Collecting Original Art......

dbm · Post by **dbm** » Thu May 10, 2012 8:45 am

BobBretall wrote:This is page 2 from Dragon Chiang, by Tim Truman & Tim Bradstreet.

Since Dragon Chiang is the 1st comic book work Bradstreet ever did, that makes this the 2nd ever page of comic work by Bradstreet....... Nice ink wash on this.....

Nice, I liked that story. Where'd you pick this up from?

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Thu May 10, 2012 9:15 am

dbm wrote:
BobBretall wrote:This is page 2 from Dragon Chiang, by Tim Truman & Tim Bradstreet.

Since Dragon Chiang is the 1st comic book work Bradstreet ever did, that makes this the 2nd ever page of comic work by Bradstreet....... Nice ink wash on this.....
Nice, I liked that story. Where'd you pick this up from?

Anthony's Comic Book art.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Thu May 10, 2012 9:19 am

By the way, I just got an 11x17 flatbed scanner (it's what I used to scan the Fathom & Dragon Chiang pages)......

Since my son is graduating college next week and does not have a job yet, his 1st job is going to be scanning & cataloging all my art.

Frank Castle · Post by **Frank Castle** » Thu May 10, 2012 3:33 pm

Congrats on the scanner, smartest purchase I made was getting one of those Brother printer/scanners. So much nicer than taking pics or piecing scans together.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Sun May 13, 2012 6:37 pm

BTW, the Dragon Chiang page is on Craftint paper, which is very cool, but is not made any more:
http://huggy-lugnuts.deviantart.com/jou ... -228994303

Craftint doubletone paper was a unique invention that chemically embedded crosshatch lines into illustration board. The Craftint paper, when brushed with the right solutions, revealed either one or two layers of diagonal shading. Instead of doing your own crosshatching, using zip-a-tone, or using such things as grease pencils, you could "paint" your tones in an illustration, saving tons of time.

Not many artists used this, but if you ever get a chance to buy a page on Craftint, it's worth it.....

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Sun May 13, 2012 7:13 pm

RIP Tony DeZuniga..... I bought this Jonah Hex page (#54 p. 4) in his memory.....

I love how this single page tells a complete story chunk.

Gilgabob · Post by **Gilgabob** » Wed May 16, 2012 7:12 pm

This is a layout done on the back of the finished page (see next image). I'm new to collecting original art. Is this common? The Dodson page has more of a rough sketch of the finished page on the back.
Catwoman #47 Page 3 by Pete Woods
Uncanny X-men #518 page 3 by Terry Dodson

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Fri May 18, 2012 10:08 am

Gilgabob wrote:This is a layout done on the back of the finished page (see next image). I'm new to collecting original art. Is this common? The Dodson page has more of a rough sketch of the finished page on the back.

That's pretty cool. Since the layout is a mirror image of what's on the front, I'm guessing Woods lightboxed the page when doing the front.

Can you put up an image of what's on the back of the Dodson X-Men page?

boshuda · Post by **boshuda** » Fri May 18, 2012 11:08 am

BobBretall wrote:
Gilgabob wrote:This is a layout done on the back of the finished page (see next image). I'm new to collecting original art. Is this common? The Dodson page has more of a rough sketch of the finished page on the back.
That's pretty cool. Since the layout is a mirror image of what's on the front, I'm guessing Woods lightboxed the page when doing the front.

Can you put up an image of what's on the back of the Dodson X-Men page?

From a collector standpoint that's even cooler, because now it's more like a matted piece of art rather than a comic page since the blueline is on the opposite side.

Gilgabob · Post by **Gilgabob** » Sat May 19, 2012 3:32 pm

BobBretall wrote:
Gilgabob wrote:This is a layout done on the back of the finished page (see next image). I'm new to collecting original art. Is this common? The Dodson page has more of a rough sketch of the finished page on the back.
That's pretty cool. Since the layout is a mirror image of what's on the front, I'm guessing Woods lightboxed the page when doing the front.

Can you put up an image of what's on the back of the Dodson X-Men page?

It's really just the beginning of what he was thinking on how to layout the page. It appears he was satisfied with his idea on moved on to the pencils fairly quickly. I'll post it later.

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Mon May 28, 2012 1:33 pm

Sketches from Phoenix Con 2012:

Red Sonja by Michael Stewart (from Hero Initiative booth):

Power Girl by Alfred Trujillo:

Supergirl & Streaky by Jolene Houser (from Sketch-off / silent auction):

Spider-Man by Scott Shehi (from Sketch-off / silent auction):

Supergirl & Scarlet Witch by George Perez:

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Mon May 28, 2012 3:02 pm

Stewart Sayger did a series of crayon sketches at the Saturday sketch-off. At the Thursday sketch-off he asked if we had crayons because he liked to work with "soft media", I made sure we had some on Saturday when he came back a 2nd time. I picked up these 3 in the silent auction on Sunday:

Batman:

Jonah Hex:

Hulk giving "Free Hugs" (based on an audience suggestion):

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 12:36 pm

Got my new scanner working.....
This one is a Brother MFC-J6510DW Printer/Scanner/Fax that has an 11x17 glass surface. Seems to work good!

Here's a very cool Batman commission I got from Stuart Sayger at Phoenix ComiCon:

BobBretall · Post by **BobBretall** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 12:46 pm

Superman/Batman Annual #2 p. 12 by Scott Kolins, bought at the Phoenix ComicCon art Auction:

HassanT · Post by **HassanT** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 4:38 pm

BobBretall wrote:Got my new scanner working.....
This one is a Brother MFC-J6510DW Printer/Scanner/Fax that has an 11x17 glass surface. Seems to work good!

Here's a very cool Batman commission I got from Stuart Sayger at Phoenix ComiCon:

That is a great Batman picture.