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Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #176

Wellp, the time arrived some time ago for single-set posts of life drawings from random photoreference, as my once seemingly endless supply of sets from near-daily work in 2017 has dwindled down to a sadly diminished number.

In fact, as of this post, only 2 more unused images are left in the ol' folder, meaning that in a few months I'll have to switch over to more recent digital-art ...

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: A new(-ish) SHASTI vs. ANGELS color commission!

Behold, a semi-recent commission in my old, two-color "Con Sketch" format depicting That Darn Shasti once again getting the better of Dirty Pair's Y*ri and Kei.  (BTW, I do like the idea that Shasti might have difficulty telling these two apart from their hapless alternates Rose & Lily, as she can victimize the "real" Lovely Angels al...

2007 "No swimsuit feature this year" backpage comic for PSM!

Running way behind schedule today, so here's a quickly thrown together post featuring my backpage cartoon feature for a summer 2007 issue of the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM. Two years after the mag had stopped running its annual swimsuit feature with art by many comics artists—ah, yes, the times they were a-changing, even back in those halcyon days ...

THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED: Page roughs for 2nd scene (pp.06-09)!

Behold, my initial page roughs for the second scene from the opening story I'm writing and drawing for The Chaste and the Chained, the previously mentioned fantasy comic I'm using as a test bed for digital art production in Clip Studio Paint.

The first scene from the ...

VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: More anime & manga commissions from 2000 (or so)!

And now, s'more recent scans from my dwindling binder of photocopies dating back to my Golden Age of Vintage Con Sketches from 2000-2002. A few words:

I strongly suspect that this illo of Deunan & Briareos from Shirow's Appleseed was already...

FAILED PROJECT FRIDAY: Early stages of a never-pitched TMNT proposal, part 1!

So! 

At some point in the distant past, possibly the early 2000s, I must've had a conversation at a comic with somebody from comics company IDW about a writing-only Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pitch. Obvsly, nothing ever came of this vague idea, but I did work up an initial pitch document covering the overall direction I had in mind.

And now,...

WORK STAGES on illo of BLISS from Rob "Robaato" Porter's CRYAMORE!

Behold, me Work Stages on an illo I drew lo these many years ago for the character "Bliss" from Rob "Robaaato" Porter's Kickstarted but unfortunately unfinished videogame Cryamore.

The vague rough:

Next, I blue-penciled up a finished sketch from the rough, then wen...

Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #175

Wellp, the time arrived some time ago for single-set posts of life drawings from random photoreference, as my once seemingly endless supply of sets from near-daily work in 2017 has dwindled down to a sadly diminished number.

In fact, as of this post, only 4 unused images are left in the ol' folder, meaning that in a few months I'll have to switch over to more recent digital-art sets;...

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: A last bit of ROSE & LILY lore, plus an early sneak peek at THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!

So, dear Patrons, even as we enter the era of new digital test-bed project The Chaste and the Chained, time for a look at what will be likely the last sketch sets of "Rose & Lily lore" for a while.

These first two pages of rough sketches were actually drawn and written a few months ago, back in the heyday of my phase of "DiD sketch s...

WORK STAGES on a pretty good (IMHO) 2006 variant cover!

Stumbled across whilst clearing folders off the long-dying Old PC are my Work Stages for a variant cover I drew for an early issue of the 2006 relaunch of Wildstorm/DC's Gen13, which was the iteration written by Gail Simone and drawn by, I think, Talent Caldwell.

I wanted to do a helluva lot more than just draw a variant cover for the 2023-02-23 14:29:49 +0000 UTC View Post

WORK STAGES on a 2013(-ish) comic project, pt. 4: THE THRILLING CONCLUSION!

So, following up on our previous post in this series, here are the rest of the complete Work Stages from a 2013 Scarlet Witch/ Domino story I wrote and drew for the Avengers/ X-Men team-up anthology A+X. (I'm a tad dubious about posting Marvel material here, so keep...

Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #174

Wellp, the time arrived some time ago for single-set posts of life drawings from random photoreference, as my once seemingly endless supply of sets from near-daily work in 2017 has dwindled down to a sadly diminished number.

In fact, as of this post, only 5 unused images are left in the ol' folder, meaning that in a few months I'll have to switch over to more recent digital-art sets;...

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Yet more late-90s ROSE (without LILY) commissioned sketch sets!

Following up on Wednesday's post re: the 2002 Dirty Pair statue set, I dug up a few more damsel-in-distress sketch sets from only a few years earlier (I think), judging by the character design approach. Commissioned by a generous friend who could appreciate the (figuratively) sketchy stuff, the sets weren't particularly narrative in nature.

The first one might ev...

Design sketchbook from 2002 DIRTY PAIR statue!

The highlight of Dark Horse's rather ill-fated Dirty Pair merchandise effort was the fine statue set, as detailed in this 2002-era solicitation copy:

Genetically enhanced super-babes Kei and Y*ri are always in trouble,  especially when their adventures are created by American "manga" artist  Adam Warren! We have enlisted two great talents-- the afor...