These are very rough sketches I banged out for a PBP I'm involved with.  My goal was to do "realistic" takes on some of the classic JSA characters.  So their costumes mostly aren't form-fitting, and are made of materials that make sense for the late 1940s, but they still have the look of the original characters.  Some of them were pretty easy, really.

There wasn't much to work on with Mr. America.  He wears a poet shirt, a cape, and a mask.  So I just departed completely and gave him a suit and tie.  The Americommando outfit is heavily inspired by the WWII Ultimate Captain America outfit from vol. 1 of the Ultimates.  It'd be a pretty much standard uniform with a different cut and different colors - and on actual operations he probably wouldn't wear it too often, because then he'd be sniper-bait.



For Dr. Fate, I went with a long cassock instead of tights.  He loses some of the Egyptian motif of his costume, but not all.  The embroidery on the cape and cassock would be reminicent of the metalic parts of the classic costume.  I'm thinking he might also wear gold demigauntlets, which would just look cool.  One alteration I might make is to go with the half-mask version of the helm instead of the full facemask, but I think the full one looks cooler.





Dr. Mid-Nite doesn't change much at all.  His costume could be made from fabric and leather quite easily.  I might make the jerkin heavier, like actual armor of some sort (light armor, though).



GL also stays pretty much the same.  To dress him up a little, I think it might be neat if he wears a tabbard with his badge on it.  I might also change the cape.  The heavily starched collar would be pretty annoying in real life, so one with a lower collar might be better.



Wildcat was also pretty easy.  I imagine him as kind of a merchant marine type guy, so he's got one of those neat black sweaters with the leather patches on the shoulders, and some pants.  Pants are very important.

Here's one more.  There's one more story that's really worth doing cover art for that happened before this one, then we'll have to wait for more to get done.

This one's the uncompressed PNG.  Let's see what it breaks. :)

Poor, neglected blog.  It's a shame no one loves you.  I'm only posting here so I can copy it over to another site.

I suppose you deserve some explanation.  See, the thing is, I'm posting journal entries for my MC character, and she likes to doodle in her diary.  There's a file-uploader on the blog engine, but for some reason it's not working for me.  Linking to images I post here is, so I'm posting them  here to show them off there.

And here's another one.

It's a long story.

Here's something I sketched, because I was bored.

Some backstory for those not initiated:  On a PBP, I'm playing a girl with an elaborate Chinese dragon tattoo - only the way I initially described it, it doesn't really look very traditionally Chinese.  The dragon's torso has to be too narrow, and its limbs have to be too long.  This is not a huge issue, since describing the tattoo has happened about twice in the history of the game.  But it still bugs me a little.

So last night I sketched out a new design, and today I did some more sketches.

There's the basic idea (with boobies and a butt, as Steve pointed out)

Four dragons coil on her limbs, with the upper two "holding" a yin-yang with their tails.  Chinese characters run down her spine.  (There has to be writing, since that's one of the few things that matter game-wise)

Here are some slightly more detailed sketches.







The limbs on the dragon should probably actually be a little bit shorter than I drew them here, but it's close enough to get the general idea.

One of these days, I've got to get around to scanning the rest of that tarot deck.  But for now, here's a picture.

And another.



And one last one


And one more.