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/

TD

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

Fantastic Four #4 Cover - Step by Step

This is process of how I/we created the Variant Cover for February 2013's Fantastic Four #4 comic book. I was given pretty free reign on this one - the general scope was a sense of "far out adventure". So I thought of one my absolute favorite comics, John Byrne's "sideways" issue of Fantastic Four #252 and that's what I went for with a touch of Moebius and Steampunk - what a combination ;-)

 Here are the sketches I submitted to Marvel - drawn at 2x3 inches in my sketchbook in pencil and pen and then cleaned up and colored in Photoshop - fortunately, Marvel chose "A".

The pencils were drawn with light blue and HB lead on 13 x19 " Bristol Board.

 Rachel Dodson inked over my pencils with Windsor Newton Series 7 size #2 Sable Brush and FW Acrylic Black ink.

 I ran out of time to color the piece, fortunately Laura Martin had time to color this and she knocked it out of the park! Can't wait to see this one in print!

TD

Peace on Earth Step by Step "Color to Print"

After scan is completed, I did all the coloring in Photoshop CS3 using a Wacom Intuos Graphic Tablet circa 2000.

The initial stage of colors - "Flats" - done by me to make it easy to select and change my coloring as I go. I usually hire a "flatter" to do this for me.

Boom! Done! - lay down a light medium orange to harmonize the whole piece

Quickly drop in the local colors - keeping everything very orangey-Muchaesque

Start on the next layer of finish - adding lights and darks for volume and depth - I actually did a couple of "balls" a little bluish and greenish.

I also began turning the lineart to a Muchaesque dark red/brown and making the interior lineart even lighter.

A couple more tweaks - tried the dress in green but didn't like it.

Added more shadows and volume especially to the main "Ball" and Ribbon".

I kept the coloring very simple as I printed this out on my home printer for speed...

Here's my template for my Holiday Card.

Et voila - the finished product - this is why I didn't get too crazy with the coloring as I've yet to get my printer to match my on screen coloring but I think it has it's own charm.

I will end up doing prints or postcards of some sort of this image so I can have a more accurate coloring  but this was fun to do!

Happy Holidays!

Terry and Rachel

Peace on Earth Step by Step "Lettering"

So here's I how I did the lettering for this. 

I knew exactly the drawing I was doing and I knew I wanted lettering on the big ornament in the foreground. I thought something along the lines of "Happy Holidays" but after the events after the last week here in the US, I thought "Peace on Earth" might be most appropriate.

 I printed out a full size version of the area I was lettering while Rachel inked the original. I knew I wanted a flowy-nouveau-y style of lettering and so just roughed it in quickly - thinking more about compostion than the actually letters.

 I elongated the "P" and moved the "on".

I had the lettering figured out more so I began unifying all the letters into a similar style and borrowing from the more successful ones. Really pushed the "P". Found the "E" in the Mucha Art Nouveau style guide.

So, traced over this version with a Pigma Micron 08 black Pen.

Scanned and cleaned up in Photoshop.

Dropped into the finished lineart in Photoshop.

Next, the colors.

TD

Peace on Earth Step by Step "The Lineart"

This is the process for how Rachel and I came up with our Holiday card. We talked about a number of ideas  for a while and finally Rachel mentioned "wings" and then I just ran with it.

 Initial sketch drawn with Red Col Erase and Copic Mulitliner in my sketchbook. About 8 x 12". If you look to the left of the big drawing you will see a little sketch - about 2 x 3"- that is the initial sketch. The circle is drawn in Photoshop onto the scanned artwork.

 I enlarged the drawing in Photoshop to print out in blue on 11 x 17 " Bristol Board. Then using a light blue col erase pencil and HB lead proceeded to nail down the drawing. Once I was happy with the basic drawing, I nailed down the face as that was the key to the piece.

 Now I proceeded to work out all the rest of the anatomy and begin the clothing. I also reduced some of the hair and flowers/foliage.

 Finished the hands and started finishing the fabric.

 Finalized the balls and added the ribbon to the ornament and the gown for some extra movement, dynamics and depth and this is the artwork I gave to Rachel to ink.

Here is Rachel's inks over my pencils, she used a Windsor Newton Series 7 #2 Sable Brush and FW Acrylic Black, except for the balls and border with a tech pen.

More to come...

TD

Songes T2 Page 34 Step by Step

 This is the storyboard for pages 32-35. These on 4 per 8.5 x 11" paper with pencil, pen and copies. I send this to the writer, Denis-Pierre Filippi, to make sure we are on the same page before I start...

 the lineart. Drawn in pencil on 13 x 19" Bristol Board with Pencil, then scanned, darkened and cleaned in Photoshop. The Steampunk Robot Harem Guard was fun to create!

Colored in Photoshop CS3. I was inpired by Aladdin and Edmund Dulac for these color schemes. I created the glass block background you see in panels 1, 4, and 5 as a single file and then manipulated in  Photoshop for each panel. Color assist by Rebecca Rendon.

TD