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Vintage con sketch dump #1!
🕑 Added 2020-02-28 14:54:01 +0000 UTCIn an exciting new(-ish) feature on this here Patreon, I'll periodically post con sketches of yore scanned from photocopies of the "vintage" commissions. The gallery set above ain't all that old, but in the future I'll post examples ranging back to the 90s.
This time around, I grabbed a few of the older con sketches lurking on my hard drive, but in the future I'll scan a large number that have not been seen online—or, at least, posted online by me. Scanning's a bit of a hassle right now, as my aging and squirrelly PC has decided it simply will not recognize scanner drivers any more; for the time being, I'm gonna have to boot up a truly ancient Windows XP laptop to do my raw Photoshop scans. Yikes!
A few words:
The animated GI Joe was after my time—really, just after my time, as I know a few slightly younger Gen Xers who were big fans—so this was my first time drawing the Baroness. In fact, I was familiar with a different and far more sexed-up Baroness from childhood, in a series of "sexy superspy" pulp novels I read as a wee lad in the mid-70s.
I'm reasonably sure the rather extreme art style on this Aeon Flux piece is a callback to the latter-day, increasingly avant-garde character designs of Ryūsuke Mita (Dragon Half).
Might've posted this Deunan/ Major Kusanagi piece here before, but can't remember.
Pretty sure this Roxy (from Gen13) piece is based on photoref of a Japanese model from some manga magazine's "bonus photos" section.
Next Monday on this here Patreon: Another double dose of life drawings, as usual.
Comments
Davecre8
Looking forward to meeting you at Ontario Comic Con in May!
Steven Ng
Love these con sketches. I would have gotten more, but I was afraid of monopolizing your time.
PixelThis
I love your Aeon Flux more than the original character
TF Commando
For those of us who have con sketches, would it be helpful to send you scans of them?
Jack Hallows
sexy and awesome!
Tim Price
That's an amazing Baroness!
WulfMan72
Love the con sketches! Absolutely wonderful! Would love to see more of these. Thanks Adam!
The D-Wrek
Wow. I love these old con sketches of yours. They take me back to my younger days having just discovered your work and looking online to find anything I could save on to the old PC. :3
Warren Beall
YAY CON SKETCHES!!!! The reason I come here :) Maybe My con sketches will make it up one day (Stolen from me when my house got broken into many many years ago)
