Now that I'm finally out from under the crush of that maddeningly time-consuming Marvel script (and its gratuitous "thumbnail" roughs, which will someday be seen here), I was able to work up a new Clip Studio Paint Life Drawing set. However...
2024-04-29 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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After two weeks straight of nonstop grinding on a very difficult Marvel script (in turn after a week straight of tax-prep BS), I'm deep in a frickin' hole in terms of Patreon post content. So, here's what I could scrape up this morning for DiD material, starting with some semi-recent revisions to an old Empowered 2024-04-26 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, the first issue of which I wrote and l...
2024-04-24 14:06:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Still dragging that seemingly endless g-d Marvel script to the finish line this morning, so I have only 10 minutes or so for another Patreon post; luckily, stumbled across some old files that, as far as I can recall, have never been posted here before.
After doing three or so cover illos for the fantasy RPG Exalted 2024-04-22 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Currently struggling with the worst g-d scripting deadline crunch I've ever faced (due to my own procrastination, tragically enough), so this art request of catgirl heroine "Pink" and kinda-sorta boyfriend "Santa" from the early 90s manga and anime Dragon Pink is gonna have to do for today's post, dear Patrons: 2024-04-19 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
No time for a new Life Drawing set this week, so I transferred over some very early Clip Studio Paint tests from the ol' iPad.
First off, a 2020 sketch set drawn mostly using the Design Pencil brush, with which I was apparently experiencing some disenchantment at the time:
2024-04-17 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a very sweet illo from the excellent artist Matthew Weldon, featuring a bunch of the characters from my fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained! Why, 'tis a double-page spread and everything!
First off, his initial rough, which I found dandy indeed all on its own:
2024-04-15 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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So!
A recent-ish art request from the $20 tier referenced an Empowered vol. 7 montage of DiD imagery that, in the lower left corner, featured our heroine laid low by wee ninjas:
These fellas were "The Pint-Size(d) Ninja ...
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, the first issue of which I wrote and laid o...
2024-04-10 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
No time for a new Life Drawing set this week, so I transferred over some very early Clip Studio Paint tests from the ol' iPad.
First off, a 2020 sketch set drawn mostly using the Rough Pencil brush, which was my early favorite among CSP's graphite-simulating tools:
2024-04-08 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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As I flailed about desperately for a post last month, I dug up an old Word doc from the early 2000s which rattled off 13 different plots for Dirty Pair stories, back when I had access to the DP English-language license and was trying to get something new off the ground with Dark Horse. Af...
2024-04-05 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in 2007 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, apparently commemorating the magazine's 10th anniversary, judging by the rough's scribbled title:
Anyhoo, the piece featured a...
So, years 'n' years ago, I worked up an Empowered scene that never saw print in a volume (IIRC):
...in which Emp imagined a disastrous time-travel scenario:
2024-04-01 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based (mostly) on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:
The upper image is newly acquired (as both the arm/upper back anatomy and strong edgelighting appealed to me), but the ones be...
So, here's a recent illo I worked up in Clip Studio Paint (iOS version) as yet another art test for perpetually in-development fantasy project The Last Party (which features a cast merged from earlier Patreon dealies Hushed Half-Elf and Party of Two):
2024-03-27 13:20:47 +0000 UTC
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Behold, a limited set of Work Stages on a recent-ish Con Sketch of sorts, done as another test of elapsed work time with a format calling back to the conventions I am no longer able to attend for the time being.
First off, the initial quarter-page thumbnail drawn on 8.5" X 11" paper:
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Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:
I was quite displeased with the first two sketches at left, in which I followed my usual approach of slowly and painstakingly att...
2024-03-22 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, the first issue of which I wrote an...
2024-03-20 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
First up, a Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch based on an art request from the $20 tier, depicting hapless Rose & Lily having failed ignominiously at sneaking through "Gobbo" (that is, Goblin) territory in dubious disguises:
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Behold, yet another bunch of con sketches from the futuristic years 1998-99, drawn on patterned linen-finish cardstock but, alas, scanned from quite mediocre photocopies of the original artwork.
First off, Dirty Pair's Kei in a vaguely SF-skewing leather outfit, attempted because I had grown weary of d...
2024-03-15 13:31:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another Endpage piece I wrote and drew in 2006 for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM, which appears to be one of three different pieces I worked up over multiple years that whimsically riffed on the then-upcoming Playstation 3's controllers:
2024-03-13 13:25:50 +0000 UTC
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Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:
Ah, yes, pix from my camera roll's extensive collection of cutoff shorts images, which (judging by the dates) were presumably ass...
2024-03-11 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
As I flailed about desperately for a post this morning, I dug up an old Word doc from the early 2000s which rattled off 13 different plots for Dirty Pair stories, back when I had access to the DP English-language license and was trying to get something new off the ground with Dark Horse. ...
2024-03-08 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing on a previous bunch of Clip Studio Paint page roughs from a kinda-but-not-really story from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained, I had been noodling away on a scene of the Elf Mage finding herself be...
2024-03-06 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, the first issue of ...
2024-03-04 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
So, out of last month's art requests from the $20 tier (as seen in yesterday's Exclusive Post for the Biggest Spenders) , one of the suggestions was worked up into a fairly complicated illustration that I decided to spin off into its own Patreon post for the $3+ tiers...
2024-03-01 14:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
No time for a new Life Drawing set this week, so I transferred over some very early Clip Studio Paint tests from the ol' iPad.
First off, a 2020 sketch set using the Rough Pencil brush, which was my early favorite among CSP's graphite-simulating tools:
2024-02-28 14:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Behold, Work Stages on a recent, so-called "conventionless con sketch," as I try to figure out a viable way to produce commissions later in the year (well, in theory); at present, I'm desperately far behind on a bajillion different projects in development (not to mention this massively time-consuming Patreon), ...
2024-02-26 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
As I flailed about desperately for a post this morning, I dug up an old Word doc from the early 2000s which rattled off 13 different plots for Dirty Pair stories, back when I had access to the DP English-language license and was trying to get something new off the ground with Dark Horse. After ...
2024-02-23 14:46:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:
Now, the gymnast figure at left is definitely new, as I spotted that pic in the local newspaper and thought the leg shadi...
2024-02-21 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post