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League of Heroes in DCAU-ish style, 2025-04

I think this kind of thing is normally called a style study?

I don’t know, I’ve been watching Justice League again and since part of my love of superheroes comes from the DCAU, I wanted to give doing my characters in the style a try.

Its reinforced this thought I had that I had a problem with shoulders and the triangle between the neck and shoulders. Trying to do the DCAU style really helped me see certain limitations I have or gaps in my anatomy.

It also shows more limitations of standard DCAU hero design and my adaptability. I have certain body types in mind with certain characters, so trying to do that within the conventional style has been interesting to say the least.

But you can see from the first picture how much erasing was involved with my trying to add additional characters with different builds. Also I think maybe it was getting too small for me to draw well.

Either way at least I like how Fistman, Gumboy, and YinYang Ninja came out.

Crimson Lightning, Lucky, and The Lioness are more indicative of what trying to incorporate alternate builds into the conventional style looks like in my attempts. I’m sure if I searched harder I could’ve found something better but I was working from some basic style guides and turnarounds of specific characters.

Also can you tell my hand was getting tired by the time I got to Hearts? I can.

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So yeah, it’s the Fourth of July. You know, fireworks season. So I figured it was a perfect time to draw and re-introduce one of my supervillains from my Heroes Universe. I’ve posted art of him before right here. I have trouble with him sometimes because I designed him a certain way so he looks much older than he’s supposed to be

So, meet Skylight.  I haven’t come up with his civilian name yet but he has one.

He used to be the head of the Skylight Fireworks franchise, an old family business that he loved. However, the company was going under and bigger companies were crowding him out. Eventually the board voted him out and the company got absorbed into some other fireworks megacorp.

He lost everything, he was absolutely furious, it was gone, all gone!

Well one thing his family always knew and taught was how to make the product yourself. He saw no other way, blinded by rage and loss, he made himself a protective suit, made his own custom fireworks, took up the name of his deceased company, and tried to get revenge on the board that kicked him out and subsequently other fireworks companies.

Eventually his anger winded down, however at that point he realized he was out of options. He had made himself into a criminal and had attempted assault, sabotage, and possibly murder. He was a good guy who had a long series of bad days and poor decisions and now he was stuck.

With no other options he’s taken to being a career criminal, taking on jobs he can get hired for such as a distraction for other villains, henching, robberies, sabotage, and insurance fraud. He’s less keen on harming people, it was never something he enjoyed, and he still likes putting smiles on kids faces when he gets the chance.

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So yesterday I was bored in class and started doodling some of my league of heroes characters for funsies. You know, practice. I started with the two on the top left and then just decided to do the whole team since i haven’t drawn a lot of them (especially in civilian form) for some time

I don’t know how the hell I used to sketch with number 2 pencils, this was atrocious. If I took this seriously I would have busted out my 3s but like I said, class doodles.

So who are these people? I won’t go into details (but you can check out the details here and if you have any questions just throw me an ask) I’ll just give name and superhero name, left to right top to bottom. Just know that this was my first ever superhero team, The League of Heroes.

Row One: “Teen Division”

Alicia O’Malley, Lucky

Timothy “Tim” Simonson, Junior Spyborg

Sally Winging, Crimson Lightning

Amelia Wilder, The Lioness

Maoxin-jin “Mark-jin” Choo, Element Boy

Bradley “Brad” Lites, HotIce

Row Two: “Kid Division”

Hannah Spellbound, Hearts

Collinriph(Colin) “Kid” Tarnferler(Transfer), Kid-Transformo

Drake Scope, Kid Arachnid (or Black Spider)

Tyler “Tai” Gem, Gumboy

Gary McGee, Steel Boy

Benjamin “Ben” Sturifu, The YinYang Ninja

Ivan Esteban Isaac Mahendra-Stream, WInd Wonder

Row Three: “Adult Division”

Ace Spellbound, The Ace of Spades

Xinthronite Calvin “Shadow” Guglielmo, Shadow

Derek Scope, Black Widower

David Gem, Fistman

Fatua

Teletrent Edward Port, The Psychic (Psy-Kick)

Miki Kishimoto

Mechaneko-chan (Neko-chan)

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I guess I’m not stopping this train of of art, So here’s Part One and Part Three I guess in a series i wasn’t planning on making a series.

But I just had this idea of the fight in my head and i had to draw it and it’s probably one of the most intricate things I’ve drawn in years. Like, I’m even impressed myself.

