Epiphanis Posted October 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]40165[/ATTACH] Silver Avenger Mayte Sanchez. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted October 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]40166[/ATTACH] Stingray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted October 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]40167[/ATTACH] Viperia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcoasalazarm Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) This is some pretty cool art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted October 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) Thanks. Viperia is intentionally somewhat elongated, to convey snakiness. I realize I made Stingray's shade of green too day-glo bright when it should have been more a subdued teal. I actually tried to tone it down with a blue color filter, to convey a sense of seeing-through water, but it didn't come out right. I want to bring up that there are two characters I'd really like to do but am having trouble with. The first is Mechana from Book of the Machine. I hate the pink-faux-boob-chassis design of the illustration therein, but I haven't been able to come up with an alternative that I liked that matched the written description. Everything I've tried comes out too much like a crap version of Sorayama's "Robot Sexy" work, or maybe of Jocasta from the Avengers. When I try to make it more inhuman it becomes apparent that I suck at drawing machinery, and the feminine aspects (and even the anthropoidal aspects) get lost. I'm finding it quite hard to convey femininity while maintaining robotic abstraction; it may well simply be beyond my skill. The other one I'm having a problem with is Valerian Scarlet. I've been trying to adhere to "official" descriptions as much as possible, with Cryptic materials trumping DOJ materials if there is a direct conflict. Cryptic made two character models of Valerian for the online game, but in my opinion the character models don't translate well into hand illustration. There are elements of each version that I like but they don't mesh well when I try to draw them. Particularly the weird physical floating tiara/half-halo thing on the evil version of Scarlet looks dumb when I try to illustrate it. I'm probably going to do a hodgepodge integrating different elements from the multiple versions but leaving out others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) meh, the floaty tiara thingy looks stupid in the game, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted January 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) I've been busy recently, so I let this thread languish. But in honor of the new year, I thought I would resurrect it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted January 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]41140[/ATTACH] Valerian Scarlet. Specifically, a variation of Cryptic's take on "Evil Valerian," somewhat humanized and ditching the floaty tiara/corona thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted January 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]41141[/ATTACH] Sapphire. I've actually done several roughs of her but this is the one I liked best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted January 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]41142[/ATTACH] Diadem. There have been several published illustrations of her with slight variations to her costume. All had a little hood affixed to what I take to be a round-the-neck scarf, which I thought looked kinda dumb. I made the hood affixed to a little Sherlock Holmes hunters' cape with the scarf, which plays on the chevron-bordered brown-on-tan color scheme in one of the illustrations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted January 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]41143[/ATTACH] Vixen. I like her design and my execution of it in this pic, except the pose is kind of meh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted January 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]41162[/ATTACH] Lady Crow. Maybe a little more cheesecakey and not as emaciated as I had orignally intended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted January 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]41164[/ATTACH] Orchid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) Where was Vixen from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted January 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) In 6th Ed, with the costume depicted here (more or less) Vixen was in Champions Villains Volume 3. With a slightly different costume she appeared in a 5th Ed supplement as well, though I forget which. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted January 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]41256[/ATTACH] Mentalla. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted January 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]41257[/ATTACH] Morgaine the Mystic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted January 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]41260[/ATTACH] Siren (c. 1970) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) Siren looks... awkward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted January 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) Well, in 1970 Siren was still young and a bit shy. She gained confidence and poise later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) Bowling was real popular in the 70's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted January 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) Actually, I cribbed the pose from a photo reference of a woman playing tennis; in the original she held a racket in her right hand and was in mid-swing. I thought it was suitably action-y but it looks like the end result fell flat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraven Kor Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) Not many of us have the artistic skills to begin to critique, and problems with pose and proportions were what drove me to eventually just stop drawing entirely. I see some of your work here and clearly remember drawing and re-drawing hips or hands or feet (or facial expressions - angry or 'thousand yard stare' were the only ones I could pull off) trying to make it look correct, then having an apoplectic fit and giving up. Usually involving the crumbling of paper and/or breaking of pencils (fortunately, all cheap #2's as I never had 'drawing pencils' until long after I had given up hope.) Moral of the story: Don't give up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted April 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]42604[/ATTACH] Gloriana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epiphanis Posted April 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2012 Re: Women of the Champions Universe (Fanpictorial) [ATTACH=CONFIG]42605[/ATTACH] Anathema. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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