Following up on an earlier post, here are the results from the final round of competition in a set of "March Manga Madness" brackets I worked up back in 2018:
Alas, due to, ah, Real World Unpleasantness that's descende...
2022-03-31 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on a previous post's collection of loosely rendered (and loosely commissioned) DiD sketch sets featuring operative Yu-- nay, Lily imperiled in some vague and ill-defined office setting, here are a few more pages of sketches along those lines, once more jazzed up with some highly speculative scri...
2022-03-30 13:31:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, following up on my previous post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2004's mecha-team miniseries Livewires), here are the work stages on the first few pages from issue #5 that I wound up penciling myself, as opposed to leaving the work...
2022-03-29 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an September 2017 sketch set heavy on the ol' high contrast, followed by a looser, lighter, "sketchier" set from May 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both sketch sets are dated from 2017, m...
2022-03-28 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on an earlier post, here are the results from the next round of competition in a set of "March Manga Madness" brackets I worked up back in 2018:
(BTW, the correct title of the #15 seed at lower right is
UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)
Behold, the first set of my layouts for issue #5 of 2022-03-25 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on an earlier post, here are the results from the next round of competition in a set of "March Manga Madness" brackets I worked up back in 2018:
(BTW, the correct title of the #15 seed at lower right i...
2022-03-24 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a mixed-bag bunch of loose DiD sketch sets from a year or two ago, featuring some sporadically decent images of Y**i--I mean, Lily imperiled yet again whilst undercover in supposed "businesswear." I found the results rather boring overall (some of the poses being notably stiff and lifeless), so I recently tried to jazz the sets up with some highly speculative scribbled text fur...
2022-03-23 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here, or check out the entire archive of this defunct project here. 2022-03-21 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on an earlier post, here are the results from the next round of competition in a set of "March Manga Madness" brackets I worked up back in 2018:
(BTW, the correct title of the #15 seed at lower right is
Following up on a Work Stages post from February detailing the development of the cover illo for 2012's one-shot Empowered: Hellbent or Heaven Sent by excellent Guest Artist and frequent collaborator Ryan Kinnaird and myself, here are some design sketches and early ...
2022-03-18 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an apparently challenging September 2017 sketch set featuring yet another appearance by cosplayer Jia Jem's version of my (early) version of Kei from Dirty Pair, followed by a cosplay-free set from May 2017.
Note t...
2022-03-16 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on an earlier post, here are the results from the next round of competition in a set of "March Manga Madness" brackets I worked up back in 2018:
(BTW, the correct title of the #15 seed at l...
2022-03-15 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Despite a false alarm with a previous post, this page is prrrrrobably the last new major piece of artwork for Empowered vol. 12. I was originally planning to do the title page above as strictly a Photoshop font-based "graphic" dealie, but decided instead to do a hand-lettered versio...
2022-03-14 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on an earlier post, here are the results from the first round of competition in a set of "March Manga Madness" brackets I worked up back in 2018:
(BTW, the correct title of the #15 seed at ...
2022-03-12 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, the ultimately tragic tale of Kei & Y-- uh, Rose & Lily's struggles against the hapless "Troops" wheezes to its welcome if inconclusive ending with these pages, as I haven't been able to dig up the remaining pages. Nor am I likely to spend much time looking for 'em, TBH, after our previous, now-deleted excerpt of Rose & Lily's tale wound up getting flagged by Patreon...
2022-03-11 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here, or check out the entire archive of this defunct project here 2022-03-09 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
In a wacky new Patreon feature I'm gonna be dispersing throughout the month mostly on "off days" between more substantive posts, here are the "March Manga Madness" brackets I worked up and filled out back in 2018, when I apparently had the time to indulge such wacky diversions.
(BTW, the co...
2022-03-08 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, following up on my previous post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires), ...
2022-03-07 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an October 2017 sketch set featuring another cameo by Jia Jem cosplaying her version of my (early) version of Kei from Dirty Pair, followed by a not dissimilar (but, alas, cosplay-free) set from May 2017.
...
2022-03-04 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Kind Patrons, feast your eyes from what is very likely the last new panel to be drawn for Empowered vol. 12. Huzzah! (Trimmed for SPOILER reasons, alas.) A fine image to go out on, don't you think?
I still have multiple days of work on corrections and relettering and art patches facing me, but this probably represents the end...
2022-03-03 22:43:47 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: Wellp, the Patreon is off Double-Secret Probation and no longer threatened with suspension after I deleted the specific posts flagged by Patreon Trust & Safety, along with a dozen or two others that I likewise removed out of the ol' "abundance of caution" before hearing back from 'em. (Something like 120 DiD hashtagged posts remain, so worry not, ...
2022-03-02 19:25:47 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)
Behold, the fifth and final set of my layouts for issue #4 of 2022-03-02 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Today, I'm taking a break from the Distressed Damsels serialization of poor Rose & Lily's desperate struggles in favor of a somewhat unfortunate Empowered vol. 12 update. Yay?
As I draw and letter the final replacement pages, art patches & corrections for Empowered vol. 12 this week, I've had to leave ou...
2022-02-28 14:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an abdominally focused, movement-oriented set from May 2017 based on stills from a bellydancing video, followed by an October 2017 sketch that was my first attempt at working in charcoal since taking Figure Drawing class at the Kubert School back in the l...
2022-02-25 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on an earlier post, here are more pages from a commissioned Dirty Pair comic story in proto-Empowered format, created back in 2003 during a time when I assumed that I wouldn't be drawing comics professionally any more, due to my disencha...
2022-02-24 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, here are the complete Work Stages on the cover illo for 2012's one-shot Empowered: Hellbent or Heaven Sent by excellent Guest Artist and frequent collaborator Ryan Kinnaird and myself. As with most of these one-shots' cover illos, I drew the Emp figure and the Guest Artist did everything else. Wheeeee!
UPDATE: 2022-02-23 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, more scans of photocopies from my somewhat dwindling supply of early-2000s commissions. A few words:
Not that I was shooting for resemblances, but that sorta looks like Ed Norton if you squint your eyes a lot; I made no such effort on Brad Pitt, though. (That cartoonishly stylize...
2022-02-22 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)
Behold, the fourth set of my layouts for issue #4 of 2022-02-21 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on an earlier post, here are more pages from a commissioned Dirty Pair comic story in proto-Empowered format, created back in 2003 during a time when I assumed that I wouldn't be drawing comics professionally any more, due to my disencha...
2022-02-18 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post