Wellp, the time arrived some time ago for single-set posts of life drawings from random photoreference, as my once seemingly endless supply of sets from near-daily work in 2017 has dwindled down to a sadly diminished number.
In fact, as of this post, only 2 more unused images are left in the ol' folder, meaning that in a few months I'll have to switch over to more recent digital-art sets; after those are used up, not sure what the heck I'm gonna do for this featur...
2023-03-15 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a semi-recent commission in my old, two-color "Con Sketch" format depicting That Darn Shasti once again getting the better of Dirty Pair's Y*ri and Kei. (BTW, I do like the idea that Shasti might have difficulty telling these two apart from their hapless alternates Rose & Lily, as she can victimize the "real" Lovely Angels almost as easily as their distress-prone iterations.)
2023-03-13 13:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Running way behind schedule today, so here's a quickly thrown together post featuring my backpage cartoon feature for a summer 2007 issue of the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM. Two years after the mag had stopped running its annual swimsuit feature with art by many comics artists—ah, yes, the times they were a-changing, even back in those halcyon days of 2007—this was my second attempt at doing a one-page callback to the now-discarded conc...
2023-03-10 14:50:36 +0000 UTC
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Behold, my initial page roughs for the second scene from the opening story I'm writing and drawing for The Chaste and the Chained, the previously mentioned fantasy comic I'm using as a test bed for digital art production in Clip Studio Paint.
The first scene from the opening story proved a bit too ambitious to tackle right off the bat, as it involved not only a scan...
2023-03-08 14:00:59 +0000 UTC
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And now, s'more recent scans from my dwindling binder of photocopies dating back to my Golden Age of Vintage Con Sketches from 2000-2002. A few words:
I strongly suspect that this illo of Deunan & Briareos from Shirow's Appleseed was already been posted here years ago, but I can't say for sure. Worked out quite nicely, regardless.
2023-03-06 14:00:16 +0000 UTC
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So!
At some point in the distant past, possibly the early 2000s, I must've had a conversation at a comic with somebody from comics company IDW about a writing-only Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pitch. Obvsly, nothing ever came of this vague idea, but I did work up an initial pitch document covering the overall direction I had in mind.
And now, without further ado, here's the first half of that overview:
VAGUE INITIAL...
2023-03-03 14:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Behold, me Work Stages on an illo I drew lo these many years ago for the character "Bliss" from Rob "Robaaato" Porter's Kickstarted but unfortunately unfinished videogame Cryamore.
The vague rough:
Next, I blue-penciled up a finished sketch from the rough, then went back over it with my beloved 5B pencils as used in Empowered—though, T...
2023-03-01 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, the time arrived some time ago for single-set posts of life drawings from random photoreference, as my once seemingly endless supply of sets from near-daily work in 2017 has dwindled down to a sadly diminished number.
In fact, as of this post, only 4 unused images are left in the ol' folder, meaning that in a few months I'll have to switch over to more recent digital-art sets; after those are used up, not sure what the heck I'm gonna do for this feature.
2023-02-27 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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So, dear Patrons, even as we enter the era of new digital test-bed project The Chaste and the Chained, time for a look at what will be likely the last sketch sets of "Rose & Lily lore" for a while.
These first two pages of rough sketches were actually drawn and written a few months ago, back in the heyday of my phase of "DiD sketch sets of officewear-disguised Rose & Lily annotated with hastily extrapo...
2023-02-24 14:28:21 +0000 UTC
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Stumbled across whilst clearing folders off the long-dying Old PC are my Work Stages for a variant cover I drew for an early issue of the 2006 relaunch of Wildstorm/DC's Gen13, which was the iteration written by Gail Simone and drawn by, I think, Talent Caldwell.
I wanted to do a helluva lot more than just draw a variant cover for the Gen13 relaunch, but I had not the pull to even make a pitch for writing the ...
