…and any other artists on the forum…

I like to learn who influenced artists I like… even though sometimes you can’t tell by looking at it really, it’s still there.

I was influenced by Juvann “JJ” Kirby more than anyone, because of his street style.

What about you Thom? I see your drawings as part Joe Maderuia, part Chris Sprouse and maybe some Appleseed in there…

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This was done for the This Week Jam, a weekly exercise where participating artists draw a character chosen at random at the beginning of the week, from a pool of previously submitted ideas from the members as a group.

Lightning Lass is one of the seven thousand members of the Legion of Super Heroes from the book of the same name which I’ve never read. However, she’s cute, her costume has nice simple colors that work well together, and, like many of these characters, she’s cycled through multiple iterations of her uniforms over time. So, I cobbled this outfit together as an amalgamation of my favorite aspects of three or four of her costumes. I like the coquetish stance and the gratuitously energized floating lamps myself. You might like the short skirt.

I’m here to please the people!

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The TRDL drawing challenge for the day…is a minor character from an episode of ‘Venture Brothers’ that I saw the other day. She’s a deadly, sexy, Russian, assassin type that was fooling around with Dr. Venture’s bodyguard Broc after trying to kill him. It was very James Bond.

Name … MOLOTOV COCKTEASE. (I’ll wait while you suffer the midsection cramps brought on by hysterical bouts of laughter. Through? Cool.)

The following is how she appeared on the show. You should draw her however you want, based off this stuff. I do have two pieces of photo reference, but I thought you might want to get at it from a clean slate. Let a brother know and I’ll post the photos for you if you need em, though.

GENERAL BODY BUILD : Tall, lean, and muscular.

HAIR : Long, red, and straight.

CLOTHING :

Underwear : Steel chastity belt. One solid plate in front, with red hammer-and-sickle logo on it, straps and thong made of delicate chain.

Outerwear : Full, form-fitting bodysuit, dark grey with red piping, open from neck to navel on both front and back. Knee-high boots, red. Elbow-length gloves, red.

Accessories : Grey, heart-shaped eye patch over left eye.

ARMAMENTS : Pistol and dagger.

EXTRA INFO : Smokes cigarettes. Dark mole over right corner of mouth (think Monroe or Wagner).

I don’t know if you wanna put this in TRDL Erotic, or TRDL Non-Erotic, but either way, she’s one of these sexpot bombshell types.

Aaaaaaaaand … GO!

IronLung out.

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I love this new costume, I really do. Alan Davis did some fine work modernizing Jean Grey’s old Marvel Girl miniskirted duds for a contemporary take on the costume, worn now by Rachel Summers. It doesn’t matter that miniskirts remain impractical for combat, or that Rachel Summers has once again been given a clean slate rewrite for use in the current X-Men roster, or that a young woman who spent the majority of her life on all fours, in red latex, in a dog collar, as a sex slave mutant hunter, might not be so inclined to gallivant around in a cheerleader uniform and smart sunglasses. But whatever, she looks cool.

You can see the full version here and in the TRDL Tribute Gallery

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I’ve been debating how much to contribute to the Dystopia section of the TRDL site in the coming year. While I spent scores of hours finishing up the final draft of the house rules and then doing all the compiling of graphics and data for the web launch, not long after we unfortunately had to end the campaign, since Vicbot, that skinny bastard, moved to Boston. It seemed like a good note on which to end that chapter of the game.

But I have mayyyybe 40 more characters not yet on the site, and several weapons and gear options in binders that weren’t finalized for the web. We also never began to migrate the vehicle stats over.

For those of you who haven’t checked it out, see the Dystopia: Hostile Takeover section here: http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/dystopia.html. For those that have, and those that play, do you think that material remains valuable as a resource (as it was designed) or should I put more content on there when time permits?

The compromise being that it eats away time being spent on pages for my Finit-e web comic…and of course those commissions…

Lastly, if you know anyone in need of character designs and character sheets, I do those as well by commission. I haven’t done one in about a year, but after I draw a client’s character, I can build the character sheet for them easily enough, based on the Dystopia standard sheet (downloadable off the site)… recently, I’ve been asked to generate character sheets for the Marvel RPG for some characters I was commissioned to do in the superhero side of things…

What do y’all think? More cyber? Or more spandex ( and nudies)?

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This is Wondergirl, of the current incarnation of the Teen Titans. I have to be honest with you right now: I don’t get this character. She’s not Amazonian I don’t think, but she does have the lasso, and she’s pretty popular. I need to do some research. What I DO know, is that she has a wicked cool corset thingie. I tried to give her some arms and shoulders, make her looka little bit hardcore, under the mistaken impression that she was as Amazonian as Diana… but now I’m kind of regretting that. In the comic samples I’ve seen, she’s like a petite alternatype blonde…

You can see this illustration herein the TRDL Tribute Gallery.

