Behold, a pair of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets based on some of the art requests suggested by the fine folks of the $5 tier! (Time for the $3 art request post, looks like.) I'd hoped to add a few scans of older con sketches based on the Devil Kei/ Angel Yuri and Harley Quinn requests, but guess what? My ancient version of Photoshop has suddenly decided it won't import anything but g-d PDFs. Yayyyyy!
UPDATE (11:30am): Photoshop's still borked and will need to be r...
2020-02-25 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Yet 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 September 2018, while the second set is an example from January 2017, fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-02-24 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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This promo illo for the fast-approaching Emerald City Comic-Con was posted by the con's Twitter account earlier this week, so I thought I might as well post the work stages here, too.
Note that the idea is that Emp is freaking out about the looming event, whereas 'Jette isn't, or at least not in the same manner as Emp. Kozue is likewise saying "AAAAAAA" in Japanese hiragana form, which would of course sound the same; BTW, that kana is based on the default font used in ...
2020-02-21 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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It's high time to get a jump on the ol' February art requests with you fine folks of the $5 tier! As usual, the focus for these pieces and sketch sets will be on Clip Studio Paint digital-art tests, but with a slightly different, two-pronged approach over the next few months:
1) First, while I'm quite comfortable sketching and drawing roughs in CSP, I am nowhere near having a viable art technique for finished, printable comic pages and illos. None of the app's ...
2020-02-21 04:30:31 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out part 2 of this serialization here.)
Whoops, plumb forgot I was gonna revisit this unpublished project on a twice-per-month basis!
Wellp, we're continuing serialization of my page roughs and scripts for Empowered and the Giant-Size Issues, a never-published, two-issue miniseries intended to be draw...
2020-02-20 14:11:22 +0000 UTC
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Got no time today for a detailed post, so above are a few (relatively) rough sketch sets drawn for a commissioner who was cool with such loose artwork, along with the later Empowered pages that reused poses from those sets.
Finally, the last piece in the gallery above was drawn t'other day in Clip Studio Paint for a $10 tier art request suggesting a bondage drone of some sort deviling a hapless Emp.
On the CSP tip, just bought one of the 2020-02-19 14:08:04 +0000 UTC
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Following up from the cliffhanger ending of the last bunch of Empowered vol.12 pages I posted here a few weeks back, enjoy a wholesome few pages of Spooky and her smilodon friend—plus a potentially momentous implication for Emp with that final panel on the third page! (Plus the work-stage roughs for each page.)
Also, enjoy the big cat's whiskers, which were inked on...
2020-02-18 14:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Yet 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 October 2018, while the second set is an example from January 2017, fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-02-17 14:35:42 +0000 UTC
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I recently unearthed the tattered remnants of my comic collection from early childhood, and stumbled across a 1976(!) issue of Marvel's Black Goliath that might well have been an indirect influence on Emp's supersuit from Empowered. (I say "indirect" because I haven't laid eyes on this issue in forty-odd years.)
A few words of introduction:
"After being attacked by Stilt-Man with his Z-Ray, Black Goliath, Celia and her ...
2020-02-14 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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I'm not 100% sure that I didn't already post this cover months and months ago, but as I have 10 g-d minutes to schedule this post, I gotta roll with it!
Above are the work stages for my cover illo for issue #1 of UDON's Street Fighter Legends: Ibuki miniseries, a project written by my friend Jim Zub and featuring art by Omar Dogan. Final colors by Emily Warren (no relation), done over my uninked pencils; worked out pretty well, I think.
Gotta go; ho...
2020-02-13 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out the previous pages of this story fragment here.)
Per your votes in a recent Patreon poll, here's the second-highest-rated option from said tally, which is yet another incomplete commissioned DiD story in proto-Empowered pencil format, dating from 2004 or so. This t...
2020-02-12 14:05:59 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a quartet (UPDATE: quintet!) of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets based on art requests from the $20 tier! The files are a bit larger than previous ones because I'm drawing at higher resolution nowadays, in the hopes of gaining a better idea of what a finished art technique (for published comics) might be like.
UPDATE CLARIFICATION: Ehh, the last one already appeared as a bonus illo in last Wednesday's Distressed Damsels feature, but I thought I mig...
2020-02-11 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Yet 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 October 2018, while the second set is an example from January 2017, fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
Tomorrow on this here Patreon: Time for a bi...
2020-02-10 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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I've spoken before on Comics Riffs I Love of my adoration for the artist BOICHI's work on the manga Sun-Ken Rock. In fact, I'll copy/paste a few introductory paragraphs from my previous BOICHI Admiration Post:
The Korean artist BOICHI is probably best-known nowadays for his work on the manga Dr. Stone, but I fir...
2020-02-07 15:02:14 +0000 UTC
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<Note: You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installments with this tag.
