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#TimelessDC - The Outsiders - (2/2)

- Grey Owl/Dick Grayson
- Robin/Tim Drake
- The Spoiler/Stephanie Brown

#batman #timelessbatman #dc #dccomics #dcstudios #art #sketch #digitalart #krita #artsky #courtofowls #dickgrayson #talon #robin #timdrake #stephaniebrown #dcspoiler #batgirls #dynamicduo
My third design for Dick Grayson in this AU and the final one that I think I'm fully content with, as you can see, he is no longer Nightwing in this universe, but rather... A Talon for the Court of Owls. Their best Talon, the Gray Son of Gotham. His main design inspirations were of the character: Bat, from Kamen Rider: The First, and Demi-Fiend from SMT III: Nocturne. I based it off of the original Talon design I made with some adjustments to make this one feel unique and special in his own right, his mask is more of a helmet, he has a full-on cape that's reminiscent of Owl Man, and has the same owl medals and buckles adoring the Talons of the Court. Originally they were going to be gold, but this blueish silver fit the bill much more. It also makes him stand out, as he should. I am currently working on a Milanote project that will combine everything about this Batman universe, including the lore of all the characters, so when that is done I will post it here, but this is a sparknote version: this Dick Grayson was still a member of The Flying Graysons and Haley's Circus was still in league with the Court of Owls, when Dick's parents died, he was abducted by the Court and turned into their best enforcer Talon, and for added measures, he and Bruce had their parents killed on the same day, at the same time. Grey Owl would mainly appear during the Court of Owls arc of the AU, which would be the final arc, to which Batman would free Grayson of his mental prison and would ally with the owl to take down the Court of Owls... Tim has no differences in the design... I've grown to fall in love with this design, I might even make a cosplay of it in the future! Spoiler was really fun to reinvent and redesign! This design goes into her lore but to kick things off, her main inspirations were Gotham 1919 - 1939's Spoiler, as well as Lucia from Devil May Cry 2. Her costume this time around has the homemade vibe like Stephanie literally grabbed whatever she could out of her closet and made the best hero get-up she could. A little bit of Gerard Way's Riddler design from Batman: Kingdom of the Mad is also here with the use of an exclamation mark on her mask, for no real reason other than me thinking it looked cute on her, and it's something Steph would probably do! As for the lore, everything will be explained properly in the Milanote, but for now just know that Stephanie Brown in this AU is now a puppet, like a mannequin puppet but she would not realize this until later on during the Cluemaster arc, or maybe the Designer arc, I'm still working out the kinks. She would have this whole identity crisis on whether she's truly human, who she really is, all that jazz in between but she would come into her own soon enough!
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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[REPOST] #TimelessDC - The Outsiders - (1/2)

- Bruce Wayne/Batman
- Selina Kyle/Catwoman
- Waylon Jones/The Croc
- Bat-Mite & Ace

#batman #catwoman #killercroc #batmite #dc #dccomics #dcstudios #dcuniverse #art #auart #digitalart #sketch #digitalsketch #krita #artsky #timelessbatman
No changes were done to Batman, check the original post of his first appearance if you want a full rundown! Only change I did to Catwoman was give her darker skin, I can easily do it in paint but I can't get rid of the note on the sheet. After thinking about it, it didn't sit right having a person of color lose their melanin, despite the idea of Catwoman getting paler with every life being a great idea in concept. No changes with Croc, he ended up as the original Outsiders member that has never changed designs! Bat-Mite, in the Timeless Universe, is a poltergeist trapped in a ghost lantern given to Bruce by Zatanna. He haunts the Batcave and acts as a foil to Batman while not trying to be a major distraction or a clumsy ghost. He's essentially Casper the Friendly Ghost in this AU. I based a bit of his design and coloring off of that Adventures of Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder cartoon from like... the 70s? I always thought purple Bat-Mite was him at his best, he would have legs but for this character sheet I wanted to give the effect of him emerging from the lantern! I also decided to keep the store bought, Halloween costume approach his costume usually has, especially with the Dracula cape and the cheap vampire fangs, it gives Bat-Mite this innocent look which is something he should always have... Unless you're in the Absolute Universe. Ace is your normal black dog, inspired by Baskerville from the Hellsing series, but only for being a black dog as well. I was going to make Ace a bat/dog hybrid to make the name more comical of like "haha get it, he's an actual bat-hound!" but I wanted to actually attempt to draw a real dog from scratch and I think Ace turned out wonderfully!
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Friend of mine invited me out on Sunday, so I decided to carve the #TimelessBatman logo on to a pumpkin!
October 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (15/15)

