It's Been A While.

 So I decided to take a short break from blogging, and before I knew it, over a year has passed, and the dust on this blog is so thick on the ground it's like new snow has fallen, but y'know, dust.

Originally I was planning to make my return in January, with yet another new start, but the past year has been slightly disjointed regarding drawings, so I'm shoving them on here in a style akin to a scrapbook.

Abnormal service will resume as soon as impossible...

Proper Painting Type Stuff (without the paint)

 #4.8

It has been a productive few months since last I pasted my pictures for the public to see. A period of time during which I have been working on female portraits in a more traditional art style, as well as preparing numerous outline drawings (to be painted over), while also reworking older pictures that I never completed.

Some of these pictures are complete, most are not. I am posting them regardless, with the intention of replacing the sketch outline and partially painted pictures with the completed version, once it is completed. The initial outline sketches will then be posted in their own post/issue thing.

Natasha Legeyda.

Watercolor and oil.

Meghan Claire.

Watercolor, gouache, flat oil.

Elen Em.

Wet oil.

Silvia Syl.

Watercolour on flat oil base.

Anoush Anou.

Sumi brush and Gouache.

In the spirit of Schiele.

Helen Diaz.

Watercolor in the style of Sargent.

Memoirs Of A Geisha

Oil.

Unfinished picture from early 2022 repainted.

Anthi.

Flat oil with colored pencil and sumi brush.

Unfinished picture from early 2022 completed.

Floofie.

Chisel marker in ink.

Unfinished picture from early 2022 completed.

Lackadaisical Ladies

 #4.7

Quasi-pencil sketches of women I've been working on in the time since I last posted sketches of women in various poses and states of nudity. It's been a frustrating few months, in all honesty, where I have had no real idea what subject to draw, what style to draw it in, and what exactly I plan to do with the pictures when I've completed them.

The truth of the matter is that I am not feeling the medium of comic drawing at the moment. This could be because I have burdened myself with too many big projects, lumbering beasts which take an eternity to complete, that never quite match the idea I had for them in my head.

Or it could just be that I am getting too old to draw Iron Man.

Scrapbook #3

Annual #3

Out-takes, alternates, and other things.

If you've looked at the rest of the blog, you know what I mean.

Captain America: The First Avenger. 

Initial b&w movie poster in the style of a comic cover (September '22).

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (S.H.I.E.L.D. variant)

Unused b&w movie poster in the style of a comic cover (October '22).

Iron Man movie poster (Mk. 2 variant).

Partially-completed b&w version in the style of a comic cover (October '22).

Iron Man as James Bond I, initial version (November '22).

Iron Man as James Bond II, initial version (November/December '22).

Iron Man as James Bond III (Jack Kirby), initial version (December '22).

Iron Man as James Bond IV (Jack Kirby), initial version (December '22).

Pop Art Romance, incomplete (January '23).

Anoush Anou sketch (January '23).

Big Hair Glamour, initial pencils (January '23).

Melissa Ann Alternate Red (February '23).

Alphonse Mucha Salome, blue and gold recreation (February '23).

Alphonse Mucha Salon des Cents, blue & gold recreation (February '23).

Iron Man vs Force, Outline transparency (Late March-April '23).

Iron Man vs Mandroids, Outline transparency (Late March-April '23).

Clash Of The Iron Men, Outline transparency (Late March-April '23).

Iron Monger, partial background layer/outline transparency (Late March-April '23).

Iron Man, Outline transparency (Late March-April '23).

Iron Man: Antenna, black & white pop art piece (April '23).

Franco Nero poster, initial pencils (late February-early March '23).

Franco Nero poster, completed clean version ((late February-early March '23).

Kill The Wicked, initial grayscale version ((late February-early March '23).

Kill The Wicked, completed clean version ((late February-early March '23).

Eric Clapton '69, Grayscale version (April '23).

Meghan Claire I, pencil underlay (May '23).

Meghan Claire II, pencil sketch (May '23).