Behold my latest digital-art experiment and my first time drawing the complete cast of fantasy project The Last Party, which combines the protagonists from previous, now-defunct fantasy comics Party of Two and Hushed Half-Elf:
2023-10-06 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Taking a 15-minute break from grinding away at a seemingly endless (but undeniably educational) test illo for fantasy project The Last Party to hastily throw together today's post, which is yet another Vintage Con Sketches installment derived from recently scanned photocopies of commissions dra...
2023-10-04 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeahp, here's a new, hot-off-the-iPad set of photoreferenced life drawings sketched not long ago in Clip Studio Paint, using my beloved (well, beloved when used in CSP's iOS version, at least) Design Pencil brush:
Y'know, I might actually try doin...
2023-10-02 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Lost most of yesterday's worktime to spending the day at the Toyota dealership getting my car worked on, so I'm deep in a frickin' hole re: filling up today's Patreon slot; so, I'm desperately pressing this post into service based on a jpeg I don't think you've seen before.
Here are the final colors by ace colorist Alejandro Sanch...
2023-09-29 13:13:49 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
A few months back, as part of my now pretty much abandoned quest for a "hybrid workflow" tried out via comic pages from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained, I reworked and expanded some of the initial story's page roughs.
The opening dialogue scene betwixt the Elf Mage and Human Paladin...
2023-09-27 13:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: Whoops, really thought I had a post scheduled for today; turns out, I did not, so I'm hastily throwing together this puppy to get my third Life Drawing post of the month outta the way. For the record, I do have a whole bunch of content in progress but not yet ready to post—ne...
2023-09-25 14:38:23 +0000 UTC View Post
So! Back in 2012, I was briefly talking to the fine folks at Udon about contributing something for the various webcomic series they were working up as part of Bandai's ShiftyLook initiative. Per the linked wiki entry:
ShiftyLook was a subsidiary of Bandai ...
2023-09-22 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
[Link to our previous installment in this series.]
Note that I changed the title of this goofy little pseudo-story effort to The Trouble with Emerald from the previous We Have an Em...
2023-09-20 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Whilst desperately flailing around for a Monday post on short notice, just realized that I've never shown anything from the whooooole bunch of Tomb Raider design sketches I cranked out for the sadly defunct videogame magazine PSM back in 2003 or so. Much like the RPG-related article I contribut...
2023-09-18 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
From my 2019 era of early experimentation in iPad art apps, here's a pair of sketch sets that were my very first tries in Clip Studio Paint (IIRC). I'm posting two of 'em today because the first one barely counts as Life Drawings per se:
2023-09-15 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Yea, verily, I returned to a long-abandoned Rose & Lily story to use one of its old, roughed-out pages as a digital-art test that wound up being shockingly successful! Gasp!
Going backwards, we'll start with the page's finished inks, with the "blue-pencil" layer turned off:
2023-09-13 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Here's another Endpage feature I wrote and drew for the sadly long-defunct videogame magazine PSM, this time speculating humorously(?) about more and more expensive package options for the then-new(-ish) Playstation 3.
Th...
2023-09-11 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
[Dagnabbit, over a g-d month has lapsed since our previous installment in this FFF dealie!]
So! For today's notably belated installment of Failed-Project Friday, we'll be con...
2023-09-08 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hastily slapping together another slot-filling post this morning, folks!
From my torn-of-the-millennium "Golden Age" of B&W con sketches drawn on linen-finish cardstock (and scanned from decent but not great photocopies, alas), here are s'more commissions of yore:
2023-09-06 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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As I desperately flail around for Patreon content after completely expending my post buffer last week, I recalled that I've only shown Work Stages for pages 1, 3 and 6 from that Harley Quinn #29 back-up story I wrote and drew for DC earlier in the year. (Ackshully, I f...
2023-09-04 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE: This puppy was originally scheduled for Monday, but as my prescheduled buffer of posts is now completely expended, I'm hastily putting this up to fill the g-d Friday slot. Enjoy?
From my 2019 era of experimentation in the iPad art app Procreate, here's another sketch set derived from a mix of random p...
2023-09-01 13:18:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I've neither the time nor the energy for lengthy commentary on these pages, so I'll try to get this post outta the way as quickly as possible.
So!
A while back, I showed you fine folks my take on p.06 from the opening story of The Chaste and the Chained, with the narrative jumping from the scene depict...
2023-08-30 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the first installment of what will prrrrobably be a multiple-part essay discussing my ongoing issues with comics-production process and perfectionism, which will feature visual examples interspersed throughout the blather. BTW, note that I wrote this in I Am Empowered-style tweet-based format as I may so...
2023-08-28 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
[Link to our previous installment in this series.]
Note that I changed the title of this goofy little pseudo-story effort to The Trouble with Emerald from the previous We Have an Em...
2023-08-25 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeahp, here's a new, hot-off-the-iPad set of photoreferenced life drawings sketched not long ago in Clip Studio Paint, using the Design Pencil brush:
In a quite alarming turn of events, I belatedly noticed that the reference jpeg I used as the bas...
2023-08-23 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's another piece I wrote and drew for the closing "Endpage" comic feature I used to do for the videogame magazine PSM circa 2007. The topic, this time, covered complaints from sadly low-selling but still beloved Playstation 2 games:
2023-08-21 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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[Please note that the Empowered vol.12 scene above has been posted here before, years ago; alas, I had to remove this scene from the book for pagecount purposes. As I noted back during the original post (which I don't care to look up), this incredibly meta sequence was originally a joke written for 1998's <...
2023-08-18 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
As pieced together in wildly intermittent bursts of Clip Studio Paint work, behold my first stab at page 6 from the opening story of fantasy test comic The Chaste and the Chained, which serves to begin introducing the lead Elf Mage and Human Paladin in a flashback that actually predates the "real-time" Godmachine Cult s...
2023-08-16 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeahp, here's a new, hot-off-the-iPad set of photoreferenced life drawings sketched this very morning (July 31st) in Clip Studio Paint, using the Design Pencil brush:
The arm at left is actually flipped upside-down from the ref photo (of a liftbro...
2023-08-14 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
So!
As mentioned in a previous Work Stages post on the opening story from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained, one of the last "hybrid workflow" pages from that update showed some promise:
2023-08-11 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
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9 minutes to prep this post! LET'S GO!
Behold, a trio of 2001 commissions scanned from old photocopies and based on the same pair of OCs (Original Characters) three times. Golly! (Pretty sure I did a fourth, but cant find that one right now.) Not bad, considering!
2023-08-09 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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From my 2019 era of experimentation in the iPad art app Procreate, here's another sketch set derived from a mix of random photoreference, mostly of a cosplay-based sort. At this point I was still using Procreate's admittedly "mushy-looking" Medium Airbrush to get something onto the g-d tablet:
2023-08-07 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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[Check out our previous installment here.]
So! For today's desperately pressed-into-service installment of Failed-Project Friday, we'll be continuing our look at a rather sweeping proposal I m...
2023-08-04 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
From last month's ultimately failed series of "hybrid workflow" experiments (said failure to be addressed in detail down the road), here be the Work Stages on page 4-5 from the opening story of fantasy test comic The Chaste and the Chained.
For page 4, I grabbed the initial, sketchy...
2023-08-02 13:53:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, s'more art requests from the Big Spenders left over from this weekend's blowout Bonus Post that featured a quintet(!) of Clip Studio Paint sketch sets. Closing out the master list of outstanding art reqs, here are a fantasy-oriented pair of images:
2023-07-31 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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