- Joe Chill
- Judge of the Owls & Talon
- Quincey Sharp
- Count Dracula, Reborn

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Joe Chill, in my opinion, will reflect how your Batman AU will be, you can design Chill off of many ways but the main two that prevail are either he was a desperate crook who was scared, or the merciless monster who killed for the money, and for the hell of it. As you can see, I went with the latter. Chill was heavily inspired by Judge Holden from The Blood Meridian, in both the face and the outfit, while also being the garments worn by lower-class citizens or street urchins in Victorian settings. He's a petty crook but above all else, this is the monster that Bruce Wayne fears the most, which is also why I obscured his eyes from looking normal human eyes, and more like a monster who is looking from under your bed. I do have this Batman find Chill, and he does go to confront him, and Chill has no remorse nor empathy for killing this kid's parents in front of him. Batman of course wouldn't kill Chill, but it would not be a pleasant encounter for either party, especially since Batman would have to conquer his fear of the man who took everything from him. In my time developing for this AU, the Court of Owls became more and more of a bigger presence, not just because I adore the Court, but also because I feel like for this gothic-horror inspired AU, I feel this Bat-Man should have his final adversary be the Court of Owls, with the overarching story of his world coming to see that these are the true demons of Gotham City. To get the Talon out of the way, I didn't want to go for the usual Talon design, as believe it or not, I do have my reserves about it, because while it's not as absurd as the League of Assassins are with their blatant 'Mall Ninja' vibe, the Talons still give off that stealthy ninja vibe, and I didn't want to really go for that. Instead, I made them look like armored knights, I made them look like soldiers, I made them look like the enforcers of the Court of Owls, but above all else I made the Talons feel like they fit this gothic, dark world... For the Judge themselves, I did some research and saw some inspiration from real life owls and some fan designs on Pinterest of owl warriors and sorcerers to get some pointers in the color scheme, originally I was going to give the Judge a very forest green color scheme, but I think this rogues gallery has a lot of green already, so I think this light, reddish-brown makes for a very regal, very cult-leader vibe, and that of course all tops off with the Judge's mask. The identity of the Judge on my end is still up in the air, but this is the ending villain of Timeless Batman, so it only makes sense to give one of our final villain spotlights to the Judge and his Talons. Beware the Court of Owls, that watches all the time. Quincey Sharp is only really known from the Arkham series and I kind of wanted a corrupt mayor in Gotham that wasn't just Mayor Hill, and someone who can steal the spotlight after Hill is brushed out of office. Sharp's design is based on a character from Lies of P, but to be honest, I can't really remember at this moment in time, but to fit with the aesthetic, I did decide to give him that stereotypical 'Victorian Rich Guy' aesthetic that you see across a lot of media... And me and my friends joke around a lot that this is an evil Sir Topham Hatt from Thomas and Friends- He has his signature cane, signature pose, and the wrinkles on his face. Doesn't get more Sharp than that! The first major antagonist of Timeless Batman is Count Dracula himself, something that was in the works for a while now was what the endgame was going to be. Originally it was going to be Dracula, but this Batman had his corpse taken by Dracula and later would burn his castle down to escape, seemingly killing him when in reality, he merely weakened and reduced Dracula to the old mom in the wheelchair from Spongebob. Why would Dracula wait at least 10-15+ years to enact his plan for Gotham and Batman? With this revelation in mind, I got to work on a possibility that, maybe Dracula is the one keeping things in check for now, being the Count, or the King of these [universal] monsters in Gotham, and Batman [freezing] him would only open the floodgates. With this new idea in mind, Dracula would need a new design, something similar yet distinct from his original, Christopher Lee inspired design from before, which is why I basically made a more simpler version of his look from the Castlevania anime. With paler skin, longer hair, and a more young and athletic build, this Dracula is truly reborn and ready to vanquish the bat that dares take the name "Alucard" as one of his aliases. But this body is merely a tool, for the true desire is the body of Bruce Wayne, who was marked from birth as a being of great potential, of strength and diligence. The endgame of at least the third or fourth year of Batman's career is whether Dracula will take Bruce's body and mind, or not.
October 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (14/15)

