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LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 1, pt.1!

So, yeahp, the time has come at last: I'm kicking off serialization of my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, the first issue of which I wrote and laid out long before an artist had been chosen;  of course, the great B...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Yet more ROSE & LILY sketches (with photoref assist from "Body-chan")!

Flailing around whilst struggling desperately with "multi-tasking" (at which I am increasingly inept), cranked out some random sketch sets of Rose & Lily material in a dogged attempt to work up some "drawing-table momentum."  Tried something different with this ...

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VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Another quartet from the futuristic year 2000!

My drawing arm's shoulder is currently good and jacked up, with even typing causing me some degree of pain, so commentary will be limited for a while. Here's another bunch of con sketches from the summer of 2000, scanned from mildly crappy photocopies:

2023-12-08 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #201: Behold, another brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketch set!

Here's yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, mostly based on some old pics on my iPad's camera roll:

Drew these mostly with the ol' default Design Pencil brush, as usual. As I'v...

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2007 PSM Endpage comic re: Secrets of the PS3 videogame MOTORSTORM!

Behold, an "Endpage" comic I wrote and drew for the videogame magazine PSM back in the bygone year 2007, this time riffing on supposedly untold secrets of the then-just-released rac...

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A commissioned Guest Artist take on THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!

Wellp, dearest Patrons, this month is definitely going to see some unusual content (more on this matter shortly), with today's installment being a truly unique type of post: Namely, I commissioned the excellent artist Karla Di...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: ROSE & LILY kinda-sorta returns (or LILY, at least)!

Behold, a brief return to peril-prone Dirty Pair knockoffs Rose & Lily, $5+ tier Patrons!

Left over from the long-ago discontinued or paused Lily solo "story" that featured our heroine bedamseled by Nefarious ...

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Sneak peak at a (probably) upcoming project, with a key (if obvious) lesson for freelancers!

So!

A few months back, I got an offer from Udon Productions to write a Street Fighter one-shot featuring the popular, kinda-sorta-new-to-me character "Juri."  As I am rarely if ever offered the opportunity by any company to even pitch on writing a com...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #200: Behold, a minutes-old Clip Studio Paint sketch set!

Decided to hit up some (very) early-morning life drawing based on two random images from my iPad's camera roll, both which I'm pretty sure I already attempted years ago in other sets:

2023-11-24 14:31:32 +0000 UTC View Post

DESIGNS AHOY: THE LARA CHRONICLES, part 3: Flailing towards a final rough!

[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series, dating back to over a month ago.]

Whilst desperately flailing around for a post on short notice a few months ba...

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WORK STAGES on another failed "hybrid workflow" art test, this time on THE LAST PARTY!

As I continue to flail desperately and so far futilely towards some viable means of producing finished comics artwork, I realized that I hadn't yet tried out an Empowered-style, pencil-based workflow with the new 8B(!) 2mm pencil leads I discovered last summer.<...

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The final WORK STAGES from a (semi-)recent short story!

UPDATE: This post was originally scheduled for next week, but I'm hastily pressing it into service after running into problems with the content I originally had in mind. (See final paragraph for more info on that front.)

As I desperately flail around for Patreon co...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Further page roughs for the "Elf vs. chair" scene from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!

Following up on a fully inked and toned page from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained posted here at the end of October and featured as the first image in this post'...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #199: Clip Studio Paint vs. analog-media sketch sets!

Anyhoo, behold a pair of very different sketch sets, one drawn in Clip Studio Paint for the PC and the other a short-lived return to the hand-penciled analog media of 2017 yore, both of which are based on video stills and both of which also ended up mingling failure and success.

Fi...

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A query for Patrons: Who (other than yrs truly) could potentially handle the art chores on THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED?

Some background: Of the four(!) different fantasy-comic pitches I've worked up, oddly enough romantic action-comedy-with-a-kink The Chaste and the Chained has advanced the furthest in terms of being "ready to roll" as an ongoing property.

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2006 PSM Endpage comic re: "What body part would you give up for a Playstation 3?"

