More WORK STAGES from Ryan Kinnaird's EMPOWERED: HELLBENT OR HEAVEN SENT one-shot! (Patreon)

Behold, more Work Stages from 2012's one-shot Empowered: Hellbent or Heaven Sent featuring art by excellent Guest Artist and frequent collaborator Ryan Kinnaird and script by Yrs Truly. 

Am massively short on time this morning, so detailed annotations are not happening today. However, note the interesting differences between the early, flat-color stage (with some quick mockup lettering by Ryan, BTW, hence Emp's talking hip) and the final, rendered & blended colors:

We did briefly consider using flat colors only for the final version of the issue's artwork, as there's definitely something appealing about those "flats."

UPDATE: Tacked on a jpeg of my rough for that page, as it's partially visible in one of the earlier Ryan work-in-progress images:

The rest of the images include a few of my insanely detailed lettering guides for the issue:

In truth, I spent so much time working up detailed roughs, full script, lettering guides and multiple rounds of correx for this one-shot (and most of the others) that I could've easily drawn and lettered the entire g-d story myself in less time, and made considerably more money off the issue to boot. Not a productive use of my limited worktime, to put it mildly; oh, well.

Finally, we close things out with a few Ryan design sketches that I believe weren't in the previous Designs Ahoy post (or at least in these forms), as I recently stumbled across a folder I hadn't noticed before:

And that's it for this Empowered one-shot, folks!  

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Not quite sure at the moment as my post buffer's run out, but something will be going up on Wednesday, I can assure you.