Tim Sale

Tim Sale
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Title	Artistic Consultant
Date of birth	1 May 1956
Origin	Ithaca, NY, USA
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Tim Sale is an American comic book artist who serves as a staff artist and artistic consultant for the show Heroes. He is the artist who creates the art for Isaac's paintings (including the 9th Wonders! comics and Isaac's sketches), Peter's paintings, Arthur's drawings and Usutu's paintings. He also provided much of the interstitial art for the graphic novel collection.

About

Tim began his career inking Phil Folio on Warp Graphics's MythAdventures. His next big break came when he worked with Matt Wagner on the popular independent comic Grendel, but is probably most well known for his collaborations with Jeph Loeb. In 1991 they paired up to revamp the classic 1950's series Challengers of the Unknown. The pair went on to team up for projects like Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special, Superman For All Seasons, Catwoman: When In Rome, Spider-Man: Blue, Daredevil: Yellow, and Hulk: Gray.

Notes

• In one of Hiro's blog entries, Hiro wonders if all comic books list the author's address--if so, he needs to buy an X-Men comic so he can meet Tim Sale.

Trivia

• Tim Sale is colorblind, and all of his works for Heroes are created in black, white, and gray. The illustrations for Isaac's paintings are then digitally colored by a colorist, textured to look like they were painted, and then printed on canvas.
  • Tim's pilot work was colored in part by Burk Sauls (who colored the Eclipse painting, the Bus Explosion painting, and the Hand Holding Water Glass painting).
  • Paintings later seen in the pilot and Season One were colored by Dave Stewart, Tim's colorist in comics.
• Tim Sale: "I’ve done maybe 20 paintings for the show and 30 comic book panels, not counting the comic that was given away as a promotion in San Diego. I should say right away, that the “paintings” are not actually paintings, they are wash drawings on comic book paper, about 11″x17″, that are then colored by the amazing Dave Stewart on a computer, and then blown up and transferred to canvas — except for the canvas part, just like Catwoman: When In Rome was produced." -- November 14, 2006
• The episode credits and character/place identifiers are all written in "Tim Sale Brush font", created by Tim Sale. Beginning with Collision, the chapter titles and numbers were also written in the font.
• Candice brings Micah several comic books, including Hulk: Gray and Daredevil: Yellow (Landslide), both of which were illustrated by Tim Sale.
• Tim Sale did a number of promotional pieces for comic book conventions, including depictions of Nathan, Peter, Niki/Jessica, Claire, Hiro, Simone, and Uluru. Conspicuously absent are other main characters Isaac Mendez, Matt Parkman, and D.L. Hawkins.
• Tim has a dog named Hotspur. Though he said he didn't think that the car rental agency was named for the dog, Oliver Grigsby seems to think it was.
• Tim and series producer Jeph Loeb teamed up and created the graphic novel Batman: The Long Halloween. This was one of the inspirations for 2008's The Dark Knight.
• On April 19, 2009, Tim Sale contributed his art to the Heroes for Autism fundraiser.

Galleries

Tim Sale produced a number of Heroes illustrations that were used as covers for promotional materials at comic book conventions and other venues.

Tim also produced a flash animation, entitled Claire & the Cat, as a promotion for the series.

Creating Isaac's paintings

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  Most paintings begin with a photograph...
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  ...from which Tim creates a black and white image...
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  ...which is colored by Dave Stewart and printed on canvas.

Comic Conventions

Tim Sale has created numerous pieces of art at various Comic-Cons, including:

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  Line art for...
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  ...Nathan Petrelli
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  Niki Sanders / Jessica
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  Claire Bennet (see also Claire & the Cat)
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  Line art for...
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  ...Hiro Nakamura (see also Hiro & the Future)
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  Peter Petrelli
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  Uluru
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  At the WizardWorld Convention in March 2007, Tim sketched Hiro...
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  ...and Peter.
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  At the 2007 San Diego Comic Con, Tim Sale sketched Sylar...
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  ...Claire...
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  ...Niki/Jessica...
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  ...Hiro and the Dinosaur...
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  ...and a shirt for Jack Coleman.

