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| MtReuil's Power Girl & Huntress |
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| SilverLocust's Lady Blackhawk & Big Barda |
"Lady Blackhawk: I wanted to update her but keep in mind her history. Lady Blackhawk is from World War II and pretty much a time lost hero. She is from a time period where she, had to save the Blackhawk team not once but twice to become an honorary member of their team. She worked hard for the right to wear the uniform, so I thought the look needed to maintain the Blackhawk feel, more of an update of the old uniforms. I even included the original Blackhawk’s symbol versus the current version because I thought it would mean more to her as a character.
"For me, Barda is a total representation of Kirby’s work. Even over 40 years after her creation, Barda’s costume has remained very close to the original. I went back and looked at Kirby’s sketches of the New Gods and his illustrations for Julius Caesar from the same period and tried to incorporate a feel of his style into Barda. I stayed with her bright colors because Barda isn’t the type to stay in shadows, she doesn’t need to be dark or sinister to be scary."
"For me, Barda is a total representation of Kirby’s work. Even over 40 years after her creation, Barda’s costume has remained very close to the original. I went back and looked at Kirby’s sketches of the New Gods and his illustrations for Julius Caesar from the same period and tried to incorporate a feel of his style into Barda. I stayed with her bright colors because Barda isn’t the type to stay in shadows, she doesn’t need to be dark or sinister to be scary."
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| Thomas Fummo's Misfit & Oracle |
"Misfit: Tried a more serious but still slightly fun-loving approach. I
love the idea of a super-powered fan-girl, and decided to incorporate
various of her fellow Birds' costume elements into Charlie's costume, as
a kind of tribute to them.
"Oracle: Or rather, an 'Oracle-bot'. This interpretation of Barbara Gordon still oversees things from afar, but also likes to intervene virtually via a cerebral link to her own robot, who can provide on-field support to her fellow Birds during a fight or investigation."
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"Batgirl: For Babs, I basically started with the
idea that I wanted to blend her Oracle identity with her Batgirl
identity. So I changed up the color scheme a bit, and added some
circuitry, as well as added lenses to her mask, to mimic her glasses.
"Oracle: Or rather, an 'Oracle-bot'. This interpretation of Barbara Gordon still oversees things from afar, but also likes to intervene virtually via a cerebral link to her own robot, who can provide on-field support to her fellow Birds during a fight or investigation."
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| Comickergirl's Batgirl & Black Canary |
"Black Canary: I began
with a simpler idea: PANTS. Yep, ditched the fishnets and opted for some
pants, as they are decidedly warmer and perhaps a bit more comfortable
when riding a motorcycle. Aside from that, I tried to remain reasonably
close to the original outfit, keeping the jacket, but opting for a more
'blue' color scheme, as a nod to the original Black Canary costume."
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"For Black Canary I wanted to make her look more sleek, and have her
outfit be really dark, almost a couple a shades away from being fully
black rather than the usual shiny PVC suit. And zippers. Lots of
zippers. The hood is attached to to the suit and the zippers do not unzip the suit.
The zipper that opens the suit is hidden in the middle of it.
"For Huntress I wanted to lighten her up, suit wise, and make her darker, color-wise. I always felt her suit was so bulky, and heavy with all those weapons, and pouches. I also made her cape way smaller. I always felt like she never needed a cape anyways but she always had one so I just gave it to her. I just wanted them to look ten times more kick-a** than they already do."
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| Johansi's Black Canary & Huntress |
"For Huntress I wanted to lighten her up, suit wise, and make her darker, color-wise. I always felt her suit was so bulky, and heavy with all those weapons, and pouches. I also made her cape way smaller. I always felt like she never needed a cape anyways but she always had one so I just gave it to her. I just wanted them to look ten times more kick-a** than they already do."
What do you all think? Let us know in the comments, and be sure to check out all of the Birds of Prey submissions received so far.
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I love the circuitry Comickergirl gives to Batgirl's costume here. If adopted, it would create a nice bridge to the suit Bruce and eventually Terry use in Batman Beyond. I like the idea of Barbara using her technical know-how to help create that suit.
ReplyDeleteVery cool designs. I love the first pair, especially that Power Girl revamp. She'd make a good one-two punch with Superman.
ReplyDeleteAnd Johansi's Huntress is awesome too. Total bad-ass goth girl.
Johansi's designs (and art) are amazing.
ReplyDeleteDiggin' Kamen Rider-y Power Girl in that first submission. And Johansi's are great; very superheroish but still businesslike.
ReplyDeleteComickergirl's Batgirl is quite interesting. The cyber, circuit. Maybe making her visor green like the rest of the costume would blend even better?
ReplyDeleteI like Johansi's Black Canary. Very simple and stylish. My only nitpick would be the yellow of her interior shoe.
Either introduce more yellow elsewhere on her or totally remove all the yellow.
I actually really like the yellow interior of the shoe in Johansi's Canary. It feels more "real" to me, for some reason, though I agree it might be cool to include more yellow elsewhere. But I'd only like to see it in a similar manner, like on the interior of the hood and body suit.
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