Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from October 2017 drawn on toned paper (including an image based on Jia Jem's fine Kei cospay), along with a sketchier, more movement-oriented 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-formidab...
2022-02-16 14:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Behold, following up on my previous post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires), here are the work stages on a few more of the pages from issue #4 that I wound up drawing myself, as opposed to leavi...
2022-02-14 14:01:04 +0000 UTC
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(Our previous installment can be read here, by the way.)
Recently, I was pawing through a bunch of old Word files trying to unearth a (still-)missing portion of the prose experiment I Am Empowered when I spied an old synopsis for an abortive Empowered Guest Artist one-shot, which I decided would make for an amusing...
2022-02-11 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the partial Work Stages on a videogame-based illo that I drew and Ryan Kinnaird colored back in 2004 for the Playstation magazine PSM's summer swimsuit feature; ah, to imagine that such a concept was still possible within living memory!
Anyhoo, the swimsuitee in question is from the game Starcraft: Ghost, which may never have actually been released; dunno, TBH, and don't care to look it up.
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2022-02-09 14:01:03 +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 third set of my layouts for issue #4 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires, titled here as...
2022-02-07 14:01:05 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from October 2017 drawn on toned paper, along with a sketchier, somewhat more movement-oriented 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 stil...
2022-02-04 15:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Behold, kicking off the sprawling image gallery above is my bud Ryan Kinnaird's brand-new, final-draft coloring job for the illustration that will be seen on the back cover of the upcoming Empowered vol.12, featuring the fantasy RPG-based characters "Goblin Ninja Kozue" (a variant of Ninjette, of course) and "Devilspawn Bard Hannah" (a variation of Mindf**k). For more on this scene from the book, you can check out 2022-02-02 15:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Following up on an earlier post, here are more pages from a commissioned Dirty Pair comic story in proto-Empowered format, created back in 2003 during a time when I assumed that I wouldn't be drawing comics professionally any more, due to my disenchantment with struggling through conventionally penciled and inked comic pages.
In retrospect, I clearly still w...
2022-01-31 14:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Failed-Project Friday returns without warning; Lordy loo!
This morning, I was pawing through a bunch of old Word files trying to unearth a (still-)missing portion of the prose experiment I Am Empowered when I spied an old synopsis for an abortive Empowered Guest Artist one-shot, which I decided would make for an amusing (if brief) revival of Failed-Project Friday.
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2022-01-28 15:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Behold, following up on my previous post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires), here are the work stages on a few more of the pages from issue #4 that I wound up drawing myself, as opposed to leavi...
2022-01-27 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from October 2017, along with a sketchier, somewhat more movement-oriented set from May 2017.
Note the ominous flare-up of drawing-hand pain in the October set, which would eventually bring an end to any sustained attempt at daily life drawing. I do hope to resume life drawing on a less ambitious, much more sporadic bas...
2022-01-26 14:01:03 +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 second set of my layouts for issue #4 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires, titled here a...
2022-01-25 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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ALL CAPS AHOY: A FULL 5-DAY WORKWEEK OF PATREON POSTS TO FINISH OFF THE MONTH KICKS OFF TODAY!
Following up on an earlier post, here are more pages from a commissioned Dirty Pair comic story in proto-Empowered format, created back in 2003 during a time when I assumed that I wouldn't be drawin...
2022-01-24 14:07:32 +0000 UTC
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Behold, more Vintage Con Sketches of Dirty Pair's Kei & Y**i from the turn of the millennium. Yay!
Back then, I was doing so many of these DP con sketches at a time that I constantly experimented with often wacky character and costume design variations to stave off boredom, as seen with the first, notably goofy piece:
2022-01-20 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from May 2017 (breaking a long streak of sketchier, more movement-based sets), along with a similarly shading-oriented collection from October 2017 with which I was clearly having a lot more trouble, as seen in the upper right pose.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these postsâ...
2022-01-19 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Behold, following up on my previous post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires), here are the work stages on a few of the Advanced Idea Mechanics pages from issue #4 that I wound up drawing myself, ...
