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Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #138

Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from October 2017 drawn on toned paper (including an image based on Jia Jem's fine Kei cospay), along with a sketchier, more movement...

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WORK STAGES on my UNNAMED ROBOT COMIC pages, pt.3!

Behold, following up on my previous post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2022-02-14 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post

FAILED PROJECT FRIDAY: Synopsis for an EMPOWERED cyberpunk SF one-shot, pt.2!

(Our previous installment can be read here, by the way.)

Recently, I was pawing through a bunch of old Word files trying to unearth a (still-)missing portion of the prose experiment View Post

WORK STAGES on 2004 STARCRAFT: GHOST swimsuit illo for PSM!

Behold, the partial Work Stages on a videogame-based illo that I drew and Ryan Kinnaird colored back in 2004 for the Playstation magazine PSM's summer swimsuit feature; ah, to imagine that such a concept was still possible within living memory!

Anyhoo, the swimsuit...

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My way-too-tight layouts for "Unnamed Robot Comic" issue #4, pt.3!

UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)

Behold, the third set of my layouts for i...

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Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #137

Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from October 2017 drawn on toned paper, along with a sketchier, somewhat more movement-oriented set from May 2017.

Note that we...

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Final colors (and full WORK STAGES) on EMPOWERED vol.12's FRPG-y back-cover illo!

Behold, kicking off the sprawling image gallery above is my bud Ryan Kinnaird's brand-new, final-draft coloring job for the illustration that will be seen on the back cover of the upcoming Empowered vol.12, featuring the fantasy RPG-based characters "Goblin Ninja Kozue" ...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: "Rose & Lily vs. Troops," pt.3!

Following up on an earlier post, here are more pages from a commissioned Dirty Pair comic story in proto-Empowered format, created back in 2003 during a time when I a...

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FAILED PROJECT FRIDAY: Synopsis for an EMPOWERED cyberpunk SF one-shot, pt.1!

Failed-Project Friday returns without warning; Lordy loo!

This morning, I was pawing through a bunch of old Word files trying to unearth a (still-)missing portion of the prose experiment I Am Empowered when I spied an old synopsis for an a...

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WORK STAGES on my UNNAMED ROBOT COMIC pages, pt.2!

Behold, following up on my previous post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2022-01-27 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #136

Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from October 2017, along with a sketchier, somewhat more movement-oriented set from May 2017. 

Note the ominous flare-up o...

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My way-too-tight layouts for "Unnamed Robot Comic" issue #4, pt.2!

UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)

Behold, the second set of my layouts for ...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: "Rose & Lily vs. Troops," pt.2!

ALL CAPS AHOY:  A FULL 5-DAY WORKWEEK OF PATREON POSTS TO FINISH OFF THE MONTH KICKS OFF TODAY!

Following up on an earlier post, here are more pag...

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VNTAGE CON SKETCHES: More 2000-ish DIRTY PAIR commissions!

Behold, more Vintage Con Sketches of Dirty Pair's Kei & Y**i from the turn of the millennium. Yay! 

Back then, I was doing so many of these DP con sketches at a time that I constantly experimented with of...

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Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #135

Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from May 2017 (breaking a long streak of sketchier, more movement-based sets), along with a similarly shading-oriented collection fro...

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WORK STAGES on my UNNAMED ROBOT COMIC pages, pt.1!

Behold, following up on my previous post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2022-01-17 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: "Rose & Lily vs. Troops," pt.1!

Behold, the first pages from a commissioned Dirty Pair comic story in proto-Empowered format, created back in 2003 during a time when I assumed that I wouldn't be drawing comics professionally any more, due to my disenchantment with struggling t...

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My way-too-tight layouts for "Unnamed Robot Comic" issue #4, pt.1!

(UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)

Behold, the first set of my layouts for ...

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EMPOWERED vol.12 finale sneak peek, plus D&D-character Xmas card!

My buffer of scheduled posts is nonexistent at the moment, so here's a hasty fill-in post, kind Patrons!

First up is a provocative yet not entirely SPOILER-y image from Empowered vol.12's climactic story, now underway as I grind through my...

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EMPOWERED vol.12's opening page of "Young Emp & Superfriends!"

Behold, the surprisingly difficult first page of a brief Empowered vol. 12 scene that I've dubbed "Young Emp and Superfriends," along with my page rough(s) and sketchy character designs for the sequence.

UPDATE: Tacked on a side-by-side im...

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Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #134

Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from May 2017 (breaking a long streak of sketchier, more movement-based sets), along with a similarly shading-oriented collection fro...

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My way-too-tight layouts for "Unnamed Robot Comic" issue #3, pt.4!

(UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)

Behold, the next set of...

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Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #133

Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a sketchier, movement-focused set from May 2017 (probably based on dancer and actress Jade Chenowyth, who would make a pretty dandy live-action Ninjette), ...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Rose & Lily vs. linen-finish cardstock, pt.3!

(Our previous installment can be seen here.)

Behold, the abrupt and incomplete ending of a comic-format oddity from the year 2000 or so, as I recently unearthed what is probably a "dual-purpose" or "double-dippin...

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WORK STAGES on an EMPOWERED vol.12 title page!

Behold, a mockup version (with slapped-in, low-res logo and chapter title) of an Empowered vol.12 title page, which kicks off a Sistah Spooky & Emp story that's been excerpted extensively on this here Patreon over the last year or two (or three?).

As shown abov...

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I AM EMPOWERED, pt.24: The prose experiment continues (with more vol.10 pages derived from it)!

You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here, or check out the entire archive of this defunct project 2021-12-27 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Christmas Day EMPOWERED vol.12 "Crappy Xmas Movie" bonus post!

As a gift post on Christmas Day, here's page 1 of an especially wacky Empowered vol.12 scene that's riffing on the Hallmark Channel's annual deluge of Xmas-themed TV movies. 

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2005's videogame-magazine Xmas "STEALTH ELF", pt.3!

Following up on last week's post, here's the rest of the 2005 Christmas feature I worked on for the videogame magazine GamePro, where former PSM art director (and des...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: More of EMPOWERED vol.12's "Sacrificial (Not Quite) Virgins" scene!

Fresh off the scanner and following up on a previous post, here are more pages from the upcoming Empowered vol.12 sequence that I've informally dubbed "the Sacrificial (Not Quite) Virgins" sce...

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My way-too-tight layouts for "Unnamed Robot Comic" issue #3, pt.3!

(UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)

Behold, the next set of my layouts ...

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