AfghanAnt Artistic Advances 7/8/16 - Marvel Adventures Exclusives

[miguelyanke]

Morrison time's lover? XD Why don't you do Xorn's Special Class?? XD No-girl could be wonderfull in your style ^.~

Just a joke!

Yep you're doing it very well, hope your next "skining vacation"'d be short

[area34]

Not that I'm making a request but I'm curious if your doing Morrison era, what about Cassandra Nova? The skin should just be a tweak of your Prof X (they are twins). If it's the skope, I have a Nova skope that's basically a female bald with the new x-men Prof X style animations that your more than welcome to have.

[AfghanAnt]

Morrison time's lover? XD Why don't you do Xorn's Special Class?? XD No-girl could be wonderfull in your style ^.~

Just a joke!

Yep you're doing it very well, hope your next "skining vacation"'d be short

Well I'm not a skinning vacation. It's really more of a "I'm extremely business" situation. Like I have a hard-drive full of half finished skins that I need to finish up so I can start work on my X-Men re-imagining.

Here are some idea's I've been thinking of for my X-Men:

Spoiler

Mutant would be a lot more rare - like 1 in 200,000 births, with a somewhat higher incidence in Southwest Asia and Africa (like real defective births).

The Beast - an unnameless black furred sasquatch-like mutant from Russia. The Beast is highly intelligent yet is unable to properly communicate. He has bonded closely with Cyclops who see the Beast as his closest friend.

Redd (I hate the codename Marvel Girl) - Telekine/Telepath mutant who hops from body to body upon death (nice way to explain the resurrections), Redd has most recently overwrote her persona on an English child by the name of Elizabeth Braddock (I so excited for this one!). She is aloof and somewhat unpredictable because of her fragmented memories.

Cyclops - Son of South African anthropologists who both were killed while investigating a tribe referred to as "Moon Clan" in Canada. He and his brother Alex were left as orphans. Scott was severely abuse by his adoptive father who he often refers too as "Mr Sinister". He is extremely aloof and lacks natural control of his ruby glaze. Even though Redd is physically younger he has an unnatural attachment her.

Iceman - Young Jewish man from Israel, Bobby Drake was a cadet in the Israel Defense Forces before moving to New York. An natural born artist, Drake would rather be creating ice sculptures instead of actively seeking on other mutants on these mission the Professor send them on. He has exceptional control over his ability because of years of practice and is close friends with Olympic skier Jean-Paul Beaubier.

Angel/Archangel - Because of his feathered wing, Warren was seen as a sign from God from his father to become a minister. His family would later go on to make millions as TV evangelists across the world. Warren is the most well known and beloved of the X-Men. However, he suffers from blackouts and lost time. He is at Xavier's institute for psychological evaluation and often refuses to acknowledge that he is a mutant let alone go on missions to find them.

Professor Xavier - Born with a degenerative disorder that left him unable to walk most of his life, Charles Xavier founded the X-Men in order to research and study the mutant population. No one has seen Professor X since the early 1990's and it is reported he is currently on life support.

Professor Lehnsherr - Colleague of Professor Charles Xavier, he serves as head master of institute and affectionately known as "Magneto" by its residents. He is obsessed with finding and recruiting other mutants across the world in order to train them how to use their powers. Because of his eagerness to recruit and train mutants, Drake suspects that Professor Lehnsherr is training soldiers for a terrorist act.

Area, what costume is it? It is the cargo pants get up, the black leotard, or Cassanova's multiple limb psychic essence?

[area34]

Right now she's just in a leotard but if there is a specific version you want I can work on it later tonight.

[herodad1]

i like your back stories AA!

[Podmark]

AA this is your regular clean out your PM message.

[AfghanAnt]

Inspired by my work with Dr Mike, Irrational Alternate skins, and John Jr.'s latest mod,here the Alchemiss alternate skin known as Amazing or Miss Amazing.



