More from J.H. Williams III who has recently sat down with CBR to talk about his work on Detective Comics featuring Batwoman.

CBR: We cannot proceed without stating the fact that “Detective Comics” #854 is beautiful. Can you describe the techniques you are using to create the artwork for this title?

J.H. WILLIAMS III: Thank you so very much. The techniques being used are all over the place depending on what needs doing. Pen and ink, washes, Copic markers, watercolor paint, color pencil, digital color. Some images are a real mixed media of tricks. The rendering on Batwoman herself is applied using Copic markers after I’ve done the ink work. It is applied in a way that picks up a little of the ink layer on the board, blending the two mediums together a little. After that is done, I will then go in with black and white color pencils, and maybe some white ink, for tightening up of details. This amount of work is done quite a bit throughout but really focused on her costume. I’ll add some grey Copic marker tones or washes into backgrounds as well if I feel it needs it. It can get pretty complex sometimes.

After I’ve completed all of the black and white and grey techniques, I will scan the image or page and do some minor tweaking to get the black more dense. This is what [colorist] Dave [Stewart] or myself will do digital color over. On occasion I will paint some panels or portions of covers by hand if there is a certain effect that I want that looks slightly different than the other images. I just did all of the covers for the second arc in where I combined ink work, digital color, and hand-painted techniques into a single image, blending them together. The techniques transition in to each other in interesting and relatively seamless ways. It’s all pretty organic, experimental, challenging, and a lot of fun.

For the entire interview over at CBR click here...

(Source - Comic Book Resource)