Dean suggested I add a gallery of my Legion works. So, I will. This is what I've done over the past few years. I suspect this site will now be inspiring more new Legion art from me.
Posted by Suncat on :
I'll be posting these in roughly chronological order. Starting out is Shadow Lass. This was done in colored pencil on paper.
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Posted by Suncat on :
Princess Projectra, mourning the loss of her love.
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Posted by Suncat on :
I never really considered Sensor/Jeka the Snake to be the same character as the human Princess Projectra. So I designed a reboot-era costume for her.
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Posted by Suncat on :
I've thought that Kid Quantum and Wildfire would make a powerful team.
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Posted by Suncat on :
Tried my hand at Nura as she could appear in an animated version. I was watching "Saber Marionette J" at the time, and was influenced also by those character designs.
Edit: Due to width, changed to use a thumbnail (the normal THUMB tag, for doing this, lost too much detail) and re-hosted -- click for larger version in new window
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Posted by Suncat on :
This was drawn on paper, scanned, and finished in CorelDraw.
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Another picture drawn on paper and finished in CorelDraw.
Posted by Suncat on :
Another costume idea for Ayla.
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Posted by Suncat on :
Done as a gift for the late Danell Lites.
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Some alternate costumes for Salu. A friend who is not familiar with the Legion saw this, and dubbed her Eggplant Girl.
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Posted by Suncat on :
Dave King designed a variation of one of the above costumes for Salu, and I drew it.
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Posted by Suncat on :
The earliest female Legion members.
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A formal gown for Tasmia.
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Posted by Suncat on :
I *liked* it when Supergirl was in the Legion.
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Posted by Suncat on :
If Ayla had been Lightning Lass when she wore the costume from Dave Cockrum.
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Posted by Suncat on :
And finally, for completeness sake, the cross-gender characters already posted over in October's ProFem/ProDude Gallery.
Timber Wolf--Sabrina "Brina" Londo
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Karate Kid--Valerie Armorr
Posted by Tempest on :
My my my, what talent we have here, I am absolutely green with envy.
Posted by Semi Transparent Fellow on :
Simply incredible work, Suncat. I love your Monel and Dream Girl looking out the bedroom window. (I love the rest of your work as well). Are you a professional artist?
Posted by Mattropolis on :
These are REALLY good! I like the Projectra reboot design.
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
Beautiful
Posted by Juan on :
Wow. Thanks for posting these.
Posted by Yellow Kid on :
quote:Originally posted by Semi Transparent Fellow: Are you a professional artist?
Check out the link in Suncat's profile, you'll be pleasantly surprised Semi.
Beautiful work Laurie, I remember seeing a couple of these at Legionpics long long ago, welcome to Legion World and thank you SO much for sharing.
I just clicked over to look at your site and you do some really beautiful work. I know I can speak for everyone when I say you're very welcome to post as much artwork here as you like and speaking just for myself I'd like to add...please? Posted by Semi Transparent Fellow on :
Thanks YK. I didn't think to look at Suncat's profile. What a dummy I am.
Posted by Yellow Kid on :
Hey, don't worry about it Bubba. I miss the obvious sometimes myself.
Posted by Greybird on :
The talented Laurie has been active for many years on the LegionFiction Yahoo! Group, which has unfortunately had a decline in interest recently. She was among those who created the Group's sizable archives of fan fiction and related fan art. (Along with the late, sweet, story-prolific Dannell Lites, whom many of us miss.)
Welcome to LegionWorld, milady! (Well, especially to this selection of your art, as you've been on the roster a while.) I seem to recall an invitation a couple years back to you and other LegionFiction denizens, but not many 'ficcers or artists took us up on it then ... and I know I've asked Christian more than once to stop by!
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Posted by dedman on :
These are fantastic Suncat. Great to have another artist aboard too. You should post some of your non-legion work as well, i'd like to see it.
