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Unpublished Sandman, Star Wars, Tarzan, Fallen Angels and rarely seen short story art for sale

by Colleen Doran on September 18th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work

My art sale auctions continue! CLICK HERE TO BUY!

The last of my art will post on October 1. Then all of my direct art and books sales are suspended until further notice. Of course, you can still buy my books at stores and other online shops, but I’ll be out of the country and unable to handle mail order. If you want to buy any books or art for Christmas, now is the last chance to get them from me.

On sale now, a full page of Sandman and Death prelims for The Sandman 20th anniversary exhibit at Gallery Nucleus.


The final version of this piece was shown HERE.

One of the last two Star Wars Clone Wars Widescreen Artist Proof Sketch cards. These are getting very high prices. I am really glad people like them!

A page of practice doodles for an unpublished official Tarzan project for European publisher Semic. Circa about 1994.

An unpublished Fallen Angels II cover sketch for the unpublished KIA series by Marvel. Circa 1987.

A rarely seen splash page from the short story “Eugenie”, which I wrote and drew in the 1980′s, and reprinted in a later issue of A Distant Soil. One of my favorite pieces, as a straight on romance, this is not the sort of thing publishers usually go for, but if the prices I’ve been getting on the original art are any indication, the public likes it fine.

One of the frustrating things about being an illustrator is seeing your favorite art get lower prices because it is not connected to a major project from a big client. A beautiful page can go for chump change because it wasn’t drawn for The X-Men. When art from an obscure project like this gets a good price, it is very gratifying.

This go-round of auctions has been amazingly successful. I’d sworn off ebay some years ago, because not only do I not thrill to the terms, but my art prices were dropping and I had some serious problems with bidders.

Now my prices are significantly higher, and the collectors have been incredibly kind and supportive. This gives me confidence for financing more A Distant Soil next year, since most of my time will be eaten up by the end of the series. I have great confidence that I can finance the end without resorting to extreme fundraising. If I do have to go Kickstarter, I don’t think I’m going to need a big financial boost.

There are many more unseen pieces in my files I know people will want. But everything goes back off the market in a couple of weeks, so get what you can while you can!

Thank you for all your support!

When this round finishes, I think I will also be finished with Gone to Amerikay, and can start winding up my commissions list, as well as getting into serious work on my new GN for Dark Horse. Spent the last month doing layouts and taking reference photos!

Now, go read my A Distant Soil webcomic. It’s online and advertiser supported, so you don’t have to fork over the dough to feast your eyes. Isn’t that nice?

c

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JMS Wonder Woman Concept Art and Tarzan Production Sketch

by Colleen Doran on August 4th, 2011
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work, Culture, Comics, DC Comics

More unpublished Wonder Woman concept art commissioned by J Michael Straczynski for a never-produced Wonder Woman project, now available on ebay.

For the whole story, and a look at other Wonder Woman art, CLICK HERE.

None of these sketches were particularly successful, and the one on the far right, I didn’t even submit.

I like to refer to sketch #3 as Sexpot Wonder Woman. JMS was not impressed.

Again, I did a batch of color doodles, super fast. These are digital color sketches, and you get one print out of these sketches with the winning bid for the pencil art.

Also for sale, this sketch of Tarzan, for a comic. Mark Wheatley was the editor who gave me this great opportunity. Alas, the series was canceled while in the middle of my debut, so none of my Tarzan art was ever published. I don’t recall doing much: less than ten pages.

I’ll keep the auctions going as long as they continue to be successful, but know that I have to take everything off sale in October, including book sales. I’ll be out of the country for a month and unable to process any orders.

Thanks for supporting my work.

c

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Commissions: Tarzan and Jane

by Colleen Doran on February 10th, 2009
Posted In: Blog, Colleen's Work, Colleen's Work, Commissions

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Here’s one of the roughly two dozen commissions that I finally finished over the last couple of months. Aubrey Stallings kindly waited several years to get it! Nowadays, I finish them within twelve months or less.

The best way to make sure I get them done on time is to have people contact me several months before a show. With a 50% deposit, and a solid deadline, both the patron and I will be there and the job will be finished. It is so easy to procrastinate on commissions, especially when I have deadlines for clients.

At this year’s New York Comic Con, I had dozens of requests. The economy doesn’t seem to be hurting fans who want original drawings! Alas, I could not do any of them because my schedule is full, but I did give a few people a rain check if they asked me to draw something I liked. One person requested a Shade the Changing Man, and I will be taking that job on.

I’ll be posting a number of the sketches over the next couple of weeks. I mentioned I only had one left, but I forgot about a major Sandman piece I’ve been struggling with. That and a large painting are the last of them.

This also means the remarqued edition books and lettered states are completed. They will be shipped out in installments over the next couple of weeks and that will be it.

While I won’t be selling art on ebay and the like, I will let you know if I have time to take on any more small commissions. I may have time for a few before Charlotte Heroes Con, which is the only show I am scheduled for the rest of this year. If you are interested, please let me know at least two months in advance.

Come back over the next couple of weeks for more sketches. I get a lot of Legion of Superheroes requests! I hope DC Comics lets me have another crack at that book someday!

I’d almost forgotten: at some point in the dim and distant past, I was hired to be the new artist on a Tarzan comic, but it went under before the work could be published. I will see if I can find more sketches.

c

Tarzan and Jane © ® Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate

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