This is just something I was messing around with this evening. It's a concept sketch of an old character of mine. Her name is "Hate," and she was part of a crimefighting duo, partnered with her sister, "Cautious Fascination."
Okay, just kidding; her sister took the name of the more obvious emotion, "Love."
"Love and Hate" were themselves a part of a larger team, which was part of a much larger concept that I came up with a long, long time ago. It's a concept I've never done much of anything with, but overall it was a good one.
I had a special fondness for Hate, as she dealt with a lot of issues that a non-super "super hero" would have to contend with.
For example, in addition to wearing light, flexible armor rather than just some skimpy little spandex number, she also wears knee, wrist, and elbow braces to maintain support in combat.
This is all for obvious reasons of protection, but it's also intended to downplay her femininity. She's a very beautiful woman underneath it all, but, for various reasons, she feels ugly, and so her costumed identity is designed to reflect that ugliness in many ways.
Of course, the idea is that she's SO smoking hot that it can't help but show through a little.
She starts out her career being pretty violent and making use of weapons like tear gas and night sticks, but as time goes by the level of violence escalates and she eventually begins making use of lethal force. Of course by then she's a government-sanctioned operative, so it all works out. Sort of.
Anyway, "Hate" (the character, not the emotion) has been on my mind a lot for some reason lately (It happens. A lot of my old concepts come back to haunt me from time to time.), and I realized that I never quite got her to look the way I wanted, so I thought I'd give it a shot. This one isn't too bad.
What is too bad is the fact that, apart from this image here, she (along with her sister and the rest of the characters) will probably never see the light of day.
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