I've been fairly busy, lately, doing art for some tabletop role playing games. Month before last, I showed you some art for Godsfall, this month, it's for the super-hero RPG called Supers! The first piece I was asked to do was described as a "detective type" hero disarming a bomb, while getting tech support. It was also supposed to show the coutdown timer.In order to show the hero, in his best light and not an over-the-shoulder type shot, I came up with the eye-piece to show what the hero is seeing on the tech support guy's screen. And, of course, it gave me a chance to use the classic split-panel frame that was always used in comics when someone was talking on the phone or radio.   With that one done, I had a series of requests, and these are just the ones that have been okayed to show. First, there was a scene with a hulking brute swinging an I-beam like a club, hammering a hero with a shield. Nothing else to go on, except the guy with the shield should not be in a "flag-suit".   I decided to make my hulking brute golden, because they've done green, red and purple brute types in comics. Another piece involved a character meant to be a Caitlin Fairchild type strong girl. I can't come anywhere close to aping J. Scott Campbell's style, but I did what I could.   Then, there's the classic speedster running up the side of a building. I thought the view looking down from the top would be the coolest angle. Plus, a side view needs after images, and I was never very good at that. You play to your strengths...   Another piece involved a character swinging on a line that had just been cut in mid-swing. But, there was no mention of WHY the line had snapped. That gave me an idea for an off-screen villain to have thrown a whirling blade of some kind. From there, I tried to think of a shape that would be distinctive and for some reason I thought of a butterfly. And because it's a "throwing iron", my brain spat out Iron Butterfly as a name. From there, it was inevitable that I'd take a crack at designing the character, and here we are.   The hero in the swinging piece had been described as a Daredevil type character, so she'd be his Elektra.   Joe L. Singleton   See more of my stuff at . . . www.heroblog.com www.adastracomic.com http://singulararts.us http://heroblog.spreadshirt.com/ [more Artistic License] [Back to Collector Times] [Prev.] [Return to Comics] [Disclaimer] [Next] Copyright © 2014 Joe Singleton About the Author