Unaired pilot

Tim Sale illustrated the script for the unaired pilot.

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Series of Eight

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  Greg Beeman gave Tim a rough sketch of painting eight of eight as a reference...
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  ...from which Tim made preliminary sketches...
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  ...before working on the finished painting...
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  ...which was subsequently colored.
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  Ali Larter posed for a picture for Tim...
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  ...so he could draw a sketch...
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  ...and inks that would become eventually be turned to a black and white painting...
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  ...and eventually colored.
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  Sendhil Ramamurthy poses...
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  ...Tim sketches...
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  ...and completes a black and white image...
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  ...which is colored before appearing on screen.
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  A reference still from The Line...
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  ...becomes a sketch...
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  ...then a black & white drawing...
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  ...and finally a colored painting.
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  Tim had limited photo references to sketch...
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  ...an image of Hiro and Kensei fighting...
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  ...which eventually became the sixth in a series of eight.

Other Works

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  Tim Sale created this self portrait in 2006.
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  This was the first image Tim Sale ever sketched of his alter ego.
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  Simone carries this painting into Isaac's apartment. Tim Sale created this piece earlier for a comic book store.
  (Genesis)
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  This painting of Catwoman was colored yellow, and appears in Isaac's apartment.
  (Genesis)
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  After watching Collision, Tim Sale created this drawing of Claire for a TV Guide article.
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  Tim created a drawing of the explosion...
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  ...split into five sections for five Entertainment Weekly covers.
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  Candice showed Micah issues of Hulk: Gray...
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  ...and Daredevil: Yellow, both created by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale.
  (Landslide)
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  Tim Sale's personal collection includes a finished version of one of Isaac's paintings.
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  Tim acts as a Honduran police sketch artist.
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  Tim Sale draws the 9th Wonders! cover of St. Joan in black and white first.
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  Tim's original sketch of the Montreal painting had to be reworked to match the exterior of a set piece that was already built.
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  It was decided that the image of the Montreal scene should be flipped. The street signs were added with Photoshop.
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  Tim draws Mr. Bennet for a trading card.
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  The November 8, 2007, issue of TV Guide features Tim's depiction of Sylar, Maya, Monica, and Micah.
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  Tim created more art for Season Three than for Season One, including this version of the world splitting in half.
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  Tim created the art for the Heroes 2008 international comic.
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  A promotional poster for Captain America: White is found in Sam's Comics. This comic was illustrated by Tim Sale and written by Jeph Loeb.

Heroes Characters Portraits

Following are Tim Sale's renditions of some Heroes characters:

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  Charlie Andrews
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  Claire Bennet
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  Charles Deveaux
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  Isaac Mendez
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  Peter Petrelli
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  Niki/Jessica Sanders
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  Ted Sprague
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  Sylar

See Also

• For more of Tim Sale's artwork as used on Heroes, see Isaac's paintings, Peter's paintings, Usutu's paintings, Arthur's drawings, or 9th Wonders!
• For more of Tim Sale's promotional art work, see Claire & the Cat.
• For the work Tim Sale did on Heroes trading cards, see here.
• For Tim Sale's promotional 9th Wonders! and Heroes comics covers, see Helix Comics.
• For the artist whose work became Sylar's paintings, see Alex Maleev.

External Links

• Official Website
• Tim Sale's message board
• Tim Sale — Wikipedia
• Article about Tim Sale's work on Heroes — New York Post
• Interview — ComicBookResources.com
• Interview with Tim Sale at comic-con.org, 05/07
• Tim Sale discusses his artwork on Inside Heroes
• Tim Sale talks about his TV Guide cover, 11/6/07
• Article featuring Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb at MTV.com, 11/6/07
• Article featuring Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb at Comic Book Resources, 11/19/07
• Interview with Tim Sale (Part 1, Part 2) at USA Today, 3/26/08
• Interview with Tim Sale (Part 1, Part 2) at House Petrelli, 11/3/08