So!
A recent Distressed Damsels post (for the $5+ tiers) featured a commission request for SF heroines Rose & Lily bedamseled by the Sean Connery iteration of James Bond. Alas, I couldn't quite pull off the Connery resemblance in the final piece, so I thought...
2023-05-19 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
[Part 1 of this post can be seen here.]
The piece that follows isn't technically a commission per se, but rather a gift illo for a friend of time and long-time (small-P) patron. He wanted a sketch of Dirty Pair's Kei and Yu—nay,
[Our previous post in this series can be seen here.]
In a desperate bid for a recurring feature to fill up M/W/F slots on this here Patreon, here are (most of) the Work Stages on pages 7 & 8 of a 10-page story I wrote and drew as a backup feature for a 20...
2023-05-15 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
The piece that follows isn't technically a commission per se, but rather a gift illo for a friend of time and long-time (small-P) patron. He wanted a sketch of Dirty Pair's Kei and Yu—nay, Rose & Lily in a distressed-damsel crossover with a specific iteration of a familiar character from a very different franchis...
2023-05-12 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought this comic I wrote and drew for the videogame magazine PSM's Endpage feature from December 2005 was at least semi-relevant currently due to the recent release of the Resident Evil 4 remake.
Anyhoo, this feature depicted the cast from RE4 bitterly complaining about losing out on PSM...
2023-05-10 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
From the 2019 era of experimentation in the iPad art app Procreate, here are a pair of (mostly) photoreference-based sketch sets from early on in my digital explorations. At this point I was still using Procreate's admittedly "mushy-looking" Medium Airbrush to get something onto the g-d tablet:
2023-05-08 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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[Our previous post in this series can be seen here.]
In a desperate bid for a recurring feature to fill up M/W/F slots on this here Patreon, here are (most of) the Work Stages on pages 5 and 6 of a 10-page story I wrote and drew as a backup feature for a 2016...
2023-05-05 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, more Vintage Con Sketches drawn not long after the final Dirty Pair miniseries, Run from the Future, which ran from (late) 1999 to 2000. Scanned these from a rapidly dwindling binder of photocopies of the originals, hence the slightly "off" repro quality.
First off, a single-figure Y*ri sketch, drawn wit...
2023-05-03 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
The image gallery above features the Work Stages on a test illo I've been working on for potential workflow on fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained. Several different creative approaches issues were being tried out with this piece, as you'll see.
First off, I was trying out a "new-to-me" pencil lead, to see if it co...
2023-05-01 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold! Another few sketch sets—mostly drawn as pencil tests for a new-to-me lead—feature a new appearance by a maskless superheroine originally created for a bunch of DiD rough-sketch commissions well before Empowered came about.
This character, who I've unofficially nicknamed "Emerald" as a supranym after I drew her in a gree...
2023-04-28 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, as Harley Quinn #29 hits the shelves of your Local Comics Store (or wherever else) today whilst featuring the 8-page HQ backup story I wrote and drew for the issue, thought I'd trot out a Work Stages post with a new-to-you (I think) page from late in the narrative.
Not much to say—nor much time to say i...
2023-04-26 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, just found out that I can't post the time-lapse Life Drawing video I intended to put up today, as Patreon wants a URL or link for video content, as opposed to the Procreate MP4 on my hard drive.
So, I'm hastily swapping in part 2 of my original pitch for the 2004 miniseries Livewires, 2023-04-25 14:34:57 +0000 UTC View Post
From the 2019 era of digital experimentation in the iPad art app Procreate, here's a set of sketches based on ol' Jim Hopper from season 2 (I think?) of Stranger Things. Note that I was playing around with some different, charcoal-ish brushes on the left-side close-ups:
Following up on a Distressed Damsels post from a month or so ago, I just scanned a few more Empowered rough sketch sets recently discovered in an old folder, probably drawn to generate poses for future comic stories... maybe.
2023-04-21 14:01:29 +0000 UTC
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So!
In a desperate bid for a recurring feature to fill up M/W/F slots on this here Patreon, here are (most of) the Work Stages on the 3rd and 4th pages of a 10-page story I wrote and drew as a backup feature for a 2016 Deadpool Annual.
Given the opportunity, I decided to mix in the nigh-invulnerable mecha Gothic Lolita from my late...
