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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: First-draft EMPOWERED pages, pt.1
I don't think I've posted these pages here before, though I could be mistaken. Anyhoo, behold the very first version of Empowered (long before the nascent project acquired that title), drawn over the weekend of July 4, 2004 in place of a bunch of damsel-in-distress pin-ups that were boring m...
DIRTY PAIR: FATAL BUT NOT SERIOUS design sketches pt.4
Behold, s'more character-oriented design sketches from my 1995 miniseries Dirty Pair: Fatal But Not Serious. (Previous series post here.)Kei butt cleavage ahoy! Not a fan of the rendering, though, which was just a bunch of fairly lazy and unimaginative high-contrast riffs drawn off the top of my...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #82
Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings fromrandom 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 2018, while the second set is an example from Februa...
(SEMI-)VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: EMPOWERED edition!
Text!UPDATE: Whoops, forgot this scheduled post had only placeholder text tacked on it; didn't get around to editing this sucker before it posted!Anyhoo, a few quick words, hastily and belatedly added:A 2018 piece from Heroes Con in Charlotte; important, because I've used high-contrast visua...
ART REQUEST sketch sets from the $10 & $20 tiers!
Behold, a trio of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets based on suggestions from the $10 & $20 Patron tiers, which are the only art reqs I can take on at present as the Empowered vol.12 restart ramps up—or, really, the restart of the restart, which was put on hold due to real-world issues I had to deal w...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: EMPOWERED con sketch & HUSHED HALF-ELF mandala(?)
Behold, two new-to-y'all (if not actually new) DiD-related pieces! A few words about 'em:A commission in my two-color—nay, three-color!—con sketch format featuring Empowered distressed by "Leather-Loving Laetitia," a goofy, leather-obsessed villainess who appeared many Wednesdays...
DIRTY PAIR: FATAL BUT NOT SERIOUS design sketches pt.3
Behold, s'more hardware-oriented design sketches from issue #2 of my 1995 miniseries Dirty Pair: Fatal But Not Serious. (Previous series post here.)A few words:The character above is not, in fact, unnamed, as I later decided her name was Ng Mui, after the notably more heroic Shaolin nun. Note th...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #81
Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings fromrandom 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 2018, while the second set is an example from Februa...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Mo' DP commissions, 1995-2012!
I'm a-clearin' out the pieces in my old CON SKETCHES folder alphabetically, so here's a grab-bag of Dirty Pair commissions lurking in the (ahem) D section, produced over a wide range of years.A few words:An inked 2003 piece based off an Adam Hughes Wonder Woman cover, as a study in emula...
Complete work stages on Norse-y trading-card illo!
In a post that's taken me a g-d hour to put up (thanks to g-d Firefox seemingly being unable to complete image posting on g-d Patreon), here are the complete work stages on a trading-card illustration of Marvel's character Valkyrie, drawn in 2006 for Upper Deck.Posted the work stages in reve...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: LILY vs. CANNON SPIKY crossover story fragment!
Behold, an early to mid-2000s story fragment pitting Y**i from Dirty Pair—now "Lily" in these highly noncanonical DP Distressverse stories, to avoid triggering a Patreon autoflag—against Cammy from Street Fighter. Now, real Y**i would give Cammy a run for her money as a martial artist, b...
DIRTY PAIR: FATAL BUT NOT SERIOUS design sketches, pt.2
Behold, some hardware-oriented design sketches from issue #2 of my 1995 miniseries Dirty Pair: Fatal But Not Serious.A few words:Blah blah blahUPDATE: Whoops, forgot to add "a few words" before this pre-scheduled sucker posted!Alas, the "subunit arms" on the mecha above weren't u...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #80
Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings fromrandom 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 2018—despite the "3.14.2018" mislabeling...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Lovely Angels over the years!
Whilst digging through old photocopies of con sketches, unearthed a bunch of older Dirty Pair pieces featuring a wide range of varying takes:*Kei & Y**i reclining on an iteration of Mughi never seen in the comic—but then again, Big Fluffy Anime Mughi is far and away Best Mughi, IMHO. Note also the...
$20-tier art requests so far (including a reused 2017 con sketch)!
Behold, an initial bunch of sketches based—however loosely—on October art requests from the $20 Patron tier!A few words:As the date might hint, this is an older con sketch done for a current Patron a few years ago. I'm posting it here because the scenario depicted is somewhat akin to a sugge...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: 1999-ish PINT-SIZE(D) NINJA montage!
