Following up on last Thursday's work-stages post on the cover illustration for Empowered vol.6, here are most of the work stages for the volume's back-cover illo of Makro, host of the Empverse reality show Superdirty Jobs. Line art and color guide by me, final colors by the great studio Guru eFX, who have colored a whole bunch of pieces for me.
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2020-12-10 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out the previous installment of this story here.)
Wellp, I'm down to the last few commissioned DiD stories in proto-EMPOWERED format, folks! This one's from 2003 or thereabouts, based on a simple request from a very generous friend in a time of great financial need for Yrs Truly: Dirty Pair's Kei pitted against a fairly generic Jungle Girl in ...
2020-12-09 14:15:59 +0000 UTC
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This month's Design Tuesdays feature will cover my initial character designs for the 1997 DC Comics Prestige Format (ooh!) one-shot Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone. Today, we're tackling the character Hikarimono (Japanese for "being of light" IIRC), nicknamed "Dead Prettyboy" as his superhero name by Jamadagni.
Can't say for sure, but I think h...
2020-12-08 14:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains reasonably large.) First above is a set from March 2018, while the second set is an example from March 2017, still fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-12-07 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Today, I'm breaking the Friday format of Vintage Con Sketch to show the work stages for a piece fresh off the drawing table created in my modern-day, two-color con sketch format. This one's another birthday gift for one of the players in my on-and-off D&D campaign dating back to the end of 2019 (even though he's actually running a Dragonborn sorcerer in the current campaign).
I was inspired by the idea of a dwarf barbarian enough to add another example of t...
2020-12-04 14:45:31 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the complete work stages on my cover illo for Empowered vol.6! Line art and color guides by me, final color artwork by the great Emily Warren (no relation), who later did the art for the Empowered: Ten Questions for the Maidman one-shot.
TOMORROW ON THIS HERE PATREON: Very likely some Vintage Con Sketches, though I'm not sure about that, given that I'm scheduling this post over a month out (on Nov.5).<...
2020-12-03 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out the previous installment of this story here.)
Wellp, I'm down to the last few commissioned DiD stories in proto-EMPOWERED format, folks! This one's from 2003 or thereabouts, based on a simple request from a very generous friend in a time of great financial need for Yrs Truly: Dirty Pair's Kei pitted against a fairly generic Jungle Girl in ...
2020-12-02 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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This month's Design Tuesdays feature will cover my initial character designs for the 1997 DC Comics Prestige Format (ooh!) one-shot Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone. Today, we're kicking things off with the design sheets for protagonist Jamadagni and her ill-fated ex-boyfriend Alec; alas, I'm scanning these from rather crappy photocopies, hence the less-than-ideal repro quality.
2020-12-01 15:03:24 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains reasonably large.) First above is a set from March 2018, while the second set is an example from March 2017, still fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-11-30 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, back to plowing through the remaining pieces in my old CON SKETCHES folder. With these pieces, we're hitting up the illos listed under the letters I through K. A few words:
Does 2008 really count as Vintage? Ehh, maybe.
I did a whole lotta commissions over t...
2020-11-27 14:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Not much time for a full post today, as I'm presently struggling to hit a 15-page threshold on Empowered vol.12 production for November*, so here's a quick preview image for a feature that will be running on this here Patreon in December.
Yeahp, next month I'll be posting the entire portfolio of illustrations, comic pages, and character designs that I worked up in 1987 as a pitch to get the rights to produce an original English-language Dirty Pair
2020-11-26 14:11:34 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out the previous installment of this story here.)
Wellp, I'm down to the last few commissioned DiD stories in proto-EMPOWERED format, folks! This one's from 2003 or thereabouts, based on a simple request from a very generous friend in a time of great financial need for Yrs Truly: Dirty Pair's Kei pitted against a fairly generic Jungle Girl in ...
2020-11-25 14:01:04 +0000 UTC
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This month, my Patreon's informal "Design Tuesday" feature will be featuring my initial, circa-1992 sketches of the lead characters from the anime Bubblegum Crisis, drawn as part of my Studio Proteus pitch to write and draw an original, English-language BGC comic miniseries. (Non-SPOILER ALERT: The proposal was eventually successful, and in 1994 wound up producing the 4-part Dark Horse miniseries Bubbleg...
2020-11-24 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains reasonably large.) First above is a set from March 2018, while the second set is an example from March 2017, still fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-11-23 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, back to plowing through the remaining pieces in my old CON SKETCHES folder. With these three, we're hitting up the illos listed under the letter G. (False alarm last Friday, when I said we were moving on to the letter E; heck, I didn't even have any F-based entries in the folder, either!)
A few words:
A photref-based Gen13 commission, as you can tell by th...
2020-11-20 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Haven't had much time to tackle November's art requests from the $20 tier's Big Spenders, due to actually making progress on Empowered vol.12; I've only managed 10 pages so far this month, but that's welcome progress nonetheless, believe me.
