Behold, the work stages for a wacky li'l page from the upcoming Empowered vol.12 that's a tribute to both the 70s classic flick The Golden Voyage of Sinbad from my childhood and the 1989 Atsuji Yamamoto manga Sinbad from my young adulthood. As you'll see in a future installment of Vintage Con Sketches 2021-10-15 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
(UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, posted rather a while ago.)
Behold, pages 11-14 of my layouts for issue #1 of 2021-10-13 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a bunch of loose sketch sets featuring the "civilian Emp alter ego" variation from Empowered vol. 12 that I've dubbed "Fetchingly Bepantsed Emp (with Bonus Eyeglasses)", akin to some earlier DiD sketch sets seen here. (Note that, in the linked post, I also described t...
2021-10-11 13:12:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are the initial pose rough, cover rough, pencils, inks & color guides for my character-packed cover for the recently released Empowered Omnibus vol.3, which compiles regular Empowered volumes 7-9 in honkin' big TPB form. &nb...
2021-10-08 13:34:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-oriented collection from November 2017, along with a sketchier, more gesture-focused set from May 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these Monday posts—both sketch sets are dated from 2017, meaning that the end of my once-form...
2021-10-06 13:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, folks, an exclusive Patreon preview (with bonus page roughs!) featuring one of Empowered vol.12's wilder and wackier scenes—namely, a sequence recasting the series' cast as fantasy RPG characters! (Note that this is from the same source that the book's back-cover illo is derived fr...
2021-10-04 12:52:04 +0000 UTC View Post
(UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment. Note that page 5 above was already seen in said previous post, but I tacked it on here again to make the narrative easier to follow. )
Behold, pages 5-10 of my layouts for issue #1 ...
2021-10-01 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, I'm down to the last few Dirty Pair--nay, Rose & Lily DiD commissions drawn for a generous friend, circa the early 2000s, in what was obviously the proto-Empowered B&W comic format.
Pity that I screwed myself by drawing Kei & Y**i-based damsels, as I theoretically might've been able to publish...
2021-09-29 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-oriented collection from November 2017, along with a sketchier, more gesture-focused set from May 2017.
Note that we've crossed an important threshold with these Monday posts—both sketch sets are dated from 2017, meaning that the end of my once-formidable buffer of life...
2021-09-27 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, I'm down to the last few Dirty Pair--nay, Rose & Lily DiD commissions drawn for a generous friend, circa the early 2000s, in what was obviously the proto-Empowered B&W comic format.
Pity that I screwed myself by drawing Kei & Y**i-based damsels, as I theoretically might've been able to p...
2021-09-24 12:05:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Been quite a while since I've done a Vintage Con Sketches post; the only one in August was an Exclusive Monthly Bonus Post for the Bigger Spenders* of the $10 and $20 tiers, alas.
Anyhoo, I've broken out the big binder of photocopies from my "Golden Age" of con commissions and started ...
2021-09-22 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, my first five (in fact, six; see below) pages of layouts for issue #1 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires, titled here as "Unnamed Robot Comic" as I'm more than a tad dubious about identifying this series of posts publicly. Keep this to yo...
2021-09-20 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-oriented collection from November 2017, along with a sketchier, more gesture-focused set from May 2017.
Note that we've crossed an important threshold with these Monday posts—both sketch sets are dated from 2017, meaning that the end of my once-formidable buffer of life...
2021-09-17 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are two different versions of the colors for my character-packed cover for Empowered Deluxe vol.2, which compiled regular Empowered volumes 4-6 along with a whole lotta bonus material in a limited-edition hardcover collection. (In fact, I plumb forgot that I never got around to showing the colors after posting 2021-09-15 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on our previous installment, you Bigger Spenders of the $5+ tiers can now enjoy the narrative's continuation and abrupt conclusion as this incomplete commissioned story from the early 2000s jumps forward a few pages to Dirty Pair's Kei-- no, Rose briefly escaping captiv...
2021-09-13 13:11:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Fresh and piping-hot off the ol' drawing board, here are the B&W work stages for Empowered vol.12's truly unusual back-cover illo of fantasy RPG-based characters "Goblin Ninja Kozue" (a variant of Ninjette, of course) and "Devilspawn Bard Hannah" (a variation of Mindf**k).
