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Addendum to More Captains Britain, ch3.

Annotations that had to be removed from the main post since it already was so long.

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Title: New Mutants Forever's Outback Armor Psylocke
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: X-Men (comics)
Characters: Elizabeth Braddock
Rating: G
Tagline: Psylocke during the Outback X-Men era as if she went to the same fashion designer that dresses New Mutants Forever's Selene.
Notes: Byproduct of the More Captains Britain series.
Notes 2: The original art is a Selene Gallio from the cover of New Mutants Forever #1. I have initially used the art for a Vampire Betsy, and was colored to reflect Betsy's Outback Armour (and added some vampire features). Then I found better pics for that AU and the edited image was stored for a future use.
When I decided what to do with this piece, I ended up finding hair that would fit Caucasian Betsy.
Notes 3: There's a Captain Britain version too.
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): Other than recolors, I had to fix the deep cut of the neckline. The Outback Armor is pieces of armor worn on top of some kind of catsuit. I played a bit to get this same effect, and found a way to partially mask the boobs. I didn't manage to make it look like it's the same fabric on the legs, but I think the result is good.
And then... the hair issue happened. See rambles about this here.
I also had to hand-draw the mask. Once again, I failed to make it look like it's the same fabric of the catsuit, but... whatever.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this. Full credits below the manip itself.
No AI involved, just Photoshop CS2.
Crossposted: Dreamwidth, Deviantart, Tumblr.

Title: New Mutants Forever's Captain Britain
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: X-Men (comics)
Characters: Elizabeth Braddock
Rating: G
Tagline: Captain Britain as if she went to the same fashion designer that dresses New Mutants Forever's Selene.
Notes: Byproduct of the More Captains Britain series.
Notes 2: The original art is a Selene Gallio from the cover of New Mutants Forever #1. I have initially used the art for a Vampire Betsy, and was colored to reflect Betsy's Outback Armour (and added some vampire features). Then I found better pics for that AU and the edited image was stored for a future use.
Later, I decided that I could turn the image into a Vampire Captain Britain. But, once I finished, it dawned on me that I could make a quick edit of it to share the pic as a redesign of 616 Captain Britain. Other changes were made (both to the costume and the hair), to make the two versions different.
This is the result.
Notes 3: There will be an Outback Armor version too.
Update: It's here!
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): At first it was just a matter of recolor.
Then the project went out of control. First, I decided that I wanted to add the Union Jack to the sides part of the bodice where originally there's lace. Which meant wrap the flag and then redraw it to make it fit the style of the art, all the while masking the ink of the lace pattern itself (the pattern will be kept for the Vampire Captain Britain version).
Then there was the deep cut of the neckline. I thought Betsy would love some sexiness, but not at the cost of her boobs getting free any time she's fighting: Psylocke's (in)famous ninja costume has a lot of issues, but boobs peeking is not. While the Vampire Captain Britain will keep the deep neckline, 616 Betsy won't. So I had to play with some styles to reduce the neckline, but in the end I went for some kind of tulle/half-transparent fabric: I wouldn't know where to start to redraw the whole bodice to remove the deep neckline.
And then... the hair issue happened. Selene's hair are black, and it featured a lot of black ink, making it impossible to turn it purple: it would just look like black hair with violet highlights. Which fitted the Vampire Betsy aesthetics, but I wanted to do a different look for the alternate edit. So I decided to see if I could replace them with a blond head. Easier said than done, when working with comic arts, as you can spot the different pencil and the different coloring, so the best is search not only from the same artist but from the same comic book, hoping that the colorist is the same. I managed to select a couple of shots of Magma with her luscious blond hair and made an attempt with them. I had to cut and paste and redraw here and there but managed.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this. Full credits below the manip itself.
No AI involved, just Photoshop CS2.
Crossposted: Dreamwidth, Deviantart, Tumblr.

Title: Archangel from Uncanny X-Men (2016) #7
Artist: Hakka ( prue84 )
Fandom: X-Men (comics)
Characters: Warren Worthington III
Rating: G
Tagline: Full Archangel from the cover of Cullen Bunn's Uncanny X-Men #7.
Notes: An exercise that took way more time that it seems.
The original art features Warren as perfectly split in two, depicting his two sides (Angel on the left and Archangel on the right).
I turned it into a full Archangel.
Notes 2: This came out of a discussion over CBR forums, where a poster commented that something was "off" in the anatomy. To check where was the issue, I played with the two halves; while Angel's side is very off, and would need heavy reworking from navel down to fix it, Archangel worked, so I decided to work to make a finished art.
Notes 3: You can see the original cover here.
Notes 4: Greg Land did a similar cover with Betsy Braddock for Uncanny X-Men #509, where he again fucked up with the hips and legs proportions. I tried a couple of months ago to work on that art, but I couldn't fix the issue. I might give it another try in the future.
Or try a Warren-Betsy two pieces (Angel-Caucasian!Psylocke / Archangel-Ninja!Psylocke).
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): I took the original half (right) and flipped it. It was necessary to do some reconstruction/redraw to make the two parts blend, especially the decorations of the glass behind Warren.
Betsy's face too needed to be fixed. I moved her a little higher, so she aligned to Mystique, but that required some redraw too. Also, her colors needed a fixing to remove the sun/golden light.
The textless version I used had a portion of the legs covered, so I had to copy them from another source and blend the two parts.
Lastly, changed Archangel's eyes from yellow to red (as in canon), and made it more silver. Also added some light.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this. Full credits below the manip itself.
No AI involved. All made with a mouse, not pens involved (that would've have shortened the time). Just Photoshop CS2.
Crossposted: Dreamwidth, Deviantart, Tumblr.

Addendum to More Captains Britain, ch2.

Annotations that had to be removed from the main post since it already was so long.

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¯ omniverse [REALITIES]  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .   [NON]
   captain [BRITAIN].  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  [CANON]


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   [Britain _ 2 [of ?]

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                       MORE CAPTAINS BRITAIN
                                            CHAPTER 2

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   [Photo by Mike Collins.]

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Addendum to More Captains Britain, ch1 .

Annotations that had to be removed from the main post since it already was so long.

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¯ omniverse [REALITIES]  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .   [NON]
   captain [BRITAIN].  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  [CANON]


¯ [More_Captains _ [01]
   [Britain _ 1 [of ?]

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                       MORE CAPTAINS BRITAIN
                                            CHAPTER 1

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   [Photo by Omar Zaldivar.]

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