2000 AD Covers Uncovered – Luke Horsman on Prog 2307 & the mutated monstrosities of Enemy Earth…
9th November 2022
Every week, 2000 AD brings you the galaxy’s greatest artwork and 2000 AD Covers Uncovered takes you behind-the-scenes with the headline artists responsible for our top cover art – join bloggers Richard Bruton and Pete Wells as they uncover the greatest covers from 2000 AD!
This week, we have the second Prog cover from art droid Luke Horsman, another visit to the post-apocalyptic world of Enemy Earth, where the hideously mutated flora and fauna of the world have risen up against humanity, and the few people who remain are left to try to survive as everything, animal and plant, attempts to kill them.
Being the incredibly busy art Droid that he is, Luke’s currently hard at work for Tharg –and you know what Tharg’s like, no work, no vital sustenance – so he only had chance to send across the process artwork for his Enemy Earth cover.
Everything starts with a rough thumbnail based on Tharg’s particular instructions, this time all coming from a moment in the episode from this Prog’s Enemy Earth, where our hero Zoe finds herself fighting off a mutated gruesome grub or carnivorous caterpillar thingy…
After that, it’s over to the computer and working digitally, recreating the roughs on the cover template to make sure everything fits nicely…
After that, it’s on to the inks for the cover image…
And finally, time to finish it all off by adding the colours…
And there you have it, Luke Horsman’s cover from roughs to the finished piece that you’ll be looking for on the shelves of wherever you get your weekly dose of Thrill Power, including the 2000 AD web shop. You can find 2000 AD Prog 2307 from 9 November. And thanks so much to Luke for taking the time to sentenced over his process images. Hopefully Tharg wasn’t too annoyed at him slacking off for a couple of minutes. The last thing the newer art droids want is to get on his bad side!
Enemy Earth, written by Cavan Scott and drawn by Luke, began in 2000 AD Regened Prog 2256 and continued with this first full series starting in Prog 2301. You can read all about it from Cavan and Luke in two interviews, here and here. And you can see more of Luke’s cover process work with his Covers Uncovered piece for Prog 2303 here.
