I'm tired of seeing manips using those limited resource of Brandon Routh photos. So i decided to create my own artwork of Brandon Routh as Superman.

I found this screencap of Brandon from TV show "Cold Case" on BrandonRouth.com which finally convinced me that maybe Bryan Singer was right about his choice. But then there's one problem...

Technical/artwork notes :
...the screencap came in a very low-res quality, meaning that i have to re-paint the whole face using the screencap as the base in order to create a higher resolution artwork. That's what i did and surprisingly the work was done without so much difficulty as i expected before. It was finished in a couple of hours (thought it was going to take forever).

The next step was to determine the pose. Again, Poser came as a very resourceful tool. I created about 3-4 pose before decided which one was the best.

I created the costume using CorelDraw to help making the mask selections for necessary parts (suit, trunk, shield, boots, etc). Each part then exported as EPS formats for later use in Photoshop.

In Photoshop, began the job of airbrushing, smudging, airbrushing, and so on until it finished.

For the background, i finally decided to go with a minimalist approach.

The original artwork has Superman in a full body shot right to the cape, but somehow the cropped version looks better for a poster. I still keep the original one, perhaps for later use if i'm not too lazy or busy.