Richard Moore

Nessie Pinup WIP

    A while back, I made a joke asking, “Where are all the requests for Nessie titty-fucking commissions?”, or words to that effect. One of you took me up on it. Above is how the piece looks so far—again, not as far along as I'd like, for reasons elaborated on in today's first post. You can pretty much see where it's headed—I mean, let's face it, it's Nessie getting titty-fucked: there's not going to be some big, “Ohhh!” revelation on seeing the final image. Bu...

Meet Mustache...Finally

    Hello, all. Well, it's been a weird week. It started when my wife and I took in a stray cat (named Mustache, despite the fact that he clearly has a black nose on a white face, not a mustache-like mark under his nose) last Monday or Tuesday. Now, we've been feeding this cat for years, and trying to bring him in for just as long. Unfortunately, he's feral, and after all this time, the furthest we could get was petting him on the head. It's been very frustrating,...

Rather Bold Abbey Pinup

     I once posted an Abbey pinup from the "Women of Boneyard" folio I did forever ago; here's another one.  I love the direct, challenging aspect to this one. Just: Bam, here it  is, what'cha gonna do about it? It's a bit of Nessie attitude, coming from a character who's usually a good deal more subtle. What do you think?

Mr. Bromwell (a Grayson Fogg Sculpt)

     Mr. Fogg thought some of you might not be satisfied with the children's illustration post, since that's not what most of you signed up for, so he suggested that another post of a type you never asked for might help satisfy (I don't necessarily follow his logic). He tells me that this is the first sculpt he created when he decided to pursue the whole Autumnlands theme: "Mr. Bromwell".  This gent is obviously an ersatz  Frankenstein's monster, complete wi...

Children's Illustration Commission (WIP)

     Something very different this week. I'm doing a commission of a sample children's illustration, depicting a sad, "left out" sprout of broccoli. I posted the most recent stage  as the main image, because the first few steps are so faint they're barely visible in the scans, even after "bringing them out" in Photoshop.  (Actually, the very first stage isn't even shown here. A faint sketch in a hard-lead pencil, the remnants of it are still visible in the f...

Boneyard Short #30

     I need to simplify. I've been doing so many commissions and pinups (for here, and to sell) that I forgot our old printer was dead. So, obviously, I wouldn't be printing out text for this page on that machine. The lengths I had to go to in order to finally print out this very modest amount of text were ridiculous and so time consuming--and, as I said, it had been so long since I'd done a comic page-- that I forgot I had started adding gray tones, with the last few...

Three Characters from The Pound (Commission)

     Here we have a commission featuring  (from the top down) Chloe (my fav--she's just so cute), Val (her best friend), and Kat, one of the two main characters, from The Pound. It's always fun revisited these characters, since they had such a short time in the sun. In fact, Val and Chloe were never really seen, not by the public, except in character sketches in the back of The Pound one-shot. They would have had their debut in ...

Happy 4th of July!

     Image processing programs weren't a thing when I was doing fine art, back in the  Triassic Period, or at least they weren't anything like they are now.  They're certainly a game-changer, especially when it comes to cleaning, adjusting and generally perfecting a piece of art for printing. As you all know, I can only do basic clean-up--removing hairs, dust, getting rid of that shadow around the edges of all my scans--but it's still very useful. Some of th...

Abbey Admires Thundarr's Sword

     Are you like me (and the commissioner of this piece), old enough to remember Saturday morning cartoons? *sigh* So old...  

     Truth be told, I was pretty much only a Bugs Bunny/Warner Bros. cartoons guy. I got spoiled by that great old animation, and couldn't get into the cheap animation of 70's cartoons. But I do remember The Herculoids, which is where the dragon-thing poking his head in from off-panel is from. &nbs...

Velma and Abbey, the Final Chapter

     (This is a bit tame for a "Naughty Bits" post, but you can't be too careful with Patreon.)

     Finally, we have the last in the series of Velma and Velma/Abbey commissions. This particular piece presents a perfect opportunity to discuss something that often comes up with commissions. The commissioner obviously wanted a drawing of Abbey and Velma  doin' the dirty, and they may be a little disappointed by the relative tameness o...

