An exceedingly unusual and colorful selection of con sketches this time around, folks! We're seeing Angel & Omar from the old Nelvana animated flick Rock and Rule; Sadako Sasaki (of thousand cranes fame); and Sen & Hyaku from Miyazaki's anime Spirited Away.
NEXT MONDAY ON THIS HERE PA...
2021-01-22 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, the complete work stages for Empowered vol.5's back cover. Note that Age 4 Emp was wearing a different outfit in the actual scene that inspired her appearance on the back cover, but I was not interested in drawing underpants on a g-d book cover. (In fact, I think her "footie pajamas" bit actually works better, story-wise.)
TOMORROW ON THIS HERE PATREON: More...
2021-01-21 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another exclusive preview from the upcoming Empowered vol.12! (We're not yet officially on the release schedule, so I can't give you a exact date.)
Wellp, I shan't spoil things by telling you exactly why Deathmonger has morphed into Deathtrapmonger, but I can hint that I'm addressing a bunch of hitherto unaddressed superhero tropes at one point in the bookâand this time, the c...
2021-01-20 14:51:50 +0000 UTC View Post
For most of my time on Empowered, I would produce, at best, a quick sketch of a new character before drawing a comic page; often, in fact, I would just design new capes on the actual page. ("Just in time" character design, I suppose.)
However, Empowered vol.9 featured so many new characters during Emp's book-long run through a gauntlet of supervillains that I sat down and cranked ...
2021-01-19 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Once 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 February 2018, while the second set is an example from March 2017, still fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
Wellp, back to plowing through the remaining pieces in my old CON SKETCHES folder! With these pieces, we're hitting up more of the illos listed under the letters P and R.
A few words:
Weird thing is, I actually like most of the art elements in this 2006 Power Girl piece, but still wince at how badly I botched the interfaci...
2021-01-15 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Whoops, forgot to add text to this scheduled post!
Anyhoo, the title explains things pretty well, though you might note that I switched out Mindf**k's spacesuit (at upper right) for an image of Anglerfish on the final version.
TOMORROW ON THIS HERE PATREON: Probably our regularly scheduled dose of Vintage Con Sketches, though I might call an audib...
2021-01-14 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, the completed version of a brief Empowered vol. 12 scene that I earlier posted as a work-in-progress dealie months and months ago.
The first two (already posted) pages pick up an in-progress scene of Meta Emp boasting about how she uses her theatrical MMPHs to bamboozle bad guys, before recalling that she <...
2021-01-13 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
For most of my time on Empowered, I would produce, at best, a quick sketch of a new character before drawing a comic page; often, in fact, I would just design new capes on the actual page. ("Just in time" character design, I suppose.)
However, Empowered vol.9 featured so many new characters during Emp's book-long run through a gauntlet of supervillains that I sat down and cranked ...
2021-01-12 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Once 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 February 2018, while the second set is an example from March 2017, still fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2021-01-11 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
As I work through my old CON SKETCHES folder for this Friday feature, stumbled across this fully inked and screentoned illo, which was a piece drawn for, I think, Kenichi Sonoda's Chosen Ame doujinshi. (A friend of mine was a regular contributor, hence my sporadic appearances in the long-running Comic-Market-sold doujin.)
This illo was a tribute to the episode 2021-01-08 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, as promised a while back, more of my artwork for the 1987 Dirty Pair proposal that my late friend Toren Smith and I pitched to Studio Nue, the company owned by DP creator and award-winning SF author Haruka Takachiho, in the hopes of doing an original American comics miniseries based on the characters.
This time around, here's the inked, then penciled second half of a short sampl...
2021-01-07 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, more early 90s DiD commissions featuring That Darn Shasti (click tag below for more sketches) bedamseling a hapless Dirty Pair.
I was using a photocopy of this sketch to do a test of the color markers that my Kubert School buddy Joe Rosas was using to produce the color guides for 1995's Dirty Pair: F...
2021-01-06 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
For most of my time on Empowered, I would produce, at best, a quick sketch of a new character before drawing a comic page; often, in fact, I would just design new capes on the actual page. ("Just in time" character design, I suppose.)
However, Empowered vol.9 featured so many new characters during Emp's book-long run through a gauntlet of supervillains that I sat down and cranked ...
