Background: The webcomic serialization of Empowered is currently working its way through a bondage-intensive story that contains most of vol.7's more or less mandatory damsel-in-distress content.
As I write the commen...
2020-08-05 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
I had forgotten that, six or seven months ago (or longer), I was gradually working my way backward through the posting the work stages for the cover illos of Empowered. (The last one I tackled was vol.9, but I don't feel like dragging my ass through this site's sprawling archive of posts to...
2020-08-04 13:07:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Yet 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 May 2018, while the second set is an example from February 2017, still fairly early on...
2020-08-03 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a quartet of vintage con sketches featuring Cammy from the videogame series Street Fighter! I was clearly trying out a bunch of different stylistic and character design approaches with these pieces, which is something I tend to do when drawing the same character repeatedly.
UPDATE: Whoops, accidentally scheduled this post to go up at 9:00pm instead of the usual 9:00am timeframe. Wellp, I'm publishing the g-d thing immediately!
I don't think I've posted this piece before on Patreon, but aren't 100% sure about that. Welcome to the perils of posting here eve...
2020-07-30 16:42:57 +0000 UTC View Post
A few more Vintage Con Sketches of the Dirty Pair in distress for y'all!
A few words:
The dastardly lass distressing Kei and Yuri in the 2002 piece above is the freaky-looking, Yasushi-Nira...
2020-07-29 12:58:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, it's been over two months since my last Empowered vol.12 update, as I stalled out over lack of interest in drawing this long and very important conversation scene. (You might want to check out the previous installme...
2020-07-28 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Yet 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 May 2018, while the second set is an example from February 2017, still fairly early on...
2020-07-27 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another bunch of Bubblegum Crisis con sketches from various years, following up on last week's post. I have a worrying feeling, though, that I might've already posted one of these pieces months and months ago; if s...
2020-07-24 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are a bunch of con sketches from 2019's Phoenix Fan Fusion that, for unknown reasons, I posted on social media last year but never got around to posting on Patreon, as far as I can tell (with one notable exception).
Alas, these jpegs are fairly low quality as they're harvested from Twitter and not taken directly fr...
2020-07-23 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a pair of recent—very recent, as in finished yesterday—Patron commissions drawn in the 11" X 14" two-color format I use for con sketches, featuring Empowered characters bedamseled to varying degrees of distress.
A few words:
2020-07-22 13:15:44 +0000 UTC
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Following up on last week's belated post of the 1997 "How to Draw in the Manga Style (Sorta)" piece I wrote and drew for Wizard magazine, here's the cover illo I did for 'em in late 1999. The theme was, I ...
2020-07-21 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Yet 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 June 2018, while the second set is an example from February 2017, still fairly early o...
2020-07-20 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
No time for an elaborate post with time-consuming commentary today, so here's a quartet of Bubblegum Crisis con sketches from 2002 (medium-contrast pencil on linen-finish cardstock) and 2006 (Sharpie marker on Bristol board) hastily scavenged from my hard drive. Enjoy? Yes, enjoy, dagnabbit!...
2020-07-17 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNote: You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here.
And now, back to Emp's first-person narration in (old) Twitter-based 140-character...
2020-07-16 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week's Distressed Damsels post, I'm breaking out the ol' Vintage Con Sketches in the form of some late-90s commissioned DiD pieces featuring Dirty Pair's Kei & Yuri. More specifically, this is the costume and character-design iteration ...
2020-07-15 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
After posting the first page of this stuff last Friday for a "Rando's Cornucopia" grab-bag post, I was vaguely startled to realize that I'd apparently never posted this material on the ol' Patreon before. (I was likely working under the assumption that most Patrons would already have seen this long-ago article, TBH.) So, here...
2020-07-14 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Yet 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 June 2018 (though peculiarly misdated on the sketch as May), while the second set is a...
2020-07-13 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Time for another installment of the sporadically recurring Patreon feature The Rando's Cornucopia, aka "a grab-bag post of miscellaneous odds & ends lurking on my hard drive."
And now, a few words on said odds & ends:
2020-07-10 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Note: You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here.
And now, back to Emp's first-person narration in (old) Twitter-based 140-character...
2020-07-09 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
As we take a few weeks off from serializing longer-form commissioned stories—or, ahem, "stories"—here's a few random odds& ends.
First off is a hot-off-the-iPad Clip Studio Paint sketch set based on DiD art requests from Patrons of the $20 tier:
2020-07-08 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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(You can check out the previous part of this serialization here, assuming I remember to go back and insert the correct link.)
Wellp, we're continuing—nay, concluding—serialization of ...
2020-07-07 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Yet 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 June 2018 (though peculiarly misdated on the sketch as May) based on a book of 1930s-e...
2020-07-06 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to another installment of FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY, folks! (First one in quite a few months, I'm afraid.)
I'm going way the hell back for this one; I was working on this project at the same time that I was cranking out my first bunch of (unpublished) Dirty Pair 2020-07-03 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
<Note: You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installments with this tag.
And now, back to Emp's first-person narrati...
2020-07-02 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
With this week's post, we're continuing—in fact, concluding—serialization of a 2003-ish commissioned DiD story featuring my iteration of Dirty Pair's Yuri that I've actually considered redoing as an Empowered episode, for reasons that will eventually become obvi...
2020-07-01 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
As I reluctantly close down the art-request Patreon feature for the $5 tier due to lack of available worktime, here are a final trio of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets based on suggestions from said tier.
A few words on each:
2020-06-30 13:17:36 +0000 UTC
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Yet 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 June 2018, while the second set is an example from January 2017, still fairly early on...
2020-06-29 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe good news? Time for the 140-odd Patrons of the $5 tier to make their art requests for the rapidly dwindling month of June!
The bad news? Starting in July, I'm going to have to discontinue the option of regular monthly art requests for the $5 tier (as I had to do last month for the $1 and $3 tiers), as I ...
2020-06-27 13:50:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, several sketch sets of mainly Party of Two suggestions from the $10 and $20 tiers! As of July, the "art requests" feature will move solely to those tiers going forward, as I just can't spare the worktime for extensive digital-art tests any more. (I'll try to address this topic in more detail ...
2020-06-26 14:47:28 +0000 UTC View Post
