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So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity 2024-07-05 13:30:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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My final task during a relatively productive June was to rough out and script a new story to serve as an introductory chapter of fantasy "romantic action-comedy" The Chaste and the Chained. After cranking out a scrawled first draft of page roughs and working up a finished script with dialogue and panel descriptions, I went back and recopied the roughs in the...
2024-07-03 13:01:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in July of 2007 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, goofily speculating about the Playstation 3's resurgence at that time (I gather). First, the rough:
And the final pencils:
2024-07-01 13:52:23 +0000 UTC
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Whoops, really thought I had more of these kicking around! Anyhoo, here's a recent art request from the $20 tier, featuring a Patron's imperiled OC:
The "lasso portals" bit was loosely based on an unused Empowered riff, BTW.
As I did not have a...
2024-06-28 13:39:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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During the first week of June or thereabouts, I worked up a variant cover for the upcoming series Time Waits (by writers Chip Zdarsky and David Brothers and artist Marcus To), a creator-owned title to be published by the company DSTLRY. The illo was set up in an interesting format, in that it'...
2024-06-26 14:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Tried something a bit different recently with the ol' iOs Clip Studio Paint app, in that I experimented with a quicker, looser drawing approach based on random photoreference off my tablet's camera roll:
TBH, the tremendously time-consuming approach of producing highly rendered Life Dr...
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One of the $20-tier art requests from April solicited the concept of Emp from Empowered depicted as "the Chained Goddess" from fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained. I tried for an Alphonse-Mucha-inspired illo (as seen in a photo from a reference book of mine):
2024-06-21 14:48:39 +0000 UTC
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So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, the first issue of which I wrote and laid out long before an artist had been chosen; &nb...
2024-06-19 13:54:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for s'more Vintage Con Sketches from 1999, scanned from photocopies of mediocre quality at best. First off, a touch of Life Drawing on this sketch of Dirty Pair's Kei and Y**i:
...as I strongly suspect t...
2024-06-17 13:54:19 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
Six months or so ago, I showed you some fairly cryptic roughs for a pair of Gen13 sample pages, starting with this "action page" of the superteam in costume:
Wellp, these roughs were intended to be samples finished by the great Jeffrey "Chamba" Cruz, who w...
UPDATE: This g-d post was supposed to go up on Wednesday morning, but I accidentally posted it today instead of scheduling the damn thing as originally intended. I suppose I could delete this post and try again, but screw that. So, enjoy an ahead-of-schedule Wednesday Life Drawing installment, dear Patrons!
No time for a ne...
2024-06-10 17:26:27 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
Years ago, I posted here an old DiD sketch (drawn circa 2007-2008, I'd guess) that was probably a prelim for an Empowered commission or con sketch:
...featuring the then-rare concept of an Emp DiD sketch depicting our bedamseled heroine with her mask off, ...
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hyp...
2024-06-07 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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This morning, after finishing a freelance cover illo after a full week of work on the g-d thing (ouch), I'm back to work on the oversized (48-page!) first issue of a long, long-brewing fantasy comic project that I've been referring to here as Unidentified Fantasy Offering, though I accidentally revealed the actual title, Godplayers 2024-06-05 13:42:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in 2006 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, goofily speculating about the Playstation 4's then-imminent launch. First off, the rough I sent in for approval:
Pity my editor at the time didn't say, "Jeez, that looks like
No time for a new Life Drawing set this week (as I quixotically attempt to work up a wraparound cover illo in under two g-d workdays,. which is extraordinarily unlikely to happen), so I transferred over another very early Clip Studio Paint test from the ol' iPad:
Lo...
A few months back, I stumbled across the rough for a never-completed commission from 2002 or so in comic-page format, depicting Dirty Pair's Yu--nay, Lily (from the future Rose & Lily) getting bedamseled in a forest setting by unseen captors:
2024-05-29 13:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Here's an update of sorts for long-burbling fantasy project The Last Party, as this weekend I cranked out a photoreferenced sketch of the group's three ladies in a swimsuit-y situation. I ran outta both worktime and patience with rendering the Half-Elf's time-consuming hair, so I pulled the plug at the point seen below:
2024-05-27 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, the first issue of which I wrote and laid out long before an artist had...
2024-05-24 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
No time for a new Life Drawing set this week (as I continue to work on the script for the 48-page first issue of Unidentified Fantasy Offering), so I transferred over another very early Clip Studio Paint test from the ol' iPad:
Overall, a ...
2024-05-22 13:39:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week, whilst grinding through the seemingly endless script for issue #1 of Unidentified Fantasy Offering (which I'm still working on this week!), took a break every few hours to whittle away at some Empowered "straight-damsel-cheesecake" sketch sets based on a few long-standing requests.
One such request involved yet anoth...
2024-05-20 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Whoops, I scanned and Photoshopped up a set of old Dirty Pair commissions this morning before belatedly realizing that I already featured a Vintage Con Sketches post on May 1st, so you fine folks will be getting a double Vintage dose this month. I got nothin' else ready to go today, so we'...
2024-05-17 13:33:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, my thumbnails for a new story I wrote and laid out for the upcoming Marvel anthology book Venomverse Reborn #2, due out on 7/24; this is an 8-pager that revisits the universe I first explored in the 2019 one-shot Venom: The End.
I don't think that these "thumbs" constitute SPOILERS of any sort,...
2024-05-15 13:29:18 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
This morning, I'm grinding away at the script for the oversized (48-page!) first issue of a long, long-brewing fantasy comic project that I've been referring to here as Unidentified Fantasy Offering, due to the fact that its real title arguably gives away the series' overall premise.
"WHOOPS! WHOOPSIE!" UPDATE...
2024-05-13 13:45:26 +0000 UTC View Post
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, the first issue of which I wrote and laid out long before an artist had...
2024-05-10 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostJust had to delete a recent post depicting (if I may emphasize) consensual bedroom roleplaying between Emp and Thugboy (cosplaying as the Old-Timey Inventor of Duct-Tape"), which Patreon apparently considered to be "promoting s*xual violence." As I assume the consensual sp*nking being depicted was what drew the attention of Trust & Safety'...
2024-05-08 15:08:46 +0000 UTC View Post
No time for a new Life Drawing set this week, so I transferred over some very early Clip Studio Paint tests from the ol' iPad.
First off, a 2020 sketch set combining two photoreferenced sketches with art requests and tests for the Half-Orc from Party of Two (and now, The Last Party):
2024-05-08 13:04:27 +0000 UTC
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Continuing on a previous bunch of Clip Studio Paint page roughs from a kinda-but-not-really story from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained, I had been noodling away on a scene of the Elf Mage finding herself bedamseled yet again by a magically animated ch...
2024-05-06 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in 2005 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, apparently speculating about potential peripherals for the then-upcoming Playstation 3:
Not sure about the precise nature of this piece, as I can locate neither the orig...
2024-05-03 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, s'more really Vintage Con Sketches from 1998-99, as scanned from old photocopies, hence the somewhat crappy repro quality.
First off, a straightforward Dirty Pair illo with Kei upraising the ol' Hypno-Butt:
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