COMICS RIFFS I LOVE: More of Frank Thorne's unusual page layouts!
Following up on two previous installments (which you can check out here and here), let's check out a few ...
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I AM EMPOWERED, pt.3: The Twitter-based YEAR ONE prose dealie continues!
<Note: You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here.
And now, back to Emp's first-pers...
2019-12-12 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDistressed Damsels: BIZSUIT MICROSKIRT BLUES, pt.1, plus bonus $20 DiD illo!
From 2003 or thereabouts, here are the first 4 pages of a commissioned DiD story featuring Dirty Pair's Yuri winding up in a distressing situation. Had a li'l more direction than usual with this one, as the commissioner in question wanted something featuring, well, a tig...
2019-12-11 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostFinal colors for a previously Patreon-previewed cover illo!
Here are the final colors by my buddy Ryan Kinnaird for an upcoming Udon Street Fighter Swimsuit Special, this time featuring the somewhat infamous Poison from Final Fight, who apparently rocks the whimsical "police bikini" seen above as a...
2019-12-10 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLife drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #36
Yet again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from March 2019, while the second is an example from January ...
2019-12-09 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostCOMICS RIFFS I LOVE: Two excerpts from Tatsuya Egawa's BE FREE!
The great mangaka Tatsuya Egawa is probably best known in the West for Golden Boy and (to a lesser degree) Tokyo University Story, but for me his towering achiev...
2019-12-06 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI AM EMPOWERED, pt.2: The Twitter-based YEAR ONE prose dealie continues!
<Note: You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here.
As we head into the second half o...
2019-12-05 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDistressed Damsels: The SCHOOL OF SHASTI story, pt.2; also, Dejah distress!
Part one of this commissioned DiD story can be seen here.
Whoops! I really thought there were at least a few more pages to this story fragment, but danged if I can find 'em; these first three images were...
2019-12-04 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOne mo' sketch dump of November's art requests
Here's one final dump of Clip Studio Paint sketches, based on late-breaking November art requests from various Patreon tiers. Note: I'm probably gonna go back and start deleting old art-request posts soliciting your requests, to clean up the archives a bit; the posts containing t...
2019-12-03 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLife drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #35
Yet again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from March 2019, while the second is an example from January ...
2019-12-02 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI AM EMPOWERED, pt.1: the Twitter-format YEAR ONE prose experiment!
<A quick introduction from the — ahem — author: So, anyway.
Six or seven years ago, I picked up a superhero-related prose novel that seemed to have a premise ominously s...
2019-11-29 14:16:25 +0000 UTC View PostReturn of the special Patreon cover-art preview!
Following up on an earlier post showing work stages for the variant cover I drew for January's Venom: The End one-shot, above are the final colors for the piece, courtesy of the fine folks at ...
2019-11-28 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post(Late in) November art requests for the $5 tier!
Wellp, took care of all the art requests from the $10 and $20 tiers, so now it's time for the $5 tier! As usual, feel free to post your suggestions for characters, situations (could be DiD, I suppose) or the like that I can try to tackle during my messing-with-Clip-Studio-Paint digital sketching ...
2019-11-28 03:17:40 +0000 UTC View PostDistressed Damsels: The SCHOOL OF SHASTI story, part 1
Short version: Folks, check out the first part of an incomplete commissioned “Dirty Pair as damsels in distress” story I drew for a generous friend (and pre-Patreon patron, of a sort), cranked out in a pencil-based, proto-Empowered 2019-11-27 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Art request sketch dump (from the $10 & $20 tiers)
Running short on posting time today, so here's a quick dump of a few Clip Studio Paint sketch sets, based in part on art requests from the Big Spenders of the higher tiers and in part on general-purpose life drawing from photoreference.
Some notes:
2019-11-26 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #34
Yet again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from March 2019, while the second is an example from December...
2019-11-25 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostCOMICS RIFFS I LOVE: Tetsuro Ueyama's MITSUYOSHI opening pages
In Tetsuro Ueyama's awesome but hyper-obscure 2000-era manga Solevision Mitsuyoshi (never translated, alas), every chapter of the series kicks off in the same manner; and this is an "opening pages" technique I've long adored and used myself.
First off, we start wit...
2019-11-22 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostRationales for the Dirty Pair's skimpy outfits: An essay circa 2000, pt.3
Check out pt. 1 here, and pt.2 here. Note that the page above (from a Dirty Pair: ...
2019-11-21 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostDistressed Damsels: A late-90s sketch set, revisited 20 years later
So, last week, I posted a loosely drawn commissioned sketch set dating back to the late 90s, featuring a vague scenario of Dirty Pair's Yuri victimized by hotel-suite laundry drones controlled by villanous superagent Shasti.
Wellp, after being contacted by th...
2019-11-20 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSpecial Patreon cover-art preview!
Am massively swamped with work at the moment, but I thought I might as well show all you fine Patrons what's been doing most of the swamping: Namely, January's Venom: The End one-shot from Marvel, which I wrote and laid out—and drew a variant cover for, as seen in the ...
2019-11-19 15:08:47 +0000 UTC View PostLife drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #33
Yet again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from March 2019, while the second is an example from very ear...
2019-11-18 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostCOMICS RIFFS I LOVE: Inio Asano's vertical-only bleed pages!
So! The acclaimed mangaka Inio Asano (Solanin, Goodnight Punpun, A Girl on the Shore) has a really interesting approach to using so-called "bleeds," which are comic pages in which the artwork extends all the way out to the edges of the printed paper, as seen in the image...
2019-11-15 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostEMPOWERED & SISTAH SPOOKY #6 thumbnails, pt.2: THE END, folks!
Above are my thumbnails for the second half of issue #6 of 2018's Empowered and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell 2019-11-14 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Distressed Damsels: A late 90s commissioned sketch set, soon to be revisited!
For this week's DiD post, I'd originally intended to show two different versions of the same commissioned sketch set, drawn 20 years apart; however, I'm having a helluva tough time piecing together the scans for the recent follow-up version in my very narrow timeframe for setting up toda...
2019-11-13 15:20:13 +0000 UTC View PostEmergency grab-bag post!
Am presently swamped with "day job" responsibilities, so this hasty "grab-bag" post is all I got today. First off is a Clip Studio Paint life-drawing set, with the pic at upper left based on an art request from the $20 tier: namely, Empowered's Ninjette cosplaying as Roc...
2019-11-12 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostLife drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #32
Yet again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from March 2019, while the second is an example from very ear...
2019-11-11 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostCOMICS RIFFS I LOVE: More of Frank Thorne's L-shaped panels!
Following up from last week's COMICS RIFFS installment highlighting Frank Thorne's unusual use of L-shaped comics panels in Red Sonja, here are s'more examples of the...
2019-11-08 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEMPOWERED & SISTAH SPOOKY #6 thumbnails, pt.1
Above are my thumbnails for the first half of issue #6 of 2018's Empowered and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell, a ...
2019-11-07 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostDistressed Damsels: Origins of EMPOWERED's ARR! (Advanced Restraint Research) exoframes
Following up on last week's DiD post about the genesis of Dirty Pair's tape drones (which went on to be a ubiquitous bondage trope after being popularized by other artists), here's another...
2019-11-06 15:00:30 +0000 UTC View PostClip Studio Paint sketch dump
Behold, a trio of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets of photoref-based life drawings, once again using the "Rough Pencil" brush to kinda-sorta emulate the look of my analog 5B pencils.
The first (and best) one happened because I was browsing the 2019-11-05 15:11:08 +0000 UTC View Post