hi hi <3 you seem like the best person to ask and I trust ur taste so do you have some huntress/helena bertellini references I could use? anything full body or full face if u have it. if not that’s ok! your blog is super cool I hope u have a nice day <3
hey!! sorry for the late response. you're very sweet and i appreciate your ask so much, thank you!!! i hope you're having a good day too 💕
this response ended up longer than i expected, so to answer your question directly: i personally like her appearances in the hush comics the best! [ batman #609, #617 ]
i'm going to give a more elaborate response under the cut with more options and designs, because there's just no one way to depict her and you're always more than allowed to have fun with drawing her!! she can pull off anything 😈
i'm just laying out certain ways she's been drawn in different categories, these do not double as a comic reading list necessarily although if you do check out these comics, you'll find more material to work with! i'm just offering a glimpse. also, i'm sorry some of the images are out of order! i'm on mobile so i'm struggling a little; i added alt image descriptions to label the images
comics marked in purple are what i believe have some nice depictions of her in civil clothing too if you're also looking for that!
i hope this helps!!!
category one: blunt trauma, nightwing/huntress, her time in the no man's land era, her appearance in wonder woman #164
category two: birds of prey vol 1 (her first appearance starts from #57), birds of prey vol 2, the animated show justice league unlimited
category three: spyral/grayson comics, batgirl and the birds of prey
category four: detective comics (2016—) [ issues: #1034 to #1058 ], lazarus planet: dark fate
category five: [ the miscellaneous ] this screenshot from jla secret files & origins #2, batman secret files: huntress, cry for blood, the question: pipeline & convergence, injustice: gods among us, huntress: year one, the justice league unlimited comics
just a note? there is another character, helena wayne aka the huntress, who originates from earth 2. in crossbow at the crossroads, that's not helena bertinelli, it's actually helena wayne! this mistake is often made because the writer pulled a pretty terrible "omg helena wayne was pretending to be helena bertinelli this whole time lololol" plot twist and the comic's summary also mentions hel b, so yeah.
if you have any more questions i'm always happy to help!! 🩵
snob hi ur post about werewolf/mermaid ocs do you have any references (could I please draw them) this is literally the BEST thing I’ve ever heard of tell me moreee 🤩
x OMG SCREAMS ok so this is really old art from when I was like 14 or 15 so I'm gonna put it under a readmore as well as some things that I feel I need to address
here's what I could scrounge up without booting up my old phone
okay so. this was before I knew better. but I've read that you're really not supposed to make black characters The Werewolf in a group because it has gross implications- that said Cara isn't aggressive at all she's quite the ray of sunshine so idk, i feel like I need to do something but I don't want to make her not black because that's how she is in my mind for one and as for another thing, she's part of a generational story and both of her parents are also black meaning if I changed her race, I'd have to change her parents races too so anyway, do with that information what you will I have not touched this story since I was 15, just felt like i should address that
as for more on them, they're Brooke and Melcara, and Brooke was adopted by a freshwater merman while Melcara was born to a trans guy that's a chicken alien, and his werewolf husband- okay anyway they live in this pseudo fantasy world and they're childhood friends because their parents are all best friends too, but it blossoms into more as they grow up and its sweet. without getting into prophecies and worldbuilding too much that's the gist of it lmao- if Brooke stays out of salt water too long she starts to dry up and her skin falls off so oftentimes Cara will sleep by her in a bathtub or on the docks by the ocean with her. there's a lot of symbolism with them with like, the moon draws in the tides, werewolves change with the moon, you get me
ember gimme 15 fun facts abt ur ocs (request for rant)
YIPPEE ok......making a list cuz i like making lists (and it's easier to keep track of my number of facts)
under the cut because dear god there's so many words
ace has this odd habit where whenever they're leaving people they dislike they. chop off her hair in the bathroom and leave the hair and never come back. ok so for context ace is a big fan of the "if it sucks hit the bricks" mentality BUT they tend to have a huge breakdown before hitting Said Bricks. in the process of the huge breakdown, she usually finds her way to the bathroom with a pair of craft scissors or a hair trimmer and just. goes at it. and leaves all the little hairs all over and disappears forever. some examples are leaving home after graduation or the infamous last bluff concert
pixie and ace met in high school! ace had some other friends then (like matt, ex-drummer of bluff, who now fronts a band called plastic woman!!), but pixie had a bit of a hard time adjusting. they met because they were both involved in theater at the time and they became SUPER close. pixie was a grade level below ace, so they lost touch when ace graduated, but they met again when pixie found herself at a giveafux gig (ace's other band before cyberdevils - shags was there too!) after breaking up with her shitty boyfriend (the guy who was mentioned in that one really sad comic i made a while ago with pixie on the phone with her mom)
