(UPDATE: TBH, I probably posted this example on Patreon years ago, but ehh, screw it; if so, here it is again, folks!)
And now, a brief return by the long-dormant Comics Riffs I Love feature!
Behold, a collection of examples of the largely lost ...
2022-05-24 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Just got around to scanning some late-90s-era odds and ends recently unearthed as I was clearing some studio space to deploy my long-neglected Cintiq.
This first one's a bit of a mystery, as it's an apparent linen-finish con sketch dealie from the late 90s, yet unsigned, undated & unsent, given that I still have the...
2022-05-23 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to continue serializing my roughs and script for an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown, which I initially wrote with one particular artist in mind back in 2017 or so; alas, that first artist didn't end up working on it, so I pitched it to ...
2022-05-20 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
NOW COMMENCING EVERY-WEEKDAY POSTING TO FINISH OFF THE MONTH OF MAY!
Courtesy of a generous friend from back in the day, here are more scans of some loose sketch sets of Dirty Pair's Yu-- nay, Lily in distress drawn between comic pages at some point i...
2022-05-19 14:30:19 +0000 UTC View Post
In a theme relevant to my development of a new comic pitch that merges older Patreon fantasy RPG(-ish) projects Party of Two and Hushed Half-Elf, here are a quartet of Vintage Con Sketches from 2000-2001 based on commission...
2022-05-18 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an September 2017 sketch set, followed by another set from June 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both sketch sets are d...
2022-05-16 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Running late on posting today due to problems with Valiant but Dying Old Windows 8 PC. Don't die just yet, old boy!
Time to continue serializing my roughs and script for an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown, w...
2022-05-13 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series. Poor Gothic Lolita just got grabbed by a bunch of the Furybots, which is where our ...
2022-05-11 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on a previous post's collection of loosely rendered (and loosely commissioned) DiD sketch sets featuring operative Yur—nay, Lily imperiled in some vague and ill-defined office setting, here are a few more new pages ...
2022-05-09 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to continue serializing my roughs and script for an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown, which I initially wrote with one particular artist in mind back in 2017 or so; alas, that first artist didn't end up working on it, so I pitched it to ...
2022-05-06 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 #...
2022-05-04 13:44:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Ehh, the piece's colorist just posted these colors on Instagram, and as I'll likely do the same myself later on in the week, figured I'd best put up a quick Patreon post that won't be exclusive for long (and, in fact, already isn't).
Anyhoo, here are the colors on my illo for the upcoming Kickstarted artbook for Gisele ...
2022-05-03 21:27:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an September 2017 sketch set, followed by another set from June 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both sketch sets are d...
2022-05-02 13:11:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to begin serializing my roughs and script for an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown, which I initially wrote with one particular artist in mind back in 2017 or so; alas, that first artist didn't end up working on it, so I pitched it ...
2022-04-29 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Decided to give poor Officewear Lily a break from her ongoing workplace perils and put up a grab-bag Distressed Damsels post of recently unearthed incomplete commissions from the late 90s and/or early 2000s. A few words:
2022-04-28 13:26:52 +0000 UTC
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So, about a month ago, I stumbled across a bunch of old Word documents for a series of mostly unsuccessful proposals which could be featured on future Failed-Project Fridays. I then put up a poll for the Bigger Spenders of the...
2022-04-27 13:26:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an September 2017 sketch set, followed by another set from June 2017.
Note that the "mystery Emp project" referenced in my notes at the bottom of the June set is very likely the m...
2022-04-26 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, the initial Work Stages for a just-completed pin-up illo I'm doing as a contribution to an artbook for Gisele Lagace's popular webcomic Menage a 3 (if you'll pardon the missing accent mark over "a"). Yeahp, those are supposed to be my takes on DiDi (as superheroine "...
2022-04-25 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, the initial work stages on the cover illo for issue #1 of an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown, which I initially wrote with one particular artist in mind back in 2017 or so; alas, that first artist didn't end up working on it, so I pitched ...
2022-04-22 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Woo hoo! We're rolling with every-weekday posting through the end of April, folks! (Plus, I figured I needed to get some DiD posts up ASAP, after a sudden run of $5-tier Patrons cancelling their pledges.)
Courtesy of a generous friend from back in the day, here are scans of some loose sketch sets of Dirty Pa...
2022-04-21 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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 #...
2022-04-20 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an September 2017 sketch set, followed by another set from June 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both sketch sets are d...
2022-04-18 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: This is technically a repost of sorts, but given that the cover image above was, I think, my very first Patreon post way back in 2019, I'm hoping you'll bear with me.
So!
The image above would've been my variant cover for issue #1 of an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled ...
2022-04-15 13:55:25 +0000 UTC View Post
The images above were my various cover roughs for issue #1 of an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown. Note that our previous post in this series 2022-04-14 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on a previous post's collection of loosely rendered (and loosely commissioned) DiD sketches featuring operative Yu-- nay, Lily imperiled in some vague and ill-defined office setting, I dug up a pair of much older sketch sets w...
2022-04-13 13:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)
Behold, the first set of my layouts for issue #5 of 2022-04-11 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: This is technically a repost of sorts, but given that the cover image above was, I think, my very first Patreon post way back in 2019, I'm hoping you'll bear with me.
So!
The image above would've been my variant cover for issue #1 of an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled ...
2022-04-08 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is an September 2017 sketch set (apparently hacked out under duress, judging by my comments), followed by another set from May 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an i...
2022-04-06 13:02:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, more Work Stages from 2012's one-shot Empowered: Hellbent or Heaven Sent featuring art by excellent Guest Artist and frequent collaborator Ryan Kinnaird and script by Yrs Truly.
Am massively short on time this morning, so detailed annotations are...
2022-04-04 13:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post
More Vintage Con Sketches from the B&W linen-finish sketch-crankin' era of yore, this time featuring a somewhat complicated commission of Leeloo from The Firth Element and, of course, Trinity from The Matrix, depicted in a pair of slightly less ...
2022-04-01 13:01:10 +0000 UTC View Post
