WORK STAGES on a new CSP sketch piece from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED, following up on a previous such piece! (Patreon)

Wellp, I have a bunch of different potential posts that could've gone up today, but I figured I'd put up this illo that was hot off the ol' iPad—and once again, literally so, as the tablet gets mighty g-d hot to the touch after a few hours of work.

Anyhoo, a while back I posted this piece from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained, featuring a Patreon's art request for the flirtatious Elf Mage and the struggling-to-remain-chaste Human Paladin forced close together in some undefined but contrived scenario:

Wellp, last night, after knocking off the last few longstanding art reqs from the $20 tier (coming soon in an exclusive bonus post), I kept the CSP iPad experience rolling by moving on to the joke that I'd originally intended to follow after the previous illo:

Note that I didn't actually bother to look at the original piece before doing this one, hence a number of detail and rendering inconsistencies.

As with the first illo, I based this one in part off a photo of a pair of wee pose-ref manikins:

And here's a work-in-progress screengrab, taken right before a draft iteration in which I tried to base the Paladin's face on a Leyendecker image:

Perhaps due to the extensive redrawing on his g-d face, the still not-quite-finished piece has taken a rather alarming elapsed worktime of 3:20 so far. (Oof, but multiple drafts and revisions do add a lotta time to any artwork.)

UPDATE: The Elf's first line of dialogue bugged me a tad, so here's a quick revision:

Anyhoo, had fun with this piece, gotta say, despite all the time-consuming drafts. Oh, that impish Elf!

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Ehh, the Exclusive Monthly Bonus Post for the $10 & $20 tiers, featuring the aforementioned top-tier art requests, will likely be coming up this weekend, unless I make it July's final post on Monday; at present, though, I'm planning to use that slot for a Work Stages look at a few more comic pages from a recent workflow test of The Chaste and the Chained.