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Buffy Season 12: The Reckoning #2 [COVER]

July 14, 2018 •
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Buffy Season 12: The Reckoning #2 variant cover in progress by Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse, 2018), stage 5 of 7: finished pencils.
Penciling is finished. Now it’s ready for the inks.

Anatomy of a Variant Cover

Buffy Season 12: The Reckoning #2

The way the process usually works is that I give Dark Horse a bunch of ideas when and if I have a synopsis of the story. Sometimes it’s too close to the main cover or they want something different represented, but I usually give them a bunch of ideas.

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Buffy Season 12: The Reckoning #2 variant cover in progress by Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse, 2018), stage 1 of 7: main figures and background laid out with perspective lines.
Setting up the drawing with the main figures and the background. Perspective lines keep everything consistent and give the illusion of depth.
Buffy Season 12: The Reckoning #2 variant cover in progress by Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse, 2018), stage 2 of 7: details added to the Fifth Element-inspired city below.
Filling in the details of the Fifth Element inspired city below.
Buffy Season 12: The Reckoning #2 variant cover in progress by Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse, 2018), stage 3 of 7: skyscrapers, Fray’s gun and hair detailed.
Now detailing the high skyscrapers in the background as well as Fray’s gun and hair.
Buffy Season 12: The Reckoning #2 variant cover in progress by Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse, 2018), stage 4 of 7: more detail on Buffy and the hovering car beneath.
More details added to Buffy and the car hovering beneath.
Buffy Season 12: The Reckoning #2 variant cover in progress by Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse, 2018), stage 5 of 7: finished pencils.
Penciling is finished. Now it’s ready for the inks.
Buffy Season 12: The Reckoning #2 variant cover in progress by Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse, 2018), stage 6 of 7: inks by Karl Story.
The talented inker Karl Story does his thing and the final image is below!
Buffy Season 12: The Reckoning #2 variant cover in progress by Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse, 2018), stage 7 of 7: the final color cover: Buffy and Fray leap above a futuristic city as a hover car speeds below.
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Comic book artist Georges Jeanty.

Georges Jeanty

Georges Jeanty is an Eisner Award-winning comic book artist based in Atlanta. Best known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight and The American Way, he has also drawn Marvel’s Bishop, Gambit and Deadpool, plus the Star Wars adaptations The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. His next series is X-Men: Regulators.

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