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04/01/2003: Gotham gargoyles
Sometimes I think it's unfair that when you try to create some piece of fan art it's not really possible to post in progress snippets or paragraphs or lines of dialogs like authors of fanfiction can. I mean, I guess I could scan the most recent halfway decent looking gargoyle, which was preceeded by half a dozen failed, awful, hideous ones (and not hideous in an intentional gargoyle hideousness sense either) before I found some photo reference specifically for gargoyles, but really that's not something that could be posted without the rest of the picture. (*)
In case anyone's wondering why I spent so much time on frelling gargoyles, it's because I didn't want the obligatory gargoyle in a Gotham scene look like the boring, nondescript standard gargoyle #1 you see so often in recent Batman comics. You know, the thing which is more or less just a protruding beam with a sort of beak-thing at the end? That standardized Gotham gargoyle is really starting to annoy me, it is like a fanon cliché...or like a gargoyle chain store thing.
Anyway, no more gargoyles or disproportionate looking superheroes for tonight.
(*) In my head (opposed to the reality on paper which currently is not even close to this) it is a scene with a brooding Batman squatting on top of said gargoyle and a Nightwing jump sequence, i.e. one of those typical Nightwing pictures where you see the progress of one of his jumps/somersaults all in one panel, which ends with Nightwing landing behind Batman. Set into this large picture are two smaller panels showing close-ups of Nightwing touching Batman's shoulder, and Batman turning and subtly smiling at Nightwing in contrast to the former grim expression. Perhaps a "comic drabble" or something like that, not really a story, but not a single illustration either. In my head it's sort of a subtext piece, with just a slightly different feel than canon (because there most likely you wouldn't see the turning and smiling) but still gen textually. Well that's the concept anyway. And of course now that I've written that down, if I ever finish that piece of artwork everybody will know that it doesn't look like it was supposed to be (I'm fairly certain it won't because it never looks like in my head).
