Lemme tell ya, folks, this g-d M/W/F posting schedule on Patreon is really becoming a problem for me, for reasons I might explain in greater detail down the road.
With no g-d worktime this morning to finish the Distressed Damsels sketch set (for the $5+ tiers) already underway, here's a hastily flung-together Life Drawing post featuring a pair of analog pencil sets from December 2017, at the very start of my nea...
2024-11-22 15:04:30 +0000 UTC
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[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: H...
2024-11-20 14:37:32 +0000 UTC
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So!
After I left the previous art-test story from fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained on pause for the time being, I switched over to a different story to try out a (theoretically) different artistic approach.
Said previous story featured a faux blue pencil Work Stage in Clip Studio Paint (iOs version), which I then inked over:...
2024-11-18 14:00:16 +0000 UTC
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In a quite belated attempt to notify Patrons that, for once, published work of mine is (or was) out on those Local Comics Store shelves (or wherever), thought I'd seize the opportunity to briefly discuss a one-shot story I wrote and laid out for Marvel!
October 30 saw the release of the event tie-in story Venom War: Fantastic Four, written by me with sweet art by Joey Vazquez and pretty colors by Guru eFX.
2024-11-15 14:41:50 +0000 UTC
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Similar to a recent post from late October, here's another set of photoreferenced sketches working out damsel-y poses for the oft-imperiled Elven Mage from fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained:
The upper left pose was, alas, based on a cosplay photo in which the g-d costume foiled my attempts to figure out the reference's quite radical lower torso foreshortening; oh wel...
2024-11-13 14:19:22 +0000 UTC
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Belatedly dawned on me that, with Empowered vol.12's llllonnnggg-delayed release looming in just over three weeks (Dec. 3 in bookstores, Dec. 4 in comics stores), I should start showing s'more Patreon previews from the book.
Behold our cover art, featuring colors by my bud Ryan Kinnaird:
2024-11-11 14:38:23 +0000 UTC
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So! Time for s'more work-in-progress jpegs from an ongoing art-test story for fantasy comic The Chaste and the Chained, now with the narrative's dialogue revealed in script (but not lettering) form.
First off, the story's initial analog-media inked page in work-in-progress form, still needing to be cleaned up a fair bit:
And here's the page's dialogue:
PA...
2024-11-08 14:23:22 +0000 UTC
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First off, fulfilling a simple but classic art request from the $20 tier, here's a photoreference-derived sketch of the Elf Mage from The Chaste and the Chained in a teeny-weeny bikini:
The attentive Patron might even recall that I previously used this particular photo as the basis of one of the very earliest sketches of Patreon pseudo-project Hushed ...
2024-11-06 15:34:35 +0000 UTC
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As I paw through my dusty piles of old photocopies looking for Vintage Con Sketches I haven't scanned yet, I dug up some Bubblegum Crisis commissions continuing the "training costume" riff first seen in this recently posted previous scan of Linna and Priss:
Note that they're wearing the training outfits briefly seen in the original...
2024-11-04 14:21:21 +0000 UTC
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[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, the first issue of which I wrote and laid out long before an artist h...
2024-11-01 13:37:46 +0000 UTC
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On The Chaste and the Chained front, I made some decent progress this week on another test page from that recent story I posted about. Here was the rough for the story's initial page, as seen previously:
Then I worked up an underdrawing for the page in Clip Studio P...
2024-10-30 14:33:54 +0000 UTC
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In a first-of-its-kind, kinda-sorta triple crossover of Patreon post types, feast thine eyes upon a pair of brand-new Clip Studio Paint Life Drawing sketch sets drawn as Distressed Damsels pose reference for the often-bedamseled Elfmage heroine of fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained!
Note that specifi...
2024-10-28 13:00:14 +0000 UTC
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STATE OF MY DRAWING HAND UPDATE: Since yesterday morning I've been experiencing a sudden and bizarre new drawing-hand pain issue that seems to recur at random, so I'm taking the rest of the week and the upcoming weekend off from drawing in the hopes that this strange new malady will abate. However, if these random jolts of pain continue, such a problem may make drawing-based posts through the end of the month challenging indeed; I'll keep you fine folks apprised next wee...
2024-10-25 13:50:59 +0000 UTC
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Time for a work-in-progress Empowered illo based on a $20-tier art request, in which the Patron suggested poor Emp bedamseled by DC Comics' fishnet-clad magician Zatanna. A week or so ago, I worked up an initial analog pencil sketch in which an unseen Zatanna (or generic equivalent) was magically unleashing a series of scarves with her characteristic "lettered backwards" spell-speech pattern:
2024-10-23 13:10:07 +0000 UTC
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On The Chaste and the Chained front, I made some decent progress this weekend on another test page from that recent story I posted about. Here was the rough for the story's initial page, as seen previously:
And the analog-pencil roughs for the next page:
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2024-10-21 13:36:21 +0000 UTC
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First up, a new (if speedy) Clip Studio Paint sketch set:
As a bonus dealie, here's one of my earliest analog-media Life Drawing sketch sets from December of 2016, featuring plenty of scribbled text notes:
Most of the photos that these images were sketched from are still lurking ...
