Category: WWFJ

Here’s Rhinosferatu as he will appear in the WWFJ supplement for Mutants & Masterminds, as published by Atomic Overmind Press as part of the Superlink dealio!

Now the thing about Dupligator is that he’s a nightmare PC by the very nature of his powers. I came to realize that and removed him as a sample PC to become a hero-turned-villain in the WWFJ mythos, and with that comes the inevitable costume change.

I did these sketches while manning the Second Level Wizards booth at the Hayao Miyazaki Film Fest. I only had two coloured pens with me at the time, orange and blue.

Of the ones below, I like B best. Since he is from the future, I figure I can dress him up in anything and say it’s the style of his time. B seems futuristic but not over-the-top supervillain. Click image to enlarge.

Here’s a tip I learned through the process of inking this half of the cover of Atomic Press’ “World Wildlife Federation of Justice” supplement for Mutants & Masterminds roleplaying game: if you’re using #1003 comic book paper and you feel like flipping the paper over so that the little blue lines won’t subconsciously affect the artwork as you draw on the page – DON’T. The back of the paper has a different ‘tooth’ than the front and if you try to use a nib to ink over the pencils that you have worked long and hard on, the ink will bleed into the fibers of the page so you don’t get clean lines. As a result I had to use a brush almost exclusively on this page which was a limitation I didn’t need.

Anyway, this is more or less the final linework. I’ll be spending some of the weekend colouring and some of the weekend trying to put together a DVD for the Saturday Morning Cartoon Party next week at the Rio Theater!!

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I’ve already started some colour studies but they’re too hideous to inflict on you at this time. So here’s the line drawings – now it’s time to try to name the characters again….

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Give up? Enormouse, Astromandrill, The Great Wolverini, Dynamole, Shaolin Monkey, Haardvark, Crackerjackal, Metalligator, Octopussycat, Go-Rilla.

Originally Dupligator was going to be in here but I swapped in Octopussycat for a number of reasons, partly because I didn’t want two alligators in one picture, but also because the main reason I was putting him in was because he was going to be a sample PC in the book, but I’ve put the kibosh on that due to game-breaking powers. Which means those powers may be better suited for a villainous character, and I am more than okay with Dupligator switching sides.

I have my favourites. You?
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