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LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 2, pt. 1!
[Here's a link to our previous installment in 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: THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED's "Elf vs. Chair" saga continues!
Continuing on a 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 herself bedamseled 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.How...
WORK STAGES on a script-only short story of yore!
Running waaaaay the hell behind this morning, so here's a desperate, last-minute pull from the ol' MISCELLANEOUS folder! Above are my roughs for a 4-page story I laid out and scripted for an Udon Streetfighter backup dealie 10 years ago or so, followed by the inks and finished colors by the great artist Omar Dogan.Not much to say on this one (and no time to say it, regardless), but I will note that one martial-arts riff on p.2, panel 5 wa...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Yet another random quartet of commissions from 1999!
Behold, yet another bunch of con sketches from the futuristic year 1999, drawn on patterned linen-finish cardstock but, alas, scanned from quite mediocre photocopies of the original artwork.First off, a wee bit of early Life Drawing as this bikini sketch of Y*ri from Dirty Pair was quite clearly drawn from photoreference:...as the relatively ambitious shading on her torso indicates.Next up, a trio of Original Characters, starting with this very u...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Our heroine's dark secret revealed in "THE TROUBLE WITH EMERALD," part 8!
[Link to our previous installment in this series, as seen over three months ago...]So!I've been trying to think of something to do with the various DiD sketch sets I have kicking around that feature backup superheroine Emerald, who appears as basically a dark-haired, maskless variation on Emp's tattered-suit design (and modern-era physique) from Empowered. Technically, the character predates Emp as a DiD commission subject by quite some t...
2007 "Endpage" piece for PSM re: a new(?) DEVIL MAY CRY hero's hair!
Behold, an "Endpage" cartoon I wrote and drew for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM back in February of 2007 (if the file's "Properties" dates are accurate). The subject was, I gather, the flowing white tresses of newly announced character "Nero" from the then-upcoming PS3 game Devil May Cry 4:Yeahp, these PSM pieces had quite a few yaoi references that might well have puzzled gamers of the era, in part because,...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 1, pt. 4!
[Here's a link to our previous installment in 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 #207: Yet more brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketches from random photoref!
Running way the hell behind this morning, so here's the quickest post I could throw together on short notice. Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:In fact, pretty sure that I've drawn from all of these pics before in analog pencil during my 2017-18 run of daily Life Drawing, but what the heck; not like I somehow extracted everything of value from the im...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: The saga of "Elf vs. Chair" from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED continues!
Continuing on a 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 herself bedamseled 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.How...
DESIGNS AHOY: New(-ish) sketches for the (formerly HUSHED) HALF-ELF from THE LAST PARTY, and more!
Continuing a feature dating back many months, here are some slightly more recent design sketches I worked up for the Half-Elf (formerly of Patreon damsel-in-distress project Hushed Half-Elf) from long-developing fantasy comic The Last Party. First off is an analog-penciled sketch set that I forgot to post with our previous bunch of Half-Elf redesigns lo these many months ago:Wow, a group height chart and everything! (Note the vague indication of ...
FANTASY PROJECT FRIDAY: Design notes from "UNIDENTIFIED FANTASY OFFERING" (UFO) and a belated Xmas card illo!
So!Behold, a new-ish feature, Fantasy Project Friday, in which I'll post material from one of the four(!) different potential fantasy-genre comics I'm mulling over at present. Lordy loo!This time around, feast your eyes on a bunch of my scribbled design notes from the oldest of the four properties, a writing-only project that would be my take on the "fantasy RPG action-comedy" sub-genre that was all the rage 5-8 years ago. I'l...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #206: S'more brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketches from random photoref!
Here's another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:Ah, yes, behold the limitations of my "squiggle-based" rendering with the CSP iOS Design Pencil brush; that's the best pencil-emulating digital tool that I've found in years and years of searching, but the brush still falls well short of truly simulating my beloved ultra-soft 2mm leads.While I do like sketching fr...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Fetching elves aplenty in CSP sketch sets based on Biggest Spender art requests!
In a break from usual procedure, time for the $5+ tiers to take a gander at some recent DiD sketches based on art requests from the $20 tier; I usually reserve these for the month's Exclusive Bonus Post for the higher tiers, but as I already have a different bevy of art-req sketches lined up for that feature, thought I'd show a few of 'em in a Distressed Damsels post.First off was a suggestion involving Princess Zelda of Nintendo fame...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 1, pt. 3!
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]So, yeahp, the time has come at last: 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...
Some fan-art(-ish) page roughs revisiting an old property!
So!I'm srsly short on time today, so lemme just say that the following pair of recent Clip Studio Paint page roughs were mainly a test of a possible work process for future writing-oriented pitches; even though most of my upcoming proposals are fantasy-genre-adjacent, I decided to briefly get away from sword 'n' sorcery imagery by instead sketching out a few generic pages of the team from Gen13, a title which I worked on intermittentl...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #205: Yes, yet another brand-new(-ish) Clip Studio Paint sketch set!
A few weeks back, I knocked off yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, once again based on old photoref pics from my iPad's camera roll:(Didn't give a crap about the model's shoes at left, in case you couldn't tell.)While I do wish to work on shading practice in these sketch sets, I probably should lean towards cranking out quicker sketches with less minutely polished rendering, which was kinda the case with thi...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Cheongsam-intensive Clip Studio Paint sketch sets from ROSE & LILY!