Behold, here's an "Endpage" comic I wrote and drew for the videogame magazine PSM back in the bygone year 2006, a time when the then-new(?) Playstation 3 was either difficult to find or had not yet been released. (Ehh, I don't quite care enough to research this point, fo...

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VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: A bevy of 2000-era Original Characters, from Jedis to (multiple) Devil Girls!

Behold, a last-minute post for the Wednesday slot flung together after scanning s'more photocopies of old commissions! A few hastily typed words:

I've drawn many an OC (Original Character) for comm...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Deathmasque imperiled by superwaifu in "THE TROUBLE WITH EMERALD," part 7!

[Link to our previous installment in this series.]

So!

I've been trying to think of something to do with the various DiD sketch sets I have kicking around that fea...

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All 14 pages of THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED's first story, now with a final pair of revised page roughs!

So!

After a long, grueling struggle of failed "hybrid workflow" tests that kicked off in the summer and dragged on into the fall, here's the now-complete set of 14 pages worth of both finished art and roughs from my first stab at a story introducing fantasy test comic The Chaste...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #198: Brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketch sets!

Desperate to put something up this morning—putting a g-d post up every day three times in a row is challenging, folks!—here I'm posting a hasty Life Drawing update with two (very) recent Clip Studio Paint sketch sets. Yay?

First off is a sketch based o...

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WORK STAGES on another test page from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED, pitting the Elf Mage against... a chair?

So, yeah, outta nowhere, this weekend I tried yet another Clip Studio Paint brush experiment featuring an especially Distressed-Damsels-riffic page from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained. Riffing off a random sketch from an earlier...

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UPDATE on digital-art testing, including s'more LIFE DRAWING & an illo from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!

Bit of a grab-bag post today, as we'll take a look at various recent forays into Clip Studio Paint experimentation.

First off is an illo from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained, based on an amusing  $20-tier art request for the Elf Mage driven to ...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #197: From 2019, more sets drawn in Clip Studio Paint!

From my 2019 era of early experimentation in iPad art apps, here's a pair of digital sketch sets drawn in Clip Studio Paint for iOS.

Early on, I did prefer CSP's Rough Pencil brush for emulating gr...

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A li'l somethin' BUBBLEGUM-CRISIS-related!

So!

Last week, I wrote a brief forward to an upcoming compilation of design material from the first Bubblegum Crisis anime series; more details on this book down the road, okay? 

However, writing this piece belatedly led to me a fairly startling epiphany...

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Yet more WORK STAGES from a (semi-)recent short story!

As I desperately flail around for Patreon content after expending my post buffer, I recalled that I've only shown Work Stages for pages 1-4 and 6 from that Harley Quinn #29 back-up story I wrote and drew for DC earlier ...

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A spicy scene from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED, as illustrated by an art request piece!

So!

As I hacked and flailed my way through the final few outstanding art requests from the $20 tier yesterday, I used the opportunity to twist one of the suggestions into another art-test piece illustrating one of many, many different interactions I've worked out in my head between the star...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #196: From 2019, more sets drawn in Clip Studio Paint!

From my 2019 era of early experimentation in iPad art apps, here's a pair of digital sketch sets drawn in Clip Studio Paint.

As seen by that Roxy Rocket sketch, I hadn't yet developed my modern-era...

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DESIGNS AHOY: THE LARA CHRONICLES, part 2!


[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]

Whilst desperately flailing around for a post on short notice, just realized that I've never shown ...

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A 2006 PSM "Endpage" cartoon re: Dante's beard(s) in DEVIL MAY CRY 4!

Here's a 2006 piece I wrote and drew for my recurring "Endpage" feature in the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, apparently re: Dante sporting facial hair in the upcoming or just-released Devil May Cry 4 for the PS3:

2023-10-11 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: "THE TROUBLE WITH EMERALD," part 6: The first Big Reveal!

[Link to our previous installment in this series.]

So!

I've been trying to think of something to do with the various DiD sketch sets I have kicking around that fea...

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