- David Cain
- BRAINIAC-2
- Nocturna
- Professor Pyg/Lazlo Valentin

#Batman #TimelessBatman #DC #DCComics #DCUniverse #DCStudios #professorpyg #davidcain #nocturna #brainiac #brainiacdc #art #sketch #digitalart #artsky #krita #au #fanart #digitalsketch
David Cain was originally added because Cassandra Cain was in the AU, and I had only drawn her mother, Lady Shiva. But AFTER I designed David, I removed Cassandra from the AU because I could not fit her within the narrative as I wanted to in this Batman's time. But, I decided to keep David anyways and I'm glad I did, because not only was my time not wasted, but it's just a cool design. I based this heavily off of Kabal but I tried to make it look like it could fit the Timeless Batman aesthetic with less of the Walmart-Ninja, or military ninja vibe that Cain normally has... Although when I say this and I look at it as I'm writing this lil paragraph, he looks a LOT like Storm Shadow from G.I. Joe... I kept the traditional overcoat from Cain's usual design, added the Kabal mask from Mortal Kombat, and that also included Kabal's hook swords, as I did not want to give Cain dual katanas, because I hate how that's the default sword for every artist with very little understanding of different swords and cultures- who said that? Other than that, it's a very simple and basic, all-white attire that finishes it off with the red, dotted, almost bug-like eyes in appearance that gives this David Cain a very killer vibe, literally. The story relevance for Cain here would be that he is an assassin, and as of right now he does not have any huge story significance other than going up against Lady Shiva at times which could make for a cool story arc in the future, but that will be decided later on. This needs some explanation, the Timeless Universe has changed a lot over the single year it's been a thing. Originally everyone was connected and each city acted as their own little time capsule, acting like how the LEGO games would have you walk into Gotham and immediately it would start raining. But then that idea became more of a headache because how the hell can I justify the Timeless Batman events and then have the Timeless Titans events happen in the same universe, and how exactly would it work of all these cities having different time periods and aesthetics? It works on paper but something needed to be done. I then had the idea that, what if Brainiac was collecting these different worlds with timeless time periods and he would then merge them together like a big Marvel Rivals-like event? Now, the story made much more sense. I was talking to a friend of mine and he suggested that maybe Brainiac would send Brainiac drones into the Big Three's worlds and watch from afar to gather intel on these 'timeless' worlds, worlds with no moving clock or sense of time. And thus, Calculator/Brainiac-2 was born. The reason why he's named as 2 is because Batman came after Superman, who would have Brainiac-1. Regardless, to finally get to the design. A lot of FNAF and Lies of P went into making this, with the body itself being inspired by the Scrapped Watchman and the rust, dirt, and grime along with the pose were inspired off of Golden Freddy's render from FNAF 2, originally he was going to be sitting like how GF does in that game's render, but I decided to make him hang from tubes instead. The only bright light would be the glowing pink eyes of the Brainiac logo. Out of all the villains, this one probably took the longest because of all the details I put into the design. Moving onto a much more simple design, we have Nocturna. She had a lot of revisions, kind of... Originally, she was going to be a lady of the night with a nightclub in Gotham, then she was going to be a ghostly assassin, and then I wanted to do something a lil more unique [kind of] and I decided to basically make her Sadako Yamamura from the Ring series... Same schtick too. Black hair, black dress, pale blue skin with no mouth and very large eyes that pierce your soul... Like I said: not too much to really talk about with Nocturna, other than the potential lore I could drop? I imagine this being a good murder case, detective story with a case of untraceable corpses that are seen in front of their TV screens... Or maybe screens in general. It would be a Batman/Zatanna story and it would end with Nocturna being sealed, dragged into a ghost dimension, or outright killed by Zatanna but I doubt about that last one. It sounds like a really interesting story though, so I might write something like it in the future! Like with Ratcatcher, Pyg as going to be a Nightwing villain, and in this case, Pyg IS a Dick Grayson villain during his time as Batman in the Grant Morrison run, so by default I do consider him a Nightwing villain as well... But I said screw it and I made him a villain in the Batman AU! His design is heavily based on Beware The Batman's Professor Pyg and a lil bit of Eddie Gluskin from Outlast: Whistleblower. I gave him the usual pinstriped suit with some wrinkles and even some skin exposed from his abdomen to give the illusion of a bigger frame. If you can't notice it already, his shoes also have the indication of being custom made to look like hooves that pigs would normally have! Just a little something to give the vibe of this guy being really into the whole pig aesthetic... Lore wise, I imagine Valentin being a ringleader for the Circus of Strange, where Croc comes from in this universe, but the circus would be a breeding ground for dangerous and mistreated humans made to be circus attractions with very little regard for their safety. This also includes the helpless victims, especially women and children, to become Dollotrons that reflect Pyg's very twisted ideal of perfection, brought onto him by his mother in early childhood. He would be incarcerated in Blackgate, later Arkham Asylum but would only grow even more insane, and whether he takes place before or after Jack The Ripper is still up in the air, but regardless he would be one of Gotham's most sick and disgusting murder cases, and something that will make for a really good arc for Waylon Jones.
October 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Eyo? A #TimlessBatman audio thingy from a voice actor?