A few words on the few sketch sets I've cranked out around Emp pages:
Dino OC (Original Cha...
2020-11-19 13:42:34 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out the previous installment of this story here.)
Wellp, I'm down to the last few commissioned DiD stories in proto-EMPOWERED format, folks! This one's from 2003 or thereabouts, based on a simple request from a very generous friend in a time of great financial need* for Yrs Truly: Dirty Pair's Kei pitted against a fairly generic Jungle Girl in...
2020-11-18 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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This month, my Patreon's informal "Design Tuesday" feature will be featuring my initial, circa-1992 sketches of the lead characters from the anime Bubblegum Crisis, drawn as part of my Studio Proteus pitch to write and draw an original, English-language BGC comic miniseries. (Non-SPOILER ALERT: The proposal was eventually successful, and in 1994 wound up producing the 4-part Dark Horse miniseries Bubbleg...
2020-11-17 14:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains reasonably large.) First above is a set from March 2018, while the second set is an example from March 2017, still fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-11-16 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, back to plowing through the remaining pieces in my old CON SKETCHES folder. With these three, we're finishing off the last illos listed under the letter D.
A few words:
Pretty solid 2002 piece based on the heroine from Deity, an image comic from the late 90s created by Karl Altstaetter and Robert Upton. A rare early example of working from photoreference (...
2020-11-13 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Behold, partial work stages for the image of Emp cosplaying Ninjette that appeared on the back cover of Empowered vol.7; alas, I couldn't dig up the piece's rough sketch or pencils. I could. however, dig up the photoref I used for that hachiwara she's holding.
Line art by me, colors by Guru eFX, who also (excellently) handled2020-11-12 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, I'm down to the last few commissioned DiD stories in proto-EMPOWERED format, folks! This one's from 2003 or thereabouts, based on a simple request from a very generous friend in a time of great financial need* for Yrs Truly: Dirty Pair's Kei pitted against a fairly generic Jungle Girl in a cheesecake-intensive struggle session!
This incomplete episode wound up being surprisingly ambitious by its inconclusive ending (twenty...
2020-11-11 14:05:40 +0000 UTC
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This month, my Patreon's informal "Design Tuesday" feature will be featuring my initial, circa-1992 sketches of the lead characters from the anime Bubblegum Crisis, drawn as part of my Studio Proteus pitch to write and draw an original, English-language BGC comic miniseries. (Non-SPOILER ALERT: The proposal was eventually successful, and in 1994 wound up producing the 4-part Dark Horse miniseries Bubbleg...
2020-11-10 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains reasonably large.) First above is a set from March 2018, while the second set is an example from March 2017, still fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-11-09 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Digging back through my slowly but inexorably dwindling backlog of old Dirty Pair con sketches for this week's set, folks! (Someday, as with my likewise shrinking supply of life drawings, I'll have to shift to fewer images per Vintage Con Sketch post to conserve the resource.)
When I was cranking these DP pieces out en masse, I would constantly try out costume, hair, and facial-design variations of Kei & Y...
2020-11-06 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Given that I haven't done an "Empowered cover illo work stages" post in quite a while, I'm not quite sure whether or not I've already covered (ha ha!) vol.7's fine illustration. Wellp, here it is anyway!
Line art by me, with truly excellent colors by Joe Weltjens of Guru eFX. Despite some flaws on my illustrative end, the completed cover illo for vol.7 remains probably my favorite one from the entire series, in large part due to the beautiful color work. <...
2020-11-05 14:00:33 +0000 UTC
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Following up on last Wednesday's post, behold two more very short stories from the very first version of Empowered (long before the nascent project acquired that title), drawn in July 2004 in place of a bunch of damsel-in-distress pin-ups that were boring me to tears.
A few words, as we kick off with "No Safe Place," a two-pager featuring a quartet of distressing situatio...
2020-11-04 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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This month, my Patreon's informal "Design Tuesday" feature will be featuring my initial, circa-1992 sketches of the lead characters from the anime Bubblegum Crisis, drawn as part of my Studio Proteus pitch to write and draw an original, English-language BGC comic miniseries. (Non-SPOILER ALERT: The proposal was eventually successful, and in 1994 wound up producing the 4-part Dark Horse miniseries Bubbleg...
2020-11-03 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains reasonably large.) First above is a set from April 2018, while the second set is an example from March 2017, still fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments. Gotta ask: Is anybody still getting value outta taking look-sees ...
2020-11-02 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Digging back through my slowly but inexorably dwindling backlog of old Dirty Pair con sketches for this week's set, folks! (Someday, as with my likewise shrinking supply of life drawings, I'll have to shift to fewer images per Vintage Con Sketch post to conserve the resource.)
When I was cranking these DP pieces out en masse, I would constantly try out costume, hair, and facial-design variations of Kei & Y...
2020-10-30 13:01:06 +0000 UTC
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