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DISTRESED DAMSELS: A Mucha-ish EMPOWERED illo depicting Emp as a goddess from THE CHASTE AND THE CHAINED (and more)!

Added 2024-06-21 14:48:39 +0000 UTC

So!

One of the $20-tier art requests from April solicited the concept of Emp from Empowered depicted as "the Chained Goddess" from fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained. I tried for an Alphonse-Mucha-inspired illo (as seen in a photo from a reference book of mine):

...and worked up this rough pose for Emp:

...which, oddly enough, was derived from another photo with an upper-torso pose quite similar to the Mucha illo.

Wellp, earlier in this month I kinda-sorta finished the illo, after slathering on a chain motif based on an outline-generating layer in Clip Studio Paint:

That is, I drew the chains as white linework with the layer spawning a black outline. Shockingly effective for such a simple approach, gotta say.

Note that I lost patience with rendering Emp's hair in true Mucha fashion, and just left the stylized mane as is. Note that this approach is not unlike the riff I was considering for the Half-Elf's hair from other fantasy project The Last Party:

...which, of late, is a visual flourish that I might end up discarding, as the technique looks good but is incredibly time-consuming.

Speaking of $20-tier art reqs, here's another Empowered-based one from last year combining her with an OC superheroine (or villainess, mayhap?):

And now, back to work on on a new introductory story for fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained, folks! Finished roughing out all 31pp yesterday, and am now moving on to scripting the dang thing, which I hope to wrap up (along with recopied and redrawn page thumbnails) before the end of the month. Yay?