Faerie with Birds

     This is a piece I did quite awhile back, with the ultimate intent of painting it. (I've been without a decent painting setup since we moved to our current location...a long time ago.) I've always really liked this image, partly because I find fat little animals adorable, though I know it's not healthy for them. While cleaning it for posting I noticed something interesting (to me at least): the inking is much looser than my comic inking. If you enlarge th...

Ivy (Grayson Fogg)

     Another portrait from The Autumnlands, courtesy of Grayson Fogg. This is Ivy--vampire? witch? dark faerie? something else entirely? I don't know, you'd have to ask Grayson, and frankly, he can be a bit... "enigmatic".  The large image is the original drawing; the others feature a sepia tone filter and various antiquing effects.

Why No Fire & Brimstone?

     I've been meaning to explain this for quite awhile, and Ben Dunn's recent mention of me (in regards to Antarctic Press's past contributors) provides a good springboard. I intend to upload all Fire & Brimstone issues to Comicsfury.com, but haven't as yet because I have not been able to get color scans of all issues from Antarctic. I got some, but nothing from #3, and the scans I got for #2 appear as you see above. I tried contacting Antarctic multiple...

Homage to Dave Stevens

     I was asked to do my take on a Dave Stevens piece--a cover, I think--possibly the first time I'd been asked to do that kind of thing.  I did okay, for just a pencil sketch, without Stevens's perfect, cultivated style, of course.  But looking back, it's not much different from the original. I think a better take would have been a split second after a blaster shot blew up their hovercraft (or whatever it is), with the woman shooting her weapon in an acrob...

Wonder Woman Commission

     This commission has a kind of amusing anecdote attached to it. One of our very own here asked me to do Wonder Woman for him (obviously). Trying to be a little different, I thought, hey, let's depict her a little more like a mythical Amazonian warrior, specifically, topless (though I stopped short of cutting off one of her breasts--yeesh). When he saw the final product, the commissioner was bemused, and told me something to the effect of, "I tried to give...

Velma, Would-Be Vampire-Killer

       Here's the second of the three-piece Velma commission series. I was thinking back over the many vampire-hunter-versus-vampire confrontations I've seen in movies, TV and in fiction, and I'm almost positive that this is  the version I'd most want to  experience. You know, if I had to. Or had the opportunity.

       The third and final piece is a kind of "next logical step" from here, so you'll want to stay t...

Velma Commission

     I was commissioned to do three pieces involving Velma from Scooby Doo (the second and third involving Abbey, so stay tuned for those), one of which was to be my take on the character. I get this quite a bit, people wanting to see my impression of their favorite character, and it's fine. But I always feel like I disappoint with what I create, because it usually looks pretty close to the original or most iconic version of that character. It just seems wron...

Dr. Fate and Gaiman's Death

   Hey everyone. This week I've got a couple of new commissions for you, and a modification of sorts to a recent announcement. Above is a piece I just completed for a customer who often commissions--not just from me, but from other artists as well (some I've see are amazing!)-- images featuring Death with another, specified character, in this case, a female Dr. Fate. As usual, I'd never heard of Dr. Fate, so I had to do a lot of research to figure out who this character is, and...

Cosmic Connections

     Have you wondered (or have I already explained...?) where the banners for my "Naughty Bits" posts came from? Probably not. But I'll tell you anyway. I did an adult short a long time ago called "Cosmic Connections". It was essentially an "Internet" personals site for aliens. The illustrations were color, mostly two images per page: a main image of the character placing the ad, and a smaller image showing that character "in action" (in some sort of sex act). The te...

Beauties & Beasts: Lovecraftian Horrors

     This Beauties & Beasts piece has a high ick factor, what with the tentacles and the teeth and the pinching claws, so I worked  hard at counterpointing that with beautiful curves and fluid composition. The figure is especially curvy for just that reason. She was also supposed to be completely hairless (not just "down there"), like sea life. But lemme tell ya, people look weird without eyebrows and eyelashes, so I had to ...