DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Mid-2010s sketch sets of straitjacketed EMERALD, later ported into EMPOWERED vol.12! (Patreon)

As mentioned in our previous Distressed Damsels post, I drew an unnamed, maskless superheroine for a whole bunch of rough-sketch commissions for a long-time (small-P) patron 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, whilst recently cleaning up my studio space, I dug up s'more unfinished Emerald sketch sets that were actually drawn well after Empowered had debuted. These were pose studies for a never-drawn episode of our maskless superheroine apparently "laid low" by unseen bad guys and strapped into a straitjacket almost certainly based on the somewhat titillating restraints applied to Kei in 1992's Dirty Pair: SimHell:

...but here featuring the even more titillating detail of a conspicuous "boob window":

Not sure exactly when I originally drew these Emerald images (as I just now scanned 'em), but the pronounced curviness accompanied by a proportionally larger head size than I often draw nowadays hints to me that this was drawn sometime in the mid- to late-2010s.

While this rough-sketch set never developed into more finished material, the "sexed-up straitjacket" does make an appearance in the upcoming Empowered vol. 12:

...where you can see the somewhat "smaller" head-to-body figure proportions I currently use.

NEXT TIME ON "DISTRESSED DAMSELS": Ehh, might be those dialogued rough pages for Rose & Lily vs. Hushed Half-Elf's "potion-shop gnomes" that I mentioned last time, though I might have to censor some dialogue to avoid Patreon Trust & Safety issues...

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Not sure, TBH, but as I am rolling with every-weekday posts to wrap up the month of September, you will definitely be seeing plenty o' material next week.