Recently received an email with a scan of an old-ish commissioned piece from ehh, 1998-99 or so, judging by Y**i's nasal structure. (Name censored b/c it triggers an autoflagged message from Patreon; perhaps I could just call her "Lily," which is supposedly the meaning of her Japanese na...
DIRTY PAIR: FATAL BUT NOT SERIOUS design sketches, pt.1
Behold, some design sketches for issue #1 of my 1995 miniseries Dirty Pair: Fatal But Not Serious. (For the record, the title comes from a line in a P.J. O'Rourke piece, which went something like this: "What ails Poland is, as the Poles say, fatal but not serious.")The opening issue was ...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #79
Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings fromrandom 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 2018, while the second set is an example from Februa...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Ryan Kinnaird-colored edition, pt.2!
Behold, a few Vintage Con Sketches that were colored by my bud Ryan Kinnaird just for the hell of it! I shall now endeavor to dig up the B&W originals for these pieces (or photocopies thereof, more accurately) before this post goes up Friday morning after next, but can't guarantee that I'll ...
Examples and tests of COMIC-PAGE GRID LAYOUTS alternating text & artwork
Time for a super-super technical post on comics storytelling posts, dear Patrons, even if I'm unsure as to how many of you will particularly appreciate the blithering that follows.So!Strictly from an artist's POV, I quite dislike grid-based comic-page layouts such as the famous Watchmen 9-pa...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Jamadagni in peril VINTAGE CON SKETCH edition!
I recently unearthed a few 1998-era damsel-in-distress commissions featuring Jamadagni—aka "Witchy-Poo"—from my '97 one-shot Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone. As she is supposed to be a witch of sorts, the commissioner wanted her depicted in various pseudo-historical witch-related scen...
DIRTY PAIR: SIM HELL design sketches
Behold, a rare few design sketches for the first two issues of my 1992 miniseries Dirty Pair: SimHell (which was how the title was supposed to read, a la SimCity, but I never clarified that matter). I know that more of these are a-lurking somewhere in my thousands of files, but I've yet to find ...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #78
Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings fromrandom 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 2018, while the second set is an example from Februa...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Ryan-Kinnaird-colored edition, pt.1!
Behold, a few Vintage Con Sketches that were colored by my bud Ryan Kinnaird just for the hell of it! I shall now endeavor to dig up the B&W originals for these pieces (or photocopies thereof, more accurately) before this post goes up Friday morning, but can't guarantee that I'll find 'e...
1994 doujinshi illo featuring CAMMY! & SAS fellas
Behold, an incomplete version (scanned from a recently unearthed photocopy) of a 1994 page I did for, I think, Kenichi Sonoda's Chosen Ame doujinshi. Rare toplessness ahoy, folks! A friend of mine was a regular contributor to the doujin, so I submitted a few pieces over the years.The "incomp...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Last bunch of September DiD art requests!
Aaaand here are a final pair of (TBH) not tremendously inspired Clip Studio Paint damsel-in-distress sketch sets for September, based on art reqs from the $10 & $20 Patron tiers.Gotta say, random DiD reqs can get hacky in a hurry for me; after all, Empowered came to exist because I was bored outta m...
DIRTY PAIR: PLAGUE OF ANGELS design sketches
Very, very rare to find any design sketches from my first three Dirty Pair miniseries, but I have managed to dig up three pages of 'em from 1990/199's Plague of Angels recently whilst cleaning out my studio space. A few words:Ladies and gentlemen, that gun design is clearly based on the Panc...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #77
Once again, I'm doubling up with this week's set of life drawings fromrandom 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 2018, while the second set is an example from Februa...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: DD & ELEKTRA (2001 vs. 2016) edition!
Working my way through my CON SKETCH folder on the ol' hard drive, found a pair of illos of Marvel's Daredevil and Elektra! The most recent, two-color piece was drawn at Emerald City Comic-Con four or so years ago, and was clearly based on the then-recent Netflix Daredevil show:Note that, as...
More art-request sketch sets from the $10 & $20 tiers!
Due to increasing worktime constraints, I can only take art requests from the two highest Patron tiers, and even those are being crowded out by the burgeoning demands of Empowered vol.12.Anyhoo, above are a trio of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets based on Patron suggestions, which are fairly self-expl...
