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LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 5, 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 out of, I dunno, sheer perfectionism and unhinged m...
2006 "Endpage" piece for PSM re: whimsical concepts for redesigns of the magazine!
F**k me, forgot entirely that I was supposed to schedule a post for this morning, what with other work I had to wrap up last night and the trip to a new hospital I had to take this afternoon. (Don't sweat it, BTW, as the treatment was for someone else.)So!Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in March of 2006 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, goofily speculating about potential redesigns and format changes for the magazi...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: WORK STAGES on a recent, kinda-sorta "CONLESS CON SKETCH" of EMP & OCELOTINA trading costumes!
Behold, a recent "conventionless con sketch" done partly for a Patron art request but mainly to try out (and time out) my old Con Sketchart approach. Based on a suggestion for Emp and Ocelotina from Empoweredtrading costumes but still winding up bedamseled somehow, here's the initial rough, scribbled out as a thumbnail on one quarter of a sheet of 8.5" X 1" paper:I didn't bother to scan the initial underdrawing, but here ...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #226: A new Clip Studio Paint set, plus an early analog-media set!
Behold, a new Clip Studio Paint sketch set, screwing around with a bunch of different CSP brushes as I desperately and very likely futilely try to figure out a looser and more spontaneous art approach:(Note the excellent Ninjette cosplayer at upper right, BTW.) As I flail around with art tests on that Last PartyHalf-Orcstory, I am beginning to suspect that Artist Me can no longer be flimflammed and bamboozled into drawing finished comics artwork ...
WORK STAGES: Colors on my variant cover for TIME WAITS, along with earlier inks & pencils!
Just received my comp copies for the variant cover I did for the new comic Time Waitsfrom publisher Dstlry, created by co-writers Chip Zdarsky & David Brothers and artist Marcus To; interestingly, the variant cover is available in both B&W and color versions, judging by my comps.Here's the color version, which I hadn't shown you before (IIRC):The colorist was apparently Matt Wilson, though I suspect that credit might apply only to the iss...
WORK STAGES: A new page from THE LAST PARTY's Half-Orc Healer test story offers a ray of workflow hope?
So, last month I showed you fine folks some new analog-media pages from a test story for fantasy project The Last Partyfeaturing the Half-Orc Healer:Those pages were inked directly on art board for decent enough results, but the workflow was too slow and cumbersome to offer much promise going forward.Wellp, onward to page 3 of the story. Here's the analog-pencil page rough you've already seen:With this page, I decided to switch over to d...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: S'more new EMPOWERED pose rough sketch sets!
So, a while ago, I showed you fine folks an old Empoweredrough sketch from circa vol. 3 (meaning 2008 or so), that would've been the basis for a commission featuring an unmasked Emp restrained in a King-Kong-style "human sacrifice" pose:Wellp, I imported that scan into Clip Studio Paint (iOS version) and revised it with the figure proportions and art approach I use nowadays:Didn't have the time or energy to work up a full King Kon...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: EMPOWERED vol.12's "Deathtrapmonger" sequence (now with uncensored panel)!
In honor of the long-delayed Empoweredvol.12 having gone off to the printers (months ago, I'm told), thought I'd revisit a DiD-intensive sequence I previously posted here years ago, in which Emp faces off with an unusual variation of familiar supervillain Deathmonger:Yes, it's Deathtrapmonger! Never having been interested in the "deathtrap" superheroic trope, I was surprised by how much fun I had working on this scene. Now, he...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #225: A new Clip Studio Paint set, plus an early analog-media set!
Behold, a new Clip Studio Paint sketch set (with the iOS Design Pencil brush), based on an interesting YouTube thumbnail:...and an old, analog-pencil set from late 2016, early on in my ultimately disastrous near-daily Life Drawingkick:The photoreference for these sketches was derived from, I think, either two or three different books of pose reference; I can say for sure that one was a Japanese collection of action pix, the other a Western book o...
WORK STAGES on new HALF-ORC HEALER pages from THE LAST PARTY!
