2000 AD Covers Uncovered – The Bewitching Art Of Tiernen Trevallion For Prog 2209
28th November 2020
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, on the front cover of Prog 2209, out right now, we welcome back Tiernen Trevallion with the second beautiful cover from the Fiends of the Eastern Front: Constanta storyline, where the soon to be vampire discovers that family reunions can be deadly affairs and that there’s always a terrible price to pay when dealing with witches.
Since first appearing in 2000 AD in Prog 1533, Trevallion is best known for two series, the supernatural thriller with the old grumpy copper that was Absalom (with writer Gordon Rennie) and the Ian Edginton written Fiends of the Eastern Front series, beginning with the Fiends of the Western Front storyline in Progs 2111 to 2115 in 2019 and continuing this year with Constanta, where Trevallion’s stunning artwork has made the origin tale of the vamp we first met in WWI a thing of (nightmarish) beauty to behold.
We’re now nearing the end of this series, with this episode seeing the man become the beast that will eventually become the nightmare that hunts through Europe as Constanta becomes… Vampyr…
Trevallion’s artwork on this series has been a revelation, changing from that we’ve seen before, a more lush and colourful thing, perfect for capturing the rich historical nature of the story we’re reading.
And it’s a great pleasure to speak once more to Trevallion about putting together the second cover for the series – the first being Prog 2201 (and you can see the Covers Uncovered for that one here.)
Although, because he was busy hitting deadlines Tiernen sends his apologies and sent along his process images for putting together this latest cover along with a note telling us that this one was much the same as the last – sketch it, ink it, colour it.
Everything begins with that first sketch version, which looks a little something like this…
Tiernen’s pencils are just so beautifully tight on this one, everything coming together so well. Next it’s onto the inking stage, where he inks digitally…
And finally, time to add the colours that have been such a huge part of making this latest Fiends series really stand out…
Like we said, a short but sweet look into the nightmares going through Tiernen’s head there with those images for such a great cover.
Huge thanks go to Tiernen for that little look into the work that’s gone into making the cover look so damn good. And you can find that cover on the shelves and in the 2000 AD web shop right now!