Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

I redesigned Wonder Woman a long time ago (not my favorite piece honestly) so when Project: Rooftop asked for Fan-Art Friday submissions of the warrior Amazon, I wasn’t sure whether to go for the classic costume or to try my hand once again at a completely new one. Obviously, I went with the latter. I’m [...]

So Mr. Bryan Lee O’Malley is offering some sweet swag on Tumblr to three Ramona Flowers redesigns of his choosing. I toy with the idea of doing a couple of Scott Pilgrim characters every now and then so this seemed like a good opportunity as any. I went with jeans because we’ve seen enough variations [...]

Allow me to be a little introspective for a bit. This might take a while.

I almost didn’t finish this. I liked the idea of a young, de-sexified Supergirl (potentially inspired by those awesome DC Nation shorts) but, once I started drawing it, I realized it just wasn’t the kind of thing I like to draw. So, with the lineart almost completed, I put it to the side, was even [...]

For Superhero of the Month. The challenge was to redesign two Birds of Prey characters and I went with Black Canary and Lady Blackhawk because the guns vs. fists thing seemed like an interesting contrast to me. Redesigning Dinah was a pretty smooth process. I know the character for JLU and from a handful of [...]

Without getting too much into it, I think that the Starfire controversy last year was partly due to a failure in the writer and artist to properly convey the nature of the character and not so much in the skimpiness of it all. Koriand’r shouldn’t be covered up like a nun, she’s an alien princess [...]

For the Project: Rooftop redesign challenge. It was hard to figure out what I needed to keep to make him recognizable as Invincible. I tried to change the headpiece but, no matter how I did it, it stopped looking like Mark so I kept that pretty much intact. I also like the large “I” on [...]

Argh! I overwrote my PSD file with a low res version again! I should kill myself. But anyway, this is a fairly conservative redesign of Batman. I gave him a bit or armor and, in an effort to give the character more “bat” qualities, I removed the eye slits and, though it may not be [...]

My first SKRATCHJAMS entry in quite a while. The challenge was to, you guessed it, redesign Superman. I’ve been in a serious funk in the last few days, mostly because of the quality of my art. I started at least 4 different pieces and dropped them halfway through (or earlier) because I didn’t feel they [...]

Dark, imposing, fear-inducing and fancy headwear are the things that define Darth Vader for me visually and I tried to keep those four things in my design. I show the top of his head so he doesn’t come across as a full robot but kept the breathing mask thingy that is so iconic of the [...]