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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #233: Behold, a vintage pair of 2017 sketch sets!
Lemme tell ya, folks, this g-d M/W/F posting schedule on Patreon is reallybecoming a problem for me, for reasons I might explain in greater detail down the road.With no g-d worktime this morning to finish the Distressed Damselssketch set (for the $5+ tiers) already underway, here's a hastily flung-together Life Drawingpost featuring a pair of analog pencil sets from December 2017, at the very start of my near-daily sketching kick:Note the ...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 6, pt. 1!
[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 out of, I dunno, sheer perfectionism and unhinged m...
WORK STAGES on yet another art-test story from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED; blue-pencil tavern flashback ahoy!
So!After I left the previousart-test story from fantasy project The Chaste and the Chainedon pause for the time being, I switched over to a different story to try out a (theoretically) different artistic approach. Said previous story featured a faux blue pencil Work Stagein Clip Studio Paint (iOs version), which I then inked over:These results were decent--in fact, by far the best digital inks I've managed so far--but still constituted me ha...
(NOT-)FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: My proposal synopsis for a (very) rare successful pitch!
In a quite belated attempt to notify Patrons that, for once, published work of mine is (or was) out on those Local Comics Store shelves (or wherever), thought I'd seize the opportunity to briefly discuss a one-shot story I wrote and laid out for Marvel!October 30 saw the release of the event tie-in story Venom War: Fantastic Four, written by me with sweet art by Joey Vazquez and pretty colors by Guru eFX. Note that the issue also boasted a va...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: More photoreffed studies for THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED, plus bonus art-request sketch sets!
Similar to a recent post from late October, here's another set of photoreferenced sketches working out damsel-y poses for the oft-imperiled Elven Mage from fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained:The upper left pose was, alas, based on a cosplay photo in which the g-d costume foiled my attempts to figure out the reference's quite radical lower torso foreshortening; oh well. (Plus, an accurately drawn version of her chest would also ha...
A preview of EMPOWERED vol.12's entire "fantasy RPG" sequence!
Belatedly dawned on me that, with Empoweredvol.12'sllllonnnggg-delayed release looming in just over three weeks (Dec. 3 in bookstores, Dec. 4 in comics stores), I should start showing s'more Patreon previews from the book. Behold our cover art, featuring colors by my bud Ryan Kinnaird:And here's the volume's solicitation copy:Costumed crimefighter Empowered is trapped in a surreal nightmare scenario as her universe begins spontane...
More WORK STAGES on 4 pages from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED, plus bonus script!
So! Time for s'more work-in-progress jpegs from an ongoing art-test story for fantasy comic The Chaste and the Chained, now with the narrative's dialogue revealed in script (but not lettering) form.First off, the story's initial analog-media inked page in work-in-progress form, still needing to be cleaned up a fair bit:And here's the page's dialogue:PANEL 1:PALADIN: LadyElfmage.PANEL 2:PALADIN: Need I be concernedthat you have...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #232: A photoreffed bikini pic from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED, plus bonus 2016 set!
First off, fulfilling a simple but classic art request from the $20 tier, here's a photoreference-derived sketch of the Elf Mage from The Chaste and the Chainedin a teeny-weeny bikini:The attentive Patron might even recall that I previously used this particular photo as the basis of one of the very earliest sketches of Patreon pseudo-project Hushed Half Elfcirca 2019 :(Those faux D&D stats in the text above are a tad gibberish-y due to the fa...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: A complete 1998 BUBBLEGUM CRISIS set, plus bonus Fred Perry character!
As I paw through my dusty piles of old photocopies looking for Vintage Con SketchesI haven't scanned yet, I dug up some Bubblegum Crisiscommissions continuing the "training costume" riff first seen in this recently posted previous scan of Linna and Priss:Note that they're wearing the training outfits briefly seen in the original BGCOVA episode 8 (Scoop Chase), as seen in this group shot of all four Knight Sabers:Enjoy those vinta...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 5, pt. 5!
[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 out of, I dunno, sheer perfectionism and unhinged m...
In-progress WORK STAGES on another promising page from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!
