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Batman and the like are property of DC/Time-Warner, etc.

I been embroiled in some various projects lately outside of art - cleaning my room earlier today and decided in the process of clearing out some of my older sketches from the past three or four years to post them here.

This sketch is in line with the DC redesign stuff I've been doing the past year - in this case tackling the Dark Knight. In fashioning my own take on Batman, I aimed for something that evoked the original Golden Age likeness with the ears pointing slightly outward like a real bat (also probably inspired by his JLU incarnation). I added 'shine lines' to his eyes to reiterate that he's got special lenses in the eyeholes of his mask (this an element of the comics continuity which was intended to explain why Batman is always drawn with totally-white eyes with his mask on).

The insignia I intended as a sort of hybrid of both the common trademarked Bat symbol and the more simplistic old '66 TV version.

Now, the Batmobile here came from a philosophy that I have had that was probably brought on by the Batman films (pre-Batman Begins, anyway) - they kept making the car bigger and more decorative, and as a practical vehicle meant to propagate a foreboding persona that Batman is supposed to have, it just don't work like that. I feel that the Batmobile should be of reasonable size in order to facilitate its speed and the maneuverability it needs on the streets of a place like Gotham where hundreds of gun-toting maniacs are probably going to chase it up and down the town. To this end, I went with something that was simpler and actually turned into something of a nod to the early Batmobiles of the comics of the '40s and '50s, especially with that Bat head on the front.

Description
Batman and the like are property of DC/Time-Warner, etc.

I been embroiled in some various projects lately outside of art - cleaning my room earlier today and decided in the process of clearing out some of my older sketches from the past three or four years to post them here.

This sketch is in line with the DC redesign stuff I've been doing the past year - in this case tackling the Dark Knight. In fashioning my own take on Batman, I aimed for something that evoked the original Golden Age likeness with the ears pointing slightly outward like a real bat (also probably inspired by his JLU incarnation). I added 'shine lines' to his eyes to reiterate that he's got special lenses in the eyeholes of his mask (this an element of the comics continuity which was intended to explain why Batman is always drawn with totally-white eyes with his mask on).

The insignia I intended as a sort of hybrid of both the common trademarked Bat symbol and the more simplistic old '66 TV version.

Now, the Batmobile here came from a philosophy that I have had that was probably brought on by the Batman films (pre-Batman Begins, anyway) - they kept making the car bigger and more decorative, and as a practical vehicle meant to propagate a foreboding persona that Batman is supposed to have, it just don't work like that. I feel that the Batmobile should be of reasonable size in order to facilitate its speed and the maneuverability it needs on the streets of a place like Gotham where hundreds of gun-toting maniacs are probably going to chase it up and down the town. To this end, I went with something that was simpler and actually turned into something of a nod to the early Batmobiles of the comics of the '40s and '50s, especially with that Bat head on the front.