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I'll admit, this wasn't going to be my first pic for Green Lantern: The Animated Series. But I was struck with a sudden wave of inspiration and the pencil work looked so good, I couldn't help but get to it. Besides, I was in the mood for something simple.

Like with my Spectacular Spider-Man fanfic ideas, I've got too many GL:TAS fanfic ideas to ever write them by myself. So like with SSM, I'm drawing a series of pics to showcase my main ideas in the hopes that I might draw co-writers to the cause to help me out. This one here is one of the big ones.

After absorbing and assimilating the colors of the Emotional Spectrum, Aya is resurrected as a White Lantern. Gifted with new power and, literally, a new lease on life, she now makes it her purpose to understand it in all its forms. As such, she spends most of her time on the Blue Lantern homeworld of Odym (pictured here). As a planet that teems with more life than any other, it's the perfect environment for her to observe its natural cycles and absorb all the knowledge she can. Of course, she has other reasons for making Odym her adopted home, but I won't get into that here (don't want to give TOO much away).

Despite the simple nature of the pic, this whole thing was pretty much an experiment from Minute One. I knew when I made the decision, I wanted to draw the pic DCAU style. And having some experience with that at this point, it wasn't that tough...at least the head and the torso. And then I got to the legs. Now anybody who's been watching my stuff for a while knows full-well that I likes me some good shapely legs. So to assimilate Aya's legs into my preferred method took a bit of doing. Not that her legs aren't attractive in their own right, they're just contrary to what I'm used to drawing. But after a couple of tries, I managed to get it done in a way that I liked.

The other challenge here was the color scheme. I knew how I wanted it to look in my head (creamy white for the armor, a light-grayish skin tone), but until I saw it, I wasn't sure if it would work. There were a couple of things I changed on the fly. Her lips, for example, I know I could have made darker. But that, to me, just conjured up too many comparisons to Raven from Teen Titans. So instead, I chose to go the other way and keep them a straight white and it still works.

And that's where we come to the rainbow-colored highlights, which were, BY FAR, the biggest gamble. But this was something I wanted to add for a couple of reasons. One, because she was going to be pretty much bland white, I wanted SOMETHING in there for a bit of contrast. Also, I wanted to still illustrate Aya's mechanical nature through the highlights all the colors of the Emotional Spectrum that she assimilated and now runs on. I really didn't know how this was going to look when I started. But when I was finished, I have to say, while it may look a TEENY bit odd, it wasn't something I disliked enough to do away with.

Besides, I still think it works as an animated feature of her. Picture all of the colors in a constant state of rotation, with certain colors becoming more predominant than others with changes in her emotional state. For example, in a moment of shock or uncertainty, her highlights would change primarily Yellow, in order to illustrate Fear. As such, she's almost like a living mood ring. Talk about literally wearing your heart on your sleeve, am I right? ^_^

All-in-all, I'm quite happy with the pic and I hope everyone else is, too. And if this pic should happen to make you curious about my fanfic ideas and possibly want to help me out so they can be written, so much the better. One way or another, as always, I look forward to hearing what you have to say. ^_^

Description
I'll admit, this wasn't going to be my first pic for Green Lantern: The Animated Series. But I was struck with a sudden wave of inspiration and the pencil work looked so good, I couldn't help but get to it. Besides, I was in the mood for something simple.

Like with my Spectacular Spider-Man fanfic ideas, I've got too many GL:TAS fanfic ideas to ever write them by myself. So like with SSM, I'm drawing a series of pics to showcase my main ideas in the hopes that I might draw co-writers to the cause to help me out. This one here is one of the big ones.

After absorbing and assimilating the colors of the Emotional Spectrum, Aya is resurrected as a White Lantern. Gifted with new power and, literally, a new lease on life, she now makes it her purpose to understand it in all its forms. As such, she spends most of her time on the Blue Lantern homeworld of Odym (pictured here). As a planet that teems with more life than any other, it's the perfect environment for her to observe its natural cycles and absorb all the knowledge she can. Of course, she has other reasons for making Odym her adopted home, but I won't get into that here (don't want to give TOO much away).

Despite the simple nature of the pic, this whole thing was pretty much an experiment from Minute One. I knew when I made the decision, I wanted to draw the pic DCAU style. And having some experience with that at this point, it wasn't that tough...at least the head and the torso. And then I got to the legs. Now anybody who's been watching my stuff for a while knows full-well that I likes me some good shapely legs. So to assimilate Aya's legs into my preferred method took a bit of doing. Not that her legs aren't attractive in their own right, they're just contrary to what I'm used to drawing. But after a couple of tries, I managed to get it done in a way that I liked.

The other challenge here was the color scheme. I knew how I wanted it to look in my head (creamy white for the armor, a light-grayish skin tone), but until I saw it, I wasn't sure if it would work. There were a couple of things I changed on the fly. Her lips, for example, I know I could have made darker. But that, to me, just conjured up too many comparisons to Raven from Teen Titans. So instead, I chose to go the other way and keep them a straight white and it still works.

And that's where we come to the rainbow-colored highlights, which were, BY FAR, the biggest gamble. But this was something I wanted to add for a couple of reasons. One, because she was going to be pretty much bland white, I wanted SOMETHING in there for a bit of contrast. Also, I wanted to still illustrate Aya's mechanical nature through the highlights all the colors of the Emotional Spectrum that she assimilated and now runs on. I really didn't know how this was going to look when I started. But when I was finished, I have to say, while it may look a TEENY bit odd, it wasn't something I disliked enough to do away with.

Besides, I still think it works as an animated feature of her. Picture all of the colors in a constant state of rotation, with certain colors becoming more predominant than others with changes in her emotional state. For example, in a moment of shock or uncertainty, her highlights would change primarily Yellow, in order to illustrate Fear. As such, she's almost like a living mood ring. Talk about literally wearing your heart on your sleeve, am I right? ^_^

All-in-all, I'm quite happy with the pic and I hope everyone else is, too. And if this pic should happen to make you curious about my fanfic ideas and possibly want to help me out so they can be written, so much the better. One way or another, as always, I look forward to hearing what you have to say. ^_^