Far from finished, but I figured I’d share because it amuses me greatly and I like this simpler design for Jason than what I’d previously gone for.
(Also, because I know this will come up: does my mentioning of the Voltron cast poster mean I’m going to make a full poster with all the PCs and NPCs from the Masks game? No, that would be crazy. Who has time for that? Certainly not me. But I did make a Photoshop file for it.)
Far from finished, but I figured I’d share because it amuses me greatly and I like this simpler design for Jason than what I’d previously gone for.
That’s awesome. Great perspective, the little bubbly hologram effect, the giggling Alycia, outraged Byron …
The only problem is that Jason doesn’t cover his ears often _enough – _and that’s not a problem with the art, that’s a problem with Jason: he’d be more likely to be doing double-takes between the Alycia and Byron as he walks along.
I was feeling like being lazy about unpacking today, so I broke open Sketchbook Pro for the first time in a couple months and sketched out some characters. We have (from left to right, top to bottom) Link’s armor, an alternate Link helmet that I actually dig a whole lot, a pair of heads for Otto, and then Mercury both without and with his “varsity” jacket.
This second one is a picture I sketched out a while ago to help with proportions for Otto (who I still can’t seem to get a good look for without him looking like an off-brand Transformer).
Worked on some more Mercury outfits. I think I like the very last one, mostly because it seems like the closest to what Katherine actually wanted (I don’t know how I went this long without remember that one bit of Mercury’s bio). I do however like the middle one just because I have a design in mind for Tempest (Mercury’s mom) and I like Mercury’s outfit being a mixture of both mom and dad’s outfits (with a more modern style bomber jacket from Uncle Chase [because with a name like Comet, I expect him to be less of a typical speedster and more like Cannonball from the various X-Men titles]).
I like the third one best, too (as someone with no unstable molecules in this game). Maybe, if you want to pull in some Tempest elements, change the white to that sky blue tone (or just the piping/trim). (I like the boot wings.)
That would be the one element that Katherine actually specified and I completely forgot about until last night. Yay for my memory.
Speaking of my memory, I’m going to now echo her original lament for how hard it is to come up with an original speedster name with it being equally hard to come up with an original speedster costume. I put together a couple of design elements I liked (the goggles ala Booster Gold, the tapered almost triangle shape to the design on the legs, the wings on the ear pieces) to come up with that third one… and I just realized it’s almost an exact copy of Impulse’s costume. Bluh… Expect a couple changes to the final design.
You have more options once you move away from self definitions like “how fast I am”. For example, a speedster named Tao. He doesn’t run fast, although he could. He carries a sword which he uses to cut through bullets or cut the clothes off muggers or bank robbers to embarrass them. His problem is that his subconscious mind would act at superspeed before he could consciously stop himself, so he turned to meditation and philosophy to attain a state of calm.
Speaking of my memory, I’m going to now echo her original lament for how hard it is to come up with an original speedster name with it being equally hard to come up with an original speedster costume.
(Bah, screwed up quoting this and lost my reply in the last post)
I feel like this kind of works for you in this case, if you and Katherine want? It feels like Harry is being defined by his parents in their image, and in that case having a derivative costume makes perfect sense. “Another Gale, a chip off the ol’ block, one of us,” and so on. If so, a costume change to something really original would be a victory or at least milestone on the road to being independent
I do like the winged boots, even though they are incredibly cliche along with the wings added onto the emblem. And I agree with Bill’s comment that Mercury’s costume would be derived from his parents’. I remember there was some conversation a few weeks ago of every christmas Harry would get new costumes from relatives with their own influence into them. So I like the idea of the costume being a merge between his parents’, but I also think that Harry would probably work to get in something unique. Maybe it is a different line somewhere. Maybe it is different colors (though I like the grey and blue because the element is that silvery color). But I can just imagine him going and talking to Jason for a new costume because his family wouldn’t accept if he came up with it by himself but if it was given to him by a team member then that is fine. Just another way the team builds bonds together. I think out of the five there (going back to the amazing picture) I like the far right one the most with the emblem and the lines fitting together. If any of that thought vomit made sense.
Also wanted to say that everything is looking really great. All of the ideas for everyone are amazing.
I was trying to place why that particular helmet looked familiar. Here’s Tekkaman:
I thought it looked a bit like a Spiral Knights’ helmet, but I suppose there’s enough common design elements there where there’s multiple points of comparison. Regardless, this helmet: there are many like it, but this one is Link’s.
