Amalgam Comics: Ameri Quinn NO. 1

I started working on this one day after going over my own comics collection.  I looked at the covers and thought to myself that perhaps I should take a crack at making a cover for my Amalgams.  So I pulled up the one that was done for me by @stickymonart and I had colored:  AmeriQuinn.  But because the original image was so small, I compiled the lines and colors and transferred them to a new Photoshop file and tinkered with it there. 

In the design of the cover, I basically looked over the covers for Harley Quinn as well as American Dream.  Thus the reason why the name logo looks like a mixture of the two.  I used a military-like font with stars and a red, white and blue color scheme.  Which did take a LOOOT of manipulation in Photoshop but I finally managed to get it right. 
If all of you like it, please let me know. 

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© Harley Quinn - DC Comics

© American Dream (Shanon Carter) - Marvel Comics

Coloring Commission - CallMePo - Will Bufford - Harley, Korra and Rogue at Mardi Gras

This is the second coloring commission in the batch from Will Bufford that involves Harley Quinn, Korra and Rogue.  It involves a lineart that he had CallMePo do for him.  The setup is that they’re all at Mardi Gras and they’re getting very…VERY crazy.  Then again, with Harley Quinn, I suppose this is just an average day for her. 

Original Lineart by callmepo​:  Harley, Korra and Rogue at Mardi Gras

Coloring this one was tricky in it’s own area.  Mainly it’s the beads that were the trickiest.  My first thought was to color them in the respective colors to their characters, red for Harley, blue for Korra and green for Rogue.  It was when I was just about done that I found out that the traditional Mardi Gras bead colors were gold, green and purple/pink.  But with the way that the beads turned out, I
liked it too much to make any color changes so I kept it. 

As far as a background goes, initially I wanted to show something of New Orleans but that seemed a little hard to do given the angle this picture was at, so I settled on a close-up of a building with some windows.  But given how it is, I think the background came out well. 

I did also think about throwing in confetti but after doing it and showing it to Will we both came to the conclusion that it was distracting and covered up too much.  So, we axed the confetti and left it as is. 

© Harley Quinn - Batman - DC Comics - Warner Bros

© Korra - Legend of Korra - Nickelodeon

© Rogue - X-men - Marvel Comics

Note:  All character(s) depicted here are 18 years of age or older

Coloring Commission - CallMePo - WolfboySpike21 - Harley, Korra and Rogue

One of the newest of my coloring commissions came from WolfboySpike21 who had a few linearts done by CallMePo for this set it involves three women:  Harley Quinn (Batman), Korra (Legend of Korra) and Rogue (90′s X-men Verion).  I do admit that I do like this version of Rogue mainly because it was the version that I grew up with.  And let’s face it, we tend to like the versions we grow up with rather than most other versions that are made, am I right? 

Original Lineart here:  Inked Korra, Rogue and Harley

I will say this for the record that coloring Harley was a real pain in the ass.  Mainly given the level of detail and all the different nooks and crannies involved and the continuous switching between black, red and white.  Makes me miss the original Harley suit.  Nice and simple from a coloring perspective. 
Compared to that, everything else was easy.  But the result was worth it and my commissioner loved it. 

© Harley Quinn - Batman - DC Comics - Warner Bros

© Korra - Legend of Korra - Nickelodeon

© Rogue - X-men - Marvel Comics
Note:  All character(s) depicted here are 18 years of age or older

Stickymon - Amalgam Comics - AmeriQuinn

Here’s a piece whose lineart was done for me by StickyMon and which I added the colors.

The idea behind it was something that Kay-sama, SniperPlushie and I came up with.  I had asked them if there was an Amalgam design that they’d like to see and one of the ideas that came up was that they wanted to see something done with Harley Quinn.  I immediately jumped at the idea and began to think out who Harley could be fused with on the Marvel side.  And, as I recall, and either one of them can correct me on this, but I think it was Kay-Sama who suggested American Dream (Shannon Carter).  And I think it was me that blurted out the name for this Amalgam:  "Ameri Quinn".  After that, I started a few sketches of this idea.
As for her weapons, I had the notion of an exploding Apple Pie as an absurdly comic idea that blends the whole “American as Apple Pie” with the overly comic book round bomb with a fuse that Harley Quinn uses or would use.  But eventually that idea was dropped in favor of an old World War 2 bazooka and a baseball bat (idea courtesy of Kay-sama).

The outfit itself I knew it had to look like an American flag in reference to Shanon Carter but it also had to have a flair of Harley Quinn, so I asked StickyMon to use a pattern like what I had sketched out, the strips in two quadrants and blue and stars in the other.  And after he finished the drawing and sent it to me and after coloring it I think it came out well.  Especially with the flag in the background, it rather harkens back to the old World War 2 propaganda posters, don’t you think?

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© Harley Quinn - DC Comics

© American Dream (Shanon Carter) - Marvel Comics