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 prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from March 2019, while the second is an example from very early on in the effort (December ...
2019-11-04 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Really short on time this morning, as I have to finish inking my variant cover for Venom: The End by this afternoon, so I can't comment on this post as much as I'd like. Wellp, if I get the chance to go back and flesh out this puppy with more text, I'll alert you folks with an update.<...
2019-11-01 14:32:52 +0000 UTC View Post
To be honest, I dunno about posting Marvel or DC stuff here, especially of a recent variety, so I'm keeping this cover illo's title off the open aspects of Patreon. Shh!
Anyhoo, issue #5 of the new Marvel series ...
2019-10-31 13:37:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome, $3 tier Patrons, to a Wednesday feature normally reserved for the $5+ tiers; just thought I'd show you a bit of the extra content you're missing out on! Hope you'll consider upgrading someday (HINT, HINT)!
For this week's "damsel in distress" (DiD) post, behold a gallery of images addressing my long-ag...
2019-10-30 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Check out pt. 1 here. To repeat that essay's preamble, a li'l copy/paste:
Stumbled across this slightly puzzling document t'other day on an old flash drive, so I thought I'd post it here. This appears to be a lo...
2019-10-29 13:00:05 +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 prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from March 2019, while the second is an example from very early on in the effort (December ...
2019-10-28 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm giving Failed-Project Friday the week off so I can try a new type of Patreon post: Namely, digging up reference images I've used for various convention panels discussing various aspects of comics storytelling.
The manga pages above were all used as examples in a panel I participated in a few years ago re: action sto...
2019-10-25 12:51:09 +0000 UTC View Post
And now, the rest of my sketches from last weekend’s fine show. (Along with the likewise great Heroes show in June, BCC is an almost starting throwback convention, given its spotlight on comics and creators as opposed to the TV and movie focus that most other supposed “comic conventions” inevitably shift towards.)
(Pt.1 of this series can be seen here.)
To repeat (or to copy/paste, more specifically):
For the most part, I only have photocopies of my older con sketches, but for these 1999-era pieces, a commi...
2019-10-23 14:04:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Just got back from Baltimore Comic-Con, where I cranked out a fair number of con sketches during the show. Would’ve posted some of them here over the weekend, but I bricked my iPhone before the trip, so I was offline and phoneless the whole weekend. (The horror! The horror!) Did manage to get some wonky pics of the pieces w...
2019-10-22 13:22:14 +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 prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from March 2019, while the second is an example from very early on in the effort (December ...
2019-10-21 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Found a few more of these! The first one above, by the way, is by far my favorite of all of 'em.
To repeat (or, more accurately, to cut & paste) from our previous Failed-Project Friday:
I'm stretching the definition of "failed...
2019-10-18 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Based on a neat idea for art requests suggested by a higher-tier Patron, here are some 2011-era con sketches featuring the main Empowered cast cosplaying as other characters, theoretically for Halloween! (Okay, not really, but bear with me, won't you?)
Fun bit about the ...
2019-10-17 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For the most part, I only have photocopies of my older con sketches, but for these 1999-era pieces, a commissioner from Back In The Fabled Day sent along scans of the original pencils. To be honest, photocopies might be better, as these pencils are surprisingly light and low-contrast; I had to level-adjust them in Photoshop t...
2019-10-16 13:34:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a clump o' sketch sets based on monthly art-request suggestions solicited from the $5 and $10 tiers, drawn mostly in Clip Studio Paint as I continue to play around with the app's various brushes.
Images 1, 4 & 5 are based on Empowered and Dirty Pair ch...
2019-10-15 13:34:19 +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 prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from March 2019, while the second is an example from very early on in the effort (December ...
2019-10-14 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis month, it's time once again to solicit some art requests from the fine folks in the second-highest Patreon tier! All 66 of you $5 Patrons* have a rather outsized impact on my monthly total, so I figured I might as well give you a separate post to make your suggestions for topics. Fire away!
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2019-10-11 21:55:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm stretching the definition of "failed project" a tad with this one, as my work for this particular job did, in fact, see print. The only "failure" involved was the sad reality that I eventually lost the job.
Anyhoo, for a time in the late 90s, my buddy Joe Rosas and I did a series of illustrations for SP...
Stumbled across this slightly puzzling document t'other day on an old flash drive, so I thought I'd post it here. This appears to be a long, rambling justification written circa 2000 for drawing hawt, mostly nekkid young folks in my own notably idiosyncratic version of the Dirty Pair's u...
2019-10-10 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Been quite a while since the last time I posted any pages from the initial story I was drawing for Empowered vol.12, yet over the weekend I was able to knock out three more pages from that DiD-riffic flashback scene. In fa...
2019-10-09 13:04:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Whoops, forgot to post these in September!
Above are my thumbnails for issue #5 of 2018's Empowered and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell, a...
2019-10-08 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 prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from March 2019, while the second is an example from very early on in the effort (December ...
2019-10-07 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Just didn't have time to set up a Failed-Project Friday post this week, folks; my apologies.
Based somewhat loosely off the first round of October art requests (from the $10 tier), here's another bunch of sketch sets drawn in the iOS app version of Clip Studio Paint, as I continue to familiarize myself with CSP's brush ...
2019-10-04 13:43:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Whoops, forgot to post these in September!
Above are my thumbnails for issue #5 of 2018's Empowered and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell, a six-part miniseries written by me, drawn by Carla Speed McNeil, and colored by Jenn Manley Lee. Previous roughs from issue #4 are 2019-10-03 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up from last week's spanking-intensive excerpt, here's the second half of a bedroom cosplay scene removed from Empowered vol.9, mainly (but not entirely) because I needed the pagecount for the sprawling action sc...
2019-10-02 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 prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from April, while the second is an example from very early on in the effort (December 2016)...
2019-10-01 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a final bunch of digital-art sketch sets based (at times loosely) on art requests I solicited from my kindly Patrons during September. Thanks, folks!
The first two sets were drawn in the Procreate art app. In the first set, gotta love the Patron idea for Emp's supersuit in Bubblegum Crisis 2019-09-30 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up from last Friday, which showed the first five pages of what would've theoretically been issue #1 of this failed pitch, here are six more pages, the last ones I would ever draw for the project.
Below, I'll cut & paste in...
2019-09-27 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Still running way the hell behind on a cover illo today, so I'm grabbing some odds and ends from the ol' PATREON folder for today's post. (God forbid I break my streak of every-weekday posts.)
First up is an extreme rarity: A Gen13 pin-up I penciled for Wildstorm (well, that's no...
2019-09-26 16:06:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Running really far behind today, folks, so I'm grabbing the only thing I've got handy on the ol' hard drive that's distress-related and features a decent scan: namely, the first half of a bedroom cosplay spanking scene removed from Empowered vol.9, mainly because I needed the pagecount for t...
2019-09-25 18:49:51 +0000 UTC View Post
