LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 4, pt. 2!
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing...
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Sneak preview of my page roughs for a new story introducing THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!
So!
My final task during a relatively productive June was to rough out and script a new story to serve as an introductory chapter of fantasy "romantic action-comedy" The Chaste and the Chained. After cranking out a scrawled first draft of page roughs and working u...
2024-07-03 13:01:32 +0000 UTC View Post2007 "Endpage" piece for PSM re: The Playstation 3's trumphant resurgence!
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in July of 2007 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, goofily speculating about the Playstation 3's resurgence at that time (I gather). First, the rough:
2024-07-01 13:52:23 +0000 UTC
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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Behold, more art requests from the $20 tier!
Whoops, really thought I had more of these kicking around! Anyhoo, here's a recent art request from the $20 tier, featuring a Patron's imperiled OC:
The "lasso portals" bit was loose...
2024-06-28 13:39:03 +0000 UTC View PostWORK STAGES on a recent(-ish) illustration, part 1!
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During the first week of June or thereabouts, I worked up a variant cover for the upcoming series Time Waits (by writers Chip Zdarsky and David Brothers and artist Marcus To), a creator-owned title to be published by t2024-06-26 14:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #220: A pair of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets with a new approach!
Tried something a bit different recently with the ol' iOs Clip Studio Paint app, in that I experimented with a quicker, looser drawing approach based on random photoreference off my tablet's camera roll:
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DISTRESED DAMSELS: A Mucha-ish EMPOWERED illo depicting Emp as a goddess from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED (and more)!
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One of the $20-tier art requests from April solicited the concept of Emp from Empowered depicted as "the Chained Goddess" from fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained. I tried for an Alphonse-Mucha-inspired illo (as seen in a p...
2024-06-21 14:48:39 +0000 UTC View PostLAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 4, pt. 1!
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity 2024-06-19 13:54:49 +0000 UTC View Post
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: More commissions from the futuristic year 1999!
Time for s'more Vintage Con Sketches from 1999, scanned from photocopies of mediocre quality at best. First off, a touch of Life Drawing on this sketch of Dirty Pair's Kei and Y**i:
2024-06-17 13:54:19 +0000 UTC
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FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: Enjoy some WORK STAGES on a recent failure, folks!
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Six months or so ago, I showed you some fairly cryptic roughs for a pair of Gen13 sample pages, starting with this "action page" of the superteam in costume:
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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #219: Yet more early(-ish) tests of Clip Studio Paint!
UPDATE: This g-d post was supposed to go up on Wednesday morning, but I accidentally posted it today instead of scheduling the damn thing as originally intended. I suppose I could delete this post and try again, but screw that. So, enjoy an ahead-of-schedule Wednesday
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Revisiting & redrawing an old EMPOWERED illo!
So!
Years ago, I posted here an old DiD sketch (drawn circa 2007-2008, I'd guess) that was probably a prelim for an Empowered commission or con sketch:
...featu...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 3, pt. 4!
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm...
2024-06-07 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostCHARACTER DESIGNS AHOY from the fantasy comic currently codenamed "UNIDENTIFIED FANTASY OFFERING," pt. 2!
So!
This morning, after finishing a freelance cover illo after a full week of work on the g-d thing (ouch), I'm back to work on the oversized (48-page!) first issue of a long, long-brewing fantasy comic project that I've been referring to here as Unidentified Fantasy Of...
2024-06-05 13:42:37 +0000 UTC View Post2006 PSM "Endpage" cartoon speculates whimsically re: the Playstation 4's then-imminent launch (featuring EMPOWERED's Thugboy)!
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in 2006 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, goofily speculating about the Playstation 4's then-imminent launch. First off, the rough I sent in for approval:
2024-06-03 13:08:27 +0000 UTC
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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #218: Yet more early tests of Clip Studio Paint!
No time for a new Life Drawing set this week (as I quixotically attempt to work up a wraparound cover illo in under two g-d workdays,. which is extraordinarily unlikely to happen), so I transferred over another very early Clip Studio Paint test from the ol' iPad: 2024-05-31 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: A ROSE & LILY sketch set revisited, 20+ years afterward (plus bonus sketches)!
