The Bombshellter

Thursday, June 16, 2016

RED ONE #3 PRE ORDER NOW

RED ONE #3 Pre Order NOW!

September 7, 2016

RED ONE returns in “UNDERCOVER”, Part 1!

After a terrible fight, Soviet Agent Vera Yelnikov has managed to defeat the Carpenter, leaving him for dead at the bottom of the sea. Rid of this enemy, the Kremlin Elite Agent can now carry out her mission of becoming the new darling of America - as the superhero, RED ONE. But the young woman has another project in mind: in her undercover role as assistant to Director Lew Garner, to help make the film The Farm X! Brought to you by TERRY and RACHEL DODSON (STAR WARS: PRINCESS LEIA, UNCANNY X-MEN, WONDER WOMAN, HARLEY QUINN) and XAVIER DORISON (LONG JOHN SILVER, THE UNDERTAKER).

Contact your local retailer to have them PRE ORDER - RED ONE #3

Comic Shop Locator

Diamond Distributor Order Code for September 2016

JUL160715

From

IMAGE COMICS

and

RED ONE SITE

And how to Pre-Order a Comic by Kieron Gillen (thanks!)

HOW TO PREORDER A COMIC BY KIERON GILLEN

Check out Kieron's and Jamie McKelvies brilliant Wicked and Divine HERE

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Star Wars #20 Cover Detail

Here's a detail of a Stormtrooper for my Mile High Comics Star Wars #20 cover.

Pencils and colors by me and inks by Rachel Dodson.

Full image and step by step, of course, coming soon!

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Batman Rebirth #1 Step by Step Part 2 Inks

Our cover art for Midtown Comics Batman Rebirth #1 - a full color and black and version are available here-

LINKY

And here's Part 2 of the Step by Step of how we made the art!

INKS!

Rachel inks over my pencils with a Windsor Newton Series 7 Kolinsky Sable #2 Brush and Higgins Black Magic Ink to ink the covers with.

Rachel Inking Video 1

Crosshatching Arm and Chest

Rachel Inking Video 2

Chest Feathering and Arm

Rachel Inking Video 3

Lower body and blacks

And how it looks sitting still :-)

Rachel's in process inks...

Head detail

Arm

Master scan - scanned at 800dpi greyscale on an Epson 11000XL Scanner

Detail

You can watch all the videos on

Terry Dodson Art You Tube Channel

See the Pencil version here

PART ONE

and next time COLORS!

Monday, June 13, 2016

Sketchbook ON the Printing Press

My new Sketchbook is ON the printing press! Definitely will be available at San Diego Comic Con in July! And of course, available worldwide afterward!

Here's a detailed look of the finalized art for my new Sketchbook Collection cover-

Terry Dodson's Bombshells Sketchbook Collection 2

This will collect my Bombshells 4-7 sketchbooks plus new material in a larger Hard Cover edition and published by Flesk Publications

It WILL be debut at Comic Con International, San Diego in July, at my Booth 4706, and worldwide soon afterward.

Original Art

HB Pencil on 28" x 17" Bristol Board

Colored in Photoshop CS3 on Cintiq 22HD

You can compare some subtle tweaks I've made since the earlier version

HERE

Batman Rebirth #1 Step by Step Part 1 Pencils

Batman Rebirth #1 Variant Cover

Our cover art for Midtown Comics Batman Rebirth #1- a full color and black and version are available here-

LINKY

And here's Part 1 of the Step by Step of how we made the art!

I was given the concept of Batman catching Catwoman stealing Jewels, etc with the emphasis on Catwoman. The Client that I did this for - Midtown Comics - really liked my Amazing Spider-Man #1 Variant I did -

and so B was picked as it mimicked that pretty well.

Roughs were drawn at 2" x 3" in my sketchbook using Warm Grey Copics then colored in Photoshop CS3.

Initial Rough

Drawn in Light Blue and HB lead on 12" x 18" Bristol Board with a blue line of the sketch printed out beneath as the composition was right on!

Detail

Changed up Catwoman's lower body

Tightening up upper body

Revised lower body and drawing Batman

Detail

Me detailing face and jewels...

Using the Catwoman statue to nail down the placement of the goggles on Catwoman's forehead!

Scanned in to Photoshop to double-check drawing

Next stage of finishes on Catwoman and roughing in the background

Detail

Finishing background

You can see my blue lines indicating the 3 Point Perspective

Final Pencils

Next time inks with time-lapse video of Rachel inking - be warned it's crazy!

PART TWO INKS

PART THREE COLOR 1

PART FOUR

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Out next week, Batman #1 Cover

From Midtown Comics - a full color and black and version-

LINKY

I will be doing a full step by step on this including video for the first time!

STEP BY STEP

Coloring Coloring Coloring this fine Saturday...

but just about done:-)

Wacom Cintiq 22HD and Photoshop CS3

Pencils and Colors me

Rachel Dodson Inks

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

RED ONE #3 Solicitation out the door!

Image September Previews will be out later this month...

Image's RED ONE site

RED ONE site

I will be posting more details and previews soon!

Civil War #0 Captain Marvel Variant Cover Step by Step Part 2 Color

Variant cover art Rachel Dodson and I did for Civil War II #0.

FLATS

The first stage of color is called flats - flatting allows me to choose an area to color at any point throughout the coloring process.

Generally, I hire someone to do this for me - a "flatter".

At this stage I go and adjust the colors to their medium value or imprimatura - I use this as the starting point for the piece. - the first part of coloring.

Based off my sketch, I knew almost exactly what I was going to do with one...

Detail

This is one is practically done at this stage!

INITIAL COLORS

I colored this on my Cintiq 22 HD using Photoshop CS3 after I scanned the original line art.

Used a big Pencil to rough in at 100% of color then used lower % to work to add lighter and darker values. AND the Gradient tool to break up the flat background.

I used big "CUTS" with the lasso tool and filled with Paintbuckeft on Iron Man - really happy with that