We recently had a Wallpaper week on the SG site, so I thought I'd update a bit wit the color images of the three heroines of the comic, minus the text. I wanted to go with a "Triple Goddess, Madien, Mother and Crone" theme with the wallpapers. But over all, I just wanted an excuse to try some new coloring techniques out.

Shadowgirl Lineage

I drew this over the Holiday break, and it's something I've been wanting to draw for a while now. It's the currrently established lineage of the Shadowgirls, including (from right to left) Doc Shadow from the Pulp Era, Susan Shane: The Golden Age Shadowgirl, The Silver Age and Bronze Age Shadowgirl, the swashbuckling shadowpirate, and the current day Shadowgirls, Charon, Becka and the Shadowchild.

It was kinda fun to draw.

Wall-E

I saw the movie last night. I was struggling between drawing the next page, drawing the Thanksgiving picture and drawing fan art of Wall-E.

Wall-E won.

I included the lineart for it. Did something a little different this time and I digitally inked it. Since he's a blockier old school robot, I wanted to get that more precision straight line to the character... Not too sure I like it but it'll do for now. I'm pretty sure I don't like to digitally ink, and I now know why. It's one thing to Digitally ink over a background image, like a car or a building, since it's a unfocused image and the attention is drawn to the foreground characters. But with digitally inking the foreground character... It just feels too static to me. Too... Clean. I like my little errors and ink flecks that pop up in my lineart. I like slightly being able to see my pencil lines in my art.

I still gotta draw Eve too.

Batgirl

Pretty much as the title says. It's Batgirl.

I was thinking about drawing the other three, but ironically I realized three things:

1: I didn't really have all that great of a reference to Betty Kane's golden age costume in it's bright colored glory.
2: I really don't like Cassandra Cain's costume. I never have, and the "gimp-mask" just never fails to make me roll my eyes.
3. I wonder if Charlie Gage-Radcliffe would have been a Batgirl long enough to count as one? (Kinda like Spoiler as Robin.)

Night of the Progenitors

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These three pages were done for Halloween on the Shadowgirls site. There’s a bit of a backstory t o tell about these guys, which I didn’t have the opportunity to do so at the time.

See, I originally did these three pages as part of the 24 hour comic day challenge. The idea was the draw a 24 page comic in 24 hours. I was gonna try it, but honestly… I wasn’t ready for it. Despite some people talking down to me like I’m a coward or looking for an excuse to not do it. I just wasn’t ready. I know when I’m ready to do something or not. I used to have a habit of rushing into projects I hadn’t thought out thoroughly… I have a ton of false starts to Transformers fan comics that have beginning, but nary an end. I got tired of that, and in my age, I decided to take my time on all projects now. That’s why I’ve only done two TF: Mosaics and why I don’t do a lot of projects. I want to make sure I’m ready for them. (Even though I still flounder every now and then.) Thing is though, the comic for the 24 hour challenge needs to be done ONLY IN THAT 24 HOUR PERIOD. Meaning the story ideas and scripts I was writing were a “no go“. I would have been cheating. So… Like I said. I wasn’t ready, the project got postponed until later. (I’d still like to do it. Just not right now.)

Anyway, this story was actually going to be 24 pages long. The Progenitors here were still going to go door to door getting candy, Toward the end, they would have gotten the idea of just stealing other children’s candy, because it’s easier. There was going to be a larger plot as well, with Becka and Lindsey trick or treating as well, sharing some dialogue, including a look into the family life of Lindsey and her crazy parents. It was eventually going to handled as a “Grinch who stole Christmas” parody, with all the dialogue rhyming. (The title was originally going to be ‘The Progenitors who stole Halloween’.) I sorta ran into problems with Lindsey and Becka’s costumes. I wanted them to be themed. They had gone through a couple of ideas including Becka as Robin and Lindsey as Harley Quinn, as a Jedi and Jabba Slave Girl, as Stormy and Rainbow Brite, and two members of the Voltron Force. As I realized the story needed to be done that day, the story got edited down, and the girls were totally cut.

I still wanted to do something for Halloween though, and D.Rod suggested, shortening it to a three pager and getting the joke done quicker. So, that I did. The pages were all drawn in one day, except for the last page, because I was having difficulty with Charon’s costume. I didn’t know what to make it. The Baroness costume was not my first choice. I originally was going for Jem, from Jem and the Holograms… But in B&W, Jem doesn’t come across as obvious. So Baroness is was.

I did have a little fun doing the short story like this though. I’ll probably do another one in the future. I got one in mind already…