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JLA CG Concepts - Wonder Womanby ~DanielAraya

Fan Art / Cartoons & Comics / Digital / Movies & TV

A few weeks ago, just for fun I started doing concepts for a faux Justice League CG movie. I've always been a huge fan of Bruce Timm and the DC Timmverse he helped create, and I thought it would be cool to basically design the JLA movie that I would direct if given the chance. I didn't do any huge drastic changes because I didn't want to betray the characters in terms of who they are and what they're about. I just wanted to build on what's already been established and tweak things the way I saw them. I was going to wait until I had more artwork before I posted this, but with all the freelance I've got, I don't think I'll be able to work on this again for a while.

THIS IMAGE: I went with angry, warrior, man hating Wonder Woman. I feel like if you're raised your entire life immersed in bigotry, you're not just going to change your beliefs after a single adventure. It's not gonna be like "oh these guys fought with me to save the world, men aren't so bad." Nobody just drops prejudiced opinions like that, they skew and distort things to keep supporting and maintaining their discrimination. I feel like her acceptance of men would be a very slow, gradual thing and it would never be 100%. I was mostly inspired by Darwyn Cooke's design with some tweaks here and there where I thought it made more sense or would add some appeal.

love 10 10

joy 3 3

wow 6 6

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

~DanielAraya Sep 25, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Well that's the point. That's not something you're supposed to like about her, it's the character flaw that she gradually overcomes through her interactions with the rest of the JLA. That's what a character arc is. I say "never completely go away" because I don't believe deep-rooted social inclinations like bigotry can just magically vanish after one adventure, I think it would take LOTS of time because otherwise, to me, that would not be believable writing. I also think it's bad writing to only give characters desirable attributes. I think that sort of writing is inauthentic and lacks depth.

~Spider-Bat700 Sep 26, 2012

Flaws are important yes, but some flaws are more tolerable than others. There's no good way for me to word this, so this likely won't sound as I intended it to, but whatever.

To me personally, it is a fine line between flawed yet interesting, versus flawed and off-putting. I don't like or admire bigots by and large. Again, yes, flaws are often what make a character interesting, but not if they come at the cost of making you want to still root for the character. A person could be inept at times, careless at other times, struggle with relationships, say things they shouldn't say, etc, etc, but still have redeeming qualities to balance it out. But someone who's unlikable as a result of their flaws is not someone I would want to root for or invest in. At least that's just how I see it. And bigotry to me does make someone pretty unlikable by and large. It doesn't matter if she's supposedly a superhero. If I have to listen to prejudiced viewpoints, I'm not going to be in a position to root for her, because the flaw makes her too unlikable, at least to me.

Also, if she is a man-hating b***, then why bother working with the male member of the Justice League at all? After all, she hates men. So if that's the case, why ever work with them? Its the same problem I had with the way she was portrayed in the awful "All Star Batman and Robin": what would ever prompt her to ever fight alongside members of the gender she views as despicable in the first place? I suppose maybe some global catastrophe, but once that's been averted, what would ever prompt her to stick with the men if she's still mostly a misandrist? Just saying. It'd be kind of hard to work on a team when you still hate all members of something all of your teammates are, in this case, men.

~DanielAraya Sep 26, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

interesting points. We can agree to disagree

~Adansetions Sep 15, 2012

Grand!!!!

~Xenos31415 Sep 15, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

For WW's costume design, did you study and take inspiration from ancient Greek armor for this piece as I see in her "skirt", or was it just a happy accident?

~DanielAraya Sep 15, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

I did!

~kubagami Sep 6, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

That just fuck'n Fantastic!...wow

~DanielAraya Sep 6, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

thanks!

~dryan1982 Aug 31, 2012

A very good rendering of what I feel Wonder Woman should look like if/when she makes it to the silver screen; her costume should be more like armor than spandex. And that is an element of her character taht is so often overlooked: she is a semi-sexist character, more than a little biased toward men. A good subplot fora future Justlice League film would be her hesitance to save the world alongside a group of men, and perhaps her prejudice against them softening when she see's these others setting a good example.

~DanielAraya Sep 4, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

indeed!

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