Nite Owl by Tom Hodges is a digitized version of the original line art by Hodges-Art in DeviantArt. Tom Hodges (Hodges-Art) is a professional comic book artist who is best known for his work in the Star Wars Universe, as well as other various franchises including HALO, Transformers, Indiana Jones, Lord of the Rings and The Simpsons.

Digital Inks & Colors

Using Photoshop, I vectored out the lines and the shapes (or digitally inked and colored, as I call it) to give it a more solid and airbrushed look. The monochromatic version was done only after completing the colored version, changing the colors to emulated ink on paper.

Nite Owl by Tom Hodges

Black and white

Final version

Digitally colored

Here’s a quick comparison of the original line art by Tom Hodges and the colors that I did in Photoshop: