Uncomfortable post title aside, I recently dug up a couple of character designs and development from eons ago. The project was called:
"Sexy Deadly". Originally developed as
"Birds of Prey" with
DC Comics at
WB Animation--DC pulled the plug due to either legal, TV, or feature conflicts. Not wanting their hard work to go to waste, they changed the name and added about 50% more
raunchiness. The man for the job?
Paul Dini, of course. As enamored to work with him as I was, I couldn't say
he felt the same way--culminating in my witnessing him asking for another artist right in front of me...sigh. God bless them though, they kept me and put up with my recently evolved--or
DEvolved "gross" style of designs. Again, this was years ago--
before the recent trend and tendency towards this style
(i.e. "Flapjack", etc. ). I smoothed a couple designs out the best I could--trying to let go of any ego I might've had for not being known as the
"sexy-girl" artist. I think my favorite part of this experience, aside from working with Paul Dini, was going to
MTV for a video-feed meeting on both coasts, where each team of development execs looked like super hip veejays and were literally hung-over from their no-doubt, ultra-cool festivities the evening before. Actually getting a
"oh, my head, please don't talk to loud" comment through a satellite feed was priceless.
These are some cleaner models...
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This drawing below is still one of my favorite designs...
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The drawings below remind me of
THIS recent message board where readers were talking about how my
Power Girl design in
BATMAN: Brave & the Bold looked like a tranny...
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5DV80JSgDzfHxtoAIThK0ky_HhRLNrvVwSyMojFVLiHmFMAj1cbbmdNYB3IgYiHk7_neAlaTP4RlMJQG9N165uGVOlQ6i8KHjhhuWKVROv7OnXV6x4wlASdcHKj-lwEkUa7kPoQ/s200/sd12.jpg)
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Yeah, sort of gross.