Flashback Friday – Darth Todrick

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Aug 292014
 

Good morning Flashback Friday Fans! How do I know you’re fans? Well you’re here aren’t you? Sure you could have just followed some random link to end up here, but I prefer to think you’re all fans so don’t take that away from me! 🙂

Rumor has it that the Dark Side has cookies and I think that’s what attracted a young fox to become Darth Todrick. If only he’d had a conversation with Cookie Monster who recently debunked the myth. Anyway, here’s the reimagining of Todrick as Darth Vader. One thing about colouring with blacks is that I have to use varying shades of black throughout the costume and then when I shade them, they all turn out looking pretty similar which makes me wonder why I bothered. It’s really the shading that sells the different materials anyway. As always click on a picture to enlarge it.

Todrick

Here’s the comparison to the original mash-up.

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So this week we have a Dark Lord, but next week, we have a GOD! Who is it? Come back next Friday to find out! Write in your guesses in the comments!

Flashback Friday – Oonchie-Wan Kenobi

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Jun 272014
 

It’s Friday morning. Another four-day weekend looms on the horizon. All I have to do is get through today. A flashback will help!

It’s a return to the Star Wars theme this week. Here’s Big Oonch as Obi-Wan Kenobi. As always, when you click on a picture, you’ll get an enlarged view of it.

Big-Oonch

Now, you may have noticed that with the other Star Wars flashbacks I’ve been featuring the characters’ looks from The Empire Strikes Back (except for Barnaby’s second turn as Lando where I went with his uniform from Return of the Jedi). To keep the trend going, I decided to show Obi-Wan’s look from Empire…as a Force spirit. Interesting note: The ghost colouring took less than five minutes to do. Also, I always like to play around with the layers a little bit when I’m done a piece and when I hid the ink layers on this one, I thought the result was pretty interesting for the ghost look, so I’m sharing both. Which one do you prefer? With or without lines?

Big-Oonch-GhostGhost

Here’s the comparison to the original mashup. I think I made the robe hang off Oonch’s body so much better this time around.

SW-Oonch-TaN

And that’s all for this week. Todrick is back again next week. See you then!

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Flashback Friday – Princess Leia

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Apr 112014
 

It’s finally Friday. This week has just seemed so loooooooong! It’s nice to know it’s coming to an end. What better way to celebrate than with a flashback?

It’s back to Star Wars this week. As always, click on any picture to enlarge it.

Here’s Cyran as Princess Leia. I once again chose to go with an outfit from the Empire Strikes Back. This time it was Leia’s Hoth Alliance uniform. I love Leia’s Bespin gown but it’d have been hard to keep Cyran looking like a boy in that. For this same reason, if I ever do Return of the Jedi mashups, you shouldn’t expect the golden bikini look for Cyran. 😉 There’s a scene where Leia is helping with the repairs on the Falcon and she has these goggles on and it just made so much sense to have Cyran wearing them. Again, I’m happy with the lines in the costume.

CyranAnd here’s the comparison with the original mashup.

SW-Cyran-TaN

That’s it for this week! Next week, there’s going to be a colour war going on in the flashback! Don’t miss it!

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Flashback Friday – Han Solo

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Mar 282014
 

Have you checked your calendar lately? It’s Thursday and that means time for some mash-uppy goodness!

I’m dipping back into the Star Wars theme this week.

For those of you who don’t know the story, I cast Zoë as Han because she’s a pilot of sorts and with Nektara playing Luke, it made more sense for Han to be a girl as well. Here she is wearing Han’s blue jacket from The Empire Strikes Back. The pose is from when Han arrives on Cloud City and holds his arms out to greet Lando. It’s a simple pose but it allows to see the whole costume which is a plus. I tried adding a few more wrinkles to the clothing to mimic the style I remember from the old Galaxy Guides from West End Games. I wanted to say it was Al Williamson, but Wookieepedia only credits Ralph McQuarrie. I just went upstairs to check my copy and Al Williamson was indeed one of the artists along with Michael Manley. Al Williamson is THE artist I think of when I think Star Wars comics. He’s one of the few comic artists whose work I can easily recognize. If I learned anything from him it would be a good thing!

Zoe

Here’s the comparison with the original mash-up. Poor Zoë always seemed to get the worst of the early mash-ups. Her ears and nose were big problems. I’ve gotten a better handle on her now.

SW-Zoe-TaN

That’s all for this week. Next Friday Nektara is back in black! There are a couple of past costumes that fit that description. Find out which one she’ll be wearing next Friday!

 

Flashback Friday – Lando

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Feb 212014
 

Happy Friday folks! With great Fridays come great flashbacks! On that note, let’s take a look back.

This week’s flashback was originally supposed to go up last week, but I was so excited to show off the G.I.Fur action figure cardback I did for Flint Rich, that I pushed him ahead a couple of weeks.

When I did the first series of Star Wars mash-ups, most of the cast played characters from the original Star Wars. Barnaby was one of the exceptions (Deema was the other), playing Lando Calrissian from The Empire Strikes Back. For the return, like with Nektara, I chose to do a different costume. In Lando’s case, I chose his general’s uniform from Return of the Jedi. As always, click to embiggen.

Barnaby

And here’s the comparison piece:

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So that’s this week’s flashback folks! Barnaby will be back for next week’s installment. As who? You’ll just have to come back next Friday to find out!  Have a good weekend!

 

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