Flashback Friday: Catfeline

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Mar 142014
 

Hey-hi-ho! Whaddya know? It’s Friday yo! Flashback time go!

Last week’s hint was that this week’s installment wouldn’t be purr-fect but that it would still be pretty sweet. Sass should have seemed like a safe bet. And what character was known for using the purr-fect pun? Why Catwoman (the Adam West Batman version) of course! And didn’t Sass play Catwoman that one time? Why yes she did! Mystery solved! As always, click on the pics you’d like to see enlarged.

I chose to go with the New 52 Catwoman costume this time around. It occurred to me that it’d be really hard for Sass to fit her tail in the costume and I considered having her tail be uncovered, but I didn’t like how it looked, so I chose to make it black like the rest. I had a picture to use as reference for the pose, but I still struggled mightily with her legs, particularly the left. In the reference pic, Catwoman’s right boot reaches to her mid-calf, but the left boot doesn’t look like it extends past her ankle. I was unable to reconcile the two so I fudged it.

Catfeline

Here’s the comparison piece. When I was drawing Iron Cat, I realized that if Sass were wearing a mask, the fur on the sides of her face would be pushed together instead of remaining in two separate tufts. I applied the same principle here. In the original drawing I chose to make the Catwoman a little more purplish because I wanted the line work to show through and there’s a precedent for Catwoman wearing purple. With the way I shade things now, I’m more comfortable using black to colour.

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So that’s it for this week. I don’t have a fun hint for next week’s flashback but it’ll feature Deema. Find out which costume she’ll be wearing next Friday!

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Flashback Friday – Destro

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Mar 072014
 

I’ve been waiting for Friday all week! It’s just been that kind of week, ya know? Now that it’s here, let’s celebrate with a flashback ‘kay?

I’m going back to Cobra’s ranks for this week’s mash-up. Revisiting the G.I.Joe line with Flint got me super jazzed so I immediately followed him up with another piece. You’re only seeing it now because I went back to show the flashbacks I’d jumped over to show Flint. Anyway, let’s get to him. As always, click on a picture to embiggen it.

It turns out it’s Cyran’s week! First he gets a new mash-up as Torquil from Krull and now he’s in the flashback as Destro. The drawing originally looked like he was heavily leaning to the left. I just rotated the picture until he was standing upright.

Cyran-DestroThe new tradition for the Joe characters is to show their blister card. Here’s Destro’s. I slimmed it down from the first two so that the dimensions more closely resemble the real Joe cards. It’s fairly simple to move the elements around on the card to mimic the way things moved around on the real cards. The tricky part is designing the new elements like the yellow flash announcing Destyran the Enemy!

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And finally, here’s the comparison piece. This time around, I had Cyran’s ears sticking out through holes in the mask instead of being encased by the mask as it just made more sense. By looking closer at the artwork, I was able to figure out Destro had grenades on his left wrist bracer.

Cobra-Cyran-TaNThat’s it for this week’s flashback. Next week’s flashback may not be purr-fect, but it’s pretty sweet! See you then!

 

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Flashback Friday – Superbear

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Feb 282014
 

Once upon a Friday, there was a website that did flashbacks of stuff it had posted years earlier. In the end, it turns out that that website is THIS website and that THIS is one of those flashbacks. Did you feel the wayback machine kicking in?

Okay, so last week I said that this week’s flashback would again feature Barnaby and asked you to guess which of Barnaby’s roles it would feature. Were you able to guess Superbear? If so, kudos to you!

Superman’s is a very simple costume. I could have decided to go with his New 52 threads, but to be honest, I like the red undies over blue tights. The red breaks things up nicely and he seems to be missing something without it. The biggest challenge was finding a flying pose I liked. Since the costume molds to his body, there was nothing to break up my lines and it was smooth sailing.

Superbear

Here’s the comparison. Superman’s curl is so iconic, that I featured it the first time. This time around, I gave him a whole head of hair to go along with it.

JLA-Barnaby-TaN

So that’s all for this week. Next week is Cyran’s turn to shine! Feel free to guess in the comments! Have a good weekend!

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Flashback Friday – Lando

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Feb 212014
 

Happy Friday folks! With great Fridays come great flashbacks! On that note, let’s take a look back.

This week’s flashback was originally supposed to go up last week, but I was so excited to show off the G.I.Fur action figure cardback I did for Flint Rich, that I pushed him ahead a couple of weeks.

When I did the first series of Star Wars mash-ups, most of the cast played characters from the original Star Wars. Barnaby was one of the exceptions (Deema was the other), playing Lando Calrissian from The Empire Strikes Back. For the return, like with Nektara, I chose to do a different costume. In Lando’s case, I chose his general’s uniform from Return of the Jedi. As always, click to embiggen.

Barnaby

And here’s the comparison piece:

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So that’s this week’s flashback folks! Barnaby will be back for next week’s installment. As who? You’ll just have to come back next Friday to find out!  Have a good weekend!

 

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Flashback Friday – G.I.JOE part 2

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Feb 142014
 

Hey! It’s Friday! It’s also Valentine’s Day! I wish I’d have counted ahead. I could have drawn something nice for the day. Oh well! Maybe next year! For now, let’s just get on with the flashback! It’s back to the JOE team this week. G.I.JOE is probably my favourite toy line of all time though I’m sure one of my friends will remind me of one I forgot after reading this. But you’re not here to read as I reminisce on the toys of my youth. You’re here to see some purdy pictures! So purdy pictures you shall have! As always, you can embiggen a picture by clicking on it. Judging by the fact that I’ve dressed up as Flint on no less than three separate occasions, you’d be safe in guessing that Flint is my favourite member of the JOE team. (That, or I don’t think I’d be able to pull off the redhead look enough to be Scarlett! 😉 ) There wasn’t much chance then that I was going to cast Green Rich as anyone other than Flint. Here he is in both his original and Tiger Force colour schemes.

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But that’s not all! On top of aping the pose from Flint’s blister card, I went all out and redid the whole card itself! If you saw the Oonch-Ho blister card on Facebook you may notice the logo is different as well as several other minor differences. I did Flint’s card first and I hand drew the logo based on the style used on his card. Well wouldn’t you know it, being that Gung-Ho was from an earlier wave, the card wasn’t quite the same. The logo was flat instead of raised. I searched out a font online and redid the logo in Serif DrawPlus X5. I could have redone the logo for this card as well, since DrawPlus features instant 3D effects. However, after all the time I spent drawing the logo (it took nearly as long as the mash-up) I didn’t want to simply toss it away.

Carded-Flint-Rich

And finally, here’s the comparison with the original mash-up.

Joe-Rich-TaN

Okay, so that’s it for this we–okay, okay! I can tell that you’re all disappointed that I didn’t do anything for Valentine’s Day so here’s Flint Rich in a special Valentine’s Day colour scheme! Bonus points if you share the Valentine’s Flint Rich with your sweetheart! Enjoy and have a good weekend!

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UPDATED: The dates on the comparison picture were inverted by mistake. Oops! They’re correct now.

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