We continue my introductory scene from the 2013 one-shot Empowered: Nine Beers with Ninjette, which is setting up a main story by Guest Artist Takeshi Miyazawa.
On panels 2 & 3, note the white lines added inside the page's black-line gutters, which works nicely to keep the interior art from accidentally merging with said gutters. This effect is really g-d tricky to pull off by hand, as opposed to being handled digitally; that means I had to use white-out on any inks touching the border and erase any pencil art doing the same, probably with the use of an eraser shield, which is quite the old-school analog drawing tool. (Then again, I myself could be considered an "old-school analog drawing tool.")
Today’s Patreon update: Originally done as a means of scratching out more worktime to complete the long-gestating Empowered vol. 12, I've switched over to a Monday/ Wednesday/ Friday Patreon posting schedule that won't feature the fixed content format I previously used. However, my vast archive of years of Patreon posts—extensive Empowered previews, work-in-progress updates on developmental projects such as fantasy comics The Chaste and the Chained and The Last Party, vintage con sketches, work stages on covers, "damsel in distress" commissions, life drawings & much, much more—remains available for Patrons' perusal.
-Adam Warren