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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: SF heroine Lily as imperiled (star)flight attendant, pt. 3!
🕑 Added 2022-12-27 14:10:58 +0000 UTCCut 'n' paste time:
In the midst of the seemingly endless, Sisyphean nightmare of drawing a shockingly time-consuming Harley Quinn story last month (a task dragging on well into December), I managed to piece together some sketch sets of long-suffering Lily (from ongoing DP damsel spinoff dealie Rose & Lily) based loosely on this striking image I was sent a while back as part of an art request:
...and cue the distressing scenario, conveyed mainly through scribbled dialogue as I surely ain't drawing passenger starship interiors.
Wellp, a while back I posted some early, narratively random sketch sets based on this concept, followed by another post in the series. Now, here are a few more sets, jumping around hither and thither from one scene (or "scene," given the lack of backgrounds) to another.
First off, a new page that follows up on this earlier set of "restraint membrane" sketches:
...and the new page:
And then we skip ahead to another scene with yet another rogue flight attendant (or two, possibly, though I didn't clearly depict any others) victimizing poor Lily:
Had a specific request for this, ah, more thorough approach to "shushing properly" our distressed damsel, which I gotta admit I do find a tad icky. I rarely if ever bother with rigorous or realistic depictions of distress as A) I don't feel like spending the time replicating, say, complex shibari patterns and B) I get creeped out pretty easily by heavy-duty imagery in that vein. You're just gonna have to make do with what I can provide you, folks—which also applies to the female physiques I elect to draw, by the way.
Anyhoo, these sinister ladies are effectively rattling off the equivalent of Snidely-Whiplash-style "I have you now, my pretty" gloating, which I gotta admit is getting old; considered replacing the dialogue with some random techy angle, but never got around to doing so. (I do have another, older Lily sketch set kicking around that deals with some techy aspects of her DiD situation, but haven't posted it yet due a fairly dubious damsel image I'd need to rework.)
The next scene, at least, hinges on a fairly amusing riff, which IMHO beats feminized Snidely Whiplashing:
This particular fragment might actually continue, as we'll see that Lily's two latest captors have strongly divergent opinions on "T vs. A." Quite crass, obvsly, but more entertaining than the earlier villainess rambling.
Even had some initial roughs for this set (a rarity) kicking around, including a first pass on the Whiplashing dialogue:
Yes, folks, I still write out all my first-pass dialogue by hand, as Extra-Fine Sharpie scribblin' on scrap paper. Not only do I always do this on Empowered, but the same low-tech approach applied to the recent Wolverine/ Man-Thing story for Marvel and the Harley Quinn story for DC.
And s'more roughs, sans dialogue this time:
And that's all for now, DiD fans; I may do s'more Flight Attendant Lily sets in the future, though, if I can think up a non-Whiplashing angle for the pages.
Speaking of "s'more," the Biggest Spenders of the $10 and $20 tier can expect to see one more dose of DiD imagery for their Exclusive Monthly Bonus Post at the end of December, featuring the rest of a fantasy-RPG-based commissioned comic of yore with an anomalously "flirty" and wholly consensual scenario:
Not only will you Biggest Spenders now see the complete story fragment, featuring a rare few pages of toplessness(!), but also a new Clip Studio Paint piece drawn the other day as a follow-up illo:
Huzzah, indeed!
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Besides the aforementioned Biggest Spenders post on either Thursday or Friday, I'm not yet sure what else we'll be seeing the rest of the week, but rest assured that I do plan to post every weekday to finish off the month and the year. Yay?
Comments
Strypgia
I, for one, am 100%+ A-OK with the female physiques you choose to draw for us. Huzzah for 2WA agents and SuperHomies with some curves. And Poor Rose and Lily getting trussed up like this in their jobs...well... sorry, kids, that _is_ your job, being target drones to draw attention away from the Lovely Angels. At least you don't get blamed for their _own_ disasters?
Burninator
Wait a minute, Shasti's escapewear? If Shasti loaded their escapewear, no wonder it's singularly unhelpful at actually helping them escape, and that also means that Shasti somehow has write access to Rose and Lily's neural interface.
Aidenke
Okay, the "Mount Booba" joke got me. This feels like a wonderful debate to have while our intrepid heroine is eye-rolling between it all. "Way to make a girl feel objectified, jerks." XD
Adam Warren
You're welcome!
JoJack86
Really loved this little segment, thanks for sharing!
Burninator
Also, is Mount Booba next to Grand Teton?
Burninator
Hmm, if Frontier Star is the corporate descendant of Frontier Airlines, I wonder how much in fees they're charging Lily for all of these add-on services. Those guys will really nickel and dime you.
andrew
"No white knight" would definitely feel like foreshadowing if this were the, ah, um, real Lovely Angels. I can easily imagine a bespecled, business suited Kei doing her rendition of Kurt Russell in "Executive Decision" to save Yuri. Alas, I fear Rose would not fare as well...not that I, ah, would oppose seeing her try that is.
