Following up on last week's post, here's more from 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 was Santa's "Stealth Elf" (or "Stelf"? "Stealf"?), a tacticool cutie loosely homag...
2021-12-17 14:01:03 +0000 UTC
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(Note that I screwed up and posted installment #132 a while back from outta the "draft posts" folder by accident; here's the one you should've seen then.)
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-oriented collection from October 2017, along with a sketchier, movement-focused set from May 2017. UPDATE: In fact, I switched 'em around in the image gallery...
2021-12-15 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the opening page from the upcoming Empowered vol.12 sequence I've informally dubbed "the Sacrificial (Not Quite) Virgins" scene!
UPDATE: As seen at the end of the image gallery above, I just tacked on a side-by-side excerpt image I worked up for promoting this post on Twitter.
Readers miiiiight have been able to guess th...
2021-12-13 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Behold, my initial designs and roughs for a 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 was Santa's "Stealth Elf," a tacticool cutie (very) loosely homaging Metal Gear S...
2021-12-10 14:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the complete Work Stages for the cover illo of the 2011 one-shot Empowered: Ten Questions for the Maidman, featuring the beautiful artwork of interior artist Emily Warren (no relation), cover color artist Christina Strain, and myself (for the Emp line art on the left side of the cover).
UPDATE: No, wait a minute, I'm incorrect, as Emily's webcomic collaborator (and one-time Marvel colorist, now a Holly...
2021-12-08 14:01:03 +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...
2021-12-06 14:01:04 +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 h...
2021-12-03 14:01:03 +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, 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 dated from 2017, meaning that the end of my once-formidable buffer of life drawings is in sight, if still r...
2021-12-01 14:01:05 +0000 UTC
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(Our previous installment can be seen here.)
Behold, more of a comic-format oddity from the year 2000 or so, folks, 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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2021-11-29 14:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, as November winds down, time for this month's dose of Vintage Con Sketches as I continue scanning from a slowly dwindling binder of photocopied commissions from the early 2000s.
UPDATE: Tacked on a collage piece I worked up for promoting this post on Twitter. Yay?
Most of the pieces are self-explanatory, but a few words on several of 'em:
2021-11-26 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Behold a comic-format oddity from the year 2000 or so, folks, 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.
The "dual purpose" bit, here, is that I was probably doing this short story in part as a test for drawing comics on the linen-finish cardstock that I had been...
2021-11-24 14:15:59 +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-oriented collection from October 2017, along with a sketchier, movement-focused set from May 2017. UPDATE: In fact, I switched 'em around in the image gallery above, as I thought the bellydancing set was a bit more interesting.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both sketch set...
2021-11-22 14:01:05 +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...
2021-11-20 14:01:02 +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 #3 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires, titled here a...
2021-11-19 14:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the Work Stages for my cover illo to the 2009 one-shot Empowered: The Wench with a Million Sighs, featuring luxurious colors by Emily Warren (no relation), who would later go on to do the (excellent) artwork for the subsequent one-shot Empowered: Ten Questions for the Maidman.
Peak "Big Pouty Lips" on Emp, you'll notice. And speaking of noticing, can you spot the exceedingly wee revision made between t...
2021-11-17 14:01:03 +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-oriented collection from October 2017, along with a sketchier, foreshortening-focused 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 rather a long ways o...
2021-11-15 14:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Following up on a Failed-Project Friday post from two weeks ago, here's more of an odd pitch(?) of sorts from 2006 or thereabouts.
If I recall correctly, back then DC Comics was doing an odd product-placement comic of sorts titled Rush City, which featured a sporty-looking Pontiac Solstice (named "Sam," apparently) as driven by, I assume,
2021-11-12 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Following up on a Distressed Damsels post from October, here are few more pages of roughs for an abortive commissioned DiD comic from the early 2000s that would've pitted Dirty Pair's Kei--nay, Rose against the spiky-ball-on-a-chain-wielding character "Go-Go" from Quentin Tarantino's fine flick Kill Bill pt. 1. (Note that I was b...
2021-11-10 14:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a multiply revised page rough and a bunch of design sketches from a rather Dirty-Pair-flavored SF scene in the upcoming Empowered vol. 12. I've been holding off on tackling this particularly sequence until I worked up more designs for it, but this weekend I decided I should just bite the (no doubt caseless) bullet and jump right into the damn thing.
Easy to forget, nowadays, that producing Empowered wa...
2021-11-08 14:16:00 +0000 UTC
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Been quite a while since I've posted anything from this incomplete prose experiment; looks like the last post of this type was waaaaaay back in July 2020. You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here, or check out the entire archive of this defunct project 2021-11-05 13:01:03 +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 issue's narrative.)
Behold, the rest of my layouts for issue #1 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires, titled here as "Unnamed Robot Comic" as I'm more than a tad dubious about identifying this series of pos...
2021-11-03 13:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-oriented (and ab-focused) collection from October 2017, along with a sketchier, more gesture-focused (yet also ab-intensive) set from May 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these Monday 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...
2021-11-01 13:04:13 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the shocking return of Failed-Project Friday, folks, possibly years after our previous installment! I'm kinda not sure what was going on with this particular one, TBH, which (judging by the files) dates back to the summer of 2006.
If I recall correctly, back then DC Comics was doing an odd product-placement comic of sorts titled Rush City, which featured the sporty-looking Pontiac Solstice as driven by, ...
2021-10-29 13:16:00 +0000 UTC
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Behold, barrel-scraped from the ol' Empowered Rough Sketches folder, here are a bunch of miscellaneous sketch sets featuring poses (mostly) intended for but not yet used in an actual Emp comic.
I say "(mostly)" because the first image...
...is, IIRC, an expanded version of a previously posted art req pitting poor Emp against the 70s ...
2021-10-28 13:16:00 +0000 UTC
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Here are the color draft stages for my character-packed cover for the recently released Empowered Omnibus vol.3, which compiles regular Empowered volumes 7-9 in honkin' big TPB form. (Of course, this cover was originally done for the out-of-print Empowered Deluxe vol.3, which compiled the same materi...
2021-10-27 13:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-oriented collection from October 2017 (including some unsuccessful use of a blending stump), along with a sketchier, more gesture-focused set from May 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these Monday posts—b...
2021-10-26 13:01:02 +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 issue's narrative.)
Behold, pages 15-18 of my layouts for issue #1 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires
2021-10-25 13:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the first few pages of roughs for an abortive commissioned DiD comic from the early 2000s that would've pitted Dirty Pair's Kei--nay, Rose against the spiky-ball-on-a-chain-wielding character "Go-Go" from Quentin Tarantino's fine flick Kill Bill pt. 1. (Note that I was briefly involved in a Kill Bill comic pitch recounted here years ago, but have neither time nor interest in bothering to look up the...
2021-10-22 13:18:04 +0000 UTC
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Got no frickin' time this morning to set up today's Patreon post, so here's a quick trio of Dirty Pair-related con sketches from the summer con seasons of 2000 and 2001, hastily scanned from some rather so-so photocopies. (Tacked on the "harem girls" illo as a kinda-sorta tie-in to the recent Empowered vol. 12 Sinbad dealie.)
Or could these be "Rose...
2021-10-20 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-oriented collection from November 2017 (with that first figure at left a definite highlight), along with a sketchier, more gesture-focused set from May 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these Monday posts—both sketch sets are dated from 2017, meaning that the end of my once-formidable buffer of life drawings is in sight, if...
2021-10-18 13:01:03 +0000 UTC
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