After 1-1/2 years, this piece is finally complete! In 2006, I researched, penciled and inked this illustration depicting Wonder Woman and Diana Prince in her most definitive costumes since 1941. A comprehensive history of Wonder Woman’s look hasn’t been done since George Perez’s 1990’s poster, and even then it wasn’t approached from the original artists’ styles. Over the past few months, Kevenn T. Smith and I have been working on the colors in Photoshop. Between my drawing and his color expertise, we produced this result.
Almost every definitive version of Diana that has appeared in the comic book and other media is in this drawing, drawn by me but based on the original artists’ artwork: H.G. Peter, George Perez, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Mike Deodato, Phil Jimenez, Terry Dodson, Jose Delbo, Ross Andru, Irv Novick, Curt Swan, Don Heck, Gene Colan, Jill Thompson, Mike Sekowsky, Alex Toth, Bruce Timm, and Darwyn Cooke. In addition, I included the Lynda Carter and Cathy Lee Crosby versions of Wonder Woman because no true history of Diana would be complete without them. Earth-2 Wonder Woman is based on Lynda Carter since there really isn’t a definitive depiction of her. Lynda Carter (including her Diana Prince and the motorcycle outfit), Cathy Lee Crosby, and Earth-2 are in my art style and not based on another artists’ work.
Wonder Woman 1941-2008
Pencils and inks by Ray Caspio
Colors by Kevenn T. Smith and Ray Caspio
10″ x 15″ printed
Pencil, ink, Photoshop CS2
Wonder Woman is copyright and property of DC Comics.
That is impressive! Great work, Ray!
Again, I am telling you, this is so cool! Do you have larger versions of this available? I want to ogle at it in full-resolution glory.
ray - your work is fantastic - awesome to say the least. your art in all aspects is phenomenal - whether its cooking or drawing or - i certainly enjoy it. thanks for sharing…
take care and be safe…
blessings…palestar
This is just fantastic.
Congratulations. A year and a half of great love.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
True love is really seen here, for 1.5 years of work is certainly not a small-scale project. Well done, Ray and Kev! And thank you from the depth of my heart.