pixie's middle name is martina, which is also the name of her grandmother on her mom's side! and her dad was named after his father (julian pereira. that makes pixie's dad a junior)
shags' real name is sophie triggs. shags was a nickname given to her by an old friend (more on said friend later)
ace cuts pixie's hair :)
ace and shags met at a club. i think about this a lot and i am going to expand on it one day but let me tell you i think about it a lot. before they met shags had moved to america to go to hollywood and try to become a movie star. she failed and started spending a LOT of time at bars and clubs and in other people's rooms. it made her feel like shit but she convinced herself she'd never be anything. and ace on the other hand had only just moved out of her aunts' house after staying there for a few months following the big public breakdown/bluff breakup. they hadn't really been out much and were trying to start a new chapter and all that. then the two met
all three of the band members are very much queer hehe
shags had a classic case of adolescent codependent homoerotic situationship. it was with a girl named cassie and the two were inseparable. they both had shitty parents, so they relied on each other a lot and spent a lot of time sneaking out late at night to go smoke in the park on rooftops. cassie died when she and shags were both fourteen and shags wasn't and never will be more devastated by probably anything else. on a lighter note cassie gave shags her nickname when they were looking through a book about birds and couldn't stop laughing at the shag. the nickname stuck among everyone as shags started sleeping around with people a lot once cassie died
since we're discussing names a whole lot - pixie's younger brother cosmo chose his name because he's always been super obsessed with space :)
ace will occasionally refer to shags as shagatha
pixie loves getting acrylic nails and shags does it fairly often too. however they both always seem to have two missing. hmmmm. (for different reasons)
ace taught pixie to play guitar!! :)
shags canonically sounds like murdoc niccals. and pixie sounds a bit like poppy and i have no idea whose voice ace's is similar to
when i first drew them pixie and shags were girlfriends. but i hadn't given them any background or anything yet and when i decided to add ace into the mix (since they were a slightly older character who looked like she could be friends with pixie + shags) and i decided on the three being a band and fleshing them out more i decided no. however ace and shags did date and idk about you but i think ace n pixie might have a lil something going on hmmm (i say this like they aren't MY ocs. shush)
last fact! uhh the band's living situation is very complicated. do they live together in a big house? do two share an apartment while the other lives separately? do they all have their own apartments? who's to say. certainly not me i didn't make these guys up i don't know what you're talking about
The Now Now cover! When I was working on him, I had multiple color variants, I was leaning toward the pink, but it lacked something, so my friend in discord suggested adding blue and teal like TNN, and bang we have his design!
I watched no evil yesterday so uhh if you wanna infodump or anything,,, i’d be happy to listen :D
hope you’re having a good day lovely <3 /p
Ahhhh yay!!
Thank you for the offer and I’ll happily accept it ^^
Okay first of all: I pick up accents after less than two minutes of hearing them. Which is currently why I have either calamity’s accent or Kitty’s every time I talk. I find it funny that I sound like charles anyways
Annnnyways. The “reptiles are backwards” thing is actually really funny to me. The fact that poppies are supposed to be calming or cooling or whatever, then they do the opposite for Calamity and Corn. I just really find that funny.
Also also also!! Found family!! The uhh mitlcan I think is what it’s called group. With Amaroq and Angel and Charles. A wodnerful found family.
I also think that Amaroq was not as bad and evil as everyone said and was actually just a victim of abuse. Which is not fair.
Huey and Amaroq should’ve been friends and I’m excited to see if Betsy adds more time with them together.
ALSO
WHAT. IS. UP. WITH. CORN!?!?
I will not say more on that matter-
Calamity and Hueys relationship just makes me smile (platonically!!). Just how quickly she was willing to just hand over her Rod to him with complete trust.
Also in episode 39 (I think??) when Charles was attempting to wake Ichabod the animation style just looks really really cool.
“You. Can’t. Handle. Corn” — Amaroq
Something that confuses me is when Amaroqs having the flashback of the time with Kitty and him losing his tail, Corn bit him. But, he didn’t die from the bite…? I just didn’t understand that part but I thought it was a cool detail anyways.
Episode…5? I think. When Huey’s upset about Corn and the soup thing. It’s my favorite episode actually. It’s just really funny.
I also like the ones with music. Like when Calamity finds Tlaloc’s rod thingy, or episode 4 with the duet, or the Stuck In The Middle one. I also really liked the (I think they’re called) Barbershop tags? The cry one.
Ooh ooh! The bloopers (I think they’re actually called outtakes) are hilarious and I’ve watched them all twice already.
The entire thing just makes me so happy because of the folklore and legends in it. I’m very happy you watched it!!
