Wildcat, Huntress, and Power Girl

Starting off with Wildcat and the old-school Huntress. I've kept these sketches to just portraits just so I can get a sense of the characters before I go buckwild of them.

Wildcat to me should look rugged and thuggish, always ready for a fight. The heavy brow gives him a cro-magnon brutality-type quality, but the small iris lends a sense of focus and sharpness which Wildacat has. Also, Wildcat's ears were always drawn sagging, which I feel made him look pathetic, so I made them smaller and a bit perky.


Now with the modern-day Huntress and Power Girl. I've always like this duo purely on the concept of the next generation of the World's Finest and they happen to be women.

I gave Huntress wider cheekbones to suggest feline qualities inherited from her mother and narrow eyes to suggest the mystery of her father. I gave her bangs, because they felt more broody. With Power Girl she needed to be wide-eyed and optimistic, but not naive. She's usually seen sporting a bob cut, but I felt it looked too cute on her. So I gave her a slightly spikey cut which feels fresh, empowering, and had a certain energy I was looking for. And for kicks I gave her a clef chin. It runs in the Superman family. :P

My new inking technique is unstopable!

So I bought the new Brian Bolland career retrospective and his switch to doing his art completely digitally has inspired me to stop messing about with brushes and ink and use what I know best. Bezier curves! I inked this Spidey drawing completely digitally... first in Freehand and later with some touchups in Photoshop. I think this is the look I've been searching for. Click to the image to see the full size smoothness!

Stargirl

Inspired by Justice Society of America #1 that just came out, I started with Stargirl my fave JSAer.

Feels like I cheated with her a bit. Hand looks a bit wonky to me, and I just hid her feet, so I wouldn't have to drawn them. :P

Brainiac take 2

I re-inked Brainiac, giving him a more sinister face. I combined what I liked about the old drawing and the new one to create a frankensteinian inked layer. I kinda like how it turned out overall. I dropped in some quick colors to make it look more distinct from the previous post. I plan on doing a proper color job over the next couple days.