Yet more EMPOWERED vol.12 Emp & Spooky pages, plus work stages! (Patreon)

Wellp, it's been over two months since my last Empowered vol.12 update, as I stalled out over lack of interest in drawing this long and very important conversation scene. (You might want to check out the previous installment or two if you've understandably forgotten the narrative thread.)

Anyhoo, since then my interest in drawing this g-d volume might—I say, might—have been revitalized by a truly bold and radical (IMHO) reimagining of the book's overall story. In fact, I've thrown most of my original plans for this installment in favor of something very, very different.

However.

I'm damn near 40 pages into this existing, fairly conventionally structured Empowered story, so I'm loath to ditch it. So, even as the fabled Empowered Vol.12 Restart gets underway, I'm gonna hop back to this sucker and whittle away at it from time to time, with  the pages above representing my latest attempt at said whittling. 

Note that I'm messing around with a whole bunch of experimental techniques that will be used elsewhere in the book, such as plenty of white-line overlays, some different stabs at facial shading, and a wacky stunt with lettering (UNCOMFORTABLE SILENCE CONTINUES) that emulates a technique I use in Clip Studio Paint. Some tests worked out better than others—that big Spooky close-up is a g-d disaster, TBH, but better to have experimented and failed than to not have tried at all. 

Alas, no time left today for  further notes, so you folks are on your own as to figuring out the significance of the different roughs, work stages & unused drafts.

Now, on to the Real Empowered Vol.12 Restart! (Note the capitalization.)

TOMORROW ON THIS HERE PATREON: Something damsel-in-distress-related for the $5+ crowd, though right now I have no g-d idea what that might be!