Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from October 2017 drawn on toned paper (including an image based on Jia Jem's fine Kei cospay), along with a sketchier, more movement-oriented set from May 2017. 2022-02-16 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, following up on my previous post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2004's Marvel mecha-team ...
2022-02-14 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
(Our previous installment can be read here, by the way.)
Recently, I was pawing through a bunch of old Word files trying to unearth a (still-)missing portion of the prose experiment I Am Empowered 2022-02-11 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, the partial Work Stages on a videogame-based illo that I drew and Ryan Kinnaird colored back in 2004 for the Playstation magazine PSM's summer swimsuit feature; ah, to imagine that such a concept was still possible within living memory!
Anyhoo, the swimsuitee in question is from the gam...
2022-02-09 14:01:03 +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 third set of my layouts for issue #4 of 2022-02-07 14:01:05 +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 a shading-focused set from October 2017 drawn on toned paper, along with a sketchier, somewhat more movement-oriented set from May 2017.
Note that we've (rather a while ago) cross...
2022-02-04 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, kicking off the sprawling image gallery above is my bud Ryan Kinnaird's brand-new, final-draft coloring job for the illustration that will be seen on the back cover of the upcoming Empowered vol.12, featuring the fantasy RPG-based characters "Goblin Ninja Kozue" (a variant of Ninjette, of cou...
2022-02-02 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on an earlier post, here are more pages from a commissioned Dirty Pair comic story in proto-Empowered format, created back in 2003 during a time when I assumed that I wouldn't be draw...
2022-01-31 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Failed-Project Friday returns without warning; Lordy loo!
This morning, I was pawing through a bunch of old Word files trying to unearth a (still-)missing portion of the prose experiment I Am Empowered when I spied an old synopsis for an abortive Empowered ...
2022-01-28 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, following up on my previous post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2004's Marvel mecha-team ...
2022-01-27 14:01:02 +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 a shading-focused set from October 2017, along with a sketchier, somewhat more movement-oriented set from May 2017.
Note the ominous flare-up of drawing-hand pain in the Oct...
2022-01-26 14:01:03 +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 second set of my layouts for issue #4 of 2022-01-25 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
ALL CAPS AHOY: A FULL 5-DAY WORKWEEK OF PATREON POSTS TO FINISH OFF THE MONTH KICKS OFF TODAY!
Following up on an earlier post, here are more pages from a commissioned
Behold, more Vintage Con Sketches of Dirty Pair's Kei & Y**i from the turn of the millennium. Yay!
Back then, I was doing so many of these DP con sketches at a time that I constantly experimented with often wacky character and costum...
2022-01-20 14:00:07 +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 a shading-focused set from May 2017 (breaking a long streak of sketchier, more movement-based sets), along with a similarly shading-oriented collection from October 2017 with which I wa...
2022-01-19 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, following up on my previous post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2004's Marvel mecha-team ...
2022-01-17 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, the first pages from a commissioned Dirty Pair comic story in proto-Empowered format, created back in 2003 during a time when I assumed that I wouldn't be drawing comics professionally any more, due to my disenchantment with struggling through conventionally penciled...
2022-01-14 14:30:01 +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 #4 of 2022-01-12 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
My buffer of scheduled posts is nonexistent at the moment, so here's a hasty fill-in post, kind Patrons!
First up is a provocative yet not entirely SPOILER-y image from Empowered vol.12's climactic story, now underway as I grind through my final two months on the long-...
2022-01-10 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, the surprisingly difficult first page of a brief Empowered vol. 12 scene that I've dubbed "Young Emp and Superfriends," along with my page rough(s) and sketchy character designs for the sequence.
UPDATE: Tacked on a side-by-side image showing roughs and final a...
2022-01-07 18:38:30 +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 a shading-focused set from May 2017 (breaking a long streak of sketchier, more movement-based sets), along with a similarly shading-oriented collection from October 2017 drawn on tan to...
2022-01-05 14:00:06 +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 next set of my layouts for issue #3 of
Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a sketchier, movement-focused set from May 2017 (probably based on dancer and actress Jade Chenowyth, who would make a pretty dandy live-action Ninjette), along with a shading-oriented ...
2021-12-30 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
(Our previous installment can be seen here.)
Behold, the abrupt and incomplete ending of a comic-format oddity from the year 2000 or so, as I recently unearthed what is probably a "dual-purpose" or "double-dipping" commissioned comic featurin...
2021-12-29 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a mockup version (with slapped-in, low-res logo and chapter title) of an Empowered vol.12 title page, which kicks off a Sistah Spooky & Emp story that's been excerpted extensively on this here Patreon over the last year or two (or three?).
As shown above, I tried to construct the fi...
2021-12-28 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here, or check out the entire archive of this defunct project 2021-12-27 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
As a gift post on Christmas Day, here's page 1 of an especially wacky Empowered vol.12 scene that's riffing on the Hallmark Channel's annual deluge of Xmas-themed TV movies.
Alas, I can't show you page 2 of this sequence for possible SPOILER reasons (believe it o...
2021-12-25 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up on last week's post, here's the rest of the 2005 Christmas feature I worked on for the videogame magazine GamePro, where former PSM art director (and designer of the Empow...
2021-12-24 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Fresh off the scanner and following up on a previous post, here are more pages from the upcoming Empowered vol.12 sequence that I've informally dubbed "the Sacrificial (Not Quite) Virgins" scene!
When you see the pub...
2021-12-22 17:00:57 +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 next set of my layouts for issue #3 of 2021-12-20 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
