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The second in my collection of Hanna Barbera 70's tributes. I loved Blue Falcon and Dynomutt (The Dog Wonder!) when I was a kid, but to my four-year-old eyes, I hard difficulty distinguishing BF from Batman. The costumes were relatively similar, after all. So for this tribute, I have taken more liberties than with my Captain Caveman piece, and make some subtle changes to the duo's appearance. I figured a guy modeling himself after a falcon should have those characteristics, so I made his cape split in the back into two segments and give it a more"feathered" look (in the cartoon, BF had a plain blue cape). I also gave his gloves the same feather treatment and heightened the talon look of his boots. I also varied the color scheme a bit. In the cartoon, BF was all one shade of blue, which seemed kinda boring and muddled his featured a little. So I split up his costume into his traditonal blue for his cape, trunks and gloves and gave him a darker blue for everything else, just to break up the monotony. I also redesigned his chest embled. In the original, he just had an F, like he flunked an algebra test or something. But the guy was BF, so I added the letter and made the emblem reflective of his name as well (belt buckle, too, both of which were just arbitrary shapes in the original cartoon). I did manage to keep the very cool beak and hawkeye elements to his cowl, and made sure to make the shadowing of his eyes (as in the original version) a key element to his look. I feel like I captured his essense and familiarity while managing to improve on the concept (hopefully).

For Dynomutt, I kept his color scheme, but redesigned his costume slightly. I ditched the 70's Elvis collar that he once had, as well as the weird backpack/vest thing that he sported. In my version he just has a simple cape and boots, which I figure is all a cyborg dog needs. I chose to just have the pooch pose here rather than show off all his bionic functions, since I was aiming for a more iconic look to the duo and wanted to keep it simple. But in my version, his powers would still be in tact, so no worries. I also gave him a more cartoony appearance, and probably made him look stupider than he originally did. But afterall, Dynomutt was the cousin of both Scooby Doo and Scooby Dumb, so he was bound to inherit a little of each cuz.

I hope I've still managed to maintain the basic essence of these guys. I feel like I did, anyway. I'm just trying to avoid being too literal in my interpretations. If I simply drew them the way they looked line for line in the original contexts, then it's not really a tribute in my style, y'know?

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The second in my collection of Hanna Barbera 70's tributes. I loved Blue Falcon and Dynomutt (The Dog Wonder!) when I was a kid, but to my four-year-old eyes, I hard difficulty distinguishing BF from Batman. The costumes were relatively similar, after all. So for this tribute, I have taken more liberties than with my Captain Caveman piece, and make some subtle changes to the duo's appearance. I figured a guy modeling himself after a falcon should have those characteristics, so I made his cape split in the back into two segments and give it a more"feathered" look (in the cartoon, BF had a plain blue cape). I also gave his gloves the same feather treatment and heightened the talon look of his boots. I also varied the color scheme a bit. In the cartoon, BF was all one shade of blue, which seemed kinda boring and muddled his featured a little. So I split up his costume into his traditonal blue for his cape, trunks and gloves and gave him a darker blue for everything else, just to break up the monotony. I also redesigned his chest embled. In the original, he just had an F, like he flunked an algebra test or something. But the guy was BF, so I added the letter and made the emblem reflective of his name as well (belt buckle, too, both of which were just arbitrary shapes in the original cartoon). I did manage to keep the very cool beak and hawkeye elements to his cowl, and made sure to make the shadowing of his eyes (as in the original version) a key element to his look. I feel like I captured his essense and familiarity while managing to improve on the concept (hopefully).

For Dynomutt, I kept his color scheme, but redesigned his costume slightly. I ditched the 70's Elvis collar that he once had, as well as the weird backpack/vest thing that he sported. In my version he just has a simple cape and boots, which I figure is all a cyborg dog needs. I chose to just have the pooch pose here rather than show off all his bionic functions, since I was aiming for a more iconic look to the duo and wanted to keep it simple. But in my version, his powers would still be in tact, so no worries. I also gave him a more cartoony appearance, and probably made him look stupider than he originally did. But afterall, Dynomutt was the cousin of both Scooby Doo and Scooby Dumb, so he was bound to inherit a little of each cuz.

I hope I've still managed to maintain the basic essence of these guys. I feel like I did, anyway. I'm just trying to avoid being too literal in my interpretations. If I simply drew them the way they looked line for line in the original contexts, then it's not really a tribute in my style, y'know?