San Diego Comic Con 2013 RECAP 2 Thursday and Friday

Back to action that was SDCC 2013!

Early Thursday, you can already feel things amping up a bit!

Before my Flesk Publications ( http://fleskpublications.com/flesksite/ ) panel, sitting with John Fleskes, Brom ( http://www.bromart.com ) , and Mark Schultz ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mark-Schultzs-Xenozoic-Tales-and-Other-Stories/223005194775 ), and host, actor, writer, filmmaker - Jonathan Leveck.

View from the panel.

It's CHATTE NOIRE at my table - cool!

At my Halo:Iniatitive signing at the Dark Horse Booth, hanging with the Master Chief!

Hanging out Jason Schachter ( http://www.essentialsequential.com ) and Blacksad artist, Juanjo Guardino ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanjo_Guarnido ) after the show.

Scored some excellent Eric Canete ( http://kahnehteh.blogspot.com ) drawings from Jason!

Ahh, San Diego Comic Con.

Getting rolling on some sketches before I head over to the con Friday morning.

My first sketch at SDCC 2013, Jedi Somebodyoranother.

Security detail at my table.

The Drew Struzan ( http://www.drewstruzan.com ) panel Friday night, my first panel I've ATTENDED as a pro - just really cool to sit back and enjoy one of these and of course, to hear Drew speak.

Friday night after the show!

Let's get this party started....

TD

Kitty Pryde Sketch San Diego Comic Con 2013 STEP BY STEP

Here's a little look behind how I made my Kitty Pryde and Lockheed sketch at Comic Con Int'l, 2013.

Working on 11 x16 Canson Mi-teintes Paper, I rough in the drawing with an Col Erase Light Blue Pencil. Then I go straight to "inking" the outline of the drawing with a small tipped (S, .005, .3) permanent pen (to avoid bleeding when I later use the Copics greys).

Once the drawing is outlined, I commence with Copic Warm Greys, generally on colored paper, I start with #2.

I use through #2 -#4 greys then start putting in the blacks as they are major part of this piece and alter the greys.

More details with the greys- and darker - up to #6 with the shadow areas.

Start using a White Prismacolor pencil for highlights.

Et voila, c'est fini!

More to come...

TD

Bombshells 7 A Terry Dodson Sketchbook Collection now available online

You can order Bombshells 7 A Terry Dodson Sketchbook Collection and signed by me now online at

Flesk Publications

http://fleskpublications.com/flesksite/index.php?route=product/product&path=18_68&product_id=123

Stuart NG Books

http://stuartngbooks.com/new-arrivals/dodson-bombshells-7-signed.html

Bud's Art Books

http://budsartbooks.com

All great places to order through and ship internationally!

TD

San Diego Comic Con 2013 RECAP 1 Tuesday and Wednesday

Little more behind the scenes look at my trip to San Diego Comic Con 2013.

Sketching at the San Diego Zoo Tuesday - sketched for 3 + hours in the warm sun - awesome!

More sketches 

Balboa Park Tuesday Evening

At dinner with John Fleskes and everyone from Flesk Publications.

Discovering a GINORMOUS spider in Balboa Park with the guys from Flesk Publications - there is safety in numbers.

The pace begins to pick up on Wednesday!

Setting up the booth on Wednesday.

The doors open...

Day one over, time for dinner...

Aaron and I always go here the first day, unfortunately they switched to a con menu and removed all the great Italian food they have - maybe they will switch back next year.

On to Thursday!

TD

The calm before - SDCC 2013

Ok, here's a little look behind SDCC before everything kicks off.

Aaron Lopresti's and my booth 4706 before we set up ... so peaceful!

A panorama of the interior of the quiet con site.

The eerily quiet exterior.

 Even the Gaslamp is quiet!

Alright, back to work!

TD

Comic Con International, San Diego July 17-21 Booth 4706

Yep, it's that time AGAIN!

WHERE/WHEN

Rachel and I will be appearing at CCI San Diego, July 17-21 at Booth 4706. We will be at the booth most of the show.

BOMBSHELLS 7 A TERRY DODSON SKETCH COLLECTION

My new sketchbook debuts at San Diego, it will be $15.

