Wellp, I have a bunch of different potential posts that could've gone up today, but I figured I'd put up this illo that was hot off the ol' iPad—and once again, literally so, as the tablet gets mighty g-d hot to the touch after a few hours of work.
Anyhoo, a while back I posted this piece from fantasy test pr...
2023-07-28 14:36:04 +0000 UTC View Post
[Link to our previous installment in this series.]
Note that I changed the title of this goofy little pseudo-story effort to The Trouble with Emerald from the previous <...
2023-07-26 14:07:38 +0000 UTC View Post
From my 2019 era of experimentation in the iPad art app Procreate, here's another sketch set derived from a mix of random photoreference. At this point I was still using Procreate's admittedly "mushy-looking" Medium Airbrush to get something onto the g-d tablet:
2023-07-24 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Ughhh.
Behold the terrible majesty of the opening double-page spread of pages 2 and 3 from the first story of fantasy test comic The Chaste and the Chained. Running waaaay behind tonight, so here's a quick rundown of the Work Stages involved.
First...
2023-07-21 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a brand-new set of mostly photoreferenced Clip Studio Paint sketches, hot off the ol' iPad! (That's literally hot, TBH, due to how much that one processor sector under the tablet's screen heats up. Sizzlin', folks!)
2023-07-19 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Wellp, this month I tried out a new "hybrid workflow" on more early pages from The Chaste and the Chained, with an approach that used digital roughs and analog pencils & inks. This workflow has, alas, proved direly unsuccessful in various ways, as I shall discuss in the days and weeks to...
2023-07-17 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
So! For today's desperately pressed-into-service installment of Failed-Project Friday, we'll be taking a look at a rather sweeping proposal I made to Marvel back in 2004 for a lengthy run writing Iron Man. The SF-skewing pitch featured three different ambitious story arcs bu...
2023-07-14 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Emergency post time, folks, as I still haven't scanned any of the originals from my latest and, alas, ill-fated test pages drawn for The Chaste and the Chained. So, I hastily rummaged through an odds & ends folder and found this trading card illo I drew for Upper Deck's Marvel series back in 2006...
2023-07-12 13:39:03 +0000 UTC View Post
From the bygone year 2005, here's another "Endpage" cartoon I wrote and drew for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, this time whimsically predicting the state of Sony Playstation technology in the distant, far-future, nigh-science-fictional year of 2026:
2023-07-10 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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From my 2019 era of experimentation in the iPad art app Procreate, here's a sketch set derived from a mix of random photoreference. At this point I was still using Procreate's admittedly "mushy-looking" Medium Airbrush to get something onto the g-d tablet:
2023-07-07 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Behold the complete Work Stages on a recent damsel-in-distress commission done in my old Con Sketch two-color format--but produced much, much more slowly than the pieces I used to crank out at conventions, alas.
A close-up on the initial rough, after being twe...
2023-07-05 13:40:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeahp, here are a trio of OC (Original Character) commissions drawn in the summer of 2002, as recently scanned from pretty decent photocopies of original art penciled on linen-finish cardstock.
First off, a very specific request featuring a male angel pretty overtly based on some of the Seraphim designs from Ka...
2023-07-03 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
[Here's a link to part 1 of this two-part post, folks.]
So! A few years after 2005's miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, I was given an opportunity to pitch for a four-issu...
2023-06-30 14:01:30 +0000 UTC View Post
From those halcyon days when I wrote and drew a B&W "Endpage" cartoon feature for the Playstation videogame magazine PSM, here's a still-relevant topic as first addressed in the initial rough I sent to the editor:
2023-06-28 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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[Link to our previous installment in this series]
Note that I just changed the title of this goofy little pseudo-story effort to The Trouble with Emerald from the previous ...
2023-06-26 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, the final rough—okay, "rough," as this image is srsly far too detailed for this particular Work Stage—for the excessively ambitious double-page spread of pages 2 & 3 from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained:
2023-06-23 13:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Had planned to post an update on The Chaste and the Chained today but am running waaaaay behind this morning, so 'tis time to put up the only prepared content in my Drafts folder!
From my 2019 era of experimentation in the iPad art app Procreate, here's a pair...
2023-06-21 14:50:55 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
I've been trying to think of something to do with the various DiD sketch sets I have kicking around that feature backup superheroine Emerald, who appears as basically a dark-haired, maskless variation on Emp's tattered-suit design (and modern-era physique) from Empowered 2023-06-19 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
So! A few years after 2005's miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, I was given an opportunity to pitch for a four-issue arc of Marvel's all-ages title Iron Man Adventures. As was usual then and now for my sporadic brushes with the mainstream, nothing came of the proposal; alas...
2023-06-16 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Combing through a dwindling binder of photocopied commissions from the linen-finish heyday of 1999-2002, I dug up a few pieces you prrrrrrobably haven't yet seen.
First off, a scandalously "flashy" illo derived from 1998's miniseries Gen13: Magical Drama Queen Roxy, with the titular he...
2023-06-14 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Recently dug up a high-res printout of the illo above, which I drew and my bud Ryan Kinnaird colored as part of the 2007 "Summer Swimsuit" feature for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM. This piece apparently stars the cast of 2023-06-12 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
Last month's kinda-sorta commissioned illo pitting hapless SF heroines Rose & Lily against the Sean Connery iteration of James Bond proved shockingly difficult to work up, as you can se...
2023-06-09 13:50:46 +0000 UTC View Post
As I desperately flail about for a Wednesday post, here's a li'l something from one of my "MISCELLANEOUS" hard drive folders. This time, here are some Work Stages on a pair of Marvel-related trading cards I drew back in 2004, looks like.
First up, the final version of a Punisher 2023-06-07 14:21:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, fresh off the scanner, here are a quartet of Bubblegum Crisis-related con sketches from the thrilling yesteryears of 1992 through 1994. I scanned these from rather crappy photocopies, so the repro quality is rather less than ideal; nonetheless, I think you can just barely make out th...
2023-06-05 13:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
From my 2019 era of experimentation in the iPad art app Procreate, here's a sketch set derived from assorted photos of cosplayers rocking outfits based on Magik from the X-Men, New Mutants, etc. At this point I was still using Procreate's admittedly "mushy-looking" Medium Airbrush to get somethin...
2023-06-02 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
And lo, our concluding post for May will be a li'l work-in-progress dealie for the opening double-page spread—that is, pages 2 & 3—from the first story I'm working up for fantasy test comic The Chaste and the Chained.
Early on, my first take on this scene was a single-page "splash," but...
2023-05-31 13:29:47 +0000 UTC View Post
[Our previous post in this series can be seen here.]
In a desperate bid for a recurring feature to fill up M/W/F slots on this here Patreon, here are (most of) the Work Stages 2023-05-29 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
So, here's an illo from fantasy-comic test project The Chaste and the Chained based on a fun art request from a $20-tier Patron, the concept being that the horny (and kinky) Elf Mage and the struggling-with-chastity Human Paladin have somehow—somehow!—wound up squeezed together ...
2023-05-26 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
In an ongoing attempt to mix things up with the new(-ish) era of digital-art Life Drawing posts, here's another brand new sketch set drawn in Clip Studio Paint (iOS version) from random photoreference, as opposed to the 20...
2023-05-24 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week, I posted another Life Drawing image of Sean Connery from an especially striking James Bond photo of yore. Wellp, as a further Clip Studio Paint experiment intended to fill out another
