[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 had been chosen; &...
2024-07-05 13:30:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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My final task during a relatively productive June was to rough out and script a new story to serve as an introductory chapter of fantasy "romantic action-comedy" The Chaste and the Chained. After cranking out a scrawled first draft of page roughs and working up a finished script with dialogue and panel descriptions, I went back and recopied the roughs in the "quad thumbnail" format I've used off and on over the last decade or two of sporadically writing co...
2024-07-03 13:01:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in July of 2007 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, goofily speculating about the Playstation 3's resurgence at that time (I gather). First, the rough:
And the final pencils:
There's my crappy Ruger P89 semiautomatic mak...
Whoops, really thought I had more of these kicking around! Anyhoo, here's a recent art request from the $20 tier, featuring a Patron's imperiled OC:
The "lasso portals" bit was loosely based on an unused Empowered riff, BTW.
As I did not have another new art-req-based CSP sketch ready to go (as I thought I had, whilst furiously ...
2024-06-28 13:39:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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During the first week of June or thereabouts, I worked up a variant cover for the upcoming series Time Waits (by writers Chip Zdarsky and David Brothers and artist Marcus To), a creator-owned title to be published by the company DSTLRY. The illo was set up in an interesting format, in that it's a wraparound cover that doesn't use two separate comic original pages (as is normall...
2024-06-26 14:06:10 +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:
TBH, the tremendously time-consuming approach of producing highly rendered Life Drawing sketches is starting to seem a tad pointless, especially since I (desperate...
So!
One of the $20-tier art requests from April solicited the concept of Emp from Empowered depicted as "the Chained Goddess" from fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained. I tried for an Alphonse-Mucha-inspired illo (as seen in a photo from a reference book of mine):
...and worked up this rough pose for Emp:
2024-06-21 14:48:39 +0000 UTC
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[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 had been chosen; of course, the great Brian Denham wound up tackling the art for the project, but I had already ro...
2024-06-19 13:54:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for s'more Vintage Con Sketches from 1999, scanned from photocopies of mediocre quality at best. First off, a touch of Life Drawing on this sketch of Dirty Pair's Kei and Y**i:
...as I strongly suspect that the shading on their bodies was derived from a Japanese gravure photo shot from so...
2024-06-17 13:54:19 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
Six months or so ago, I showed you some fairly cryptic roughs for a pair of Gen13 sample pages, starting with this "action page" of the superteam in costume:
Wellp, these roughs were intended to be samples finished by the great Jeffrey "Chamba" Cruz, who worked with me on 2019's Venom: The End one-shot for Marvel. Here's Ch...
UPDATE: This g-d post was supposed to go up on Wednesday morning, but I accidentally posted it today instead of scheduling the damn thing as originally intended. I suppose I could delete this post and try again, but screw that. So, enjoy an ahead-of-schedule Wednesday Life Drawing installment, dear Patrons!
No time for a new Life Drawing set this week, so I transferred over another early-ish...
2024-06-10 17:26:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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Years ago, I posted here an old DiD sketch (drawn circa 2007-2008, I'd guess) that was probably a prelim for an Empowered commission or con sketch:
...featuring the then-rare concept of an Emp DiD sketch depicting our bedamseled heroine with her mask off, for once; this image also featured some seriously wonky anatomy , to put it mildly. Then again, in e...
[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 had be...
2024-06-07 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
This morning, after finishing a freelance cover illo after a full week of work on the g-d thing (ouch), I'm back to work on the oversized (48-page!) first issue of a long, long-brewing fantasy comic project that I've been referring to here as Unidentified Fantasy Offering, though I accidentally revealed the actual title, Godplayers, in 2024-06-05 13:42:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in 2006 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, goofily speculating about the Playstation 4's then-imminent launch. First off, the rough I sent in for approval:
Pity my editor at the time didn't say, "Jeez, that looks like way too much text, dude."
Here's the final version (penciled on linen-finish cards...
2024-06-03 13:08:27 +0000 UTC View Post
No time for a new Life Drawing set this week (as I quixotically attempt to work up a wraparound cover illo in under two g-d workdays,. which is extraordinarily unlikely to happen), so I transferred over another very early Clip Studio Paint test from the ol' iPad:
Looks like I was rendering with too small a size setting on the Design Pencil tool, as my "squiggly li...
