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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: A $20-tier art request pitting EMPOWERED against THE PINT-SIZE(D) NINJA PLATOON!
🕑 Added 2024-04-12 13:00:05 +0000 UTCSo!
A recent-ish art request from the $20 tier referenced an Empowered vol. 7 montage of DiD imagery that, in the lower left corner, featured our heroine laid low by wee ninjas:
These fellas were "The Pint-Size(d) Ninja Platoon," originally seen seen in the following set of late-90s Dirty Pair con sketches:
Okay, maybe these were already Rose & Lily and not the Dirty Pair proper, as my versions of OG Kei & Y**i wouldn't be quite so vulnerable:
The Platoon recurred briefly in another incomplete Lily sketch set...
...before bring featured in a proto-Empowered-format commissioned DP "story" in the early 2000s, which lurks deep in this Patreon's archives:
...which rolled on for 20-odd pages or so of DP distress, which you'll note was rife with Empowered's oft-mentioned Mysteriously Intermittent Post-Millennial Torso Glitch as seen with Kei's wonkily wasp-waisted frame above.
Anyhoo, back to the modern era, when a Biggest Spender Patron asked for a larger image of Empowered bedeviled by the Pint-Size(d) Ninjas, and the shockingly elaborate and time-consuming CSP (iOS) sketch below was the result:
Note that unmasking is a big no-no in the Empverse and is considered a violently punishable violation of the so-called "Unwritten Rules" but, ehh, I just felt like drawing Emp without her mask; besides, the Platoon's Ninjas are quite possibly too dumb to know otherwise, thanks no doubt to their tiny brain sizes.
Anyhoo, I sank enough worktime into this reasonably successful piece that I thought it worthy of putting up as a Distressed Damsels post all its own. Yay?
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?
Comments
Greg
The chair with Lilly is one of my fave things you ever did ROSE & LILY' vs. LINEN FINISH CARDSTOCK, p.01
Dinobolt6
Thank you so much! I am sorry I have just been very busy at work and am trying not to miss it.
Benjamin Hunzeker
Hey Adam, do you have a discord channel set up?
Benjamin Hunzeker
These are awesome!
Adam Warren
No, that should go in a new $20 art req "master list" post I'll be putting up later this weekend.
Dinobolt6
Is this where I am supposed to post my $20 request?
Strypgia
Emp does look pretty good in that last shot.
TheGag
Great job, mate!! I really love the details and the care that you put into it: for example, the first thing that caught my eye (ahem... second, the first thing was the "general shot"... ahem...) was the style drawing used in the hair, which gives it a delicate and special touch. And I'm 'team dumb', because I liked seeing Elissa's look that her mask would hide. Thank you very much, sir!!
Vlaphor
Excellent piece.
ben aka nekomilk
Ok, good! So I'm not just seeing things.
SaunterWing!
If it helps, I see it too.
Loyola
Love the dynamic here with impish ninjas vs Emp
ben aka nekomilk
Dude, those pint-sized ninjas look a LOT like Nin-Nin from the anime/manga La Blue Girl. Maybe it's just me seeing things though, idk. π€
