Mouse Guard: The Tale of the Wild Wolf reading video

The 2017 Mouse Guard Free Comic Book Day story is one of my favorites, and I realized that unless you happened to pick up a copy of it on that day, or heard me do one of two live readings of it, you may have never read 'The Tale of the Wild Wolf'

So, I have done a reading of it for you all to enjoy and put it on YouTube for a limited time.

Enjoy the video below!

Direct Link to video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lqZ3ipLmG4c

2019 Schedule TBD

Creator Commentary: Legends of the Guard: POTENTIAL

I've made a Creator Commentary video for the short story from Legends of the Guard Vol. 1: POTENTIAL. Joining me on the video are the creators of that story, writer Alex Kain, and artist Sean Rubin. Watch the video below as we go page by page and panel by panel with behind the scenes info, inspirations, art & story notes, and reference. Enjoy!

Direct YouTube link: https://youtu.be/dwkEdwLK92k


2018 Appearances:

New York Comic Con: Oct. 4-7

Mouse Guard Architectural Model: Shorestone Exterior

The exterior model of Shorestone was one that I made when drawing the last issue of Black Axe.

It's made of cardboard, chipboard, basswood, paper, and aluminum foil.

In the video below, I talk about building and using the model to show the height of Mouse Architectural pride.

Direct YouTube link:

https://youtu.be/5h6Oi4WZH3Y

2018 Appearances:
Baltimore Comic Con: Sept. 28-30
New York Comic Con: Oct. 4-7

Mouse Guard Architectural Model: Lockhaven Larder

Back when I was drawing the epilogue for Mouse Guard: Fall 1152, I built a simple model of the larder. This model was made of bristol board. Below is a video about the model, how I made it, how it was used, and how it could come to be used again in the future.

Direct YouTube Link:

https://youtu.be/ScSPlonbY5E

2018 Appearances:
Baltimore Comic Con: Sept. 28-30
New York Comic Con: Oct. 4-7

Creator Commentary: Fall 1152 Hardcover Extras

Here is the final Creator Commentary video for Mouse Guard Fall 1152!  For this last piece, the extras created for the hardcover collection (including the epilogue), I've gone back to including visuals to help. But please also feel free to follow along in your copy of the hardcover as I talk about the behind the scenes details, art notes, and my head-space as I go page by page and panel by panel. Enjoy!

Direct YouTube Link:
https://youtu.be/-zhZ7x5hfAk



2018 Appearances:
Baltimore Comic Con: Sept. 28-30
New York Comic Con: Oct. 4-7

Mouse Guard Architectural Model: Haven Guildroom

Back when I was drawing Mouse Guard: The Black Axe #6, I built a modular model of the Haven Guild room. This model was made of cardboard, bristol board, paper, and basswood.

Below is a video about the model, how I made it, how it was used, and how it could come to be used again in the future.

Direct link to YouTube: https://youtu.be/Bvyu7z2PnRQ




2018 Appearances:
San Diego Comic Con: July 18-22
Baltimore Comic Con: Sept. 28-30
New York Comic Con: Oct. 4-7

Creator Commentary: Fall 1152 Issue/Chapter 6

I've made a Creator Commentary video for the sixth and final issue/chapter of Mouse Guard Fall 1152: A Return to Honor.  For this last issue in Fall 1152, I’ll be doing the commentary as audio-only. But please feel free to follow along in your copy of the story in either issue form of from the hardcover as I talk about the behind the scenes details, art notes, and my head-space as I go page by page and panel by panel. Enjoy!

Direct YouTube Link:

https://youtu.be/ayS4fDRhGDc

2018 Appearances:
San Diego Comic Con: July 18-22
Baltimore Comic Con: Sept. 28-30
New York Comic Con: Oct. 4-7

Creator Commentary: Fall 1152 Issue/Chapter 5

I've made a Creator Commentary video for the fifth issue/chapter of Mouse Guard Fall 1152: Midnight's Dawn.  For this issue and the remaining issues in Fall 1152, I’ll be doing the commentary as audio-only. But please feel free to follow along in your copy of the story in either issue form of from the hardcover as I talk about the behind the scenes details, art notes, and my head-space as I go page by page and panel by panel. Enjoy!

Direct YouTube Link:

https://youtu.be/JfLkKrIHnWw

2018 Appearances:
Heroes Con: June 15-17
San Diego Comic Con: July 18-22
Baltimore Comic Con: Sept. 28-30
New York Comic Con: Oct. 4-7

Mouse Guard Model Video: Feather Knighting Room

Several years ago I made an 18" x 24" print called "Feather Knighting" with a mouse trading violence for wisdom. The background of the large print was to be a room full of references from past mouse guard stories, artifacts, story cues, and easter eggs. In this video below, I go over the reference model I made to help me get the geometrical perspective correct as I worked on the piece.

