WORK STAGES on another test page from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED, pitting the Elf Mage against... a chair? (Patreon)

So, yeah, outta nowhere, this weekend I tried yet another Clip Studio Paint brush experiment featuring an especially Distressed-Damsels-riffic page from fantasy test project The Chaste and the Chained. Riffing off a random sketch from an earlier Chaste DiD sketch set (at upper left, below, pitting the Elf & Paladin against a chair enchanted with an Animate Object spell)...

 ...I sketched the following page rough in analog pencil, a month or so ago:

I then opened up another blank comic page in Clip Studio Paint for the PC, imported the rough sketch, then tightened it up via the ol' Wacom Cintiq:

..then started drawing over the layout with CSP's default Design Pencil Brush (well, for the most part), which was the main focus of this test:

Note that this isn't a "real comic page" like most of the previous Chaste efforts, but rather a glorified DiD sketch set in comic form. (Ehh, whatevs.)

Note also that the page looks somehow inferior when the blue-line rough layer is removed:

Y'see, I wanted to check if the PC version of the Design Pencil could perform at the same level as the Design Pencil on iOS, which is great for simulating the analog pencil I've used on Empowered for the last 20-odd years; alas, no, it can't. Testing will continue, though!

Finally, I slapped in a gray layer under the art to make this a nighttime scene taking place in some ill-defined inn interior (again, not a "real" page):

I was pretty thoroughly sick of the page by this point, so I did some quick erasing highlights and called it a (work)day; in fact, I'm amazed I got this far into drawing this sucker.

Anyhoo, this test wasn't blazingly successful in terms of the ongoing journey towards a means of producing finished art, but I have grown quite fond of roughing out pages via the ol' Cintiq; in fact, I sketched out two more cheesecake-intensive pages in this sequence just last night!

For the record, getting a Wacom Flex arm mount for my 24" Cintiq Pro has been an absolute game-changer for me, as I can now rotate the tablet up to a much better angle for drawing—and then, vwipp, I can just swing the Cintiq back outta the way to clear my workspace for heavy-duty keyboard work such as this post. Yay? (I already had an Ergo Stand, but that honkin' big unit was so g-d bulky and heavy that it rendered my limited workspace nearly unusable.)

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Big Spenders of the $10 & $20 tiers, stand by another dose of Distressed Damsel content on Tuesday as I knock off the last bunch of art requests, including yet another pic of the Elf Mage imperiled, this time shibari-style! Lordy loo! (Also Emp, a Patron's OC, and MDQRoxy herself!)

On Wednesday, November posting resumes with... something? Not sure what, as yet! (Might do a poll or two seeing what would appeal the most.)