Richard Moore

Sad Broccoli Foreground is Done!

     The title pretty much says it all--I finally finished the foreground on the sample children's illustration commission I've been doing.  I had to take a break from it for a week due to a tendinitis flareup, caused by the demands of the medium (plus, I was also wo...

Springtime in the Boneyard

     Well, spring has sprung in the cemetery...but nothing is ever quite normal there. I thought this seasonal change would be a good time to take a week "off", and try to get ahead on  writing and storyboarding future shorts, as well as get a new image up on Teespri...

Boneyard Bookplate

     Quite a few years ago, I noticed that a lot of people writing me were expressing their disappointment that they had collections of my work but couldn't get to conventions (back when I was going to conventions) to have me sign them. It costs a lot to mail a stack of b...

Meg Sketchbook Cover

     It occurred to me that most of you probably haven't seen this.  It was done as a cover for my second sketchbook, "Draw!" There are maybe fifty or a hundred copies floating around out there, max. This image was done in a rush to get the sketchbooks printed in tim...

A Quiet Day at the Cemetery

     That's right, you're not imagining things: it's an actual comic page! I barely got this one in under the wire, too. I continue to work in the bedroom with my furry little roommate, Mustache, who frankly eats up a lot of my time. He's doing better, though. His coat co...

Unknown Deja Pinup

     I was going through some old folios, and found this, misfiled (of course). It's just a Xerox, so I scanned and cleaned it up. The thing is, I remember doing it (I always like showing Wulf's alternate forms), but I have no idea what it was for, or if it ever ran anywh...

Nessie Ta-Ta Fudging, Final

     Well, here you go, she's finally done. It's always impressive seeing someone doing what they they're best at; Nessie clearly takes pride in her craft. I'm reminded of a comedienne who did a bit about tit-fucking. The essence of the routine was, "This does nothing for...

Children's Illustration Commission Progress

     Here's the current state of the neglected-broccoli children's illustration.  I may not look like much has changed, so I've included previous stages for comparison. Most of the leaves are done or nearly done, and everything--even the dirt--is taking on more of a ...

Boneyard Cloth Face Mask

     When Teespring added masks, I wanted to make some available to you all. Unfortunately, they only have one design, the kind with the pleats. I tried adjusting a  bunch of images, but this is the only one that even sort of worked. I dropped the price down from the...

Broccoli Children's Illustration WIP (cont.)

    Here's the next few stages of the broccoli children's illustration. Sort of. Not as much progress as I would have liked, but you can blame Mustache and my stupid gut for that. I'm also having trouble with my aging scanner, which seems to be misreading certain colors. That ...

Nessie Pinup WIP

    A while back, I made a joke asking, “Where are all the requests for Nessie titty-fucking commissions?”, or words to that effect. One of you took me up on it. Above is how the piece looks so far—again, not as far along as I'd like, for reasons elaborated on in today's...

Meet Mustache...Finally

    Hello, all. Well, it's been a weird week. It started when my wife and I took in a stray cat (named Mustache, despite the fact that he clearly has a black nose on a white face, not a mustache-like mark under his nose) last Monday or Tuesday. Now, we've been feeding...

Rather Bold Abbey Pinup

     I once posted an Abbey pinup from the "Women of Boneyard" folio I did forever ago; here's another one.  I love the direct, challenging aspect to this one. Just: Bam, here it  is, what'cha gonna do about it? It's a bit of Nessie attitude, coming from a chara...

Mr. Bromwell (a Grayson Fogg Sculpt)

     Mr. Fogg thought some of you might not be satisfied with the children's illustration post, since that's not what most of you signed up for, so he suggested that another post of a type you never asked for might help satisfy (I don't necessarily follow his logic). He t...

Children's Illustration Commission (WIP)

     Something very different this week. I'm doing a commission of a sample children's illustration, depicting a sad, "left out" sprout of broccoli. I posted the most recent stage  as the main image, because the first few steps are so faint they're barely visible in ...

