[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, ...
2024-02-19 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 stor...
2024-02-16 14:16:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Running waaaaay the hell behind this morning, so here's a desperate, last-minute pull from the ol' MISCELLANEOUS folder! Above are my roughs for a 4-page story I laid out and scripted for an Udon Streetfighter backup dealie 10 years ago or so, followed by the inks and finished colors by the great artist Omar Dogan.
Not much to say on this one (and no time to say it, regardless), but I will note that one martial-arts riff on p.2, panel 5 was an homage t...
2024-02-14 14:49:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, yet another bunch of con sketches from the futuristic year 1999, drawn on patterned linen-finish cardstock but, alas, scanned from quite mediocre photocopies of the original artwork.
First off, a wee bit of early Life Drawing as this bikini sketch of Y*ri from Dirty Pair was quite clearly drawn from photoreference:
...as the relatively am...
2024-02-12 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
[Link to our previous installment in this series, as seen over three months ago...]
So!
I've been trying to think of something to do with the various DiD sketch sets I have kicking around that feature backup superheroine Emerald, who appears as basically a dark-haired, maskless variation on Emp's tattered-suit design (and modern-era physique) from
Behold, an "Endpage" cartoon I wrote and drew for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM back in February of 2007 (if the file's "Properties" dates are accurate). The subject was, I gather, the flowing white tresses of newly announced character "Nero" from the then-upcoming PS3 game Devil May Cry 4:
2024-02-07 14:00:07 +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, ...
2024-02-05 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Running way the hell behind this morning, so here's the quickest post I could throw together on short notice. Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:
In fact, pretty sure that I've drawn from all of these pics before in analog pencil during my 2017-18 run of daily Life Drawing, but wh...
2024-02-02 15:50:33 +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 I posted l...
2024-01-31 14:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing a feature dating back many months, here are some slightly more recent design sketches I worked up for the Half-Elf (formerly of Patreon damsel-in-distress project Hushed Half-Elf) from long-developing fantasy comic The Last Party. First off is an analog-penciled sketch set that I forgot to post with our previous bunch of Half-Elf redesigns lo these many months ago:
2024-01-29 14:51:26 +0000 UTC
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So!
Behold, a new-ish feature, Fantasy Project Friday, in which I'll post material from one of the four(!) different potential fantasy-genre comics I'm mulling over at present. Lordy loo!
This time around, feast your eyes on a bunch of my scribbled design notes from the oldest of the four properties, a writing-only project that would be my take on the "fantasy RPG action-comedy" sub-genre that was all the rage 5-8 years ago. I'll keep the project's ...
2024-01-26 15:32:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:
Ah, yes, behold the limitations of my "squiggle-based" rendering with the CSP iOS Design Pencil brush; that's the best pencil-emulating digital tool that I've found in years and years of searching, but the brush still falls well short of truly simulating my beloved ultra-soft...
2024-01-24 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In a break from usual procedure, time for the $5+ tiers to take a gander at some recent DiD sketches based on art requests from the $20 tier; I usually reserve these for the month's Exclusive Bonus Post for the higher tiers, but as I already have a different bevy of art-req sketches lined up for that feature, thought I'd show a few of 'em in a Distressed Damsels post.
First off was a suggestion involving Princess Zelda of Nintendo fame, which I decided...
2024-01-22 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, the time has come at last: 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 tacklin...
2024-01-19 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
I'm srsly short on time today, so lemme just say that the following pair of recent Clip Studio Paint page roughs were mainly a test of a possible work process for future writing-oriented pitches; even though most of my upcoming proposals are fantasy-genre-adjacent, I decided to briefly get away from sword 'n' sorcery imagery by instead sketching out a few generic pages of the team from Gen13, a title which I worked on intermittently from 1997-2001 for...
2024-01-17 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
A few weeks back, I knocked off yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, once again based on old photoref pics from my iPad's camera roll:
(Didn't give a crap about the model's shoes at left, in case you couldn't tell.)
While I do wish to work on shading practice in these sketch sets, I probably should lean towards cranking out quicker sketches with less minutely po...