So, in a post from last month, as I featured a bunch of sketch sets of Lily (from Rose & Lily, the distress-prone Dirty Pair iterations) in peril, I mentioned in passing that I had been noodling away on a story fragment that involved her sporting a skintight cheongsam dress (which, I think, dates back to a "smartsuit" costume variation briefly seen in 2000's miniseries Dirty Pair: Run from the Future).Wellp, here's a work-in-progr...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Another random quartet of commissions from 1999!
Behold, yet another bunch of con sketches from the futuristic year 1999, drawn on patterned linen-finish cardstock but, alas, scanned from mediocre photocopies of the original artwork.First off, my lone sketch based on the acclaimed anime Cowboy Bebop......which, I have to admit, always left me cold. (Gasp!)UPDATE #1: Wait a second, I'm entirely if not comically mistaken about this piece being my lone Bebop commission, as (duhh) I've done...
LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 1, pt. 2!
[Here's a link to our first installment in this series.]So, yeahp, the time has come at last: 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 pe...
FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: The rest of those layouts from a freshly failed comic project!
[Our previous sneak preview of this now-defunct project can be seen here.]So!Back on November 27, I posted a sneak preview of a one-shot I had recently finished work on. To repeat from my earlier post, I got an offer from Udon Productions to write a Street Fighter one-shot featuring the popular, kinda-sorta-new-to-me character "Juri." As I am rarely if ever offered the opportunity by any company to even pitch on writing a comic, I jumped ...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #204: Yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketch set!
Kicked off the new year with yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, once again mostly based on old photoref pics from my iPad's camera roll:Yyyyyeahp, my back-and-forth, "squiggle-based" rendering approach with the CSP (on iOS) Design Pencil brush has some very real limitations, especially in transitioning through mid-range shading values; oh, well.Anyhoo, as mentioned earlier, I'm very likely gonna be rolling w...
Somewhat cryptic 2006 PSM Endpage videogame comic re: music-genre fight games(?)
Behold, a slightly puzzling "Endpage" comic I wrote and drew for the videogame magazine PSM back in the summer of the bygone year 2006, this time riffing on the topic of, uh, music-genre fighting games(?) for either the Playstation 2 or PS3. Now, this strip must have been loosely inspired by some then-current videogame along those lines, but I must confess that I no longer have any idea whatsoever as to what the hell that game might have ...
A quick 2023 wrap-up, plus a look at what's coming up in 2024!
So, yeah, thought I'd write up a few words about my favorite pieces here from the soon-ending year of 2023. Alas, most of my fave illos were from my ultimately doomed attempt to puzzle out a viable "hybrid workflow" on fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained:Most of my Chaste art tests (as seen mostly by the $3+ tiers) produced adequate-looking results, but were far too slow and frustratingly time-consuming to produce on a reg...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Complete WORK STAGES on the final EMPOWERED "conventionless con sketch" for 2023!
Behold, my final Empowered DiD commission of 2023, rendered in the two-color, 11" x 14" format I once used for con sketches back in the (pre-pandemic) day. In reverse order from the image gallery above, let's roll through the Work Stages, starting with an initial pair of thumbnail-sized roughs:Next up, a full-sized rough at 11" x 14"; note that my separate scans for the top and bottom of the piece didn't quite line up, but...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #203: Another brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketch set (with bonus armor)!
Here's yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, mostly based on some old pics on my iPad's camera roll:Decided to render a photo of plate armor just as a test, though I'm unlikely to ever render fantasy armor in such a tedious and time-consuming style; note that I quickly tired of trying to render the only partially visible patterns applied to the metal.Revisited some interesting pix of lady climbers for the image at ...
Merry Xmas illo from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED (plus older EMPOWERED Xmas Patreon pieces)!
Merry Christmas, dear Patrons, with this morning's hastily cranked out "Xmas card" illo featuring the Paladin and Elf Mage from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained:Whilst grimly slogging my way through the Paladin's outfit, I can tell you that I was definitely thinking, "No way I'm drawing this g-d costume a few hundred more times." Yeahp, even though I really do love these starcrossed characters, I clearly...
FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: More layouts from a freshly failed comic project!
[Our previous sneak preview of this now-defunct project can be seen here.]So!Back on November 27, I posted a sneak preview of a one-shot I had recently finished work on. To repeat from my earlier post, I got an offer from Udon Productions to write a Street Fighter one-shot featuring the popular, kinda-sorta-new-to-me character "Juri." As I am rarely if ever offered the opportunity by any company to even pitch on writing a comic, I jumped ...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Tossed-off sketch sets morph into a possible "real story" from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!
Continuing on a 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 herself bedamseled yet again by a magically animated chair. When the previous post left off, the Elf was putting up a bit of struggle against her inhuman captor:...but in a new page, the animated chair seizes her ankles, and once again ch...
LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #202: A pair of brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketch sets!
Here's yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, mostly based on some old pics on my iPad's camera roll:Not a great set, TBH, but the messy-haired fella (whom I've drawn before, albeit 4-5 years ago) helps the batting average a tad. Sketched this group in a series of 5-8-minute bursts in a semi-successful attempt to prevent my shoulder issues from flaring up.UPDATE: Ehh, decided to tack on another, more recent CSP sket...
DESIGNS AHOY: THE LARA CHRONICLES, part 4: Perfectionism strikes again as I tinker maddeningly with the final color illo!
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series, dating back to late November.]Whilst desperately flailing around for a post on short notice a few months back, just realized that I've never shown anything from the whooooole bunch of Tomb Raider design sketches I cranked out for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM back in 2003 or so. Much like the RPG-related article I contributed to a few years earlier, this time around I w...
