'Hogtie Harley' in 'Bat Brutality' Wips and BTS

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Pheeew! This was an unexpected doozy!
This pic started out feeling like it was gonna be pretty easy. But I quickly realized that I find drawing Harley SO HARD for some reason! It might be the lack of eyebrows and hair that do it... Or maybe it's that I kinda can never decide how cartoony I want to draw her. I dunno.
Anyway, here's some process stuff!
(As usual it's better to download the pics straight from the attachments, to make sure filenames etc are correct :) )

I started this pic right as it was looking like Harley was winning the poll. I really like Harley, but as I said - I find her hard to draw.
I really wanted to do a scene that was very very tight. I did an old pic waaaay back of Catwoman hanging from a lamppost with a fat Batman and Gordon oogling her and I guess the idea for this was kinda similar.
I really do like the scenario of a villain being super tightly tied up and left on a dingy streetcorner for the cops to find.
I wanted to have her... big... horns(?) tied back, looking real tight. This first sketch had her in a chickenwing rather than a reverse prayer, though, and her legs were awkwardly crossed around the pole/lamppost. I realised I wanted her legs behind the pole, to kind of make it so she's got the pole pushed in hard between her legs.  

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As I was drawing this sketch, a  picture of bondage model Rachel Adams popped up on my twitter feed, and I did a very quick sketch study of it, since it had sort of the same feel that I'd been going for in my initial sketch.

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Using a bit of that reference and a bit of my original sketch idea, I came up with this!

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And here we can see how hard I find it to draw Harley!
I couldn't even start to draw her gag - I had to draw her ungagged first, just to try to get her look.
I thought this was OK at first...

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But when I'd taken a break and looked at it again, I really didn't like it.

So I redrew her face and stuff.
At this point I also realized that it was silly to waste this pic of her with her face free, since I'd already drawn it. Also, some... or a lot... of people would probably enjoy a more "classic" take on her, without her ...horns... pulled back to her feet and stuff. So I decided to do a bunch of alts. 

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I must've redrawn this tapegag pic like 8 times...

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Since there were now more "standard" alternates, I could go all out on the tight one! Cut her costume, took off her shoes, messed her up with big gag and stuff... I liked that the rope pulling her head back was tied to her hood, so her hair peeked out and you could see some of her hair poking out. And Bat-Clamps! :D

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Lineart was pretty... standard.
I used a thick, textured brush, because I kinda wanted it to feel like an ink drawing. I had ideas about doing more full blacks and making it look more comic page-y, but I liked how clean it looked once the lines were done so I kept it like that.

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 I drew most of the base and body and stuff before copying the layer and redrawing the head for the alternate. A pretty bad way to go about it, but it worked OK.

I usually am not a fan of "gag alts", since its often like just the gag that changes. But in reality, a change of gag will change the whole face. Jaw shifts position, head gets squeezed in various ways - eyes get pushed and pulled etc... So for me, if I do an alternate version, I have to redraw the whole face at the very least. 

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As I was preparing to color, I looked a bunch at screenshots from the animated Batman series where Harley came from.
So I kind of wanted to do a semi cartoony style coloring, where Harley was sort of flat, and the background was almost painted.

So I started by painting up this background. I wanted it to feel very... lived in. Doing textures and stuff (on rocks, or like with how busted the trash cans are) often gives a picture so much more life. 

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Then it was coloring time!
I "stole" basically the entire palette of the image from 2 comic pages of Harley and Whippedz's character Judith I did a while back. That sped up the coloring process a bunch :)

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As you can see though - the colors are actually pretty different here from how they ended up.

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That's because I added a bunch of textures and stuff on top of the picture in the end.
A photo filter that made it all a bit more orange and warm...
Some smoke and stuff coming up from the grate in the foreground...
And an old paper texture that I use on basically everything ;)

The underside of Harley's boots are just a color halftone filter. I thought the dots looked nice.

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And that's it!

As usual, thank you SO MUCH for giving me the opportunity to keep doing this crazy, fun stuff - you're LITERALLY all amazing :D
And if you have any questions and stuff or want to know something about my process or anything, feel free to ask in the comments! :)
Thank you!!