Due to the new "M/W/F+" posting schedule, I can no longer refer to this feature as Design Tuesday; instead, I'm titling this type of post as Designs Ahoy, possibly in tribute to a certain seafaring vtuber. (Or not.)
Here are a few more of the (many) exploratory design sketches I did back circa 2009 for an ultimately abortive project related to the SSX snowboarding videogame series. At this (very) early point i...
2021-08-09 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Behold, my first few pages of layouts for 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 posts publicly. Keep this to yourselves, won't you? (The joke of using the title "Unnamed Robot Comic", by the way, is that Livewires' mecha protagonists...
2021-08-06 13:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Here are the final inks and initial rough (and, UPDATE, color guides) for my character-packed cover for Empowered Deluxe vol.2, which compiled regular Empowered volumes 4-6 along with a whole lotta bonus material in a limited-edition hardcover collection.
UPDATE 2: Tacked on a side-by-side comparative jpeg I worked up for Twitter. Enjoy?
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2021-08-05 13:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Following up on a post from last week, here's the rest of an incomplete, 2003-era commissioned Dirty Pair comic featuring Kei-- nay, Rose-- facing off against "the Warlord of the Ecliptic," a fictional character from 22nd-century pop culture played by her early-adolescence crush, the actor Jude Lomani (as seen in 1999-2000's miniseries DP: Run from the Future<...
2021-08-04 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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So, I'm easing y'all into the new M/W/F posting schedule by, well, doing a full M/T/W/T/F slate of posts to start off the month. Er, enjoy? (The truth is, I just screwed up my drawing hand pretty badly and had to put Empowered vol.12 production on hold for a few days of, I hope, recuperation; in the meantime, I'm going to try and get ahead on Patreon posts.)
Here are a few more of the (many) exploratory design sketches I did back circa 2009 for an ultimately ab...
2021-08-03 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 November 2017, along with a more gesture-focused set from April 2017.
Note that we've 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 still rather a long ways off, as I cranked out life drawings almost daily through t...
2021-08-02 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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As I clear out the last few Vintage Con Sketches from various folders on my wheezing old PC, I see a bunch of miscellaneous Dirty Pair pieces that I suspect I might have previously posted on this here Patreon—but if I did so, that was months or possibly even years ago. My (admittedly insincere) apologies in advance for any reposting of these images, as my archive of Patreon posts is too vast and sprawling to easily check through in a timel...
2021-07-30 13:10:26 +0000 UTC
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Following up on a post from earlier this month, here are the work stages for the coloring of my character-packed cover for Empowered Deluxe vol.1, which compiled the first three regular Empowered volumes along with a whole lotta bonus material in a limited-edition hardcover collection.
Line art by me, and colors by the fine folks of th...
2021-07-29 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Akk! Got no time to prep this g-d post, let alone tag on a lengthy commentary, so lemme try to keep this short & sweet: Here's the first half of a 2003-era commissioned Dirty Pair comic featuring Kei-- nay, Rose-- facing off against "the Warlord of the Ecliptic," a fictional character from 22nd-century pop culture played by her early-adolescence crush, the actor Jude Lomani (as seen in 1999-2000's miniseries DP: Run from the Future
2021-07-28 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Here are a few more of the (many) exploratory design sketches I did back circa 2009 for an ultimately abortive project related to the SSX snowboarding videogame series. At this (very) early point in said project's development, I was just playing around with various potential approaches to the game's familiar cast; the project was cancelled long before I ever figured out a final take on any of the characters.
Still, I had a surprising amount of fun playing aroun...
2021-07-27 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 collection from November 2017, along with a more gesture-focused set from April 2017.
Note that we've 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 still rather a long ways off, as I cranked out life drawings almost daily through t...
2021-07-26 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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2012 was, for the most part, the last year I was still doing these drawn-at-home commissions, so enjoy a final few high-quality pieces as I close out this folder, folks!
The pieces are all pretty self-explanatory, so I'll save myself a precious few minutes of worktime by eschewing commentaries this time out. Feel free to add your own comment(arie)s below, though; for example, which one is your favorite? (The Spooky one is my fave, BTW.)
UPDATE: As I've do...
2021-07-16 13:01:07 +0000 UTC
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In a rare confluence of this here Patreon and the ongoing webcomic serialization of Empowered, I thought I'd post the design work stages for a key story element appearing in Thursday's webcomic page: namely, the so-called "Vorpal Sword," which my bud Ryan Kinnaird worked up for me as a 3D Sketchup model based on a few initial design sketches of mine:
2021-07-15 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Running waaaaay behind today as I struggle with Empowered vol.12's nightmarishly time-consuming cover illo; anyhoo, here are a pair of damsel-related pieces from (I think) 1993, hastily scanned from not-very-good photocopies.
First off is a pseudonymous illo I did for a 1993 edition of Kenichi Sonoda's long-running Comic Market doujin:
Wow, that is a...
2021-07-14 13:17:47 +0000 UTC
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Here are a few more of the (many) exploratory design sketches I did back circa 2009 for an ultimately abortive project related to the SSX snowboarding videogame series. At this (very) early point in said project's development, I was just playing around with various potential approaches to the game's familiar cast; the project was cancelled long before I ever figured out a final take on any of the characters.
Still, I had a surprising amount of fun playing aroun...
