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.
To 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.
Visually pleasing, clean and easy to navigate. I spend many hours each day reviewing websites, so take it from me, this is a good job. Although I see you decided not to follow the suggestion I sent you (via Facebook) a couple of weeks ago. If you change your mind, let me know.
Cool. Sounds like a pretty awesome thing to win. Big fan of your covers – though I’m the type that loves pinup-style covers, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t like your work. Your stuff is pretty darn awesome.
Beautiful design work. I am loving the style of this site as well. Great job!
This is the kind of thing I usually expect not to win or receive… I mean, would you ship to Spain?
Awesome work, man
Carlos
Don’t worry Carlos, if you win I’ll ship it to Spain. I’m from Perth, the furtherest place form anywhere, so we are used to paying for shipping
I’m a big fan of your work, from what I’ve seen so far – I love the style of the AHM covers particularly, and am trying to collect all the Wreckers issues with your covers. I hope IDW keep you employed for a long time!
Nice, I love how your website fits in the spirit of your awesome covers!
Cool blog man. Nice post here about the steps. Always enjoy those.
LOVE your work!!!!
Very nice site I plan to stop by often.
great blog! I hope I win the book!
i’m adding your blog to my reader, so you’ll see me around!
peace,
-samax
Really like the art work. Big thumbs to you!
Cool site! Adding it to my RSS Feed
Great looking website and art!
Hi… I won $6 on a scratch ticket today so I thought I would try my luck at winning a TF book as well.
Great work on the site and your work.
Very nice! Love the layout; colors are perfect. Looking forward to seeing more. Well done!
Great covers, great website, and safe to say great book.
Hello! I absolutely love your work – your marvelous covers is what made me start buying IDW comics in the first place!
wow, your website look nice. I read your journal on Deviantart and just happen to drop by
I really like your art, it’s simple but it’s got a deep impact somehow. especially on those variant cover of All Hail Megatron series, they’re really great! my cousin had all of AHM issue with the variant covers of your art, except for AHM #01, which he said was rare already
and just out of my curiosity, will you be working on the interior art for a Transformers comic in the near future?
anyway, keep up the great work! thanks!
No plans for interior art just yet, but I’d be keen if the right project came along.
Woop woop! Go Trev!
i love the artwork, i’m a big fan of the art deco style, and also a big fan of transformers, so combining the two is just fantastic.
any plans for posters of some of your covers? the prime cover from AHM 9 would look great on my wall
sadly i’ve only read the AHM issues in the uk Tf comic, in which AHM had a foreshortened run for some reason, and on the psp which, in the issues i’ve read so far, haven’t featured your covers.
will you be providing any covers for the ongoing series?
Thanks. I’d love to offer the covers as posters but unfortunately it’s not possible due to Hasbro’s licensing agreement. As for the ongoing – no plans at this stage.
Some of the best covers in comics!
I really like the look of the covers. They’re not uber complicated, but it carries the message/idea across a lot better than if it’d been otherwise. Great work!
The art is stunning. Stumbled across you on twitter somewere.
Enjoying the site as well. Thnx
Thanks Soteris!
And thanks to everyone else that has posted so far! I was happy to get 10 people reply so 70+ is amazing!
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I love your work – it’s a great inspiration. I will now return to sweden and start working on my own art- thanks
Zacke
Pleased you finally have a site up and running in full. Can’t wait to see which TF series’s covers you get to work on next.
Love your art and the site looks awesome. Relatively simple and clean and it comes together to do a wonderful job.
i enjoy the covers you’ve done for the TF comix – hope we can get many more …
Love your covers!
Hi Trevor,
Awesome cover art that you have been publishing for the Last Stand of the Wreckers. The All Hail Megatron covers were pretty unique; gave a cohesive look to the series.
Your art is very distinctive in a good way! The owner of a Burnaby (BC) comic shop noticed them when I picked up the retailer incentives covers for the All Hail Megatron Coda issues.
Hope to see more of your work in the Transformers universe!
Thanks for that! Distinctive in a good way is what we were hoping for!
Incidentally, I lived in Vancouver for a while so “Hi” to all the Burnaby folks!
I love your covers on the TF stuff. Absolutely amazing.
Hey! Another fan of your cover art here…it gives TF comics a new look that hasn’t really been seen before. Great work!
I love portfolio sites! And your art is really something special. Nice to see some non-Transformers work of yours as well.
Welcome to the blogosphere! I’ve given you a shout-out over on Disciples of Boltax, my own blogging grounds. I’ve loved your work since I first saw it, and hope that I’ll be able to get a Hutch cover on one of my projects. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for that Jim, I’ve got your Ark books by my desk as a handy reference.
Massive fan of your cover work for Transformers- my AHM#15 cover is among my treasured possessions. Really works to give the issues their own visual identity and binds them together nicely. Here’s hoping you get more IDW work thrown your way soon- it’s absolutely fantastic.
FR33 REPLICA RoLEX – wait, don’t D-L337
Seriously though, IDW could have made a mint from that cover book, them pages are gold! If they’re smart, they’ll run another commercial release with the LSOTW covers included.
Count me among those who’d like to see your work on interiors should the right project present itself.
I’m curious if you have a favourite among those covers … or any that turned out better than expected.
Keep up the front-page awesomeness!
Cheers!
Thanks! It’s a tricky question about favourites. I’d probably say I like #4 for the concept, #9 best for the composition, and I’m really pleased with the first coda issue (#13) overall. Having said that, I see ways I could have done most of them better.
