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Harseik — Gotham's Dark Knight Redesign 2
Published: 2012-05-02 07:36:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 21288; Favourites: 693; Downloads: 223
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My long overdo Batman redesign. Oh mai! I've been working on college projects all week. Here's what I squeezed out within it all. <3I borrowed several elements from my ooooollllld design ([link] ), but all in all I think it's a good improvement because... no more tissue box shoes! I traded them out for tabi shoes. Bruce will always be a parkour ninja in my head. Don't know what's up with me and giving Batman layered Kevlar stuff. I think my next design will attempt to cut down on the padding, but I'll see.
I'm always raving about making a JLA comic someday, then I go and design things that are too complicated for repetitive drawing. xD BUT IF I WAS A GOOD ARTIST IT WOULDN'T STOP ME. But it does. Hnnnnnnng.
What do you guys think?
Yay? Nay? Anything you like or don't like? Yes, I'm up for full-blown criticism, even on anatomy en such. EDIT: NOOOOOO Y U CUT OFF, SHADOW?
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Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts, Ailthron. <3
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I love Batman , the design Is very cool ^^. Sorry for my bad english ;_;
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The grey strip on his fore-head brings unnecessary attention to his face, which completely contradicts the point of an brighter bat-symbol,
which I'm assuming was a throw-back to the old bat-symbol theory of bringing gunmen's attention away from his open face and towards his chest, which was protected by several layers of bullet-proof/fire-proof material, a mixture of Kevlar and Nomex if I remember correctly.
The belt has a nice uniform look, and the sharper looking armor segments in the cowl provide a nice fang theme, and menacing to boot.
I rather enjoy the lighter color on the arm blades, which actually make them seem like bone, providing even more of a reason for criminals to think he is some kind of monster.
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Yeah, I've been getting criticism regarding the gray spot on his face, so I'll definitely do away with it. I think I put that on him during color experimentation by following the grooves on his cowl and just left it there. Haha. You brought up a lot of interesting points. Extremely useful coming from an excellent artist such as yourself. Thank you very much for stopping by and bringing those points of focus up with me. It really helps. <3
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my Tumblr is a much better representation of my current skill level.
Here's the link if you ever have nothing to do on a rainy day. I just started it, so pretty minimal in size.
[link]
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I took a look on a rainy day and your penciling is marvelous! It's full of energy, presence, and delicious detail. Good work on all of the action poses. Those are hard to pull off.
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your tellin' me! Thanks for checkin em' out, I appreciate the feed-back.
I recently posted my own design for Batman. I'm taking the techno-fear route!
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no prob, its fun to see different takes on my fav superheroes.
Though I think excellent may be a bit of an exaggeration of my current gallery
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I reeeally like it, but his ears seem a little bit like cat ears to me.
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I think that's due to the forward facing nature of them and their skinniness at the top. While the sterotypical bat does have forward facing ears, their entire ear shape is a very wide diamond.
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Oh wow, this is awesome! I love everything about it, especially the shape of the cowl. The mouth opening is a lovely shape.
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wow very nice costume design
i WOULD SO LIKE TO SEE THAT IN DC SHOW1!!!!!!
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YOU'RE REDESIGNING BATMAN!? HOW DARE YOU!! I'M GONNA- oh, hey, cool. XD
Kidding, my friend. Aside from the patch of light grey on his forehead, I'd say it's an awesome suit.
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The shoes were not the tissue~ Bruce needs defined cheek bones.
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They're sort of covered by a mask. xP Also, he's a tad too young here for extra definition. Hopefully I'll chuck out a non-mask drawing sometime in the future. Thank you for your suggestion, dude!
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This is BEAUTIFUL!! But I'm not a fan about the "gills" on the side of his mask. Besides that, It's AMAZING!!
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Surprisingly, they have a function. The plates slide over his face to become a gas mask. :] Didn't mean for them to look like gills though. I'll try playing around with it. Thanks so much for your input. <3
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Oh, in that case, it's fantastic! 
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I disagree with what you said here "BUT IF I WAS A GOOD ARTIST IT WOULDN'T STOP ME." You ARE a good artist, woman! *Fist shake*
Other than that, I really like this design of Batman. I like the post you gave him because it sort of shows that its flexible which apparently Batman always has a problem with in his suits. xD The Kevlar layers are a nice touch and remind me of Nolan's Batman but I like this one more because the Bat symbol is more prominent. But I have a question, what's on his forehead??? Is it like, his third eye?
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Horseshoe bat! And cape that doesn't go over the shoulders <3
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Wow, this already is quite a good design.
I like the layered armor; gives off a very effective and protective vibe without really hindering the movements, and at the same time, rule of cool at full effect. The new boots look amazing and I like the dark-ish golden colour you used for the belt and the bat symbol - it's more stealthy that way. Furthermore the design of the gloves in general really looks good; I like the different fingers and all. And the cowl with the chin protection and also layers works great.
And the cape is awesome beyond words.
However, if you are in for criticism, I'd like to make a few suggestions:
I'm not so sure about the abdomen, it looks kinda weird; I think it would work better if it was a real, full black.
In addition to that, I would probably try out full black for the pants and a darker grey for the ribs - that way, it would be overall darker, but still fresher; and the layers, while really cool, would not look ill-adjusted or out of place or something similar.
I don't know what to think of the golden arm spikes as well; I think they work better in black. They kind of look out of place in gold. I can't really explain it, sorry.
Oh, before I forget it:
Dear Harseik, YOU ARE A GOOD ARTIST, for pie's sake!
But your design may be a tad bit complicated for drawing repeatedly, even for someone as gifted as you.
Less different colours - that way, you can easily cheat around the layers or rather, draw less layers or something.
A JLA comic drawn by you would be absolutely fantastic.
When (and if) you find the time, it would be pure awesomeness if you go with it...
And you would make all your many adoring fans exorbitantly happy, I think.
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I love the fact that you added the gold bat symbol giving it the sort of classic look. I'm just wondering what that bit of grey on his forehead is. The padding looks fine, though. More appropriate than either of the Joel Schumacher movies. Good job over-all.
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What's with the diamond on his forehead? It looks like the nose of a Ba-OOOOH~!
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Mostly, I like it. I do feel that perhaps there are too many shades of grey on the arms. I like the segmentation, but it gets....odd. Also, the grey spot on his head alternately reminds me of vampire bats (which would be scary, although when you think about it they actually kill less than vegetarians, as vegetarians must destroy the life of a plant whereas the preferred prey for a vampire bat is a cow, which I do not believe they have ever killed), and a rhino (whose ninja prowess, while considerable, is not exactly well-known).
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I think it's an interesting design and I think it definitely suits a younger, more adventurous Bruce Wayne like you tend to draw 
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Batman already has Ninja Tabi boots, combined with climbing boots. This seems I little overdone, as Batman would prefer sleek kevlar as opposed to layers of body armor so he has full freedom of movement while still has protection. But perhaps I am being too critical.
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sweet!!!!i love... well i love everything abt it! ^^ you should definitly make a JLA comic, or at least, make design of more DC characters
you did a really great job!
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I would kill to see a JLA comic from you. Seriously. Weapons at the ready.
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I can definitely see it being a little too complicated--not sure if I'm a huge fan of the dark grey middle around the abdomen and the crotch. I always thought a good way to break up the color scheme on Batman's suit without going too complicated would be to have a dark, charcoal grey pants, a lighter grey top, and black boots, gauntlets, symbol, cape and mask.
Still an interesting design and a good drawing, though.
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