Yet again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains reasonably large.) First above is a set from August 2018, while the second set is an example from January 2017, fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy(?) the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-04-06 13:01:01 +0000 UTC
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The first two pages of design roughs might be familiar if you're on the $5 tier or higher, as I posted 'em Wednesday for the DISTRESSED DAMSELS feature. Last weekend I drew a two-page story fragment featuring a winsome half-orc lass bedamseled by a hostile Dryad Druid, for a DiD commission request that ultimately went astray. (Turned out the premise wasn't really what the commissioner was looking for; I'm reasonably confident I can eventually unload those pages to...
2020-04-03 15:01:01 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out the previous installment of this story here.)
Folks, here are (layout) pages 24 through 28 of an unpublished, 48-page story titled Dirty Pair: Quick & Dirty that I wrote and drew back in late 2003.
Below, I'll cut & paste my notes from the initial installment of the story:
My reasons for creating this story—and for drawing it in this rather odd, p...
2020-04-02 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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This week, I'm interrupting the ongoing serialization of the Dirty Pair Pint-Size(d) Ninja Platoon story in favor of posting some recent commissioned damsel-in-distress pages that may have spun themselves off into a completely different project. Huzzah!
Anyhoo, I had an outstanding DiD commission from a long-time client essentially involving, well, "something with lady orcs." Wellp, I was interested in exploring a possible new art approach for commissions, so over the weekend I worked up the idea for ...
2020-04-01 13:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Too tired right now to go into much detail on these pieces, but here a bunch of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets based on art requests from various Patron tiers, along with a bonus few life drawings tossed in. I'd hoped to crank out a few more sets based on the last rounds of Patron suggestions, but I just didn't have the energy.
Note that the older sketch set below was tossed in because yesterday a Patron asked me to draw what Young Emp thought a Real Superheroine Costume should look like, and this attempt from December worked out really...
2020-03-31 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Yet again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains reasonably large.) First above is a set from August 2018, while the second set is an example from January 2017, fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy(?) the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-03-30 13:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Behold, for the second Friday in a row, some vintage Dirty Pair con sketches from the year 2000 or so. I drew dozens upon dozens—if not possibly hundreds—of Kei and Yuri commissions during this era, so you can expect to see many more such "vintage sketch dumps" down the road.
A few words:
Yeahp, folks, I was once doing so many of these sketches that I grew bored with Kei and Yuri's existing character and cos...
2020-03-27 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out the previous installment of this story here.)
Folks, here are (layout) pages 19 through 23 of an unpublished, 48-page story titled Dirty Pair: Quick & Dirty that I wrote and drew back in late 2003.
Below, I'll cut & paste my notes from the initial installment of the story:
My reasons for creating this story—and for drawing it in this rather odd, p...
2020-03-26 13:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Behold, the first installment of a fairly lengthy and extremely goofy commissioned story from the early 2000s, featuring a suspiciously bondage-prone—yet still plucky and defiant!—iteration of Dirty Pair's Kei and Yuri unsuccessfully battling "the Pint-Size(d) Ninja Platoon."
You might recall from earlier con sketches posted here that the Pint-Size(d) Ninjas had previously been depicted distressing these damsels, in pieces probably dating back to the late 90s (judging by the facial designs):
2020-03-25 13:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Okay, "The Rando's Cornucopia" is a rather goofy name for a new Patreon feature, but (IMHO) it still beats calling this post "ODDS & ENDS, pt.1."
See, whilst cleaning out my studio to clear space for The Great Digital Switchover, I've dug up veritable oodles and scads of random material from the halcyon days of yore, which I'll be posting here on occasion during an "open slot" day.
Some words of explanation:
2020-03-24 14:00:35 +0000 UTC
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Yet again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains reasonably large.) First above is a set from September 2018, while the second set is an example from January 2017, fairly early on in the effort.
Re: the first one, like that first face especially...
...and the free "Handy" app on iOS has a nic...
2020-03-23 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Behold, some vintage Dirty Pair con sketches from, I think, the mid-90s through 2002 or so. I drew dozens upon dozens—if not possibly hundreds—of Kei and Yuri commissions during this era, so you can expect to see many more such "vintage sketch dumps" down the road.
A few words:
Gotta say that Yuri looks pretty cute in this Evil Dead-based commission from 1999, but I have to admit th...
2020-03-20 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Previously, I told the fine folks of the $10 & $20 tiers that March was gonna be a rough month for me, worktime-wise, due to Emerald City Comic-Con gouging a week (or more, counting con-prep time) outta my schedule. Wellp, after ECCC's postponement, this is still gonna be a rough month for me, as I ate the full cost of my tragically nonrefundable plane tickets. Ouch!
Wellp, might as well get crackin' on art requests from you $5-tier Hundredfold! (Hundred-and-ninefold, technically, but who's counting?)
As befor...
2020-03-20 02:14:59 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out the previous installment of this story here.)
Folks, here are (layout) pages 13-18 of an unpublished, 48-page story titled Dirty Pair: Quick & Dirty that I wrote and drew back in late 2003.
