the art of Will Terrell

This is a quick commission I did a few weeks ago for a play (I think). It was fun designing the different characters. Must be one crazy play with all of them mixed in there. I tried doing a search for the play to post a link, but i couldn’t find anything about it. I believe the play is in Uvalde, Tx.

The pirate was my favorite. I am really trying to push the silhouette in all of my characters these days.  It really adds to the storytelling when you can read a characters design/what they’re doing/etc without having to look too hard.

–Will

If you’ve ever wanted to get some original art from me, this is the time to do it!  I have a little time until my next project and need to bring in some money, so I am offering commissions for a very limited time. The first 10 will also get a free copy of my newest Full Color Super Zeroes book! Commissions are limited to 30 entries, so get in early! I appreciate your support!-Will

Commission

B/W 1- Character $20.00 Color 1- Character $35.00

B/W Commission – Single Character $20.00

Full Color Single Character painting $35.00

The Dallas comic con this weekend was great! Thank you to everyone that stopped by. These are a few of the commissions I did at the show.

In my business, I am always meeting interesting people doing interesting thing.  A couple months ago, I was asked to do logos for an Ice Cream truck company in Arizona that buys old firetrucks/ambulances and refurbishes them as Ice Cream trucks.  They do corporate and public events, providing ice cream and such.  Sounds really cool!  Here are a few of the drawings I did for them…

One of my favorite parts was designing these ice cream kids, rescuing people with delicious ice cream!

The best part about this job was working with my wife Amber.  She herself is an amazing artist, and it turns out she is way more talented with designing art in Illustrator than I could ever hope to be.  So she took my drawings and made them look great in this program so they can be shrunk and enlarged endlessly without losing quality.  Very cool!

-Will

I did this illustration a couple of years ago for Phil Kerr Plumbing.  It was a fun drawing, except for trying to squeeze that little dog in there.  But this weekend, as I was leaving the studio, I drove past a van that had it plastered all over the side.  Being a freelance illustrator, I’ve had a lot of firsts in my career, this being one of them.  It was cool seeing the van, and without thinking I whipped a u-turn and followed the van till I could get a good photo.  I’m certain the driver thought I was nuts.

I did this T-shirt design for Texa$ Don Zielinski celebrating his 50th anniversary of drag racing.  He is a cool guy and this project was a lot of fun to work on.  I did a lot of concept sketches to get the car design just right.  I will post some of those here when I get the chance.   I also got to work with my (new) wife on this, since she’s an amazing artist herself.   AND… I got to see a real Drag Racer in action.  Sometimes I have the coolest job in the world.

-Will

This was a caricature commission from a few weeks back.  It was a lot of faces from a lot of photos.  Not the most I’ve ever drawn, but I was able to turn it around quicker than any I’ve done.  The client seemed really happy with it too.  I think its going on a T-shirt for a family reunion.  Not sure exactly, they just wanted the drawing.

-Will

I was asked a while back to do some sketch cards for the new Dead@17 card set.  This is my first time doing sketch cards, so it was fun and interesting.  I’d like to do some more down the road.

Most of the cards I did were done like these with watercolor, pen and ink, white out and a little airbrush.

-Will

This is an old drawing from me that I ran across on my harddrive.  From 2004 when I first started working with water color.  Aliens Vs Predator if drawn by Charles Schultz.  Classic!

-Will

A friend of mine commissioned a painting of “Eddie” the trooper of Iron Maiden fame, for his wife Paige, another good friend of mine. I think she liked it. This was a pen and ink drawing done with watercolor washes and a little bit of airbrush. This is about actual size.