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Lil' Harley

Hi, everyone! Here's a little red, white and BOOM for the 4th of July. :)

For those taking the day off today, have fun and stay safe. For those of you back to work as usual, hope it's a great start to the week!

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Summer Reading

Happy July, everyone! Made great progress on my book yesterday (should finish today!) so was able to take a short break and hammer out another little two-tone pinup piece. I'm kind of on a summer beach kick right now I guess.

One of the fun things about this Patreon is it gives me a place to show some of the alternate ideas/designs I go through before landing on whatever final one I choose to highlight. However, I never know if I'm making the right decision so feel free to LMK what y'al...

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Let's get to work!

Hi, friends! Here's a little Wonder Woman to help you power through the week. :)

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Couple of notes:

I've got five days left of coloring my next--well, really side--graphic novel and then I plan on putting together a bunch of my art for a timed print sale next month. If you have any requests, please LMK below. If you want, you can vote on favorites by liking people's comments.

I sent a bunch of Space Cat sticker sheets out last week! Most of you have probably...

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Sunday Afternoon Supergirl Sketch

Decompressed a little yesterday by coloring this past Supergirl sketch of mine (and then touched up those colors a little bit more this morning).

It's a sketch I honestly didn't think needed any color, but since I was having trouble focusing on much else, I thought, "Eh, why not?" So, yay! Bonus art over the weekend. :)

I know things are a bit tumultuous right now, but I still hope everyone's having a nice, and maybe even relaxing day. More new art tomorrow.

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Beach Girl

I haven't done much else but color my next graphic novel for almost three straight weeks now so I decided to take a short break today and draw another one of my little pinup girls. I like working on comics but I find that if I don't make some time to draw some personal art--just for myself--from time to time, I tend to get kinda grumpy. So this was a pleasant distraction before jumping back into coloring (which I will be doing as soon as I finish writing this post!).

Speaking of colors,...

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Take a Breath (of the Wild)

Happy start of the week, everyone! Here's Link hoping it was a great weekend for you.

I keep having bouts of Breath of the Wild withdrawal. I mean, you let any game consume you for a good eleven months or so, you're bound to feel its absence from your life from time to time.

This has increased over the past week however, as my ten-year-old and I (now that he's out of school for the summer) have been watching this show on Disney+ called Primal Survivor: Escape the Amaz...

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Hold on (but not too tight)

It's been one of those weeks. 🫠

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Monday She-Hulk

Hi, all! Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Sorry I'm a little late on today's Happy Monday sketch. It ended up taking me a little longer than I anticipated. Yesterday I thought, "Y'know? I'm gonna draw Shulky for my Monday drawing. I like drawing her and I don't really need any reference. It'll be quick."

Words of advice for any artist out there: Never, EVER say to yourself, "It'll be quick". It's like the showbiz equivalent of wishing someone "good luck." You're almost guarantee...

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Phone Wallpapers - WAVE 5

Hi all!

It occurred to me that it's been a few months since the last wave of phone wallpapers. Sorry about that! Simultaneously working on two books is definitely taking it's toll on my perception of time. This will likely go down as the fastest year of my life (thus far).

Anyhoo, both iPhone and Galaxy sizes can be downloaded below (a bunch of stars and stripes this round for my country's upcoming birthday). Past waves are of course still available as well. You can find those her...

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Lil' Cleo

Hadn't drawn Cleo in a while. :)

Quick time-lapse HERE.

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Invisible Woman

A Sue Storm watercolor sketch for a Wild Space Cat.

Been so busy, feeling a little invisible myself this week. Haha.

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Lil' Cap

Something a little different for today's Happy Monday. Since it's also Memorial Day, it felt appropriate to also pay respect to the countless heroes who have fought for all the freedoms I think we sometimes take for granted here in the states. It's no minor thing!

So while I do hope everyone has a happy Monday today--whether you're headed to the beach, grilling, watching some Star Wars, or simply business as usual--take a moment of silence to honor tho...

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A Little Birthday Comic

Hi everyone!

So today actually is my birthday. Haha. But more than that, it's also the birthday of this here Patreon! I opened this place up to subscribers one year ago today and I'm happy to see there's still a few of you here. Thanks so much for sticking with it!

