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I'm new, oh yes I'm so new. First art! Miss X

Blood_Wolffe

By Blood_Wolffe,
Posted on: 2008-07-15 22:41 in Multi-Media Fan Creations

 

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Miss X

Okay okay okay- I'm painfully new and all that other fun stuff. It's been close to an age and a half since I drew anything and since I decided to have so many fun and exciting CoX characters at once I thought it might be high time to draw them.

If the bodies look like a sketchy afterthought- well good. Because they were.

I originally started just drawing their heads because I wanted to flesh them out in my head (as well as checking that I could still draw girls who didn't all look the same!). But when I got to the last one's hair it kinda lead to draw shoulders and a body sorta followed. After that I couldn't just leave the others as floating heads, so bodies followed. (And just so you know, the far left and right girls have the 'neck cover' mask option- I didn't forget to finish their outfits! xD)

I'm not going to tell you their huge long backstory because it is too long for me to want to write out right now, but essentially their granny The River Oracle (Missy Weaver) gave out all her gained superheroing powers to her children that carried it inactively until they had kids themselves.

These three girls are cousins, and the first of Missy's power line to resurface after she gave up heroing.

On the left is Miss Whisper (Maya Teller), age nineteen. So far the oldest but also least active of the heroes. She's studying to be a therapist and has the most calm and gentle personality out of the lot. She has the power to probe into people's minds and create false illusions.

In the middle is Miss Malarkey (Danielle Weaver), age sixteen. She's the tallest and most often mistaken for the oldest, but is actually the youngest. She's quite... active- and the most dedicated to the heroing life. She's uses her powers to create strange and most often painful visions in her enemies' minds. 'Malarkey' was suggested by her older brother because of the odd things she liked to have people see. (It is unknown if her brother is a hero himself or even has any powers.)

The rightmost is Miss Medicine (Alexis Weaver), age eighteen. She's a healer and takes her job very seriously. Because of her stern and quiet nature people mistake her for being severe, but she is usually just very focused on keeping other heroes on their feet.

Wow, that was more info than I intended. OH WELL :'D You get to read it ANYWAYS. Unless you skip it. I wouldn't blame ya.

So back on the arting front- I found out my scanner doesn't scan very detailed and there's no way I can think of fixing it. So annoying. This is what I got originally- well no, I lost the original image by accidentally saving over it, but this is it with the contrast raised just a little.

Miss X Originalish

And this is it with the contrast high enough to see most everything.

Miss X Contrast Up

It's annoying because it doesn't look that way on the paper :'P the body lines aren't that much darker than the rest of it. I was hoping to get away with just some touch-ups, not just lazily linearting it. Ah, oh well. Can't win 'em all!

((And Larky ended up looking kinda squinty and evil in the 'finished' form. Huh. I'll have to fix that whenever I feel like not being lazy.))

 

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Very charming faces. I actually prefer the sketch to the cleaned up piece though.

 

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Very charming faces. I actually prefer the sketch to the cleaned up piece though.

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Funny thing is? so do I :'P

But I put too much time into it than to say so- so what I just said you didn't hear from me, kay?

 

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welcome

 

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Miss Medicine keeps me alive. She's ok in my book.








Still not a stalker.

 

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Miss Medicine keeps me alive. She's ok in my book.








Still not a stalker.

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My stalker! :'D

 

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Oooooooo!!!

So cute!!


"City of Heroes. April 27, 2004 - August 31, 2012. Obliterated not with a weapon of mass destruction, not by an all-powerful supervillain... but by a cold-hearted and cowardly corporate suck-up."

 

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Very nice. I really like em.

 

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Welcome, and good job!
Make a Deviant Art account so I can +watch you!

 

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What Rowr said Very cute work.

 

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Stunning. I love the hooded cape on Miss Malarkey, that's close to what I see on Niviene (once she's of the proper level) and I really wish we had the option for the long braid Miss Medicine is sporting. Very sweet and subtle work. Looking forward to seeing more.

