Well since no one has volunteered to offer a new idea for a battle...i have taken it upon myslef to think of one...seriously its thursday and nothing has been initiated...

anyway i have itching to do a fantasy for a while now...i was thinking of designing an orc...but i think its time to do something different...so i think a fantasy female heroine would be a nice change...

to more specific...im not too fond of the red sonja outfit/costume...its not very iconic aside from the red hair...

RULES

1. must have red hair

2. must have a sword as main weapon

3. redesign costume

(arn out)

Some designs that i almost ran with but had to put aside coz they resembled to closely other designs that had already been done.....ill let you guess which one looked a little too much like electric blue superman and robert kirkmans invincible's father (seriously the only writer to live up to the hype)

Hey sorry for the delay...i actually thought i could have some extra time to work on this but i suck...and im lazy so i didnt do much to it...

Anyway heres my lame entry

The reasoning for my design was that i wanted to play up the alien aspect of SUPERMAN's heritage....despite where he is be it earth or somewhere in space...he's always an alien.....

in anycase i also wanted to play up his MAN OF STEEL aspect of the character so i gave him a kinda...armour....not really to protect him, but to enhance his powers...since he's solar powered...i figured why not have a suit that would make him more powerful and keep him energised so he could dispatch villans faster and spend more time saving ppl???

anyway my version doesnt look like superman....oh and i changed the symbol to reflect my alien supes.....

I was pondering about how to design SUPERMAN and i realised I couldn't...superman was too big a character for me to tackle so i chickened out and just drew this......

ok we have our 2 finalists the others (including me) were too shit or just plain lazy bastards to submit their entries ontime. with that said we have 2 kick arse entries in that just took superman to another level and man.....

So who take sit whose Cuisine rains Supreme.....

(votes end on friday....to vote email arnarkin@hotmail.com or infinite@gmail.com)

Here's mine...

Commentary for my superman.

Ok so it was 2 in the arvo and i was flipping through various Superman comics to get info on this iconic superhero.

When Arnarkin first choose Supes, i was kind of amped as sometimes this is needed for Supes since he is kind of dull and boring at times. But after going through numerous sources and recreating Supes... I had a feeling this was going to be harder then i thought.

So where did I begin, first i thought he needed a little bit of armour. Not so much in the heavy armour as batman or anything but something light and a lightness armour that still gave him a presence of heroism and at the same time still hold the superhero icon thing.

Secondly was the cape given that his cape was his thing I didn't want to do anything crazy or else it wouldn't be Superman anymore. Thus making me design a collar thing that's connected to the cape. Then i decided that it would look a little cooler if he had shoulder pad thing which connected to his cape and logo hence the armour thing,

Thirdly was a redesign of the logo and i must admit at the time looked alright, but if i had to re-do it now i would of went for something a little more round. My initial idea was to based the new logo on the symbol that was used in Smallville TV show.

Lastly was the markings on his head. This was a quick one at the last minute i decided to put in my initial idea was to have him with long hair but i thought that if he did the trademark s shape curls won't be there but after a hard long though i went this guy has enough S's on his body so i gave him alien like markings on his face. As with the markings it also

I'll probably lose this one due to missing element of having his super powers not being there.

Can't wait for Arn and Greasy's Supes, EraserX was pretty nice kinda amazed how quick he did his.

Its like friday....and i have yet to commit to a final design.....preliminary viewing is on tommorrow and i have nothing to show....

I have to say it was pretty bold of US...well me to suggest a re-design of one of the most recogniseable characters in the history of the world....we should have done something simpler like...the Pantom...LOL....seriously no more superheros for awhile...

Anyway like i was saying this is frigging hard...the initial idea i had for this particular battle was to say hey...what if superman hadn't been invented yet....what if he was invented now....or later...what if he was invented in the 60's......thats where the idea evolved from.....the desire to see what we (contemporary artists) would come up wif...

Doing research for Superman and trying to see what had been done what hadnt been done and incorporating whats recognisable about the character was in hindsight a foolishh idea.... i mean everytime i went away form what we know about superman the less he was superman...the more i tried incorporating superman elements the more he looked like the original design....

So yeh wat im trying to say is im gonna lose this one.....im going all out wif my superman and yeh im gonna lose..

(arn out)