Yet more WORK STAGES from a (semi-)recent short story! (Patreon)

As I desperately flail around for Patreon content after expending my post buffer, I recalled that I've only shown Work Stages for pages 1-4 and 6 from that Harley Quinn #29 back-up story I wrote and drew for DC earlier in the year. (Ackshully, I finished it last year, but whatevs.) So, take a gander at my process for pages 5 and 7 from "Hyena Anxiety," a surreal and/or nightmarish lil'l episode featuring of ol' Harl confronted by a series of upsetting variations of her pet hyenas Bud and Lou. Story and line art by me, colors by Alejandro Sanchez.

Overall, a fairly enjoyable experience, but sweet Jesus was this story ever time-consuming to grind my way through. Then again, I was reverting to my old, old workflow of roughs/tight pencils/tighter inks on full-size comics artboard, a wildly inefficient process I abandoned way back in 2000 after struggling through the miniseries Dirty Pair: Run from the Future (as discussed in a recent text post).

Not much time for commentary, but...

Note that Harley's straitjacket in panels 1-2 was axed after the pencil stage, which I really should've anticipated:

Note the hand-drawn "pawprint" borders, which grew tiresome in a hurry.

On to page 7, with my favorite HQ pose of the whole story, though only vaguely indicated in the initial page rough:

..but refined in the subsequent tighter rough:

..and the final pencils, with the lower-left HQ figure being my favorite:

Said pose was partially photoreffed, so I got in some bonus Life Drawing:

IIRC, I did a lot of Photoshoppery on this one after scanning in the inks (most glitter dots on the leotards, outline on Cyborg-Hyena's balloon, the ankhs & stars, etc.)

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?

UPDATE: Ehh, not sure what the heck is going up next, as many options abound. Could be the text piece re: Bubblegum Crisis I recently finished (complete with a shocking-to-me epiphany about BGC: Grand Mal), or a sneak preview of the writing & roughs gig I worked on a few weeks back, or maybe even the first set of suh-weet character designs that an interested artist worked up for my original fantasy-RPG comic pitch from 6-8 years ago (predating anything you've seen here). Let's find out next week, shall we?