WORK STAGES: New pin-up illo sneak peek! (Patreon)

Behold, the initial Work Stages for a just-completed pin-up illo I'm doing as a contribution to an artbook for Gisele Lagace's popular webcomic Menage a 3 (if you'll pardon the missing accent mark over "a"). Yeahp, those are supposed to be my takes on DiDi (as superheroine "Invincibelle"), Gary and Zii; keep these images to yourselves, kind Patrons, as I didn't ask for clearance before posting 'em here. 

The initial rough was drawn in Clip Studio Paint...

...but the rest was drawn on Bristol board. (Marvel art board, in fact!)

Note also that I accidentally scanned the illo's color guide in B&W (oops), but tacked it onto the image gallery b/c I thought it looked interesting:

Even though the final inks weren't stunningly complicated, I carefully monitored my worktime on 'em via stopwatch and found that stage alone took me a bit over six hours to complete.  Ouch! If I'm gonna be doing many more cover-type illos along these lines (which I hope to be doing fairly soon, as I need to rustle up some income tout de frickin' suite), clearly I'm gonna need to speed up my work approach. 

Anyhoo, when I get the final colors back in a few weeks, I'll post that as part of a complete Work Stages set, okay?

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Not quite sure at the moment, but as I'm rolling with every-weekday posts to finish off the month of April, you can rest assured that something will be going up tomorrow.