Posted by Caliente on :
Wow. Color me impressed. That is some seriously awesome stuff Laurie. Major propage. I especially adore your Dream Girl, Shadow Lass and Mon'el.
Posted by Suncat on :
Oops! Forgot one when I was posting my earlier works yesterday.
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Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
Amazing stuff Suncat!! I know I've seen some of your work before - it's great that you've joined us here at LegionWorld
Oh, and I especially like your White Witch.
Posted by Tempest on :
YAY!!!
An Utena fan, Jury is my favorite!!! YAY, I'm so happy, I loved that pic of Ruka, fabulous, dear!
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Posted by Jorg-EM on :
Wow, I love them all. My favorite is the White Witch one! wow. Also love the Shady ones and the Mon-El one was as I picture him...mysterious...somber...alone.
Thanks
Posted by Vee on :
Awesome work Suncat! I know I've seen that beautiful pic of Mon before and it has always been one of my absoulte favorites. They're all wonderful but that one of Projectra remembering Val is terrific also. Thanks for posting them all for us to enjoy and I hope to see many more.
Posted by White Raven on :
Beautiful Stuff!!!
Posted by Faraway Lad on :
I really like the different styles you use here, the colours, the black and white, the different textures and shading. The expressions of the faces are very evocative.
thank you for sharing them.
Posted by lil'rhino on :
Faboo!
Posted by Suncat on :
Here's one I just posted over in the ProFem/ProDude wing of the monthly galleries.
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Posted by Suncat on :
Since others have posted not-quite-Legion work here, and at least one other "Utena" fan has made herself known, I thought I could share my long work-in-progress "Legion of the Rose". This is a fusion fanfic of "Legion of Super-Heroes" and "Revolutionary Girl Utena".
I consider this a fusion rather than a cross-over because the stories are merged, rather than starting each story intact and then bringing the characters and storylines together. Here, the Legion is made up of the "Utena" characters, but many of the familiar LSH concepts will appear.
I don't have the *story* written beyond a collection of notes. But I've been drawing the characters, and will post some of those.
Posted by Suncat on :
In my LSH/Utena fusion, Juri Arisugawa is the telepath of the group. This version has four founding members, of which Juri is one.
While her natural powers are among the strongest ever recorded among her people for someone of her age, she and other Legion scientists have developed a helmet which augments her abilities to span "short" interstellar distances.
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Keiko Sonoda has the power to dematerialize and pass through solid substances.
Sorry, I just didn't want to put her in white, even if she is this Legion's "phantom girl".
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Posted by Suncat on :
Kozue Kaoru is one of a pair of twin siblings, and the "Lightning Lass" of this Legion.
Her costume is indeed the same as what I showed on Ayla earlier. I designed it for Kozue, but realized it was perfectly appropriate for Ayla too.
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Posted by Suncat on :
Miki Kaoru is Kozue's twin brother. He is also a lightning caster, and one of the Legion's top scientists.
Wakaba Shinohara boasts superhuman agility, strength and acrobatic skills.
Posted by Suncat on :
I haven't quite defined the powers for Nanami Kiryuu yet. Something mental, but not true telepathy. Maybe something akin to Raven's empathic powers.
She's also a fashion maven, and will modify aspects of her costume quite often.
Posted by Suncat on :
Touga Kiryuu is Nanami's older brother, and one of the four founding members of the Legion. His power is temperature control, being able to raise or lower the internal temperature of physical materials. He is also the current Legion leader.
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
Laurie, SO glad you're here, posting all this stuff!!!! Thank you!
Posted by Tempest on :
YAY!!!
I did stuff like this, I never posted it because I don't believe this to be a big Utena place, if I can find them I share with you my ideas for my super powered Utena cast.
Posted by Suncat on :
Tempest said:
quote: I did stuff like this, I never posted it because I don't believe this to be a big Utena place, if I can find them I share with you my ideas for my super powered Utena cast.
I wasn't going to post this stuff either, until I saw the amount of non-LSH work in other people's galleries. And given that I'm keeping a very strong visual LSH theme in my story, I thought it would be okay.
