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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 out of, I dunno, sheer perfectionism and unhinged m...
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" format I've used off and on over the last decade...
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 and the Chained#1!NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: ...
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 last year that I don't thinkhas been seen in ...
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 case for all the "wraparounds" I've done...
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 faster, lower-detail art approach for future comics ...
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 similar to the Mucha illo.Wellp, earlier in this ...
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 out of, I dunno, sheer perfectionism and unhinged ...
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) top for once:This might've been photoref-based a...
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 delightful colors for that same page:The other sample pag...
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 Studio Paint test from the ol' iPad:Alas, I appar...
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 "real drawings" as I saw 'em, so I felt fre...
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 out of, I dunno, sheer perfectionism and unhinged ...
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 predates all the other projects you've seen here, e...
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 sketches, BTW) in which I gratuitously added a cameo b...
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 unusually pronounced; a larger brush size helps counter...
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 going on in this rough.Yu--nay, Lily'spose in the...
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, even though the chicas in the photoref were fairly...
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 out of, I dunno, sheer perfectionism and unhinged ...
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 tones I'm just waggling the Apple Pencil back an...
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-Womangetting an Empoweredrevisit. At some point I migh...
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 most of these 1999 pieces years ago, but danged if I ...
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's narrative from these sketchy images; and B)th...
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 fact, listed on the filenames for the jpegs I poste...
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 out of, I dunno, sheer perfectionism and unhinged ...
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 early "Elf vs. Chair" pages from The Chaste ...
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 work on scripting the oversized first issue of Un...
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 "damsel cheesecake wallow," if you will.Howev...
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.Alarmingly enough, here's the original jpeg for the p...
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, or if I produced this mild pun of an image ("...
