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Friday, February 26th, 2010

Welcome to my new website!

It’s been a while in the making but I’m happy to welcome you to my new little piece of the interwebs!

I’m still doing some housecleaning, but what you’ll find in these pages (besides too much information about me) is a portfolio of my recent graphic design work (including my comic book work) and the rambling blog section that you’re reading now. The blog will cover mostly graphic designey type topics, but will also include some tutorials, downloads, giveaways, wallpapers and work-in-progress insights.

The Art of Trevor HutchisonTo celebrate the launch of my new website I’m giving away 5 signed copies of The Art of Trevor Hutchison book. This comic book sized publication was released by IDW Publishing in very limited numbers as a retailer incentive (RI) with issue 1 of the new ongoing Transformers comic book series. It includes all the pure, un-barcoded cover art I produced for the All Hail Megatron series, including the rare RI covers for All Hail Megatron: Coda extension of the series plus my art deco styled cover for Spotlight: Blurr.

To be eligible, simply post a comment below! The winners will be selected randomly on March 12th 2010 out of everyone that has commented. Whilst I’d prefer that your comments are more along the lines of a friendly “Hi, nice work” and less “U SUCK!” I won’t discriminate (unless your comment is “FR33 REPLICA-R0LEX-V1AGRA‏” in which case it’s time to update my spam protection).

Look forward to hearing from you! – Hutch.


Thursday, February 25th, 2010

The making of a comic book cover

To launch my new website and blog, I’ll be posting a few articles exploring my design process. Let me know if you’d like to see more of this kind of thing!

4 steps in creating the cover for All Hail Megatron #9

4 steps in creating the cover for All Hail Megatron #9

In the image above you can see the technique and creative process I used to construct one of my covers for IDW’s Transformers: All Hail Megatron.

I started with a basic sketch to put what was in my head on paper. [spoilers] This issue (AHM#9) featured the return of Autobot leader Optimus Prime, so I wanted something that would depict the return of the heroic leader. One of the overriding themes of All Hail Megatron was the concept of leadership; both different styles of leading and characters’ reactions to lack of, failure of, or objectionable leadership. To hint at this I used a propaganda style on many of the covers.

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