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LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 2, pt. 1!

LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 2, pt. 1!

[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...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED's "Elf vs. Chair" saga continues!

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED's "Elf vs. Chair" saga continues!

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 f...

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WORK STAGES on a script-only short story of yore!

WORK STAGES on a script-only short story of yore!

Running waaaaay the hell behind this morning, so here's a desperate, last-minute pull from the ol' MISCELLANEOUS folder! Above are my roughs for a 4-page story I laid out and scripted for an Udon Streetfighter backup dealie 10 years ago or so, followed by the inks and finished colors by the great artist Omar Do...

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VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Yet another random quartet of commissions from 1999!

VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Yet another random quartet of commissions from 1999!

Behold, yet another bunch of con sketches from the futuristic year 1999,  drawn on patterned linen-finish cardstock but, alas, scanned from quite mediocre photocopies of the original artwork.

First off, a wee bit of early Life Drawing as this bikini sketch of Y*ri from Dirty Pair was quite clearly drawn from ...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Our heroine's dark secret revealed in "THE TROUBLE WITH EMERALD," part 8!

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Our heroine's dark secret revealed in "THE TROUBLE WITH EMERALD," part 8!

[Link to our previous installment in this series, as seen over three months ago...]

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 View Post

2007 "Endpage" piece for PSM re: a new(?) DEVIL MAY CRY hero's hair!

2007 "Endpage" piece for PSM re: a new(?) DEVIL MAY CRY hero's hair!

Behold, an "Endpage" cartoon I wrote and drew for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM back in February of 2007 (if the file's "Properties" dates are accurate). The subject was, I gather, the flowing white tresses of newly announced character "Nero" fr...

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LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 1, pt. 4!

LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 1, pt. 4!

[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...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #207: Yet more brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketches from random photoref!

LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #207: Yet more brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketches from random photoref!

Running way the hell behind this morning, so here's the quickest post I could throw together on short notice. Yeahp, 'tis another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:

In fact, pr...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: The saga of "Elf vs. Chair" from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED continues!

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: The saga of "Elf vs. Chair" from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED continues!

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 bedamse...

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DESIGNS AHOY: New(-ish) sketches for the (formerly HUSHED) HALF-ELF from THE LAST PARTY, and more!

DESIGNS AHOY: New(-ish) sketches for the (formerly HUSHED) HALF-ELF from THE LAST PARTY, and more!

Continuing a feature dating back many months, here are some slightly more recent design sketches I worked up for the Half-Elf (formerly of Patreon damsel-in-distress project Hushed Half-Elf) from long-developing fantasy comic The Last Party. First off is an analog-penciled sketch set that I for...

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FANTASY PROJECT FRIDAY: Design notes from "UNIDENTIFIED FANTASY OFFERING" (UFO) and a belated Xmas card illo!

FANTASY PROJECT FRIDAY: Design notes from "UNIDENTIFIED FANTASY OFFERING" (UFO) and a belated Xmas card illo!

So! 

Behold, a new-ish feature, Fantasy Project Friday, in which I'll post material from one of the four(!) different potential fantasy-genre comics I'm mulling over at present. Lordy loo!

This time around, feast your eyes on a bunch of my scribbled design notes from the oldest of the four properties, a...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #206: S'more brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketches from random photoref!

LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #206: S'more brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketches from random photoref!

Here's another new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set based on old photoreference from my tablet's camera roll:

Ah, yes, behold the limitations of my "squiggle-based" rendering with the CSP iOS Design Pencil brush; that's the best pencil-emulating...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Fetching elves aplenty in CSP sketch sets based on Biggest Spender art requests!

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Fetching elves aplenty in CSP sketch sets based on Biggest Spender art requests!

In a break from usual procedure, time for the $5+ tiers to take a gander at some recent DiD sketches based on art requests from the $20 tier; I usually reserve these for the month's Exclusive Bonus Post for the higher tiers, but as I already have a different bevy of art-req sketches lined up for that feature, thought I'd show a few of '...

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LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 1, pt. 3!

LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 1, pt. 3!

[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]

So, yeahp, the time has come at last: I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity View Post

Some fan-art(-ish) page roughs revisiting an old property!

Some fan-art(-ish) page roughs revisiting an old property!

So! 

I'm srsly short on time today, so lemme just say that the following pair of recent Clip Studio Paint page roughs were mainly a test of a possible work process for future writing-oriented pitches; even though most of my upcoming proposals are fantasy-genre-adjacent, I decided to briefly get away from sword 'n' sorcery imagery by i...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #205: Yes, yet another brand-new(-ish) Clip Studio Paint sketch set!

LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #205: Yes, yet another brand-new(-ish) Clip Studio Paint sketch set!

A few weeks back, I knocked off yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, once again based on old photoref pics from my  iPad's camera roll:

(Didn't give a crap about the model's shoes at left, in case you couldn't tell.)

