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.
I was trying to have this done for blackout day but I rushed and had just a bunch of really bad parts, now it’s all good and the centerpiece of my Crimson LightningxThe Lioness stuff for Pride Month is complete.
Been wanting to do more with Amelia using her powers other than her lion mode and so here she is as a frog!
So, because my selfies are worthless my new Blackout day tradition is showcasing my black characters.
And because it’s also Pride Month I’m showcasing my LGBT+ heroes of color.
And so here we have the demisexual central African superhero, Amelia Wilder, aka The Lioness from my superhero story The League of Heroes. And she’s getting a quick kiss from her electrifying indigenous Australian GF, Sally Winging aka Crimson Lightning.
Oh, and I guess pansexual icon, Element Boy, is in this too.
Because it was pride month i decided to do portraits of characters from my Heroes Universe who were in fact LGBTQIA. So from the team that started it all, it’s the League of Heroes.
I did something different because I knew I wouldn’t have a lot of time and digital art makes me an obsessive perfectionist. I haven’t busted out the old colored pencil collection in nearly 5 years but when push comes to shove...
So some brief information about each of them under the cut
First up we have the nominal leader, the asexual Dr. David Gem aka Fistman.
Genius mad scientist, brilliant physicist and engineer, lover of comics and superheroes, struggles with PTSD from the same event that gave him powers that he tries to overcome with unending child-like love for the mysteries of the universe.
Next up, two of the teens, the demisexual Amelia Wilder aka The Lioness and the bisexual Sally Winging aka Crimson Lighting.
Amelia is a head strong and intense gal with a great respect and awareness of the world around her, partly due to the instincts she acquires with every animal DNA she incorporates into her being. Her preferred form is the lion, obviously. Amelia is lit up by power + someone worthy of her respect and the scheming Sally has that in spades.
Sally is an energetic artist and a well known prankster with a sharp tongue, sharp wit, and little patience for those with POVs she finds detestable. She is extremely passionate about seeing justice be done in the world, making her more inclined to use her powers to be a hero unlike her two triplet sisters.
The other two teens there are the pansexual Maoxin-jin “Mark-jin” Cho aka Element Boy and the gay Gary McGee aka Steel Boy.
Mark-jin is a cool and chill guy, bit of a hippie that loves nature, tai chi, yoga, and his acoustic guitar. Wears goggles and chinese shirts for no reason other than he thinks they make him look cool. Under that is someone who is very good at board games and thinks himself to be a chessmaster not just of game boards and battlefields, but of friends as well. He means well, which is part of his problem, and that occasionally causes conflict with his boyfriend, Gary.
Gary is a sweet boy, a shy, has a bit of a stutter, has had past experiences of being bullied that added to his timidness. Mark-jin was his protector, then best friend, then boyfriend. Gary loves gardening, watching ballet, and wearing the various knit sweaters his grandmother makes him, he doesn’t want to go out there and fighting bad guys. But the symbiotic organic steel that bonded to him makes him nigh vulnerable and Mark-jin reminds him how valuable his ability and perspectives are to the team.
Next we have the youngest of the “Adult division” of the LoH at 19 when the story begins, the gay Ace Spellbound aka the Ace of Spades
A chill guy, a little lazy, bit of a showman, is a theatre student that adores sleight of hand and stage magic. Though with his power he doesn’t really need to learn stage magic, but he finds it a very useful skill. He’s a bit of the Meta Guy, his theatre and english interests making him exceptionally aware of media tropes almost to a fault, sometimes he thinks he can make some media conventions are at play in the real world.
Finally is another teen, the asexual Timothy “Tim” Simonson (If that is his real name) the Junior Spyborg.
A lifelong spy, shy and insecure about himself as a person but very good at what he does. He’s kind of shy so he’s quite a lot and shut up in his own little world and with the way he covers his face makes people think he’s this cold logical calm collected spy. He doesn’t dissuade anyone of that and on occasion even plays up that he’s probably cool. The incident that got his parents killed also injured him extensively injured him so the organization he’s a part of used the prototype spyborg program to save him.
His dangly bits and hormones were not radically altered in any way by his reconstruction, he knew he was asexual some time before the whole thing happened and nothing changed.
So that’s the LoH pride portraits. Tune in next time for the Future Heroes and Heroes United ones.
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.
One of the great things about me embarking on this Pride Month/Blackout Day thing with Amelia has been my chance to have her use her powers.
I always default to her using her Lion form because that’s her preferred form and because I haven’t done much with her doing everyday things. She can morph herself into any animal she’s ever touched and I’ve always wanted to do a thing where she has to start doing giraffe stuff and people laughing because she looks silly.
