Here are s'more Vintage Con Sketches from the summer con season of 2000, once again scanned from old photocopies of originals drawn on linen-finish cardstock, hence the fabric pattern on the background pencil tones.
A few words:
Yet another Alita/Gally/etc., this time from whatever the hell that rollerball-ish mechanized sport was called in the original Gunmm series.
2022-09-14 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a bunch of miscellaneous Distressed Damsels sketch sets, each worked up to generate poses for later reuse in either a future commission or possible comic project.
The first two were vaguely slated to feature an elven sorceress "laid low" for a long-term commissioner's request, hence the crystal ball g*g (in theory) magically robbing her of spell use in the first tier of images:
...but by the bottom tier ...
2022-09-12 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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For possibly the final time, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an August 2017 sketch set, followed by another, earlier set from June 2017. UPDATE #1: Nope, switched 'em around, as I thought the Empowered-related set from June of images based on chrome body paint was more striking.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both sketch set...
2022-09-09 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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I'm more than a tad dubious about posting DC or Marvel stuff here, so keep this to yourselves, okay?
Anyhoo, following up on a previous Harley Quinn variant cover, this time around I tried a fantasy-RPG-oriented cover concept, which of course would be more relevant to future work such as The Last Party (aka the new comic project that merges characters from Hushed Half-Elf and Party of Two).
So, I worked up a rough in Clip Studi...
2022-09-07 13:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Behold, following up on an earlier post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2004's mecha-team miniseries Livewires), here are the work stages on a lengthy stretch of issue #6, the climax of the series, that I wound up almost entirely penciling myself, as opposed to leaving the work to series penciler Rick Mays; I did so either for deadline reasons or because the pages in question were heavil...
2022-09-05 13:01:04 +0000 UTC
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I'm more than a tad dubious about posting DC or Marvel stuff here, so keep this to yourselves, okay?
Anyhoo, following up on an earlier post, here are the color Work Stages for a Harley Quinn variant cover I worked on earlier this summer, which wound up being a shockingly stressful and challenging creative experience. The visual motif I elected to pursue was "vaguely cyperpunky SF," so I elected to draw an ...
2022-09-02 14:01:04 +0000 UTC
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UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment from a month ago (oops), in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series. By this point in our increasingly grim and seemingly hopeless story, only Stem Cell was left to carry on the Livewires' quixotic mission; earlier in the issue, she'd just finished a grotesque hacking of her own AI to alter her personality freely. As our previous excerpt ended, "...
2022-09-01 14:00:10 +0000 UTC
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As the end of August and the monthly exodus of 20 to 30-odd Patrons looms, thought I'd put up a quick list of content I'm contemplating for September. Yay?
*I'll definitely be showing more Work Stages on that Wolverine/ Man-Thing story (for the Marvel anthology Crypt of Shadows), as I just got in the first five pages of coloring on the pages.
*Likewise in the coloring vein, look for the final Work Stages on that truly hellish, cyberpunky AF ...
2022-08-31 14:01:04 +0000 UTC
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So!
Much as long-ago Kei & Yu--er, Rose & Lily commissioned damsel-in-distress comic pages were a test bed of sorts for the pencil-based art format I'd later use on Empowered, once more the girls are being roped—ha ha!—into an experiment to familiarize myself with actually drawing comic pages in Clip Studio Paint via Wacom Cintiq.
See, I am nowhere near the level of skill and/or comfort with the ol' Cintiq that I'd need to produce publishable comic pag...
2022-08-30 15:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an August 2017 sketch set, followed by another, earlier set from June 2017. UPDATE #1: Nope, switched 'em around, as I thought the Empowered-oriented set from June was more striking. Note that the images based on chrome body paint were far complex and difficult to render than the ones in which I just drew my simplified concept of Emp's supers...
2022-08-29 13:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Behold, s'more Clip Studio Paint sketch sets based on art requests from the $20 Patron tier, including some Distressed Damsels reqs to help fill out the month's quota of DiD content! This time around, some "name" ladies are mixed in with some OCs (original characters, for the uninitiated).
