Richard Moore

Gwen Stacy Commission

     I assume if you're reading this, you also read today's other post. I would copy and paste my apology/explanation from that post, but I think you get it. You'll like next week's post, I promise. If I remember right, Gwen Stacy is a character from Spider-Man comics. She might be a superhero herself. I don't know superheroes.

     I gotta get some rest.

Abbey as Emma Peel from The Avengers (TV Show)

     Kind of thin content this week, I'm not going to lie. The page I picked to do for you turned out to need much more work than I thought, and I'm just plain having a tough time right now. Rather than race and stress out even more, or not post at all this week, I thought I'd at least share some more past commissions. I'll try to do better next week. Sorry.

The Unexpected Effects of Image Resizing

     This is another image from the "Women of Boneyard" folio, which I've avoided posting for years. All the scans I have of that folio seem to be really small (sorry once again for that, by the way), although I'm not sure why. I could swear they were scanned at a higher rez, but this was so long ago and on an even worse scanner, so I can't be sure. I did recently discover that one of my image processing programs automatically saves things at 72 DPI, so it's ...

Abbey and Paris Commission, Finished

     Here's the finished Abbey-and-Paris commission. This kind of thing always looks better in pencil, I think. The gray tones allow for the depiction of textures, flushed skin, sweat, etc.  ...But I think you get the idea. Oh, and if the right side looks a little off, it's because my scanner always cuts off one end. There's actually a half-inch border on the right as well, but I can't seem to figure out how to stitch images together, so sometimes I'm stuck with ...

Abbey and Paris Commission WIP

     Here we have one of the last commissions on my list right now: Abbey being nice to Paris...while also being nice to herself.

     I was working on several pieces at once, while doing this one, so I had to be as economical with my time as possible. I got lucky, in that I really liked the original thumbnail I sketched (not that it was a true thumbnail, at around 5"x 8") this time. So much so, that I scanned and enlarged it to full siz...

Rick and Morty Commission, Final

     I was planning to airbrush Rick and Morty and the portals, but the only frisket film I have-- although labelled low tack-- is in fact so insanely high tack that it pulls up the surface of any paper I try to use it on. It may be old, or maybe it was exposed to heat during shipping, who knows. And it's difficult getting some art supplies right now. Anyway, that left hand-painting, so I didn't get the smooth, animation-style color I wanted, but I think it w...

Omaha Commission

     It's probably obvious to some of you, but this is Omaha the Cat Dancer, from the comic curiously titled Omaha the Cat Dancer. I think I have three more commissions lined up, then onto the Far West short, then... Well, then we have a problem.

     I'm sure you'll remember my plan for this page that I laid out last week. Welllll, I did something I should have done before I decided on the plan I presented: some resear...

Blue from Blue Grind

     When the adult shorts are collected, I might add extra pages, like a host introducing the stories. I don't think anyone else does that, but I really like it--maybe it goes back to the old EC horror comics...but my hosts tend to be nicer to look at.

     The cutie in this little spot illustration is--as some of you may know--Blue, the titular djinni host from Blue Grind. This was intended to be another graphic element for th...

Pencils from a M'Lady Story

     Here's a page from a different unfinished M'Lady story, called "The Challenge". Again, I went over and darkened the pencil lines so you can see them, but didn't add anything that wasn't in the original roughs. I did fix some wonkiness in her hands, though. The story itself is--or was--24 pages...unfortunately, the script is missing.

     Which brings me to my other point.

     I mentioned that...

Boneyard Color Sketches

     Some more Boneyard color cover sketches for you. Most of you probably recognize the top two, but the bottom two never ran anywhere. Too bad, because I really like them. I actually think they might make cool prints. Maybe I should render them and put them up on my Fine Art America page. I think the top two are already there.

      On a separate note, I've decided what I'm going to do going forward (after this round of c...

Werewolf Pinup

     Ooookayyyy, it's not done, but here it is. I've been experimenting with different supplies lately--in this case, a new paper that takes wet and dry media. It's a pass for me. If you look closely, the paper has a lot of visible fibers in it, which bugs me. It would be fine for looser, sketchier pieces, but not something as finished as this. For some reason the dark areas-- with heavier build up of graphite-- really reflected a lot during scanning. The darks in the...

Something's Missing...

Hey all. Just a quick note to let you know that this week's post will be delayed a bit. I want another day with it; you'll see why when it's posted. See you Wednesday.

