DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Miscellaneous sketch sets ahoy—HUSHED HALF-ELF, ROSE & LILY and more! (Patreon)

Behold, a bunch of miscellaneous Distressed Damsels sketch sets, each worked up to generate poses for later reuse in either a future commission or possible comic project.

The first two were vaguely slated to feature an elven sorceress "laid low" for a long-term commissioner's request, hence the crystal ball g*g (in theory) magically robbing her of spell use in the first tier of images:

...but by the bottom tier of images, she had pretty much turned into the Hushed Half-Elf for all intents and purposes, albeit with slightly wavier hair.

Another page of more-or-less Hushed Half-Elf sketches, with some decent poses I might reuse elsewhere someday:

Next up, early sketches for the never-completed continuation of a "Magician Shasti vs. Rose" story that was once posted here, but (I think) deleted during the April scare when Patreon Trust & Safety flagged a bunch of Distressed Damsels posts as "promoting sexual violence":

I might consider reposting that story—okay, "story"—here someday, as it wasn't originally flagged by Trust & Safety as suspect, despite an overall tone of skeeviness as Magician Shasti rather salaciously addresses poor Rose.

Another "odds & ends" sketch set from a few years back features a new appearance by an unnamed, maskless superheroine I drew for a bunch of rough-sketch commissions well before Empowered came about. This character, who I've unofficially nicknamed "Emerald" as a supranym after I drew her in a green proto-Empsuit for a color piece, was one of the early forerunners to Emp, along with "Dirty Pair: A Plague of Angels' Cory Emerson as superheroic damsel" seen in the Bonus Features for vol. 1 of Empowered Deluxe Edition. (Yeah, I'll need to dig up those old files for a future Distressed Damsels post, or at least scan the images out of the Deluxe Edition.)

Anyhoo, here's a random set of semi-recent "Emerald" rough sketches, pretty much sporting Emp's physique and extra-ragged supersuit with a marginally different hairstyle (and no mask):

The character actually has dark hair, but these incomplete sketches don't indicate that. (Same deal with Lily in other rough sketches.) Pretty sure I have more Emerald DiD sketches kicking around somewhere, including a pretty solid straitjacket set that I came very close to reusing for a scene in Empowered vol. 10 but, well, didn't. So, down the road, you can expect to see more of ol' Emerald—or, to give her the official bold & italicized font treatment, Emerald.

NEXT TIME ON DISTRESSED DAMSELS: I might post some sketch-based comic pages next, from a recent set of Rose & Lily roughs that pitted them against Hushed Half-Elf's potion-shop gnomes; or, if I finally make some g-d progress now that the Harley Quinn FRPG cover is (mostly) done, you might see the first finished pages from that CSP test comic, Rose & Lily: Flowers of Peril.

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Not sure ATM, but sometime this month, I'm hoping to feature the Patreon Exclusive Premiere of Empowered vol. 12's eyecatching cover illo and solicitation copy. Yay?