I'd love pointers to other Legion/whatever crossovers that might be here at Legion World. There is just so much material here, I'm afraid I'll never find all the things of interest to me.
Posted by Suncat on :
Here's Utena Tenjou herself, whose power is super speed.
Posted by Suncat on :
When writing about an ensemble cast, I like to draw out how the character relate to each other, size-wize.
Posted by Tempest on :
quote:Originally posted by Suncat: Tempest said:
quote: I did stuff like this, I never posted it because I don't believe this to be a big Utena place, if I can find them I share with you my ideas for my super powered Utena cast.
I wasn't going to post this stuff either, until I saw the amount of non-LSH work in other people's galleries. And given that I'm keeping a very strong visual LSH theme in my story, I thought it would be okay.
I'd love pointers to other Legion/whatever crossovers that might be here at Legion World. There is just so much material here, I'm afraid I'll never find all the things of interest to me.
Most people are just happy to see others artwork, you can post stuff from anything and we will gladly take a look at it.
Posted by Suncat on :
I don't have all the characters drawn yet, but here's a list of the characters who are Legion members and their powers.
Utena Tenjou - super speed Wakaba Shinohara - super strength, agility, acrobatics (think Timber Wolf) Touga Kiryuu - temperature control, both heat and cold Nanami Kiryuu - empathy, emotion projection Juri Arisugawa - telepathy, limited precognition Ruka Tsuchiya - matter state manipulation (remember Quicksand?) Miki Kaoru - electricity control Kozue Kaoru - electricity control Kyouichi Saionji - weapons master, martial arts Keiko Sonoda - insubstantiability Tatsuya Kazami - invisibility Mitsuru Tsuwabuki - darkness and light manipulation (sort of a combination of Shadow Lass and Sun Boy) Shiori Takatsuki - shrinking, martial arts
As for the other major characters Anthy, Akio, Mikage, Mamiya and Tokiko, they also have roles in this story but they are not Legion members.
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Posted by Jorg-EM on :
I love them all Laurie!
Posted by Tempest on :
Suncat: Posted by Suncat on :
quote:Originally posted by Tempest: Suncat:
<snip absolutely darling micros>
Ohmigosh! These are great! I can't decide which eyes I like. Maybe the cat's eyes manifest when I'm using my powers--which I will talk about once I figure out what they might be. Heat generation and super-sonic purr?
Thank you so much, Tempest.
Posted by Mystery Lad on :
Maybe heat generation *while* purring? Soft purrs could put people into a drowsy state in which they are susceptible to suggestion. Louder 'meows' could be heat blasts...
I've enjoyed seeing your work- thanks for posting it!
Posted by Tempest on :
I always figured that you would have feline senses and reflexes, along with heat powers, and you would use your powers to make fiery claws around your hands.
Posted by mon-el73 on :
Beautiful, and all the imagery (I don't know if you like Steve Lightle, but I hope you take this as a compliment when I say, if he ever thought about his legacy, it's in good hands--- love the mon-el, dream girl, shadow lass artwork!)and ideas evoke a lot of creative thought. Apologies for being an ignoramus, but the Utena selection has such an apparently rich history that I'm unfortunately not familiar with. Hope to see more! literally more power, Suncat! Um, links to your other art?
Posted by Yellow Kid on :
If you want to watch Utena, start from the beginning, don't even attempt to start from anywhere else.
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
Suncat, your work is phenominal. So many great pics, but this one is my favorite:
quote:Originally posted by Suncat: Oops! Forgot one when I was posting my earlier works yesterday.
Posted by Suncat on :
Done for the Legion of Superboys thread.
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Posted by Suncat on :
Another for the Legion of Superboys.
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Posted by mon-el73 on :
Laurie, you artwork maniac! Wish I could churn out the stuff as consistently as you do! Keep 'em flyin!
Posted by Suncat on :
But ... but I feel so *slow* compared to people like Dean!