And now, back to Emp's first-person narration in (old) Twitter-based 140-character format, taking place roughly around the beginning of Empowered vol.1. This next chapter's a bit...
2020-02-06 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out the previous pages of this story fragment here.)
Per your votes in a recent Patreon poll, here's the second-highest-rated option from said tally, which is yet another incomplete commissioned DiD story in proto-Empowered pencil format, dating from 2004 or so. This time around, a sho...
2020-02-05 14:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Note: I'm more than a tad dubious about posting very much recent Marvel content on this Patreon, hence my choice to avoid mentioning in public what project these roughs are from.
Anyhoo!
Since I posted the first few pages of my Procreate digital roughs for the Marvel one-shot Venom: The End a while back, I decided, "Why not post a few more?" And lo, here...
2020-02-04 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Yet 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 October 2018, while the second set is an example from January 2017, fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-02-03 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a quartet of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets based on January art requests from all the sub-$20 tiers! They're pretty self-explanatory, though I should note that the next-to-last last one (below) already appeared in this Wednesday's Distressed Damsels post:
...but I thought I'd repost it here, too, as it's arguably interesting as my first real attempt to do an "inks over blue pencils" rif...
2020-01-31 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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<Note: You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installments with this tag.>
And now, back to Emp's first-person narration in (old) Twitter-based 140-character format, taking place roughly around the beginning of Empowered vol.1. In this chapter, Emp ...
2020-01-30 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out the first few pages of this story fragment here.)
Per your votes in a recent Patreon poll, here's the second-highest-rated option from said tally, which is yet another incomplete commissioned DiD story in proto-Empowered pencil format. This time around, a shockingly easy-to-s...
2020-01-29 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a sketch-cover illo (and work stages) of Valiant's nanotech-driven character Bloodshot, drawn for the fine charity Hero Initiative, which helps comics creators in need (including a number of friends of mine, which is vaguely depressing). The piece will eventually be auctioned on eBay in the distant future, as well as subsequently reprinted in an entire Hero-Initiative-published book of Bloodshot artwork by many different comics creat...
2020-01-28 14:41:00 +0000 UTC
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Yet 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 June 2018; note the serious drop-off in frequency, as the previous set was from November 2018. (I was desperately grinding away at Empowered vol.11 by this point, and had no time for the life-drawin'.) The second set is an exampl...
2020-01-27 14:01:00 +0000 UTC
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(Note to regular Patrons: Many of you have already seen the first two pages of this excerpt in an earlier post. I included 'em here again just for clarity's sake.)
Hello there! Above is a 6-page preview of a scene from the upcoming Empowered vol.12 (no idea when that might be coming out, alas), with Empowered and Sistah Spooky (now with two arms!) embarked on an as-yet-unexplained ...
2020-01-24 14:20:58 +0000 UTC
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<Note: You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installments with this tag.>
And now, back to Emp's first-person narration in (old) Twitter-based 140-character format, taking place roughly around the beginning of Empowered vol.1. In this chapter, Emp ...
2020-01-23 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, I'm running a bit behind on art requests this month, so it's high time to get started with you fine folks of the $5 tier! As I'm on the verge of going "whole hog" on the ol' digital (more on this subject in a future post) and need to start messing around with more finished art tests, I'm unlikely to be able to handle as many requests as I usually do. See, I need to start testing techniques for comics-reproducible artwork, which is bound to be slower and more time-consuming than t...
2020-01-22 15:31:59 +0000 UTC
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Per your votes in a recent Patreon poll, here's the second-highest-rated option from said tally, which is yet another incomplete commissioned DiD story in proto-Empowered pencil format. This time around, a shockingly easy-to-subdue Kei gets gassed, gagged and trussed up by an unnamed Bad Girl whilst (presumably) snooping around at a hoity-toity party, hence the soon-tattered cocktail dress...
2020-01-22 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out part 1 of this serialization here.)
Whoops, plumb forgot I was gonna revisit this unpublished project on a twice-per-month basis!
Wellp, we're continuing serialization of my page roughs and scripts for Empowered and the Giant-Size Issues, a never-published, two-issue miniseries intended to be drawn by a Special Guest Artist.&n...
2020-01-21 14:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Yet 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 November 2018, while the second is an example from January 2017, fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-01-20 14:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Taking a break from the usual Friday routine for a li'l something different, folks!
Wellp, the Marvel one-shot Venom: The End "dropped" this week, featuring script by me and art by Jeffrey "Chamba" Ruiz and Guru eFX. (I'm a bit leery of publicly spotlighting Marvel or DC content on the ol' Patreon, so I'm keeping the book's title out of the post listing.) Howeva, as the galaxy-spanning, time-jumping story was unusually difficult and challenging (even for one of...
2020-01-17 14:13:26 +0000 UTC
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