So, yeahp, the time has come at last: I'm kicking off serialization of 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 with these time-consuming roughs out of, I dunno, sheer perfectionism and unhinged micro-managing.
Either th...
2023-12-13 14:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Flailing around whilst struggling desperately with "multi-tasking" (at which I am increasingly inept), cranked out some random sketch sets of Rose & Lily material in a dogged attempt to work up some "drawing-table momentum." Tried something different with this first (incomplete) set...
..in that two of the poses were photoreferenced from those "Body-chan" and...
2023-12-11 14:00:10 +0000 UTC
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My drawing arm's shoulder is currently good and jacked up, with even typing causing me some degree of pain, so commentary will be limited for a while. Here's another bunch of con sketches from the summer of 2000, scanned from mildly crappy photocopies:
The above is one of my favorite commissions from that year, based on a scene from the end of the initial run of Battle Angel Alita
2023-12-08 14:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Here's yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, mostly based on some old pics on my iPad's camera roll:
Drew these mostly with the ol' default Design Pencil brush, as usual. As I've mentioned before, that same brush's iteration in CSP (PC) is quite different on the ol' Wacom Cintiq, in that it completely lacks the graphite-simulating tones seen here; however, I still use that b...
2023-12-06 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Behold, an "Endpage" comic I wrote and drew for the videogame magazine PSM back in the bygone year 2007, this time riffing on supposedly untold secrets of the then-just-released racing game Motorstorm for the Playstation 3. Here's the initial rough:
N...
2023-12-04 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, dearest Patrons, this month is definitely going to see some unusual content (more on this matter shortly), with today's installment being a truly unique type of post: Namely, I commissioned the excellent artist Karla Diaz, who did the art for 2017's miniseries Empowered and the Soldier of Love, to work up a color piece featuring the starcrossed couple from fantasy project Th...
2023-12-01 14:52:43 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a brief return to peril-prone Dirty Pair knockoffs Rose & Lily, $5+ tier Patrons!
Left over from the long-ago discontinued or paused Lily solo "story" that featured our heroine bedamseled by Nefarious Starflight Attendants was this lone sketch pose:
...onto which, more recently, I tacked one last sce...
2023-11-29 14:36:23 +0000 UTC
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So!
A few months back, I got an offer from Udon Productions to write a Street Fighter one-shot featuring the popular, kinda-sorta-new-to-me character "Juri." As I am rarely if ever offered the opportunity by any company to even pitch on writing a comic, I jumped at the chance to dip my toe into the "writing-only" end of comics production again.
Right off the bat, however, I rather foolhardily chose to pursue a rather premature workflo...
2023-11-27 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Decided to hit up some (very) early-morning life drawing based on two random images from my iPad's camera roll, both which I'm pretty sure I already attempted years ago in other sets:
Okay, the Boris-Vallejo-reffed image at left only indirectly counts as being photoreferenced, but what the heck. Still, an interesting piece to base a sketch on (or "study," I su...
2023-11-24 14:31:32 +0000 UTC
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[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series, dating back to over a month ago.]
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
2023-11-22 14:16:00 +0000 UTC
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As I continue to flail desperately and so far futilely towards some viable means of producing finished comics artwork, I realized that I hadn't yet tried out an Empowered-style, pencil-based workflow with the new 8B(!) 2mm pencil leads I discovered last summer.
So, I sketched up an analog-media page rough from potential fantasy comic The Last Party featuring the first team-up of the Dwarf Barbarian from predecessor Patreon com...
2023-11-20 14:00:09 +0000 UTC
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UPDATE: This post was originally scheduled for next week, but I'm hastily pressing it into service after running into problems with the content I originally had in mind. (See final paragraph for more info on that front.)
As I desperately flail around for Patreon content after expending my post buffer, I recalled that I've only shown Work Stages for pages 1-7 from that 8-page Harley Quinn #29
2023-11-17 14:25:08 +0000 UTC
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Following up on a fully inked and toned page from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained posted here at the end of October and featured as the first image in this post's gallery...
...here are s'more page roughs continuing this narrative of Elf Mage bedamseled in her ...
2023-11-15 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Anyhoo, behold a pair of very different sketch sets, one drawn in Clip Studio Paint for the PC and the other a short-lived return to the hand-penciled analog media of 2017 yore, both of which are based on video stills and both of which also ended up mingling failure and success.
First off, a sketch set drawn in CSP via my often challenging Wacom Cintiq, based on paused frames from a video I was referencing for a "damsel in distress" rough; I noticed some interesting stuff going...
2023-11-13 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Some background: Of the four(!) different fantasy-comic pitches I've worked up, oddly enough romantic action-comedy-with-a-kink The Chaste and the Chained has advanced the furthest in terms of being "ready to roll" as an ongoing property.
While Chaste was originally intended as a Patreon-only, cheesecake-intensive test bed for...