Boneyard Short #30

     I need to simplify. I've been doing so many commissions and pinups (for here, and to sell) that I forgot our old printer was dead. So, obviously, I wouldn't be printing out text for this page on that machine. The lengths I had to go to in order to finally print out t...

Three Characters from The Pound (Commission)

     Here we have a commission featuring  (from the top down) Chloe (my fav--she's just so cute), Val (her best friend), and Kat, one of the two main characters, from The Pound. It's always fun revisited these characters, since they had such...

Happy 4th of July!

     Image processing programs weren't a thing when I was doing fine art, back in the  Triassic Period, or at least they weren't anything like they are now.  They're certainly a game-changer, especially when it comes to cleaning, adjusting and generally perfecti...

Abbey Admires Thundarr's Sword

     Are you like me (and the commissioner of this piece), old enough to remember Saturday morning cartoons? *sigh* So old...  

     Truth be told, I was pretty much only a Bugs Bunny/Warner Bros. cartoons guy. I got spoiled by that gre...

Velma and Abbey, the Final Chapter

     (This is a bit tame for a "Naughty Bits" post, but you can't be too careful with Patreon.)

     Finally, we have the last in the series of Velma and Velma/Abbey commissions. This particular piece presents a perfect opportunity to discus...

Faerie with Birds

     This is a piece I did quite awhile back, with the ultimate intent of painting it. (I've been without a decent painting setup since we moved to our current location...a long time ago.) I've always really liked this image, partly because I find fat little anim...

Ivy (Grayson Fogg)

     Another portrait from The Autumnlands, courtesy of Grayson Fogg. This is Ivy--vampire? witch? dark faerie? something else entirely? I don't know, you'd have to ask Grayson, and frankly, he can be a bit... "enigmatic".  The large image is the original drawing; th...

Why No Fire & Brimstone?

     I've been meaning to explain this for quite awhile, and Ben Dunn's recent mention of me (in regards to Antarctic Press's past contributors) provides a good springboard. I intend to upload all Fire & Brimstone issues to Comicsfury.com, but haven't as yet because I...

Homage to Dave Stevens

     I was asked to do my take on a Dave Stevens piece--a cover, I think--possibly the first time I'd been asked to do that kind of thing.  I did okay, for just a pencil sketch, without Stevens's perfect, cultivated style, of course.  But looking back, it's not ...

Wonder Woman Commission

     This commission has a kind of amusing anecdote attached to it. One of our very own here asked me to do Wonder Woman for him (obviously). Trying to be a little different, I thought, hey, let's depict her a little more like a mythical Amazonian warrior, specifically, t...

Velma, Would-Be Vampire-Killer

       Here's the second of the three-piece Velma commission series. I was thinking back over the many vampire-hunter-versus-vampire confrontations I've seen in movies, TV and in fiction, and I'm almost positive that this is  the version I'd most want to  e...

Velma Commission

     I was commissioned to do three pieces involving Velma from Scooby Doo (the second and third involving Abbey, so stay tuned for those), one of which was to be my take on the character. I get this quite a bit, people wanting to see my impression of their favor...

Dr. Fate and Gaiman's Death

   Hey everyone. This week I've got a couple of new commissions for you, and a modification of sorts to a recent announcement. Above is a piece I just completed for a customer who often commissions--not just from me, but from other artists as well (some I've see are amazing!)-- ima...

Cosmic Connections

     Have you wondered (or have I already explained...?) where the banners for my "Naughty Bits" posts came from? Probably not. But I'll tell you anyway. I did an adult short a long time ago called "Cosmic Connections". It was essentially an "Internet" personals site for ...

Beauties & Beasts: Lovecraftian Horrors

     This Beauties & Beasts piece has a high ick factor, what with the tentacles and the teeth and the pinching claws, so I worked  hard at counterpointing that with beautiful curves and fluid composition. The figure is especially curvy for just that rea...