YEAR END REWIND 2011

Here's my annual look back at some of my favorite pop culture entertainment - or what I was up to when NOT drawing ;-)

Enjoy!

Happy New Year!

Terry

Music

Raphael Saadiq Stone Rollin'

The Decemberists The King is Dead/Long Live The King

Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues

Bon Iver Bon Iver

Gomez Whatever's On Your Mind

The Head and the Hand The Head and the Hand

Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys

Badly Drawn Boy It's What I'm thinking

Printed Matter

Slaying the Badger Richard Moore

One Step Behind Henning Mankell

Eiffel's Tour Jill Jones

The Dragon Trilogy Stieg Larsson

L'Heure De La Gargouille Cassegrain

La Belle Mort Bablet

Hellboy Mignola Fegredo Corben

Skydoll Decade 00>10 (with an awesome sketch dedication)

Xenoxoic Schultz

La Viandier de Polpette

The Mighty Thor Fraction/Coipel

Lune D'Argent Sur Providence

Rodd Racer Toby Cypress

Cassegrain Sketchbook 3

Vatine Sketchbook 3

Alex Toth Genius Isolated

Cheeks:Still Together Sketchbook

Caniff A Visual Biography

The Art of Jaime Hernandez

Mark Schultz Various Drawings 5

Dave Stevens Complete Sketches and Studies

Naughty and Nice: The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm

An Edmund Dulac Treasury - Menges

P Wee Sketchbook

Diburros Sketchbook 2011

Jump Dossier Canete

Chocolate Canete

Blue Collar White Collar Sterling Hundley

Empowered Extra SKetchiness

The Magic Box Francisco Herrera

Suckerpunch Art of the Movie

Masters of American Illustration

L'Art de L'Automobile

Custom Lettering of the 60's and 70's by Rian Hughes

Movies

Rango

Midnight In Paris

Larry Crown

Thor/Captain America

Tintin

Drive

Crazy Stupid Love

Suckerpunch

Super 8

Haven't seen yet - Tinker Tailor/Hugo/Moneyball/The Descendants/The Artist/Young Adult

Television

The Killing

Homeland

Justified

Walking Dead

Modern Family

Game of Thrones

Hell on Wheels

George Harrison Living the Material World

Downton Abbey

Portlandia

Big Bang Theory

Southland

Inspector Lewis

DVR'd, haven't had time to watch yet - Curb Your Enthusiasm, Boardwalk Empire, The Hour

Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone has a great holiday season and a terrific 2012!

It's been a while - I've had the busiest fall workwise that I can remember - today's the first chance I had to do some online updates.

I have a bunch of cool stuff in the works and that will be coming out in 2012 from the next issues of Defenders, plus new artbooks and sketchbooks, prints and another gallery show plus convention appearances. Updates on all when have exact dates, etc.
Here's a couple of new pieces of art - sneaks peeks of Defenders #5 cover and a couple of panels from Songes Tome 2.

Ok, I will see you all on the other side.

Have a great and safe time!
TD

Defenders #2 Cover Art

Here's a little step by step look at process behind the cover of Defenders #2 featuring Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Red She Hulk and Iron Fist.

Step 1 is a little design sketch submitted to Marvel - drawn in my sketchbook and then colored in Photoshop

Step 2 is are my pencils drawn in HB Lead on 11 x 17 " Bristol Board

Step 3 is Rachel's awesome inks done over the top of my pencils using a #2 Brush and FW Acrylic Ink.

Step 4 art is scanned in and colored in Photoshop with a Wacom Intuos Graphics Tablet.

Let me know if you have any questions!

TD

No New York Comic Convention appearance this year

I'm way too busy with work to take any time off so no more convention
appearances at all until 2012. I will be announcing shows for next year pretty
soon as I'm going through all the invites and deciding what is going to work for
2012.

I will post some new pics up here soon!

TD

San Diego Sketches 8 and 9 Red Queen and Wonder Woman

The final two sketches from SDCC - Red Queen and Wonder Woman. Who better to follow up the White Queen than "The Red Queen". I did the redesign of the Madelyne Pryor Red Queen character back in 2008 and ended only drawing her on 1 page for her first appearance and then Greg Land ended up getting to do all the fun stuff! Drawn on 11 x 14 bristol board with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, Pitt and Copic Pens, Warm Grey Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils.

And the Wonder Woman was done for a fan, who had waited 3+years for a WW sketch, I did it 2 years and missed him at the end of the show. So I drew this Sunday of ComicCon so I could finally get him his WW after 5+ years! Drawn in Light Blue and HB Lead on 11 x 14 Bristol Board.

San Diego Sketches 6 and 7

Here's the next batch of commission sketches from Comic Con International, San Diego, July 2011 - this time it's a Moulin Rouge inspired Emma Frost and an armored girl!

Emma was drawn on a 11 x 17 sketchbook with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, Pitt and Copic Pens, Warm Grey Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils and the other was drawn on 11 x 16 Canson Pastel Paper with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, Pitt and Copic Pens, Warm Grey Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils.

Enjoy!