2023-11-11 19:05:13 +0000 UTC
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Behold, here's an "Endpage" comic I wrote and drew for the videogame magazine PSM back in the bygone year 2006, a time when the then-new(?) Playstation 3 was either difficult to find or had not yet been released. (Ehh, I don't quite care enough to research this point, folks.)
My Endpage pieces occasionally went just a tad heavy on the ol' text, with today's comic being by far the most extreme example:
2023-11-10 13:36:14 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a last-minute post for the Wednesday slot flung together after scanning s'more photocopies of old commissions! A few hastily typed words:
I've drawn many an OC (Original Character) for commissions, but this might the first (and, so far, last) time I've ever sketched a Jedi OC. Worked out decently enough, though my typically whimsical "curved saber blade" visual riff wasn't help...
2023-11-08 14:30:23 +0000 UTC
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[Link to our previous installment in this series.]
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 Empowere...
2023-11-06 14:00:09 +0000 UTC
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So!
After a long, grueling struggle of failed "hybrid workflow" tests that kicked off in the summer and dragged on into the fall, here's the now-complete set of 14 pages worth of both finished art and roughs from my first stab at a story introducing fantasy test comic The Chaste and the Chained. Most if not all of these pages have been seen here before in one form or another, but this is the first time I've assembled them all together in a single post for your ...
2023-11-03 13:20:33 +0000 UTC
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Desperate to put something up this morning—putting a g-d post up every day three times in a row is challenging, folks!—here I'm posting a hasty Life Drawing update with two (very) recent Clip Studio Paint sketch sets. Yay?
First off is a sketch based on a frame from a noir film of some sort, with a presumed femme fatale blowing smoke in the face of some hapless (but nicely dressed, here in the 30s!) shlub, whom I didn't bother to draw:
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2023-11-01 13:46:11 +0000 UTC
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So, yeah, outta nowhere, this weekend I tried yet another Clip Studio Paint brush experiment featuring an especially Distressed-Damsels-riffic page from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained. Riffing off a random sketch from an earlier Chaste DiD sketch set (at upper left, below, pitting the Elf & Paladin against a chair enchanted with an Animate Object spell)...
2023-10-30 14:26:49 +0000 UTC
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Bit of a grab-bag post today, as we'll take a look at various recent forays into Clip Studio Paint experimentation.
First off is an illo from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained, based on an amusing $20-tier art request for the Elf Mage driven to jealousy by another woman interacting with "her" Paladin. I was using the piece as yet another ink test with the "Pigman Mycon 1" brush from the Frenden brush pack:
2023-10-27 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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From my 2019 era of early experimentation in iPad art apps, here's a pair of digital sketch sets drawn in Clip Studio Paint for iOS.
Early on, I did prefer CSP's Rough Pencil brush for emulating graphite in Life Drawing; my first tests of the Design Pencil brush did not go well, it seems. (Of course, nowadays the latter is by far my favorite.)
2023-10-25 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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So!
Last week, I wrote a brief forward to an upcoming compilation of design material from the first Bubblegum Crisis anime series; more details on this book down the road, okay?
However, writing this piece belatedly led to me a fairly startling epiphany about my stint writing and drawing the 1994 Dark Horse Comics miniseries Bubblegum Crisis: Grand Mal, which I'll address in more detail shortly. In the meantime, here's the ...
2023-10-23 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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As I desperately flail around for Patreon content after expending my post buffer, I recalled that I've only shown Work Stages for pages 1-4 and 6 from that Harley Quinn #29 back-up story I wrote and drew for DC earlier in the year. (Ackshully, I finished it last year, but whatevs.) So, take a gander at my process for pages 5 and 7 from "Hyena Anxiety," a surreal and/or nightmarish ...
2023-10-20 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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So!
As I hacked and flailed my way through the final few outstanding art requests from the $20 tier yesterday, I used the opportunity to twist one of the suggestions into another art-test piece illustrating one of many, many different interactions I've worked out in my head between the starcrossed lead characters of fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained.
For reasons unknown to me now, I wrote out the following conversation in Word, probably as a...
2023-10-18 13:05:01 +0000 UTC
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From my 2019 era of early experimentation in iPad art apps, here's a pair of digital sketch sets drawn in Clip Studio Paint.
As seen by that Roxy Rocket sketch, I hadn't yet developed my modern-era fondness for (and skill with) CSP's Design Pencil brush. Indeed, as seen below, I was mainly using the Rough Pencil brush to simulate my beloved (analog) graphite:
2023-10-16 13:00:02 +0000 UTC
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[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
Whilst desperately flailing around for a post on short notice, 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 PSM back in 2003 or so...
2023-10-13 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Here's a 2006 piece I wrote and drew for my recurring "Endpage" feature in the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, apparently re: Dante sporting facial hair in the upcoming or just-released Devil May Cry 4 for the PS3:
No idea about the issue in question, TBH, as A) I didn't own a PS3 at the time and B) I st...
2023-10-11 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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[Link to our previous installment in this series.]
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 Empowere...
2023-10-09 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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