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[ENF]Sign Ladies: High Crime and Warning Sign Warning Sign... — Description

[All characters depicted are 18+.]
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Ok, for those that don't know, for a long time https://www.deviantart.com/araneidaeart has been doing drawings featuring an adorable "Woman Sign" character, and now there's even a group for similar works featuring other people's "Sign Lady" type drawings: https://www.deviantart.com/sexysillysigns . I've actually been wanting to get in on the action for a while because, let's be honest, who doesn't love an adorable, seemingly pure but accident prone, abstract girl that only exists in the meta context of an in-universe 2-D medium? ;-p.
Thing is, for a while I was struggling coming up with an idea I like... until now:
Yes, that's right, it's a warning sign warning people that they probably shouldn't be reading this warning sign less they be robbed and, potentially, even stripped to their undies...

... Just as the two hapless ladies in the sign itself are discovering, due to making the mistake of reading the sign... that's in their sign...
A few things of note: I wasn't sure if I wanted to just copy (to the best of my ability) the OG "Woman Sign" or try to make my own variant... in the end I decided to deliberately stylize them a bit (of note, instead of going with half-circle ends to their limbs, I did a loose aproximation of a "quarter-circle" hands/feet abstraction that I've seen).
Another thing of note, there was an earlier outline of this drawing where I was thinking of having a woman flashing the viewer (and, by extension, flashing the more innocent Lady-Sign) as an active distraction, but shyed away from it... in part because this way is easier for me, but also because I decided it made the sign too actively malicious: I think I decided I'd rather it be loosely implied that the sign was probably put up with the purest of intentions and just happens to be a little too "Lawful Stupid", for lack of a better word, in its single-minded drive to warn people of dangers, even the danger it's creating, instead of actually being pragmatic in minimizing said dangers ;-p.
This is also what lead me to wind up making it two "innocent" Sign Ladies that are stripped and distracted instead of one... I kinda feel like maybe they're twins? ;-p.
(Drawing this was a bit of a hassle, but a big part of that was that I was practicing using a different drawing program from my usual, just so I have the option to diversify in the future if I have to.)
I'll admit, since this is a very different style from my usual I'm not 100% sure how happy I am with the end results (the "shading and texture through negative space" is tricky... also, I'm not sure I shoulda made the sign thaaat big, but then again I wanted the text to show up at least a couple itterations in ;-p). But at any rate, I had a looooot of fun with the concept. May do more with this concept in the future **if** I get any other inspiration/ideas that I feel need life ;-p.

Either way: Enjoy!