A few months back, I stumbled across the rough for a never-completed commission from 2002 or so in comic-page format, depicting Dirty Pair's Yu--nay, Lily (from the future Rose & Lily) getting bedamseled in a forest setting by ...
2024-05-29 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostTHE LAST PARTY and LIFE DRAWING cross over, plus bonus sketches and work-in-progress pages!
Here's an update of sorts for long-burbling fantasy project The Last Party, as this weekend I cranked out a photoreferenced sketch of the group's three ladies in a swimsuit-y situation. I ran outta both worktime and patience with rendering the Half-Elf's time-consuming h...
2024-05-27 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostLAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 3, pt. 3!
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: ...
2024-05-24 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostLIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #217: Yet more early tests of Clip Studio Paint!
No time for a new Life Drawing set this week (as I continue to work on the script for the 48-page first issue of Unidentified Fantasy Offering), so I transferred over another very early Clip Studio Paint test from the ol' iPad:
2024-05-22 13:39:55 +0000 UTC
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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: S'more EMPOWERED sketch sets ahoy!
Last week, whilst grinding through the seemingly endless script for issue #1 of Unidentified Fantasy Offering (which I'm still working on this week!), took a break every few hours to whittle away at some Empowered "straight-damsel-chee...
2024-05-20 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostVINTAGE CON SKETCHES: An accidental double dose of DIRTY PAIR commissions!
Whoops, I scanned and Photoshopped up a set of old Dirty Pair commissions this morning before belatedly realizing that I already featured a Vintage Con Sketches post on May 1st, so you fine folks will be getting a double Vi...
2024-05-17 13:33:48 +0000 UTC View PostSNEAK PREVIEW of an upcoming story!
Behold, my thumbnails for a new story I wrote and laid out for the upcoming Marvel anthology book Venomverse Reborn #2, due out on 7/24; this is an 8-pager that revisits the universe I first explored in the 2019 one-shot Venom: The End.
... 2024-05-15 13:29:18 +0000 UTC View PostCHARACTER DESIGNS AHOY from the fantasy comic currently codenamed "UNIDENTIFIED FANTASY OFFERING," pt. 1!
So!
This morning, I'm grinding away at the script for the oversized (48-page!) first issue of a long, long-brewing fantasy comic project that I've been referring to here as Unidentified Fantasy Offering, due to the fact that its real title ar...
2024-05-13 13:45:26 +0000 UTC View PostLAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 3, pt. 2!
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: ...
2024-05-10 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostDISTRESSED DAMSELS: Another Patreon DiD purge may be imminent
Just had to delete a recent post depicting (if I may emphasize) consensual bedroom roleplaying between Emp and Thugboy (cosplaying as the Old-Timey Inventor of Duct-Tape"), which Patreon apparently considered to be "promoting s*xual violence." As...
2024-05-08 15:08:46 +0000 UTC View PostLIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #216: Yet more early tests of Clip Studio Paint!
No time for a new Life Drawing set this week, so I transferred over some very early Clip Studio Paint tests from the ol' iPad.
First off, a 2020 sketch set combining two photoreferenced sketches with art requests and tests for the Half-Orc from <...
2024-05-08 13:04:27 +0000 UTC View PostDISTRESSED DAMSELS: THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED's "Elf vs. Chair" saga continues!
Continuing on a previous bunch of Clip Studio Paint page roughs from a kinda-but-not-really story from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained, I had been noodling ...
2024-05-06 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post2005 "Endpage" PSM cartoon re: exotic peripherals for the (then-upcoming) Playstation 3!
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in 2005 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, apparently speculating about potential peripherals for the then-upcoming Playstation 3:
2024-05-03 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Lovely Angels, Leather Mermaids, Xmas Roxy & more!
Behold, s'more really Vintage Con Sketches from 1998-99, as scanned from old photocopies, hence the somewhat crappy repro quality.
First off, a straightforward Dirty Pair illo with Kei upraising the ol' Hypno-Butt:...
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