2023-02-23 14:29:49 +0000 UTC
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So, following up on our previous post in this series, here are the rest of the complete Work Stages from a 2013 Scarlet Witch/ Domino story I wrote and drew for the Avengers/ X-Men team-up anthology A+X. (I'm a tad dubious about posting Marvel material here, so keep this stuff to yourselves, won't you?)
Anyhoo, this bygone project came to mind as I'm mulling...
2023-02-22 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, the time arrived some time ago for single-set posts of life drawings from random photoreference, as my once seemingly endless supply of sets from near-daily work in 2017 has dwindled down to a sadly diminished number.
In fact, as of this post, only 5 unused images are left in the ol' folder, meaning that in a few months I'll have to switch over to more recent digital-art sets; after those are used up, not sure what the heck I'm gonna do for this feature.
2023-02-20 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Following up on Wednesday's post re: the 2002 Dirty Pair statue set, I dug up a few more damsel-in-distress sketch sets from only a few years earlier (I think), judging by the character design approach. Commissioned by a generous friend who could appreciate the (figuratively) sketchy stuff, the sets weren't particularly narrative in nature.
The first one might even be from the mid-90s, not long after I'd first worked up the costume and character design...
2023-02-17 14:24:17 +0000 UTC
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The highlight of Dark Horse's rather ill-fated Dirty Pair merchandise effort was the fine statue set, as detailed in this 2002-era solicitation copy:
Genetically enhanced super-babes Kei and Y*ri are always in trouble, especially when their adventures are created by American "manga" artist Adam Warren! We have enlisted two great talents-- the aforementioned Mr. Warren and the talented folks at Big Chief studios to create the niftiest...
2023-02-15 14:01:00 +0000 UTC
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After a wondrous two weeks devoid of electrical issues, problems have once again arisen, so posting is gonna be tricky over the next week or two, alas.
So here's a quick Work Stages post featuring the roughs for another upcoming Harley Quinn variant cover. First in the image gallery above is the compiled "collage" rough, which wound up being approved:
Ah, but I k...
2023-02-13 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, the time arrived some time ago for single-set posts of life drawings from random photoreference, as my once seemingly endless supply of sets from near-daily work in 2017 has dwindled down to a sadly diminished number.
In fact, as of this post, only 6 unused images are left in the ol' folder, meaning that in a few months I'll have to switch over to more recent digital-art sets; after those are used up, not sure what the heck I'm gonna do for this feature.
2023-02-10 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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As I scramble to rebuild a Patreon buffer, I pawed through my dwindling binder of early-2000s con-sketch copies to find a few more that I prrrrrrrrobably haven't scanned before.
First up is a sketch of Tulip and Jesse from Ennis and Dillon's Preacher. It all seems like a long-ago dream now, but I read the entire run of the series back when I was on DC's comp list after my run on Gen13. (Took 'em years to finally remov...
2023-02-08 14:16:40 +0000 UTC
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For a brief break from the DiD "sketchiness," I thought I'd delve back in time (and back in my PATREON STUFF folder) to a series of more developed-looking Clip Studio Paint art requests from the Biggest Spenders of the $20 tiers, with sketch sets dating back to those bygone days of... well, mostly last year.
Pretty sure these images would've mostly been seen before by only the Biggest Spenders as part of their Monthly Exclusive Bonus Post dealie, though a few miiiight have appe...
2023-02-06 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Welllp, here are more design sketches I worked up for the upcoming, Patreon-serialized digital-art test comic The Chaste and the Chained, as first announced not too long ago.
First off is a quick (CSP iOS) stab at the Elf Mage's opening outfit:
The "spellcloth" bi...
2023-02-03 14:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Pardon me as I frantically fling up posts while I still have power!
Following up on a post from late December, here are the B&W Work Stages for "Hyena Anxiety," an 8-page backup story I wrote and drew for an upcoming (March 2023) issue of DC's Harley Quinn. (Keep this stuff to yourselves, pls, as I'm more than a tad dubious about posting licensed work here.)
I'm running waaaay late this morning, so I've no time for d...
