Time for a hasty desperation post, dearest Patrons, as struggling to make deadline on the Harley Quinn short story I'm writing, penciling and—here's the problem—inking is currently kicking my butt.
Wellp, along those lines, here are the final inks and colors on that Wolverine vs. Man-Thing story I also wrote, penciled and inked for October's Marvel anthology title Crypt of Shadows #1. I b...
2022-11-14 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
View Post
Wellp, damsel-in-distress fans, I have a definite lack of finished-looking DiD content in the pipeline, as most of the material available for posting is of a literally if not figuratively "sketchy" bent. With a new Harley Quinn short story art deadline currently breathing down my neck—11 days to go on the deadline, and I'm presently behind schedule on the penciling & (ughh) inking—I'm not sure when I'm gonna get around to working on those Rose &am...
2022-11-11 14:00:13 +0000 UTC
View Post
So, here's one of the earlier "Endpage" features I did for the sadly defunct Playstation magazine PSM back in 2005, before I'd figured out a proper workflow for the pieces upon cranking 'em out on a monthly basis.
Here's the Sharpie-markered rough, based on my goofy speculation re: different forms of (Solid) Snake from Metal Gear Solid:
<...
2022-11-09 14:00:10 +0000 UTC
View Post
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. I'll probably wind up posting these single-image sets more often than the older double sets,and I'll likely make some effort at further commentary on each.
OTOH, this particular set features plenty of written commentary, so this time around I'll let the ske...
2022-11-07 14:00:11 +0000 UTC
View Post
So! Recently stumbled across the files for a 2013 installment of the now apparently defunct webcomic Gutters that I wrote and the great Takeshi Miyazawa drew—and lettered, an appropriate detail because the one-pager I wrote was one long, fulminating rant about crappy trends in comics lettering featuring superheroes "Burst Balloon" and "Electrical Balloon." (For the uninitiated, their "supranyms" are technical terms from comics lettering.)
Alas, nine yea...
2022-11-04 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
View Post
Following up on a September Patreon-exclusive post first displaying the cover illo for March 2023's Empowered vol.12, here are the initial Work Stages for said image.
Before we proceed, lemme trot out the book's solicitation copy once more:
Costumed crimefighter Empowered discovers that she’s trapped in a surreal nightmare scenario as her superhe...
2022-11-02 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
View Post
[You can see the previous installment of this, uh, "story" here.]
So! I've made no progress whatsoever on actual digital-art pages for the CSP-via-Cintiq test comic Rose & Lily: Flowers of Peril, first discussed a few months ago. Howeva, whilst working up some initial pencil-...
2022-10-31 13:13:31 +0000 UTC
View Post
UPDATE: Lordy loo! Two Life Drawing posts in a single week, which I normally endeavor to avoid at all costs, as they're among the least popular of all post types! (Or the understandably least commented-on, anyway.) Alas, I lost track of these earlier in the month, and needed to get my standard three or more LD posts on the calendar before the end of October. Sorry 'bout that, dear Patrons!
Wellp, the time has ...
2022-10-27 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
View Post
I'm more than a tad dubious about posting DC or Marvel stuff here, so keep this to yourselves, okay?
Anyhoo, following up on a previous Harley Quinn variant cover, this time around I tried a fantasy-RPG-oriented cover concept, which of course would be more relevant to future work such as The Last Party—aka the new comic project that merges characters from Hushed Half-Elf and Party of Two,
2022-10-26 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
View Post
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. I'll probably wind up posting these single-image sets more often than the older double sets, though, and I'll likely make some effort at further commentary on each.
OTOH, this particular set features plenty of written commentary, so this time around I'll le...
2022-10-25 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
View Post
So!
Circa 2017 or so, I was supposed to work up a crossover DiD dealie for a long-term commissioner that would've pitted Empowered against the giantess Mount Lady (I think) from the manga My Hero Academia. Alas, I didn't get very far on the concept, but did work up some decent Distressed Emp rough-sketch poses for future (re)use.
You can juuuuust about make out a rough doodle of Mount Lady in the opening image below:
...
2022-10-24 13:01:03 +0000 UTC
View Post
Behold, this month's clump o' Vintage Con Sketches scanned mostly from photocopies of
An original scan of a 2002 Freefall (from Gen13) commission, for once:
Even rarer, I dug up this piece's rough sketch:
...and another Roxy piece, this time scanned from a ph...
2022-10-21 13:01:01 +0000 UTC
View Post
Guess what, dear Patrons? Today's release of Marvel's horror anthology comic Crypt of Shadows #1, featuring a 6-page Wolverine/Man-Thing story I wrote and drew, represents my first published work since 2019's one-shot Venom: The End and, of course, Empowered vol.11. Alarming, needless to say, to realize that I haven't had anything on the shelves in the last three years. (Ouch!)
Anyhoo...
2022-10-19 13:18:39 +0000 UTC
View Post
Behold, a recently unearthed pin-up illo I penciled and inked for David Mack's fine comic series Kabuki, using my beloved, high-contrast "harsh B&W" to depict the character "Ice" in a graphic approach I would later revisit for the Gothic Lolita image from the striking cover illo for Livewires #5. Yay?
In a further connection along these ...
2022-10-17 13:00:14 +0000 UTC
View Post
In a final "epilogue post" for the sadly defunct miniseries pitch Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown serialized here over many previous Failed-Project Friday posts, I'm showing you a few pieces of Emp artwork by the artist I originally wrote the project for, as well as Meltdown's original text proposal.
