*WARNING: CHALLENGERS plz be warned if you read this it could contain info or ideas that could skew or influence your design so be warned....

The idea came to me late at night on the 1st day of the 2nd challenge. I was sitting there in my room looking for inspration for the next battle theme when i looked at my superman figure and he looked totally badass with the red eyes (BATMAN hush version), instantly the idea of superman and what he is...what he stands for entered my head and i had the new idea for the 2nd battle.

OK...SUPERMAN....you'd think he'd be easy to re-design...basic colours, the boring original suit..WRONG!!!

I keep thinking about what makes SUPERMAN so iconic...so recogniseable to most ppl...is it his symbol...is it the colours on his costume...is it the cape... maybe...(you can still recognise him without it)....is it his pose... his movement....his benevolent attitude???

The answer to the above is yes.

An artist once said the key to any great character is a good silouhette... BATMAN has his TRADEMARK ears...SPIDERMAN has those cool creepy poses..... but SUPERMAN? Your thinking he's like 1 in a million a heroes in a cape, BATMAN has a cape.. but he has the ears to set him apart from the rest... NOT TRUE, if you see any work with SUPES in it just look at his pose, the chest out, arms at his side, heroic pose, instantly you think supes he's the achetype for all heroes and thats why he's the foucs for the 2nd battle.

I hope you enjoy what is to be the hardest and most interesting battle yet...(i say yet but we only had 2 so far).

Anyway catch you in 7...

(arn)