Time for a hasty Distressed Damsels post today as I grind away at that Marvel Wolverine/Man-Thing story due by the end of the month! Scanned a bunch of 90s-era Vintage Con Sketches with a DiD theme this morning:
Ehh... I have a sneaking suspicion that I might've previously scanned this 1998 commission of Devil Kei and Angel Yu--err, Devil ...
2022-07-21 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an August 2017 sketch set, followed by another set from June 2017. UPDATE: Switched 'em around, as I thought the older set of poses was marginally more interesting and deserved the lead spot in the image gallery. Then again, that's somewhat arguable; which sketch set do you folks prefer?
UPDATE ...
2022-07-20 15:09:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm a bit dubious about posting Big Two work here, so keep this to yourselves, okay? Anyhoo, here's a sneak preview of a new short story I'm writing, penciling & inking for Marvel. (I've already finished inking page 1 above, in fact, but haven't gotten around to scanning it as yet.)
I have previously drawn Laura Kinney (now aka Wolverine) as her X-23 iteration for a Marvel vs. Capcom illo, but can't say that I've ever drawn the ol' Man-Thing before. Go figure!
And now, back to...
2022-07-18 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, the second of what will likely wind up being three or more(!) Patreon posts featuring the Work Stages on the cover illo for 2015's one-shot Empowered: Animal Style by Guest Artist John Staton and me, along with final colors on the piece by Rob "Robaato" Porter. Here's a link to part 1, BTW.
I'm gonna need multiple posts for thi...
2022-07-15 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an September 2017 sketch set, followed by another set from June 2017. UPDATE: Switched 'em around, as I thought the older set of poses was a bit more interesting and deserved the lead spot in the image gallery. Then again, that's somewhat arguable; which sketch set do you folks prefer?
Note that we've (rather a w...
2022-07-13 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, recently unearthed, "sketchy"-format pages that were part of an open-ended Dirty Pair DiD commission dealie with a long-time (small-P) patron.
They seem to be from the early 2000s, judging by the then-new stylistic riffs of "minimal nasal indication" (drawn on purpose) and, to quote from my Empowered webcomic commentaries, "Mysteriously Intermittent Post-Millennial Torso Glitch" (which was not done on purpose). 2022-07-11 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, the first of what will likely wind up being three or more(!) Patreon posts featuring the Work Stages on the cover illo for 2015's one-shot Empowered: Animal Style by Guest Artist John Staton and me, along with final colors on the piece by Rob "Robaato" Porter.
I'm gonna need multiple posts for this Work Stages installment because I'm looking at roughly 30-35 work-in-progress jpegs lurking in this proje...
2022-07-08 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Due mainly to freelance work, I have no g-d buffer of Patreon posts currently scheduled, so here's a trio of Vintage Con Sketches I grabbed out of a dwindling binder of photocopies and scanned hastily this morning.
Yes, it's Mai from the fighting game Fatal Fury, sporting one of the more extreme eye-design riffs I was toying with back in the s...
2022-07-06 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, 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.)
UPDATE #2: Whoops, accidentally tacked on an incorrect page from issue #5 at the end of the gallery...
2022-07-04 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to CONCLUDE serialization of my roughs and script for an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown, which I initially wrote with one particular artist in mind back in 2017 or so; alas, that first artist didn't end up working on it, so I pitched it to the excellent artist Rob "Robaato" Porter, who had earlier colored a bunch of Emp covers for me.
Afte...
2022-07-01 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs the end of June and the monthly exodus of 20 to 30-odd Patrons looms, thought I'd put up a quick list of content I'm contemplating for July. Yay?
*On July 1, stand by for the exciting finale of roughs and scripts for the defunct miniseries Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown, which includes a final plot twist of sorts that ties in to a key element of Empowered vol.12. No, really!
*Later in the month, look for Work...
2022-06-30 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
So, a month ago, I put up a Distressed Damsels post that featured an early-90s rough sketch intended to set up a never-completed commission of the Dirty Pair: A Plague of Angels StealthBot distressing Vintage iterations of poor Kei and Yu-- nay, Rose and Lily:
Wellp, for a long-time (small-P) patron who was c...
2022-06-29 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post(UPDATE: Oops, just double-posted due to a screw-up on my part as Patreon's latest redesign flummoxed me; this was supposed to have gone up on Tuesday. So, er... enjoy, a day early?)
You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here, or check out the entire archive of this defunct project 2022-06-27 13:01:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an September 2017 sketch set, followed by another set from June 2017. UPDATE: Switched 'em around, as I thought the older set of climbing-based poses was a bit more interesting and deserved the lead spot in the image gallery.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both...
2022-06-27 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to continue serializing my roughs and script for an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown, which I initially wrote with one particular artist in mind back in 2017 or so; alas, that first artist didn't end up working on it, so I pitched it to the excellent artist Rob "Robaato" Porter, who had earlier colored a bunch of Emp covers for me.
