WORK STAGES on an EMPOWERED vol.12 title page! (Patreon)
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Behold, a mockup version (with slapped-in, low-res logo and chapter title) of an Empowered vol.12 title page, which kicks off a Sistah Spooky & Emp story that's been excerpted extensively on this here Patreon over the last year or two (or three?).
As shown above, I tried to construct the figures a bit more scrupulously than normal, by first drawing the armless Spooky figure, then flopping and tracing it off for the Emp figure, then adding the arm, flopping and tracing it for Emp, and so on.
Note that, with the final two images above, after scanning the final H-lead underdrawing, I enlarged Spooky's head and moved it around a bit before penciling the final version. (Note also that all the analog-media, lightboard-based f**kery I just described could've been accomplished far more quickly and easily in a digital medium. "Sigh," to quote Emp.)
Alas, "This Calloused Damsel" will be facing some serious trimming if not outright gutting of its pagecount, as this rather lengthy story was written back before I changed my mind entirely as to what Empowered vol.12's main story would be about.
See, I only have 30 pages left open at the moment to wrap up the volume's revised and mindbending primary narrative, and that ain't gonna be anywhere near enough; so, I'm gonna have to go back and start cutting at least 10 to 20 pages out of the rather rambling and discursive "This Calloused Damsel" to gimme the pagecount I need. (There's plenty of extra material to be cut, believe me, as the story had multiple distress flashbacks, Semi-Meta Emp scenes, digressions into cosplay sex and more.)
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: The full workweek of final 2021 posts rolls on, quite possibly with a "Rose & Lily vs. Linen-Finish Cardstock" Distressed Damsels comic post for the $5+ Patron tiers.