Direct link to watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RPCf0_igzMg

You can still purchase the Feather Knighting print here:
https://mouseguard.bigcartel.com/product/feather-knighting-18-x-24-offset-print

And read the full art process blogpost about the piece here:
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2014/09/feather-knighting-print-art-process.html


2018 Appearances:
Heroes Con: June 15-17
San Diego Comic Con: July 18-22
Baltimore Comic Con: Sept. 28-30
New York Comic Con: Oct. 4-7

Mott Community College

Back in February I returned to Mott Community College (where I started my degree) for a gallery exhibition of my work and to give a talk about my work & process. It was wonderful to share with the program that I started in and gave me so much. ‬The presentation elaborated on my creative process & the influence 2-D design & Printmaking courses had on me there.


Below is a video that shows not only the gallery exhibit, but also my talk and Q&A:

Photos from the day:

Presenting

The Gallery

The sheep's head I drew 20 years ago was still in the drawing room's still life props closet

This is the first etching press I ever used. After 20 years apart, I greeted it like an old friend

But the biggest highlight/emotional crescendo was Sam Morello, the professor who changed my life with his 2-D design class and introduced me to printmaking was front row for my presentation.

2018 Appearances:
Heroes Con: June 15-17
San Diego Comic Con: July 18-22
Baltimore Comic Con: Sept. 28-30
New York Comic Con: Oct. 4-7

Creator Commentary: Fall 1152 Issue/Chapter 4

I've made a Creator Commentary video for the fourth issue/chapter of Mouse Guard Fall 1152: The Dark Ghost.  For this issue and the remaining issues in Fall 1152, I’ll be doing the commentary as audio-only. But please feel free to follow along in your copy of the story in either issue form of from the hardcover as I talk about the behind the scenes details, art notes, and my head-space as I go page by page and panel by panel. Enjoy!

Direct YouTube Link:

https://youtu.be/YOTyMyrjCDk

2018 Appearances:
Heroes Con: June 15-17
San Diego Comic Con: July 18-22
Baltimore Comic Con: Sept. 28-30
New York Comic Con: Oct. 4-7

Creator Commentary: Fall 1152 Issue/Chapter 3

I've made a Creator Commentary video for the third issue/chapter of Mouse Guard Fall 1152: Shadows Within.  For this issue and the remaining issues in Fall 1152, I’ll be doing the commentary as audio-only. But please feel free to follow along in your copy of the story in either issue form of from the hardcover as I talk about the behind the scenes details, art notes, and my head-space as I go page by page and panel by panel. Enjoy!

Direct YouTube Link:

https://youtu.be/unJ0kmKyZf8

2018 Appearances:
C2E2: April 6-8
Heroes Con: June 15-17
San Diego Comic Con: July 18-22
Baltimore Comic Con: Sept. 28-30
New York Comic Con: Oct. 4-7

Mouse Guard Model Video: Sprucetuck

In Mouse Guard: Winter 1152 the mice first travel to the city of Sprucetuck, a hidden away vertical settlement inside of the trunk of a spruce tree. To help me design & draw the location for the comic, I built a model of cardboard & bristolboard...which unfortunately no longer exists....but...

Below you can watch  a video where I talk about this model:

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/Abahxu8DO7I

2018 Appearances:

C2E2: April 6-8

Heroes Con: June 15-17

San Diego Comic Con: July 18-22

Baltimore Comic Con: Sept. 28-30

New York Comic Con: Oct. 4-7

Creator Commentary: Fall 1152 Issue/Chapter 2

I've made a Creator Commentary video for the second issue/chapter of Mouse Guard Fall 1152: Shadows Within.  For this issue and the remaining issues in Fall 1152, I’ll be doing the commentary as audio-only. But please feel free to follow along in your copy of the story in either issue form of from the hardcover as I talk about the behind the scenes details, art notes, and my head-space as I go page by page and panel by panel. Enjoy!

Direct YouTube link:

https://youtu.be/sCBqsS-t6XU

2018 Appearances:
WonderCon: Mar. 23-25
C2E2: April 6-8
Heroes Con: June 15-17
San Diego Comic Con: July 18-22
Baltimore Comic Con: Sept. 28-30
New York Comic Con: Oct. 4-7

Creator Commentary Video: Mouse Guard: Belly of the Beast

I've made a Creator Commentary video for the first ever issue of Mouse Guard. "Belly of the Beast" was originally self-published in black and white and was later picked up by Archaia for publication in color as the first in a six-issue arc called "Fall 1152". In the video below I go page-by-page and panel-by-panel to share behind the scenes info, thought processes, points of interest, and art details. Enjoy!

