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Here's my inevitable response to that awful costume redesign that everyone was talking about recently.

Personally i don't like the Diana Prince secret identity as a full-time thing. I figure the character is open and proud of who she is and where she is from, and doesn't feel the need to hide or disguise herself or try to blend in with western culture. Also i don't see her as someone who buys into the whole fashion thing. I think that probably she has her own clothes that she brought with her, and she is comfortable with wearing some combination of those in most situations.

So for her basic casual day-to-day outfit i went with one of those Greek/Roman toga/dress thingies. It's simple and elegant and classic and fits in with her culture and heritage. It also wouldn't be too out of place walking down a modern street... i mean for instance i found pictures of a bunch of celebrities wearing very similar dresses while googling for references.

Same thinking with the Roman sandals.

I stuck a bunch of decorative bits on the dress to make it a bit more interesting, such as Greek/Roman patterning on the edges, a bunch of stars, and a version of the character's classic eagle logo based on a Ben Caldwell design.

Oh and no tiara... tiara's are more of a formal thing right? I figure when dressed casually she would slip off the tiara and clip it next to her lasso at her side.

Great thing about the casual outfit is that you can throw an overcoat and a hat and glasses on over it and look like most other women out-and-about if necessary. Handy for sleuthing.

With the "regular" outfit i wanted to avoid the massive breastplate thing. I have seen and done a lot of Wonder Woman fan art in my time, so trust me when i say nobody can make that thing work. Adam Hughes only gets away with it by not really ever drawing the chestplate properly. It looks fine flat on paper, but it doesn't work in 3D with boobies in the way.

I also wanted to address the criticism that, in the real world, with her familiar costume, her boobs would be popping out every five minutes or so... which i'm sure would win her a bunch more fans, but would be a bugger to get past the censors.

I decided i wanted to bring in more of a Scythian/Sarmatian look for this version of the costume, as techically the Amazons were not Greeks really. I went with a lamellar corset/breastplate thingy made from leather scales. Often these have decorative panels at the top, which allowed me to have a space for the logo, and to raise the logo up off the breasts and give the whole cleavage danger zone a little more coverage.

I tried a lot of different versions of the logo, but in the end went with something really simple that could be a "WW" or a stylised eagle or a whole bunch of other things depending.

I like that she can just slip this on over her everyday clothing/toga-thingy, like a cop putting on a bulletproof vest, and there you have her costume for superheroing.

With the tiara i wanted to make it less massive and awkward and shrink it down to something more like they actually might have worn back in the day.

And finally for more dangerous shit i figured she could use a more traditional breastplate, with that nice big Ben Caldwell eagle logo on there. If you have an entire breastplate sculpted to fit her torso, and the eagle is engraved into it, then that'll work fine. It's just when you try to do the "classic" Wonder Woman breastplate, that has to fit around her breasts and also be attached to a fabric bustier, that you run into issues.

Uh... so yeah that's about all i can say.

Oh except that's Sarah Shahi in the costume, but more on that when i blog about casting.

Description
Here's my inevitable response to that awful costume redesign that everyone was talking about recently.

Personally i don't like the Diana Prince secret identity as a full-time thing. I figure the character is open and proud of who she is and where she is from, and doesn't feel the need to hide or disguise herself or try to blend in with western culture. Also i don't see her as someone who buys into the whole fashion thing. I think that probably she has her own clothes that she brought with her, and she is comfortable with wearing some combination of those in most situations.

So for her basic casual day-to-day outfit i went with one of those Greek/Roman toga/dress thingies. It's simple and elegant and classic and fits in with her culture and heritage. It also wouldn't be too out of place walking down a modern street... i mean for instance i found pictures of a bunch of celebrities wearing very similar dresses while googling for references.

Same thinking with the Roman sandals.

I stuck a bunch of decorative bits on the dress to make it a bit more interesting, such as Greek/Roman patterning on the edges, a bunch of stars, and a version of the character's classic eagle logo based on a Ben Caldwell design.

Oh and no tiara... tiara's are more of a formal thing right? I figure when dressed casually she would slip off the tiara and clip it next to her lasso at her side.

Great thing about the casual outfit is that you can throw an overcoat and a hat and glasses on over it and look like most other women out-and-about if necessary. Handy for sleuthing.

With the "regular" outfit i wanted to avoid the massive breastplate thing. I have seen and done a lot of Wonder Woman fan art in my time, so trust me when i say nobody can make that thing work. Adam Hughes only gets away with it by not really ever drawing the chestplate properly. It looks fine flat on paper, but it doesn't work in 3D with boobies in the way.

I also wanted to address the criticism that, in the real world, with her familiar costume, her boobs would be popping out every five minutes or so... which i'm sure would win her a bunch more fans, but would be a bugger to get past the censors.

I decided i wanted to bring in more of a Scythian/Sarmatian look for this version of the costume, as techically the Amazons were not Greeks really. I went with a lamellar corset/breastplate thingy made from leather scales. Often these have decorative panels at the top, which allowed me to have a space for the logo, and to raise the logo up off the breasts and give the whole cleavage danger zone a little more coverage.

I tried a lot of different versions of the logo, but in the end went with something really simple that could be a "WW" or a stylised eagle or a whole bunch of other things depending.

I like that she can just slip this on over her everyday clothing/toga-thingy, like a cop putting on a bulletproof vest, and there you have her costume for superheroing.

With the tiara i wanted to make it less massive and awkward and shrink it down to something more like they actually might have worn back in the day.

And finally for more dangerous shit i figured she could use a more traditional breastplate, with that nice big Ben Caldwell eagle logo on there. If you have an entire breastplate sculpted to fit her torso, and the eagle is engraved into it, then that'll work fine. It's just when you try to do the "classic" Wonder Woman breastplate, that has to fit around her breasts and also be attached to a fabric bustier, that you run into issues.

Uh... so yeah that's about all i can say.

Oh except that's Sarah Shahi in the costume, but more on that when i blog about casting.