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DISTRESSED DAMSELS: New EMPOWERED DiD "at-home con sketches," plus roughs
🕑 Added 2020-07-22 13:15:44 +0000 UTCHere's a pair of recent—very recent, as in finished yesterday—Patron commissions drawn in the 11" X 14" two-color format I use for con sketches, featuring Empowered characters bedamseled to varying degrees of distress.
A few words:
A photoreference-based piece, featuring some very tricky and difficult to interpret foreshortening on the models. Still, worked out decently enough.
I definitely wouldn't expect to see quite as much perspective drawing in future commissions, though; in fact, I had to use an odd perspective cheat to generate vanishing points so far away, which I'll likely post about at some point (if I can find a relevant video or blog post covering the technique in mo' detail).
Not photoref-based, for good or ill. No, wait, I did use photoref for the shading on Emp's midriff, in the hopes of gleaning a wee bit more life drawing knowledge.
Trying something different with Emp's hair in these. Not sure the "lightsaber effect" (white core, color "aura") and blonde hair quite go together, but what the hell.
Did the roughs for two different commissions as quarter-page thumbnails (more or less) on a sheet of 8.5" X 11" copy paper.
By contrast, the other piece's initial rough took up a whole sheet of letter-size paper. In both cases, I blew up the relevant figures in Photoshop until they were as large as my (letter-size) printer could handle, then lightboarded 'em onto the piece's final Bristol board as loose scrawls to be tightened up with further penciling. (Alas, I neglected to take any "work in progress" photos. Whoops!)
And now, back to the fabled Empowered vol.12 restart!
TOMORROW ON THIS HERE PATREON: Unless I reschedule the post in favor of something else, I've dug up more con sketches from 2019 that I seem to have never gotten around to posting here.
Comments
KranberriJam
I love these! Seriously, you can tell you have studied life drawing so much, it really shows.
Strypgia
That first pic makes me wonder _how many_ times Emp and Ocelotina have been kidnapped, and how many of those are in fact Ocelotina's intentionally setup video deals.
JKurt
vol 12 restart?
Aidenke
These turned out brilliantly -- both of them have a great sense of story to them, one with a lot more action (as a group of thugs learn to not tie them to each other, which makes them more dangerous), while the other has a great sense of annoyance as maybe a few mooks that Ocelotina grifted happened to catch up with her at the worst possible time (for Emp anyway -- who, good-hearted as she is, will likely save Ocelotina's hide anyway). Thanks for sharing these, and here's looking forward to anything else that comes out of these pieces! :D
andrew
Oh, my. Love the Emp-Jette piece! "When damsels attack!"
Adam Warren
A kindly Patron's OC; you'll see the finished piece eventually.
Will_K
Emp's hair looks great in both !!
Sam Logan
These look like so much work!! Who is the third commission (in the sketch?)
Lex of Excel
That's a vicious kick 'Jette is giving to Evil Alpha 5. Nice work!
Frelncer
These are great. Also love seeing the roughs with final art.
JoJack86
Awesome, I always enjoy getting to see your roughs alongside the finished work.
Thos. Merchant
Boottothehead!
