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So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, the first issue of which I wrote and laid out long before an artist h...
2024-09-13 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
F**k me, forgot entirely that I was supposed to schedule a post for this morning, what with other work I had to wrap up last night and the trip to a new hospital I had to take this afternoon. (Don't sweat it, BTW, as the treatment was for someone else.)
So!
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in March of 2006 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, goofily speculating about potential redesigns and format changes for the magazine i...
2024-09-11 20:46:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a recent "conventionless con sketch" done partly for a Patron art request but mainly to try out (and time out) my old Con Sketch art approach. Based on a suggestion for Emp and Ocelotina from Empowered trading costumes but still winding up bedamseled somehow, here's the initial rough, scribbled out as a thumbnail on one quarter of a sheet of 8.5" X 1" paper:
2024-09-09 13:31:36 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a new Clip Studio Paint sketch set, screwing around with a bunch of different CSP brushes as I desperately and very likely futilely try to figure out a looser and more spontaneous art approach:
(Note the excellent Ninjette cosplayer at upper right, BTW.)
As I flail around with art tests on that Last Party Half-Orc story, I am beginning to suspe...
2024-09-06 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Just received my comp copies for the variant cover I did for the new comic Time Waits from publisher Dstlry, created by co-writers Chip Zdarsky & David Brothers and artist Marcus To; interestingly, the variant cover is available in both B&W and color versions, judging by my comps.
Here's the color version, which I hadn't shown you before (IIRC):
2024-09-04 13:00:26 +0000 UTC
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So, last month I showed you fine folks some new analog-media pages from a test story for fantasy project The Last Party featuring the Half-Orc Healer:
Those pages were inked directly on art board for decent enough results, but the workflow was too slow and cumbers...
So, a while ago, I showed you fine folks an old Empowered rough sketch from circa vol. 3 (meaning 2008 or so), that would've been the basis for a commission featuring an unmasked Emp restrained in a King-Kong-style "human sacrifice" pose:
Wellp, I imported that scan into Clip Studio Paint (iOS version) and revised it with the figure propor...
In honor of the long-delayed Empowered vol.12 having gone off to the printers (months ago, I'm told), thought I'd revisit a DiD-intensive sequence I previously posted here years ago, in which Emp faces off with an unusual variation of familiar supervillain Deathmonger:
Yes, it's Deathtrapmonger!
2024-08-28 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a new Clip Studio Paint sketch set (with the iOS Design Pencil brush), based on an interesting YouTube thumbnail:
...and an old, analog-pencil set from late 2016, early on in my ultimately disastrous near-daily Life Drawing kick:
The photoreference for these...
2024-08-26 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
So, a while back I showed you fine folks some analog-media page roughs for a new test story from fantasy project The Last Party:
So, I worked up a pose rough for the Half-Orc Healer character in Clip Studio Paint on the ol' iPad:
...then I sent it over the ol' PC, w...
2024-08-23 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: H...
2024-08-21 13:28:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, I'm now scraping the bottom of the barrel for photocopies of old Con Sketches, as these were among the few remaining Dirty Pair commissions yet to be scanned:
Behold, a bridal lingerie version of Shasti; surprised I didn't go for a more direct version of t2024-08-19 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Another new(-ish) Clip Studio Paint set, addressing abs, a neat liftbro pic, and hair:
That liftbro pic is very interesting, gotta say. Tried an ink-like approach with the abs at lower left, which was wildly unsuccessful. (Oh, well.)
Next up, an old set from late 2016 or so, when I was just beginning a yearlong kick of near-daily life drawing:2024-08-16 13:37:54 +0000 UTC
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Time for another update from the upcoming fantasy comic project codenamed Unidentified Fantasy Offering (aka its actual title, Godplayers)!
One of the project's sprawling cast of characters—we're talking at least six g-d protagonists and six main antagonists along with a rotating series of secondary foes!—is a Half-Elf Ranger, intended as a (wildly overpowered) counterpart to the Fallen Angel Archer shown here earlier.
...
2024-08-14 13:21:18 +0000 UTC View Post
As I flail desperately about for damsel-y content, here's a recent Clip Studio Paint (PC version) sketch based on a $20-tier art request, featuring an OC in a suggested pose with a vaguely King Kong-ish sacrificial vibe:
This reminded me of a rather old Empowered rough sketch, dating all the way back to vol. 3:
2024-08-12 13:08:24 +0000 UTC
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Ah, yes, the rarely seen feature Failed-Project Friday returns, after I recently unearthed unscanned printouts of artwork that my bud Ryan Kinnaird worked up in the futuristic year 2000 for a second attempt at pitching a Dirty Pair project intended to be drawn by him and written by me:
A year or two earlier (I think?), we had unsucce...