2023-04-19 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In an attempt to mix things up with the new(-ish) era of digital-art Life Drawing posts, here's a brand new sketch set drawn in Clip Studio Paint (iOS version) from random photoreference, as opposed to the 2019 artwork seen in our previous installment. Yay?
Experienced a...
2023-04-17 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
In an unusual break from the usual format of Failed-Project Friday, this time I'm going to feature a comic pitch that was, in fact, successful. Go figure!
What follows is the first half of my proposal for the 2004 Marvel miniseries Livewires, though the project's initial title was Livewire, singular; y...
2023-04-14 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
As I've posted here previously (but don't care enough to track down said posts), on occasion throughout the late 90s and early 2000s I had the odd tendency of knocking out Rose & Lily DiD sketch sets on the backs of photocopies of penciled original pages from Gen13; some of 'em were random pieces done for a kind (small-P) patron who apprec...
2023-04-12 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, all of my analog-media sets of sketch sets from photoreference from my life drawing heyday of 2017-2018 have now been posted here, so I'm moving on to feature my earliest stabs in digital media. Yay?
The first art app I tried out was MediBang Paint, but I never did any life drawing via that vaguely CSP-like software. However, while I intensely disliked almost all of MediBang's defa...
2023-04-10 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
In a desperate bid for a recurring feature to fill up M/W/F slots on this here Patreon, here are (most of) the Work Stages on the first two pages of a 10-page story I wrote and drew as a backup feature for a 2016 Deadpool Annual.
Given the opportunity, I decided to mix in the nigh-invulnerable mecha Gothic Lolita from my late, ...
2023-04-07 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, at least two of these Bubblegum Crisis-derived commissions should be new to (most of) you, though the last few were prrrrrobably posted here before, albeit potentially years ago.
First off, Priss sporting "THAT leather jacket," which was of course photoreferenced from a friend's jacket in pics taken during, I think, the summer of '96:
2023-04-05 13:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the Work Stages—all 2.1 or so of 'em—for another "Endpage" feature I wrote and drew for the videogame magazine PSM back in 2005.
IIRC, after the magazine 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 of the 2000s—this was yet another attempt ...
2023-04-03 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
T'other day a Patron asked about seeing a preview of Friday's Exclusive Monthly Bonus Post for the Biggest Spenders and, upon further reflection, I decided to work one up, as well as address upcoming content in April for this here Patreon.
So!
March's Bonus Post will feature a bunch of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets based on $20 art requests, as I continue to grind my way through a b...
2023-03-30 13:24:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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, that number has now diminished to zero, as the sketch set above was the last unused image left in the ol' Life Drawing folder. After this, I'll...
2023-03-29 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
Recently, I worked up a rough sketch concept for a commission that wound up going nowhere, so I decided to finish the piece as a Clip Studio Paint brush test... which proved educational, though almost entirely in a negative manner.
The basic idea was to feature a barbarian warrior forced to dance for a troupe of goblins who had captured her:
2023-03-27 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, desperate times call for desperate measures as I'm running quite far behind on Patreon posts, and had to tap one of my few remaining "emergency options" for a quick post. Lordy loo!
Anyhoo, above is the forward I wrote for t2023-03-24 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 1 more unused image is left in the ol' folder, meaning that in next month I'll have to switch over to more recent digital-art sets...
2023-03-22 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Just scanned a few more Empowered rough sketch sets from roughly 10 years ago (or more, in one case) that I found in an old folder, probably drawn to generate poses for future comic stories... maybe.
At one point, apparently had a story in mind in which Emp wound up trus...
2023-03-20 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post[UPDATE: Re: the power outage I mentioned earlier in the week, I am happy to say that electricity was restored to my street last night after three highly unpleasant days. By unfortunate coincidence, the gas stove was out and my generator completely inaccessible, two missing items which normally make a garden-variety power outage relatively bearable.
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2023-03-17 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostPower’s been out for two days now after a massive snowstorm. You may see an interruption in posting next week depending on how long restoration of power takes.
In the meantime, I’m mainly concentrating on not freezing to death, as a few truly unfortunate circumstances have converged disastrously. Currently 44 effing degrees inside the ol’ house, which is none too optimal.
Wel...
2023-03-15 18:42:07 +0000 UTC View Post