VINTAGE CON SKETCHES: Another random quartet of commissions from 1999! (Patreon)

Behold, yet another bunch of con sketches from the futuristic year 1999, drawn on patterned linen-finish cardstock but, alas, scanned from mediocre photocopies of the original artwork.

First off, my lone sketch based on the acclaimed anime Cowboy Bebop...

...which, I have to admit, always left me cold. (Gasp!)

UPDATE #1: Wait a second, I'm entirely if not comically mistaken about this piece being my lone Bebop commission, as (duhh) I've done quite a few sketches of Faye Valentine over the years. So, to correct myself, this was my lone non-Faye Bebop sketch.

UPDATE #2: My faltering memory belatedly dredged up the nugget that I once drew Bebop's Spike for a commission, though I apparently haven't gotten around to scanning that 1999-era piece as yet.

Anyhoo, onward to a sketch of what I would assume is someone's D&D adventuring duo:

I find myself fixated by the wackiness of that sheathed sword being depicted as waaaay too low behind the chica's neck; oh, well.

Next, a non-D&D OC, I assume:

Pose-referenced from a photo of a Japanese (gravure?) idol or the like, methinks.

And finally, another OC, this one skewing "gun-wield-y":

...and scanned from an extra-crappy photocopy, looks like. I'm vaguely annoyed that I was still doing what I've dubbed "the one-eyed monster" shot this late in the 90s; this was an obnoxious cop-out in which I'd draw a 3/4 shot of a character's face, but hide the far eye behind her hair or nose (or, here, both) to avoid the challenge of making both eyes "work" in the same image. This was a lazy, hacky cheat that infested much of my work (especially cover art, ouch) throughout the mid-90s, sad to say.

Anyway, that's it for Vintage Con Sketches this month, folks!

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: No idea, TBH, but something should be coming up in the next M/W/F slot. Let's find out together, shall we?

UPDATE: Ehh, next up will be the Distressed Damsels post (for the $5+ tiers) I had originally planned to put up today, but am still working on assembling at present. Whoops!