JSA v Kobra #4 Cover Auction

I'm putting up the cover to JSA VS. Kobra: Engines of Faith #4 on eBay Tuesday after 10pm ET/7pm PT. If you're interested, click here. Along with the sale, I like putting up 1600 pixel tall images of the original art. When I do the colors myself, as in this case, I like including a color JPEG too. Click on any of the images below for the full size JPEG.

In doing the idol of Hatred from Shazam's Seven Deadly Enemies of Mankind, I wanted to give it a more primitive and coarse feel. Generally, the Enemies are drawn somewhere between a tiki and Grumpy. I used African tribal sculpture and Hellboy covers as inspiration.

My interpretation of Lightning is based on Alex Ross's JSA covers. The logic is a bit different. He paints her as a photo negative of a woman lit from above, with broad glowing areas where shadows should be. I light her (well, me) from below. In effect, Alex makes her an internally glowing coal, and I make her wreathed in light.

This is the only one of the covers where I didn't use any outside model reference. They're all based on me.