#custom skylanders

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Making some concepts for Feast and Dream element skylanders for Spyro's adventure

Might redraw my Light and Dark concepts later too

I at least want some good basic art references to finally stick to so I can start making my way through other games

Have these four for now. Will reblog once I make the other half of these characters ^^

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Back at it again with my Mario and Sonic styled Olympics nonsense. But this time I pulled my Favorite Skylander in to compete.

So enjoy some Olympics outfits Flameslinger would wear while competing, such as his basic athletic outfit and gear.

His fencing and karate outfits

His aquatic outfits for surfing and swimming

And his last three outfits for gymnastics, equestrian, and Dream events

I might just alternate between my different hyperfixations and OC characters for these Olympics outfits. As tedious as they feel sometimes I really Like doing these.

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DEPTH STRIDER

Allow me to introduce Depth Strider, my first Custom Swapforce Skylander. His element is dark, and his ability is Dive.

Depth Strider was once one of the most feared bounty and monster hunters in all of Skylands... known to dive into the deepest darkest depths of Skylands' many oceans to track down his targets. Once, he was even commissioned by a group of dark sages to hunt down his most challenging target to date... the evil portal mistress Kaosandra!

The stubborn Depth Strider became a surprisingly worthy adversary to Kaosandra... but eventually he came to realize there was no way he could capture a target with mastery over all ten elements on his own, so he sought out the help of Master Eon. Eon happily accepted, under the condition that Depth Strider join the team of Skylanders in charge of defending Cloudbreak. Since Kaosandra wanted very badly to take control of the elementals and the magic volcano, he was sure to gain many opportunities to capture her.

Here's a quick example sketch of Depth Strider swapping with Magna Charge

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Remember Dragonaire, my Fire Swashbuckler? I decided to draw her.

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Okay, So these guys were my first batch of custom Skylanders, and the basic premise was "What if Spyro's adventure had the Light and Dark elements." I decided to suggest that Spotlight and Blackout were there since 1: they are the only Light and Dark core Skylanders officially, and 2: Spotlight's origin story suggests she was with Eon and the other Skylanders when Kaos blew up the core, so I think it's safe to assume the same for Blackout. The first image was for concepts, and the images that follow are the finished products. In order we have....

Shadow caster, a dark spell punk who turned to the side of good after going on a journey to grow powerful. His catchphrase is "Cast the Darkness!" But I forgot it on his picture.

Then there's Lancelight, who's name isn't squished together yet. It's a pun name. He was ridiculed as a kid because his wings didn't grow in properly and he couldn't fly, but he still became a hero anyway. I also accidentally forgot his catchphrase, which is "Pierce the Heavens!"

After Lance is a recreation of a scrapped Skylander. Remember Zap? How he was gonna be a blob monster named Tar-clops? This resign leans into the "Tar" part of his name, hence why he's now a living blob of pollution. He was born from the careless dumping of toxic waste and actually goes on to clean the environments he visits by eating pollutants.

Shimmer is a Rainbow Tanooki or Racoon dog, and she vowed revenge against Kaos after he banished her entire species to another dimension. Kaos hated how cute they were and he was also allergic.

I actually wasn't a big fan of Skylanders Academy... but the idea of Spyro and Dark Spyro splitting into two separate entities combined with the 3DS games giving Dark Spyro his own unique moveset made me want to turn him into his own character. He named himself Ebon, and he was born when Eon quickly expelled darkness from Spyro's body.

Finally there's Bug zapper, cause I thought an electric firefly would be cute. He was once a,normal firefly, but he landed on a lightning rod a wizard was using and he was struck by enchanted lightning.

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Here are plans I have.

I'm slowly getting out of my block, and I'm working on my Custom Swapforce Skylanders.

However in order to even out the number of swappers and powers, there are two things I'm doing.

1. Creating new swap abilities.

These two new swap powers are Dive (marked by a picture of bubbles) and Gravitate (marked by arrows pointing up and down.

Swappers with the Dive ability are able to enter a minigame that involves diving to the bottom of a deep body of water, using a spin attack to dodge torpedoes or smash through underwater debris.

Swappers with the Gravitate ability activate a 2 dimensional platforming minigame, where they can flip gravity to mess with the physics.

Seeing as the current swap powers are pretty varied already, these were the only two I could think of honestly.

2. I have to make a ton of characters, making it to where there's 3 swappers per element.

While Gravitate could be shared between Light and Dark, I don't think it would be the same for abilities like Dive, especially when having a Water Dive swapper would be a no brainer.

Here are the characters I plan on designing.

Party Popper: a Magic Skylander with the bounce ability. Rather than having a tail that coils like a spring however, this is a circus/toy themed skylander balancing on a big rubber bouncy ball.

Steam Work: a Tech Skylander with the dig ability. He has a steampunk styled design, and rolls around on tank treads. Plus Drills are pretty common for the Tech Element.

Croak Soaker: a Water Skylander with the Dive ability. This frog is dressed up for some fun in the sun and he's ready for a Water fight, armed with water balloons and the ability to surf with his webbed feet.

Tail Burner: a Fire Skylander with the spin ability. Mostly because a Fire devil Skylander who whips with a flaming tail would be cool.

Cliff Hanger: while this is an Earth styled name, this will actually be a Life Skylander with the Climb ability. He'll be a mantis and his arms will be shaped like mountain climbing picks.

Fear Raiser: a ghostly Undead Skylander with the Gravitate ability, as ghosts causing people and objects to wildly float around seems like something interesting to play with.

Fleet Breeze: an Air Skylander with the speed ability, with boots styled like that of Hermes, the messenger of the Greek gods.

Mud Snapper: this Earth Skylander has the Dive ability, and is styled after a crustacean like a crawdad or crayfish. He uses his claws and tail to scoop up and fling mud.

Star Shooter: a sy-fy styled Light Skylander with the Gravitate ability. He'll be the Light element's poster swapper, like Blast zone is to fire for example.

Comet Crasher: a Light swapper who's body is made of light crystals. He has the Rocket ability.

Laser Sight: this Light element swapper has the sneak ability, and he turns invisible using a specialized belt that messes with the visible light spectrum.

Depth Strider: a Dark element Skylander with the Dive ability, with angler fish styled armor and a Harpoon gun best suited for the Darkest depths of the ocean. Like Star Shooter, he's the poster Swapper for his element.

Moon Stalker: a Dark alien Skylander with the Gravitate ability. He's somewhat inspired by horrifying aliens, kinda like from alien vs predator.

Void Master: a Dark element Skylander who can create black holes. He has the Teleport ability, though I'm still thinking about his design.

Do these sound like good ideas for characters? Depth Strider is the one I've started on so far. Once he's done I'll definitely be showing him.

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not me forgetting I made this

And this

[jackitk]

Photo-set of my custom Skylanders based on the Skylander Slam Bam.

Another Pokemon custom Amiibo/Skylander complete.  At this rate I’m gonna have a full party of NFC figures.

If you’re interested in buying a custom, I list the custom amiibo and Skylanders I have for sale over at my Storenvy account. www.jackitkay.storenvy.com