WORK STAGES on an EMPOWERED vol.12 "Sinbad the Sailor" tribute page! (Patreon)

Behold, the work stages for a wacky li'l page from the upcoming Empowered vol.12 that's a tribute to both the 70s classic flick The Golden Voyage of Sinbad from my childhood and the 1989 Atsuji Yamamoto manga Sinbad from my young adulthood. As you'll see in a future installment of Vintage Con Sketches, I've previously done a few commissions based on Yamamoto's costume designs, which I suspect in turn were inspired by Caroline Munro's impressive outfits from Golden Voyage. 

UPDATE: Tacked on an excepted compilation image worked up for a tweet promoting this post. Yay!

The finished page and initial rough are pretty straightforward, but the last two images in the gallery might need some clarification. See, after I've worked up a viable rough...

... I then lightboard that rough onto the final sheet of art board (which is actually some fancy 28lb "presentation copy paper") and tighten up the transferred rough into an "underdrawing" set of fairly faint H-lead pencils, which I'll then tighten up in turn with 5B pencils, Pitt artist pen inks and so on.

Here's what the lightly penciled underdrawing actually looks like, unprocessed:

...and here's a version clarified for your viewing pleasure by Photoshop level tweaking:

For the record, I use this approach for every Empowered page, but because I do so on a one-panel-at-a-time basis, I rarely record what the underdrawing stage looks like. This particular "single panel page" (or "splash page," perhaps?) was handled differently, hence the intermediate scan I made.

A fun page, gotta say; in fact, I might even expand the sequence a bit, as Emp and Ninjette do indeed look pretty darn cute in "harem girl" outfits.

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Prrrrrrobably some Life Drawing, though I'm not quite sure about that at the moment.