Archive for November 16th, 2011
G. Brett Williams #16 – Finn MacCool (and more Donnybrooke)
– Finn MacCool – Â Brooke’s uncle Colin Dunne had been living in NYC for years, watching her and her family very closely and doing everything he could to disrupt the Fitzpatrick’s stranglehold on the city. He fought crime as the costumed hero Finn MacCool, choosing to focus most of his effort on cleaning up the corruption caused by his family. Colin is the brother of Brooke’s mother. In an attempt to avoid a life of crime, when he was sixteen Colin ran away to Ireland. Once there he found a charitable priest that was willing to take him in and give him work. The priest, who was more of a drunk philosopher than a man of god, convinced Colin that he should turn his youthful vigor and angst to the pursuit of the martial arts. The priest introduced Colin to a man who taught him everything he could about the martial arts. Colin was a natural student and he soon began to thirst for even more knowledge of the fighting arts of the world. He spent a few years traveling, coming to terms with his past, learning who he was spiritually and developing the skills he’d need to some day go back to NY and fight his evil relatives. It was Colin, as Finn MacCool, that helped the FBI finally take down the Fitzpatrick family. Once the damage had been done, Colin stepped in to take Brooke into his care.
It didn’t take long for Brooke to realize that her uncle was actually the hero Finn MacCool. Once she knew for certain, she insisted that her uncle train her to be a crimefighter just like him. He couldn’t very well tell her no when he himself had once felt that pull, that desire to do right and to help people, so he began training her. Brooke’s intelligence and athleticism made her a natural for the crimefighting trade. She fought crime for a time as Colin’s sidekick, then eventually struck out on her own as Colin’s age began to work against him in the field. Brooke, as the hero Donnybrooke, became a crusader for the poor, using her notoriety as a hero to combat the corruption and mistreatment that was rife in the city’s poorer neighborhoods. To Brooke, it’s those conditions that lead to families like the Fitzpatricks going so wrong in the first place.
Day 12-Marcus the Monocle Wearing Priest
I was having a hard time coming up with ideas. So I used some stuff from “Drawing Words and Writing Pictures” by Matt Madden and Jessica Abel to help me get some ideas going. They’ve got this little section that had just a bunch of different things you mix together to make characters, so that’s what I used. This is also my first go inking anything in illustrator. I think I like it more than photoshop for inking, just need to figure out where everything is.
This is Marcus the Monocle wearing priest. He is a bit flaky at times.
#15: Walter Ramsey
Loman’s own werewolf agent, Walter Ramsey.
Born in Scotland in the 1600s, Walter was an ordinary traveling merchant until he came across a pack of werewolves in Jurgenburg, Livionia. After witnessing them transform and do battle with demonic entities from a portal, Walter wanted to and was inducted into their pack, called The Hounds of God. As part of the Hounds, Walter protected Europe from demonic threats during his travels, until the height of supernatural paranoia led to the deaths of several of his pack members and the eldest member being lashed when he attempted to reveal their work to the outside world. Walter realized his family was not safe and went to protect them, but his wife, and their daughter, left Walter to sail to the Colonies.
Walter traveled the world in a drunker stupor over the centuries, fighting any random supernatural threat he comes across while slowly losing himself more and more to his werewolf self, until he was approached by Arthur Loman in working with his Loman Organization. Using a nanomachines to regulate his transformations, Walter was given a renewed sense of purpose in doing the work that he originally started with the Hounds of God.
Currently, Walter works as a field operative for Team Zeus, along with Adam Mortensen. He acts as a semi-father figure to agent Deidra Edelweiss, and a drinking buddy to several members of the Loman Organization.
Abilities: As a werewolf, Walter is capable of transforming into a wolfen creature with enhanced strength, speed and senses. When in his human form, Walter possesses a degree of enhanced strength and all of his enhanced senses. While Walter is capable of transforming at will, his emotional state in both his human and were forms change based on the phases of the moon.
Having a nanomachine fleet in his body regulates his werewolf states and enable him to have relatively painless transformations via requests to Loman HQ, as well as giving him the ability to transform into various stages of his Lycan state;
Stage 1: Similar to the Wolfman films, with full hair, enlongated claws and fangs and increased muscle mass.
