Lee Garbett - Angel Falling...

A very welcome return to artdroid Lee Garbett who has produced this cracking cover to prog 1762, featuring a rather scary Maggie Roth about to crack some heads!

Lee was last seen in the Galaxy's greatest in 2006 where he provided brilliant art on the fantastic story London Falling, by Si Spurrier. This gruesome, self contained tale was a horror story exploring a range of monsters from folklore and the power of belief. Lee provided wonderful art which saw numerous mythical beasties rampaging around London committing a range of atrocities, the highlights including the horrific murder of the Queen as well as carnage at the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. True 2000AD subversion!

Since then, Lee has gone on to big things, providing many covers for publishers such as DC and working high profile storiessuch as 'The Return of Bruce Wayne' and the relaunch of Batgirl.

Below are Lee's roughs for the cover, all of which I really love. I don't think I could have chosen a favourite...

Next up are the pencils, over at his blog, Lee says "Once we had the idea down I set about the finished drawing. I decided to let Angel hang in space a little more in the final piece.."

The pencils were then inked and coloured by David Baron (check out his site for some ace colouring video tutorials.)

Lee was pleased with the final result, praising 2000AD's brilliant design team. he says "Matt and the designers at 2000AD did a great job of recognising and maintaining the negative space. A lot of folks get fearful of that and try to fill it with words or ask to add another character etc which can destroy the balance but here it's allowed to breathe..."

Why not treat yourself to a visit to Lee's blog where you can enjoy some of his great artwork? We'll finish with some great Garbett images of yesteryear, starting with a wicked Dredd and Hershey...

Followed by a Quitely-esque Missionary Man...

And finally this brilliantly moody Dredd which I've always loved!