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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · 22h

Her name is #BreastClaw...Guess what her power is.
#CutieHoney #FanArt #AnimeFanArt

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · 8d

The final art for #Hephaestusmon ended up a lot shinier than I thought.

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · 15d

More #Aquaman characters.
I drew a ton of them, so I'm uploading around 8 a month for a bit.
This month we have #DemonGate #Mera the #Scavenger a #Trench #BlackJackII the #HumanFlyingFish #Thanatos and a #GiantJellyfish.

#DCComics #FanArt

I like when comics bring back a character or their traits to make something new, and the second Black Jack is an interesting way to do that. The original was a golden age villain more like a regular pirate. This new one is an agent for N.E.M.O., a clandestine organization which Black Manta takes over.

I love jobber super villains. They add so much life to the worlds they’re in and can be really interesting when given focus. I could see him picking up odd villain jobs and living out of a rundown apartment he’s 3 months behind on his rent for. But he’s got big dreams of joining the Injustice League or the Flash Rogues. If they ever call him back. He’s got a bit of a Kite-Man thing going on. Easy to laugh at, but also fun to watch. I’d love to see him team up with (or clash egos with) the second Marine Marauder.

This look is a dressed down version of his suit when working for Tri-Dent and his original appearance.

An evil Aquaman from Netherspace. A great use of an alternate costume a hero used to wear. I like how he used to be drawn so much larger than Aquaman. With how he goes from seething, barely held back rage to a grinning maniac makes me think he’s an Aquaman who succumb to the curse of insanity in their families bloodline.

I had to greatly simplify the Stealth Suit, and it’s probably still a little too complex for what I was going for, but I like the median I ended up with. I tried to keep his features similar to my Aquaman design, just more jagged and sharp, with darker bags around the eyes and a more controlled hairstyle.

I read the story about these jellyfish guys way back and was surprised no one used them again. They are the original lifeforms that used to occupy where Atlantis sunk and have been lying in wait to reclaim their home using their psionic powers to push the Atlantians into getting rid of themselves.

I would love to see this story told again with a slower buildup. Maybe we see huge pink jellyfish floating around the background of a few panels, slowly building up their frequency, until one day Aquaman is shocked out of a daze by a voice telling him not to let them notice he can see them and to “Get out of the water!”. As if waking up from a dream, he sees the countless jellyfish all over his castle. He goes to his room and sees 3 in their, one by Mera and the other by their baby’s crib. One looks at him and Mera asks what he’ doing as if it told her too and he says he’s stressed and wanted to check on the baby before going for a swim. Then he sees how many there are in his kingdom.

I actually wouldn’t want him to kill them or run them out. Instead I’d like to see the man caught between surface and sea appeal to the jellyfish and feel for their plight. He could make a place for them as Atlantian citizens and try to make reparations. That way, we could see him dealing with social unrest an paranoia surrounding them. That could be used to parallel real world issues. Maybe a jellyfish could stand on the Atlantian council as a representation of their people.

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · 15d

I’m trying to keep Atlantian clothing recognizably similar. They have the same scale patterns, form-fitting “superhero look”, and the little leg fins. Mera doesn’t have the leg fins and I’m not sure if that will be a thing for people from Xebel. Maybe her OG design could be Xebelian fashion while this is a modified Atlantian design. Ot Poseidonian since her look lines up well with my drawing of Tempest.

He’s one of the characters that inspired me to make these designs because he’s such an under-utilized idea. I imagine him as an actual scavenger, looting underwater sites of battles and digging up any cool scrap left behind. He could be a smuggler who keeps the best stuff for himself while selling everything else to various land and sea based villains like the Fisherman (who are both trying to con each other but it ends up evening out). His armour could be a piecemeal of other characters stuff that he found at the battle sight and welded together. I would think he’d have a whole armoury of Batarangs that washed into Gotham Bay. Because of that, he’ll have more than 1 design. Since his OG design looks like Black Manta with a different helmet my brother suggested that his current suit is a stollen Manta one with his armour built on top.

The Trench are an example of one of my favourite tropes. The horde of ravenous creatures which are not a huge threat individually, but together are a force of nature. I like to think that the Abyssal Dark had some influence on the Atlantians who eventually mutated into these creatures. It would be cool if they had some connection to the Fire Trolls or Giant Jellyfish who also live under the ocean floor. Maybe they’re the detergent which keeps the Fire Trolls from spilling out from the ocean floor.

Demon Gate killed Aquaman’s dolphin mom, so I wanted to make him look extra evil. I thinned him out in the waist and bulked out his chest to emphasize his skeletal body. I wanted to lean into the 80s-90s body-horror mecha-anime vibe he has going. Considering how killing a loved one is typically a free pass to arch-villain territory, I would think he’d be more well known.

