The Bombshellter: March 2019

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

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

Friday, March 22, 2019

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!

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Emerald City Comic Con, March 14-17, FINAL UPDATE

RACHEL and I will be attending Emerald City Comic Con this year.

The official ECCC site -

www.emeraldcitycomicon.com

WHERE/WHEN

WE will be seated in Artist's Alley Table L-4

I will be at the table most of the show but I will update later with a more exact schedule here and at

twitter.com/TerryDodsonArt

@TerryDodsonArt

SIGNING

I will be signing books/comics/statues/etc at my table the whole show and for free for the first 5 items. Then $1 a signature for each item after that.

Witnessed Signatures are $5 each.

RACHEL

Rachel will be in Seattle this year and will be SIGNING

10am-12pm Thursday through Sunday

If you've been needing a signature from her, this is your chance!

$1 a signature.

Witnessed Sigs are $5 each.

SKETCHBOOKS