Direct link to the YouTube video:

https://youtu.be/Mq7h5MvrwAk

2018 Appearances Announced Soon....

Model Video: Matriarch's Chamber

In The Black Axe story, I explored a new room just off of the Matriarch's Office (a public room where Guardmice are welcome to confer with their leader)...A chamber only to be accessed by the Matriarch of the day, and full of the passed down knowledge, writings, and artifacts of the previous Matriarchs. In the video below, I share the model I built to design the space and reference it as I drew the pages.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/HN1a7PwKgkY

2018 Convention Appearances To Be Announced Soon...

The Plotmasters Project

"Two artists, David Petersen and Jesse Glenn, went digging through stacks of old original drawings and story ideas from twenty plus years ago with the thought, "What would these characters be like if we were working on this project today?"

And that is the premise of our video podcast series "THE PLOTMASTERS PROJECT"

Below we have the first half of season one available to watch here or on YouTube.

EPISODE 1: CATS TRIO

Three accidentally evolved anthropomorphic cats and their raccoon adoptive brother-mentor survive without being seen by society in our 1991 homage to everything we loved about the old TMNT comics.

Updated versions (L: Petersen, R: Glenn)

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EPISODE 2: QUIETUS

Jesse's strong solo spy assassin with unchecked occult demon magic is his anti-hero stand-alone character featured in this episode.

Updated versions (L: Glenn, R: Petersen)

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EPISODE 3: BLACKCAT

David's rooftop vigilante high-school comic book later ego with karmic powers of luck, after all, you don't want a black cat to cross your path...

Updated versions (L: Petersen, R: Glenn)

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EPISODE 4: DRAGONS (part 1)

Our desire to do a colorful team with mythic mounts that joins together to form something more powerful than themselves in homage to shows like Voltron & Power Rangers is the subject of this episode where we focus on the human characters,

Updated versions (L: Glenn, R: Petersen)

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EPISODE 5: DRAGONS (part 2)

Our Voltron-Power Ranger homage wouldn't be complete if the heroes from the previous episode didn't have their larger-than-life legendary beasts to ride, and so the namesakes of the project, the Dragons themselves are featured in this part 2 episode.

Updated versions (Above: Petersen, Below: Glenn)

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We are taking a mid-season Hiatus to get ahead on the rest of Season one. Here is our announcement and promo about it as well as teasers for the rest of season 1:

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BONUS!

Here is our panel from the Baltimore Comic Con where we go over revision types while looking at 10 different Plotmaster concepts:

Please Follow us on Social Media for updates:

Facebook: facebook.com/ThePlotmasters/

Twitter: twitter.com/ThePlotmasters

2018 Convention Appearances to be announced soon...

Mouse Guard Model Video: Gwendolyn's Office

Through all three of the main series of my Mouse Guard books, the Matriarch's office has been featured. In Fall, it was the setting for the climactic battle against Midnight, In Winter Gwendolyn assembled her Guardmice to hunt down Abigail, and in the Black Axe Celanawe reveals his knowledge of the portrait-door as he returns to Lockhaven for his Matriarch Bronwyn. To help me in envisioning and drawing the location, I build a model of the room.

Below you can watch  a video where I talk about this model:

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/M7N7d2Wo8Ls

2018 Conventions coming soon...

Mouse Guard Model Video: Upper Port Sumac

At the end of The Black Axe, Celanawe visits Conrad in Upper Port Sumac (they'd met earlier in the book in the Lower portion of the city), I built a model of the exposed part of the town out of commercially available gaming papercraft kits and then kit-bashed them together

Below you can watch  a video where I talk about these models, how I built them, what the materials were, and why I built them in the first place.

Another post about Upper Port Sumac:

Model Blogpost:

http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2013/03/reference-model-upper-port-sumac-as-i.html

2018 Appearances coming soon...

Mouse Guard Model Video: Seyan Gatehouse

For my 2015 Free Comic Book Day story "Service to Seyan" (included in the short story collection Baldwin the Brave and Other Tales), I built a model of the gatehouse that leads to the mouse version of the Elysian fields.

I made a video where I talk about this model, how I built it, what the materials were, and why I built it in the first place. Below you can watch as I explain how having the model helped frame scenes and block where the mice should stand in them:

Further posts about Service to Seyan:
Story Blogpost:
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2014/11/baldwin-brave-other-tales-service-to.html

Model Blogpost:
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2014/11/seyan-gatehouse-model.html

2017 Appearances: 

Baltimore Comic Con: Sept. 22-24

New York Comic Con: Oct. 5-8