He-Man and the Masters of the Universe #1 She-Ra Variant Cover Step by Step

Here's how I created the Variant Cover of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe #1 featuring She-Ra.

 First off, the sketches I submitted for approval. All drawn in my sketchbook at about 3" x 5" and colored in Photoshop.

The pencil version drawn on 13 x 19 " Bristol board with light blue and HB Lead.

 Rachel Dodson's inks over my pencils using a #2 Windson Newton Sable Brush and Acrylic Black Ink.

 Flats created for the cover to begin the color stage in Photoshop.

 Intermediate stage of colors - established all the midtones and started rendering.

 All the fx and final cleanup.

Lot of fun doing this cover, hope to enjoyed seeing how it was made!

TD

Down Under Print

Here's the art for the Print I'm doing to promote my appearances at Supanova Melbourne April 13-15 and Gold Coast April 20-22.

Drawn on 13 x19 Bristol Board with HB Pencil, Inked with ink and brush by Rachel Dodson and Colored by me in Photoshop.

I did a 9 step "Work in Progress" over at my twitter account -

https://twitter.com/TerryDodsonArt

I will be a more in depth how to here later.

Special thanks to Royd and Conny for their "Australia" help!

TD

Songes Tome 2 Page 10 Step by Step

Here's how I made Songes Tome 2 Page 10. 

 The first step is alway the storyboard - to ease any problems in the translation - and  for the writer, Denis-Pierre Filippi, to approve before I draw the pages.The storyboards are done at 3 x 4 " on 8.5 x 11" paper with Blue and HB Pencil, Pitt Pens and Copic Markers.

Here's the beginning stage of the pencils.

Here's the scan of the pencils.

 Drawn on 13 x 19" 2 ply Bristol Board with Blue and HB Lead and borders ruled with .80 tech pen. So I shoot from these the pencils so they are very tight (for me)!

The lineart is darkened and cleaned in Photoshop and turned into a Bitmap.

The colors were done by Rebecca Rendon and me in Photoshop. The art was colored in Channels - a method I learned from Alex Sinclair.

TD 

Catwoman and Marionette Jams ECCC 2013

Here's a couple more jam pieces from Emerald City Comic Con, Seattle, March 1-3, 2013. 

 Catowoman is from a jam featuring female characters from the DC Comics Universe.

Drawn with Light Blue Col Erase, HB Pencil, Warm Grey Copic Markers, Plus Pigma and Copic Black Markers and a little White Prismacolor.

You can see more about this particular jam here-

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=990764&GSub=136674

Marionette is from a Micronauts Jam.

 Drawn with Light Blue Col Erase, HB Pencil, Warm Grey Copic Markers, Plus Pigma and Copic Black Markers.

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Ms Marvel Jam

My Ms Marvel drawing

This is part of an Avengers jam piece started by Olivier Coipel that is on a double page spread with different artists drawing each character and then one inker inking the whole thing.

Drawn with Light Blue Col Erase and HB Pencil on 11 x17 Marvel Board

This is what it looks like today, with the other artist's pencils on the other characters - visit the owner's gallery for more info -

http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=994318&GSub=121767


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Lady Blackhawk ECCC 2013 Step by Step

I think, my very first Lady Blackhawk convention sketch, from Emerald City Comic Con, Seattle, March 1-3, 2013. I was reminded I drew her on a Birds of Prey cover!

Quickly laid Light Blue Col Erase pencil and then POW! into the inks with a Pitt F pen.

 

Continuing with the F pen...

After outlining with F, went in with 2 and 3 Warm Copic Markers.

Finished up more Copics Warm Grey and 08 Pigma Micron Black pens

 and White Prismacolor Pencil.

Sketch drawn on 11 x 16 Canson Mi-Teint Paper.

Still more to come...

TD

Deadpool Sketch ECCC 2013

Hiiiiii-yaaaaaaaah!

Here's Marvel Comics Deadpool drawn on an X-Men Blank Cover from Emerald City Comic Con, March 1-3, 2013.

This is one of the few times I've drawn the character, fortunately the owner brought me ref to guide through!