2022-01-17 14:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the first pages from a commissioned Dirty Pair comic story in proto-Empowered format, created back in 2003 during a time when I assumed that I wouldn't be drawing comics professionally any more, due to my disenchantment with struggling through conventionally penciled and inked comic pages.
In retrospect, I clearly still wanted to draw as well as write comics at this time, but not via the slow, grinding, miserably tedious work p...
2022-01-14 14:30:01 +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 #4 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires, titled here a...
2022-01-12 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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My buffer of scheduled posts is nonexistent at the moment, so here's a hasty fill-in post, kind Patrons!
First up is a provocative yet not entirely SPOILER-y image from Empowered vol.12's climactic story, now underway as I grind through my final two months on the long-gestating volume:
An earlier Empowered vol.1...
2022-01-10 14:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the surprisingly difficult first page of a brief Empowered vol. 12 scene that I've dubbed "Young Emp and Superfriends," along with my page rough(s) and sketchy character designs for the sequence.
UPDATE: Tacked on a side-by-side image showing roughs and final art, worked up for promoting this post on Twitter. Yay?
Turns out that Artist Me just did not feel like drawing this scene one bit, but I was forced to stag...
2022-01-07 18:38:30 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from May 2017 (breaking a long streak of sketchier, more movement-based sets), along with a similarly shading-oriented collection from October 2017 drawn on tan toned paper.
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 o...
2022-01-05 14:00:06 +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 next set of my layouts for issue #3 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires,
2022-01-03 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a sketchier, movement-focused set from May 2017 (probably based on dancer and actress Jade Chenowyth, who would make a pretty dandy live-action Ninjette), along with a shading-oriented collection from October 2017 drawn on tan toned paper.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both sketch sets are d...
2021-12-30 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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(Our previous installment can be seen here.)
Behold, the abrupt and incomplete ending of a comic-format oddity from the year 2000 or so, as I recently unearthed what is probably a "dual-purpose" or "double-dipping" commissioned comic featuring Dirty Pair's Kei and Y--nay, Rose & Lily once again bedamseled all too easily, presumably in a nonsensical sim of some sort.
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2021-12-29 14:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a mockup version (with slapped-in, low-res logo and chapter title) of an Empowered vol.12 title page, which kicks off a Sistah Spooky & Emp story that's been excerpted extensively on this here Patreon over the last year or two (or three?).
As shown above, I tried to construct the figures a bit more scrupulously than normal, by first drawing the armless Spooky figure, then flopping and tracing it off for the Emp figure, then adding the arm, flopping ...
2021-12-28 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here, or check out the entire archive of this defunct project here.
In case you'd forgotten, or are a semi-recent Patron and haven't had the time nor the i...
2021-12-27 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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As a gift post on Christmas Day, here's page 1 of an especially wacky Empowered vol.12 scene that's riffing on the Hallmark Channel's annual deluge of Xmas-themed TV movies.
Alas, I can't show you page 2 of this sequence for possible SPOILER reasons (believe it or not), let alone the even more SPOILER-y page 3.
NEXT WEEK ON THIS HERE PATREON: We close out 20...
2021-12-25 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Following up on last week's post, here's the rest of the 2005 Christmas feature I worked on for the videogame magazine GamePro, where former PSM art director (and designer of the Empowered logo!) Eugene Wang brought me on board to provide wacky illustrations for an article about giftgiving options for gamers.
The star of the piece w...
2021-12-24 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Fresh off the scanner and following up on a previous post, here are more pages from the upcoming Empowered vol.12 sequence that I've informally dubbed "the Sacrificial (Not Quite) Virgins" scene!
When you see the published volume next year, you'll notice that I skipped over several very important pages in this sequence, for reasons that will become obvious; I censored the dialogue on...
2021-12-22 17:00:57 +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 next set of my layouts for issue #3 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires, titled he...
2021-12-20 14:01:03 +0000 UTC
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