Stage 2: An in-between to Wolfman and wolf form. Even more increased strength and power.
Stage 3: Looks like a bipedal wolf with a tail and almost full access to his lycan abilities, yet retains his mind
Stage 4: Full access to his werewolf traits, yet is driven by pure instinct and harder to keep in control.
Walter wears flexible body armor that stretches during his transformations and boots that open at the toes when he goes into full werewolf mode. Walter also favors wearing a trenchcoat that is enchanted with protective wards and armor lined to protect Walter form physical and mystical attacks.
Creation: Walter was created as me and Carlos both are werewolf fans and wanted to make a werewolf character. I made him more of a fun character and gave him a laid-back personality, while Carlos helped in fleshing out his backstory and added the father figure role to elemental witch Deidra. I based his character of a historical reference in 1692 by a court testimony about an old man in Jurgenburg, Livonia, who claimed that werewolves were agents of God and that he and several other werewolves would travel to Hell and fight demons, while the Hounds of God Tag came from a werewolf character in Neil Gaiman’s, The Graveyard Book. The pose shows his semi-casual look as the pose was referencing a Hellblazer cover,, while his werewolf form is shown behind him as a tell of what his werewolf form would look like to the viewer.
#10 Tom the terrible cat burglar.
This is Tom. He doesn’t have many aspirations in life. One day while polishing off a 6 pack of cheap beer and watching It takes a thief on the discovery channel he decides to give this whole career criminal thing a try. Seeing as how his only exposure to a life of crime was through t.v. he is ill prepared to deal with, heavily armed grandmas, killer poodles, and other thieves.
www.drawryandraw.com!
#16 Precinct
In a world where the police can no longer stand tall in stopping all forms of criminal activity, and people running amok and looking for salvation and optimism, there’s a new force in the fight against crime.
Precinct is the latest force in war against all forms of criminal activity. He is one of a team of police officers whose purpose is to eliminate anything in their path. He is a hybrid of human and machine and a living weapon. No one can stand in his way.
In his previous life, he was NYPD officer Edward Hallmond. A cop with several years under his belt and a all around night guy. One night on patrol, he tried to stop a known dealer on the street but ended up getting killed on duty.
With no known family members, he was the perfect candidate for the experimental project called: Project:Law, the project responsible for the creation of this new team of former officers working as superheroes to protect New York City at all costs called the Crimekillers.
Height: 6’1 Weight:245 lbs. Age: Unknown but as Hallmond, he was in his early 30’s when his death happened.
Weapons:
A nightstick on his right leg, A specialized handgun located on his back with unlimited bullets. Body armor protects him from the harshest of elements.
Personality:
Determined, willing to risk it all, and able to care for others.
#9 Pyramid Prophet
Another character in my Garlic Pal ‘universe’. The golden omnipotent seer and soothsayer himself; Pyramid Prophet.
#13 Johnny Tanaka
In 1970, Pluto the Atomic Lad, a child-sized android originally built to promote peace, snapped and went on a rampage in Tokyo. Before The Squadronnaires were able to deactivate Pluto, Johnny Tanaka’s parents died during the attack.
Embittered, Johnny became a 12 year-old robot fighter. Prejudiced towards all robots, Johnny has spent the last four decades campaigning against the development of artificial intelligence and autonomous mechanical beings, often destroying them when they are built.
#16 Ace
Ace is a trickster- he loves pranking everybody around him. He is constantly getting himself into trouble.
16 RASC – 12
RASC-12 (Reconnaissance Analyzer Sentient Class)
Is a self sufficient and sentient robot that analyzes anything and everything. He even has his own tiny marble probe that will explore places even he can’t go. Although he has no specific mission, RASC will venture to explore any and all lifeforms and no one knows why. No one is sure where RASC came from, but the marble probes he hosts eventually evolve either over time or specifically based on data collected.
#15 The Lord of Burg
It is the Lord of Burg! All people live free from culinary tyranny under his peaceful rule! Free to burg for as long as his people would like!
#16: Moira
This is Moira. She walks (and dances, apparently) to the beat of her own drum. A very free spirit, you will most likely find this cool cat at a poetry slam, sipping some chai tea and scribbling down interesting thoughts in her notebook when she’s not snapping her fingers to some powerful rhymes.
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