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NUMBER 7 FALL 2003 THE “HOW-TO” MAGAZINE ON COMICS AND CARTOONING DANDAN BRERETONBRERETON ZACHZACH TRENHOLMTRENHOLM ALBERTOALBERTO RUIZRUIZ BRETBRET BLEVINSBLEVINS PAULPAUL RIVOCHERIVOCHE ANDEANDE PARKSPARKS ILLWIND TM & © 2003 DAN BRERETON. ILLWIND $5.95 IN THE U.S.A. www.drawmagazine.com CONTAINS NUDITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF FIGURE DRAWING AND ART INSTRUCTION—INTENDED FOR MATURE READERS. THE PROFESSIONAL ”HOW-TO” MAGAZINE ON COMICS & CARTOONING WWW.DRAWMAGAZINE.COM FALL 2003 • VOL. 1, NO. 7 FEATURES Editor-in Chief/Designer • Michael Manley Publisher • John Morrow COVER STORY Logo Design • John Costanza FROM THE MACABRE TO THE SUPER-HERO WITH DAN BRERETON Proofreaders • John Morrow & Eric Nolen-Weathington 3 Transcription • Steven Tice For more great information on cartooning and animation, visit our Web site at: http://www.drawmagazine.com THE CRUSTY CRITIC Front and Back Cover DRAWING SUPPLIES AND PRODUCT Illustrations by 25 REVIEWS BY ANDE PARKS DAN BRERETON CARICATURES A STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIAL BY 30 ZACH TRENHOLM SUBSCRIBE TO DRAW! Four quarterly issues for $20 US Standard Mail, $32 US First Class Mail ($40 Canada, Elsewhere: $44 Surface, $60 Airmail). We accept US check, money order, Visa and Mastercard at ILLUSTRATOR TECHNIQUES TwoMorrows, 1812 Park Dr., Raleigh, NC 27605, (919) 833-8092 A STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIAL ON ILLUSTRATING IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR BY ALBERTO RUIZ E-mail: [email protected] 44 ADVERTISE IN DRAW! See page 2 for ad rates and specifications. THE POWER OF DRAW! FALL 2003, Vol. 1, No. 7 was produced by Action Planet Inc. and published by TwoMorrows Publishing. Michael Manley, Editor, John Morrow, SKETCHING Publisher. Editorial Address is PO Box 2129, Upper Darby, PA 19082. 58 WITH BRET BLEVINS Subscription Address: TwoMorrows Publishing, 1812 Park Dr., Raleigh, NC 27605. DRAW! and its logo are trademarks of Action Planet Inc. All contributions herein are copyright 2003 by their respective contributors. Action Planet Inc. and TwoMorrows Publishing accept no responsibility for unsolicited submissions. All artwork herein is copyright the year of production, its creator (if work-for-hire, the entity which contracted said artwork); the characters featured in said artwork are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners; and said artwork or other trademarked material is printed in these pages with the consent of the copyright holder and/or for journalistic, educational and historical purposes with no infringement intended or implied. Batman, Superman, Birds of Prey, Aquaman, Joker, Batgirl are TM and ©2003 DC Comics • Devil Dinosaur, Spider- Man, Blade, The New Mutants, Sleepwalker, Wolverine TM and ©2003 Marvel Characters, Inc. • The Crow is TM and ©2003 Fallen Bird Productions Inc. This entire issue is ©2003 Action Planet Inc. and TwoMorrows Publishing and may DESIGNING LIGHT not be reprinted or retransmitted without written permission of the copyright holders. AND SHADOW Printed in Canada. FIRST PRINTING. 78 BY PAUL RIVOCHE FROM THE EDITOR Welcome to DRAW! #7. As the autumn breeze sweeps the first hints of the cooler season past my home office window, it also brings with it the usual change and hectic pace my life seems to take every fall. This August, I started teaching a class on storyboarding and storytelling at the Delaware College of Art and Design, in Wilmington, Delaware. I’m also busy storyboarding on The Venture Bros. for Noodle Soup Productions in NYC. The pilot has already been shown on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. I plan on covering the show production in-depth with a trip to the stu- dio in DRAW! #9. Next year I also plan a crossover with our sister book Write Now!, edited by old Darkhawk partner, Danny Fingeroth. We will do a crossover between DRAW! and Write Now! which will cover the complete process of creating a comic character from designs, plot, pencils, and script to final art and printed comic. It was also great to see so many regular DRAW! readers at this summer’s annual Comic-Con International: San Diego. Once again I shared a table with DRAW! con- Figurative