TD

San Diego Sketches 3, 4, 5

Here's the next batch of commission sketches from Comic Con International, San Diego, July 2011 - Dejah Thoris, Wonder Woman and Shanna the She Devil!

Drawn on 11 x 16 Canson Pastel Paper with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, Pitt and Copic Pens, Warm Grey Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils.

Enjoy!

TD

San Diego Sketch 2 Batgirl and Supergirl

Here's the next commission sketch from Comic Con International, San Diego, July 2011, featuring Batgirl and Supergirl. Supergirl was drawn at last year's show and then Batgirl this year to complete the piece.

Drawn on 12 x 16 Canson Pastel Paper with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, Pitt and Copic Pens, Warm Grey Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils.

TD

San Diego Sketch 1 Black Cat Chatte Noire

Here's the first commission sketch from Comic Con International, San Diego, July 21 2011, featuring the Turn of the Century Black Cat, Chatte Noire.

Drawn on 11 x 16 Canson Pastel Paper with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, Pitt and Copic Pens, Warm Grey Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils.

TD

Last Day of Comic Con Int'l, San Diego

Wrapping up my convention commissions this morning on the last day of SDCC in sunny San Diego.

I will be posting them up this week for all to see!

See you on the other side.

Terry

Watercolor July 2011

Watercolor

The scan went super saturated - I haven't figured out a good way to scan
watercolors ... anyhoo...

Painted on 13 x 19" hot press watercolor pape with watercolors, and Pitt Pen,
and Prismacolors for lines.

The original is up for sale at
http://www.galerie9art.fr/

TD

San Diego Comic Con and Sketchbooks UPDATE

WHERE/WHEN

I will be appearing at CCI San Diego, July 20-24 2011 at booth 4706. I will be at the booth most of the show - Rachel won't be there this year - so I will be manning the booth solo!

SIGNING

I will be signing books/comics/statues/etc at my booth the whole show.

COMMISSION SKETCHES

I will take sketch requests at 6:00-7:00 PM Wednesday and 10:00-11:00 AM Thursday.

I will write down the first 50 names HOWEVER I will be choosing myself who's sketch I'm drawing and if you had a sketch recently I won't be doing you a sketch so I can try to get sketches down for fans who I haven't done sketches for!

And San Diego is VERY busy con so I will be producing between 5 and 10 sketches TOTAL.

Sketches are $200 each for a single figure.

SKETCHBOOKS

My new sketchbooks "Reveries" and "Bombshells 5" will be debuting at the show.

"Reveries" will be a 5.5" x 8.5" Full Color sketchbook in a signed and numbered limited edition of 500 copies for $25 each.

"Bombshells 5" will be a 5.5" x 8.5" Full Color sketchbook for $15 each.

I will put a limited number of these on eBay during the show under seller ID - thebombshellter

I will also have a limited number of last year's "Bombshells Book 1".

ORIGINAL ART

I will be selling original art from Uncanny X-Men, Wonder Woman and selected covers, pinups and sketches PLUS some brand new art from Rachel and I!

PRINTS

I will also have new prints for sale.

RECAP

I will post pics of the sketches after the show here!

See you there!

Terry

Sketchbook 2 Cover Art

The full version of my OTHER Sketchbook cover. It's a wraparound cover.

More info, details and previews about the book next week.

TD

Sketchbook 2 Cover Sneak Peek

Here's a little preview of the cover for my other sketchbook coming out this summer!

More details to come.

TD

Bombshells 5 A Terry Dodson Sketchbook Preview 3

Here's another preview from "Bombshells 5 A Terry Dodson Sketchbook".

It features me trying to figure out what I wanted to do with the cover. I knew I was going for an old fashioned poster in the Moulin Rouge, but was playing around with the amount of "action" for the figure, opted for a more stable image - let the "picture" be the action.

TD

Bombshells 5 A Terry Dodson Sketchbook Preview 2

Here's another preview from my new Bombshells sketchbook coming out at San Diego Comic Con.

Sorry about the watermarks - won't be on the actual book ;-)

Enjoy!

TD

Bombshells 5 A Terry Dodson Sketchbook Preview 1

Here's the first preview from my new Bombshells sketchbook coming out at San Diego Comic Con.

Enjoy!

TD

More Sketches from France

Here's some more sketches from my recent visit to France. Drawings are from Aix-en-Provence, Avignon and Paris, June 2011.

Ah... Victoire de Samothrace .... what an amazing statue... my favorite thing from the Louvre!

Using Col-Erase pencils, Pitt Pens, and Copic Markers in a Holbein 9" x 11" Multi Drawing Book.

Enjoy!

TD

Sketches from France

Here's some sketches from my recent visit to France. Drawings are from Aix-en-Provence and Paris, June 2011.

Using Col-Erase pencils, Pitt Pens, and Copic Markers in a Holbein 9" x 11" Multi Drawing Book.

It's great to draw stuff besides my assignments and it's great to draw from life. I think drawing what you see when traveling is one of the best ways to "see" things. You really have to study all the details of the subject matter and it's sticks in your head the way no photo can!

Enjoy!

