I was in the sleep zone. I didn’t want to wake up this morning. But here I am all the same. Let’s try to get past this with a flashback, alright? Cool.
Whenever I sit down to draw a flashback the first thing I do is look back at which characters have been featured the least and then choose which themes those characters have left to be revisited to decide what I most want to draw. This week it was Sass’s turn and I chose to do her G.I.Joe flashback.
I briefly dallied with the idea of switching characters for Sass’s flashback. I thought I might go with a more recent addition to the Joe team, Agent Helix. I thought I might be able to do something nice with that costume but there was no artwork I wanted to base myself on for it, so I decided to stick with Lady Jaye. Lady Jaye’s original action figure wore a cap. In the cartoon, they decided, for the better, to ditch that element. I drew Sass first without the cap, but then to better reflect the card art, I added a layer for the cap. I like her better without. What do you think?
As has become the tradition, here’s Lady Sass’s action figure card.
And finally, the comparison piece with the original mash-up.
That’s all for this week’s trip down memory lane. Next week, Big Oonch is going to have some kind of sci-fi mumbo jumbo for us.