So if you’ve seen the previous posts you’ve seen the fighting pair, Tai Gem (Gumboy) and Drake Scope (Kid Arachnid/Black Spider). These other two are Hannah Spellbound (Hearts) and Ben Sturifu (YinYang).

You have probably met Hannah in previous posts concerning her brother, Ace. The Spellbound family are rich and can control cards, Hannah is interested in law. Ben is a chosen one of a secret society of ninjas. Ben is the leader of the informally designated “Kid Division” of the League of Heroes.

Ben and Tai were friends before the League of Heroes was a thing.

I was going to do the next page tonight but I had a long day.

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Part One | Part Two

So Here’s the part three I never thought i was going to make because i thought thought I was going to make Part Two.

But here we are. Hope you like, it was cool to do, haven’t done much with the original LoH in a long time and I’m happy i’m going back to them. I’ve even gone back to writing the book.

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Once upon a time people from another universe where magic was commonplace travelled to our world. Though many returned home some stayed and some bred with the locals. Thousands of generations later people with limited magical abilities manifested. These groups with a common power became "Magi-Clans". These days most Magi-Clans are large families with old money and a lot of influence, and actual magical power that they keep to themselves. 

 Ace Spellbound, family black sheep, believed doing the right thing and doing what made him happy was more important that maintaining the traditions of a self-centered modestly wealthy family of magicians. Ace used his power to become a hero, donning the mantle The Ace of Spades. Ace loves theatre, stage magic, men, and media tropes, which is sort of in opposition to his stodgy conservative wealthy family of doctors, lawyers, and CEOs. Ace and his sister Hannah become two of the 20 founding members of the first superhero team, The League of Heroes

 Hannah Spellbound, lawyer wannabe and Ace's younger and more studious sister by 7 years, she took to spending more time with Ace whom she is close to while still studying under the ideals of her parents. She lives with Ace from time to time under the guise of spying on him for their family. Hannah, wanting to learn more from her brother, took on the mantle of Hearts. Her perspective can be described in this quote from her: "I've always been taught that the law is always right, that vigilante justice is wrong. But my brother taught me it's worse to do nothing when you could have done something."

 Dickson "Dix" Spellbound  is Ace and Hannah's uncle, a club owner and former Marine with a big heart. When Dix's brother kicked Ace out, Dix took Ace in, never having been on board with the family history of shadiness. He doesn't become a superhero immediately, only after coming out a few times to help his niece and nephew, and eventually he joins the UN-run superhero initiative, Heroes U.N.I.T.E.D. The more straightforward Dix took on the mantle 10 Club. 

 Finally there's Jackson Spellbound, the kind, handsome, perfect, and dashing twin cousin to Ace (born on the same day, not actual twins) who is naturally better at everything Ace is good at. After Ace defected from the family, Jack was to be groomed as future head of the family. Jack, while complicit in his family's ways, also harbors no ill will towards his family at all and naively believes He and Ace can get along as family. Ace is too clouded by jealousy and resentment to accept that. While Jack does not participate much in heroics, he has offered himself to be Ace and Hannah's ally under the name The Jack of Spades, and eventually becomes a reserve member of the League of Heroes known as the League of Allies.

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Ace and Hannah Spellbound, walking along. 19 year old Ace looks to the sky, considering what misguided wisdom he wishes to impart on his 12 year old sister, Hannah.

Ace absentmindedly practices card flourishes, without magic. Though it's more like second nature to him so you can hardly call it practice. Hannah holds her book to her side, waiting for him to speak rather than doing her usual reading on the nature of law.

I drew these two a few days ago in celebration of Ace's birthday on the 29th of February. So they've been on my mind a little.

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I apparently refuse to draw Ace having a happy birthday today. Also, Hannah Spellbound here, is like 12 and the right size. Ace and his cousin Jack are just really tall, not that far away from seven feet tall. 

 Hannah: Ace! You can't just be rude to Cousin Jack like that! He's trying really hard!

 Ace: Of course you'd take his side... Like everyone else... I guess you're more like our parents than you think.

 Hannah: Don't you dare try to pull that one! Ever think maybe Jack is so nice to me because he's a lot like you?!

Hannah here is Ace's little sister at a 7 year difference. Ace may be estranged from his family but he's always been close to Hannah who learns a lot from him and even becomes a superhero, Hearts. She made the conscious choice to live with Ace under the pretense of spying on him for their family. She is bright, mature, and aspires to be a lawyer. However she also spends a lot of time with Jackson as well. Yeah he's sort of a family drone but he's a nice guy trying to meet Ace halfway and unite the family. Ace loves his sister but still sort of sees it as a betrayal of his relationship with her.