DISTRESSED DAMSELS: More VINTAGE CON SKETCHES (Patreon)

A few more Vintage Con Sketches of the Dirty Pair in distress for y'all! 

A few words:

The dastardly lass distressing Kei and Yuri in the 2002 piece above is the freaky-looking, Yasushi-Nirasawa-armed character "Ng Mui" from 1995's Dirty Pair: Fatal But Not Serious (though I don't think her name appeared during her brief appearance). She was the shady techy person who grew the miniseries' Yuri clone for Kevin J. Sleet, if you can't remember. 

Note, BTW, that while Kei and Yuri are sporting the chara designs and costumes seen in the one-shot Start the Violence! and miniseries Run from the Future, in the out-of-continuity "DP DiD Commissionverse" they sport high heels instead of the clunky boots or tabi-like footwear of the in-continuity projects, because sexy. 

I'm pretty sure the original commissioner didn't actually request octopi distressing the Angels, but danged if he didn't get 'em! By this point I was no doubt flailing around desperately for a different approach to DP DiD than the usual to keep myself semi-interested as an artist, hence the octopi.

IIRC, the commissioner wanted Yuri "laid low," and laid low she was in this 1999-ish con sketch, which seems a bit harsher (or sadder) than the goofy-ass norm for these pieces. (Then again, the Ng Mui piece was pretty darn harsh, too.) The layout was probably ripped from an often-seen pose in Chaykin's American Flagg!, though I'm not 100% sure about that.

In a shocking rarity, the commissioner sent me a scan of the piece's initial rough; I've saved almost none of the first-draft sketches for these illos.

Yeahp, Yuri was looking up at the camera in the original rough. Not sure if I spiked that element because A) that struck me as a bit too skeevy, or B) I just couldn't pull off drawing her eyes in the final illo.

Dang, I'm burning through old DiD material at an unsustainable if not insane rate, folks; I can tell you that I'm certainly not producing 3+ new pieces per day (or even weekly), to put it mildly. Hope you folks are enjoying the veritable firehose of content, as someday that flow of artwork's gonna have to drop off a fair bit.

I'm probably going to make one of the month's Distressed Damsels posts exclusive to the $10 & $20 tiers, in a wan attempt to reward those kind folks for their extra generosity. Not sure yet how that will work (especially when serializing commissioned stories), so I might put that decision off until September. 

TOMORROW ON THIS HERE PATREON: Not sure, TBH. Might post work stages for that Gen13 piece I drew for the Wildstorm 25th anniversary book, come to think of it.