<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...
2020-01-16 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
(The previous installment of this story fragment can be checked out here.)
Per your votes in a recent Patreon poll, here's part 3 (of 3) of a commissioned DiD short story in proto-Empowered format, drawn for a generous friend who appreciated not only 2020-01-15 16:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another clump o' sketches drawn in in Clip Studio Paint, based on art requests from the big-spending tier of $20 Patrons. Sets #2 and #3 feature plenty of "damsel in distress" content based on Patron suggestions; normally, I would've moved this material to the usual "DiD Wednesday" slot (for the $5+ tiers), but thought I might as well post 'em in a wider-access sketch dump. (Besides, Wednesday already has a "wenches in peril" story post lined up and scheduled.)
Pretty sure...
2020-01-14 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2020-01-13 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to another installment of Failed-Project Friday, folks! (Open to the public, this time, in part because I repurposed much of this post from an old DeviantART piece.)
This time around, the failed project in question is one that has no actual artwork directly attached to it, alas. On the other hand, two of the project's characters made ...
2020-01-10 14:08:30 +0000 UTC View PostWellp, the daily post for Friday's comin' up soon, and I haven't yet decided what it should be. So, thought I'd throw the floor open to you fine folks and check in on what you might like to see!
The first option is to keep the ball rollin' with more roughs and script from the unpublished miniseries Empowered and the Giant-Size Issues, the first installment of which was posted on Tuesday. The rest of the options are pretty much self-explanatory; if any other cat...
2020-01-09 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post<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...
2020-01-09 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
(Part one of this story fragment can be checked out here.)
Per your votes in a recent Patreon poll, here's part 2 (of 3) of a commissioned DiD short story in proto-Empowered format, drawn for a generous friend who appreciated not only 2020-01-08 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Based on the results from a recent poll of you fine Patrons, today we're kicking off 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.
I wrote the two-parter back in 2015 with the excellent artist Rob "Robaato" Porter in mind to draw the story; later on, as...
2020-01-07 14:16:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a few months since I wrapped up serialization of my thumbnails for the six-issue miniseries Empowered and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell, and I've been thinking that I should start posting my initial roughs for another Empowered project as a biweekly or monthly feature.
This time around, I have a slightly different approach in mind re: posting the thumbnails. I was thinking of alternating each page rough with its acco...
2020-01-06 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2020-01-06 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The three sketch sets above are based on art requests from last month and the first few days of 2020. Not my best, TBH, but I've been sick like unto a dog most of the g-d week, so these are the best I could do whilst under the weather.
Pretty sure I didn't get sick during most of 2019, not because I'm robustly healthy or possessed of an 18 CON, but because it's tough to pick up a cold when you're not around people very often. (Somehow, I avoided getting the fabled "con crud" during 2019...
2020-01-03 15:41:25 +0000 UTC View Post<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 ...
2020-01-02 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Per your votes in a recent Patreon poll, here's part 1 (of 3) of a commissioned DiD short story in proto-Empowered format, drawn for a generous friend who appreciated not only my earlier con sketches of a wench-ified Kei and Yuri, but also my depiction of a young Red Monika from back-up stories I...
2020-01-01 14:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, some recent pages from Empowered vol.12, taking place well after the damsel-in-distress flashback scene I serialized here earlier. The actual point of those previous pages (besides delivering the book's mandatory DiD content, that is) was that the bad guys couldn't explain why the hell they were distressing Emp so thoroughly; now, in the present-day s...
2019-12-31 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from December 2018, while the second is an example from January 2017, very early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
TOMORROW: Patrons on the $3+ tiers can check...
2019-12-30 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDecember was a booming month for new Patrons joining up—why, the Patreon abruptly surged over the $1000 per month mark, which was unexpected and srsly gratifying!—so I thought I'd doublecheck and see if anyone who's just joined up wanted to get in some last-minute art requests as I knock out a final few 2019 Clip Studio Paint sketch tests.
I'm notified of new comments on old posts, so y'all can go back to the December art-request solicitations for your respective tiers and weigh in ...