On The Chaste and the Chainedfront, I made some decent progress this week on another test page from that recent story I posted about.Here was the rough for the story's initial page, as seen previously:Then I worked up an underdrawing for the page in Clip Studio Paint, starting with my PC's Wacom Cintiq before finishing up this stage on the ol' iPad:Note that I reallyenjoy this stage, which I can't say about the subsequent hours of...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #231: DISTRESSED DAMSEL pose studies for THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!
In a first-of-its-kind, kinda-sorta triple crossover of Patreon post types, feast thine eyes upon a pair of brand-new Clip Studio Paint Life Drawingsketch sets drawn as Distressed Damselspose reference for the often-bedamseled Elfmage heroine of fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained!Note that specific pelvic angle noted at upper left, which I do often round off in place of a simplified curve when drawing off the top of my head; note also tha...
FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: My SECOND unsuccessful pitch for a DIRTY PAIR/GEN13 crossover!
STATE OF MY DRAWING HAND UPDATE:Since yesterday morning I've been experiencing a sudden and bizarre new drawing-hand pain issue that seems to recur at random, so I'm taking the rest of the week and the upcoming weekend off from drawing in the hopes that this strange new malady will abate. However, if these random jolts of pain continue, such a problem may make drawing-based posts through the end of the month challenging indeed; I'll k...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Some WORK STAGES on an in-progress EMPOWERED sketch set!
Time for a work-in-progress Empoweredillo based on a $20-tier art request, in which the Patron suggested poor Emp bedamseled by DC Comics' fishnet-clad magician Zatanna. A week or so ago, I worked up an initial analog pencil sketch in which an unseen Zatanna (or generic equivalent) was magically unleashing a series of scarves with her characteristic "lettered backwards" spell-speech pattern:Then I worked up a different pencil sketch a...
Further WORK STAGES on a promising page from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINS; also, DESIGNS AHOY!
On The Chaste and the Chainedfront, I made some decent progress this weekend on another test page from that recent story I posted about. Here was the rough for the story's initial page, as seen previously:And the analog-pencil roughs for the next page:As you'll eventually see, the concept here is that the Elf Mage is claiming to be covertly inspecting him for malign spiritual presences, when she's actuallyusing a vision spell to ogle...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #230: A new Clip Studio Paint sketch set, plus a bonus 2016 set!
First up, a new (if speedy) Clip Studio Paint sketch set:As a bonus dealie, here's one of my earliest analog-media Life Drawingsketch sets from December of 2016, featuring plenty of scribbled text notes:Most of the photos that these images were sketched from are still lurking on my aging iPad Pro's camera roll; might well revisit a few sometime, as all of 'em are pretty interesting.NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: No idea, TBH, but som...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Possibly the final installment?
Rough g-d morning at the ol' homestead today, so enjoy a hasty post, won't you?Dug up a final few photocopies that I hadn't scanned, starting with this Savage Dragoncommission:And a baggy-pantsed OC:An old, possibly pose-photoreffed illo of Y**1 from The Dirty Pair:Scanned a jpeg from a photocopy of this Kei sketch, only to belatedly realize I already had a direct scan of the original kicking around in a different folder:Trying some d...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 5, pt. 4!
[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 out of, I dunno, sheer perfectionism and unhinged m...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: $20-tier art requests for Queen Emp & Biker Elf Ninjette (with bonus Ocelotina)!
In a somewhat desperate bid to get the month's first Distressed Damselspost outta the way, here's a recent Clip Studio Paint sketch set based on what I thinkis the last remaining art request from the last such post:Some interesting latex-rendering attempts, gotta say; have to keep these in mind for upcoming pages from The Chaste and the Chainedas I contemplate how to depict the Elfmage's costume! On the same theme, an earlier take wit...
WORK STAGES: A sudden turn of events on THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!
Real-world crap severely limits my time to write up much text for today's post, but here's a TL;DR version: Due to my increasingly urgent need to get somekind of income rolling in the near future, I've quite abruptly decided to make the bold, daring, and desperate attempt to kickstart (but not capital-K Kickstart , as yet) fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chainedas a writing-and-art enterprise.For reasons I might try to detail ...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #229: Longsword studies for THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED, plus a bonus 2016 set!
So, as practice for my current revisitation of fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained, I cranked out a quick Clip Studio Paint sketch set based on various longsword-based photoref:The crossed-wrist poses have always been a challenge for me to draw, hence the focus on such in the preceding set. (Note that you'll likely be seeing more sketch sets along these lines in the near future.)As a bonus dealie, here's one of my earliest analog-m...
FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: My 2006 MASTER OF KING FU pitch that kinda-sorta reappeared in EMPOWERED!
So, back in 2006 I worked up a pitch for Marvel's Master of Kung Futhat went nowhere, like 99% of my many, many defunct proposals. However, a key element of that pitch kinda-sorta cameoed years later in Empoweredvol.5, as we'll see; I even considered reworking the concept as a Ninjette project, as we'll alsosee. Anyhoo, here's the Master of Kung Fupitch:MASTER OF KUNG FU: โGHOST-DISEASEFISTโ A miniseries proposal by Adam Warre...
2006 "Endpage" piece for PSM re: Playstation-related Valentine's Day shenanigans!
I'm reallyscraping the bottom of the figurative barrel as I post the last few remaining pieces from my long-past days of freelancing for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSMthat haven't already been used here; in fact, I find it entirely possible that I already posted the following "Endpage" piece on some February years ago, but don't feel like backtracking through my archive to check on the matter.So, here's the rough...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: WORK STAGES on another CONVENTIONLESS CON SKETCH featuring EMPOWERED & MINI-MAIDMAN(?)!
Wellp, one of my remaining art requests from the $20 tier featured the quite frankly unreasonable suggestion of "Empowered's Maidman rescuing the girls (presumably Emp & Ninjette) from the Pint-Size(d) NInja Platoon,"who have menaced Rose & Lilyon many previous occasions. In fact, I already did a similar request earlier this summer with Emp laid low by the Platoon:Anyhoo, I used the suggestion as the basis for another Con Sketch-styl...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 5, pt. 3!
[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 out of, I dunno, sheer perfectionism and unhinged m...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #228: A new Clip Studio Paint set based on a $20-tier EMPOWERED art request, plus an early analog-media set!
Behold, a new Clip Studio Paint sketch set derived from an art request submitted by a $20=tier Patron, who requested the simple concept of "Emp from Empoweredon a couch, reading a book." So, I converted this idea into a Life Drawingexercise by digging up a bunch of reference photos online, and sketching Emp poses from 'em:The highlight of this set is, of course, the Emp image at upper left. Note that, when I draw Empoweredagain someda...
DESIGNS AHOY: Sketches for the antagonist WARRIOR and WIZARD from the mysterious "UNIDENTIFIED FANTASY OFFERING" project!
Time for another update from the upcoming fantasy comic project codenamed Unidentified Fantasy Offering(aka its actual title, Godplayers)!One of the project's sprawling cast of charactersโwe're talking at least six g-d protagonists and six main antagonists along with a rotating series of secondary foes!โis a Half-Orc Warrior, who progresses from noobie adventurer to insanely overpowerednigh-demi-god as our story opens.Here's Godpl...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: WORK STAGES on another recent, kinda-sorta "CONVENTIONLESS CON SKETCH"!
Behold, another recent "conventionless con sketch" done partly for a Patron art request but mainly to try out (and time out) my old Con Sketchart approach. The concept requested was a variation on the famous "DiD" scene from Marvel's Spider-Womanback in the 70s, with the nonpowered Hangman inexplicably bedamseling our heroine:The request was for the Hangman to discard poor Jessica's costume before carrying her off, so I wo...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: HK-cinema-homaging Roxy & Caitlin, BUBBLEGUM CRISIS undersuits & GUNSMITH CATS' Rally Vincent!
Behold, a trio of the final few unscanned (I think) Vintage Con Sketchesfrom my now-expended cache of photocopies! First up is a rather unusual sketch of Roxy & Caitlin from Gen13:...which was based on a promo photo from the somewhat infamous 90s HK cinema flick The N*ked Killer(BTW, using the uncensored term sets off a Patreon autowarning, goofily enough):I would assume that the commissioner asked for this very specific image, though I certainly...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #227: A new Clip Studio Paint set, plus an early analog-media set!
Behold, a new Clip Studio Paint sketch set based on random photos from my tablet's camera roll, drawn under less than ideal circumstances (and with correspondingly mediocre results) as I was waiting around in a hospital room:I expect to do quite a bit more waiting around in hospital waiting rooms this week and in the weeks to come, which will likely mean many more such sets (and art request sketches) in the near future; I'm hoping for mor...