After Rob had to turn it down, I ab...
2022-06-24 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an September 2017 sketch set, followed by another set from June 2017. UPDATE: Switched 'em around, as I thought the older set of climbing-based poses was a bit more interesting and deserved the lead spot in the image gallery. (On the other hand, the September set technically has a Distressed Damsels im...
2022-06-22 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
A word of explanation: One of the recent art requests solicited from the Biggest Spenders of the $20 tier wanted a look at an incident indirectly referred to in part of a 4-page story fragment from the old (circa 2012, IIRC), long outta print sketchbook Empowered: Extra Sketchiness:
2022-06-20 13:31:38 +0000 UTC
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As a quick weekend bonus for all you kind Patrons, here's an illo I did back in '97 for Wildstorm's ever-burgeoning trading-card division, this time featuring Gen13's Caitlin Fairchild for a "Lingerie Collector's Pack" campaign.
Seriously, at $250 a pop—in brawny 90s dollars, mind you!—for line art on a fairly dinky piece of artwork, these trading cards were quite the devil's candy for Wildstorm artists; I occasionally heard ...
2022-06-18 18:03:08 +0000 UTC View Post
On this particular Friday, I'm taking a week off from posting roughs and scripts from 2017's failed project Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown to revisit a supposedly continuing feature last addressed in a post on April 27 (ouch): Namely, a successful pitch for my 2000-2001 run of writing and occasionally drawing an 18-issue run on Wildstorm/DC's superhero title Gen13!
Cutting & pasting from 2022-06-17 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series. Poor Social Butterfly got "mollywired" to pieces by the hiveminded Furybots, leaving only Stem Cell and Hollowpoint Ninja to carry on the clearly quixotic mission.)
Behold, the rest of my layouts for issue #5 of 2022-06-15 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are some recently unearthed pages that would've been drawn very early on in the genesis of Empowered, if not almost certainly predating the nascent project's evolution from a bunch of random DiD sketches into what would even be recognizable as Empowered as such.
(Side note: Belatedly occurred to me that I could post some of the bonus material from Empowered Deluxe vol.1 here; that stuff featured som...
2022-06-13 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to continue serializing my roughs and script for an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown, which I initially wrote with one particular artist in mind back in 2017 or so; alas, that first artist didn't end up working on it, so I pitched it to the excellent artist Rob "Robaato" Porter, who had earlier colored a bunch of Emp covers for me.
After Rob had to turn it down, I ab...
2022-06-10 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an September 2017 sketch set, followed by another set from June 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both sketch sets are dated from 2017, meaning that the end of my once-formidable buffer of life drawings is in sight, if still rather a ways off, as I cranked out life drawings almost daily th...
2022-06-08 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, the Work Stages on the cover illo for 2011's one-shot Empowered: Ten Questions for the Maidman, featuring luxurious art and colors by the issue's special Guest Artist Emily Warren (no relation) and a spot of inked line art on the Emp figure at left by me.
The white doily patterns overlaying the illo still crack me up to end, gotta say, even eleven years afterward. An awesome illo by Emily, no question! (Rolling my eyes at...
2022-06-06 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to continue serializing my roughs and script for an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown, which I initially wrote with one particular artist in mind back in 2017 or so; alas, that first artist didn't end up working on it, so I pitched it to the excellent artist Rob "Robaato" Porter, who had earlier colored a bunch of Emp covers for me.
After Rob had to turn it down, I ab...
2022-06-03 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series. Poor Social Butterfly left Stem Cell and Hollowpoint Ninja behind as she prepared to detonate an antimatter grenade(!) and wreck the Evil Helicarrier, which is where our story excerpt picks up.)
Behold, the next set of my lay...
2022-06-01 13:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's hastily thrown-together Memorial Day post features the B&W Work Stages on a new pin-up illo I'm doing for Merc Magazine. Amusingly enough, the final version will feature a variant "topless patch," which is apparently a thing that happens nowadays. Go figure! (Hey, what the heck, as I was offered twice what I would get for any of the Marvel or DC covers I'm presently angling to do.)
Assuming I finish said topless patch soon ...
2022-05-30 13:54:04 +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 few more pages from issue #5 that I wound up penciling myself, as opposed to leaving the work to series penciler Rick Mays; I did so either for deadline reasons or because the pages in question wer...
2022-05-27 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an September 2017 sketch set, followed by another set from June 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both sketch sets are dated from 2017, meaning that the end of my once-formidable buffer of life drawings is in sight, if still rather a ways off, as I cranked out life drawings almost daily th...
2022-05-26 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
First off in today's hastily thrown-together Distressed Damsels post is a redraw I did of a recently posted Y**i con sketch rough from the late 90s:
...which abruptly morphed into yet another Rose & Lily sketch set with commentary annotations, as a frustrated (and notably curvier) Lily throws shade at the "OG K*i & Y**i":
2022-05-25 13:05:40 +0000 UTC
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