As I said last blog, I decided to make any feline animals the dominate force in the world of MonkeyQuest and blue is my favorite color. So I was thinking a blue feline! Now there aren’t any truly blue felines, but the white variations can have blue tones in them, such as white tiger, the arctic fox (fox is not a feline!?), etc. I ended up using the snow leopard. And SNOW is a cool name; come on that name is even used in the latest Final Fantasy video game (FF13). I am up to the part where I can battle the gigantic turtle-like creatures. Any video game fanatics out there? Ok, back to comics. I was hesitant at first about making SNOW’s breasts so…so…BIG! Comics always get a bad rap for enhancing female ASSETS!! I decided to poke fun at it and went with the idea, besides she’s the only character with huge breasts. From a character design stand point she’ll stand out (in more ways than one:)). Part of the influence can also be attributed to the “bad girl” craze in the mid ‘90s. Remember Lady Death, Vampirella, Shi, BarbWire, Avenglyne, DarkChylde, and the list goes on. Seems like any bad girl comic would sale instantly back in those days. I can’t believe comics are the highest quality nowadays and yet they can’t even sell close to the numbers back then, is ridiculous.
That’s it for character creations. Next time I’ll reveal my thinking behind the action poses for my characters in Round 2.