Distressed Damsels: A late-90s sketch set, revisited 20 years later (Patreon)

So, last week, I posted a loosely drawn commissioned sketch set dating back to the late 90s, featuring a vague scenario of Dirty Pair's Yuri victimized by hotel-suite laundry drones controlled by villanous superagent Shasti. 

Wellp, after being contacted by the fellow who commissioned the original sketch set, a few years ago I revisited the premise, and redrew it with a somewhat different, more contemporary approach. (Also, being pressed for time I went "straight damsel" on this version, with no backgrounds, no text, barely any laundrybot indication; nothing but DiD, in other words.)

More specifically, I revisited the Yuri drawings with the softer, heavier and, let's face it, more conspicuously racktastic physique I've been using for Emp from Empowered in the lat few volumes. (The commissioner had, shall we say, noticed the trend approvingly.)

Yeah, can't say that this fuller-figured physique is canonically appropriate for a genetic upgrade with a prefixed somatotype (in my idiosyncratic version of the DPverse) like Yuri, but what the heck. An odder detail, in contrast to the greater, ah, fullness visible elsewhere on her, is that I'm comfortable nowadays with drawing much flatter hair on my characters. That, too, is a recent tend in my artwork.

Anyhoo, check out the original sketch set below (and above, in the gallery), if you like: 

Lot more body in 90s Yuri's hair, but rather less body elsewhere. (Ahem.) 

The old set's voiceover by Shasti is a helpful place to leave off, I think, because next week we will see an actual comic-format commissioned story (of sorts) depicting the "Escape and Evasion" class she taught. (SPOILER ALERT: Poor Kei and Yuri wind up neither escaping nor evading.) Stand by for serialization, folks, not to mention the chrome short-shorts that directly spawned Ninjette's outfit from Empowered! All this and more, in next week's "School of Shasti!"

BONUS DiD CONTENT, ADDED AT THE LAST MINUTE: And finally, here's a rather random DiD image, excerpted from an upcoming Empowered vol.12 page. See, I accidentally drew Emp's butt too small (gasp!) in the original panel, and did a quick Photoshop mock-up showing what the proper proportions should have been. However, when I sent along the "before/after" montage, I used the ubiquitous Drake meme to identify which was which, to the confusion of several folks on the email chain:

Wellp, turns out the Drake meme isn't quite as ubiquitous as I thought, for several people asked, "Who's the guy in the orange jacket?" So, I went back and added clarification for the meme-challenged:

That's all for this week, folks!