2021-07-13 13:01:02 +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 set from November 2017, along with a similarly focused set from April 2017.
Note that we've 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 still rather a long ways off, as I cranked out life drawings almost daily through that year. ...
2021-07-12 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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2012 was, for the most part, the last year I was still doing these drawn-at-home commissions, so enjoy a few more weeks of high-quality pieces before the supply runs out, folks!
A few words:
TBH, I doubt the commissioner specified that Emp be depicted as freeing herself, but I did this just for a break from Emp's usual bedamseling. (For the nitpickers out there, I'd assume tha...
2021-07-09 13:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Here's the initial rough, pencils & inks for my character-packed cover for Empowered Deluxe vol.1, which compiled the first three regular Empowered volumes along with a whole lotta bonus material in a limited-edition hardcover collection.
In retrospect, I'm not at all sure that the "limited-edition" aspect of Empowered Deluxe was helpful at all, as pretty much every reader I've ever spoken to about this ma...
2021-07-08 13:01:02 +0000 UTC
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The first two pages above are a commissioned story fragment from 2002 or so featuring Dirty Pair's Kei—er, no, Rose running afoul of futuristic bondage tech. For DP DiD one-offs like this (and for the series proper, as seen in DP: Run from the Future) I worked out many, many ways that ultra-tech gear could be used to non-lethally incapacitate and/or restrain targets, with many of those concepts later seei...
2021-07-07 13:01:05 +0000 UTC
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Here a few more of the (many) exploratory design sketches I did back circa 2009 for an ultimately abortive project related to the SSX snowboarding videogame series. At this (very) early point in said project's development, I was just playing around with various potential approaches to the game's familiar cast; the project was cancelled long before I ever figured out a final take on any of the characters.
Still, I had a surprising amount of fun playing around wi...
2021-07-06 13:00:06 +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 set from November 2017, along with a more foreshortening-focused set from April 2017.
Note that we've 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 still rather a long ways off, as I cranked out life drawings almost daily through t...
2021-07-05 13:01:03 +0000 UTC
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2012 was, for the most part, the last year I was still doing these drawn-at-home commissions, so enjoy a few more weeks of high-quality pieces before the supply runs out, folks!
This would be the first time I'd drawn Darth Vader's outfit since, jeez, Joe Wight and I did the covers for Dark Horse's translations of the Star Wars manga circa '98 or so.
2021-07-02 13:15:00 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the first few pages of an Empowered vol.12 scene featuring a very unusual variation of our heroine that I've dubbed "Domme Emp" (or "DominEmp," perhaps), whose experiences through the series would've been notably different... including the fact that Ocelotina clearly finds her even hotter than "vanilla Emp."
LATER TODAY ON THIS HERE PATREON: Big Spenders, stand by for your June exclusive post in, well, July. (Ongoing t...
2021-07-01 13:01:59 +0000 UTC
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Last week, I posted a rather goofy-ass DiD commissioned story—or perhaps "story," more accurately—drawn 20-odd years ago that featured Kei and Y—er, Rose & Lily bedamseled by a sinister stage magician.
Wellp, whilst recently struggling to develop production momentum on Empowered vol.12, I drew a sketchy few pages of a scenario that would've dramatically improved th...
2021-06-30 13:11:41 +0000 UTC
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Here a few more of the (many) exploratory design sketches I did back circa 2009 for an ultimately abortive project related to the SSX snowboarding videogame series. At this (very) early point in said project's development, I was just playing around with various potential approaches to the game's familiar cast; the project was cancelled long before I ever figured out a final take on any of the characters.
Still, I had a surprising amount of fun playing around wi...
2021-06-29 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 set from November 2017, along with a more gesture-oriented set from April 2017.
Note that we've 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 still rather a long ways off, as I cranked out life drawings almost daily through that ye...
2021-06-28 13:01:04 +0000 UTC
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2012 was, for the most part, the last year I was still doing these drawn-at-home commissions, so enjoy a few weeks of high-quality pieces before the supply runs out, folks!
First off, one of my all-time favorites:
Ninjette, at least, was photoreferenced from a catalog shot; clearly, this was from a time when low-riding shorts were riding very, very low indeed.
Next up...
2021-06-25 13:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Back in early June, I posted the work stages on my cover illo for Empowered Unchained, the 2015 trade paperback collecting all the Empowered one-shots written by me and drawn by series of excellent Guest Artists.
Wellp, to finish up Work...
2021-06-24 12:36:02 +0000 UTC
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As seen below, I recently dug up what looks like an unfinished (and hence especially sketchy) con sketch from the early 2000s, featuring a hapless Kei and Y—er, Rose and Lily—running afoul of a sinister magician whilst sporting the classic Yoshikazu Yasuhiko "chrome shorts" costumes:
Dig those whimsical proportions on the foreground Rose, folks!
Not long after, though (judgin...
2021-06-23 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Here a few more of the (many) exploratory design sketches I did back circa 2009 for an ultimately abortive project related to the SSX snowboarding videogame series. At this (very) early point in said project's development, I was just playing around with various potential approaches to the game's familiar cast; the project was cancelled long before I ever figured out a final take on any of the characters.
Still, I had a surprising amount of fun playing around wi...
2021-06-22 13:01:05 +0000 UTC
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