So, a while back I showed you fine folks some analog-media page roughs for a new test story from fantasy project The Last Party:So, I worked up a pose rough for the Half-Orc Healer character in Clip Studio Paint on the ol' iPad:...then I sent it over the ol' PC, where I worked up a CSP page on the ol' Wacom Cintiq:...and started inking the page for a 20-minute shift* before getting slammed by the mysterious phenomenon I've dubbed ...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 5, 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...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: A set of DIRTY PAIR commissions from 1995-99!
Wellp, I'm now scraping the bottom of the barrel for photocopies of old Con Sketches, as these were among the few remaining Dirty Paircommissions yet to be scanned:Behold, a bridal lingerie version of Shasti; surprised I didn't go for a more direct version of the famous Herb Alpert album cover, which this piece seems to be obliquely referencing. (Then again, 'twas a lottougher to dig up photoref at a moment's notice in 1995.) Lor...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #224: 50 minutes of Clip Studio Paint abs and hair, plus an early analog-media set!
Another new(-ish) Clip Studio Paint set, addressing abs, a neat liftbro pic, and hair:That liftbro pic is very interesting, gotta say. Tried an ink-like approach with the abs at lower left, which was wildly unsuccessful. (Oh, well.)Next up, an old set from late 2016 or so, when I was just beginning a yearlong kick of near-daily life drawing:Those poses are largely unfamiliar; they might have been lurking on the camera roll of my now-defunct first...
DESIGNS AHOY: Sketches for the "HALF-ELF RANGER" 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 characters—we're talking at least six g-d protagonists and six main antagonists along with a rotating series of secondary foes!—is a Half-Elf Ranger, intended as a (wildly overpowered) counterpart to the Fallen Angel Archer shown here earlier. Here's Godpla...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: A KONG-ish sacrificial scenario, revisited repeatedly!
As I flail desperately about for damsel-y content, here's a recent Clip Studio Paint (PC version) sketch based on a $20-tier art request, featuring an OC in a suggested pose with a vaguely King Kong-ish sacrificial vibe:This reminded me of a rather old Empoweredrough sketch, dating all the way back to vol. 3:Not sure if this was a sketch for a commission of some sort, given Emp's lack of a mask. (I might revisit this piece if I get a chan...
FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: Our second unsuccessful attempt at a Ryan Kinnaird-drawn DIRTY PAIR miniseries!
Ah, yes, the rarely seen feature Failed-Project Fridayreturns, after I recently unearthed unscanned printouts of artwork that my bud Ryan Kinnaird worked up in the futuristic year 2000 for a second attempt at pitching a Dirty Pairproject intended to be drawn by him and written by me:A year or two earlier (I think?), we had unsuccessfully worked up samples for a Dirty Pairproject along the same lines; in fact, I had earlier worked up script and ro...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #223: 30 minutes of Clip Studio Paint abs, plus an early analog-media set!
Last night, knocked out a decent 30-minute Clip Studio Paint set of female abs from random photoreference:Tough to properly convey just how frickin' brightthat highlight below the belly button looks, gotta say. Anyhoo, lady abs are always relevant to mon oeuvre, so this is useful practice; so would be "liftbro" abs as well, which I probably should've mixed into the set.Abs have long been an area targeted for artistic improvement ...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 4, 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...
2007 "Endpage" piece for PSM re: Force-ful Playstation products!
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in October of 2007 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, goofily speculating about upcoming Star Wars-related products for the Playstation(s). First, the rough:Whoops, I can't find the rough in my old PSMfolder; said sketch must have existed (or I couldn't have gotten this concept approved), but it's nowhere to be found nowadays, alas.Well, here's the final version, drawn and ...
More roughs for a HALF-ORC HEALER story from THE LAST PARTY!
{Here's a link to the first part of this story.]So!Earlier in July, I wrapped up page roughs for a sprawling, suitably epic introductory story for fantasy project The Last Party, which worked out quite well; I really enjoyed the experience of roughing out yet another long-ass issue after cranking out 80-odd similar roughs last month for fantasy comics Godplayersand The Chaste and the Chained.One problem, however: I do not currently have a mea...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: More page roughs from the new introductory story for THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!