A few words:
Never played Dragon Age, so I have no idea who Merrill is, but her sketch and Witch N...
2022-08-26 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Here are s'more Vintage Con Sketches from 2000 & 2001, once again scanned from old photocopies of originals drawn on linen-finish cardstock, hence the fabric pattern on the background pencil tones.
A few words:
This one's the spacefaring soldier iteration of "Alita" (or whichever name you prefer) seen in the final volume of the first Battle Angel Alita (or Gunmm
2022-08-24 13:01:02 +0000 UTC
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So!
A few years back, I roughed out this 7-page Party of Two story, "Distractions," and put up the thumbnails here, in a post I don't care to bother looking up. However, whilst glancing through old files as I struggle to develop the successor project The Last Party, I noticed that I had actually written hitherto unseen dialogue for this old narrative.
Wellp, I took an hour or two in Clip Studio Paint and scribbled on some lettering to complete—well, "...
2022-08-22 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Leading into Monday's upcoming posting of a newly dialogued Party of Two short story, here's a recent set of (iPad) Clip Studio Paint sketches based on a recent Instagram post by the great Shinnoske70, who drew a fine set of pose studies of She-Hulk that I, in turn, thought would make a neat basis for some sketchin' of Party's Half-Orc healer.
I've not drawn the character in quite a while, so this seemed like a fine opportunity to refamiliarize myself with her design, even though I do...
2022-08-20 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an August 2017 sketch set, followed by another, earlier set from June 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both sketch sets are dated from the summer of 2017, meaning that the end of my once-formidable buffer of life drawings is in sight. So, folks, I might need to switch to single-set posts at some point later on in 2022. Gasp!
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2022-08-19 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the third and final (I think) installment of Patreon posts featuring the Work Stages on the cover illo for 2015's one-shot Empowered: Animal Style by Guest Artist John Staton and me, along with final colors on the piece by Rob "Robaato" Porter. Here's a link to part 2, BTW; alas, I had completely forgotten I still needed to finish up this series of posts, hence the month-long gap between ...
2022-08-17 13:24:31 +0000 UTC
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Behold, following up on an earlier post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2004's mecha-team miniseries Livewires), here are the work stages on a few more pages from issue #6 that I wound up penciling myself, as opposed to leaving the work to series penciler Rick Mays; I did so either for deadline reasons or because the pages in question were heavily technical.
So, in the image galler...
2022-08-15 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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I'm a bit dubious about posting Big Two work here, so keep this to yourselves, okay? Anyhoo, here's a second sneak preview of a new Wolverine/ Man-Thing short story I wrote, penciled & inked for Marvel's Crypt of Shadows anthology title, for an issue due out on Oct.19.
I have previously drawn Laura Kinney (now aka Wolverine) as her X-23 iteration for a Marvel vs. Capcom illo, but can't sa...
2022-08-12 13:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Following up on a 1997-era commissioned sketch set I posted here last month, circa 2019 or so I took a break from wrapping up Empowered vol.11 to revisit that old set's rather vague scenario of poor Kei-- nay, Rose being taken captive by an unseen, whip-wielding bad guy very loosely based on a scene from the old Dirty Pair TV series.
TBH, this was mainly a bunch of damsel-y poses I ...
2022-08-10 13:01:06 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an August 2017 sketch set, followed by another, earlier set from June 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both sketch sets are dated from the summer of 2017, meaning that the end of my once-formidable buffer of life drawings is in sight. So, folks, I might need to switch to single-set posts at some point later on in 2022. Gasp!
2022-08-08 13:01:05 +0000 UTC
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So, here's another birthday-gift illo drawn for one of my niece's other characters from my on-again, (currently) off-again D&D campaign. (Ehh, don't feel like combing back through the archives to find my sketch of her first character.) In fact, this PC's from a now-shelved alternate campaign, as we briefly ran a different, smaller party while another of my nieces was, y'know, giving birth to one of my grand-nephews. (Yes, I am indeed a "Grunkle," five times over so far.)