I wanted to do something a little special to celebrate and since I know how many of you enjoy these BG/SG comics, here's another. There's also a full time-lapse you can watch of it 2022-05-27 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Answer Time

Here's my answers to last week's questions. Only three this time so maybe this isn't looking like that popular of a feature. That's okay! We'll try one more time in a few weeks and retire this if there's still a lack of interest. :)

Going to HeroesCon this year?

I'm not unfortunately....

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Lil' Batgirl

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Since I drew Supergirl last week, thought I'd pair that with a little Batgirl this week. Can never draw one without the other. :)

Also, I remembered to record myself drawing for the first time in a while. Short 60-sec time-lapse of this one HERE.

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Girl With the Rainbow Umbrella

Summer is almost here! My boys only have a few days left of school, my wife already has two beach days planned, and it's getting more and more hot here in Florida (along with more and more rainy).

Meanwhile, I'm holed up in my studio tirelessly trying to meet a seemingly impossible graphic novel deadline before moving on to an even greater impossible graphic novel deadline. Suppose it's just gonna be that type of year for me. I did mange to take a quick break and draw another pinup thou...

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Question Time

Ask me anything!

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Lil' Supergirl

Took some much needed time off this weekend to go on a little kaiaking adventure with my wife for our19th (!) wedding anniversary, so just the quickest of Supergirl's for today's Happy Monday.

Hoping it's a great week ahead for everyone!

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Sleepwalker

I am busy right now! Started final art on a certain secret web-crawler book last week and the deadline is tight. A lot of late hours and a lot of blood-strained eyes noodling away at my Cintiq. Gotta feeling in a couple months I'm gonna look a lot like Sleepwalker here! Hopefully I'll be able to find time to rest though. Also eat. Eating is good.

Anyhoo, this was a watercolor sketch for a Wild Space Cat. With the new Doc Strange out now, thought he was appropriate to post this ...

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Lil' Kiki

I know. Not a superhero. I just felt like drawing Kiki.

Hope everyone had a great weekend! I'll take suggestions for next week in the comments.

:)

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Rey The Fourth Be With You

Happy Star Wars Day! I kinda love that a silly pun people use to say has become a full-fledged internet holiday. To celebrate, here's a band-new drawing of Rey! And for the first time, I'm also attaching a hi-res layered PSD file for those who want to take a more intimate look at my process. Please don't print/post/share it.

I'm kicking myself a little because I forgot to hit record for a time-lapse. But if you had seen the time-lapse, you would have s...

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Classic Tisdale

I, like, totally got distracted and ended up drawing one of Ashley Tisdale's iconic red carpet looks this afternoon. Thought I'd share before returning to far more important things!

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A Lil' Strange

Happy Monday, everyone! Anyone else excited for the multiverse of madness that's about to be unveiled to us this week?

As someone who tends to avoid trailers (at least past the first teaser), it's been tough navigating through all the cameo spoilers on the social webs. Hopefully there'll still be a few surprises to enjoy. :)

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Bone Tribute Piece

Jeff Smith's BONE has always held a special place in my heart. It's the first book that truly ignited my desire to make my own creator-owned comics and I'm honestly unsure what my career would look like today had I not discovered a compilation o...

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Lil' Daredevil

Hi all! Hope you had a great weekend! Try tackling any work ahead with no fear.

(And maybe a bit more fashion sense)

:)

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Polka Dots

Back to pinups. :)

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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Tough Crowd

Another little four-panel comic. Rough out there these days.

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Happy Starfire

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

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BFFs and Coffee

Hi everyone!

After drawing mostly pinups in my free time of late, I've been wanting to tackle something a little more involved (if nothing else just to tell myself that I can still draw backgrounds for fun). I always had this little image of Babs and Kara simply sitting on some steps sharing a snack so decided to finally go ahead and draw that. It also goes nicely with my "characters excitedly raising their arms into the air" theme I have going on this week. Haha.

It took me a whi...

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Red Panda & Moon Bear!

RED PANDA & MOON BEAR is an excellent kids graphic novel series by my buddy Jarod Roselló. They are a bother and sister duo who, with help from their magic hoodies, defeat ice cream monsters, save dogs, go to the moon and basically fend off evil in all its forms. Our whole family are big fans and I've been meaning to draw them for a while now. Mostly for my kids but I'm sure Jarod doesn't mind me helping to promote his books while I'm at it.

Anyhoo, their newest adventure, THE CURS...

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