So.
Here's a rambling piece I've worked up over the last few weeks, originally formatted for a Twitter rant (hence the capitalized EMPOWERED and so on), but here used as a Patreon post first:
As I’ve said before, EMPOWERED vol.11 quite possibly marks the end of pencil-based artwork ...
2019-09-24 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 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)...
2019-09-23 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up from last Friday, which showed a 4-page story from this failed pitch, here are the first 5 pages of a longer story introducing the characters seen in that preview (which took place later on in the series).
Below, I'll cut &...
2019-09-20 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostI already solicited this month's requests from the $5 and $10 Big Spender tiers, and posted sketch dumps based on those suggestions here and here.
Wellp, as...
2019-09-19 12:33:14 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week's DiD content, I thought I'd sketch up a few pages of roughs from a Hushed Half-Elf episode I was considering, in which our hapless heroine visits a potion shop, only to find herself seized by the gnomish proprietors when they fall prey to her magically attractive "body of a bondage-pro...
2019-09-18 19:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post
As the long-awaited Empowered vol.11 finally hits North American comics stores today, thought I'd set up a post for Patron-only comments reacting to the grueling, violent, tear-jerking tome that took me (well) over two years to complete, and might represent the last pencil-based work in my comics car...
2019-09-18 12:31:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Per suggestions made from the $5 tier for this month's art requests, here are a few Procreate sketch sets, which mostly turn into impromptu life-drawing sets after a while. Gotta admit, I'm really starting to struggle with these art requests, as I'm easily bored with drawing for drawing's sake; the life drawing, at least, I o...
2019-09-17 13:00:02 +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 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)...
2019-09-16 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, the earliest artwork of mine that anyone online has ever seen! Gasp! Also, the only comic pages of mine that I drew but did not also write! Gasp, again!
This 4-page story was a preview for the superhero comedy Dangerous Affairs, created and scripted by my late fr...
2019-09-13 13:37:10 +0000 UTC View Post
From September art requests submitted by folks in the highest Patreon tier (though not for long, as I'm about to set up a still-higher tier), here are a trio of sketch sets featuring suggested characters.
I'm definitely hitting the limits of what my favorite Procreate brush (the Medium Hard Airbrush) can do. Problem is,...
2019-09-12 14:54:43 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week's running-late damsels-in-distress (DiD) content, first we see the final version of an Empowered vol.12 page I posted here in unfinished form a few weeks back. This may well be the final penciled Empowered page, as it looks like I just can't push an analog penc...
2019-09-11 18:21:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Recently unearthed a pair of 1993-vintage Bubblegum Crisis sample pencil pages I drew for various inkers to try out on, along with inks based on 'em by the great Robert Dejesus. (At least three other artists did inking samples, but I can't find any of those results.) Gotta say that Bob's inks look be...
2019-09-10 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 prodigious.) First above is a recent-ish set from April, while the second is an example from very early on in the effort (D...
2019-09-09 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis month, I'm getting an early-ish start on soliciting some art requests from the fine folks in the "Golden cookie jar" Patreon tier! All 54 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 ...
2019-09-07 19:09:12 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week's Failed-Project Friday, here's a three-page excerpt from an old 48-page Dirty Pair story that I'll begin serializing on this here Patreon at some point in the next few months. (Looking at these somewhat gray jpegs, I'll need to punch up the contrast levels in Photoshop a bit before I s...
2019-09-06 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In a follow-up to a pair of earlier posts featuring illos that Ryan Kinnaird and I did for an ICON motorcycle helmet (here's post #1, then post #2) , behold another bunc...
2019-09-05 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
These sketch sets are pretty recent, dating back to 2018 or so, produced during a lull in the seemingly endless grind of struggling to complete Empowered vol. 11. I had a long-standing (very long-standing, as in years) open commission from a friend for some "unmasked Emp" artwork; as I was a...
2019-09-04 13:20:17 +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 (D...
2019-09-03 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Based on a last-minute solicitation of art requests last week, here's the final set of Procreate sketches based (mostly) on those suggestions. You can see other August requests here and 2019-09-02 18:30:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Last Friday I recounted the tragic tale of the time I unsuccessfully tried to get Rick Mays (Gen13, Livewires, Kabuki: Scarab) approved to draw a Dirty Pair miniseries I woud've written for him. &...
2019-08-30 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another few sketch sets drawn in the iOS app Procreate and based on August art requests from the Big Spenders of the higher Patreon tiers! (A sketch dump from earlier in the month, heavy on Emp-as-Lum cosplay, can be seen 2019-08-29 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Running short on time today, as I'm in the midst of what I hope is the final day of work on The Toughest Comic Script I've Ever Written. So, here's another hastily posted set of random Empowered DiD sketches.
Quick word of explanation: One of my regular DiD commissioners (during my darker...
2019-08-28 13:21:02 +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 prodigious.) First above is a recent set from April, while the second is an example from very early on in the effort (December 2016).&nb...
2019-08-27 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Wellp, as we're now under a month out from the Sept. 18 release* of the long-awaited Empowered vol. 11, figured I'd do a li'l previewing of the book on the ol' Patreon, and give the ol' image gall...
2019-08-26 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, some 2001 Dirty Pair character-design samples by the great Rick Mays, featuring coloring by my buddy Ryan Kinnaird! Back in '01, Rick had just finished drawing issues of Gen13 (for Wildstorm/ DC) that I had written, so I subsequently tried to get him appr...
2019-08-23 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Running waaaaay behind this morning, so here's a quick post featuring a trio of con sketches based on characters from Bubblegum Crisis, the late-80s anime for which I wrote and drew the 1994 Dark Horse miniseries Grand Mal. (Never to be reprinted, alas , due t...
2019-08-22 13:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Akk! Thunderstorm approaching, so I gotta post this sucker in a hurry before I have to unplug the ol' PC! (Too bad I only have a few old pages scanned and ready to upload...)
Quick word of explanation: One of my regular DiD commissioners (during my darker days of little to no comics income) was cool with me ...
2019-08-21 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings from random photoref. Above is a recent set from April, while below is one from very early on in the effort (December 2016). Note that the following set is one of the earliest examples in which I began writing notes to accompany the sketches:
2019-08-20 13:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Above are my thumbnails for issue #4 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. The first 12 pages of this issue are 2019-08-19 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm reeeeaaally short on time today (as I'm presently struggling with the Most Difficult Script of My Entire G-d Comics Career), so I'm going with the most easily addressed project possible: the long-defunct Superman/ Dirty Pair crossover.
Back around the time I was working on the
