A "too close for comfort" illo from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED, based on a Patron art request! (Patreon)

So, here's an illo from fantasy-comic test project The Chaste and the Chained based on a fun art request from a $20-tier Patron, the concept being that the horny (and kinky) Elf Mage and the struggling-with-chastity Human Paladin have somehow—somehow!—wound up squeezed together in close quarters:

The lettering isn't what I would use in an actual comic, but I chose to use this piece as a test of Clip Studio Paint's word balloon features. I should say, though, that I'm not entirely disinclined to use mixed-case fonts nowadays; that's an interesting reversal, as I was once almost violently opposed to mixed-case comic fonts during their initial heyday of popular use in the Marvel Ultimates line decades ago.

Anyhoo, normally I reserve initial viewing of art requests for the Bigger Spenders of the $10 and $20 tiers at the end of the month as an Exclusive Bonus Post dealie, but this particular piece seemed useful for showing some degree of progress on The Chaste and the Chained, so here 'tis.

Note that the first sketch was based on photoreference from a pair of those wee "Body-chan"/"Body-kun" models, which I'm using on occasion for figuring out not just base poses but also the scale relation between different characters:

Must admit, the shading on the photo was actually a bit more interesting than what I used on the finished illo. (For the record, shading reference is another reason I'm trying out these figures, though I don't yet have an adequate lighting set-up to fully exploit the models' possibilities.)

Finally, here's my hand-scrawled first pass at the scene's dialogue:

BTW, this scene has a follow-up "punchline" illo which I'll likely be working on at some point. And now, back to work on the insanely ambitious double-page spread that opens up the initial C&C story, which you'll definitely be seeing before too long.

UPDATE: Juuuuuuust noticed an annoying flaw in the illo, as flagged below:

See that g-d black squiggle? The one very distinct drawback of working on the tablet version of CSP is that the touchscreen can accidentally interpret a stray touch of the side of your drawing hand as a line input, and leave a squiggle on the canvas that you won't notice until much later, after it's far too late to step back and easily correct the g-d error. Whoops!

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: No idea, TBH, as to what might be coming up in our next M/W/F slot. Let's find out together, shall we?