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
D'OH!
Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
Believe me -- we all feel slow compared to Dean - he's a sketchin' MACHINE!!!
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
Love you guys!
Hey, I actually slowed down and began inking an Andromeda sketch I did a while ago. In fact, I've done LOTS of Andromeda sketches that I've never shown before, including plenty of her in the very popular Mon-El like costume. Anyway, as soon as I finish inking it, I'll take my time and color it too.
Laurie, I've said it before and I say it again... I'm glad you're here and I'm glad your gallery is growing!
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
Hmmm... I'd expected to go to the Andy/Shady gallery and find a new DrakeB3004 piece.... Didn't see it yet....
Posted by Suncat on :
quote:Originally posted by Sketch Lad: Love you guys!
Hey, I actually slowed down and began inking an Andromeda sketch I did a while ago. In fact, I've done LOTS of Andromeda sketches that I've never shown before, including plenty of her in the very popular Mon-El like costume. Anyway, as soon as I finish inking it, I'll take my time and color it too.
Yay! As fun as it is to see the sheer volume of your sketches, your careful, finished works are always welcome too.
quote: Laurie, I've said it before and I say it again... I'm glad you're here and I'm glad your gallery is growing!
Aw, thanks, I'm glad to be here too. It's wonderful to find another community of Legion fans. It's especially nice to not be the oldest person present! I am, at one of the other online communities that I'm very active at.
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Posted by Suncat on :
quote:Originally posted by mon-el73: Beautiful, and all the imagery (I don't know if you like Steve Lightle, but I hope you take this as a compliment when I say, if he ever thought about his legacy, it's in good hands--- love the mon-el, dream girl, shadow lass artwork!)and ideas evoke a lot of creative thought. Apologies for being an ignoramus, but the Utena selection has such an apparently rich history that I'm unfortunately not familiar with. Hope to see more! literally more power, Suncat! Um, links to your other art?
I adore Steve Lightle's work. And it's actually thanks to him that I wound up here. He made a nice comment about the "reboot Projectra" piece, and told me about his ArtPost list. There, I met Dean (SketchLad). Eventually Dean told us about LegionWorld. And finally, I have time to participate here too.
As Tempest said, if you find the "Utena" story, start it at the beginning. And be aware that the "Utena" movie is actually rather different. All of my Utena fanwork is based off the TV series.
Posted by Suncat on :
Sketched out some more characters for my "Legion of the Rose" LSH/Utena fusion. Here's Shiori Takatsuki, the "shrinking violet" of this Legion.
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Posted by mon-el73 on :
quote:Originally posted by Suncat: Sketched out some more characters for my "Legion of the Rose" LSH/Utena fusion. Here's Shiori Takatsuki, the "shrinking violet" of this Legion.
That middle sketch of Vi... beautiful! Where are all your sketch lines?!! I could never sketch this cleanly to save my life! I'm so jealous... And it's not just the neatness; she's really pretty in this one, coupled with that far-away look. Sigh!
Posted by Suncat on :
quote:Originally posted by mon-el73:
quote:Originally posted by Suncat: Sketched out some more characters for my "Legion of the Rose" LSH/Utena fusion. Here's Shiori Takatsuki, the "shrinking violet" of this Legion.
That middle sketch of Vi... beautiful! Where are all your sketch lines?!! I could never sketch this cleanly to save my life! I'm so jealous... And it's not just the neatness; she's really pretty in this one, coupled with that far-away look. Sigh!
It's true, I said "sketched". But you saw correctly that the non-colored one was more of a finished pencil drawing. I took more time to clean that one up. So don't go feeling like this was the rough sketch!
Posted by mon-el73 on :
Sketch or not, Laurie, it's a moody yet beautiful look for Vi. And the lines flow smoothly enough to give that raw "sketchy" look. Keep the faith, Sistuh!!
