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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...

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 ...

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 was an homage to an obscure but neat "interlacing kicks" riff fro...

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. 

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...

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...

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...

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 everythi...

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 ...

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 hei...

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'll keep the project's arguably revealing title under wraps for the time ...

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 from h...

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, which I decided to tie in—ha ha!—to 2024-01-22 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post

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 rolle...

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 intermittently from 1997-2001 for Wildstorm/DC.

First off, an action-y page:<...

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 cas...

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 Fut...