2000 AD Covers Uncovered – Luke Horsman returns to Enemy Earth for Prog 2303
12th October 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, as Cavan Scott & Luke Horsman’s post-apocalyptic Enemy Earth reaches episode 3, we welcome art droid Luke Horsman to talk about putting together the cover for 2000 AD Prog 2303 – out wherever you get your Thrill Power on 12 October.
In Enemy Earth Cavan and Luke return to the world they created back in 2000 AD Regeened Prog 2256, a world where Mother Nature has turned against humanity and the mutated flora and fauna is proving deadly. Can young survivors Zoe and Jules, together with Jules’ defence droid Nanni, survive as their bunker is overrun? Well, that’s what you see on the cover and what you’ll find out in episode 3 (of 10) of Enemy Earth!
So, over to Luke…
LUKE HORSMAN: I start with the usual rough layout. I like to keep things loose in this stage and spend more time in the inking phase.
I start inking in the main focus of the image first. I like to work in layers for ease of masking colours later, so with most of my work this is usually in the midground layer. I keep in a placeholder Prog logo so I’m aware of not drawing any detail that will be covered up, leaving plenty of space.
Midground inks finished...
I next bring in the foreground elements for framing and visual depth. Here I’m using plenty of blacks to draw the eye to the centre.
Lastly for the line work I bring in the background elements, with a little more framing.
Finally on to colours and finished off.
And that’s a wrap – another scrotnig cover completed! Thanks so much to Luke Horsman for sending that one along.
You can find 2000 AD Prog 2303 wherever you pick up the Galaxy’s Greatest, including the 2000 AD web shop from 12 October.
And if you want to know more about Enemy Earth, both Luke and Cavan talked about it right here.