2019-12-29 13:16:38 +0000 UTC View Post
We interrupt our usual Friday posts of COMICS RIFFS I LOVE for a Clip Studio Paint sketch dump of art requests from the $5 tier!
First up is some animal action; then, a frankly awkward set of sketches based on cosplay of Olivier Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist; then, a similarly awkward sketch (in pencil, not CSP) of Boston's Liberty Square; and finally, Thugboy and Corgi, Mummified Emp and anti-twerking Emp, and Ninjette in ...
2019-12-27 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post<Note: You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here.>
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: >
I AM EMPOWERED 2019-12-26 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
As the commissioned DiD story fragment Bizsuit Microskirt Blues wrapped up today, time to think about next week's post. So, I thought I'd post another poll, for the first time in foreva, to see what B&W, proto-Empowered-format damsel comic you fine folks would like me to serialize here next.
The ones below are all Kei- and Yuri-starring fragments that I can dig up scans of before next Wednesday...
2019-12-25 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Based on a very specific December art request from the $5 Patron tier, here's a rare analog-media, two-color piece featuring Emp in Yuletide distress! (Feel like I should add a note saying, "That Xmas-ish ball gag on Emp is, like, solid plastic or rubber or whatever, so don't worry that the g-d thing is is a glass ornament about to shatter in her mouth like that apple-or-light-bulb scene from the horror flick Oculus, okay?")
So yeah, folks in the $...
2019-12-25 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas, $5+ Patrons!
The previous installment of Bizsuit Microskirt Blues can be seen here (assuming I remember to add this link once that page goes active).
From 2003 or thereabouts, here are the final pages of a commissioned DiD story featuring Dirty Pair's Yuri winding up in a most distressing situation; as with most of these story fragments, the narrative just kinda wheezes to a halt, or to a pause, perhaps. By...
2019-12-25 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, some very early design roughs from a story in Empowered vol.12 and... another project.
Yeah, Spooky and Emp go on a safari of sorts, during which they have a Very Important Conversation about a certain topic Theresa has conspicuously failed to mention. (Hint: the topic was addressed in a Spooky monologue near the end of Empowered 2019-12-24 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from March 2019, while the second is an example from January 2017, very early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2019-12-23 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Korean artist BOICHI is probably best-known nowadays for his work on the manga Dr. Stone, but I first enjoyed his work on the crime/action series Sun-Ken Rock, serialized in full on the Crunchyroll Manga iOS app. An over-the-top gangster narrative featuring Japanese fish-out-of-water Kitano Ken battling his way to the top of the Korean crime scene, Sun-Ken Rock isn't a manga I can quite give an unqualif...
2019-12-20 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post<Note: You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here.
And now, back to Emp's first-person narration, taking place roughly around the beginning of Empowered vol.1: >
I AM EMPOWERED
Chapter 2: WHAT IS...
2019-12-19 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
(The first 4pp of this story fragment can be seen here. )
From 2003 or thereabouts, here are the pages 4-7 of a commissioned DiD story featuring Dirty Pair's Yuri winding up in a most distressing situation. Had a li'l more direction than usual with this one, as the commissioner in question wanted something featuring, well, a tight skirt, after a recent con sketch along those li...
2019-12-18 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWellp, art requests are gonna be tough to handle this month, so time to get started with you fine folks of the $5 tier! Though I'm (still) hoping to get more serious about working digitally in Clip Studio Paint in December, I will definitely try to work in your art-request subjects on the side, or as integral parts of those ongoing CSP tests.
So fire away with any character suggestions or situation requests you might have, oh $5 elite! Could my own characters, or other characters, or mo...
2019-12-18 03:35:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Posted these in reverse order of creation, so the best-looking one would be the main image you see! (Your Mileage May Vary as to which set looks the best, though.)
Anyhoo, behold three Clip Studio Paint sketch sets based on art requests from the $10 Patron tier. Brief notes to follow:
So one request was for what Emp's idealized superhero outfit might be, as opposed to her mercilessly clin...
2019-12-17 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from March 2019, while the second is an example from January 2017, very early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2019-12-16 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post