(UPDATE: TBH, I probably posted this example on Patreon years ago, but ehh, screw it; if so, here it is again, folks!)
And now, a brief return by the long-dormant Comics Riffs I Love feature!
Behold, a collection of examples of the largely lost art of what I've dubbed "yellin' fonts," scanned from my Dirty Pair: Start the Violence, Gen 13: Magical Drama Queen Roxy <...
2022-05-24 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Just got around to scanning some late-90s-era odds and ends recently unearthed as I was clearing some studio space to deploy my long-neglected Cintiq.
This first one's a bit of a mystery, as it's an apparent linen-finish con sketch dealie from the late 90s, yet unsigned, undated & unsent, given that I still have the original:
Yes, that's Jamadagni & "Captain Thug" from my 1997 one...
2022-05-23 13:01:03 +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...
2022-05-20 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
NOW COMMENCING EVERY-WEEKDAY POSTING TO FINISH OFF THE MONTH OF MAY!
Courtesy of a generous friend from back in the day, here are more scans of some loose sketch sets of Dirty Pair's Yu-- nay, Lily in distress drawn between comic pages at some point in the 90s, judging by the costumes and chara designs. (My friend was a serious "Lily in distress" fan, so you can likely expect to see more such sets along these...
2022-05-19 14:30:19 +0000 UTC View Post
In a theme relevant to my development of a new comic pitch that merges older Patreon fantasy RPG(-ish) projects Party of Two and Hushed Half-Elf, here are a quartet of Vintage Con Sketches from 2000-2001 based on commissioners' FRPG characters.
Long-time Patrons—or deep divers into my archives, at least—might recognize the first image in the gallery above, as I'm fairly sure that ...
2022-05-18 13:00:06 +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...
2022-05-16 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Running late on posting today due to problems with Valiant but Dying Old Windows 8 PC. Don't die just yet, old boy!
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 ...
2022-05-13 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 Gothic Lolita just got grabbed by a bunch of the Furybots, which is where our story excerpt picks up.)
Behold, the next set of my layouts for issue #5 of 2022-05-11 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on a previous post's collection of loosely rendered (and loosely commissioned) DiD sketch sets featuring operative Yur—nay, Lily imperiled in some vague and ill-defined office setting, here are a few more new pages of sketches along those lines, once more jazzed up with some highly speculative scribbled text further exploring "Rose & Lily lore." (That's because I found the...
2022-05-09 13:01:04 +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...
2022-05-06 13:00:07 +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...
2022-05-04 13:44:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Ehh, the piece's colorist just posted these colors on Instagram, and as I'll likely do the same myself later on in the week, figured I'd best put up a quick Patreon post that won't be exclusive for long (and, in fact, already isn't).
Anyhoo, here are the colors on my illo for the upcoming Kickstarted artbook for Gisele Lagace's popular webcomic Menage a 3; I dunno the colorist's name off the top of my head, but will add that in an UPDATE edit o...
2022-05-03 21:27:03 +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...
2022-05-02 13:11:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to begin 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...
2022-04-29 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Decided to give poor Officewear Lily a break from her ongoing workplace perils and put up a grab-bag Distressed Damsels post of recently unearthed incomplete commissions from the late 90s and/or early 2000s. A few words:
This page was gonna be a continuation of an "Kei--nay, Rose vs. Cocktail Dress" story serialized here a few years ago. If anybody feels like ...
2022-04-28 13:26:52 +0000 UTC View Post
So, about a month ago, I stumbled across a bunch of old Word documents for a series of mostly unsuccessful proposals which could be featured on future Failed-Project Fridays. I then put up a poll for the Bigger Spenders of the $10 & $20 Patron tiers, querying those extra-generous folks as to which defunct pitch they'd like to see posted first.
Ah, but at the end of the poll I tac...
2022-04-27 13:26:25 +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 the "mystery Emp project" referenced in my notes at the bottom of the June set is very likely the miniseries Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown, a sadly defunct pitch that I will begin serializing here on this week's installment of
Behold, the initial Work Stages for a just-completed pin-up illo I'm doing as a contribution to an artbook for Gisele Lagace's popular webcomic Menage a 3 (if you'll pardon the missing accent mark over "a"). Yeahp, those are supposed to be my takes on DiDi (as superheroine "Invincibelle"), Gary and Zii; keep these images to yourselves, kind Patrons, as I didn't ask for clearance before posting 'em here.
The initial rough was draw...
2022-04-25 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, the initial work stages on the cover illo for issue #1 of 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.
Alas, we never never quite able to ...
2022-04-22 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Woo hoo! We're rolling with every-weekday posting through the end of April, folks! (Plus, I figured I needed to get some DiD posts up ASAP, after a sudden run of $5-tier Patrons cancelling their pledges.)
Courtesy of a generous friend from back in the day, here are scans of some loose sketch sets of Dirty Pair's Yu-- nay, Lily in distress drawn between comic pages at some point in the 90s, judging by the costumes and chara designs. (My friend ...
2022-04-21 13:01:03 +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...
2022-04-20 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...
2022-04-18 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: This is technically a repost of sorts, but given that the cover image above was, I think, my very first Patreon post way back in 2019, I'm hoping you'll bear with me.
So!
The image above would've been my variant cover for issue #1 of 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 ...
2022-04-15 13:55:25 +0000 UTC View Post
The images above were my various cover roughs for issue #1 of an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown. Note that our previous post in this series featured toughs for the variant cover I would've drawn myself, whereas these roughs would've been drawn by the actual Guest Artist.
I initia...
2022-04-14 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on a previous post's collection of loosely rendered (and loosely commissioned) DiD sketches featuring operative Yu-- nay, Lily imperiled in some vague and ill-defined office setting, I dug up a pair of much older sketch sets with similar content. Judging by the outfits and character designs, the first set would be from 1999 or so:
2022-04-13 13:47:00 +0000 UTC
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UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)
Behold, the first set of my layouts for issue #5 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires (link no doubt ...
2022-04-11 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: This is technically a repost of sorts, but given that the cover image above was, I think, my very first Patreon post way back in 2019, I'm hoping you'll bear with me.
So!
The image above would've been my variant cover for issue #1 of 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 ...
2022-04-08 13:01:04 +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 (apparently hacked out under duress, judging by my comments), followed by another set from May 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 rathe...
2022-04-06 13:02:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, more Work Stages from 2012's one-shot Empowered: Hellbent or Heaven Sent featuring art by excellent Guest Artist and frequent collaborator Ryan Kinnaird and script by Yrs Truly.
Am massively short on time this morning, so detailed annotations are not happening today. However, note the interesting differences between the early, flat-color stage (with some quick mockup lettering by Ryan, BTW, hence Emp's t...
2022-04-04 13:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post
More Vintage Con Sketches from the B&W linen-finish sketch-crankin' era of yore, this time featuring a somewhat complicated commission of Leeloo from The Firth Element and, of course, Trinity from The Matrix, depicted in a pair of slightly less complex illos that nonetheless would've been fairly time-consuming.
UPDATE: Tacked on a quick collage thrown together in Photoshop to help promote(...
2022-04-01 13:01:10 +0000 UTC View Post