2023-02-01 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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While the $10 & $20 Patron tiers are getting their Exclusive Monthly Bonus Post today (featuring what might be the only completed comic page from now-on-hiatus project Rose & Lily: Flowers of Peril), figured I might as well show the rest of you an incomplete post that I started writing at the end of December re: my 2023 plans for the ol' Patreon.
As we'...
2023-01-31 15:06:21 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, the time has finally arrived for single-set posts of life drawings from random photoreference, as my once seemingly endless supply of sets from near-daily work in 2017 has dwindled down to a sadly diminished number.
In fact, as of this post, only 7 images are left in the ol' folder, meaning that in a few months I'll have to switch over to more recent digital-art sets; after those are used up, not sure what the heck I'm gonna do for this feature.
Anyho...
2023-01-30 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Look at me, building up that post buffer like there's no tomorrow!
Anyhoo, here are a few of my earliest damsel-in-distress sketch sets for the oft-imperiled Elf Mage heroine of my brand-new Clip Studio Paint test-bed project, the fantasy-milieu romantic action/comedy dealie The Chained and the Chaste (or, possibly, The Chaste and the Chained).
UPDATE: In fact, we are now rolling with choice-of-the-peopl...
2023-01-27 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Good news, dear Patrons! I've worked up a title for the new fantasy-milieu romantic action-comedy comic I'll be serializing here as a test bed for Clip Studio Paint digital workflow, as first mentioned last week. Yay!
Only one problem: I find myself vacillating on which noun order to use in the aforementioned title.
As befits a story about a magically distress-prone "avatar of the ...
2023-01-26 14:01:00 +0000 UTC
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So, following up on our previous post in this series, here are more of the complete Work Stages from a 2013 Scarlet Witch/ Domino story I wrote and drew for the Avengers/ X-Men team-up anthology A+X. (I'm a tad dubious about posting Marvel material here, so keep this stuff to yourselves, won't you?)
Anyhoo, this bygone project came to mind a...
2023-01-25 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Thought I should let you fine folks know that this Patreon might—I should emphasize, might—face some interruptions in posting in the near future.
See, the main breaker on my house's electrical panel has been acting inexplicably flaky of late, and twice in three days has shut off power to half of the panel's electrical lines for hours at a time—without actually tripping any breakers in the process, which is odd indeed.
My area is getting socked with a series of snows...
2023-01-23 19:12:15 +0000 UTC
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UPDATE: An aforementioned Designs Ahoy post about a new comic project was supposed to go up on Friday morning, but as I'm still working on that post as of late Thursday night while a heavy snowstorm hits the area, I'm scheduling this Life Drawings set for Friday just in case my power gets knocked out. If you're seeing this post on the 20th, then I'm sitting in the dark and the cold w...
2023-01-23 15:00:04 +0000 UTC
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So!
Believe it or not, folks, I am about to start writing and drawing a fantasy comic project to pave the way for a completely different—and far more ambitious—fantasy comic project! Lordy loo! However did this bizarre turn of creative events come about, might you ask?
Wellp, waaaaay back in 2002, I designed and drew up up a fantasy RPG adventuring party for an article in the videogame magazine PSM, as seen in the illo below wonderfu...
2023-01-20 14:35:41 +0000 UTC
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For a brief break from the DiD "sketchiness," I thought I'd delve back in time (and back in my PATREON STUFF folder) to a series of more developed-looking Clip Studio Paint art requests from the Biggest Spenders of the $20 tiers, with sketch sets dating back to those bygone days of 2020-21 yore.
Pretty sure these old images would've mostly been seen before by only the Biggest Spenders as part of their Monthly Exclusive Bonus Post dealie, though a few miiiight have appeared in $...
2023-01-18 15:02:56 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the Work Stages on one-page cartoon I did for the Playstation videogame PSM back in the halcyon days of 2006. The piece appeared on the last page of the issue, hence my "Endpager" nickname for the feature.
Anyhoo, for context, up until this point PSM had done an annual "Summer Videogame Swimsuit" feature with illos by various comics artists; yes, folks, the mid-2000s were clearly a rather different tim...
2023-01-16 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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