Y'all should like, watch it, or something.
October 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (13/15)

- Onomatopoeia
- Clock King/Francis Grey
- Ratcatcher/Otis Flannegan
- Magpie/Margaret Pye

#TimelessBatman #batman #dc #dccomics #dcuniverse #sketch #digitalsketch #art #artsky #fandesign #oc #clockking #onomatopoeia #ratcatcher #magpie #au #auart
YES! I KNOW ONOMATOPOEIA IS A GREEN ARROW VILLAIN! I was reaaaaally hesitant on including him, believe me!... But then I did my research and found that Kevin Smith, his co-creator, had Ono be a thorn in the side of Batman for some stories, and he was featured in Batman: Caped Crusader... Plus, I do think he looks cool. So, there. The main outfit was actually from this very fancy, royalty-looking suit design I found off of Pinterest... May have been AI, I have no idea, but if it was then I drew this with my HANDS, so it's automatically better. I didn't want to just copy the Caped Crusader design, so I did some liberties and added some white to contrast that black and make him stand out more, especially with the trimming around the cuffs of the pants and shirt! The pose was a lil awkward, I made it look like he's standing like Ronald McDonald, BUT you could chalk it down as Onomatopoeia being a pretty weird dude, so he'd have a pretty weird stance. And with his whole schtick of his dialogue being only... Onomatopoeias, then maybe he would actually do "Ba-ba-ba-ba-baaaaa..." if he's hungry... Does McDonald's even exist in Timeless Batman's world? I don't have too much to say on the role Onomatopoeia would have in the overarching story, I can see him being an assassin like he normally is for the mob or for a higher villain. Maybe Dracula, maybe Penguin, or maybe Hugo Strange. I'm not certain if he'll have as much of an effect on this Batman as the mainline Ono does, but that would be cool to think about... Kind of. Iykyk. Clock King is, again, another Green Arrow villain, but a LOT of Batman projects used him like BTAS and The Batman '04, which is where I got the secret identity name for this Clock King. Kind of a shame this design turned out so good, idk if the Timeless Green Arrow Clock King would turn out as nice, but maybe we'll see. I based this design off of an armor set from Lies of P, specifically the Puppet Princess Formal Dress! I wanted to really hit the king aesthetic, similar to how Brave and the Bold did their Clock King! A bit of Lord Fraquaad from Shrek was also influenced in the design, mainly for the hat... Not sure what that hat is specifically called but I wanted to do something different besides a usual European crown that CK would normally have. I'm playing around with Clock King having the ability to freeze time, or maybe he could have a similar six second rule like that of Ringo Roadagain from JoJo's Steel Ball Run, if I went with the former, he'd be your average villain, but if I go for the latter, then he could be a more honorable interpretation of the villain, which I don't see a lot of, but I could be wrong. Originally, Ratcatcher was in the Nightwing villains roster, but plans changed for Timeless Nightwing as a whole, and now he's a Talon- So now we have Ratcatcher here as a Batman villain! This design can be botched down to being The S*ic*de Squad's Ratcatcher II design with the colors of his Arkham Asylum bio art. At first I wasn't goo on board with it, but the different shades of green, orange, and a lil bit of purple make him stand out a lot! If I do change my mind though, I can always change the colors on Paintnet or something, but I'm happy with the results! I imagine Otis being like his appearance in Arkham Shadow where he's this crazy religious zealot, but not on the same level as say, Blackfire would be. Otis is a follower and not a leader, he would be one of the weaker villains in both physicality, and mentality. To be fair, his main fighting moves are from the help of his rats, which a certain point in the story is responsible for even giving him the ability to speak to rats... I do have ideas of what he could look like under the gas mask, but that will be for another day... Eh, I'll just spoil it: Imagine Peter Pettigrew from Harry Potter. That's Otis. Like with a lot of these villains that I added to the rogues gallery, Magpie was a character I had no intention of having at first, especially since I already had Catwoman as the thief character, but since Selina is the typical anti-hero/ally to Batman and his Outsider group, I decided to have Magpie as a fun obscure choice, and as a potential dark side to Selina. Maybe she's a friend or an old fellow thief that worked with Selina? I'm not sure yet. But her appearance was mainly inspired by Beware The Batman's Magpie design, with a lil bit of inspiration from Misa Amane's goth egirl design from Death Note, since while I used her as a point of reference for Punchline as well, you can see it a lil more here with Margaret! She shares similar attributes to Catwoman being the long boots, the corset, the hair... kind of, and the flair for making for an alluring shint object thief, but she carries the same chalk white skin tone that puts you off whether she's human, or not, as in this universe, villains can be very misleading with the way they ALL look.
October 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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"I want you to tell all your friends about me..."

