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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: Cheongsam-intensive Clip Studio Paint sketch sets from ROSE & LILY!
🕑 Added 2024-01-12 15:04:02 +0000 UTCSo, in a post from last month, as I featured a bunch of sketch sets of Lily (from Rose & Lily, the distress-prone Dirty Pair iterations) in peril, I mentioned in passing that I had been noodling away on a story fragment that involved her sporting a skintight cheongsam dress (which, I think, dates back to a "smartsuit" costume variation briefly seen in 2000's miniseries Dirty Pair: Run from the Future).
Wellp, here's a work-in-progress Clip Studio Paint page featuring Lily, presumably undercover at a party of some sort (hence the cheongsam), sneaking around somewhere and winding up in distress:
I'd assume her attacker's tie and handkerchief are self-tying pieces of AD 2141-vintage smartcloth , but haven't yet bothered to clarify matters in this story fragment.
Next up, several more likewise incomplete pages of pencil-based analog sketches loosely depicting Lily getting dragged off by her unseen captor:
...and stripped of her own (notably fragile) smartcloth cheongsam, leaving her in the bikini portion of her suit so often seen in Rose & Lily:
...which, BTW, set up the subsequent incomplete sketches already seen here last month:
Note that her non-boot-based footwear in these previously posted sketches was supposed to be part of the discarded cheongsam:
Ehh, I doubt this story fragment is going anywhere, but who knows, given the vagaries of my Rose & Lily sketching?
UPDATE: I belatedly recalled some much older sketches (likely from 2000 or so) featuring the DP: RFTF cheonsgam costume variation, probably posted here years ago:
Come to think of it, even in "real" Dirty Pair continuity this cheongsam iteration has boded ill for poor Y*ri/Lily, as she wound up captured and trussed up in the final issues of Run from the Future (IIRC).
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: The next Distressed Damsels post in a week or so will likely be featuring new "Elf vs. Chair" content from The Chaste and the Chained (including a Princess Zelda team-up, believe it or not).
As for other content, I'm not sure what's up next; could be some new, ah, "fan art" (koff) featuring characters from an old project, or an update of Half-Elf designs from The Last Party, or an early sneak peak at the many, many developmental sketches from a writing-only fantasy pitch that's been underway for a few months now. (I'm hoping to start laying out the project's first issue or chapter next week, if I can get a different comic proposal outta the way shortly.)
Comments
Aidenke
The pages of sketches all together with bits of progression are always so much fun. Another very fun post playing around with Lily's misadventures!
Vlaphor
Love these sets. These look amazing!
ben aka nekomilk
Hey, these sketches all look great!!! Poor Lily though. That gal just cannot seem to catch a break, can she? ;)