2024-08-09 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Last night, knocked out a decent 30-minute Clip Studio Paint set of female abs from random photoreference:
Tough to properly convey just how frickin' bright that highlight below the belly button looks, gotta say. Anyhoo, lady abs are always relevant to mon oeuvre, so this is useful practice; so would be "liftbro" abs as well, which I probably should've m...
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, the first issue of which I wrote and laid out long before an artist h...
2024-08-05 13:26:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in October of 2007 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, goofily speculating about upcoming Star Wars-related products for the Playstation(s). First, the rough:
Whoops, I can't find the rough in my old PSM folder; said sketch must have existed (or I couldn't have gotten this concept approved), but it's nowhere to be found nowadays, alas.
Well, h...
2024-08-02 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
{Here's a link to the first part of this story.]
So!
Earlier in July, I wrapped up page roughs for a sprawling, suitably epic introductory story for fantasy project The Last Party, which worked out quite well; I really enjoyed the experience of roughing out yet another long-ass issue after cranking out 80-odd similar roughs last month for fant...
2024-07-31 13:24:37 +0000 UTC View Post
[Here's a link to our previous installment.]
With nothin' readily at hand for Distressed Damsel content right now, I decided to forge ahead with posting further page roughs for a new story serving as an introductory chapter of fantasy "romantic action-comedy" The Chaste and the Chained; plenty of DiD imagery in these ...
2024-07-29 14:16:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The only Life Drawing I've managed of late was the following gestural set drawn this morning:
Started out as a shading set (as seen at upper left), but I switched over to a quicker series of random, much quicker sketches, which are more likely to be helpful with my current work.
To bulk out this post, I jumped back to an early set from 2017, only a few month...
2024-07-26 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for another update from the upcoming fantasy comic project codenamed Unidentified Fantasy Offering (aka its actual title, Godplayers)!
One of the project's sprawling cast of characters—we're talking at least six g-d protagonists and six main antagonists along with a rotating series of secondary foes!—is a dark-haired Catgirl Thief (or Rogue, per current-era D&D), as seen in one of the few des...
2024-07-24 13:36:36 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
Out of ten or so existing plotlines that could be used for the second issue/chapter/whatever of fantasy romantic-action-comedy-with-a-kink The Chaste and the Chained, I decided to roll with the one involving a "Potion Master" who grabs and carries off the Elfmage Avatar of the Chained Goddess:
A big fella! Anyhoo, he subdues the Elfmage with a specialized poti...
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, the first issue of which I wrote and laid out long before an artist h...
2024-07-19 13:25:27 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
Last week, I wrapped up page roughs for a sprawling, suitably epic introductory story for fantasy project The Last Party, which worked out quite well; I really enjoyed the experience of roughing out yet another long-ass issue after cranking out 80-odd similar roughs last month for fantasy comics Godplayers and The Chaste and the Chained.
One problem, however: I do not currently have a means of...
2024-07-17 13:55:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a quartet of Dirty Pair con sketches from 1999, scanned from mediocre photocopies (hence the less-than-deal repro quality). First off, a straightforward "two-shot" of our heroines:
Next, a standalone Yu--nay, Lily commission, which I filled out with multiple headshots:
2024-07-15 13:34:59 +0000 UTC
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So!
A while ago, this somewhat well-known Spider-Woman cover illo from the late 70s was mentioned in passing as I was revisiting part of the issue's rather wacky narrative for an Empowered sketch set:
...when, after a Patron mentioned it as a possible art request topic, I considered reinterpreting the cover concep...
2024-07-12 13:11:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Tried something a bit different recently with the ol' iOS Clip Studio Paint app, in that I experimented with a quicker, looser drawing approach based on random photoreference off my tablet's camera roll and from a Japanese pose-reference photo book:
Not the most aesthetically pleasing of sets, TBH, but what the heck. That White Queen cosplay photo had a really interesting pose, though I didn't...
So!
As I'm grinding through some initial page roughs for long-gestating fantasy comic The Last Party (aka the one fantasy project I would actually draw myself, as opposed to writing-only dealies The Chaste and the Chained and Unidentified Fantasy Offering), thought I'd show you fine folks some of my designs for the many, many armors worn by the Half-Elf member of the Party:<...
2024-07-08 13:39:20 +0000 UTC View Post