 

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cool! draw more stuff for me to see

Liberty
My 50s:
Hero: Armor Assassin (scrapper), Cross Dresser (scrapper), Surly Seaman (blaster), Defensive End (Tank), Rad Rhino (Cont)
Villain: Beast Infection (Corr), Sweet Zombie Jesus (MM), Milk Weasel (Stalker), Orgullo (MM), Agent Eris (Crab)

 

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I like the faces

 

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Very good drawings, I like your style. They have a lot of personality just in the drawing.

 

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yay you posted arts =^.^= and very good arts at that, and you already have your own stalker :3

Keep up the good work, sounds like you got quite the story for your characters.

 

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Nice sketches Missy, and welcome to the art forum.

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Thank you very much :'3

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I like your three cousins. Hope to see more from you!

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Lol, you probably will shortly xD

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welcome

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Thank you :'D

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Oooooooo!!!

So cute!!

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Heehee, thank you :'3 That's a reaction I like to see! Then again, the concentration on the cute has it's downsides >.> Still can't draw guys.

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Miss Medicine keeps me alive. She's ok in my book.








Still not a stalker.

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My stalker! :'D

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This weirdness is cute, somehow.

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Lol, thank you. I think. Techy's a good guy :'3

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Very nice. I really like em.

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Thank you :'D

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Welcome, and good job!
Make a Deviant Art account so I can +watch you!

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I used to be a deviantArter a loooooong time ago xD Then they went a little weird and a lot of my friends felt alienated and left, and I just kinda followed. Are they done with that now?

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What Rowr said Very cute work.

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Thank you :'3

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Those are looking very nice - well done!

And welcome!!

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Thank you!

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Stunning. I love the hooded cape on Miss Malarkey, that's close to what I see on Niviene (once she's of the proper level) and I really wish we had the option for the long braid Miss Medicine is sporting. Very sweet and subtle work. Looking forward to seeing more.

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I know @.@

I would give my left leg to see braids and CURLY hair on CoX. It's not that hard, and yet we don't have either. It makes me kinda sad :'( So Miss Medi just has the 'glam' hairstyle, but I've always envisioned her with having a braid. x'D

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cool! draw more stuff for me to see

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Lol, you're in luck then! But I can't guarantee it'll necessarily be /good/ stuff...

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I like the faces

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Faces are my specialty :') Then again, it does mean I don't concentrate on scenery and others... >.> <.<

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Very good drawings, I like your style. They have a lot of personality just in the drawing.

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Thank you! I used to style-hop so much... well, I kinda still do, but this one has been my favorite for a while, even though I haven't necessarily been drawing in a while.

Hrm, personality... I don't know when I started actively trying to get more mood into each character, but I think it started a few years back :'P I was once infected with the anime-dead-people syndrome. Then again I was young and- well, young. And a little stupid, but most everyone is stupid when they're young. I've been trying to get out of very anime-ish drawing for a long while, but it is a slow, slow process. @.@ It doesn't help that there's a still anime-y styles I still like to doodle every now and again- like the girl you see in my avatar.

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yay you posted arts =^.^= and very good arts at that, and you already have your own stalker :3

Keep up the good work, sounds like you got quite the story for your characters.

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Who? Techman? He's not an art-stalker, rather an in-game stalker B'D Well not that even, really, it's just a joke. He helped me form a Sister Psyche TF and a Terra Volta Trial when he didn't really have to do them :') that's what I love about City of Heroes- you'd be hard pressed to find people who would go out of their way to be nice and friendly in any other MMO (except FFXI. Really great people there, but only because stupid people don't usually have the patience for it!)

As for the characters? the story kinda... comes. After a while. The cousins are on Virtue, which was on purpose because I wanted to rp them a bit. First Miss Whisper was just an alt formed from a minor case of altitus on Liberty, then I made Miss Malarkey, who was originally on her own. Then one day while pacing and listening to music very loudly on my iPod I decided they should be cousins. I operated under this for a while, but still didn't remake Miss Whis on Virtue. Instead Miss Medi came around and she became the third cousin x'D With her the story formed about The River Oracle. (Who's name I got from my recent Exodus of Tucson, AZ. I practically lived on the corner of River and Oracle. >.&gt

And now I'm done yammering on! Thank you all :'3