{"id":4215,"date":"2016-05-09T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2016-05-08T12:37:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T19:37:58","slug":"a-peek-under-the-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=4215","title":{"rendered":"A Look Under The Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4216\" style=\"width: 108px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/STL009777.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4216\" class=\"wp-image-4216 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/STL009777.jpg?resize=98%2C150\" alt=\"STL009777\" width=\"98\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/STL009777.jpg?resize=98%2C150&amp;ssl=1 98w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/STL009777.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/STL009777.jpg?resize=768%2C1182&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/STL009777.jpg?resize=510%2C785&amp;ssl=1 510w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/STL009777.jpg?w=780&amp;ssl=1 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enbiggen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Archie Comics&#8217; new <strong>Betty &amp; Veronica<\/strong> series ships July 20, with a choice of <a href=\"http:\/\/comicsalliance.com\/archie-variant-covers-betty-and-veronica\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>25 variant covers<\/strong><\/a>, including this one by me! (I think the order date for this title is coming up, so ask your retailer to order you a copy ASAP if you want to be sure to get one in July.)<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t capture\u00c2\u00a0a video of the making of this cover, but I was able to put together\u00c2\u00a0a process GIF to show off some of the layers of work that went into this piece.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BnV_UnderTheHood.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4217 size-full alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colleencoover.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BnV_UnderTheHood.gif?resize=447%2C651\" alt=\"BnV_UnderTheHood\" width=\"447\" height=\"651\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Some of the coloring was done in Photoshop, but the lion&#8217;s share of the work in this cover was in Manga Studio 5EX (now called Clip Studio Paint).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archie Comics&#8217; new Betty &amp; Veronica series ships July 20, with a choice of 25 variant covers, including this one by me! (I think the order date for this title is coming up, so ask your retailer to order you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=4215\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,1,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25PVe-15Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4224,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}