interpitation by Bret Blevins tributor and best pal Bret Blevins, Chris Bailey, John Gallagher, and Randy and Jean- Marc Lofficier. Our table was busy all show long with both Bret and myself selling our new sketchbooks as well as art and copies of DRAW! It’s always a hectic show and there was just too much to see this year, as the show somehow grew even bigger. Surf over to the drawmagazine.com web site and check out the pics I posted from this year’s summer shindig. Once again I’d like to extend another heartfelt thanks to this issue’s contributors, Bret, Paul, Ande, Dan Brereton, Alberto Ruiz (a.k.a. Dr. Cyberfunken), and Zach Trenholm. What a diversity of talent here—something I plan to keep striving for in DRAW! I’d like to leave you with two quotes: “A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” —Michelangelo; and “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” —James McNeill Whistler. 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(Display 1812 Park Drive include card number ads are not available for The Jack Kirby Collector.) Raleigh NC 27605 and expiration date. FULL PAGE: 7.5” wide x 10” tall — $500 ($100 savings) Questions? HALF PAGE: 7.5” wide x 4.875” tall — $300 ($50 savings) Phone: (919) 833-8092 QUARTER PAGE: 3.75” wide x 4.875” tall — $175 ($25 savings) Fax: (919) 833-8023 INSIDE COVER OR COLOR BACK COVER: Please Inquire E-Mail: [email protected] 2 DRAW! • FALL 2003 MNOCTURNALISSIONS From hard boiled detectives, giant monsters and super- heroes to the macabre, illustrator Dan Brereton covers it all with his lush and evocative brush strokes. The busy artist shares some of his working techniques. INTERVIEW BY MIKE MANLEY TRANSCRIBED BY STEVEN TICE DRAW!: So what got you interested in drawing and painting monsters and horror material? Were you into that as a kid? DAN BRERETON: I started drawing monsters as soon as I could draw. They were the first things I felt I could draw, people never interested me as subjects, nor machines or architecture. I’d draw a hillside full of caves in profile and then fill the caves with reclining monsters. I don’t have a recollection of doing this, but my mom has shown me some paintings that I did when I was two, two-and-a-half years old. She has one that’s a blue, pink and red watercolor. My mom painted a lot back then, and she’d set me up sometimes with brushes and paints. The painting THE NOCTURNALS TM & © 2003 DAN BRERETON. TM & © 2003 DAN THE NOCTURNALS is entitled ‘Pecos Bill’ because it reminded me, for some reason, of the Disney character. I think just the colors, because there’s really nothing going on in the painting, it’s just a bunch of colors smashed on there. It’s probably one of the first examples of painting that I have. But as soon as I got to the point where I could actually sit down and think about what I was going to draw, it was monsters. I drew horned monsters with big teeth. Little more than stick figures, you know? One day in kindergarten we had an hour to kill and the teacher asked us what we wanted to do, so I piped up and suggested we draw monsters! She wanted to encourage me, I guess, so she indulged the request and the whole class had a ball. I was like the expert and I remember classmates coming to me with their drawings for approval and advice. It was like my first comic book convention appearance in a way. That day must have sparked something. It surely reinforced my love of crea- tures and the idea of excelling at something. I’ll never forget that day. DRAW!: So you liked things like the Godzilla movies, I take it? Things like that? DRAW! • FALL 2003 3 ILLUSTRATION DAN BRERETON You know what? This is really weird, but I watched Ultraman on a daily basis. I watched Speed Racer, I loved the Warner Brothers cartoons, I loved the Groovy Ghoulies and Scooby-Doo and stuff like that, but Godzilla I could not get into. Because it was just a big rubber suit with a guy in it, and it just seemed really fake to me. And a lot of the Godzilla movies that were out when I was a kid were the ones with little Minya, and the more friendly Godzilla stuff was just lame. It wasn’t cool like Ultraman. I did- n’t draw monsters from films or TV, most movie monsters scared me too much.

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