X-Men #23 Cover

 Here's how the cover to Marvel Comics X-Men #23 was made-

This is the first issue of a new arc - so different setting.

The sketches are drawn at 2x3 inches in my sketchbook in pencil and pen and then cleaned up and colored in Photoshop.

Pencils drawn in Light Blue and HB lead on 12 x 18 Bristol Board.

Inks to come...

Colors by me in Photoshop CS3 with a Cintiq 13 HD

Detail of the colors

TD

X-Men #22 Cover

A little look behind the making of X-Men #22 cover-

The sketches are drawn at 2x3 inches in my sketchbook in pencil and pen and then cleaned up and colored in Photoshop.

Pencils drawn in Light Blue and HB lead on 12 x 18 Bristol Board.

Rachel Dodson uses Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic Ink to ink the covers with.

Colored by me in Photoshop CS3 with a Cintiq 13 HD

Detail of the colors

TD

X-MEN 21 Cover - Step by Step Part 1 - LINEART

Here's a look behind the making of the cover to X-Men #21 from Marvel Comics - out in stores now!

The idea behind this cover was a Drew Struzan Movie Poster type cover - epic space theme with Rachel front and center! 

The sketch was drawn at 2x3 inches in my sketchbook in pencil and pen and then cleaned up and colored in Photoshop.

After getting appr0val from Marvel Editor Daniel Ketchum I moved on to pencils..

Here's my initial rough stab at the pencils.

Pencils  drawn in Light Blue and

 HB lead on 12 x 18 Bristol Board.

Final pencils.

For solicitation there wasn't time to ink the cover so I colored my pencils.

For the final version - Rachel Dodson inks

Rachel uses Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic Ink to ink the covers with.

Then scan and clean in Photoshop

Next Time...

COLORS!

You can find this comic at your local comic book retailer

http://www.comicshoplocator.com/Home/1/1/57/575

And digitally at 

https://www.comixology.com/X-Men-2013-21/digital-comic/158869

TD

X-MEN #7, #8 and #9 Original Art Price List

The original art from X-Men #7, #8 and #9 is now available.

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Here's the price list for the artwork from my recent issues of X-Men  - the originals are all 11 x 17" on 2 ply bristol board.

To check on availability email terry at terrydodsonart dot com

X-Men7 1 $100.00

2 $300.00

3 $280.00

4 $280.00

5 $500.00

6 $300.00

7 $200.00

8 $280.00

9 $250.00

10 $500.00

11 $350.00

12 $280.00

13 $300.00

14 $300.00

15 $300.00

16 $700.00

17 $500.00

18 $240.00

19 $350.00

20 $400.00

X-Men8 1 $190.00

2 $240.00

3 $380.00

4 $290.00

5 $190.00

17 $400.00

18 $290.00

19 $290.00

20 $400.00

X-Men9 1 $300.00

2 $400.00

3 $290.00

4 $500.00

5 $200.00

6 $500.00

7 $400.00

8 $350.00

9 $300.00

10 $290.00

11 $290.00

12 $250.00

13 $250.00

14 $250.00

15 $200.00

16 $250.00

17 $300.00

18 $300.00

19 $300.00

20 $350.00

X-Men #1 Cover Step by Step

This is process of how I/we created the cover for Marvel's new comic X-Men #1 featuring all the X-Ladies - Storm, Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Psylocke, Rachel Grey and Jubilee! Lots of fun to work on! 

I was given the assignment to simply put all 6 characters of the cover and so I did a sketch with almost all the characters prominent at one point or another. Marvel chose A. 

 The pencils were drawn with light blue and HB lead on 13 x19 " Bristol Board. Loved drawing the MOHAWK Storm!

 Rachel Dodson's inks were done over my pencils - she used a Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Brush #2 and Black Magic Ink.

She knocked it out of the park on this one!

Here are the final colors for this done in Photoshop CS3 using my trusty 11 year old Wacom Intuos Graphics Tablet!

My favorite parts to color - Jubilee's cheeks and bubble!

The book ships in April 2013 by amazling talented Brian Woods and Olivier Coipel - can't wait!

TD