Officially Licensed Marvel Signature Prints by Rachel and Me

 

Officially Licensed Marvel Signature Prints now available in my SHOP - 

https://terrydodsonart.storenvy.com/

There are three 11 x17 prints with a metallic MARVEL logo available-

Amazing Spider-Man 

Black Cat

Avenging Spider-Man featuring Captain Marvel

All prints will be signed by Rachel Dodson and me plus a remarqued version is available, with a small original drawing on it of the character in the print.

Signed by Rachel and Terry Print $30 

With Head Sketch Remarque $60.

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

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Avenging Spider-Man #9 Cover Art Step by Step

 Here is my process for creating the cover to Avenging Spider-Man #9 (July 2012) featuring Captain Marvel and Spider-Man. 

Didn't have much to go off, so this is what I did!

Here's the  1" x 2" roughs drawn in my sketchbook and then

 adjusted and colored in Photoshop that I sent in to Marvel for approval.

Pencil stage drawn on 13 x 19 inch 2 Ply Bristol Board with HB and Light Blue lead.

Finished pencils.

Rachel inks over my pencils using a Winsor Newton Series 7 #2 Sable Brush and FW Acrylic Ink

First pass at colors in Photoshop CS3 using a Wacom Graphics Tablet (circa 2001) at 7 x 10.6 inches and 800dpi in RGB using Channels.

Final colors and coloring of line art on a separate "Screen" Layer .

VOILA!

Cool to see that this has held up! I would like to work on the clouds some more in the color stage ... c'est la vie...

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Life of Captain Marvel #2 Cover Art Step by Step Part 3 Color

Check Out how we made it

PART 3

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 COLOR ROUGH

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

I knew I wanted a strong rim light, so I got Captain Marvel's face value approximately right then hit it with the RIM light.

I then rough in quickly all the medium lights and darks on the figures and cast initial shadows.

Using the Pencil Tool (Hard Round pixel Brush) at 100% to to begin and then switch to lower 30-50% to get the right value of color for the next stages of rendering.

COLORING THE LINE ART

This is the icing on the cake step of the process.

I colored a lot of the black lines - notice the lips, flesh outline clothes and SFX in the background.

Working more on the clouds and background

  

FINAL TOUCHES

Pushing the final highlights

FINAL

PART 1

PENCILS

PART 2

LINE ART 

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Life of Captain Marvel #2 Cover Art Step by Step Part 2 Line Art

Check Out how we made it

Part 2 Line Art

Rachel Dodson's initial start on the line art on this cover.

Rachel inks directly over my pencils.

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

FINAL

Detail

Artwork is scanned into Photoshop at 800dpi Gray full size. I then go in and convert to Bitmap and clean to prepare for...

COLOR

Next time in

PART 3

And

PART 1

PENCILS

Life of Captain Marvel #2 Cover Art Step by Step Part 1 Pencils

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

PENCILS

COVER SKETCH

The 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.

Quickly roughed in the drawing making sure the composition still help.

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

Making sure those CHEEKS are happy!!!

Knew how I wanted this hand, by gosh!

Since I'm happy with my rough in I go to "tight" (ink-able) pencils.

On to the background...

GULLS!

And the final pencils, all ready for Rachel Dodson to ink...

Detail

Next time, 

PART 2

INKS 

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Captain Marvels Step by Step Part 3 Color

Part 3 of the Step by Step making of the cover art for Generations The Bravest 1 featuring the Captains! -

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.

I try to adjust the colors to their medium value or imprimatura - I use this as the starting point for the piece. 

INITIAL COLOR (ROUGH IN)

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

Here I rough in quickly all the medium lights and darks on the figures and cast initial shadows.

Using the Pencil Tool at 100% to knock those in.

I also use the Pencil Tool at about 40% Yellow for the Rim Lighting...

COLORING THE LINE ART

See how I turn the black lines to color...

This is the icing on the cake step of the process.

I colored a lot of the characters black lines, including Carol's eyebrows!

Detail of those lines...

FINAL COLOR

And done!

PART 1

PENCILS

PART 2

LINE ART

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