#TimelessDC #TimelessBatman #batman #thedarkknight #sketch #digitalsketch #art #artsky #digitalart #krita #michaelkeatonbatman #batman89 #dc #dcuniverse #dccomics #dcstudios
Batman hoists a man up to his eye level, leaving the man unsure if this is his last night on Earth, or not. Especially with the Bat showing off his vampire fangs...
October 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (12/???)

- Tweedledee & Tweedledum/Dumfey & Deever Tweed
- March Harriet/Harriet Pratt
- The Carpenter/Jenna Duffy
- Toymaker/Griffin Crank

#timelessbatman #batman #au #art #krita #digitalart #artsky #gotham #sketch #digitalsketch #dc #dccomics #dcuniverse
If y'all remember the original ten posts, I only drew Mad Hatter, yet I always had the idea of the Wonderland Gang from Paul Dini's run in my head... But for some reason I never drew them minus the Hatter, but that changes today! The first two out of four members to show are the muscles, the twins: Tweedledee & Tweedledum! Their designs were heavily based on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland interpretation of the two characters, and it made for a really good companion piece for the Mad Hatter himself; originally I was going to stick true to the designs and make both of them red, which would mean just a simple copy, paste, and horizontal flip for Dum, but then I remembered that the ideal voice for these two would be the Ray Chase type, based on Agni and Rudra from the Netflix DMC show. So, now Dee & Dum have their own colors for a nice color contrast, but also to make it easier to tell which one is which. I'm still figuring out the lore for these two but the story arcs I have right now is that, after the first huge major arc of the story, the crazies would be out and one of the main arcs would be of Mad Hatter and his Wonderland Gang tormenting Gotham, hoe and why? That's still up for debate... But everything will make sense in time! March Harriet was one of my favorites, mainly due to me just loving the bunny suit trend... So I think out of all the Wonderland Gang, she's probably my favorite here. I based her design off of a Playboy Bunny outfit mixed with a Spirit Halloween looking costume that I found on Google. I gave her the same pasty white skin as a lot of other characters in the AU do to fit the vibe, and gave her the light brown color of the LEGO Batman Movie March Harriet! Decided to also give her a Wolf cut, Butterfly cut, whatever the hair style is, I liked the tomboyish look of it and figured it would look great on her! She wouldn't be too important to the story but it does kind of go into why she's dressed like this: I wanted to have the same effect as the Silent Hill 2 nurses where it was a look into the psyche of the main character in question, this is how Jervis sees women, at least some of them. I wanted to make a design that made that point across while also not using it as an excuse to just make an overtly sexy design, I didn't want it to be demeaning while also showing off a crucial, creepy flaw with the main villain, and I think Harriet's design is good for that! It definitely beats all the other times they try to make Hatter a dark character where they just make him a name on the Epstein files- Carpenter was a character I was really hung up on... Do I go with the story idea that Jervis would have his female goons where the Spirit Halloween sexy costumes, or do we actually make a Carpenter design? As you can see, I picked the latter. Carpenter, based on design, would be the most lenient with the group, since they're all brain washed minions of Jervis in his journey to find his Alice, which would be his ex-wife for reasons I will get to at a later date. So I made her the usual purple shirt with the white coveralls, and gave her a cut lil hat to complete the "fantasy" carpenter look! I used this hair shading technique that you see with a lot of other artists and even animated shows and movies, I keep telling myself I need to use this more but I haven't on the villains after Carpenter so that will be something to work on in the future. But yeah, like with Bob from the MANIAX, I can see Carpenter actually getting a good sendoff at the end of a Wonderland Gang arc, where she can hopefully go back to a sustainable life depending on how messed up her brain functions are because of Jervis, but only time will tell! Toymaker is NOT a member of the Wonderland Gang, but I needed to fill the void with a fourth villain so I figured I would add him as a companion piece. While his name is Toymaker based on the Batman 2004 show, as usual, this is clearly a jab at ToyMAN from Superman's rogues gallery, while also being mixed with the Happy Mask Salesman from Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, even with the slouch and all. He's one of the few villains that doesn't have that chalk white skin, instead going for a more gray, more drab tone to kind of show his unkept look. I wanted to make his hair look like it's plastic, something I inspired off of Melvin from Jeff Dunham's Spark of Insanity show. Another piece of media I pulled from was actually Jason the Toymaker, but only for the shoulder padding you see donning Toymaker's shoulders... Now that I think about it, it's ironic to use two characters with the same name for this version of the Toymaker. I actually went ahead and read the Jason story and... Yeah, it's a creepypasta. It sucks. But the design is cool at least, albeit a bit too... Pretty Boy Anime-ified. But, yeah! Toymaker! He'd be more of a minor villain, fighting alongside a villain maybe like Riddler, maybe Joker, or hell maybe even Killer Moth since they would both be minor villains in their own right!
October 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted (11/???)

