In High School

"In High School" is today's theme.
At first I was going to do something witty about acne or
sullenness or something but couldn't come up with an
image worth sketching.

Then I thought, if the internet and or Drawbridge existed when
I was in high school (or jr.high) I would have done this!

I would have sketched the Paul Smith re-design of Storm when she went
all "Punk!" Mohawks where already a cliche by the time
they did this to Storm, but I remember being into
the story line and Paul Smith's art.

Dazzler Roller Derby!

I have little of the affinity for the character that Simon seems to evince for her, but I always kind of dug her 70's design. I took what worked best from that get up (a general sparkliness and roller skates) and took off with it. Around where I live in Brooklyn there are a lot of advertisements for roller derby games, and they contain superheroic illustrations of hot roller derby girls. I liked the intense implied physicality of those illustrations, and roller derby get-ups in general, and brought some of that to my redesign of the former Disco Dazzler. Now, she plays hard, she rolls hard, and she glows hard.

Sharpie sketch, as I'm still on the road. When I return home, I may do a more detailed piece for my own amusement.