Redraw of Avengelyne panel
Since this scene featured on Escher Girls (warning: link neither safe for work, sanity, or storytelling) seemed like it had a lot of dramatic potential that wasn’t coming through in the drawing, I thought I’d try an alternate take on it. Sorry it’s so slapdash, but hey, I’m no pro, but it was fun.
Since the down-for-the-count woman had a electrical-tape swimsuit thing on that vaguely resembled a cross motif, it made me think of the surcoats that some medieval knights wore over their armor, so I indulged my silly love of drawing heavily armored clanking people, although I bet it’s hot on a tropical island. She should probably have a helmet on, but Oh Well.
The other woman was a little trickier, but since she seemed to be trying to be drawn as some kind of generic Pacific Islander, but weirdly sexualized for the content of the scene. Anyhow, I decided to run with that, but hopefully a little less generic and sexified. In mine, she’s wearing a pareu, a very versatile traditional Tahitian piece of clothing, and if you’re going to be moving around a lot, you might wear it tied at the shoulder and belted. (I’m no expert, I just googled around a little. Her hairstyle is completely bs’d.)
I made it daylight as opposed to sunset for no other reason than I felt like it — there’s obviously nothing wrong with having the scene set at sunset — it might even fit the story better.
Very nifty take on that scene. :)
(Redraw of Avengelyne: Dark Depths #2, Avatar Press)