- Bedbug
- Ragdoll
- Punchline/Alexis Kaye
- Bob The Clown

#timelessbatman #batman #dccomics #dcuniverse #dc #art #sketch #artsky #krita #digitalsketch #fanon #au #auart #originaldesigns #oc #punchline #bobbatman #dcragdoll #spookymonth
Bedbug is a villain I am sure not a lot of people know or a lot may have forgotten about him since he was only used in, two comics during Paul Dini's time on the Batman book? As the Timeless universe for Batman expanded, I decided to give Scarecrow some lackeys for a story arc that would warrant them, and here is what I came up for Bedbug! I envision him as an escaped Arkham patient who would be personally experimented on by Jonathan Crane, even before he turned into the Scarecrow, but after a divine presence speaks to Crane himself, after he becomes the villain he would need his own henchmen, and Bedbug would be born with the utilization of the infested bugs that were dosed in Crane's fear toxin formula. These bedbugs would then be controlled by Bedbug himself, using them to seep into a person's mind as they sleep, biting and eventually eating their way through the bran to control Gothamites like zombies. He wears a straight jacket with a bed sheet from his padded cell, he manages to get a single arm loose from the confines of the jacket and he has a hand-stiched mask made of leather, pleather, and other materials around the asylum that Crane could offer to his subject. He has no name or identity after he was turned into Bedbug, as when Batman would unmask him, his face would have been practically chewed away at by these Bedbugs around him, until he [probably] meets a gruesome end like that one dude in Kingdom of the Crystak Skull with the ants. Ragdoll is literally Sam from Trick 'r Treat mixed with a traditional Scarecrow design, and the Ragdoll design from The Batman 2004, like how a lot of other designs in this series are inspired off of that show. He is the second member of what Crane calls 'The Acolytes of Fear' and always seen with Bedbug as they commit crimes, though in different fashions. Where Bedbug gets into your head and controls you from within, Ragdoll plays off the fear of pediophobia, where he enters the house of a victim and can change his size to be a lil' ragdoll that was given to little Carl as a birthday gift, that dad conveniently forgot. This makes Ragdoll a good spy and informant/assassin for Scarecrow's little group project. He's very lanky to give the usual Ragdoll sense both in the common tropes of an actual ragdoll, and the DC character itself with him being able to slip through cracks and crevices to make a quick getaway. He has the same button eye and stitched up look that Sam would have with a few more stitches and even different fabrics sewn together to give it more of a put-together look, that and the suit would be very droopy, as you can see with that feet! Punchline is the bass guitar player in Joker's band, THE MANIAX. I realized I never gave a full breakdown of what the roles in the band are, so here's a quick shot: Joker - Lead Singer/Guitarist Harley Quinn - Rhythm Guitar Punchline - Base Guitar Bob - Drums Not too different from the usual Punchline design, but I made it black and white to match Joker & Harley, as well as give her bits of purple in her hair to keep Punchline's main color in tact! She's definitely a more typical e-goth you'd see but, to be fair, Joker & Harley literally look like Hot Topic ads. And if you couldn't tell, I did use the old Brofist logo as a base for her belt buckle. ain't no way any of them are fans of Pewdiepie though, Joker's nuts but he doesn't have a bridge moment. Maniax is clean- Bob was based on the character of the same