Yo!! First off, thank you so much for the GOTF stream, it was a real treat getting to see how things wrapped up, and just getting to listen to y'all chat about the creative process!
The questions surrounding character designs got my gears turning, and it reminded me I had a design question myself, albeit for the IDW comics, so I figured it was more appropriate to wait and ask this here rather than the stream:
When you designed the former Diamond Cutters for T&W, were any of them based on personal fan ideas that you wanted to make a reality, or were they more or less created from scratch? Also, did you have any favorites when designing them?
(I'm personally a big fan of Claire -- which isn't exactly a shocker, I guess, considering I'm a huge fan of Vennie and her powers! Even if the way she got said powers was tragic...)
The DCs weren't based on any particular ideas of mine, other than the occasional octopus character I've drawn in the past and how I wanted to handle the tentacles. Since they were all riffing off of Whisper's outfit (and the MGS characters they're referencing), that's the material I focused on.
Claire is my favorite too! In her case, her species was switched mid-production from a mantis shrimp to a howler monkey. For the monkey version, I decided to draw on some of the style of a midcentury jazz singer. She also has a bit of a "spooky fortune teller" vibe, which was requested. I dunno how much of that came through in the final, but it was fun for me.
Also here's the first pass on the whole crew, cause why not
(I got Smithy's name wrong. Also He was a raven at this point.)
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Dozing off <3
[ID: A simplified digital drawing in greyscale. Rev and Jer are sitting and leaning against each other, asleep, and there's a blanket wrapped around Rev's shoulders. There are small bubbles floating around them, and "ZZzz" is written off to the side. /End ID]
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Revolver Draw (reference sheet)
Revolver Draw is ink Theory's Joey Drew
Notes: he smells like gunpowder, his left arm and right leg have robotic prosthetics while the left arm is powered by the magic his body natural produce, enabling it to a small few cartoon gags that involved with his arm.
unlike his arm, his leg is run on pure battery's. correction a car battery, its alot more clunky, and frequently breaks down requiring maintenance then his arm, every fortnight.
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