Now that I'm finally out from under the crush of that maddeningly time-consuming Marvel script (and its gratuitous "thumbnail" roughs, which will someday be seen here), I was able to work up a new Clip Studio Paint Life Drawing set. However...
Two of the pix I used for photoref featured lighter value ranges that my penciling technique, whether digital or analog, is ill-...
After two weeks straight of nonstop grinding on a very difficult Marvel script (in turn after a week straight of tax-prep BS), I'm deep in a frickin' hole in terms of Patreon post content. So, here's what I could scrape up this morning for DiD material, starting with some semi-recent revisions to an old Empowered sketch set:
...which I posted year years ag...
[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...
2024-04-24 14:06:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Still dragging that seemingly endless g-d Marvel script to the finish line this morning, so I have only 10 minutes or so for another Patreon post; luckily, stumbled across some old files that, as far as I can recall, have never been posted here before.
After doing three or so cover illos for the fantasy RPG Exalted, I did a few more B&W interior illos for the franchise, though I have no idea in which sourcebook they might have appeared. I was assigned an il...
2024-04-22 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Currently struggling with the worst g-d scripting deadline crunch I've ever faced (due to my own procrastination, tragically enough), so this art request of catgirl heroine "Pink" and kinda-sorta boyfriend "Santa" from the early 90s manga and anime Dragon Pink is gonna have to do for today's post, dear Patrons:
Don't have time to scan or prep anything&n...
2024-04-19 13:00:11 +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 drawn mostly using the Design Pencil brush, with which I was apparently experiencing some disenchantment at the time:
Note that this was a very early appearance of the "inverted text" riff that I've used ...
Behold, a very sweet illo from the excellent artist Matthew Weldon, featuring a bunch of the characters from my fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained! Why, 'tis a double-page spread and everything!
First off, his initial rough, which I found dandy indeed all on its own:
Then, after I sent along a Dropbox link to the Chaste test ...
So!
A recent-ish art request from the $20 tier referenced an Empowered vol. 7 montage of DiD imagery that, in the lower left corner, featured our heroine laid low by wee ninjas:
These fellas were "The Pint-Size(d) Ninja Platoon," originally seen seen in the following set of late-90s Dirty Pair con sketches:
2024-04-12 13:00:05 +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 rolled ...
2024-04-10 13:00:07 +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 drawn mostly using the Rough Pencil brush, which was my early favorite among CSP's graphite-simulating tools:
At least three of the faces/heads are "studies" based on other artist's work; the only one I can s...
As I flailed about desperately for a post last month, I dug up an old Word doc from the early 2000s which rattled off 13 different plots for Dirty Pair stories, back when I had access to the DP English-language license and was trying to get something new off the ground with Dark Horse. After a grueling and unpleasant experience grinding out the artwork for the final published DP miniseries, Run from the Future...
2024-04-05 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in 2007 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, apparently commemorating the magazine's 10th anniversary, judging by the rough's scribbled title:
Anyhoo, the piece featured a bunch of whimsical riffs about the magazine's (mostly made-up) history:
2024-04-03 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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So, years 'n' years ago, I worked up an Empowered scene that never saw print in a volume (IIRC):
...in which Emp imagined a disastrous time-travel scenario:
Years later, a Patron suggested revisiting the scenario, but this time as yet another "bedroom cosplay" roleplaying episode...
Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based (mostly) on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:
The upper image is newly acquired (as both the arm/upper back anatomy and strong edgelighting appealed to me), but the ones below are from old ref; in fact, I'm sure I drew the hairy fella at lower right before, albeit in analog pencil circa 2017. Not like you can't learn fro...
So, here's a recent illo I worked up in Clip Studio Paint (iOS version) as yet another art test for perpetually in-development fantasy project The Last Party (which features a cast merged from earlier Patreon dealies Hushed Half-Elf and Party of Two):
The main intent with this piece was to see if I could use Clip Studio Pa...
Behold, a limited set of Work Stages on a recent-ish Con Sketch of sorts, done as another test of elapsed work time with a format calling back to the conventions I am no longer able to attend for the time being.
First off, the initial quarter-page thumbnail drawn on 8.5" X 11" paper:
Not that you can tell, but the pose was originally bas...
2024-03-25 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:
I was quite displeased with the first two sketches at left, in which I followed my usual approach of slowly and painstakingly attempting to closely replicate the photos' tricky shading, but found myself frustrated by the results. With the sketches at right I rolled with a quicke...
2024-03-22 13:00:05 +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 I had already...
2024-03-20 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
First up, a Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch based on an art request from the $20 tier, depicting hapless Rose & Lily having failed ignominiously at sneaking through "Gobbo" (that is, Goblin) territory in dubious disguises:
As I posted this piece, I was struck by the belated realization that Lily's head seemed a bit too small (especially in relation to her bounteous...
2024-03-18 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, yet another bunch of con sketches from the futuristic years 1998-99, drawn on patterned linen-finish cardstock but, alas, scanned from quite mediocre photocopies of the original artwork.
First off, Dirty Pair's Kei in a vaguely SF-skewing leather outfit, attempted because I had grown weary of drawing her regular costume:
On the further experi...
2024-03-15 13:31:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in 2006 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, which appears to be one of three different pieces I worked up over multiple years that whimsically riffed on the then-upcoming Playstation 3's controllers:
I don't care enough to look this matter up further, but apparently early designs for the PS3's controller...
2024-03-13 13:25:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:
Ah, yes, pix from my camera roll's extensive collection of cutoff shorts images, which (judging by the dates) were presumably assembled as reference and practice for Ninjette's shorts in the opening scene of Empowered vol.11:
2024-03-11 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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As I flailed about desperately for a post this morning, I dug up an old Word doc from the early 2000s which rattled off 13 different plots for Dirty Pair stories, back when I had access to the DP English-language license and was trying to get something new off the ground with Dark Horse. After a grueling and unpleasant experience grinding out the artwork for the final published DP miniseries, Run from the Future 2024-03-08 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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 pages...
2024-03-06 14:00:12 +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, b...
2024-03-04 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
So, out of last month's art requests from the $20 tier (as seen in yesterday's Exclusive Post for the Biggest Spenders) , one of the suggestions was worked up into a fairly complicated illustration that I decided to spin off into its own Patreon post for the $3+ tiers. The art req involved the characters I created for my 1997 DC one-shot Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone:
2024-03-01 14:30:02 +0000 UTC
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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 using the Rough Pencil brush, which was my early favorite among CSP's graphite-simulating tools:
Even with the ol' Apple Pencil, my drawing hand was still feeling some pain with that intensely rendered ...
2024-02-28 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, Work Stages on a recent, so-called "conventionless con sketch," as I try to figure out a viable way to produce commissions later in the year (well, in theory); at present, I'm desperately far behind on a bajillion different projects in development (not to mention this massively time-consuming Patreon), so I can't even contemplate commissions on anything more than such a "test-only," one-off basis.
First off, a quarter-page initial rough (thumbn...
2024-02-26 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
As I flailed about desperately for a post this morning, I dug up an old Word doc from the early 2000s which rattled off 13 different plots for Dirty Pair stories, back when I had access to the DP English-language license and was trying to get something new off the ground with Dark Horse. After a grueling and unpleasant experience grinding out the artwork for the final published DP miniseries, Run from the Future, I ...
2024-02-23 14:46:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:
Now, the gymnast figure at left is definitely new, as I spotted that pic in the local newspaper and thought the leg shading quite interesting. The lips below that sketch are ones I've almost certainly drawn before, though; IIIRC, they belong to a very pouty-lipp...
2024-02-21 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post