After stumbling across this material at random t'other day, thought I might as start posting my work stages for the 2007(-ish) 8-page story Empowered: Who Da Ubermench? 2021-03-05 14:03:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeahp, just like it says on the tin (or the post title), here are my work stages for Empowered vol.3's cover illustration, including a very different initial rough that wo...
2021-03-04 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a mostly Kenichi-Sonoda-related assortment of commissioned damsel-in-distress con sketches. A few words:
2021-03-03 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Here are a few of my character and gun designs for the 2015 one-shot Empowered: Pew Pew Pew!, in which Emp tangles with a series of supervills victimized by sentient "smar...
2021-03-02 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Once 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 reason...
2021-03-01 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Sure hope I find the time tomorrow morning to expand this paragraph before this scheduled post goes online!
UPDATE IN THE MORNING: Barely!
In fact, these aren<...
2021-02-26 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE #1: This was originally scheduled as a Friday post, but as I haven't yet scanned the Empowered vol.12 pages I meant to post today, I bumpe...
2021-02-25 16:10:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, s'more Vintage Con Sketches with varying iterations of my take on the Dirty Pair winding up in distressing situations.
Note that, i...
2021-02-24 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, in the gallery above, my design sketch for the civilian version of Sistah Spooky seen in the Empowered vol.10 story "My Dinner with Spookums," along with jpegs of ...
2021-02-23 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Once 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 reason...
2021-02-22 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm finishing off the last few pieces from my old CON SKETCHES folder, this time featuring a trio of illos with "letter V characters." Yay!
First up is a sketch based on "Valkyrie Wylde...
2021-02-19 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
One of my favorite Empowered back-cover pieces, in fact! Final colors on the illo by the fine fellas of coloring studio Guru eFX, as I recall.
TOMORROW O...
2021-02-18 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Following up from a recent Empowered vol.12 preview featuring a page of Emp in civilian garb...
2021-02-17 19:48:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Folks, here are a bunch of random design sketches from various latter-day Dirty Pair miniseries. A few words:
2021-02-16 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Once 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 reason...
2021-02-15 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold—if my worthless, garbage-tier DSL will ever stay connected long enough to allow me to post this morning—an unusually strong 2005 con sketch that I wound up repurposing as the illo cover ...
2021-02-12 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
More from Empowered vol.12 today, folks! Above is the second page from a scene featuring the Emp iteration 2021-02-11 13:33:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Months later, folks, I'm popping back to a rather chatty "paused" story from Empowered vol.12 and continuing to whittle away at the g-d thing. (My vision for the book has ...
2021-02-10 16:10:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Very short on time today, so a quick note of explanation: Here are the earliest character designs for the titular mercenary magical girl from the miniseries Empowered and the Soldier of...
2021-02-09 13:13:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Once 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 reason...
2021-02-08 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Just about done with the pieces in my older Con Sketches folder; here's another bunch from the the dwindling supply.
A few words:
2021-02-05 14:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Yeahp, just like it says on the tin, here are the work stages on the cover illo for Empowered vol.4; note that I went through a number of roughs before finding a compositi...
2021-02-04 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, folks, the concluding page of an Empowered vol.12 riff on secret identity tropes that were unused in the series as a whole; the previous two pages have already bee...
2021-02-03 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
For most of my time on Empowered, I would produce, at best, a quick sketch of a new character before drawing a comic page; often, in fact, I would just design new capes on...
2021-02-02 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Once 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 reason...
2021-02-01 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, this trio of con sketches is stretching the definition of Vintage a tad, but what the heck. The Slave Leia pieces are from 2012 (almost a decade ago, ouch), though t...
2021-01-29 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Per a post (and poll) I put out to the higher Patron tiers earlier in the month, here are my early Empowered vol.12 design sketches for an John Wick-ish Emp iteration I've...
2021-01-28 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a trio of recently unearthed Dirty Pair damsel-in-distress con sketches from the 90s. Pretty straightforward, though I should add one note:
2021-01-27 14:01:06 +0000 UTC
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For most of my time on Empowered, I would produce, at best, a quick sketch of a new character before drawing a comic page; often, in fact, I would just design new capes on...
2021-01-26 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Once 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 reason...
2021-01-25 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post