Elektra

For Elektra I also produced two development pieces which will be uploaded at a later date.
My design for Elektra was to focus on her more as a graceful ninja-like assassin as opposed to the smutty pin-up girl kind of look the comics give her. To do this I looked at traditional ninjitsu wear and footwear like tabbies. I also went back to a style I used in my last project where I worked on textured paper, this time tea stained first, and painted on in dry brush to give the piece a Japanese feel.

Nightwing

My design for Nightwing was appropriately based on my Robin work.
I worked from photographs of myself with a painted mask influenced by JKB Fletcher's work and then thought about the function of his costume. Motorcycle gear would be appropriate for Nightwing as it acts as a suitable guard against most impact and is also very free to move about in.

Daredevil

My design for Daredevil stuck with his comicbook interpretation with a slightly more comfortable fashion so his costume looks more like clothes than the spandex suit. This gives the idea a bit more realism and this piece was more a stepping stone for an Elektra piece and hopefully a future piece featuring both DD and Elektra. These two were quick pieces

Deadpool

My concept behind Deadpool was using a stitched leather horror style mask to add an element of quick unpredictability and looking at riot gear as a type of urban armour Deadpool might wear. 

 

Carnage

These three Carnage pieces are created using an acrylic painted collage as the background, followed by a a red ink monoprint to the shape of my model and finished with the eyes and mouth's glued on and black ink used for some tone.
My influence behind this was how artist H.R. Giger (Alien) used machinery and industrial elements in his work in place of organic features. In my pieces I looked at trees as living organisms and creating a texture of dead tree branches I acted as this for my collage working in Carnage's tendrills.

Harley Quinn

My Harley Quinn concept comes from traditional Jester costuming and facepaint along with the original HQ design.
Harley is one of my favorite comic book characters and my model for this piece easily fits the role, I like the psychology behind the character and this enforced my style of painting for the piece. I took to thinking of spatter art and running paint for heavy expressionism and to enforce a sense of chaos. A traditional painting of a sane person would work within the lines whereas with a character like Harley the lines are there to be broken. I was influenced by the work of Jason Oakes in this style of painting as he has a similar Harley Quinn piece done digitally.

Robin

My Robin concept comes from an urban hero sort of vibe. I worked around functional body armour like paintball armour plating for the costume and rather than using a domino mask for the character I chose to use face paint keeping with the urban theme. I was influenced through JKB Fletcher's artwork where he paints models from photographs where they are painted like superheroes and used this for my inspiration. Robin has often been received as a weak character by those unfamiliar with his grittier stories so to enforce this I chose a rainy setting for each piece to give the character a hard edge.