After stumbling across this material at random t'other day, thought I might as start posting my work stages for the 2007(-ish) 8-page story Empowered: Who Da Ubermench?
Story and initial art by me; color art by the fine folks of the coloring studio Guru eFX, working over B&W originals drawn...
2021-03-05 14:03:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeahp, just like it says on the tin (or the post title), here are my work stages for Empowered vol.3's cover illustration, including a very different initial rough that wound up having its Emp pose repurposed for vol.5's cover illo. Gosh!
Note the unusual jpeg of the cover's finished pencils, w...
2021-03-04 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a mostly Kenichi-Sonoda-related assortment of commissioned damsel-in-distress con sketches. A few words:
The concrete block bit with poor Rally Vincent from Gunsmith Cats is an old joke and/or ...
2021-03-03 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are a few of my character and gun designs for the 2015 one-shot Empowered: Pew Pew Pew!, in which Emp tangles with a series of supervills victimized by sentient "smart guns" goading 'em into firepower-intensive rampages. (Also, a few assorted jpegs of the story pages in which those designs appea...
2021-03-02 14:00:06 +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 April 2017, still fairly early on in the effort, followed by a set from January 2018....
2021-03-01 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Sure hope I find the time tomorrow morning to expand this paragraph before this scheduled post goes online!
UPDATE IN THE MORNING: Barely!
In fact, these aren't the gory, mayhem-intensive pages from later on in the Empowered vol.12 "Scary, Badass, Violen...
2021-02-26 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE #1: This was originally scheduled as a Friday post, but as I haven't yet scanned the Empowered vol.12 pages I meant to post today, I bumped this one up to the Thursday slot. Needless to say, folks, every-weekday posting is becoming more and more difficult for me to pu...
2021-02-25 16:10:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, s'more Vintage Con Sketches with varying iterations of my take on the Dirty Pair winding up in distressing situations.
Note that, in the first commission in the gallery...
2021-02-24 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Behold, in the gallery above, my design sketch for the civilian version of Sistah Spooky seen in the Empowered vol.10 story "My Dinner with Spookums," along with jpegs of the first few pages in which that redesign appeared.
2021-02-23 14:01:02 +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 2017, still fairly early on in the effort, followed by a set from February 2018...
2021-02-22 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm finishing off the last few pieces from my old CON SKETCHES folder, this time featuring a trio of illos with "letter V characters." Yay!
First up is a sketch based on "Valkyrie Wylde," the faux videogame character that the Playstation magazine PSM created in the early 2000s as a "nude-...
2021-02-19 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
One of my favorite Empowered back-cover pieces, in fact! Final colors on the illo by the fine fellas of coloring studio Guru eFX, as I recall.
TOMORROW ON THIS HERE PATREON: More Vintage Con Sketches, I'd assume.
2021-02-18 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up from a recent Empowered vol.12 preview featuring a page of Emp in civilian garb (however unclothed she might be) from a "secret identity shenanigans" sequence, here's a quick post of rough sketches I did whils...
2021-02-17 19:48:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Folks, here are a bunch of random design sketches from various latter-day Dirty Pair miniseries. A few words:
Yeahp, that's the "aquasuit" version of Kei's morphing smartsuit from issue #2 of 1999-2000...
2021-02-16 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 March 2017, still fairly early on in the effort, followed by a set from February 2018...
2021-02-15 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold—if my worthless, garbage-tier DSL will ever stay connected long enough to allow me to post this morning—an unusually strong 2005 con sketch that I wound up repurposing as the illo cover for the concluding issue #6 of the Livewires Marvel miniseries.
2021-02-12 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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More from Empowered vol.12 today, folks! Above is the second page from a scene featuring the Emp iteration I've dubbed "Scary, Badass, Violent Emp," for reasons that will become obvious in successive pages. 2021-02-11 13:33:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Months later, folks, I'm popping back to a rather chatty "paused" story from Empowered vol.12 and continuing to whittle away at the g-d thing. (My vision for the book has changed completely since I was initially working on this chapter, but I'll be dipped if I'm gonna contemplate tossing out 30-40 co...
2021-02-10 16:10:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Very short on time today, so a quick note of explanation: Here are the earliest character designs for the titular mercenary magical girl from the miniseries Empowered and the Soldier of Love.
The first two images are the first sketches (including magical mascot Senor Pangolin) by the series' ex...
2021-02-09 13:13:54 +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 2017, still fairly early on in the effort, followed by a set from February 2018...
2021-02-08 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Just about done with the pieces in my older Con Sketches folder; here's another bunch from the the dwindling supply.
A few words:
This 2012 piece, one of my stronger high-contast Sharpie sketches, wound up tacked onto the...
2021-02-05 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeahp, just like it says on the tin, here are the work stages on the cover illo for Empowered vol.4; note that I went through a number of roughs before finding a composition I liked. Can't find my coloring guide for the piece, oddly enough, so perhaps I shouldn't label this post as the complete <...
2021-02-04 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, folks, the concluding page of an Empowered vol.12 riff on secret identity tropes that were unused in the series as a whole; the previous two pages have already been previewed to the Big Spender Patreon tiers, by the way.
A few words:
2021-02-03 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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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 fea...
2021-02-02 14:01:00 +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 2017, still fairly early on in the effort, followed by a set from February 2018...
2021-02-01 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, this trio of con sketches is stretching the definition of Vintage a tad, but what the heck. The Slave Leia pieces are from 2012 (almost a decade ago, ouch), though the soapy Emp is notably more recent, as the photoref-based shadow rendering might hint. Always good to get in a li'l life drawing ...
2021-01-29 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Per a post (and poll) I put out to the higher Patron tiers earlier in the month, here are my early Empowered vol.12 design sketches for an John Wick-ish Emp iteration I've dubbed "Scary, Violent, Badass Emp". (I shan't spoil things by telling you why vol.12 features this variation.)
Behold, a trio of recently unearthed Dirty Pair damsel-in-distress con sketches from the 90s. Pretty straightforward, though I should add one note:
The label on poor Y**i's thigh is referring to a line...
2021-01-27 14:01:06 +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 fea...
2021-01-26 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 2017, still fairly early on in the effort, followed by a set from February 2018...
2021-01-25 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