Posted by Suncat on :
With time off from work for the holidays, had a chance to do a little drawing. Here's linework of Projectra. This was submitted at the OekakiCentral Coloring Book at http://www.oekakicentral.com/coloringbook/, which is why it's just linework right now. Once it's approved, I'll post a color version.
And if anyone here wants to color it, feel free. I'm afraid that the limits of oekaki produce a rather small image.
Posted by Arachne on :
Wow. That's great!
Posted by knowjack on :
WOW...just...WOW.
I love them all, but the Jeckie in blue and Nura reflecting on the bed are my favorites.
AWESOME stuff.
Posted by mon-el73 on :
Incredible work laurie! A worthy start for a new year... if this is any indication I think we can expect a leap in the look of your stuff. The details in your art are coming together wonderfully. Posted by Suncat on :
Another from Scott Johnson's Hems and Hers, Cosmic Miss:
Posted by Suncat on :
I think I never posted this here because it's intended as a study for a painting. But as the painting still hasn't been done, here's the pencils:
Posted by Candle on :
Wow, you are certainly a talent!
Beautiful work! Posted by He Who Wanders on :
I somehow managed to overlook this thread before (which is not suprising as it had been inactive since 2006), but wow! What a discovery!
I particularly like the two Tasmia drawings on Page 1. The first, with its moonshot, is wonderfully designed, and the second is very moody.
A belated thanks for sharing these, Suncat.
Posted by Space Cadet on :
Gorgeous work!
Will you be posting anything from the three-year gap? I'd love to see more.
Posted by Set on :
Just noticing this thread for the first time. I love 'Eggplant Girls' costume (especially the one with the tiger stripes)! Ayla looks amazing in the costume designed for the Utena character, that gold lightning epaulet-thingie is very cool.
The pencil work is pretty amazing, too, on Saturn Girl up there.
Posted by Suncat on :
quote:Originally posted by Space Cadet: Gorgeous work!
Thanks, to all.
quote:Will you be posting anything from the three-year gap? I'd love to see more.
The problem is, you see, there isn't anything from the three-year gap to post. I dropped out of fandom due to unfortunate family issues, and I didn't draw hardly at all. But, issues have been resolved, and I've been slowly returning to various activities and communities. It was so nice to come back here and find LegionWorld still going strong.
Posted by Space Cadet on :
Sorry to hear about the issues, glad to hear they're resolved, looking forward to more of your art, it's excellent.
Posted by Sarcasm Kid on :
SWEET JEBUS UTENA AND THE LEGION.
Posted by Suncat on :
Yeah, I've been a bad girl and been away for too long.
Today I was doing some housecleaning on my hard drive and ran across these two old drawings which I'd never uploaded before. These were based on the 1990s Re-Boot era, when Princess Projectra (as a human) and Dream Girl were not active characters in the Legion. These were my thoughts on what uniforms they might have had, given the LSH styles of the day.
Jeckie, Princess Projectra:
Nura Nal, Dream Girl:
Both done as sketch on paper, scanned, digitally colored in Painter.
Yes, I did do another painting of Jeckie in this costume, which you can see here.
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Posted by Sarcasm Kid on :
I've got one of your Projectra designs saved as con reference pictures.
Posted by Suncat on :
You mean you're going to make up this costume design? Ohmigosh that would be so cool to see!
Posted by Sarcasm Kid on :
I save the first picture of your design for a reboot Projectra. Although, when I found it I thought it was supposed to be SW6 Jeckie.
Posted by Suncat on :
So, this drawing of Ayla has been bugging me since I made it, as I could see so many flaws in it. Finally took the time to correct it. I'll post it new, so it will show up on the forum properly.
Posted by Tempest on :
So cool!
I was just looking at you DA page and missing not seeing you around this next of the universe as much!
Posted by Suncat on :
Thanks! Miss this place too. Just haven't been doing any LSH-related work lately. I have too many interests! I can't devote enough time to any one of them.
Hey, do you have a dArt page? Is there anywhere here where LW'ers can indicate? I should see if I can put it in my signature.
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