SCHEDULE/APPEARANCES

The majority of the convention Rachel and I will be at our Booth 4706, that we share with Aaron Lopresti but we will be doing other panels and signings so here's a pretty extensive list of appearances.

WEDNESDAY

6:00pm - 9:00pm  Booth 4706

THURSDAY

10:00am - 11:00am  Flesk Publications Exposed! The Artists Spill Their Guts! The Truth Behind the Spectrum Transition! Room 32AB

Sure, 10:00 is early but, OMG, with a lineup including Brom (The Art of Brom, Krampus), Terry Dodson (Red One, Uncanny X-Men), Mark Schultz (Xenozoic), and William Stout (Hallucinations, Legends of the Blues) talking new projects-and publisher John Fleskes frankly discussing the future of the renowned Spectrum Fantastic Art series-you really should get your butt out of bed!

11:30am - 1:30pm Booth 4706

2:00pm - 3:00pm Halo Signing at Dark Horse Booth

Signing a limited edition Halo:Initiation print

3:30pm - 7:00 pm Booth 4706

FRIDAY

10:00am - 1:30pm Booth 4706

3:30pm -  7:00 pm Booth 4706

SATURDAY

10:00am - 1:30pm Booth 4706

3:30pm -  7:00 pm Booth 4706

SUNDAY

11:00am - 12:00pm  Booth 4706

12:30pm - 1:30pm X-Men Panel Room 6DE

Get the lowdown on X-Men: Battle of the Atom, the massive X-Men event that will forever change the landscape of the X-Universe! What happens when the original five X-Men come face-to-face with the future X-Men? Heads will roll in this fateful time-space showdown! Plus, find out the latest on all the other corners of mutant-dom!

2:00pm - 4:00pm  Booth 4706

SIGNING

I will be signing books/comics/statues/etc at my booth.

COMMISSION SKETCHES

I will take sketch requests from the start of the show Wednesday through Thursday.

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!

And San Diego is a VERY busy con so I will only be producing between 5 and 10 sketches TOTAL.

ALSO

ORIGINAL ART

I will be selling original art from Songes/Muse, X-Men, Avengers, Avenging Spider-Man, AVX VS, The Defenders, Uncanny X-Men, Wonder Woman and selected covers, pinups and sketches PLUS some brand new art from Rachel and I!

PRINTS/POSTCARDS

I will have all prints including my newest one "Down Under" for sale. I will also have postcards of all available as well.

RECAP

I will post pics of the sketches after the show here!

See you there!

TD

Catwoman 21 Cover Step by Step

This is the steps in making the cover for DC Comics Catwoman 21, shipping June 26.

Here's the sketches I sent in to Rachel Gluckstern at DC Comics for approval. The theme was Catwoman vs the Penguin.

D was picked, which had the vaguest background, so I had to figure that out on the fly.

My initial rough in of the pencils, drawn in Light Blue and HB lead on 12 x 18 Bristol Board.

 Here's my initial pencils before I solved the background problem.

I solved the background issue with the old circle trick, works all the time - found a great circular New York window for reference via Google to make it look authentic.

 Rachel's inks done with Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic ink, plus a little tech pen and croquille for the straight lines.

 My initial rough in of the colors, done in Photoshop CS3 with a Wacom Intuos Graphics Tablet.

The solicitation version of the colors.

The final version of the colors - notably Catwoman has a blue costume instead of black, adding a city background reflecting in the lower windows.

TD

Bombshells 7 Final Cover Art

Here's the final lettered version of the cover to my new sketchbook collection, Bombshells 7.

Debuts at Comic Con International, San Diego, June 17.

Here's the actual sketchbook.

More details to come!

TD

Bombshells 7 A Terry Dodson Sketchbook Collection Cover Art

Here's the lineart and color version of the cover for my new sketchbook, BOMBSHELLS 7 A TERRY DODSON SKETCHBOOK.

Drawn on 11 x17 Bristol Board with Light Blue and HB Lead and colored in Photoshop.

This full color sketchbook collection will debut at Comic Con International in San Diego, July 17-21 and then will be available through other ONLINE outlets afterward - details to come!

This book was put together with the assistance of John Fleskes of Flesk Publications.

I will previewing pages from this over the next month. And I will also be posting a Step by Step making of this cover as well.

TD