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Kind of a strange one here… this is a TRDL Original Character called Praetor. He’s been around for years and years, maybe since mid-High School, so that’s… 1987? However, according to my recent discovery while perusing my DC Encyclopedia and similar documentation, the Roman Gladiator as Super-Villain ain’t that original of a concept, even among as derivative a context as spandex super-heroes in the first place. I stopped counting at like six similar characters by the big companies. That’s not something that I sweat about… there are only three or four super-heroes in the end, and everything else is just morphology… but this ain’t the most stunning concept in the first place. That said, he performed a function in our Marvel RPG games of the day, and still remains a member of one of my super-villain type teams in the current TRDL world.

What kind of sets him apart is that he’s not really wearing gladiator armor… it’s a semi-sentient, xenobiological living weapon that is designed to shape itself after templated imprints in the wearer’s sub-conscious… and clearly not for humans. So the guy that found this thing was a history student on sabbatical in Tuscany… so at the time it was discovered, it had reached out to find the design imprint it was to take, per it’s programming. It didn’t find it, but did find the image of a Roman Cohort, or city police, from Hector Valdez’ sub-conscious, and fashioned itself in that image. So our man Valdez thought he found enchanted Roman armor, and like a dip, put it ON, and the psychic rapport drove him insane within seconds. So he spent a few years getting into tussles with various heroes until he was recruited by Blackguard to be one of their heavies. The armor appears to glow … Read on for more awesome…

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This was done for the This Week Jam, a weekly exercise where participating artists draw a character chosen at random at the beginning of the week, from a pool of previously submitted ideas from the members as a group.

It’s the ever-popular, slightly-over-exposed, and always thirsty Nazi-hunting Bloodrayne.

Bloodrayne is one of those characters that just seems like it was generated automatically, without the need for human design input. Like the software developers built some super-computer and put it to work parsing the design problem of generating a console fighter that would have the maximum fanboy appeal, and after twenty minutes of computation, it spit out… Bloodrayne. I’m not knocking the character: in fact, they exercised a fair bit of restraint in her outfit, going for dark leather instead of something more obvious, like fishnets and chrome pasties and I don’t know, Elvira-but-miniskirted… in fact, some of the elements of her design I thought were pretty cool, like the whips of leather attached to her hair…somehow… by iron rings, or the lace-up leather corset… but I never did get into the game, myself. Since it’s my fate to be a Marvel Zombie since childhood, I had to throw in a reference to the good old days of spandex Nazis, Marvel style, which in this case means Baron von Strucker losing his head…

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Now, this does not apply to ME, as my comic is neither viewable yet, nor Eisner-worthy, but it IS significant that they are finally coming around to recognize webcomics as a valid art form… so any of you with something online to share, you might send it to them. Can’t hurt, and one never knows!

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Eisner Awards Accepting Webcomics Submissions

The judges for the 2005 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards are accepting submissions for a possible Best Digital Comic category.

Criteria:

Any professionally produced long-form comics work posted online or distributed via other digital media is eligible. The majority of the work must have been published in 2004. Audio elements and animation can be part of the work but must be minimal. Web comics must have a unique domain name or be part of a larger comics community to be considered. The work must be online-exclusive for a significant period prior to being collected in print form.

Submission:

For webcomics: Send URL and any necessary access information to the Eisner Awards administrator, Jackie Estrada: (Link: mailto:jackiee@mindspring.com)jackiee@mindspring.com

For CD or DVD comics: Send disc to Eisner Awards, 4657 Cajon Way, San Diego, CA 92115.

Deadline: March 25, 2005 (but sooner is much preferred)

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This was done for the This Week Jam, a weekly exercise where participating artists draw a character chosen at random at the beginning of the week, from a pool of previously submitted ideas from the members as a group.

Misty Knight… those of you who’s comics experience began in the 90′s, or even in the 80′s, may not be familiar with this saucy Inner City Champion, but Misty Knight was a staple in Power Man and Iron Fist, back in the roarin’ wild Marvel 70′s. Hot black chick with a giant afro, tight jeans, and a revolver… so you can see that she was a blacksploitation cipher of the period. She also had some colorful martial arts experience, and formed Daughters of the Dragon with Colleen Wing, to form a rock-em, sock-em 70′s softporn fantasy for the comics set: a bi-racial kick-ass tight-bloused street avengers! It’s just a wonder to me that Brian Michael Bendis hasn’t brought her back into the world of, like, every book he’s currently co-opting for Nu-Nu-Marvel (which i don’t mind, by the way, if that sounded like a cap.) Anyway, the visual pun in this image should be self-explanatory.

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