Below, I'll cut & paste my notes from the initial installment of the story:
My reasons for creating this story—and for drawing it in this rather odd, proto-
2020-03-19 13:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Taking a break from commission-story serialization to post a bunch of vintage con sketches from the turn of the millennium, all of 'em featuring Kei and/or Yuri distressed by superagent Shasti from the miniseries Dirty Pair: Dangerous Acquantances (and a cameo in Run from the Future, too). None of these commissions are even remotely canonical to my iteration of the Lovely Angels, but at least Shasti is credibly capable of victimizing Kei and Yuri unlike, say Battle Chasers
2020-03-18 15:20:03 +0000 UTC
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Following up from the last bunch of Empowered vol.12 pages I posted here last month, enjoy a few more pages of Spooky discussing Emp's bondage curse, whilst so far notably failing to mention exactly who cursed her. (Also, I've attached pretty much every work-stage rough for each finished page.)
Also, enjoy the big cat's whiskers and loose strands of Emp's hair, which were inked on a separate overlay then inverted to white i...
2020-03-17 12:55:36 +0000 UTC
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Yet again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains reasonably large.) First above is a set from September 2018, while the second set is an example from January 2017, fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-03-16 12:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Here are a bunch of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets based on art requests from the $10 and $20 Patron tiers. A few words on each:
A few of these sets are randomly formatted as comic pages as I continue to mess around with CSP's "comicking" tools. The first two panels above are indeed supposed to depict Empowered's Caged Demonwolf using Ninjette as a host. Huzzah!
2020-03-13 13:01:01 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out part 1 of this story here.)
Folks, here are (layout) pages 7-12 of an unpublished, 48-page story titled Dirty Pair: Quick & Dirty that I wrote and drew back in late 2003.
Below, I'll cut & paste my notes from the initial installment of the story:
My reasons for creating this story—and for drawing it in this rather odd, proto-Empowered
2020-03-12 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out the previous installment of this story fragment here.)
To repeat from last week: Time for s'more slightly less-than-ideal scans from "Yuri vs. Shortie," another incomplete commissioned story from the early 2000s. (I'm calling it "When Shortie Attacks" to avoid a direct Dirty Pair reference in ...
2020-03-11 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Needed a post I could put up as quickly as possible, so here we go!
Since I posted the nine pages of my Procreate digital roughs for the Marvel one-shot Venom: The End a while back, I decided, "Why not post a few more?" And lo, here are my Procreate-app thumbnails for pp.10-19 of the 30-page, eons-spanning, SF-infused epic, featuring a prominent appearance by an iteration of the uploaded Tony Stark from Iron Man: Hyperve...
2020-03-10 13:31:46 +0000 UTC
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Yet again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains reasonably large.) First above is a set from September 2018, while the second set is an example from January 2017, fairly early on in the effort.
Thought the Dave Stewart face worked out pretty well in the 2018 set...
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....and I should say that "Bodies In Motion"...
2020-03-09 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Following up from last Friday's surprisingly(?) popular gallery of con sketches from back in the day, here's another clump o' illos from the ol' "CON SKETCH" folder on my PC's hard drive.
A few words:
A decent enough sketch of Manji and Rin from Hiroaki Samura's manga Blade of the Immortal, but the shading on Rin's knives has always bugged me; they look a bit like opened tubes of lipstick to me, for some reason....
2020-03-06 14:01:00 +0000 UTC
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(Welcome, all Patrons and the general public! Future installments of this story's serialization will be available to the $3 tiers and higher.)
Folks, here are the first six layout(?) pages of an unpublished, 48-page story titled Dirty Pair: Quick & Dirty that I wrote and drew back in late 2003.
My reasons for creating this story—and for drawing it in this rather odd, proto-Empowered "tight layout page" format—now seem hazy and unclear to m...
2020-03-05 14:13:36 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out the previous installment of this story fragment here.)
To repeat from last week: Time for some slightly less-than-ideal scans from "Yuri vs. Shortie," another incomplete commissioned damsel-in-distress story from the early 2000s. (I'm calling it "When Shortie Attacks" to avoid a direct Dirty Pair
2020-03-04 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Empowered vol.11 was, as you may know if you read the book, jampacked and veritably chockablock with cape-on-cape fight scenes. To quote the book's solicitation copy:
Costumed crime fighter Empowered finds herself the desperate prey of a maniacal supervillain whose godlike powers have turned an entire city of suprahumans against her. Outnumbered and under siege, aided only by a hero's ghost,...
2020-03-03 14:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Yet again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. (Someday I'll have to downgrade to a single piece per post, but my buffer of these pieces remains reasonably large.) First above is a set from September 2018, while the second set is an example from January 2017, fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-03-02 14:01:00 +0000 UTC
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In 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 dec...
2020-02-28 14:54:01 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out part 3 of this serialization here.)
Whoops, plumb forgot I was gonna revisit this unpublished project on a twice-per-month basis!
Wellp, we're continuing serialization of my page roughs and scripts for Empowered and the Giant-Size Issues, a never-published, two-issue miniseries intended to be drawn by a Special Guest Artist.
As mentioned previously, I wrote the t...
2020-02-27 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Wasn't planning on posting these particular jpegs, but I'm currently struggling with maddening computer issues preventing me from scanning anything, so... Time for some slightly less-than-ideal scans from "Yuri vs. Shortie," another incomplete commissioned story from the early 2000s. (I'm calling it "When Shortie Attacks" to avoid a direct Dirty Pair reference in the post title.)
Not only does this one boast very finished pencil artwork, it's also the closest thing to an in-(my)-continuity "real" DP
2020-02-26 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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