We continue serialization of Empowered vol. 12, which proved to be the final volume of the series in this specific graphic-novel format, though I was unaware of that unfortunate reality when I started work on the book.

Alas, here we can see the unfortunate and unsuccessful results of 2020-era Artist Me trying to incorporate years of shading practice from my life drawing studies into my comics artwork. A well-intentioned experiment, I'd say, but one that was a complete waste of far too much worktime and effort. The cartoony faces I prefer to draw in my comics are just not at all compatible with attempts at realistic shading which, to be fair, did work out much better when drawing the rest of the body.