Blackmail Material

Funny story about this one.

If you're an artist, who's been doing this for a while, guaranteed you've had a period of time in your art where you've experimented with different art styles. Sometimes they turn out nicely and you end up embracing them and it becomes what you're known for. Other times? Yeeeeah, holy crap you want to forget that experimental phase ever existed. About ten years ago, I tried this... For lack of better words, attempt, at a merger of Bruce Timm's style with Peter Chung's style, and it was awful. Proportions were borked, it was so damn amateurish looking, and well... There's just certain things that just don't mix. (Bear in mind as well, this was before I was being more color based in my art, so it was all mostly B&W.) I had actually FORGOTTEN I had attempted this.

Until last week.

I guess during this time period I had drawn a picture for a friend, and she came across it and posted it on Facebook. It literally took me a minute before the horror sunk in and I realized I drew it and I had forgotten I did that style experiment. (I'm not going to show that picture. ) As someone told me, she should have saved it for blackmail material.

So just on principle, I wanted to redraw it. Keeping the same look and ridiculous outfit (of lack of one) that the character was drawn in back then. Mainly to show I'm a better artist than I was then. I do like how it turned out, but like I said, we all have those period of times in our artwork. Though all that aside, I do like the look of it. It's like an interesting combination of Rebecca from Shadowgirls and an older character of mine. (Who's gone through her own drastic redesign over the years.) Might have to see if there's something I can do with it.

...Now I wonder what other hidden horrors are lurking out in the wild that I've forgotten about...