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WORK STAGES on 2004 STARCRAFT: GHOST swimsuit illo for PSM!

Behold, the partial Work Stages on a videogame-based illo that I drew and Ryan Kinnaird colored back in 2004 for the Playstation magazine PSM's summer swimsuit feature; ah, to imagine that such a concept was still possible within living memory!

Anyhoo, the swimsuitee in question is from the game Starcraft: Ghost, which may never have actually been released; dunno, TBH, and don...

My way-too-tight layouts for "Unnamed Robot Comic" issue #4, pt.3!

UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)

Behold, the third set of my layouts for issue #4 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team minise...

Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #137

Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from October 2017 drawn on toned paper, along with a sketchier, somewhat more movement-oriented set from May 2017.

Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both sketch sets are dated from 2017, meaning that the end of my ...

Final colors (and full WORK STAGES) on EMPOWERED vol.12's FRPG-y back-cover illo!

Behold, kicking off the sprawling image gallery above is my bud Ryan Kinnaird's brand-new, final-draft coloring job for the illustration that will be seen on the back cover of the upcoming Empowered vol.12, featuring the fantasy RPG-based characters "Goblin Ninja Kozue" (a variant of Ninjette, of course) and "Devilspawn Bard Hannah" (a variation of Mindf**k). For more on this scene from the book, you can che...

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: "Rose & Lily vs. Troops," pt.3!

Following up on an earlier post, here are more pages from a commissioned Dirty Pair comic story in proto-Empowered format, created back in 2003 during a time when I assumed that I wouldn't be drawing comics professionally any more, due to my disenchantment with struggling through conventionally penciled a...

FAILED PROJECT FRIDAY: Synopsis for an EMPOWERED cyberpunk SF one-shot, pt.1!

Failed-Project Friday returns without warning; Lordy loo!

This morning, I was pawing through a bunch of old Word files trying to unearth a (still-)missing portion of the prose experiment I Am Empowered when I spied an old synopsis for an abortive Empowered Guest Artist one-shot, which I decided would make for an amusing (if brief) rev...

WORK STAGES on my UNNAMED ROBOT COMIC pages, pt.2!

Behold, following up on my previous post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires), here are the work stages on a few more of the pages from ...

Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #136

Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from October 2017, along with a sketchier, somewhat more movement-oriented set from May 2017. 

Note the ominous flare-up of drawing-hand pain in the October set, which would eventually bring an end to any sustained attempt at daily life drawing. I do hope to res...

My way-too-tight layouts for "Unnamed Robot Comic" issue #4, pt.2!

UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)

Behold, the second set of my layouts for issue #4 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team minis...

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: "Rose & Lily vs. Troops," pt.2!

ALL CAPS AHOY:  A FULL 5-DAY WORKWEEK OF PATREON POSTS TO FINISH OFF THE MONTH KICKS OFF TODAY!

Following up on an earlier post, here are more pages from a commissioned Dirty Pair comic story in proto-Empowered format, created back in...

VNTAGE CON SKETCHES: More 2000-ish DIRTY PAIR commissions!

Behold, more Vintage Con Sketches of Dirty Pair's Kei & Y**i from the turn of the millennium. Yay! 

Back then, I was doing so many of these DP con sketches at a time that I constantly experimented with often wacky character and costume design variations to stave off boredom, as seen with the first, notably goofy piece:

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Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #135

Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from May 2017 (breaking a long streak of sketchier, more movement-based sets), along with a similarly shading-oriented collection from October 2017 with which I was clearly having a lot more trouble, as seen in the upper right pose.

Note that we've (rather a...

WORK STAGES on my UNNAMED ROBOT COMIC pages, pt.1!

Behold, following up on my previous post of layout pages from Unnamed Robot Comic (better known as 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires), here are the work stages on a few of the Advanced Idea Me...

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: "Rose & Lily vs. Troops," pt.1!

Behold, the first pages from a commissioned Dirty Pair comic story in proto-Empowered format, created back in 2003 during a time when I assumed that I wouldn't be drawing comics professionally any more, due to my disenchantment with struggling through conventionally penciled and inked comic pages.

In retrospect, I clearly still wanted to draw as well as write comics at this ti...

My way-too-tight layouts for "Unnamed Robot Comic" issue #4, pt.1!

(UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)

Behold, the first set of my layouts for issue #4 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team minis...

EMPOWERED vol.12 finale sneak peek, plus D&D-character Xmas card!

My buffer of scheduled posts is nonexistent at the moment, so here's a hasty fill-in post, kind Patrons!

First up is a provocative yet not entirely SPOILER-y image from Empowered vol.12's climactic story, now underway as I grind through my final two months on the long-gestating volume:

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EMPOWERED vol.12's opening page of "Young Emp & Superfriends!"

Behold, the surprisingly difficult first page of a brief Empowered vol. 12 scene that I've dubbed "Young Emp and Superfriends," along with my page rough(s) and sketchy character designs for the sequence.

UPDATE: Tacked on a side-by-side image showing roughs and final art, worked up for promoting this post on Twitter. Yay?

Turns out that Artist Me just did not fe...

Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #134

Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a shading-focused set from May 2017 (breaking a long streak of sketchier, more movement-based sets), along with a similarly shading-oriented collection from October 2017 drawn on tan toned paper.

Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an important threshold with these posts—both s...

My way-too-tight layouts for "Unnamed Robot Comic" issue #3, pt.4!

(UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)

Behold, the next set of my layouts for issue #3 of 2004's Marvel ...

Life drawings from photoreference: high-res scans #133

Once again, I'm doubling up with these latest (well, latest to post) sets of life drawings from random photoref. First above is a sketchier, movement-focused set from May 2017 (probably based on dancer and actress Jade Chenowyth, who would make a pretty dandy live-action Ninjette), along with a shading-oriented collection from October 2017 drawn on tan toned paper.

Note that we've (rather a while ago) crossed an i...

DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Rose & Lily vs. linen-finish cardstock, pt.3!

(Our previous installment can be seen here.)

Behold, the abrupt and incomplete ending of a comic-format oddity from the year 2000 or so, as I recently unearthed what is probably a "dual-purpose" or "double-dipping" commissioned comic featuring Dirty Pair's Kei and Y--nay, Rose & Lily once again bedamseled all to...

WORK STAGES on an EMPOWERED vol.12 title page!

Behold, a mockup version (with slapped-in, low-res logo and chapter title) of an Empowered vol.12 title page, which kicks off a Sistah Spooky & Emp story that's been excerpted extensively on this here Patreon over the last year or two (or three?).

As shown above, I tried to construct the figures a bit more scrupulously than normal, by first drawing the armless Spooky figure, then flopping and traci...

I AM EMPOWERED, pt.24: The prose experiment continues (with more vol.10 pages derived from it)!

You can check out I Am Empowered's previous installment here, or check out the entire archive of this defunct project here.

In case you'd forgotten, or...