DuckTales Arms

It turns out the arms in the new 2017 Ducktales Reboot is perfect as a bridge between my cartoony stick arms and real looking arms. It's simple, but even just that one one extra line between the wrist and thumb was eye-opening for me. Donald was especially helpful because of how expressive he is with his arms.

Batman Villain

I decided to write this at the top primarily because there are so many of basically this same picture. At some point I thought of an idea for an original Batman villain who could challenge his existentialism philosophy and not just his history or something like Hush (who my dad does not like) or the Court of Owls or Owlman or Wrath or however many "anti-Batman's" there have been. But for the longest time I didn't know what their gimmick or design should be like. So I drew inspiration from one of Batman's greatest villains, the Phantasm, and a lot of other important figures in the animated Batman's life.
However, I wanted this villain to be visually distinct from Batman and Joker, and I had the idea to use different shapes for the face, as you can see in the last image. Where Batman and Joker have square and triangle heads respectively, this figure would have a circle head. Where Batman and Joker have threatening triangle eyes and bulging circle eyes this figure would have dead rectangle eyes. So all these images are just experimenting with what this angel-statue inspired existential villain would be like. I'd probably call them Eidolon. The next-to last image is especially nice I think.

Joker Doodles

I wanted to make my version of Joker look creepy. Mission accomplished I think. This idea of Joker is meant to play on modern fears and ideas, so I took inspiration from some pop culture icons (which I won't mention here mostly because I think they're interesting but overrated). It took a lot of tries to get to this, but I'm really happy with how it looks.

Batman and Robin Doodles

Similarly for Superman, I wanted to do Batman very differently from how I've seen him. This design is based on a number of things. Particularly some "real-life Batman" suits I've come across on the internet. I wanted it to look like actual armor without being too bulky. In considering his eyes, I stole the design from the Disney version of Baymax in Big Hero 6. They brilliantly use the shape of his mask so that when he tilts his head down it looks like he's angry even though his eyes can't change shape that way. I also thought it looked like an inversion of the rounded mask of Adam West's 1966 Batman. Robin was based a little too much on the tv show Young Justice, but I did try to differentiate his symbol by making it more like Larry-Boy's belt symbol.

Superman Doodles

Superman is my favorite of DC's heroes. This is some of the concept art for the show I would do about him. I'm especially fond of the third image of Lois, the next to last picture of just Superman, and the final picture between Superman and Lex Luthor. I think that last picture really expresses my idea of what their relationship would be like. Superman and Lex's rivalry fascinates me. In the past I struggled pretty roughly between my religious morality and scientific individualism, and these two characters embody those ideas so well. Or at least they could if someone were to write them that way.

DC Unity

For the longest time I've been wanting to consider what I would do for DC animated television shows. I originally just wanted to do a Superman cartoon, but soon I wanted to do the same thing for all of them. And I decided that if I was ever going to do them, I would want them to be very different from the great cartoons that already exist. Eventually I started drawing concept art for them. Looking back it's clear I've done too many Batman and Superman drawings and not enough Wonder Woman drawings. I'll fix that next.
The top image is of a study I did for how the three main heroes would look compared to their secret identities. The second is a fun, semi-silhouette drawing I did to make sure they looked different enough (I really like how Wonder Woman's hair looks almost like her own cape). And the third is a doodle I did during class, experimenting with their logos to see what I could do with them. God's will be done for all my ideas, even the ones that seem far fetched.

Doom Patrol Doodles

These are drawings of "Negative Man" and the "Doom Patrol" from DC comics. These heroes hold a special place in my head just because they're so weird. Negative Man, like Rorschach, is somewhat easy to draw. Something I like about the photo of my drawing is that you can see the negative sign I put above the "sign chart" I drew for math class. It's appropriate.
For the second drawing I was originally just going to draw a cartoon mountain, but then I wanted to do something more with it.