TD

BOMBSHELLS 5 A Terry Dodson Sketchbook

Here's the cover to my new sketchbook, BOMBSHELLS 5 A TERRY DODSON SKETCHBOOK, debuting at Comic Con International in San Diego, July 20-24, and then will be available through other outlets (such as Stuart NG Books) afterward. This will be a smaller "ashcan" sized full color collection of material from my own sketchbooks and will feature all new material.

I will be previewing pages from this sketchbook here over the next month and announcing a 2nd sketchbook in a couple of weeks.

TD

Uncanny X-Men #537 and 538 Covers

Here's the my final 2 Uncanny X-Men covers (both out in stores now!). After 3 years on Uncanny, I'm moving on to a TBA project at Marvel - TBA next month at Comic Con, of course!

TD

Merci France!

Just back from my appearances in France - at Strasbulles Festival in Strasbourg, June 4-5, and Apo(K)lyps store signing in Paris, June 10. Had a great time and everyone I met were très awesome - merci!

I will be posting some images from my sketchbook from the trip and a little write up about the trip here soon!

More updates and art coming soon!

TD

Free Comic Book Day 2011, May 7th

Saturday is the return of the annual Free Comic Book Day event. I will be signing at Things From Another World in Portland, Oregon from 2-4pm on Saturday afternoon.

For more info go to-

http://www.tfaw.com/promos/fcbd

TD

Uncanny X-Men #536 and X-Men #10 In Stores Today

My 2nd issue of Uncanny X-Men ships on April 27th. Also, X-Men #10 ships which I drew the cover to.

You can see a preview of it at Newsarama -

http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?aid=42636

Check it out!

I will be posting an original art list later in the week.

TD

Uncanny X-Men #535 Original Art List

Here's the list of original art from Uncanny X-Men 535-

Title Ish # Price$

Uncanny 535 2 $225.00

Uncanny 535 3 $300.00

Uncanny 535 4 $190.00

Uncanny 535 6 $210.00

Uncanny 535 8 $200.00

Uncanny 535 9 $120.00

Uncanny 535 10 $160.00

Uncanny 535 11 $170.00

Uncanny 535 13 $425.00

Uncanny 535 14 $260.00

Uncanny 535 15 $450.00

Uncanny 535 16 $320.00

Uncanny 535 17 $370.00

Uncanny 535 18 $390.00

Uncanny 535 19 $360.00

Uncanny 535 21 $320.00

Uncanny 535 22 $170.00

Scans of pages 1-5 are in the Files section of the Yahoo Group and most of scans will be up soon at on my website store -

http://www.terrydodsonart.com/store/original-comic-art.php

If you are interested in a page, email

terry at terrydodsonart dot com

to check on availability/reserving page.

TD

New Uncanny X-Men Arc In Stores Next Week

I'm finally returning to comic book interior work. The first of four issues of Uncanny X-Men ships next week, April 13th, beginning with issue #535.

You can see a preview of it at Comic Book Resources -

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=8296&disp=table

Check it out!

TD

Uncanny X-Men #538 Cover Inks and Work in Progress Colors

Here's Rachel's ink and the Work In Progress Colors version of the cover.

Rachel used a Windson Newton Series 7 #2 Sable Brush and FW Acrylic Ink on Strathmore Bristol Board.

I colored the art in Photoshop CS3 with Wacom Intuos Graphics Tablet.

I will post the final version of the colors later.

This book ships in June.

TD

Uncanny X-Men #538 Cover Pencils

Here's the pencil version of the cover to Uncanny X-Men 538 featuring Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Angel, Psylocke, Namor, Storm and Hope.

Drawn on 13 x 19" Strathmore Bristol Board 2 ply with Light Blue and HB Pencil.

I will post the colors sooooooon!

TD

Emerald City Comic Con Sketch 7 - Black Cat #2

My final sketch completed at Emerald City Comic Con (Seattle March 2011), my 2nd Black Cat.

Always fun to play with characters you have worked with in the past.

Rachel suggested the rendering and highlights on the Deco "gargoyle".

Original art is drawn on 12" x 16" Canson Pastel Paper with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, Staedtler HB Lead, Black Copic Multiliners 05 and 08 Markers, Pitt "XS" "S" "M" Markers, Copic Warm Grey 0-9 Markers, and White and Henna Prismacolors Pencil.

Thank you Seattle!

TD

Emerald City Comic Con Sketch 7 - Abbey Chase

Abbey Chase, from the Danger Girl comic book, a convention sketch drawn at Emerald City Comic Con, March 2011.

I think was the first time I had drawn this character, so I tried to pick a really fun scenario.

This was the 7th sketch I did at the convention, but the first not drawn on the colored Canson Pastel Paper I use regularly but on white paper, so I had to readjust how I would have to apply the pencils, black markers and especially the grey value Copic Markers on the fly - but that's fun and challenge of doing con sketches. And it was in a sketchbook and it was only 8.5 x 11".

Original art is drawn in a 8.5 x 11" sketchbook with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, Staedtler HB Lead, Black Copic Multiliners 05 and 08 Markers, Pitt "XS" "S" "M" Markers, Copic Warm Grey 0-9 Markers, and White and Henna Prismacolors Pencils.

TD