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Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #31
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 effo...
COMICS RIFFS I LOVE: Frank Thorne's L-shaped panels!
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.Anyhoo, above you can f...
Work stages on a recent cover (SHH!)
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 Black Panther and the Agents of Wakanda, written by my buddy Jim Zub, features a brief appearance by ...
Distressed Damsels: Genesis of the now-ubiquitous tape drone!
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 addres...
Rationales for the Dirty Pair's skimpy outfits: An essay circa 2000, pt.2
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 long, rambling justification written circa 2000 for drawing hawt, mostly nekkid young folks in m...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #30
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 effo...
COMICS RIFFS I LOVE: Slow-motion shootouts by 3 different manga artists
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: ac...
Baltimore Comic-Con sketch dump, pt.2
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....
Distressed damsels: 1999-ish con sketches, pt.2
(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 commissioner from Back In The Fabled Day sent along scans of the original pencils. To be honest, photocopies might be better, as t...
Baltimore Comic-Con sketch dump, pt.1
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 p...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #29
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 effo...
FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: The SPIN magazine spot illustrations, pt.2
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 project" a tad with this one, as my work for this particular job did, in fact, ...
EMPOWERED Halloween cosplay con sketch dump!
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 final sketch: A few years ago, two kindly cosp...
Distressed damsels: 1999-ish con sketches, pt.1
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 Phot...
Art request sketch dump #2!
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 characters switching up costumes, per the "Hallo...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #28
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 effo...
October art requests for the $5 tier!
This 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!As before, down in t...
FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: The SPIN magazine spot illustrations
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...
Rationales for the Dirty Pair's skimpy outfits: An essay circa 2000, pt.1
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 universe; note that a...
Distressed Damsels: Suddenly, shockingly, more EMPOWERED vol.12 pages!
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 fact, these pages aren't so much a continuation of the narrative seen earlier, but rather a semi...
EMPOWERED & SISTAH SPOOKY #5 thumbnails, pt.2
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 #5 are here; and more info on the overall project ...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #27
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 effo...
October art request sketch dump #1
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&...
EMPOWERED & SISTAH SPOOKY #5 thumbnails, pt.1
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 here; and more info on the overall project ...
Distressed damsels: EMPOWERED vol.9's deleted bedroom cosplay scene, pt.2
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 scenes at the end of the book.This is the original ending of the story "Power Stripped,&...
Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #26
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...
Final September art request sketch dump, plus first Clip Studio Paint tests
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 hardsuit mode. Th...
FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: James D. Hudnall's DANGEROUS AFFAIRS, pt.3
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 info from last week, with a few notes about the pages afterward:These are1986-era p...
EMERGENCY GRAB-BAG 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 not a rarity), but featurin...
Distressed damsels: EMPOWERED vol.9's deleted bedroom cosplay scene, pt.1
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 the action sc...
