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LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 4, pt. 2!
[Here'sa link to our previous installmentin 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 been chosen; of course, the great Brian Denham wound up tackling the art for the project, but I had already rolled with these time-consuming roughs o...
Sneak preview of my page roughs for a new story introducing THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!
So! 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 "quad thumbnail" fo...
2007 "Endpage" piece for PSM re: The Playstation 3's trumphant resurgence!
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:There's my crappy Ruger P89 semiautomatic making another appearance in my work, folks!And now, back to work on the last set of recopied thumbnails for The Chaste ...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Behold, more art requests from the $20 tier!
Whoops, reallythought 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 Empoweredriff, BTW. As I did not have another new art-req-based CSP sketch ready to go (as I thoughtI had, whilst furiously grinding through scripting this week), here's one from...
WORK STAGES on a recent(-ish) illustration, part 1!
So! 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's a wraparound cover that doesn'tuse two separate comic original pages (as is normally the ca...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #220: A pair of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets with a new approach!
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 Drawingsketches is starting to seem a tad pointless, especially since I (desperately) need to figure out a fa...
DISTRESED DAMSELS: A Mucha-ish EMPOWERED illo depicting Emp as a goddess from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED (and more)!
So!One of the $20-tier art requests from April solicited the concept of Emp from Empowereddepicted 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):...and worked up this rough pose for Emp:...which, oddly enough,was derived from anotherphoto with an upper-torso pose quite...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 4, pt. 1!
[Here's a link to our previous installmentin 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 been chosen; of course, the great Brian Denham wound up tackling the art for the project, but I had already rolled with these time-consuming roughs ...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: More commissions from the futuristic year 1999!
Time for s'more Vintage Con Sketchesfrom 1999, scanned from photocopies of mediocre quality at best. First off, a touch of Life Drawingon this sketch of Dirty Pair's Kei and Y**i:...as I strongly suspect that the shading on their bodies was derived from a Japanese gravurephoto shot from some seinenmagazine.Next up, an even more unusual backlit take on Kei, in a different (civilian-wear) to...
FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: Enjoy some WORK STAGES on a recent failure, folks!
So!Six months or so ago, I showed you some fairly cryptic roughs for a pair of Gen13sample 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 worked with me on 2019's Venom: The Endone-shot for Marvel. Here's Chamba's pencils for that page:...and his delight...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #219: Yet more early(-ish) tests of Clip Studio Paint!
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 Drawinginstallment, dear Patrons!No time for a new Life Drawingset this week, so I transferred over another early-ish Clip Stu...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Revisiting & redrawing an old EMPOWERED illo!
So! Years ago, I posted here an old DiD sketch (drawn circa 2007-2008, I'd guess) that was probably a prelim for an Empoweredcommission or con sketch:...featuring the then-rare concept of an Emp DiD sketch depicting our bedamseled heroine with her mask off, for once; this image also featured some seriously wonky anatomy , to put it mildly. Then again, in early EmpoweredI wasn't doing "...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 3, pt. 4!
[Here's a link to our previous installmentin 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 been chosen; of course, the great Brian Denham wound up tackling the art for the project, but I had already rolled with these time-consuming roughs ...
CHARACTER DESIGNS AHOY from the fantasy comic currently codenamed "UNIDENTIFIED FANTASY OFFERING," pt. 2!
So!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, in our previous installment.This fantasy concept preda...
2006 PSM "Endpage" cartoon speculates whimsically re: the Playstation 4's then-imminent launch (featuring EMPOWERED's Thugboy)!
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 waytoo much text, dude."Here's the final version (penciled on linen-finish cardstock like my old con sket...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #218: Yet more early tests of Clip Studio Paint!
No time for a new Life Drawingset 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:Looks like I was rendering with too small a size setting on the Design Pencil tool, as my "squiggly line" approach looks unusu...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: A ROSE & LILY sketch set revisited, 20+ years afterward (plus bonus sketches)!
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:Her captors seem diminutive, yet tote futuristic firearms; goblins with guns, perhaps? Needless to say, I've long forgotten what was supposed to be goi...
THE LAST PARTY and LIFE DRAWING cross over, plus bonus sketches and work-in-progress pages!
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:I was trying to differentiate their physiques and body types here, ...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 3, pt. 3!
[Here's a link to our previous installmentin 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 been chosen; of course, the great Brian Denham wound up tackling the art for the project, but I had already rolled with these time-consuming roughs ...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #217: Yet more early tests of Clip Studio Paint!
No time for a new Life Drawingset 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 pretty solid set, though the fairly severe limitations of my entirely "squiggle-based" approach to rendering are pretty clear; srsly, with all these to...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: S'more EMPOWERED sketch sets ahoy!
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 another DiD scene from the late-70s run of Marvel's Spider-Woma...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: An accidental double dose of DIRTY PAIR commissions!
Whoops, I scanned and Photoshopped up a set of old Dirty Paircommissions this morning before belatedly realizing that I already featured a Vintage Con Sketchespost on May 1st, so you fine folks will be getting a double Vintagedose this month. I got nothin' elseready to go today, so we'll have to roll with this content, okay?I have a sneaking suspicion that I already scanned and prepped mos...
SNEAK PREVIEW of an upcoming story!
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 SPOILERSof any sort, really, due to the fact that A)I'm pretty sure you can't figure out the story&#...
CHARACTER DESIGNS AHOY from the fantasy comic currently codenamed "UNIDENTIFIED FANTASY OFFERING," pt. 1!
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 realtitle arguably gives away the series' overall premise."WHOOPS! WHOOPSIE!" UPDATE:Belatedly occurred to me that the project's real title is, in f...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 3, pt. 2!
[Here's a link to our previous installmentin 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 been chosen; of course, the great Brian Denham wound up tackling the art for the project, but I had already rolled with these time-consuming roughs ...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Another Patreon DiD purge may be imminent
Just had to delete a recent post depicting (if I may emphasize) consensual bedroom roleplayingbetween 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's Eye of Sauron, safe to say most of the ear...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #216: Yet more early tests of Clip Studio Paint!
No time for a new Life Drawingset 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):...and an all-Life Drawingeffort, drawn with the iOS Design Pencil brush I'm still using today:And now, back to...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED's "Elf vs. Chair" saga continues!
Continuing ona 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 herselfbedamseled yet again by a magically animated chair. This wasn't really a "true" Chaste story like the sample pages I posted last summer, but more of a background-free ...
2005 "Endpage" PSM cartoon re: exotic peripherals for the (then-upcoming) Playstation 3!
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 original rough (which would've featured the cartoon's suggested title) nor my comp copy of that particular issue of PSM.Alarmin...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Lovely Angels, Leather Mermaids, Xmas Roxy & more!
Behold, s'more reallyVintage Con Sketchesfrom 1998-99, as scanned from old photocopies, hence the somewhat crappy repro quality. First off, a straightforward Dirty Pairillo with Kei upraising the ol' Hypno-Butt:Next, a rather odd Y*ri illo:...which my bud Ryan Kinnaird long ago colored, just for the hell of it:I honestly have no idea if the original request was actually for a mermaid Y*ri,...
