DESIGNS AHOY: Sketches for EMPOWERED vol.12's cyperpunky SF scene! (Patreon)

Behold, a multiply revised page rough and a bunch of design sketches from a rather Dirty-Pair-flavored SF scene in the upcoming Empowered vol. 12. I've been holding off on tackling this particularly sequence until I worked up more designs for it, but this weekend I decided I should just bite the (no doubt caseless) bullet and jump right into the damn thing.

Easy to forget, nowadays, that producing Empowered was once a loosey-goosey and freewheelingly spontaneous experience, as opposed to the laboriously slow and grindingly methodical slog that the series' creation has calcified into as the volumes grew tighter and denser and (much) more detailed over time. I'm hoping to recapture a bit of the series' early, off-the-wall "flava" as this volume crawls ever-so-slowly towards the finish line like unto Zeno's tortoise, but I have my doubts about that.

UPDATE: At the end of the image gallery above, tacked on the just-completed underdrawing for the first panel which, nightmarishly enough, has taken me two full g-d work hours to finish. (And it's not even 100% finished, as I haven't yet sketched in the urban debris aswirl around 'em.) I might end up cutting this cyberpunky scene short, if the detail-intensive outfits are gonna take me this g-d long to draw. 

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Not sure, TBH, but quite possibly a li'l somethin' somethin' in the Distressed Damsels vein for the $5+ Patron tiers.