2021-01-05 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Once 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 February 2018, while the second set is an example from March 2017, still fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2021-01-04 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, back to plowing through the remaining pieces in my old CON SKETCHES folder. With these pieces, we're hitting up more of the illos listed under the letter M; this time, we're hitting up a trio of commissioned pieces based on the amusing concept of various characters serving as pinup girls for various branches of the Imperial military.
A few words of explanation:
2021-01-01 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Behold, as promised a while back, more of my artwork for the 1987 Dirty Pair proposal that my late friend Toren Smith and I pitched to Studio Nue, the company owned by DP creator and award-winning SF author Haruka Takachiho, in the hopes of doing an original American comics miniseries based on the characters.
This time around, here's the inked first half of a short sample story I wrote ...
2020-12-31 15:25:19 +0000 UTC View Post
(You can check out the previous installment of this story here.)
Wellp, I'm down to the last few commissioned DiD stories in proto-EMPOWERED format, folks! This one's from 2003 or thereabouts, based on a simple request from a very generous friend in a time of great financial need for Yrs Truly: Dirty Pair's K...
2020-12-30 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Once 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 March 2018, while the second set is an example from March 2017, still fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-12-28 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Merrrrrry Christmas!
Here's an Xmas-themed illo inspired by an amusing December art request from the $20 Patron tier, along with jpegs of selected work stages. (The idea being that nasty ol' Krampus carries off naughty kids around Christmas; Emp's a good 15 years too old for this scenario, but the old goat presumably made an exception.)
Note that I had to flop (reverse) the initial rough to fit the additional panels in the...
2020-12-25 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, as promised a few weeks back, more of my artwork for the 1987 Dirty Pair proposal that my late friend Toren Smith and I pitched to Studio Nue, the company owned by DP creator and award-winning SF author Haruka Takachiho, in the hopes of doing an original American comics miniseries based on the characters.
This time around, here are two of the three illustrations I tacked onto th...
2020-12-24 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
(You can check out the previous installment of this story here.)
Wellp, I'm down to the last few commissioned DiD stories in proto-EMPOWERED format, folks! This one's from 2003 or thereabouts, based on a simple request from a very generous friend in a time of great financial need for Yrs Truly: Dirty Pair's Kei pitted against a fairly generic Jungle Girl in a cheesecake-intensive strugg...
2020-12-23 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's Design Tuesdays feature is covering my initial character designs for the 1997 DC Comics Prestige Format (ooh!) one-shot Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone.
This time around, we're featuring my sketches for the "Clade warbeasts" that Jamadagni and crew wind up battling. A few quick words about 'em:
2020-12-22 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Once 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 March 2018, while the second set is an example from March 2017, still fairly early on in the effort. UPDATE: Switched 'em around in the gallery above, as the older one looked a bit more st...
2020-12-21 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, back to plowing through the remaining pieces in my old CON SKETCHES folder. With these pieces, we're hitting up the illos listed under the letter M.
A few words:
Might've posted this Blade of the Immortal piece before; my insincere apologies, if so.
2020-12-18 14:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Behold, as promised a few weeks back, the first few pages of artwork for the 1987 Dirty Pair proposal that my late friend Toren Smith pitched to Studio Nue, the company owned by DP creator and award-winning SF author Haruka Takachiho, in the hopes of doing an original American comics miniseries based on the characters.
Note that, at this time, the DP proposal w...
2020-12-17 13:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post
(You can check out the previous installment of this story here.)
Wellp, I'm down to the last few commissioned DiD stories in proto-EMPOWERED format, folks! This one's from 2003 or thereabouts, based on a simple request from a very generous friend in a time of great financial need for Yrs Truly: Dirty Pair's K...
2020-12-16 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's Design Tuesdays feature is covering my initial character designs for the 1997 DC Comics Prestige Format (ooh!) one-shot Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone.
This time around, we're featuring my sketches of Gabrielle Marin-Reyes, the story's prosthetic-bodied analogue for the original Titans' Cyborg. She's kinda-sorta named after my roommate from the Kub...
2020-12-15 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Once 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 March 2018, while the second set is an example from March 2017, still fairly early on in the effort.
Below, enjoy the higher-res, raw and untweaked grayscale scans as PSD attachments.
2020-12-14 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, back to plowing through the remaining pieces in my old CON SKETCHES folder. With these pieces, we're hitting up the illos listed under the letter L.
A few words:
Ehh, not sure if I already posted this as part of a Bubblegum Crisis kick. Well, here it is again, possibly!
2020-12-11 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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