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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 Peter's paintings. He also provided much of the interstitial art for the graphic novel collection.
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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.
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
 Most paintings begin with a photograph... |
 ...from which Tim creates a black and white image... |
 ...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:
 Line art for... |
 Claire Bennet (see also Claire & the Cat) |
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 Line art for... |
 ...Hiro Nakamura (see also Hiro & the Future) |
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 At the WizardWorld Convention in March 2007, Tim sketched Hiro... |
 ...and Peter. |
 At the 2007 San Diego Comic Con, Tim Sale sketched Sylar... |
 ...Claire... |
 ...Hiro and the Dinosaur... |
 ...and a shirt for Jack Coleman. |
Unaired pilot
Tim Sale illustrated the script for the unaired pilot.
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Series of Eight
 Greg Beeman gave Tim a rough sketch of painting eight of eight as a reference... |
 ...from which Tim made preliminary sketches... |
 ...before working on the finished painting... |
 ...which was subsequently colored. |
 Ali Larter posed for a picture for Tim... |
 ...so he could draw a sketch... |
 ...and inks that would become eventually be turned to a black and white painting... |
 ...and eventually colored. |
 Sendhil Ramamurthy poses... |
 ...Tim sketches... |
 ...and completes a black and white image... |
 ...which is colored before appearing on screen. |
 A reference still from The Line... |
 ...becomes a sketch... |
 ...then a black & white drawing... |
 ...and finally a colored painting. |
 Tim had limited photo references to sketch... |
 ...which eventually became the sixth in a series of eight. |
Other Works
 Tim Sale created this self portrait in 2006. |
 This was the first image Tim Sale ever sketched of his alter ego. |
 Simone carries this painting into Isaac's apartment. Tim Sale created this piece earlier for a comic book store. |
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 Tim created a drawing of the explosion... |
 ...split into five sections for five Entertainment Weekly covers. |
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 Tim Sale's personal collection includes a finished version of one of Isaac's paintings. |
 Tim acts as a Honduran police sketch artist. |
 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. |
 It was decided that the image of the Montreal scene should be flipped. The street signs were added with Photoshop. |
 Tim draws Mr. Bennet for a trading card. |
See Also
- For more of Tim Sale's artwork as used on Heroes, see Isaac's paintings, Peter's paintings, 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.
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
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| Art Department |
Dena Allen (set decorator) • Ruth Ammon (production designer) • John Aronson (director of photography) • Michael Budge (art director) • Manon Dave (composer) • Walter Eckert (art department coordinator) • Nate Goodman (director of photography) • Laura Guzik (costume supervisor) • Matthew Jacobs (art director) • Adam Kane (director of photography) • Charlie Lieberman (director of photography) • Lori Madrigal (makeup department head) • Alex Maleev (artist) • Debra McGuire (costume designer) • Anthony Miner (key hair stylist) • Steven Parke (soundtrack artist) • Michael Perfitt (music engineer) • Tim Sale (artistic consultant) • Curtis Schnell (production designer) • Shenkar (vocals) • Dave Stewart (colorist) • Tom Taylor (art director) • Daniel Vivanco (art director) • Wendy and Lisa (score) | ||||
| Other Graphic Novel Crew |
Jim Lee • Greg Poretta • Nanci Quesada • JG Roshell • Alex Ross • Tim Sale • Dave Stewart | ||||
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See Also: Assistants • Directors • Effects Department • Heroes Evolutions Crew • Webisodes Crew • Webisodes Crew • Producers • Stunt Department • Writers • Other Crew Members • Graphic Novel Artists • Graphic Novel Colorists • Graphic Novel Writers • Cast | |||||
