Early WORK STAGES on opening double-page spread from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED! (Patreon)

And lo, our concluding post for May will be a li'l work-in-progress dealie for the opening double-page spread—that is, pages 2 & 3—from the first story I'm working up for fantasy test comic The Chaste and the Chained.

Early on, my first take on this scene was a single-page "splash," but I had trouble with the captured Elf Mage's pose, as you can see from the Clip Studio Paint tweaks on her figure where I was scaling and/or correcting various elements:

After this, I not only chose to expand this image into a double-page spread, but to try a different take on the Elf's pose:

As you can see above, I had to draw her figure quite small to control her proportions better; I also referenced that wee sketch in part off of a "Body-chan" model:

So, here's the wee initial pose, in the corner of a letter-size piece of paper: 

...then cropped up tight:

Then I pasted that sketch into the overall rough for the spread, which I'm still working up:

Still have a few areas on the spread to tighten up, as you can see; but that's where I'm at so far in this shockingly ambitious panorama, which might end up being my most complex double-page spread since, jeez, the opening of Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone in '97.

UPDATE: Uh, nope, dumbass, as I somehow forgot this early spread from the upcoming Empowered vol. 12:

Anyhoo, back to the subject of The Chaste and the Chained! 

Coming up in June, my plan is to start work on a "hybrid workflow" test that will combine analog and digital Work Stages, as seen in a recent C&C post from the beginning of May. This time, though, I'm going to use the approach on actual comic pages from Chaste's first story. Yay? Hope you'll stick around to see the work, dear Patrons; if not, perhaps you can check in on the content down the road.

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: No idea, TBH, but something should be coming up in the next M/W/F slot. Let's find out together, shall we?