Final colors & complete WORK STAGES on a recent(-ish) illo! (Patreon)

Lost most of yesterday's worktime to spending the day at the Toyota dealership getting my car worked on, so I'm deep in a frickin' hole re: filling up today's Patreon slot; so, I'm desperately pressing this post into service based on a jpeg I don't think you've seen before.

Here are the final colors by ace colorist Alejandro Sanchez on a Harley Quinn variant cover I worked on sometime in the late winter or spring early on this year:

I don't think this cover has seen print yet, as I don't seen to have any comp copies kicking around. Note that I had to overrender the living crap outta the classic Harley costume to make drawing the outfit semi-interesting for me, as I have to admit that I'm not a big fan of Bruce's design for that puppy. Not sure why, but that costume just doesn't interest me as an artist; so, I had to dig up a bunch of reference photos of PVC and/or latex-based "classic HQ" cosplay and turn this job into a kinda-sorta Life Drawing exercise, more or less.

Oddly enough, I couldn't find a jpeg of the cover's inks, but I did include all the other developmental stages in the gallery above, in which I worked up a whole bunch of random HQ poses then crammed all the better ones into a single composition. Yay?

Speaking of yesterday's day-long stay at the dealership, I did put my time to use by cranking out my first story notes for fantasy project The Last Party in quite a while—almost exactly five months, in fact:

And while I was at it, I finished another few pages of story notes for other fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained:

...before finishing the "Toyota waiting room workday" with s'more notes for The Last Party:

Next up on The Last Party front in October, I'm planning on working up an experimental illo featuring the project's cast, as only last week I realized that my recent success in finding a workable inking tool in Clip Studio Paint might have opened the way to testing an art technique I've never before tried out in a digital format. Yay, once more?

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Next up will be tomorrow's Exclusive Monthly Bonus Post for the $10 and $20 tiers' Big Spenders, running a day late after yesterday's debacle as I scramble to knock off s'more art-request CSP sketch sets today.

Beyond that, next month will see an exclusive preview of the script and ridiculously detailed thumbnails I just finished up for my first writing-only comics job since 2019, along with the previously mentioned Last Party test and a compendium of all the early test pages from The Chaste and the Chained, plus of course the usual posts in the categories of Distressed Damsels, Life Drawing, Work Stages, Failed-Project Friday and so on. I'd also like to work up an essay continuing my rambling re: the scourge of perfectionism in my work, as I've recently come to a fairly important conclusion regarding how future comics projects of mine are gonna have to be carried out. Yay, a third time?