The artist whose work inspired me to write the urban-landscape-heavy two-parter ...
2022-10-14 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
View Post
So, yeahp, I have another short story looming in the near future that I'll be both writing and drawing, this time a Harley Quinn dealie for DC Comics. I decided that I'd best start messing around with character design sketches to work out a viable look for ol' Harley, as opposed to the "ehh, just wing it" approach I've been using for the previous HQ cover illos and random sketches of her.
The first file above isn't a proper chara design sheet as such, ...
2022-10-12 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
View Post
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. I'll probably wind up posting these single-image sets more often than the older double sets, though, and I'll likely make some effort at further commentary on each.
Howeva, this Empowered-related set from June 2017 of images based ...
2022-10-10 13:00:12 +0000 UTC
View Post
So! Here are the Work Stages for a 2013 variant cover I drew for Marvel's Deadpool, a piece which proved to be direly fateful for my work process, as you'll see.
Final colors by the skillful Photoshoppers of the fine coloring studio Guru eFX, by the way.
2022-10-07 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
View Post
Wellp, damsel-in-distress fans, I have a definite lack of finished-looking DiD content in the pipeline, as most of the material lined up for posting is of a literally if not figuratively "sketchy" bent. With a new Harley Quinn short story deadline currently breathing down my neck, I'm not sure when I'm gonna get around to working on those Rose & Lily: Flowers of Peril comic pages mentioned here previously.
So, for a brief break fro...
2022-10-05 13:48:55 +0000 UTC
View Post
Behold, following up on an earlier post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2004's mecha-team miniseries Livewires), here are the work stages on a lengthy stretch of issue #6, the climax of the series, that I wound up mostly penciling myself, as opposed to leaving the work to series penciler Rick Mays; I did so either for deadline reasons or ...
2022-10-03 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
View Post
As the monthly exodus of 20-odd Patrons looms, thought I'd put up a quick list of content I'm contemplating for October. Yay?
*As that Wolverine/ Man-Thing story I wrote and drew for the Marvel anthology Crypt of Shadows will be out on October 19, you'll likely see a full-color (and fully lettered) preview of pages from that puppy.
*Likewise in the coloring vein, that newer Harley Quinn FRPG-skewed cover will be colored fairly so...
2022-10-01 13:48:27 +0000 UTC
View Post
Before even getting around to scanning much of the newly (re)discovered material that I unearthed while cleaning up the ol' studio space, I belatedly realized that I still have plenty of older postable content lurking in digital form amidst the dumbfounding tangle of Old PC's nested folders and subfolders (and sub-subfolders, and so on). Golly! My file organization skills re: miscellaneous freelance jobs leaves a great deal to be desired, to put it mildly.
Anyhoo, let's kick off the Sco...
2022-09-29 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
View Post
So! I've made no progress whatsoever on actual digital-art pages for the CSP-via-Cintiq test comic Rose & Lily: Flowers of Peril, first discussed a month ago. Howeva, whilst working up some initial pencil-based analog roughs for that story, I wound up sidetracked by reworking some older, unfinished Kei and Yu—nay, Rose & Lily commissioned DiD roughs into a form that coul...
2022-09-28 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
View Post
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. I'll probably wind up posting these single-image sets more often than the older double sets, though, and I'll likely make some effort at further commentary on each.
Howeva, this Empowered-related set from June 2017 of images based ...
2022-09-27 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
View Post
UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment from a month ago (oops), in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series. By this point in our increasingly grim and seemingly hopeless story, only Stem Cell was left to carry on the Livewires' quixotic mission; earlier in the issue, she'd just finished a grotesque hacking of her own AI to alter her pe...
2022-09-26 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
View Post
As mentioned in our previous Distressed Damsels post, I drew an unnamed, maskless superheroine for a whole bunch of rough-sketch commissions for a long-time (small-P) patron well before Empowered came about. This character, who I've unofficially nicknamed Emerald as a supranym after I drew her in a green proto-Empsuit for a color piece, was one of the early forerunners to Emp, along with "<...
2022-09-23 13:14:06 +0000 UTC
View Post
Ehh, I believe that the book-market solicitation info (which is usually three or four months ahead of direct-market solicitation) for Empowered vol. 12 should be coming out fairly soon, within the next month or so, as the book's long-pending release is currently slated for March 2023. (That will be almost a year after I finished work on the book, but who's counting? That's just how things can roll in publishing, especially if you took years and years to comp...
2022-09-21 13:41:02 +0000 UTC
View Post
Behold, dear Patrons: Yet another fantasy comic pitch has spontaneously sprung to life by spinning itself out of an already existing fantasy comic pitch! You might well cry "What the devil???" in response, which would certainly be appropriate given the image gallery above.
A few words of explanation:
To clarify, I am indeed continuing to develop the previously mentioned fantasy comic pitch The Last Party, a series combining earlier Patreon FRPG-i...
2022-09-20 13:00:12 +0000 UTC
View Post
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. I'll probably wind up posting these single-image sets more often than the older double sets, though, and I'll likely make some effort at further commentary on each.
Howeva, this Empowered-related set from June 2017 of images based ...
2022-09-19 13:00:13 +0000 UTC
View Post
I'm more than a tad dubious about posting DC or Marvel stuff here, so keep this to yourselves, okay?
Anyhoo, following up on a previous Harley Quinn variant cover, this time around I tried a fantasy-RPG-oriented cover concept, which of course would be more relevant to future work such as The Last Party—aka the new comic project that merges characters from Hushed Half-Elf and Party of Two,
2022-09-16 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
View Post
