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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #215: Another brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketch set!

Now that I'm finally out from under the crush of that maddeningly time-consuming Marvel script (and its gratuitous "thumbnail" roughs, which will someday be seen here), I was able to work up a new Clip Studio Paint Life Drawing set. However...

2024-04-29 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: S'more EMPOWERED sketch sets, including poses reused in November's vol. 12!

After two weeks straight of nonstop grinding on a very difficult Marvel script (in turn after a week straight of tax-prep BS), I'm deep in a frickin' hole in terms of Patreon post content. So, here's what I could scrape up this morning for DiD material, starting with some semi-recen...

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LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 3, 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 View Post

WORK STAGES on a 2009 pin-up for the RPG EXALTED!

Still dragging that seemingly endless g-d Marvel script to the finish line this morning, so I have only 10 minutes or so for another Patreon post; luckily, stumbled across some old files that, as far as I can recall, have never been posted here before.

After doing three or so cover illos fo...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: A $20-tier art request of PINK & SANTA from 1980s anime DRAGON PINK!

Currently struggling with the worst g-d scripting deadline crunch I've ever faced (due to my own procrastination, tragically enough), so this art request of catgirl heroine "Pink" and kinda-sorta boyfriend "Santa" from the early 90s manga and anime Dragon Pink is go...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #214: 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 drawn mostly using the Design Pencil brush, with which I was apparently experiencing some disencha...

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More WORK STAGES of delightful Guest Artistry for THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!

Behold, a very sweet illo from the excellent artist Matthew Weldon, featuring a bunch of the characters from my fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained! Why, 'tis a double-page spread and everything!

First off, his initial rough, which I found dandy ind...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: A $20-tier art request pitting EMPOWERED against THE PINT-SIZE(D) NINJA PLATOON!

So!

A recent-ish art request from the $20 tier referenced an Empowered vol. 7 montage of DiD imagery that, in the lower left corner, featured our heroine laid low by wee ninjas:

2024-04-12 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 2, pt. 4!!

[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 View Post

LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #213: 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 drawn mostly using the Rough Pencil brush, which was my early favorite among CSP's graphite-simulating ...

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FAILED PROJECT FRIDAY: More defunct pitches for DIRTY PAIR short stories (pt. 3 of 4)!

As I flailed about desperately for a post last month, I dug up an old Word doc from the early 2000s which rattled off 13 different plots for Dirty Pair stories, back when I had access to the DP English-language license and was trying to get some...

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2007 "Endpage" cartoon re: dark secrets of the videogame magazine PSM!

Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in 2007 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, apparently commemorating the magazine's 10th anniversary, judging by the rough's scribbled title:

2024-04-03 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: The EMPOWERED "bedroom cosplay" saga of "Emp vs. Old-Timey Inventor of Duct Tape" continues!

So, years 'n' years ago, I worked up an Empowered scene that never saw print in a volume (IIRC):

...in which Emp imagined a disastrous time-travel scenario:

2024-04-01 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post

LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #212: Lordy loo, yet another new Clip Studio Paint sketch set!

Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based (mostly) on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:

The upper image is newly acquired (as both the arm/upper back anatomy and st...

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WORK STAGES on a new Clip Studio Paint test illo for THE LAST PARTY!

So, here's a recent illo I worked up in Clip Studio Paint (iOS version) as yet another art test for perpetually in-development fantasy project The Last Party (which features a cast merged from earlier Patreon dealies Hushed Half-Elf and ...

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WORK STAGES on a recent(-ish) CONVENTIONLESS CON SKETCH of a purple-intensive OC superheroine!

Behold, a limited set of Work Stages on a recent-ish Con Sketch of sorts, done as another test of elapsed work time with a format calling back to the conventions I am no longer able to attend for the time being.

First off, the initial quar...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #211: Aye, yet another new Clip Studio Paint sketch set!

Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:

I was quite displeased with the first two sketches at left, in which I followed...

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LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 2, 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: Hypervelocity<...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: A double dose of new ROSE & LILY content!

First up, a Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch based on an art request from the $20 tier, depicting hapless Rose & Lily having failed ignominiously at sneaking through "Gobbo" (that is, Goblin) territory in dubious disguises:

2024-03-18 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Yet another random quartet of commissions from 1998-99!

Behold, yet another bunch of con sketches from the futuristic years 1998-99,  drawn on patterned linen-finish cardstock but, alas, scanned from quite mediocre photocopies of the original artwork.

First off,  Dirty Pair's Kei in a vaguely SF-skewing leathe...

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2006 PSM Endpage piece re: early designs for a boomerang-ish PS3 controller!

Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in 2006 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, which appears to be one of three different pieces I worked up over multiple years that whimsically riffed on the then-upcoming Playstation 3's controllers:

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #210: Another new Clip Studio Paint sketch set!

Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:

Ah, yes, pix from my camera roll's extensive collection of cutoff shorts images...

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FAILED PROJECT FRIDAY: More defunct pitches for DIRTY PAIR short stories (pt. 2 of 4)!

As I flailed about desperately for a post this morning, I dug up an old Word doc from the early 2000s which rattled off 13 different plots for Dirty Pair stories, back when I had access to the DP English-language license and was trying to get so...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: THE CHASTE AND THE CHAIN'S "Elf vs. Chair" saga addresses the Paladin!

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 away ...

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LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 2, 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...

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WORK STAGES on a TITANS: VENOMIZED(!) illo based on a Patron art request!

So, out of last month's art requests from the $20 tier (as seen in yesterday's Exclusive Post for the Biggest Spenders) , one of the suggestions was worked up into a fairly complicated illustration that I decided to sp...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #209: 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 using the Rough Pencil brush, which was my early favorite among CSP's graphite-simulating tools:

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: WORK STAGES on a new EMPOWERED (conventionless) con sketch!

Behold, Work Stages on a recent, so-called "conventionless con sketch," as I try to figure out a viable way to produce commissions later in the year (well, in theory); at present, I'm desperately far behind on a bajillion different projects in development (not t...

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FAILED PROJECT FRIDAY: 13 pitches for DIRTY PAIR short stories (pt. 1 of 4)!

As I flailed about desperately for a post this morning, I dug up an old Word doc from the early 2000s which rattled off 13 different plots for Dirty Pair stories, back when I had access to the DP English-language license and was trying to get so...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #208: Yet more brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketches from random photoref!

Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:

Now, the gymnast figure at left is definitely new, as I spotted that pi...

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