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What if Tim was the shortest robin, but also the beefiest.
listen this is already 100% canon
tim is a deceptively compact boy and his stepmom had Concerns about him making a (fake) go at football tryouts
but like his entire Robin run is just near-death shenanigans, situationally inappropriate snarking (see: near-death shenanigans), and WELCOME TO THE GUN SHOW
The art work you did under the 'favorite expressions' line is really beautiful. It really brings tears to my eyes looking at them! But I was wondering, where did you get your insperation? I recognize the Damian one back from when Dick was Batman (I think...) and I thought the Jason one might be from Under the Red Hood, but I wasn't really sure. Are they all from different comic books you've read? Thank you for working so hard on these pictures (and on all your works), they're absolutely amazing!
They are, actually! I tried to tie ‘em to quotes (paraphrased or just Good Fit) for a specific point or theme in each of their character arcs that I really connected with. for context, I am mainly All About the preboot universe and just slap specific storylines from New52 and beyond as an extension onto that universe.
Damian: quote is riffed from an observation Dickbats made, but applied to the recurring them in Damian’s early (/continuing) conflicts with Bruce
Dick: another riffed quote, this time from Alfred, focusing on the stress and internal conflict Dick went through when he first picked up Dickbats again -- trying to be strong on way too many fronts and feeling like he was failing at all of it
Tim: quote is paraphrasing what his entire Red Robin arc was about and the same kind of dialogue that kept cropping up (believe -- in bruce, in himself, no one believing in him, etc.). context is riffed from this set of panels
Jason: quote paraphrasing Jason’s conflict/feelings on Bruce’s inaction following his death, and definitely all inspired by Under the Red Hood. for the record i still get choked up from just the memory of “BECAUSE HE TOOK ME AWAY FROM YOU”
Steph: quote is me trying really hard to summarize her entire character development from Spoiler to Robin to Batgirl, and that frustration of constantly being passed up, dismissed, and told to quit when all she needed to succeed was someone to take the time to be a real mentor to her
Cass: quote is also me trying and failing to find a good way to put into words exactly what was so intrinsically good in Cass that, despite knowing no other life, she was still driven to find the strength to refuse her reality, break out of her hell, and seek out something better even if she didn’t know what “better” even was until she got out.
to be honest i wasn’t even going to do a series after dick and damian (as an artist, man, i have no patience/focus for doing series) but i have a lot of strong feelings and love for each of these kids and their stories and it happened...
1) nothing fancy! i use a modified (100% max for opacity limit max and min) Studio Pen for inking and filling in the flat colors, and then the default Brush Pen and Round Brush/Water Brush/Soft Airbrush for painting, with some imported gradients from the forums to help with shading/lighting overlay layers. 2) listen buddy u gonna need to go and come back with a court order and sheriff for that and by the time u get em both i will be across the mexican border and continuing my life of crime. hasta luego!! 3) i'm taking u with me to mexico anon -- but for real, thank you and i love you and you're my new favorite ok
hi!! big fan of your art, especially your recent "expressions" series. may i ask what art program you use? i'm looking to get into digital drawing soon (as in five months ago but who's counting) and could really use some good program recs. no worries if you dont get to this. just know your art is impressive and it makes me smile :)
I use a few different programs, actually!
On desktop, I go between Clip Studio Paint EX (nee Manga Studio) and Adobe Photoshop.
Clip Studio Paint is a lighter-weight program but still pretty versatile -- it has some excellent default pencil/pen/paint tools to pick up and roll with. I use it when I want to work quickly/for less detailed projects.
Photoshop is the be-all and end-all of programs, but does have a learning curve -- I switch to it when I want more fine-tuned control over everything. The default brushes are a’ight, but Kyle Webster’s brush sets are AMAZING to use instead... highly recommended, and absolutely worth the investment. He pushes lots of updates and add-ons to each pack, so they’re always getting improved or expanded, and often at no extra cost.
Lately I’m a lot more mobile-leaning in my set-up, and have been working with a cheap but surprisingly amazing combo of: Apple iPad ($99 deal) + MEKO stylus pen ($15 for two and tons of spare nibs) + Procreate ($6). With the MEKO pen I lose the pressure-sensitivity control (would need to shell out way more $$$ for an Apple Pencil or a Wacom pen for the iPad), but Procreate compensates really well for still getting the line variation that I want. It is absolutely crammed with features, is super intuitive once you learn the gestures for it and what it can do, has a really robust community that expands its features further, and blows every other art program for the iPad out of the water. A lot of professionals have confessed that they got iPads solely to use Procreate, ha!
In fact, everything I’ve made since getting active again in July has been done with that set-up, including the Expressions series. Honestly, can’t recommend it enough!
just wanted to pop by to say i absolutely adore your art! and to thank you for sharing it!!!! so thank you<3
Thank you for the kind message!! I’m glad to hear y’all enjoying the draws
@sorceressassassin replied to your photo: 90s!superboy diggin on marcus to!red robin is all...
Wonder how 90’s kon would feel about Batman Beyond!Tim? All grown up and MUCH taller than him!
emotion: personally attacked
ruffboijuliaburnsides reblogged your photo and added:
i know nothing about nier automata, but he’s in...
imagine a far-future post-humanity flora-reclaimed earth, where stylish android teams fight legions of alien robots in a constant cycle of war-and-waiting to take out the big bad aliens so that humanity can finally come home from the moon.
except it has been so heckin long that none of them have ever met a human, barely know anything about humanity... but protecting humanity is their Primary Function. so with the war and abstracted purpose they’re all going a little stir-crazy and we end up with a game about androids with PTSD and identity crisis.
technically these robo-kiddos are’t supposed to have emotions, but jig’s been up on that one for a while... so here we have li’l D probably dropping down into post-battle dust to criticize the heck out of Timmers, and blame him for everything that goes wrong, ever.
Hey! Thank you for all the information. I wanted to ask, out of all the Kyle Webster’s brush sets, which one do you recommend to start with? Just in case I can't invest in all of them right away.
The Ultimate Megapack definitely offers the most bang for the buck and covers a huuuge range of media effects/textures, if you can nab it.
The rest of the packs are really good for focusing on a specific area of process/media, but ultimately I would recommend the ones focusing on linework/inking, since you can achieve a lot of the painter-ly and coloring effects of the other brushes -- just with a little more work.
(And, like, excessive abuse of layer effects/texture image overlays/masking, heh... )
The Animator Pencil and the Mr. Natural packs are also both Pay-What-You-Want, too, which is awesome.