UPDATE: Tacked on a side-by-side preview image I'll be using ...
2021-09-10 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are the last of the (many) exploratory design sketches I did back circa 2009 for an ultimately abortive project related to the SSX snowboarding videogame series. At this (very) early point in said project's development, I was just playing around with various potential approaches to the game's familiar cast; the project was cancelled long before I ever figured out ...
2021-09-08 13:16:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Just like old times, a Monday Life Drawings post! (Then again, with the current, semi-randomized "M/W/F+" posting format, one of these LD posts was bound to wind up on Monday again sooner or later.)
Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-oriented collection f...
2021-09-06 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, my final four pages of layouts for issue #1 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires, titled here as "Unnamed Robot Comic" as I'm more than a tad dubious about identifying this series of posts publicly. Keep this to yourselves, won't you? (The joke of u...
2021-09-03 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Due to the new "M/W/F+" posting schedule, I can no longer refer to this feature as Design Tuesday; instead, I'm titling this type of post as Designs Ahoy, possibly in tribute to a certain seafaring vtuber. (Or not.)
Here are a few more of the (many) exploratory design sketches I did back circa 2009 for an ultimately abortive project rela...
2021-09-01 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostUPDATE: Thanks for weighing in on the "What should I post on Monday?" poll, Bigger Spenders of the $5+ tiers. Of the options I listed, this choice of content came out on top, barely.
UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: Just refreshed this poll in another window, and now the content options "Vintage Con Sketches" and "Twitter rant on meat ...
2021-08-30 13:15:52 +0000 UTC View PostAs I have a bit of a conceptual pileup of assorted potential posts I could schedule for Monday morning's slot, I thought I might as well throw the choice open to you generous Bigger Spenders, okay? (Keep in mind that this will likely be the final post seen by at least 10-15 Patrons, as the monthly exodus of folks cancelling their support is already getting underway...)
The final Aug...
2021-08-30 01:27:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on our previous installment, you Bigger Spenders of the $5+ tiers can now enjoy the narrative's continuation as this commissioned story from the early 2000s shifts to Dirty Pair's Kei-- no, Rose turning those fabled tables on her faceless captors.
To cut & paste from the previous post: Anyhoo, at some point in the early 2000s when I was ...
2021-08-27 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
(For Patreons paying verrry close attention, I accidentally posted life drawing installment #121 already, whilst shuffling around draft and scheduled posts to fit in the new "M/W/F+" posting format. Whoops!)
Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's sets of life drawings from random photoref. F...
2021-08-25 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, my next few pages of layouts for 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires, titled here as "Unnamed Robot Comic" as I'm more than a tad dubious about identifying this series of posts publicly. Keep this to yourselves, won't you? (The joke of using the title...
2021-08-23 13:01:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up from an introductory post open to all Patrons, you Bigger Spenders of the $5+ tiers can now enjoy the narrative's continuation as this commissioned story from the early 2000s shifts from Dirty Pair's Kei-- no, Rose kicking the crap outta faceless goons to our heroine wi...
2021-08-20 13:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with this set of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-oriented collection from November 2017, along with a sketchier, more gesture-focused set from May 2017.
Note that we've crossed an important threshold with these Monday posts—both sketch sets are dated from 2017, meaning that the end of my once-formidable buffer of life drawing...
2021-08-18 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, my next few pages of layouts for 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires, titled here as "Unnamed Robot Comic" as I'm more than a tad dubious about identifying this series of posts publicly. Keep this to yourselves, won't you? (The joke of using the title...
2021-08-16 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Patrons of the $1 and $3 tiers, enjoy a rare glimpse at material normally only seen by the Bigger Spenders of the $5, $10 & $20 tiers!
See, you've been missing out on many, many commissioned comic pages and con-sketch-format illos from the rather desperate days of yore when, chronically underemployed as I was then (and often still am nowadays), I cranked out commissioned "damsel...
2021-08-13 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, my next few pages of layouts for 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires, titled here as "Unnamed Robot Comic" as I'm more than a tad dubious about identifying this series of posts publicly. Keep this to yourselves, won't you? (The joke of using the title...
2021-08-11 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post