Anyhoo, her alt character was a Tiefling Bard, as you can see...
2022-08-05 13:21:43 +0000 UTC
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I'm more than a tad dubious about posting DC or Marvel stuff here, so keep this to yourselves, okay?
Anyhoo, following up on an earlier post, here are my pencils, inks and color guides for a Harley Quinn variant cover I worked on earlier this summer, which wound up being a shockingly stressful and challenging creative experience. The visual motif I elected to pursue was "vaguely cyperpunky SF," so I elected to draw ...
2022-08-03 13:22:50 +0000 UTC
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UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment from almost a month ago (oops), in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series. By this point in our increasingly grim and seemingly hopeless story, only Stem Cell was left to carry on the Livewires' quixotic mission; earlier in the issue, she'd just finished a grotesque hacking of her own AI to alter her personality freely.)
Behold, after...
2022-08-01 13:00:14 +0000 UTC
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As the end of July and the monthly exodus of 20 to 30-odd Patrons looms, thought I'd put up a quick list of content I'm contemplating for August. Yay?
*I'll definitely be showing more Work Stages on that Wolverine/ Man-Thing story (for the Marvel anthology Crypt of Shadows) I'm hoping to finish inking today.
*Look for further Work Stages on that truly hellish, cyberpunky AF Harley Quinn variant cover that took me an alarming chunk of June to complete.&n...
2022-07-31 11:45:14 +0000 UTC
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Recently unearthed a photocopy of the inks for this 1999(?) pin-up I drew for a special issue (a Summer Special, apparently) of Jeff Campbell's Cliffhanger book Danger Girl, so here 'tis!
An unusual piece, in that it was inked by Sandra Hope, who I think was the inker on the regular Danger Girl series. (Gotta crank this post out in under 20 minutes, so I'm not gonna bother looking that up.)
Not a successful piece, IMHO, though certainly not because of Sandra's inks; rather, I dr...
2022-07-29 13:01:04 +0000 UTC
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I'm more than a tad dubious about posting Dc or Marvel stuff here, so keep this to yourselves, okay?
Anyhoo, here are my initial roughs for a Harley Quinn variant cover I worked on earlier this summer, which wound up being a shockingly stressful and challenging creative experience, as you'll eventually learn in future posts. The visual motif I elected to pursue was "vaguely cyperpunky SF," so I drew a few roughs of a hardsuited HQ with mechahyenas.
The initial rough was (correctly, IMHO) dismissed as bei...
2022-07-28 14:33:00 +0000 UTC
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Behold, an old commissioned sketch set (from 1997 or so, judging by the nose and costume design) featuring Dirty Pair's Kei--nay, Rose bedamseled by an unseen captor. I think of this format as "Cheesecake Focus," in that we never really see the bad guy or any backgrounds or settings, just the damsel getting distressed. (Then again, not like I was being commissioned to depict bad guys or BGs.) Gives the sketch set an almost abstract feel, as the "storytelling" is left unclear at best:
2022-07-27 14:01:05 +0000 UTC
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UPDATE 1: Oops, accidentally posted installment #154 before #153, hence the messed-up sequencing if you look through my published posts. Oh, well.
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an August 2017 sketch set, followed by another set from June 2017. UPDATE 2: Switched 'em around, as I thought the older set of poses was a bit more interesting and deserved the lead spot in the...
2022-07-26 13:12:52 +0000 UTC
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You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here, or check out the entire archive of this defunct project here.
In case you'd forgotten, or are a semi-recent Patron and haven't had the time nor the inclination to look back though th...
2022-07-25 13:01:04 +0000 UTC
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On this particular Friday, I'm revisiting a supposedly continuing feature last addressed in a post on June 17 (ouch): Namely, a successful pitch for my 2000-2001 run of writing and occasionally drawing an 18-issue run on Wildstorm/DC's superhero title Gen13!
Cutting & pasting from our earlier installment:
So, a few months ago, I stumbled across a bunch of old Word documents for a series of mostly unsucces...
2022-07-22 13:01:03 +0000 UTC
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