Sketch Cover I did for a collector. Sketch Covers are comic books with blank bristol covers– designed so that they can take the book to an artist and ask them to draw on it.
It’s a clever idea– and it took a while for the publishers to catch up to the needs of the artists– at first they were the same glossy material of a regular comic book cover– and about the only thing you could draw on it with was a sharpie– and it was hard to pencil out your idea first.
Later they publishers recognized most of us draw on bristol– which is a heavier paper that has a bit of tooth to it.
I find a little bit of pressure in doing sketch covers, because you only have one shot. If you’re doing a regular commission for someone and it’s not going the right way you can tear it up, grab another piece of bristol and start again. Not so much with sketch covers– you have one cover.
So my workaround has been that I do the preliminary rough on a piece of sketch paper, then I use a piece of tracing paper to transfer the image to the sketch cover– this has solved all of the problems I’ve had with them.
This was a fun piece, I’ve seen maybe, MAYBE, two episodes of THE SIMPSONS, I really honest to goodness just don’t watch TV.
It's Andy Fish! 
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