Drawn with Light Blue Col Erase, HB Pencil, Warm Grey Copic Markers, Plus Pigma and Copic Black Markers.

TD

Wonder Woman ECCC 2013

Here's how I created my Wonder Woman convention sketch from Emerald City Comic Con, Seattle, March 1-3, 2013.

 Rough in stage

My initial quick rough in with a Scarlet Red Col Erase Pencil and roughing in the greys with Copic Warm Grey 2.

The Final Sketch

It was drawn on 11 x 16 Canson Mi-Teint Paper with Scarlet Red Col Erase Pencil and HB Pencil, Pitt and

Copic Black pens, Copic Warm Grey Markers and White Prismacolor Pencil.

More to come...

TD

Harley Quinn ECCC 2013

Here's my Harley Quinn convention sketch from Emerald City Comic Con, Seattle, March 1-3, 2013.

 My initial quick rough in with a Scarlet Red Col Erase Pencil and then inking with a .5 Copic Mulitliner.

The Final Sketch

Drawn on 11 x 16 Canson Mi-Teint Paper with Scarlet Red Col Erase Pencil and HB Pencil, Pitt and

Copic Black pens, Copic Warm Grey Markers and White Prismacolor Pencil.

More to come...

TD

Phoenix ECCC 2013

Here's the Phoenix convention sketch from Emerald City Comic Con, Seattle, March 1-3, 2013.

 My initial quick rough in with a Scarlet Red Col Erase Pencil, a little HB to tighten and then inking with a .5 Copic Mulitliner.

The Final Sketch

Detail from the final sketch.

Drawn on 11 x 16 Canson Mi-Teint Paper with Scarlet Red Col Erase Pencil and HB Pencil, Pitt and

Copic Black pens, Copic Warm Grey Markers and White Prismacolor Pencil.

More to come...

TD

Emerald City Comic Con March 1-3, Seattle

HERE'S THE ECCC INFO

The official site -

http://www.emeraldcitycomicon.com

WHERE/WHEN

Rachel and I will be seated in Artist's Alley, J-14 at these times 

March 1 - 2:00PM to 7:00PM
March 2 - 10:00AM to 11:00AM and  1:00PM to 6:00PM
March 3 - 11:00AM to 3:00 PM

SIGNING

I will be signing books/comics/statues/etc at my table the whole show and for free.

COMMISSION SKETCHES

I will take sketch requests from the start of the show Friday and the first part of Saturday.

I will write down all 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.

ECCC is a VERY busy con so I will only be producing about 10 sketches.

Sketches are $250 each for a single figure and $150 for a bust. 

ORIGINAL ART

I will be selling original art from Avengers, Avenging Spider-Man, The Defenders, Uncanny X-Men, Wonder Woman and selected covers, pinups and sketches.

PRINTS/POSTCARDS

I will have the New York, San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, Paris and Seattle prints for sale. I will also have postcards of all 4 available plus a brand new Peace on Earth Postcard.

See you there!

TD

Songes Tome 2 Page 29 Step by Step

Here's how I made Songes Tome 2 Page 29. 

To ease any problems in the translation, I do storyboards for the writer, Denis-Pierre Filippi to approve before I draw the pages. This is the storyboard for Songes Tome 2 Page 29. The storyboards are done at 3 x 4 " on 8.5 x 11" paper with Blue and HB Pencil, Pitt Pens and Copic Markers.

Here's the lineart - into the Aladdin, 1001 Nights, etc - fun stuff to draw and create.

 Drawn on 13 x 19" 2 ply Bristol Board with Blue and HB Lead and borders ruled with .80 tech pen. So I shoot from these the pencils so they are very tight (for me)! I actually had to draw the FULL BLEED in the  Top LEft on an additional piece of paper.

The lineart is darkened and cleaned in Photoshop and turned into a Bitmap.

The colors were done by Rebecca Rendon and me in Photoshop. The art was colored in Channels - a method I learned from Alex Sinclair.

Pretty layed a warm orange over the entire page and then added and subtracted to that to get that "harem" feel.

