"Nekomusume" meaning "cat-girl" in Japanese, of course.
In a weird bit of synchronicity, the day's previous post featured an Empowered page with a supine Ninjette po...
2019-05-08 21:35:10 +0000 UTC View Post
From my phone's camera roll circa 2014, above is a panel from Empowered vol. 9, along with a rough for the Ninjette figure. This shows the importance of working out a diff...
2019-05-08 11:40:35 +0000 UTC View Post
For a li'l something different, thought I might as well post the page from the upcoming Empowered vol. 11 that's excerpted in my Patreon's header. (More info on the book <...
2019-05-07 19:12:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hot (or at least lukewarm) off the drawing table, here's today's set of life drawings from random photoreference, available below as a raw. untweaked Photoshop scan at 600dpi. Also, jumping back to...
2019-05-07 15:38:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Above, a very recent con sketch of Freefall from Wildstorm/DC's teen superhero comic GEN13 (which I wrote and occasionally drew). Below, the oldest Roxy con sketch on my phone's camera roll, dating...
2019-05-07 02:50:34 +0000 UTC View Post
And now, the next set of Empowered story notes, from very early on in the series. (Well before publication, certainly.) Here's a guide for the annotations that follow:
... 2019-05-06 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
For the first time in the series, Empowered vol. 11 consists of a single sprawling, action-packed, seriously intense, ominously titled 205-page story, "You're Just Gonna H...
2019-05-06 13:25:36 +0000 UTC View PostWoo hoo! Logged in with the ol' laptop this time, where a whole 'nother bunch of comics-rant drafts are a-lurking. Here's one that I haven't yet bothered to posted on Twitter—a Patreon exclus...
2019-05-05 14:59:51 +0000 UTC View Post
From last month's Dallas Comic Show, my con sketch of artist Chiara Bautista's very cool Bunny Girl and Cosmic Wolf. More info on 'em 2019-05-05 00:45:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to a new Patreon category I've dubbed, "What's on Adam's phone?"
This time, I'm jumping way back to 2013 on my phone's camera roll for a Toronto con sketch from either TCAF or FanExpo...
2019-05-04 15:46:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a new Patreon category!
Here, we're seeing a set of my scribbled story notes circa the end of Empowered vol. 1, IIRC. This stuff is my roughest of roug...
2019-05-03 18:23:14 +0000 UTC View Post
For a brief while, looked like a few recent, butt-centric sketch sets were slipping by Instagram's notoriously inscrutable algorithm and actually being released to my IG followers. Alas, as of yest...
2019-05-03 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, my thumbnails for the rest of issue #1 of 2018's Empowered and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell, a six-part miniseries written by me, drawn by Carla Speed McNeil, ...
2019-05-03 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a pair of sketches from the previous two Emerald City Comic Cons, both coincidentally featuring a soapy (or at least damp) Emp. The illo above was definitely photoreferenced, judging by the...
2019-05-02 21:36:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, an illo that I did for an Icon motorcycle helmet design, featuring inks by me and colors by my buddy Ryan Kinnaird. The ultra-stylized face with "MNI" (minimal nasal indication) hints to me...
2019-05-02 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, another photo from the '96 leather-jacket shoot. (Speaking from a life drawing perspective, gotta love those noon-ish cast shadows on the legs.) I used the pic as photoref for an image of G...
2019-05-02 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
While I'm mainly focusing on posting new-to-most-of-you material on this here Patreon, it's occurred to me that I could also occasionally work in some artwork that has appeared elsewhere o...
2019-05-01 21:45:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, my thumbnails for the first half of issue #1 of last year's Empowered and Sistah Spooky's High School Hell, a six-part miniseries written by me, drawn by Carla Spe...
2019-05-01 18:51:13 +0000 UTC View Post
So, yeah.
Back circa '96, I was growing increasingly weary of my lame and repetitive attemp...
2019-05-01 15:04:48 +0000 UTC View PostSo.
Once upon a time, I used to rattle off lengthy rants about various comics-related topics on Twitter. Wellp, figured I might as well collect some of those rants as Patre...
2019-05-01 02:35:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's set of life drawings from photoref has proved unusually popular on Instagram, presumably due to the prominent first figure at left. (Ahem.) Anyhoo, attached below is the raw grayscale scan ...
2019-05-01 01:55:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Behold, a Patreon early peek at an image I'll be flogging hither and yon on social media fairly soon! It's my take on the now-familiar #faceyourart dealie, but using only Emp faces from
Behold, a preview of a mock-up version of the notably ominous title spread from Empowered vol. 11. The "mock-up" bit is because I slapped the title and credits from ...
2019-04-30 14:40:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Fresh and piping-hot off the scanner, here's today's morning set of life drawings from photoreference! And below is attached a 25-meg Photoshop PSD featuring the 660dpi raw grayscale scan of the pe...
2019-04-29 14:47:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a little sneak preview for the (as yet nonexistent) Patrons, featuring the back cover of Empowered vol. 11—with the book's spine tossed in, as a bonus! Here's 2019-04-29 14:36:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I had loose plans to do a monthly piece of artwork featuring characters chosen by Patrons but, as yet, I don't have any Patrons. (This isn't quite as pathetic as it might seem, as I haven'...
2019-04-28 15:55:28 +0000 UTC View Post
So.
Honestly not sure how much interest might exist for this particular reward tier, but here we go!
Above is one of my 310-odd sets of life drawings from random photoreference, a sketc...
2019-04-28 03:59:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah, a tragic tale indeed, folks!
This is my never-to-be-used variant cover from a now-defunct EMP side project, a miniseries which would've been titled Empowered and the Mas...
2019-04-28 03:25:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Kicking things off on the ol' Patreon with an open-to-the-public post featuring the cover artwork to the upcoming Empowered vol.11, which hits the shelves of your Local (N...
2019-04-28 02:34:13 +0000 UTC View Post