Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Leia, Tarkin, Han and Boba Covers

Our first four covers for the Star Wars: Age of Rebellion are out now in stores from Marvel Comics!

Four more to go!

May the Force be with you!

TD

Mr. and Mrs. X #10 Cover Step by Step

Out in stores now!

Part 1 of the Step by Step making of the cover art -

COVER SKETCH

The approved cover concept I sent into Marvel Comics for approval. 

Roughs were drawn at 2" x 3" in my sketchbook using Warm Grey Copics then colored in Photoshop CS3.

PENCILS

 Initial rough in

Drawn in Col Erase Light Blue and Staedtler HB Lead Pencil on 13" x 19" Strathmore 400 Series 2 Ply Vellum Bristol Board 

Final art scanned

Once Rachel started to ink, I finished drawing the background...

Next time, 

PART 2

INKS 

TD

Captain Marvel Sketch Step by Step

Here's a step by step look at how I made this Captain Marvel Sketch.

Tools

11" x 14" Canson Mi-Teinte Paper

Col Erase Carmine Red Pencil

Pitt S, F and B Pens

Pigma Micron 1 Pen

Copic Warm Grey 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 Pens

Prismacolor White Pencil

Uni Posca White Marker

And the completed Art

TD

Bombs Away! is now available in my SHOP and shipping WORLD WIDE

BOMBS AWAY!

A Terry Dodson Sketchbook Collection

Available in the SHOP

Ships WORLD WIDE!

This collects highlights from last 3 years of my personal sketchbooks in a 32 page soft cover published by Flesk Publications!

It’s a comfortable 6" W x 8.25'' H with folded flap on front and back cover and a nice spot on page 1 to get a personalized sketch!

Autographed and Sketch Versions available in the SHOP

TD

Star Wars Age of Rebellion Leia Step by Step

COVER SKETCH

The cover concept I sent into Marvel and Lucasfilm for approval. 

Roughs were drawn at 2" x 3" in my sketchbook using Warm Grey Copics then colored in Photoshop CS3.

We had a pretty good idea of what the cover was going to be so not much of a change from my concepts.

PENCILS

Initial Rough In

Drawn in Light Blue and HB Lead on 13" x 19" Bristol Board 

INKS

Here's an in process shot of Rachel Dodson's inking...

Rachel inks with a Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Royal Talens India Ink.

I colored this on my Cintiq 22 HD using Photoshop CS3 .

Adding the highlights

The final art!

TD

Zatanna Sketch Step by Step Tutorial

Here's a step by step look at how I made this Zatanna Sketch.

Tools

11" x 14" Canson Mi-Teinte Paper

Col Erase Carmine Red Pencil

Pitt S, F and B Pens

Pigma Micron 1 Pen

Copic Warm Grey 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 Pens

Prismacolor White Pencil
Uni Posca White Marker

Rough in

Start 

Used the Pitt S pen to "find" the drawing, plus a little Copic and Big B Pitt Pen for the hair.

That's the UNI POSCA WHITE MARKER

Middle

Basic drawing is all just time for...

...final touches!

TD

Steampunk Batgirl Sketch Step by Step

Here's a step by step look at how I made this Batgirl Sketch.

Tools

11' x14"Canson Mi-Teinte Paper

Col Erase Carmine t Red Pencil

Pitt S, F and B Pens

Pigma Micron 1 Pen

Copic Warm Grey 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 Pens

Prismacolor White Pencil

Creating BOMBS AWAY! A Terry Dodson Sketchbook Collection Cover Art Part 2 Color

The cover to my new sketchbook!

BOMBS AWAY!

A Terry Dodson Sketchbook Collection

There is a 4 page sequence in sketchbook on "How I created the Cover Art", but here's another look!

PART 2 

COLOR

FLATS

The first stage of color is called flats - flatting allows me to choose an area to color at any point throughout the coloring process.

INITIAL ROUGH IN 

I rough in the colors on the figure and in this case start designing the colors for the bike. I also start designing the background of the 

cover and setting the type.

DESIGN

I’m not thrilled with how this is reading, not enough “POP”, so I set the figure off against and a WHITE background and VOILA! 

I also move the titles around and begin doing some tweaks to the bike itself.

The first thing I did is to change the cirlcle to orange to POP the rider a bit more. Next, I strengthened the bike colors. 

REAL COLORING!

Then I start working away from the middle values by adding darks then lights to the figure and the bike.

CIRCLES 

To accentuate the fun feel, I add the circles which I incorporate onto the back cover and interior. 

COLORING THE LINE ART 

The final touch is converting the black line art into colors lines - note the face especially!

PART 1

LINE ART

The book debuted at Emerald City Comic Co  and available world wide soon and in my SHOP!

This collects highlights from last 3 years of my personal sketchbooks in a 32 page soft cover published by Flesk Publications!

It’s a comfortable 6" W x 8.25” with folded flap on front and back cover and a nice spot on page 1 to get a personalized sketch!

TD