TD 

Songes Tome 2 Page 3 Step by Step

Here's the making of Songes Tome 2 Page 3.

To ease any problems in the translation, I do storyboards for the writer, Denis-Pierre Filippi to approve before I draw the pages. This is the storyboard for Songes Tome 2 Page 3. The storyboards are done at 3 x 4 " on 8.5 x 11" paper with Blue and HB Pencil, Pitt Pens and Copic Markers.

Here's the lineart - drawn on 13 x 19" 2 ply Bristol Board with Blue and HB Lead and borders ruled with .80 tech pen. So I shoot from these the pencils so they are very tight (for me)!

The lineart is darkened and cleaned in Photoshop and turned into a Bitmap.

The colors were done by Rebecca Rendon and me in Photoshop. The art was colored in Channels - a method I learned from Alex Sinclair. 

TD

New Marvel Books!

Just got a stack of my new trade paperbacks from Marvel - The Defenders Vol 2, Avenging Spider-Man : The Good, The Green and The Ugly, Uncanny X-Men The Complete Collection by Matt Fraction 1, and a blast from the past - X-Man: Dance with the Devil. Wow, that's a lot of stuff in the last month. And last month the Avengers Vs X-Men collection came out as well!

TD

Veuve Rouge Concept 4

Another concept drawing for Xavier Dorison's and my creator owned book, Veuve Rouge (still working on the english title, but the translation from French is Red Widow).

Drawn in my 11 x 14 Canson Sketch Recycled 65lb Sketchbook using Col Erase pencils, Pitt pens and Copic Warm Grey Markers.

The color version were altered in Photoshop!

Carry on, comrades!

TD

Veuve Rouge Concept 1

A concept drawing for Xavier Dorison's and my creator owned book, Veuve Rouge (still working on the English title, but the translation from French is Red Widow).

Drawn in my 11 x 14 Canson Sketch Recycled 65lb Sketchbook using Col Erase pencils, Pitt pens and Copic Warm Grey Markers.

A recent interview with me about the project at Robot 6 - 

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/02/conversing-on-comics-with-terry-dodson/

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New Interview with me at Robot 6

There's a new interview with me at Robot 6 by Chris Arrant where I discuss my creator owned work, including my brand new project, "Red Widow" and a bunch of other stuff.

Check it out at 

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/02/conversing-on-comics-with-terry-dod\
son/

TD

Belle Epoque Voodoo NYCC

Here's a little twist on Wildcat's Voodoo - a Belle Epoque version of her- a convention sketch from the New York Comic Convention, October 11-14, 2012. 

Sketch drawn on 11 x 16 Canson Mi-Teint Paper with blue and HB Pencil, Pitt and Copic Black pens, Copic Warm Grey Markers and White Prismacolor.

TD

Jubilee NYCC 2012

Found a few sketches I forgot to post.

Here's Jubilation Lee of X-Men fame - a convention sketch from the New York Comic Convention, October 11-14, 2012. 

So much fun to draw her again!

Sketch drawn on 11 x 16 Canson Mi-Teint Paper with blue and HB Pencil, Pitt and Copic Black pens, Copic Warm Grey Markers and White Prismacolor.

TD

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

Kim Possible

Kim Possible convention sketch - haven't seen the show -regardless, had a blast doing it!

Sketch drawn on 11 x 16 Canson Mi-Teint Paper with Scarlet Red Col Erase Pencil and HB Pencil, Pitt and Copic Black pens, Copic Warm Grey Markers and White Prismacolor Pencil.

Enjoy!

TD

Spider-Men #3 Cover Step by Step

This is the variant cover to last summer's 3rd issue of the crossover miniseries "Spider-Men" featuring Spider-Man and Ultimate Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy. Lots of fun to work on!

 These are the roughs I sent in to Marvel for their approval - I knew from the start what I wanted to so you see very little change from rough to final which is nice for expediency!

 Here is the pencil version of the cover drawn on 11 x 17 Bristol Board with Light Blue Prismacolor and HB Pencil.

 Rachel Dodson's inks over my pencils - she used a Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable Brush #2  and a croquille pen.

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

And how it looked when printed!

TD