Izzy's Mr. Freeze- Challenge the First

I saw Heart of Ice when I was a kid. One of the finest episodes of Batman the Animated Series ever. I fell in love with Mr. Freeze from that point on. I've seen him universally portrayed as a tall super thin guy, but I figured, someone who's body has basically taken on characteristics of ice would have an insanely slow metabolism. So I figure he maybe feeds once every month, but maintains a chunky shape, to some degree. I rarely ever draw or paint fan art, but I think I'll definitely consider this of the same ilk.

Here he is with his iron lung like suit, that sustains his unbelievably cold standard body temperature. He'd sweat to death as if in a desert even in the frozen north of the Arctic. His two bears are named Frigidaire, and Icetrey.


Lots of raw internet photos were used to expedite the process. So it is essentially a paint-over of a collage.

Challenge, The First

Izzy's

Cecil's

Cecil's Comment: Character is my weak side- not so much confident with anatomy and figures but also I haven't done much in my career. My passion is always there. Seriously.. I am just too busy with buildlings and columns. HW- I took a little different approach with this one, intstead of thinking if I am designing a character-which usually ends up a dummy standing pose that will show flaws in anatomy or proportions and etc. Since this one was based on comic character- I took a liberty on more elaborate composition as I am doing a study of someone else's cover art. I can't say who's influence is here but I definitely can say I am a big fan of messy, paintery comic covers- Phil Hale and what's other guys?,,, anyhow this is a lot of fun, I think the top one is straight study of existing Batman, then I flipped the image to convert it to some imperial war official with samurai sword. "Nanking Massacre"
I watched on computer the other day and the section when they talked about how Japanese soldiers were cutting civilians and prisoners heads off -that made me so sick and I was furious and tried not to think about it and it came right through on this image. What a War can do to people? Napoleon said "War is a business of Barbarians" that's so true. More blood only excuses more evil blood.
















Design your own Batman or Batman Villain in anticipation of the coming movie! Traditional initial sketches (pencil or ink), followed by a full color illustration in any medium of your Batman/ Villain, in a setting of your choice.

Sketches Due Wed. Finals Due Monday.

Challenge by Izzy

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Welcome. The idea came to us when we were chatting in our office one day, the concept art team-vis dev team at Santa Monica. We are all five individuals working on God of War III franchise. Andy Park, Andrew Kim, Cecil Kim, Izzy Medrano, Jung Ho Park and special guest artist Erik San Juan aka "Potato". The goal of this is for us to work on something other than GOW theme. We need to push ourselves to see over our boundaries by giving us a little tiny challenge assignment. Every week, one of us will throw out a challenge assignment with descriptions and see how it goes. To keep this blog site fresh and active, we encourage all of us not to miss any assignments.