Rough Monday: Wonder Fashions

by on July 2, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Posted In: Blog, Rough Mondays, Water Cooler Discussion

So, for those of you following my work elsewhere, you may know I’m part of the weekly “The Line Is Drawn” crew at Comic Book Resources’ blog, “Comics Should Be Good.” Here’s how it works: “So every week, I ask a question here. You reply to it on our Twitter page (just write @csbg with your reply) and our blog sketch artists will each pick one of your suggestions and I will post them here every week.”

A couple of weeks ago, the theme was “What if X Artist Designed X character?” And I immediately was drawn to “Dan DeCarlo’s Wonder Woman.” DeCarlo is one of my biggest artistic influences; He was the definitive Archie Comics artist (with his renditions of Betty & Veronica in particular)… If Parker and Morgan look half as cute and sexy, then mission accomplished!

So my “brainstorm” was to create one of this traditional pin-up pages, where readers would send in fashion ideas and Dan would draw them. Here’s some examples:

So my idea was to take Wonder Woman’s different looks over the years, and do the same, as if they were “sent in” by various creators and personalities…

Here’s some roughs (click to enlarge)…

.. taking looks mostly from the 40s-80s (as if Dan DeCarlo would have drawn)…

And that’s the final.

I’d love to do a part two with her 90s biker-shorts costume and her Kingdom Come armor, among others….