DISTRESSED DAMSELS: A last bit of ROSE & LILY lore, plus an early sneak peek at THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED! (Patreon)

So, dear Patrons, even as we enter the era of new digital test-bed project The Chaste and the Chained, time for a look at what will be likely the last sketch sets of "Rose & Lily lore" for a while.

These first two pages of rough sketches were actually drawn and written a few months ago, back in the heyday of my phase of "DiD sketch sets of officewear-disguised Rose & Lily annotated with hastily extrapolated BS SF-skewed text attempting to rationalize their status as 3WA distress magnets."

I didn't post these two pages back then because one of the panels was a tad sketchy (in the figurative sense) content-wise; tinkered with it a bit, resulting in the closing page below:

But wait, a kinda-sorta life drawing angle is involved! See, the Lily poses above were derived from a bunch of quick sketches referenced from a lengthy damsel-in-distress scene in the 1973 Italian TV episode (from a Dario-Argento-hosted series!) Door into Darkness: The Neighbor, or La Porta sul Buio: Il Vicino di Casa if you prefer:

See, I had grown tired of repeating the same g-d poses over and over again in my damsel-y commissions, so I thought I should branch out into some quick gesture sketches based on the Vicino di Casa scene, which I was alerted to by a DiD commissioner a few years ago. (BTW, gotta love that the TV episode was directed by none other than Luigi Cozzi, who went on to direct the nigh-legendary Starcrash at the end of the decade.)

And lo, these quick sketches of the TV show's damsel were clearly well-suited to be repurposed into source material for another sketch set of imperiled "Office Lily" in microskirt and high heels. Yay?

Wellp, that's prrrrobably gonna be it for Rose & Lily sketch sets and "lore" for a while, as I'm now working on pages from DiD-skewing fantasy comic and digital-art test-bed project The Chaste and the Chained. Speaking of which, here's the (analog-media) base layout for an upcoming page:

Onward! (In fact, as soon as I finish this post, I'm firing up CSP and the ol' Cintiq to start work on the digital version of the page above.)

NEXT TIME IN DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Next Tuesday will see February's Exclusive Monthly Bonus Post for the $10 & $20 tiers, which will feature a bunch of art-request CSP sketch sets heavy on the ol' DiD imagery (and another appearance by The Chaste's elf). Wheeeee!

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Monday will see a lil' something in regularly scheduled M/W/F content plus very likely a new art request post for the $20 tier, as I've cleared out most of the old reqs with the aforementioned Bonus Post.