[Here's a link to our previous installment.]With nothin' readily at hand for Distressed Damselcontent right now, I decided to forge ahead with posting further page roughs for a new story serving as an introductory chapter of fantasy "romantic action-comedy" The Chaste and the Chained; plenty of DiD imagery in these roughs, even if the artwork's not particularly finished-looking.After cranking out a scrawled first draft of page...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #222: A new Clip Studio Paint sketch set plus an old analog pencil set!
The only Life DrawingI've managed of late was the following gestural set drawn this morning:Started out as a shading set (as seen at upper left), but I switched over to a quicker series of random, much quicker sketches, which are more likely to be helpful with my current work.To bulk out this post, I jumped back to an early set from 2017, only a few months into my then-nascent kick of daily sketch sets:Note the "scribbly" shading appr...
DESIGNS AHOY: Sketches for the "CATGIRL THIEF" 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 characters—we're talking at least six g-d protagonists and six main antagonists along with a rotating series of secondary foes!—is a dark-haired Catgirl Thief (or Rogue, per current-era D&D), as seen in one of the few design sheets I worked up myself in Clip S...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Sketches for the second issue of THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!
So!Out of ten or so existing plotlines that could be used for the second issue/chapter/whatever of fantasy romantic-action-comedy-with-a-kink The Chaste and the Chained, I decided to roll with the one involving a "Potion Master" who grabs and carries off the Elfmage Avatar of the Chained Goddess:A big fella! Anyhoo, he subdues the Elfmage with a specialized potion, as seen in the upper left below:At right above, some sketches show a measu...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 4, 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...
Roughs for a HALF-ORC HEALER story from THE LAST PARTY (with bonus DESIGNS AHOY content)!
So!Last week, I wrapped up page roughs for a sprawling, suitably epic introductory story for fantasy project The Last Party, which worked out quite well; I really enjoyed the experience of roughing out yet another long-ass issue after cranking out 80-odd similar roughs last month for fantasy comics Godplayersand The Chaste and the Chained. One problem, however: I do not currently have a means of producing finished artwork for that 44-page introd...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: More DIRTY PAIR commissions from the futuristic year 1999!
Behold, a quartet of Dirty Paircon sketches from 1999, scanned from mediocre photocopies (hence the less-than-deal repro quality). First off, a straightforward "two-shot" of our heroines:Next, a standalone Yu--nay, Lilycommission, which I filled out with multiple headshots:My stylized nasal designs were reallygetting distorted by this point, so I'd soon have to try something different. Next up, a cartoony montage that was, I think, us...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: NINJETTE from EMPOWERED recreates a famous comic cover from the late 70s!
So!A while ago, this somewhatwell-known Spider-Womancover illo from the late 70s was mentioned in passing as I was revisiting part of the issue's rather wacky narrative for an Empoweredsketch set:...when, after a Patron mentioned it as a possible art request topic, I considered reinterpreting the cover concept with Ninjette instead of Emp. Here's the initial CSP sketch in progress:..and the final version:...which features a "DiDverse ...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #221: A pair of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets with a different 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 and from a Japanese pose-reference photo book:Not the most aesthetically pleasing of sets, TBH, but what the heck. That White Queen cosplay photo had a really interesting pose, though I didn't sketch that image in any detail in part b...
DESIGNS AHOY: Time for some obnoxious "Lovely Armors" for the Half-Elf from THE LAST PARTY!
So!As I'm grinding through some initial page roughs for long-gestating fantasy comic The Last Party(aka the one fantasy project I would actually draw myself, as opposed to writing-only dealies The Chaste and the Chainedand Unidentified Fantasy Offering), thought I'd show you fine folks some of my designs for the many, many armors worn by the Half-Elf member of the Party:Now, while the idea of the Half-Elf wearing a series of different mag...