2024-01-15 14:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
So, in a post from last month, as I featured a bunch of sketch sets of Lily (from Rose & Lily, the distress-prone Dirty Pair iterations) in peril, I mentioned in passing that I had been noodling away on a story fragment that involved her sporting a skintight cheongsam dress (which, I think, dates back to a "smartsuit" costume variation briefly seen in 2000's m...
2024-01-12 15:04:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, yet another bunch of con sketches from the futuristic year 1999, drawn on patterned linen-finish cardstock but, alas, scanned from mediocre photocopies of the original artwork.
First off, my lone sketch based on the acclaimed anime Cowboy Bebop...
...which, I have to admit, always left me cold. (Gasp!)
UPDATE #1: Wait a sec...
2024-01-10 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
[Here's a link to our first installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, the time has come at last: 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 pr...
2024-01-08 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
[Our previous sneak preview of this now-defunct project can be seen here.]
So!
Back on November 27, I posted a sneak preview of a one-shot I had recently finished work on. To repeat from my earlier post, I got an offer from Udon Productions to write a Street Fighter one-shot featuring the popular, kinda-sorta-new-to-me character "Juri."...
2024-01-05 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Kicked off the new year with yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, once again mostly based on old photoref pics from my iPad's camera roll:
Yyyyyeahp, my back-and-forth, "squiggle-based" rendering approach with the CSP (on iOS) Design Pencil brush has some very real limitations, especially in transitioning through mid-range shading values; oh, well.
Anyhoo, as mentione...
2024-01-03 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a slightly puzzling "Endpage" comic I wrote and drew for the videogame magazine PSM back in the summer of the bygone year 2006, this time riffing on the topic of, uh, music-genre fighting games(?) for either the Playstation 2 or PS3. Now, this strip must have been loosely inspired by some then-current videogame along those lines, but I must confess that I no longer have any idea whatsoever as to what the hell that game might have been:
2024-01-01 14:39:49 +0000 UTC
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So, yeah, thought I'd write up a few words about my favorite pieces here from the soon-ending year of 2023. Alas, most of my fave illos were from my ultimately doomed attempt to puzzle out a viable "hybrid workflow" on fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained:
Most of my Chaste art tests (as seen mostly by the $3+ tiers) produced adequa...
2023-12-31 15:11:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, my final Empowered DiD commission of 2023, rendered in the two-color, 11" x 14" format I once used for con sketches back in the (pre-pandemic) day. In reverse order from the image gallery above, let's roll through the Work Stages, starting with an initial pair of thumbnail-sized roughs:
Next up, a full-sized rough at 11" x 14"; note th...
2023-12-29 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, mostly based on some old pics on my iPad's camera roll:
Decided to render a photo of plate armor just as a test, though I'm unlikely to ever render fantasy armor in such a tedious and time-consuming style; note that I quickly tired of trying to render the only partially visible patterns applied to the metal.
Revisited some i...
2023-12-27 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas, dear Patrons, with this morning's hastily cranked out "Xmas card" illo featuring the Paladin and Elf Mage from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained:
Whilst grimly slogging my way through the Paladin's outfit, I can tell you that I was definitely thinking, "No way I'm drawing this g-d costume a few hundred more times." Yeahp, even th...
2023-12-25 14:15:06 +0000 UTC View Post
[Our previous sneak preview of this now-defunct project can be seen here.]
So!
Back on November 27, I posted a sneak preview of a one-shot I had recently finished work on. To repeat from my earlier post, I got an offer from Udon Productions to write a Street Fighter one-shot featuring the popular, kinda-sorta-new-to-me character "Juri." &n...
2023-12-22 14:00:07 +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. When the previous post left off, the Elf was putting up a bit of struggle against her ...
2023-12-20 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, mostly based on some old pics on my iPad's camera roll:
Not a great set, TBH, but the messy-haired fella (whom I've drawn before, albeit 4-5 years ago) helps the batting average a tad. Sketched this group in a series of 5-8-minute bursts in a semi-successful attempt to prevent my shoulder issues from flaring up.
...
2023-12-18 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series, dating back to late November.]
Whilst desperately flailing around for a post on short notice a few months back, just realized that I've never shown anything from the whooooole bunch of Tomb Raider design sketches I cranked out for the sadly defunct videogame magazine ...
2023-12-15 14:46:46 +0000 UTC View Post