Gentleman Ghost just hits all the right spots for me visually. I really like this character.
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13. Gentleman Ghost
12. Condiment King
Don’t ask why, but I just really wanted to portray Condiment King as a massively ripped, Punisher-esque guy. This just made me laugh.
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11. Scarecrow
There are a lot of different looks for Scarecrow. One of my favorites is the revamped Bruce Timm version in the 2nd Batman animated series. But, any version is better than the Arkham games/current comic version with needle gloves and gas-mask.
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10. Polka-Dot Man
Crichton asked for Polka-Dot Man running like he does in the Lego games. Which is hilarious. I hope I captured the spirit (this was a blast to draw). I hope David Dastmalchian runs like this in the new Suicide Squad movie.
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9. Man-Bat
Now we’re on to the star of Hughes Week. My 10-year old best friend, Crichton. It’s funny – Crichton is into a ton of cartoons, shows, books, movies that I am totally unaware of, and yet when asked for sketch requests, he chose all Batman villains, while his parents – my peers – chose characters I was clueless about. Crichton gets me. Always happy to draw a Batman villain, even when I do dumb things like this. And yes, Man-Bat is the Magnitude of Bat Villains.
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8. Jester Lavorre
Today’s pick is from Ralphie Hughes. I play D’n’D with Bruce, Ralphie & Crichton, but I am still very, very, very ignorant of a lot of D’n’D stuff. This is a character from a popular D’n’D podcast/show/something or other called Critical Role, which I had never heard of before I started playing with the Hughes’. They love the show and talk about it all the time. I’m pretty sure I screwed up a lot in this sketch.
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7. Cairne Bloodhoof
Week Two! This week is presented by the Hughes family. Bruce Hughes is one of my oldest friends, in fact, the only person I have known since the 90s with whom I am still friends, other than his wife Ralphie, who I was friends with first.
Bruce picked Cairne Bloodhoof from WORLD OF WARCRAFT. He said not to draw the badass version, but every reference I found was badass, and then there’s a Blaine Bloodhoof, and quite frankly it was all confusing.
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6. Warduke
Despite having now played D’n’D with my friend Bruce and his family for a little over a year (my first experience with it), I still know practically nothing about it. So I have no idea what a Warduke is, but he does look cool and badass. So when Jason asked for it, I of course had to ruin it.
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5. Fearless Dawn
I love Steve Mannion’s FEARLESS DAWN. It’s fun, bouncy, cheesecakey, sexy, unashamed, gorgeous, and it hates Nazis. What’s not to love?
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4. Hardware
Milestone Comics has just always remained in my peripheral. Never read a single one. I cannot tell you why. I do think it’s weird that DC tries to bring it back every 10 years or so, and there’s a lot of excited chatter, but it never seems to pan out. Maybe I’m part of that problem. I wish them luck with this next upcoming go-round. Jason asked for Hardware and I almost rejected it, and I was right to. He’s a mess. He is 90s excess personified. No consistency in design or form. I hated this.
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