Richard Moore

Happy Easter

     Personally, I can't get behind a holiday with pastel colors and painted eggs as its traditions, so I thought I'd provide something a little more stimulating...yet still in keeping with the holiday. Makes me want to go hoppin' down the bunny trail...

Abbey Gets Countrified

     I never thought of Abbey as much of a down-on-the-farm kinda gal, but you gotta admit, she could throw around more bales of hay than any ten farmhands!  And she looks mighty fetching with a sheen of sweat...

Kat and Friends

     Are Kat and Caleb (from The Pound) monogamous? The characters in that world lent themselves to erotic and adult stories, and monogamous characters aren't very useful in adult comics (unless they only start out that way). But even in the non-adult Pound stories that I wrote (only one of which was finished and saw print), it was useful to have Kat and Caleb devoted to each other emotionally, but sexually open.  This allowed for Kat t...

Who Says I Don't Do Superheroes?

     I don't do much in the way of superheroes, because I generally think of them as being not very interesting (with some exceptions). But looking at these two, I may have to rethink that position. Or have them assume some different positions (did you see what I did there?).

     On the other hand, as role models, they're not setting a very good example. They are  clearly not practicing proper social distancing. Unless they're self...

Where Ideas Come From, and Some Work Process

     I've wanted to get into children's books for a long time. I've written several, and made dummies (mock-ups to show what the final product would look like) for them, but it's hard to find the time to finish sample illustrations and put together submission packages for agents and publishers. Here's a drawing that gave me the idea for one of my books, The Dancing Gargoyle. (I think someone here owns the original...?) The second pic is a color sketc...

Badger Girl Commission Finally Done!

    Okay, I'm not gonna lie. I went way overboard with the background on this one. But my favorite part is the cat guy at the bottom. He was just supposed to be ogling her from below, but to me it looks like he's staring right at her cootch. Excuse me, I don't mean to be crude. Her badger beaver. Gotta be politically correct these days. 

Nude Meg Commission (Far West)

     Here's something a little different, or at least presented a bit differently than usual. I only have this (not great) scan of this commission, but I wanted to share it here. Normally I would blast the contrast to get rid of the darkness at either end (an artifact of my aging scanner), then go in and clean up the image before posting. But then I noticed that somehow, I had completely forgotten to erase my pencil lines before scanning. Upp...

Nude Abbey Commission

     Here we have the penultimate pinup in the commissioned series I recently did for a patron. The request was for them to start out fairly modest, and get racier with each one. You can see we're getting a little saucy with this piece...and there's one more to go. Stay tuned...!

Badger Girl Piece Progresses...

     Hey all. You may not have heard, but there's some serious shit going down right now. Kind of stressful times, you could say.  My work is a far cry from anything you could call essential, but I want you to know that I intend to keep posting; in fact, I'm going to try to post more often. It might only be some extra sketches, some Grayson Fogg Halloween and horror art, or works-in-progress from several projects I'm working on, but I'll do what I can to help ent...

Fire & Brimstone Con Sketch

     Here's something that hasn't been seen by too many eyes, I think. It may have been in a sketchbook years ago, but there aren't many of those around. I did it in San Diego--holy crap, fourteen years ago. Oh, man. Unfortunately, I don't recall why Brim's boobs rival Fire's here. Maybe the commissioner requested it, or maybe I just had con-brain, a condition found in attendees who have been at Comicon for three days or more. In fact, I'm almost positive it'...

Commission Number Two

     Hey all. Here is the work so far on the second pinup I'm doing for the patron who also got last week's demon waitress. He asked for a badger girl. Just that, do whatever I want with it. I know this patron likes The Pound, so I decided to set the piece in that world. I looked through a bunch of reference looking for pose inspiration, then noticed a little doodle I'd done on a piece of scratch paper and thought, That's her.  At first I didn't...

...Aannd the Finished Piece

     Ta-daa! Man finishing this was a bitch, not because of the piece itself, but because of the circumstances. Just to bring you up to date, the day after my wife's fun day at the urgent care center for her kidney stone (she loves when I mention that here, by the way), we took our sick cat, Pumpkin, to the vet. Only four hours and a bunch of outrageously expensive tests later, she was diagnosed with pancreatitis. Poor thing had to spend a couple of nights th...

I Guess Nessie Didn't Wear Green...?

      St. Patty's is a weird holiday. And I say that as someone who likes weird holidays. (Okay, how's this for a new holiday to get started: Some time in late spring or midsummer, when there's a dearth of fun holidays, we celebrate "Alien Day". After-dark parties with an alien/UFO/space theme. Dress up as any kind of alien you want. Glow sticks, glow necklaces and bracelets, glow everything. Inflatable flying saucers and gray aliens. And bring your cell phones a...

Battle Wounds

     The site of Jackie's I.V. from her recent medical adventure, and Pumpkin's from her trip to the vet. I didn't think to photograph my own recent injuries--they were pretty gross, too. In my tireless efforts to bring you interesting content, I promise to try to record any damage I do to myself in the future.

Demon Waitress (work in progress)

    So you know I'm working on commissions now; fortunately most of them are of a type that I can share here. A trying week (sick to my stomach, dehydration, tendinitis, bad back flare-up, along with a very sick cat and spending seven hours at the urgent care clinic to find out that my wife had a kidney stone--kind of a relief, but still miserable for her) left me only partway through the above commission, but in-progress content can be fun too, right? The most eagle-eyed ...

