In this first clip, Dave Gibbons of Watchmen fame demonstrates his digital workflow using Manga Studio, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator along with a Wacom Cintiq (looks like a 21UX to me). I can’t think of a better evangelist of digital art than Dave Gibbons. His excitement is infectious.

In this second clip, Adi Granov of Iron Man fame walks us through his process.  I love the fact that he still uses a light table, pencil, and water color to do much of his rendering before scanning a piece back into photoshop to finish it off.  I’d really love for Adi to someday release a full DVD of his various techniques.

According to the site, Digital Artist 2009 will be hosting more master classes in the future.  I hope they continue to put these clips online and I hope the competition returns next year.  I can see this becoming a huge resource for all artists, digital and traditional.

In this first clip, we have the one and only John Romita drawing Spider-Man and Joe Kubert drawing Man-Bat. Out of all the artists who have ever drawn our friendly neighborhood hero, Romita’s Spider-Man is definitely one of my all time favorites.

John Buscema draws Captain America and Bill Sienkiewicz draws Electra. Buscema’s brush work is absolutely expert, so controlled and precise. I’ll be studying this clip for a good long while. I also really love the looseness of Sienkiewicz’s line work. He only uses a few gestures to render the face, but he gives Electra such attitude.

Finally we have Dave Gibbons drawing Green Landern and Travis Charest drawing Super Man. Gibbons’ lines are just so clean and precise. I’ve never been a fan of the brush pen but he manages to make it look so clean. I could seriously watch Travis Charest work for hours and consider it time well spent. I’ve been a huge fan of his work since his Wild C.A.T.S. days and have witness his work grow in leaps and bounds. If he ever releases an instructional DVD, I’ll be the first to sign up!