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · 22d

A non-Lantern #GreenLantern #villain. #Goldface used a toxic waste infused chest of gold to make a serum and gained a golden glow ("Auric Energy"), super-strength and invulnerability. He wears gold plated armour and has a Gold Gun that sprays liquid gold.
He's goofy but neat.

I imagine him in a GL FPS as a mid-range vanguard who can make walls with his Gold Gun and petrify opponents by spraying them with gold, leaving them as statues until they break out. His armour would make him hard to take out, but he wouldn’t be able to do much damage on his own, relying on allies to take advantage of petrified opponents to do the damage for him.

In the theoretical game, players would choose their Corps from the emotional spectrum and each team would have advantages and disadvantages. I wasn’t sure if I wanted non-Lanterns to be their own Corps with the widest array of abilities, but with drawbacks, or if they’d be available for every Corps.

Goldface would have the advantages of a Yellow Lantern. Higher damage and defence against Green, but without the chance to “Terrify” after an elimination.

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · 29d

#CutterClaw is pretty badass. Honey impales her with a spear then she pulls it out and throws it right back.
#CutieHoney #FanArt #AnimeFanArt

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · Sep 13

The #sketches for #Hephaestusmon from my #AdamantKingdom #Digimon designs.
I wanted to start posting these from now on.

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · Sep 8

My drawing tablet wasn't working, so I tried drawing on a different device and now I'm putting a bunch of #Aquaman characters into a height chart.
#Fisherman #BlackManta #DCComics #FanArt

I like Aquaman a ton and never loved how he was viewed by the non-comic reading fanbase. He is a combination of fantasy, sci-fi, super-hero, and barbarian tropes that come together to make a character with plenty to offer any reader.
I wanted to capture his dynamism while keeping him feeling kind and approachable.

I feel arch-villains should visually contrast their heroes. While Aquaman is outwardly open, colourful and inviting, Black Manta is reserved, monochrome, and hostile. I imagine him as a guarded obsessive whose fixation on Aquaman is nearly out of his control. A highly capable badass, but one who is alone even in a room full of his Manta-Men followers.

The Fisherman is fun. His weird hat is a parasite which controls the human body. I imagine him as a more typical pirate than most of the other villains. My take steals from anything on the water, using his advanced technology, and sells it to other villains. I would use him in more humorous stories and as a support villain to contrast the horror of what he is, while leaving room to develop him later on. Since the parasite is so old I would write him like an old school pirate and give him pirate-like motivations. He indulges in the world, knowing that if he gets in over his head he can ditch his host and start over.

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · Aug 30

G'nort, #GreenLantern from the planet G'newt. He was recruited by fake Guardians to fill the GL Corps with incompetent Lanterns but Guy Gardener vouched for him to join for real. He's a silly, easily fooled, goof with a good heart who is trying his best.
#DCComics #FanArt #Gnort

In the game he’d scramble around in silly, but hard to hit, patterns. He wouldn’t hit hard or be able to take many himself (opening him up for funny accidents and rage quits) but his slapstick constructs don’t cost much and can trip up or stall opponents. He would focus on annoying the enemies, drawing them towards him for an ambush or scampering around them as a hard to follow scout.

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · Aug 27

DC Superhero Girls did him pretty well.

Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · Aug 27

I like to think that they can do this any time they want, but the Guardians hate it and are really annoyed whenever they find out.

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · Aug 27

Reading those issues kind of made Hal feel more justified in his breakdown, especially since the breakdown is not as bad as it's been remembered.

Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · Aug 27

Emerald Twilight was my first GL story, and is my favourite so far. I read it way back, but started deep diving into the 90s era (not realizing what that lead up to) and now I'm convinced people disliking the storyline is more about reputation or of-the-time preferences than the story or Hal.

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Predator is one of the reasons I like the idea that a lot of corps were named wrong. Between this, the costumes, and becoming obsessed with people who broke their heart and trapping them in crystals to possess forever stuff the Star Sapphires feel like a Lust corps.

Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · Aug 24

I forgot I never made a final image for #Athenamon.

#Digimon #DigimonFanArt #FanArt #AdamantKingdom

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · Aug 18

#JumboPanther had some interesting powers. Her body is a balloon and she can fly, exhale for a few abilities, and control these red birds. She felt a bit like an American comic character.
#CutieHoney #AnimeFanArt #FanArt

Her costume is reminiscent of wrestling based American comic characters, so I have her flying down on the viewer like a bodyslam. She is surrounded by her birds.

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · Aug 9

I love #SamuraiPizzaCats.

#FanArt #AnimeFanArt

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Whill @whillustrations.bsky.social · Aug 2

#OctoPanther's suckers kept changing their placement through the episode. The coolest thing in the episode is a submarine with a face, that shoots a missile out its eye, that opens up into spears.

#FanArt #AnimeFanArt #PantherClaw #CutieHoney