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I realized I've never properly drawn Thea in her winter outfit <3 i know y'all don't know who she is but every time I post art of her I'm too lazy to explain sooo. curse of mysterious lady be upon ye

1947 Catwoman drawing from last year :))) she was just SO cool in the golden age

more of the girl........ I have nothing else to say lol I just think she's cute

uh. star wars character I never plan to use but wanted to make anyways. She's a former padawan who flunked the trials and was a mechanic for a bit, she's a nautolan/human hybrid. I used to be the most FORMIDABLE clone wars nerd, take my word for it <3

gouache sketch of the 1943 phantom :0 I loooove his mask, it has a lot of character, and I think masks with a personality of their own help to sell the idea that the person wearing it is not only disguising themselves, but creating a whole new self on top of that. Claude rains phantom you may not be the most accurate but I love you regardless <333

Here's Scarecrow... I'm not entirely happy with him but I did this in a hurry so he'll have to do lol. I had a weird idea of making have a short pointy hat but like,, the edge functioned like a 40s fedora?? Idk if that actually worked but there you go.

I'm definetely a little obsessed with the relation of old horror movies with the fears of society at that time/the current events they were inspired by, and I tried to design Scarecrow with that in mind. Kind of obviously war in the 40s so I gave him a military inspired trenchcoat, but I also heard a take once that the scarecrow idea represents poverty, raggedy clothes and poor farmers and the like, and the Great Depression was fresh in the back of everyones minds at this point. Rationing during the war as well!! I'm using my last brain cell to write this so I hope this makes sense lol. That's it bye :)

happy Halloween!!!! Here's the sketch for the vintage scarecrow design I did since I don't have the finished product to offer lol

Here they are... the final set (for now!) of vintage rogues.... they slowly declined in quality lmao

Firefly was based off of mainly WW1 flamethrower gear, he's just a weird amalgamation of stuff. If I were actually writing a story here I had the idea of him being a kid in Germany during WW1, maybe something tramatic happened involving fire and by the time WW2 electric boogaloo came around he was old enough to dress up and set things on fire....idk folks the two world wars tie in to each other a lot and I think thats some wasted potential!!!!

Roxie Rocket was just based on 1930s flight uniforms, and her rocket was inspired by those vintage sci-fi illustrations of what people though the future would look like. She never made it past sketch phase rip

The Mad Hatter!! Boy I was sad I didn't finish this one. I wanted to do a simple historically accurate 1860s look, since that's what most of the versions of him are based off of, as Alice in Wonderland was published 1865. While researching clothing I discovered that plaid pants were a thing in the mid 1800s?? I think a lot of designs give him checkered pants but that feels too modern to me... I had to give him plaid pants I feel like he would love plaid pants. He would eat them up.

So yeah!! I have a few more ideas for Scarecrow and Riddler sketched out so you might see them around :)

Unfinished Batman to match my vintage rogues hehe. This was only my like, second time drawing Batman,, for someone who's really into Batman I don't draw him that much lol sorry man

Thoughts ~

I wanted to lean more into historical (or historically believable) clothing rather than the sci-fi clothing he usually wears. Cape neck closure was based on a WW2 era military raincoat, he's also wearing spats and boots and jodphurs and the like. Mainly WW2 inspiration because I feel like people always skip over the fact that Batman was created in wartime America and it makes the history buff in me sad :(( Also some COLOR because he's all BLACK and GRAY and SAD nowadays (but still muted for nighttime camoflague)

another oc, Mary :) I can hardly ever do finished drawings anymore but this was a special occasion (needing to shrimp posture for a couple hours)

More vintage batman villains!! here's Harley and Babydoll, Babydoll was based on Shirley Temple and Harley wasn't really based on anything in particular, just vintage clowns and 1930s clothing :)

Here's a drawing I did last year!! this was the first of a bunch of redesigns I did of Batman villains, I wanted to make them more vintage and add some of the l original inspirations in there. As well as more old horror movie tie ins because I'm a nerd lol. Here goes

I based Two-Face off of the 1931 Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde, as well as the purple and orange suit he originally wears in the comics. I gave him pinstripes and a hat because they would do that to all the goons in old movies and I think it's really funny lol.

Catwoman was based sort of on a lady from The Cat People (1942), she's kinda cool, I would def redo her now but it is what it is!

Last one is Clayface!! This one was actually my favorite, he's got a looooot of old movie inspo, I based him off of the villain in Dr. X (1932), who was a guy who slapped "synthetic flesh" on his face and molded it to look grotesque. That was basically the premise of the original comic Clayface! I put him in the clothes that Lon Chaney wears as the Phantom because Clayface was inspired by the man the myth the legend himself, the man of a thousand faces. Two Phantom posts in a row yeesh you guys are getting it all. No idea what he's doing with his hand lmao. Also not saying I predicted Caped Crusader's Clayface buuuuut.....

Have a great day everybody go watch an old horror movie~

phantom of the opera posting but make it 1925...... gonna start throwing stuff at the metaphorical wall and see what sticks!!

oh god uhhh, here have this! It's the lone ranger