A few months back, I stumbled across the rough for a never-completed commission from 2002 or so in comic-page format, depicting Dirty Pair's Yu--nay, Lily (from the future Rose & Lily) getting bedamseled in a forest setting by unseen captors:
Her captors seem diminutive, yet tote futuristic firearms; goblins with guns, perhap...
2024-05-29 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's an update of sorts for long-burbling fantasy project The Last Party, as this weekend I cranked out a photoreferenced sketch of the group's three ladies in a swimsuit-y situation. I ran outta both worktime and patience with rendering the Half-Elf's time-consuming hair, so I pulled the plug at the point seen below:
I was trying to differentiate their physiques and body ...
[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 had been chosen; of course, the great Brian Denham wound up tackling the art for the project, but...
2024-05-24 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
No time for a new Life Drawing set this week (as I continue to work on the script for the 48-page first issue of Unidentified Fantasy Offering), so I transferred over another very early Clip Studio Paint test from the ol' iPad:
Overall, a pretty solid set, though the fairly severe limitations of my entirely "squiggle-based" approach to r...
2024-05-22 13:39:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week, whilst grinding through the seemingly endless script for issue #1 of Unidentified Fantasy Offering (which I'm still working on this week!), took a break every few hours to whittle away at some Empowered "straight-damsel-cheesecake" sketch sets based on a few long-standing requests.
One such request involved yet another DiD scene from the late-70s run of Marvel's Spider-Woman getting a...
2024-05-20 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Whoops, I scanned and Photoshopped up a set of old Dirty Pair commissions this morning before belatedly realizing that I already featured a Vintage Con Sketches post on May 1st, so you fine folks will be getting a double Vintage dose this month. I got nothin' else ready to go today, so we'll have to roll with this content, okay?
I have a sneaking suspicion that I already scanned an...
2024-05-17 13:33:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, my thumbnails for a new story I wrote and laid out for the upcoming Marvel anthology book Venomverse Reborn #2, due out on 7/24; this is an 8-pager that revisits the universe I first explored in the 2019 one-shot Venom: The End.
I don't think that these "thumbs" constitute SPOILERS of any sort, really, due to the fact that A) I'm pretty sure you can't figure out the stor...
2024-05-15 13:29:18 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
This morning, I'm grinding away at the script for the oversized (48-page!) first issue of a long, long-brewing fantasy comic project that I've been referring to here as Unidentified Fantasy Offering, due to the fact that its real title arguably gives away the series' overall premise.
"WHOOPS! WHOOPSIE!" UPDATE: Belatedly occurred to me that the project's real title is, in fact, listed on t...
2024-05-13 13:45:26 +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: Hypervelocity, the first issue of which I wrote and laid out long before an artist had been chosen; of course, the great Brian Denham wound up tackling the art for the project, but...
2024-05-10 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostJust had to delete a recent post depicting (if I may emphasize) consensual bedroom roleplaying between Emp and Thugboy (cosplaying as the Old-Timey Inventor of Duct-Tape"), which Patreon apparently considered to be "promoting s*xual violence." As I assume the consensual sp*nking being depicted was what drew the attention of Trust & Safety's Eye of Sauron, safe to say most of the early "Elf vs. Chair" pages from The Chaste an...
2024-05-08 15:08:46 +0000 UTC View Post
No time for a new Life Drawing set this week, so I transferred over some very early Clip Studio Paint tests from the ol' iPad.
First off, a 2020 sketch set combining two photoreferenced sketches with art requests and tests for the Half-Orc from Party of Two (and now, The Last Party):
...and an all-
Continuing on a previous bunch of Clip Studio Paint page roughs from a kinda-but-not-really story from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained, I had been noodling away on a scene of the Elf Mage finding herself bedamseled yet again by a magically animated chair. This wasn't really a "true" Chaste story like the sample ...
2024-05-06 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in 2005 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, apparently speculating about potential peripherals for the then-upcoming Playstation 3:
Not sure about the precise nature of this piece, as I can locate neither the original rough (which would've featured the cartoon's suggested title) nor my comp copy of that particul...
2024-05-03 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, s'more really Vintage Con Sketches from 1998-99, as scanned from old photocopies, hence the somewhat crappy repro quality.
First off, a straightforward Dirty Pair illo with Kei upraising the ol' Hypno-Butt:
Next, a rather odd Y*ri illo:
2024-05-01 13:00:14 +0000 UTC
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