I kept up a long run of annual Adam Warren commissions starting in 1998, but switched to buying original art when the artist made them available. As Emerald City did not go on in March this year, Adam reached out to me. These days, the artist is doing 11 x 14 con sketches and commissions with Sharpie marker and touches of blue and red color pencil. I requested the Bubblegum Crisis characters Priss and Nene as they had blue and red Knight Saber armor hardsuits. After these were complete, Adam sent scans and asked if I wanted the remaining two girls. Sylia wears a grey hardsuit and Linna wears a green hardsuit, but I remembered the outfits the girls wear underneath their armor. So I have all four girls this year which reminds me of my first Adam Warren Knight Sabers commission in 1998 when Adam used pencil on textured paper.

      The additional images shows an inverted image, a preliminary image, and the card art referenced by Adam. This is Adam's Patreon commentary on the commission:

"CONVENTIONLESS CON SKETCHES: Priss and Nene from BGC!

In what will likely be a recurring feature, here are a pair of 11" X 14" commissions intended for delivery at the now-postponed (if not eventually cancelled) Emerald City Comic-Con, featuring Priss and Nene from the vintage anime Bubblegum Crisis. (For the uninitiated, I wrote and drew a 4-issue Dark Horse Comics miniseries, 1994's Bubblegum Crisis: Grand Mal, featuring the characters.)

Note that this Priss piece can be oriented two different ways, hence my deliberately ambiguous signature

Note that the first draft of the illo didn't have those inked shadows on the Priss hardsuit...

...but the suit felt too open and value-free, so I went back after the fact and inked in "shadow squiggles" to add the contrast levels I want and need. However, regular Sharpies wouldn't work over the waxy blue Prismacolor colored pencils I'd applied over her suit, so I had to use a King Size Sharpie(!) to render the shadows. The process was nerve-wracking and the results not ideal, but still better than the shadow-free version.

The Priss illo is a rather obscure in-joke, BTW, as I based it on—nay, traced it from—a pose I used for a 1997-ish Wildstorm trading card featuring Roxy (Freefall) from the superhero series Gen13.

This one g-d illo's pose has been swiped by at least a dozen different sticky-fingered artists, so I thought it would be amusing to rip myself off for once. I recently saw the illo ripped off as a display pose for an art app of sorts, which grates on me more than a tad; swiping a pose for a piece of fan art is one thing—and Lord knows I've done that before in decades past—but ripping it off for commercial and art-instructional purposes seems obnoxious to me.

Ah, but here's the punchline: Steven, the commissioner of the Priss illo, also owns the original artwork for the Roxy trading-card piece! The circle is complete, folks!

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