful and stylish portrait of the Marquis casting a suspicious look to the devils that shadow him! You can check out a lot more of Joel's work on his deviantart gallery via the link below!

Joel Carroll

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One of the best parts of doing conventions, aside from getting great Marquis drawings~ is to meet all the wonderful artists who did them! Like Riley Rossmo (artist for PROOF from Image Comics), who not only did this wonderful drawing of the Marquis looming over the carnival of Hell~ but stopped by to chat and gave me a gift of the original art! Thanks Riley!

Riley Rossmo

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More cool Marquis artwork from the Emerald City Comicon! Chris Sheridan did this wonderful drawing of the Marquis fighting a knife wielding "devil of the deep" on the shores of Venisalle! You can see more of his cool art over at his blog, including the line art version of this drawing!

Christopher Sheridan

In the shadows of Venisalle

A promo piece I recently did to test out some of the background effects I wanted to use in the new Marquis books. In the original stories reprinted in the Marquis: Inferno, I used hand applied shading film that adhered directly to the original art to give the different grey tones and textures. For the new graphic novels starting with The Marquis and the Midwife, I'm using more digital greys for the finished page that lets me play around with more depth of field.

Below the main image: A look at the process from start to finish~ I pencil loose (far left) and block in the Marquis figure and main buildings before adding all the details to the architecture during the inks. I knew I was going to fade out the background, so I added a lot of line work to the buildings and kept the Marquis as a simple shape to frame the center image. After adding the greys and different effects to the image, drawing in the falling snow is the last part of the job!