2024-10-18 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Rough g-d morning at the ol' homestead today, so enjoy a hasty post, won't you?
Dug up a final few photocopies that I hadn't scanned, starting with this Savage Dragon commission:
And a baggy-pantsed OC: 
An old, possibly pose-photoreffed illo of Y**1 from
2024-10-16 14:09:32 +0000 UTC
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[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: H...
2024-10-14 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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In a somewhat desperate bid to get the month's first Distressed Damsels post outta the way, here's a recent Clip Studio Paint sketch set based on what I think is the last remaining art request from the last such post:
Some interesting latex-rendering attempts, gotta say; have to keep these in mind for upcoming pages from The Chaste and t...
2024-10-11 13:00:55 +0000 UTC
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Real-world crap severely limits my time to write up much text for today's post, but here's a TL;DR version: Due to my increasingly urgent need to get some kind of income rolling in the near future, I've quite abruptly decided to make the bold, daring, and desperate attempt to kickstart (but not capital-K Kickstart , as yet) fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained as a writing-and-art enterprise.
For reasons I might try to det...
2024-10-09 13:10:15 +0000 UTC
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So, as practice for my current revisitation of fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained, I cranked out a quick Clip Studio Paint sketch set based on various longsword-based photoref:
The crossed-wrist poses have always been a challenge for me to draw, hence the focus on such in the preceding set. (Note that you'll likely be seeing more sketch sets along these lines i...
2024-10-07 13:00:12 +0000 UTC
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So, back in 2006 I worked up a pitch for Marvel's Master of Kung Fu that went nowhere, like 99% of my many, many defunct proposals. However, a key element of that pitch kinda-sorta cameoed years later in Empowered vol.5, as we'll see; I even considered reworking the concept as a Ninjette project, as we'll also see.
Anyhoo, here's the Master of Kung Fu pitch:
M...
2024-10-04 13:27:30 +0000 UTC
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I'm really scraping the bottom of the figurative barrel as I post the last few remaining pieces from my long-past days of freelancing for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM that haven't already been used here; in fact, I find it entirely possible that I already posted the following "Endpage" piece on some February years ago, but don't feel like backtracking through my archive to check on the matter.
So, here's the rough for a Valentine'...
2024-10-02 13:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, one of my remaining art requests from the $20 tier featured the quite frankly unreasonable suggestion of "Empowered's Maidman rescuing the girls (presumably Emp & Ninjette) from the Pint-Size(d) NInja Platoon," who have menaced Rose & Lily on many previous occasions. In fact, I already did a similar request earlier this summer with Emp laid low by the Platoon:
2024-09-30 13:00:23 +0000 UTC
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[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: H...
2024-09-27 13:00:19 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a new Clip Studio Paint sketch set derived from an art request submitted by a $20=tier Patron, who requested the simple concept of "Emp from Empowered on a couch, reading a book." So, I converted this idea into a Life Drawing exercise by digging up a bunch of reference photos online, and sketching Emp poses from 'em:
The high...
2024-09-25 13:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Time for another update from the upcoming fantasy comic project codenamed Unidentified Fantasy Offering (aka its actual title, Godplayers)!
One of the project's sprawling cast of characters—we're talking at least six g-d protagonists and six main antagonists along with a rotating series of secondary foes!—is a Half-Orc Warrior, who progresses from noobie adventurer to insanely overpowered nigh-demi-god as our sto...
2024-09-23 13:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Behold, another recent "conventionless con sketch" done partly for a Patron art request but mainly to try out (and time out) my old Con Sketch art approach. The concept requested was a variation on the famous "DiD" scene from Marvel's Spider-Woman back in the 70s, with the nonpowered Hangman inexplicably bedamseling our heroine:
The ...
2024-09-20 14:38:48 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a trio of the final few unscanned (I think) Vintage Con Sketches from my now-expended cache of photocopies! First up is a rather unusual sketch of Roxy & Caitlin from Gen13:
...which was based on a promo photo from the somewhat infamous 90s HK cinema flick The N*ked Killer (BTW, using the uncens...
2024-09-18 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a new Clip Studio Paint sketch set based on random photos from my tablet's camera roll, drawn under less than ideal circumstances (and with correspondingly mediocre results) as I was waiting around in a hospital room:
I expect to do quite a bit more waiting around in hospital waiting rooms this week and in the weeks to come, which will likely mean many more such sets (and art request sk...
2024-09-16 13:00:12 +0000 UTC
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