Possible T-Shirt Design

     I'm finally doing it. After I finish this round of commissions, I'm going to do several T-shirt designs and get a little shop set up for you guys. I'm thinking two Boneyard designs, a Deja Vu and a Far West design. This was a contender I did a few years ago. Sorry about the low rez scan, it's all I have. If there's anything you'd especially like to see, now's the time to speak up!

Boneyard Meets Star Trek Next Gen. (sort of)

    I'm currently hip-deep in commissions, but at least some of them can be shared here--and some are even relevant! Here we have a cute scene of the Boneyard cast (most of them, anyway--I didn't need more characters to squeeze in there!) as the crew of the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation... with a couple of exceptions. You'd think this would be a dream come true for a closet Trekkie like Glump, but it seems that sci fi nerds are never satisf...

Goblin Girl

     Behind-the-scenes secret about my work: whenever I draw a creature with no clear "type" (vampire, werewolf, politician, etc.), I tend to just call it a goblin. It's a nice, ill-defined catch-all. In this case, this cutie originally had bat wings in place of her ears, like Gretch in Gobs (which was about goblins--see?), but for some reason I changed it at the last moment. I tend to fuss over details like that, which is s...

Commission Inquiry

     Hey everyone. Awhile back I was contacted by someone who wanted a commission of one of the demon waitresses in The dark Corner bar. Unfortunately, I can't recall if it came through Facebook, email or through messages here. So if someone here is the particular someone who made that request, please let me know. We now continue with our regular programming.

Robin Gets a Surprise

     Patreon's system continues to amaze. In case you don't know, you can make posts in parts: text now, image later, or vice versa. I had posted the above image and scheduled it for Friday, intending to come back before then to add the text part. Well, when I came back, I find that it for some reason it went up one minute after the posts that were actually supposed to be posted on Tuesday. I don't know why or even how it did that. Anyway, that's why...

Luna

     I'm consumed by commissions right now, so this week I've got a nice pinup sketch for you. At first glance she might look like a vampire, but she's actually a werewolf just starting to transform (I'll be kind and spare you the obvious that-time-of-the-month joke). If you look closely at the tip of her nose, it's just starting to wolf-out.

     Currently I'm saving up my pennies to get a new set of gouache (and pan pastels, and paper,...

Vrooom!

     Waaayy back, when I still knew what optimism felt like, I considered trying my hand at the vinyl figure and art toy scene. Most of the designs were cute and highly stylized--I'll post some of those sometimes if there's any interest. Some are kind of crazy, to be honest. This design--either based on Val from Tin God, or vice versa--was definitely more in the vinyl figure category. As most of you know, I lean toward detail, including in my 3-dimen...

Pixies can be Kinky, too

Those of you who read either of the Chip stories may remember Chip's pixie friend, Ash. Chip was the most all-ages title I've done, but Ash still had a really nice, bottom-heavy pear shape on her. The owner of the hand in this commission (as well as the commissioner himself) obviously liked that bottom, too.

A long time back I did a series of pinups (mostly in pastels) called "Pudgies". They were basically pixies, but they were all, well, pudgy.  And they were alw...

Remember a Couple of Weeks Ago...?

Okay, so you have to go back a couple of weeks, and mentally insert this page after the page where Paris catches Nessie covered in leaves. Credit for the idea goes to our very own Ryan Vann! Thanks, Ryan! And shame on me for not thinking of it myself.

On a technical note, I'm finally dialing in on the look I want, with regard to the gray tones. It kind of looks like an old black-and-white horror movie. It takes longer, and the digital cleanup takes a lot longer...

"Allergy Season" (Beauties and Beasts)

     This piece has an interesting history.  Similar to the other B&B post this week, this one has been through several versions. It started out yeeears ago--seriously, like a couple decades--as a large piece I was doing with reference of a model who had posed specifically for this drawing. But back then, I hadn't learned the importance of doing color sketches first, so when I launched straight into painting it I munched it right out of the gate. So ...

Abbey Pinup (For a Change)

     I didn't want to have a week with absolutely no Boneyard, so here's another in that recent commission series of Abbey nudes. My apologies if seeing the "Naughty Bits" banner got your hopes up for something more explicit. I just didn't want to risk the wrath of Patreon, should Abbey's adorable little vertical smile prove too risque to count as a simple nude.

"Stranded" (Beauties and Beasts)

     I'm postponing the Boneyard short I had planned for this week because a comment from a patron gave me an idea for a strip that I want to do, and it has to fit into the "timeline" in a certain place. We're already one short past where the new one will go, and I don't want to get too far ahead before we "go back". Don't worry, I'll repost the short that precedes it when I post the new one.

     So this week I'm sharing more from my Be...

"Catching Some Sun", Finally Done!

     Well here it is, finally. I've decided that in the future I'll keep these work-in-progress posts to no more than two posts per piece. Otherwise, it feels really redundant. And that includes when I transfer this piece to board and paint it.

Better Late than...you know...

     …So, after my joke about falling off a building, referencing my recent accident/brush with death, would you believe that, while working on this page, I tripped again and nearly broke the same arm, and now have a big, discolored lump on top of the fading bruise from the first fall? And I mean in exactly the same place! The question is, is someone or something out to kill me, or am I unconsciously desperate for an excuse to stay in bed and rest ...

Mea Culpa

     Hey folks. Just a quick note to let you know that my posts will be a day or two late this week. No, I didn't fall off a building into a bin of razor blades, I just tried to do too much this week so I'm running a bit late. Apologies. Back to it...