I've been experimenting with 3d sculpting/modeling and thought it would be a good exercise for the question mark staff to be my first actual practice piece!
Also. here’s some close up of some of my favourite details about the design.
The blood on the head where he’d be bashing some heads in, I realised now that it might have made more sense if i put it on the back of the question mark in the bottom corner but as a design at the time I thought it would read better in the front, well, too lazy to change it now.
The rust on the inner corners of the green painted metal were very fun to make as well as the chipped paint there and the metal bots.
Took some trial and error to make the bolts different material than the green surface, I had to insert a flat sheet (plane) inside the question mark right under the surface then use a stamp to pull the bolt shape out. There’s probably an easier method.
The blood on the end of the staff is for when he jabs it in someone’s open wound, for torture purposes, should probably rough it up more.
The green and red on the staff grip is when he has either paint or blood on his hand and picks his staff up, you should probably clean that up, Ed. it’s unsanitary.
And lastly the ingraved “THE RIDDLER” on the back of the staff, as if the giant question mark head wasn’t on the nose enough.
Hope you enjoyed this, I can still modify the staff to a degree so if you have suggestions and fun ideas to add to it please tell me in the comments!!
You may use it for reference but it's not 100% authentic.
Oughh I just came up with the Riddler’s character for this AU and it has to do with HARDAC and Karl Rossum!
Basically Cybertron Labs was conducting an experiment as to how intelligent an AI they could make. They made this AI into a robot, nicknamed “the riddler” because they would test its intelligence by making it decipher riddles. When it got an answer wrong, though, the testers would electrocute It.
Eventually, “Riddler” had enough of this bullshit and escaped the testing facility.
Some time later, Batman notices that some top scientists and engineers from Cybertron Labs start disappearing...
“Perhaps Edward, we really are meant for each other.” - Oswald Cobblepot to Edward Nygma, season 5, ep. 8 after Edward kills Oswald’s secretary (after said secretary having gone nuts and tried to kill Oswald while claiming to be controlled by a Dummy. Because obviously that’s just how things work in Gotham.)
Also your art with Ed’s mom Huyam Nashton decimated my heart so naturally I sent it to a close friend and demolished his heart too, thank you for your art and writing it was devastating 🥲
Wjwkks poor Huyam and poor Eddie. Tbh I was thinking of rewriting that story but I don't think I can make it more tragic than it already is. At least not for Huyam, Eddie however, that was not the end of the tragity for him. I'm thankful you and your friend enjoyed it 💕 as much as you can enjoy something so sad 😅