Bombshells 6 Cover Art

Here's the artwork that I created for the cover of my new sketchbook, "Bombshells 6".


This was drawn on 11 x 17" Bristol board with pencils and then colored in Photoshop.


I will be posting the actual cover and info on the sketchbook itself soon.


TD

Avengers VS X-Men VS #3 out this week

Here's the first 3 pages of artwork from AVX VS #3 Black Widow VS Magik story that Rachel and I drew. It's  out in stores Wednesday, June 13. 


I had a blast doing this and Rachel really did a nice job inking this!


You can see an article on the story here-

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=39107

And see a few pages previewed here-

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=12623


Scans for most of the pages from the issue are now up in the files at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/terrydodsonartappreciation


you have to look at the comic for the rest ;-)

Here's the price list for the AVX VS #3 issue-

Title     Issue Page Price$

AVX VS 3       3 $500.00
AVX VS 3       4 $400.00
AVX VS 3       6 $275.00

AVX VS 3 C Variant $750 Pencil Version
AVX VS 3 C Variant $1,700 Ink Version

To check availability, email - terry at terrydodsonart dot com

TD

Time for the men

All right, time for the men -


Iron Fist and Wolverine.


Both are bust-style sketches from Kapow! Comicon in London May 2012.

Drawn on 11 x 14" Bristol Board Paper with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, HB Lead Pencil, Pitt/Copic Black Pens and Copic Warm Grey Pens.


TD

Here comes ... Wonder Woman!

A more Victorian inspired Wonder Woman from the Kapow! Comicon in London May 2012.

Drawn on 11 x 17 Bristol Board Paper with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil and HB Lead Pencil.

TD

Where there is Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn follows - another sketch from Kapow! Comicon in London, May 19-20, 2012.

Drawn on 11 x 17 Canson Paper with Blue Pencil, HB LEAD, Pitt and Copic Pens and Prismacolors.




TD

The Defenders #7 Original Artwork

Here's the price list for the original art to The Defenders #7. If you
are interested in a page, you can email  terry at terrydodsonart dot com to check for availability.


Title   Issue Page Price$

Defenders 7 1 $150.00
Defenders 7 7 $350.00
Defenders 7 8/9 $300.00
Defenders 7 12 $200.00
Defenders 7 13 $250.00
Defenders 7 14 $260.00
Defenders 7 15 $190.00
Defenders 7 16 $140.00
Defenders 7 17 $300.00
Defenders 7 18/19 $150.00
Defenders 7 20 $150.00

You can see scans of most pages here-


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/terrydodsonartappreciation/




TD

Defenders #7 Out in stores June 6

The Defenders #7 is out in stores tomorrow, June 6. It's my final issue of "interiors" on the book and  it features Black Cat!  I'm drawing the covers through issue 12.

TD

More Kapow! Sketches - Poison Ivy and Ghost

Two more sketches from Kapow! Comicon in London, May 19-20, 2012.

Poison Ivy and Ghost.

Both drawn on 11 x 17 Canson Paper with Blue Pencil, HB LEAD, Pitt and Copic Pens and Prismacolors.

More to come!

TD

Mina and Black Cat KAPOW! Comicon

Here are the first of the sketches from Kapow! Comicon in London, May 19-20, 2012.

Mina Harker from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Black Cat.

Both drawn on 11 x 17 Canson Paper with Blue Pencil, HB LEAD, Pitt and Copic Pens and Prismacolors.

More to come!

TD

FCBD, May 5 and Kapow! Sketchlist UPDATE

This Saturday, 12-2 pm, Rachel and I will be at


Hollywood TFAW: 4133 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland, OR 97214


Along with Studiomates -


* Jonathan Case
* Steve Lieber
* Jeff Parker


signing and sketching for Free Comic Book Day!


See you there!


Kapow! Sketchlist is now full!

TD

Kapow! Comicon Sketch Info

Ok, this con is so short and I will have virtually no time to draw sketches because this is my first trip to London and I'm not going to be sitting in my hotel room sketching while I should be out on a double decker bus - but I know a lot of you want to get on my sketch list so I am taking a pre-convention sketch list for the first time. 

So, in order to get on the list you have to -

a) be able to pick up the sketch at the Kapow Con May 19-20 in London, England in PERSON!

b) Pay for 1/2 sketch upfront to reserve your spot on the list

c) and I get to choose which sketches I'm doing

SO HERE'S THE DETAILS

As it will be very difficult to take a list and do the sketches at the show, I'm going to take a list of pre-show sketches online. I will do as many as I can and I will notify you by email if you have been selected.

After I inform via email that you have been selected - to reserve sketch, pay 1/2 up front via Paypal and the rest in person when you pick up sketch. You can pay the full amount up front via Paypal if you want.

These sketches will be done before and during the show, not after.

PRICES

- 11x14"  "Convention Sketch" bust (waist/torso up) - pen, greytone markers, colored pencil on colored paper £100

- 11x17"  "Convention Sketch" full figure - pen, greytone markers, colored pencil on colored paper  £185

NOTES ON SKETCHES

-All single figure

-One sketch per person

-Can be done on White Strathmore Bristol Board instead of colored for same price but let me know NOW!

-If pencil only add £60 to price

-If ink only (no added greytone) add £30 to price

-I have final say on which sketches I do, how many, my interpretation of character, taste, etc, but I assume you want me to do the sketch for a reason ;-)

-Rachel will not be inking any sketches

DETAILS

You must pick up IN PERSON at the Kapow! Comic Convention in London May 19-20.