With here I want to do something very classic but with a modern twist. You are probably wonder how is her cape staying up? I dont know but I like it like this for some reason. I want to do Black Bird, sort of this Superman/Batman thing but after that no one else really interests me. However I might do the other Alchemiss alternate as well.

[Podmark]

That's really cool AA. I like the redesign.

[Blkcasanova247]

Very cool AA! Love the look...the one thing I'll say is that maybe you might wanna add a chain or rope between the cape medallions....looks kinda weird just sitting on her skin like that IMO.

[Ash4fire]

speechless

[area34]

I like how it looks like an Afghan Ant take on the character and not a flat out redesign. Other than seconded Blk's suggestion, I just have one thing. Did you have a white design on the skirt and dump it or just not like it to begin with. That's the only thing on her you didn't AA.

[John Jr.]

She's stunning!
I support Blkcasanova247's  suggestion.
I agree with Area, it's a all-new, all-different Alchemiss, and she looks great!

[AfghanAnt]

I want to do a five part mod featuring Miss Amazing and Black Bird. I want it to be very 60's comics - lots of non-sense and battles. I've got some ideas for some villains based on Irrational alternate skins which should be fun.

I didn't like the tribal tattoos or white line on the skirt. It didn't fit when I thought of the character.

[docdelorean88]

Blackbird looks fantastic!

[herodad1]

AA, youve got a superhuman imagination. after seeing what youve done with alchemiss and blackbird, i;d love to see how you envision the other members!

[JKCarrier]

These are really great, AA...not so much "redesigns" as just sort of freshening up and modernizing what was already there. Like when Neal Adams started drawing Batman, he didn't really "change" the costume, just brought a new style and emphasis to it that made it seem new.

It'll be great if you can do that mod. Blackbird has always intrigued me, and I'd love to see her character fleshed out.

[Previsionary]

You have such an awesome style, AA. I love your current work, and it'll be awesome to see yet ANOTHER Freedom Force mod  ("The Power of Impact -- PCTales style!"?). I had ideas to involve Black Bird in something recently, but it didn't come to pass, so it'd be great to see your take on her. Make it happen.

[area34]

I know your up to your neck with other things but I hope you saved the PSD to that bad arse Black Bird. You could make a great Black Canary with just a few changes if you wanted to.

[laughing paradox]

Fantastic work.. Black Bird, in particular, is spectacular.

[AfghanAnt]

Skoping on those rivets was a pain but it was worth it. I hated the way it looked skinned on.

Oh yeah,here's the promo for the mod.

[herodad1]

AA, that looks so much better.please dont stop.i keep thinking what you'd do with say..microwave,minute man, manbot or mentor.

[Blkcasanova247]

Wow man ....Really terrific job!

[murs47]

That's just brilliant

[docdelorean88]

These are fantastic! I love your re-imaginings!

[BentonGrey]

Okay, I thought the Miss Amazing one was okay.  Then you posted the Blackbird one which was pretty neat, but that Iron Ox is just fantastic!  Great work AA!  So you've got a secret origins mod in the offing, huh?  Very cool, I'd love to know what's going on story-wise there.  We talked about trying to get into their origins in PCT, but we didn't have any really compelling ideas.

[Podmark]

Iron Ox is great, his face looks amazing.
And I agree generally skoping stuff on instead of skinning it on is well worth it.

[area34]

I'm in the skoping camp also, but man that must have taken forever to do. Nice job on the face.

[docdelorean88]

I think it would be great to see the Bard...I think he needs a make over as well!

[John Jr.]

Original Ox is kind of goof looking, your version looks more of a tough guy. The face and costume's details are impressive!
Congrats!

[AfghanAnt]

Okay, I thought the Miss Amazing one was okay.  Then you posted the Blackbird one which was pretty neat, but that Iron Ox is just fantastic!  Great work AA!  So you've got a secret origins mod in the offing, huh?  Very cool, I'd love to know what's going on story-wise there.  We talked about trying to get into their origins in PCT, but we didn't have any really compelling ideas.

We should talk...

And thanks everyone!