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Cheongsam-intensive Clip Studio Paint sketch sets from ROSE & LILY!

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Cheongsam-intensive Clip Studio Paint sketch sets from ROSE & LILY!

So, in a post from last month, as I featured a bunch of sketch sets of Lily (from Rose & Lily, the distress-prone Dirty Pair iterations) in peril, I mentioned in passing that I had been noodling away on a story f...

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VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Another random quartet of commissions from 1999!

VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Another random quartet of commissions from 1999!

Behold, yet another bunch of con sketches from the futuristic year 1999, drawn on patterned linen-finish cardstock but, alas, scanned from mediocre photocopies of the original artwork.

First off, my lone sketch based on the acclaimed anime Cowboy Bebop...

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LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 1, pt. 2!

LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 1, pt. 2!

[Here's a link to our first installment in this series.]

So, yeahp, the time has come at last: I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, the first i...

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FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: The rest of those layouts from a freshly failed comic project!

FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: The rest of those layouts from a freshly failed comic project!

[Our previous sneak preview of this now-defunct project can be seen here.]

So!

Back on November 27, I posted a sneak preview of a one-shot I had recently finished work on. To repeat from my earlier post, I got an o...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #204: Yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketch set!

LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #204: Yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketch set!

Kicked off the new year with yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, once again mostly based on old photoref pics from my iPad's camera roll:

Yyyyyeahp, my back-and-forth, "squiggle-based" rendering approach with the CSP (on iOS)...

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Somewhat cryptic 2006 PSM Endpage videogame comic re: music-genre fight games(?)

Somewhat cryptic 2006 PSM Endpage videogame comic re: music-genre fight games(?)

Behold, a slightly puzzling "Endpage" comic I wrote and drew for the videogame magazine PSM back in the summer of the bygone year 2006, this time riffing on the topic of, uh, music-genre fighting games(?) for either the Playstation 2 or PS3. Now, this strip must have been loosely inspired by some then-current videogame ...

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A quick 2023 wrap-up, plus a look at what's coming up in 2024!

A quick 2023 wrap-up, plus a look at what's coming up in 2024!

So, yeah, thought I'd write up a few words about my favorite pieces here from the soon-ending year of 2023. Alas, most of my fave illos were from my ultimately doomed attempt to puzzle out a viable "hybrid workflow" on fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained:

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Complete WORK STAGES on the final EMPOWERED "conventionless con sketch" for 2023!

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Complete WORK STAGES on the final EMPOWERED "conventionless con sketch" for 2023!

Behold, my final Empowered DiD commission of 2023, rendered in the two-color, 11" x 14" format I once used for con sketches back in the (pre-pandemic) day. In reverse order from the image gallery above, let's roll through the Work Stages, starting with an initial pair of thumbnail-sized roughs:...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #203: Another brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketch set (with bonus armor)!

LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #203: Another brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketch set (with bonus armor)!

Here's yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, mostly based on some old pics on my iPad's camera roll:

Decided to render a photo of plate armor just as a test, though I'm unlikely to ever render fantasy armor in such a tedious an...

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Merry Xmas illo from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED (plus older EMPOWERED Xmas Patreon pieces)!

Merry Xmas illo from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED (plus older EMPOWERED Xmas Patreon pieces)!

Merry Christmas, dear Patrons, with this morning's hastily cranked out "Xmas card" illo featuring the Paladin and Elf Mage from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained:

Whilst grimly slogging my way through the Pa...

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FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: More layouts from a freshly failed comic project!

FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: More layouts from a freshly failed comic project!

[Our previous sneak preview of this now-defunct project can be seen here.] 

So! 

Back on November 27, I posted a sneak preview of a one-shot I had recently finished work on. To repeat from my earlier post, I got an offe...

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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Tossed-off sketch sets morph into a possible "real story" from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!

DISTRESSED DAMSELS:  Tossed-off sketch sets morph into a possible "real story" from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED!

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 herse...

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LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #202: A pair of brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketch sets!

LIFE DRAWINGS FROM PHOTOREFERENCE #202: A pair of brand-new Clip Studio Paint sketch sets!

Here's yet another brand-new Clip Studio Paint (iOS) sketch set, mostly based on some old pics on my iPad's camera roll:

Not a great set, TBH, but the messy-haired fella (whom I've drawn before, albeit 4-5 years ago) helps the batting average a ta...

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DESIGNS AHOY: THE LARA CHRONICLES, part 4: Perfectionism strikes again as I tinker maddeningly with the final color illo!

DESIGNS AHOY: THE LARA CHRONICLES, part 4: Perfectionism strikes again as I tinker maddeningly with the final color illo!

[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series, dating back to late November.]

Whilst desperately flailing around for a post on short notice a few months back, just realized that I've never shown anything from...

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