If you don't pickup in person I'm will sell the sketch as I will not be mailing art or making any other arrangements.

These are CONVENTION sketches not commissions and will treated and executed like my traditional convention sketches and there are plenty examples of sketches online so there shouldn't be any surprises.

No returns, refunds, hassles, etc.

I'm just trying to get sketches to those of you who want sketches and can't make it to shows in the US!

Hopefully that is everything! This is my first time doing a pre-convention list - I will do my best to deal with your request. If not, know I tried :-) I reserve the right to make changes and extra REASONABLE requests to this list, if I happen to remember later, but for the benefit of all!

To inquire about getting on the list - please send type of sketch and character to and that you will be able to pick up in person to-

terry @ terrydodsonart dot com

NO EXCEPTIONS

Whooh - now I know why I don't do this! ;-)

Thanks!

TD

Emerald City Comic Con 2012 Sketch 5 - Black Cat 2

And the other Black Cat from the March 2012 show in Seattle.

Drawn on 11 x 17 Canson Pastel Paper with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, HB Lead Pencil, Pitt and Copic Pens, Warm Grey Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils.

TD

Emerald City Comic Con 2012 Sketch 4 - X23

Here's X23 from the March 2012 show in Seattle.

Drawn on 11 x 17 Canson Pastel Paper with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, HB Lead Pencil, Pitt and Copic Pens, Warm Grey Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils.

TD

Emerald City Comic Con 2012 Sketch 3 - Wonder Woman

Here's Wonder Woman from the March 2012 show in Seattle.

Drawn on 11 x 17 Canson Pastel Paper with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, HB Lead Pencil, Pitt and Copic Pens, Warm Grey Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils.

Emerald City Comic Con 2012 Sketch 2 - Alice in Wonderland

Here's the next commission sketch from Emerald City Comicon, Seattle, March 31, 2012 featuring Alice in Wonderland, but re-interpreted by myself specifically for the fan who was from Hawaii, a real "wonderland"!

Drawn in a 9 x 12 sketchbook with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, HB Lead Pencil, Pitt and Copic Pens, Warm Grey Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils.

Emerald City Comic Con 2012 Sketch 1 - Black Cat

First one from the show, Black Cat, a good one to warm up on!

Drawn on 11 x 17 Canson Pastel Paper with Col Erase Light Blue Pencil, HB Lead Pencil, Pitt and Copic Pens, Warm Grey Copic Markers and Prismacolor Pencils.

More to come-

TD

Emerald City Comicon Wrap

A little post con wrap.

The fans were amazing (and of course the show itself was run extremely well by
Jim Demonakos), and it was CRAZY busy - felt like San Diego - but just comics
and a manageable size. I got to see and chat with a bunch of other pros - there
are so many there and you get a chance to talk to everyone (if you can get away
from you table that is).

It's funny how big cosplay trend has become - Saturday in Seattle felt and looked like Saturday in San Diego - crazy!

And of course, Seattle is a great city to visit - never enough time to see
everything we wanted to. Rachel stuck gum to the gumwall at Pike Place, we had
crumpets at the Crumpet Shop, had breakfast at the Athenian with a view of the
sound, had an amazing doughnut at Top Pot and made it up to Captitol Hill for a
dinner.

The reception to the Seattle Print was better than expected and we sold out
Saturday afternoon - thanks! I will be doing another printing of it, because so
many people wanted and it will be available at future appearances and IF I can
solve shipping problems, available online as well.

I ended up doing 7 commissions. As usual, there wasn't more than 10 minutes of
free time at the show to do the commissions so I ended up having to do them in
the hotel room. I'm starting to post them here .... now!

Didn't have time to see anything else at the con but I was given the new Bruce
Timm Naughty and Nice book (courtesy of the publisher and all around good guy
John Fleskes) and Brittney Lee's book (who did a great little dedication for
Rachel and I) - she was sitting directly across from us and we kept noticing her
art. She's works for Disney Feature Animation and does the prints for fun -
check her out.


TD

Seattle Print

Here's the artwork for my "Seattle" print that I'm producing for my appearance at Emerald City Comicon next week.

I will post a "Step by Step" of this later.

TD

Return of Black Cat!

Well, for me to be drawing her anyway!

Black Cat shows up in Defenders #7 and yep that's the cover. Penciled by me, inked by Rachel and colored by me

(just work in progress color for now). Issue 7 ships in June.

TD

Defenders 4 Cover - Start to Finish

Here's a little step by step look at process behind the cover of Defenders # 4 featuring Dr. Strange and a friend..

Step 1 is a little sketch that I send to Marvel for approval - a 5 x 7" marker drawing done in my sketchbook then colored in Photoshop CS3

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

Step 3 Rachel's 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.

Step 5 Final pass at coloring after notes from Marvel.

Let me know if you have any questions!

TD

2012 Appearances

Here's my initial confirmed appearances for the year so far. I will be adding some more dates but for now-

Seattle, March 30, 31, April 1
Emerald City Comicon

London, May 19, 20
Kapow! Comic Convention

San Diego, July 11-15
Comic Con International

More to come!

TD

Defenders 3 Cover - Start to Finish

So here's my process for creating the cover to Defenders #3.

First I do a little sketch that I send to Marvel for approval - a 5 x 7" marker drawing done in my sketchbook then colored in Photoshop CS3.

Next, I pencil at 11 x17 on 2 Ply Bristol Board.

Rachel then inks with a brush and ink.

First pass at coloring (in Photoshop).

Final pass at coloring after notes from Marvel.

Voila!

TD

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