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Hannibal

TWIN PEAKS

Collection of Jordie Bellaire

Poison Ivy redesign.

As with Wonder Woman, I’m trying to eradicate the absolutely asinine ‘bathing suit’ costume Poison Ivy has been shackled with for 47 years.  Obviously I get that there’s that temptress quality to her character, but for too long that’s been cited as an excuse to further fetishize her appearance (the Arkham games being really guilty of this).  Ivy should look like Klimt or Aubrey Beardsley designed her - she should look earthy and timeless, and yes have a sensual look, but one that’s subtle and most importantly doesn’t undermine a threatening quality she NEEDS to posses.  She’s poison. 

Boy King

30 days of drawings

1. Self-portrait

2. On the farm

3. Mythological

4. Hallucination

5. Hair

6. Puppet/figurine/doll

7. Teeth

8. “What happened to you?”

9. Redraw a favorite work of art

10. Childhood dream

11. The player

12. Hospital

13. Short story

14. Mirrors

15. Tomb

16. Ancient self-portrait

17. Sword (Brienne of Tarth)

18. Moon

19. Captain

20. Dancer

21. Witness

22. Blindness

23. Nightmare Wizard

24. Secret meeting

25. Jimi Hendrix

26. Beyond

27. Foreign Gentleman

28. Redux

29. Redesign (Wonder Woman)

30. The end of the road (Roy Batty)

Day 30: End of the road (Roy Batty)

I suck ass at drawing birds…need to work on that.

Thanks everyone who has stopped by to take a look at these dailies, I do appreciate ya’ll so much!

Day 29: Redesign (Wonder Woman)

I’ve been wanting to redesign Wonder Woman forever - pretty much every “official” design looks absolutely ridiculous for a bevy of reasons (except the late-60’s white costume…that was pretty awesome).  Anyway, I wanted to give her something that honors the basic look and pallet, but that isn’t a strapless bathing suit.  I had seen this golden armor-like outfit made by Alexander McQueen that is sort of the basis for this, but then I plugged in these ideas stolen from Brienne of Tarth (because she really IS what WW should be).  This whole design isn’t exactly supposed to be actual practical armor, but more a kind of ceremonial armor (that actually covers her too! WAT).  Something majestic like she just walked out of a Ribera painting.  Hope you dig…

Day 28: Redux

I really liked the rough “Secret Meeting” sketch from a few days ago, and decided to turn it into a more finalized picture.  Still not exactly where I want it, but I like these characters and the quasi-futuristic feel of it, so I’ll likely come back to this again.

Day 25: Musician (Jimi Hendrix)