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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Rough sketches repurposed for EMPOWERED pages (pt.1)
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 commentaries for that episode's pages, I'm spotting multiple Emp poses that we...
Work stages on EMPOWERED vol.8's back-cover Mindf**k illo
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 ...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #70
Yet 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 May 2018, while the second set is an example from February ...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: All-Cammy edition (pt.1)!
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.TOMORROW ON THIS H...
Work stages on a very special 25th anniversary illo!
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 ev...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: More VINTAGE CON SKETCHES
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-Nirasawa-armed character "Ng Mui" from 1995's Dirty Pair: Fatal But Not Serious (though I don't t...
Yet more EMPOWERED vol.12 Emp & Spooky pages, plus work stages!
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 installment or two if you've understandably forgotten the narrative thread.)Any...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #69
Yet 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 May 2018, while the second set is an example from February ...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: More BUBBLEGUM CRISIS pieces!
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 so, my apologies in advance, folks.This one's based on photoreferen...
Mysteriously unposted con sketches from 2019 (pt.1)!
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 Twitt...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: New EMPOWERED DiD "at-home con sketches," plus roughs
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:A photoreference-based piece, featuring some very tric...
My 1999 "American IP, manga-fied" cover for WIZARD magazine (plus roughs)!
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 assume, the idea of manga—or at least manga-influenced adaptations—of m...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #68
Yet 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 June 2018, while the second set is an example from February...
VINTAGE CON SKETCHES, BUBBLEGUM CRISIS 2002/2006 edition!
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!MOND...
I AM EMPOWERED, pt.20: The Twitter-based YEAR ONE prose dealie continues!
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 format, taking place roughly around the beginning of Empowered vol.1.We've hit the point in this loose jumble of episodes that no remainin...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: VINTAGE CON SKETCHES "garter-belty" edition!
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 I've dubbed "the hot pants & ga...
1997's WIZARD magazine "How to Draw in the 'Manga Style'" piece!
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 ...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #67
Yet 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 June 2018 (though peculiarly misdated on the sketch as May)...
THE RANDO'S CORNUCOPIA returns!
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:First off is an illo I drew circa the early 2000s depicting Jaeger from ...
I AM EMPOWERED, pt.19: The Twitter-based YEAR ONE prose dealie continues!
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 format, taking place roughly around the beginning of Empowered vol.1.We've hit the point in this loose jumble of episodes that no remainin...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: $20 DiD art requests & more!
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:Even though I'm far—nay, faaaaar...
EMPOWERED AND THE GIANT-SIZE ISSUES #2 thumbnails & script, pt.6: THE END!
(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 my page roughs and scripts for Empowered and the Giant-Size Issues, a never-published, two-issue miniseries i...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #66
Yet 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 June 2018 (though peculiarly misdated on the sketch as May)...
FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: LIVEWIRE (ill-fated 80s-era cyberpunk SF comic)
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 stories, back in my second...
I AM EMPOWERED, pt.18: The Twitter-based YEAR ONE prose dealie continues!
<Note: You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installments with this tag.And now, back to Emp's first-person narration in (old) Twitter-based 140-character format, taking place roughly around the beginning of Empowered vol.1.We've hit the point in this loose jumble of episodes that ...
DISTRESSED DAMSELS: "Sticky Situations," pt.7
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 obvious (especially by...
Final $5-tier art requests, including PARTY OF TWO's half-orc heroine!
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:TBH, kinda sleazed out on the "high-level cleric" sketch of the half-o...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #65
Yet 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 June 2018, while the second set is an example from January ...
Last call on art requests for the $5 tier (for a while, at least)!
The 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 t...
$10 & $20-tier art requests for PARTY OF TWO (and more)!
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 topi...