Another Nessie Pinup from the Folio

     Thought you might like to see another piece from the "Women of Boneyard' folio I did so long ago. Way back when I still occasionally used screen tones. On the subject of a possible new folio, it's looking like it probably won't happen, short of a Kickstarter. The last one I did was just to have something for fans at conventions; it was nothing fancy, just copies on nice paper in a signed, printed envelope. But for something like this, actual quality printing woul...

The Next Step in the Rick and Morty Commission

    Here we have the Rick-and-Morty-run-from-one-portal-to-another-and-past-the-Boneyard-gang-in-the-process commission, fully inked. No one asked, but in case anyone's wondering why Scratch, Bob and Mr. Vincent are absent, the answer is very simple: I ran out of room. It's already a very crowded scene; adding more characters (especially Bob, obviously) would have turned it into a mess. More isn't always better. Besides, I'm pretty sure Bob is afraid of fire. ...

A New Commission WIP, and an Update

     Here's what's on my drawing board right now. It's an interesting one. The customer is commissioning a whole series of images around a central theme by various artists: Rick and Morty (of Rick and Morty fame) appearing out of one portal and running across panel toward another portal, with a scene behind them. That scene is a depiction of a comic universe, such as the Avengers fighting Thanos, or a rendering of Gaiman's Endless characters, or in my case, t...

When it Rains...

     Hey all. So first thing when I sat down to work tonight, I discovered that my laptop has died. It's got everything on it, and it's how I clean and process images. So except for the actual drawing, I'm completely flat-footed, posting-wise. I'll see if a friend who understands newfangled mechanical dingies can do anything with it. I'll keep you posted. Just a heads-up. Sorry for all the downers lately.

Cricket

     This beautiful furry guy is Cricket. Years ago, he was a ragged, bone-thin ball of filthy fur who came around meekly seeking food and water. I fed him for quite awhile, and very gradually worked up a rapport with him. One night, very late, I was finishing up feeding him when I just happened to see him at an unusual angle (remember, he's black, it was dark out, and our porch light doesn't work) and caught a glimpse of something horrible: a large hole in his face, ...

More Becca Designs (S.P.A.Z.)

     These are the other character designs for Becca from S.P.A.Z.: Special Protection Agent Z. You can see how different they are. They're both cute, but the first one has a much more serious, almost stressed or anxious quality, whereas the other seems more sweet and carefree. Back in the day I probably would have chosen which one to use based purely on aesthetics, but today I would more likely decide which one would fit in better with the premise and the ot...

Meg Adult Commission, Finished

     I've been feeling like I haven't been giving you guys enough content, so I wanted to give you something special. This is (obviously) the finished version of the Meg-and-friends-in-the-saloon commission, but I went well above-and-beyond for your entertainment. Unfortu-nately, all that shading sent my tendinitis into overdrive, and I'm paying for it this week. But hopefully it was worth it.

     About the October sketches: They're all...

Nessie Pinup

     Hey All. Between doing the October sketches and trying to actually do some things with my wife for Halloween last week, I got a little (more) behind in my work. I was going to apologize and beg off of posting for the week, but I just couldn't do it. So I scrounged up a couple of things. This one is an admittedly terrible scan of one of the pinups from the "Women of Boneyard" folio I did years ago. I've held off posting it because it's so low rez, but hop...

Still More S.P.A.Z. Character Designs

     I had Theo, the competent agent and main character from S.P.A.Z.: Special Protection Agent Z pretty much dialed-in, design-wise, at this point, but I still had to work out Becca, his assistant. All I knew was that I wanted her to be cute but kind of nerdy (my personal favorite). I had tried a number of other designs, which I'll share another time, but here I tried starting with a facial shape I already knew I liked, from another nerdy character I'm quite...

October Sketch #7

     Happy Halloween! Who wants it?

October Sketch #6

     Another one up for grabs!

Color Sketches and Alternate Cover Designs

     Here we have some more color sketches of Boneyard covers. The bottom two led to actual published covers, but I'm pretty sure the first two never ran. Too bad; I like both of them. Maybe I'll do them as prints or something.

Meg Adult Commission, Work-in-Progress

     Until I have time to get back to the Meg adult pages, I'm working on...a Meg adult page. Commission, specifically. One of the big challenges when drawing a small character with larger characters in, uh, "close quarters", is leaving enough of the small character visible to convey what's going on. (I will never cheat the way some artists do by making the male character basically invisible so the action--penetration, whatever you want to call it--is visible...