Sketch dump of early design roughs from EMP12 and... PROJECT X?

Behold, some very early design roughs from a story in Empowered vol.12 and... another project.

Yeah, Spooky and Emp go on a safari of sorts, during which they have a Very Important Conversation about a certain topic Theresa has conspicuously failed to mention. (Hint: the topic was addressed in a Spooky monologue near the end of  Empowered vol.8.)

Above are test sketches for a smilodon (saber-toothed cat) that might be appearing in the story.

Below are some very, very early roughs for one of the characters from an insanely ambitious SF project I've been developing for a few years. I'm hoping not to have to draw the book myself, but thought I should at least try to visualize the lead charas for my own reference. 

I'm looking at different artists for inspiration and messing around with varying chara-design approaches as I begin developing the look of this property. The comic's actual title gives too obvious a hint as to what it's about, so for the time being, I'll just refer to it as PROJECT X. I can tell you that, as far as I know, no one's ever done an SF comic premise quite like this one; problem is, I don't know who can do the g-d thing, as its demands on the line artist and colorist(s) would be extraordinary.

Trying to go big-eyed and, importantly, skinny with the character above, just for a change of pace from how full-figured and, uh, fleshy I'm drawing Emp nowadays.

Anyhoo, I'll occasionally post roughs from PROJECT X's early visual development here.

An odd postscript: I'm finding that, surprisingly, posting content every weekday on this here Patreon isn't quite as big of a problem as I anticipated; however, the amount of prep time involved in posting that content is very much a problem, as I'm burning well over an hour or two of worktime every day setting up each post. Often, the most time-consuming part is writing up these notes accompanying and detailing the gallery images. So, while I'm probably going to be able to keep up the daily pace of Patreon updates in months to come (particularly if the posts feature, say, 1-3 images instead of 4-6), I might have to cut back on explanatory commentary like this to streamline the process. Hope that's not a deal-breaker for anybody! (Lemme know if it is...)