#4 and #13 are two of my favourites too, and not just because I’m a huge Ironhide fan! #4 really is an awesome concept, it appears so simple, yet it captures the tone of the book so elegantly. Roughly how long did that cover take to produce?
#13 really captures the camaraderie between Ironhide and Prime … and they do feel heroic.
The other cover that really stood out for me was the Perceptor cover, #15, particularly the symbolism of the scope. I noticed that the 4 codas were colour paired based on the red and yellow Autobots to feature … love that sort of detail too!
Thanks for the replies!
#4 was fast, maybe an hour or two. Shane actually had the initial idea of a lonely looking Ironhide. The trick was to capture that effectively. Sometimes the best ideas take the least amount of effort.
And yes the colour-pairing for the coda issues was deliberate. I figure that fans who go to the trouble of collecting the rare covers deserve extra value when having a completed set, so I designed them to look like they all belong together.
Hey Fella!
You know I love your work – can’t wait to see what lies in the future for you and the TF franchise. Don’t stop doing what you’re doing and keep the funk alive!
YEEEEAAAAHH!!! ^__^
PS. I really would love to see you on interiors one day, SOON! Should I start spamming the IDW inbox?
Hoping to see many updates from you! I’m a massive fan of your aesthetic. Transformers books don’t often get too far away from a certain ‘look’. Wish the coda covers had been more widely available. Still love the Blurr cover too, its probably my favourite of yours.
Thanks for bringing something new to the franchise. Been a massive inspiration for me in my own work.
I’d also love to see you tackle some interiors! Is that something you’d be interested in?
Cheers.
Your artwork’s so lovely – I’d love some posters with it on. Or a T-Shirt! That would be truly amazing.
Fantastic site: hope to see it updated regularly!
Awesome site Trev!!! It keeps me entertained while being fantastic to look at!!! *bookmarked*
Thanks for stopping by!
Absolutely loved your covers for AHM and those vintage posters look pretty sweet.
And since you basically asked for it: “Please to make more for happy” (from my own SPAM folder)
Loving the site, man. Love reading about your technique as well. Can’t wait for more!
Take care!
James
Hi Hutch,
I was gonna say that I thought the site was a little hard to reat with the grey text but realised my computer brightness was down!!!
lol.
Hope to see more new and intriguing design work from you!
Also, what would IDW have to do to get you on interiors? I know it’s not really your thing (i think you’ve commented before) but i’m just wondering!
Anyhow,
rock on
Luke
Fair call regarding the text though… Part of designing a good website is allowing for all the different ways people will view the site, so monitor brightness settings are something worth considering.
As for interiors, I would love to do it, but I’d need a reasonable amount of lead time on it so I could make it awesome. Maybe a Spotlight would be a good test. Any ideas for characters/themes/settings?
Maybe you could redo a page or two from an existing Spotlight in the style you’d employ for the interiors to demo for IDW so they’d have a good idea how it would look?
The first character to spring to my mind was Autobot detective, Nightbeat – though he’s already been in a Spotlight and is currently deceased. I do like the crime/mystery angle, particularly given the way you employ symbolism and detail. Wheeljack or Skids could be suited to that sort of role as well.
Perhaps a Decepticon like Chopshop would suit the crime/mystery theme … a master thief (borderline kleptomaniac), and a character with a distinct and well defined outline that would work equally well in fine detail and as a silhouette. Being a little known G1, Season 2 deluxe Insecticon, he may have limited appeal as a subject, but there’s some good aesthetics to work with and you may enjoy the idea of boosting a more obscure character’s reputation too!
As far as a war brutality theme is concerned, I’d love to see your take on grizzled soldiers such as the Autobots Trailbreaker and Roadbuster, and the Decepticons Battletrap and Onslaught. Actually, any (or all) of the Combaticons would be right up your alley!
Using your blend of detail and flat shading/silhouetting, a great deal of the damage inflicted could be implied, which is often more dramatic than seeing it happen.
Perhaps Swindle? I can picture it now – following him and his exploits on all the alien and far flung locales in the universe, wheeling and dealing and stealin’!
I like these ideas. There’s great “visual” potential in all of them. A Nightbeat–style detective thing could work really well. I also really like the idea of doing something with Roadbuster as he’s one of my faves. He would work well in a “Band of Brothers” style piece. I was also thinking something set in the golden age of Cybertron could be spectacular.
When I get a chance I might do some test pieces and post them up to gauge a reaction.
Such a shame we won’t see of posters of these covers, and that this book is a limited run. They truly are something special, and were the highlight of my hunt at the comic shop. Congrats on the hot new design too!
And how adorable is that “Robots Welcome” graphic? Seriously!
Hey Trev, love your work. It combines two aesthetics that I love: propaganda and Giant Robots!
So, uhm, I would love a free, signed copy of this book. I love artbooks and your cover art has been astoundingly fun.
I can’t wait to see what other awesomeness you’ll post here! Your artwork is absolutely amazing
This has been book marked.
This is me sucking up via the comment system for free stuff!
(Seriously though, nice site, this looks great.)
i’m sorry if this question has already been asked…but is there any chance of the Transformers covers being released as posters? If so, i’ll prepare by building a wall just 4 them.
Hi Lonnie, I get asked this all the time, but unfortunately the way the licensing from Hasbro works, these can’t be released as posters. Sorry!
Wow. Just Wow. I love your work man, cant get enough, and cant wait to see more!