name from the 1989 movie and that was it: the Number 1 Guy... Until he got killed by Joker. I decided to base this off of a Spirit Halloween clown costume because I ran into a fork in the road when deciding what to do for Bob... I always imagined him being the most lowkey of the MANIAX and he would still be an accomplice in the crimes Joker commits with his band, but he's there to serve as the drummer and getaway driver for the group, so he's kinda just... There. His main flair I gave him would be the star shaped sunglasses and the crazy orange hair that was inspired off of Captain Clown from The Animated Series! I imagine Bob would have the best fate out of the MANIAX, he would just go to jail, serve his time, and then be a free man to be another band's drummer. Bob is just Bob.
October 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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man
October 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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THAT pose.

#BootlegVerse #blackcat #blackcatmarvel #marvel #feliciahardy #spiderman #fanart #art #digitalsketch #sketch #krita #au #auart #aufanart #artsky #yoruichi #yoruichipose #yoruichibleach #cat
Bootleg!Black Cat doing the iconic Yoruichi pose
September 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I figured for a quick drawing showcase for #BatmanDay, I would bring you all back to the very first design of an AU Batman when I thought of the idea of making a DC AU...

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Very vanilla, very safe, but I still have some nostalgia for it! Gave it the classic baby blue color reminiscent of the Neil Adams Batman, his utility belt and logo would have been the same, though on the actual drawing it doesn't really show. His face was covered up in every design before the final one, which I do still prefer but, things can't always be perfect. His cape parted down the middle, I don't fully know why because when I thought more about it, it wouldn't really make sense, which is why when I made the cape for this long ago, it was a solid piece. I gave him the Brave & The Bold style where his forehead had the black shadowing minus the eyebrows, his cowl in general is based on this foam Batman Beyond helmet I found by xieng prod on YouTube and Etsy! How times change... Wow.
September 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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September 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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they suffered a terrible loss

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they dropped the nuggies
September 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Another redraw meme

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the cat stalks her next prey: the entire ceiling.
September 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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saw a meme on twitter
September 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Here are some duo drawings if y'all would wanna see how some of these characters look next to each other!
August 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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#TimelessDC - The Outsiders, REDESIGNED!

- Batman/Bruce Wayne
- Catwoman/Selina Kyle
- Nightwing/Dick Grayson
- Robin/Timothy Drake

#dc #dccomics #dcuniverse #art #fanart #digitalart #artsky #blueskyart #sketch #batman #nightwing #catwoman #robin #brucewayne #selinakyle #dickgrayson #timdrake
This is the sixth time I had a design for Timeless Batman. The main reason why I dropped the Periwinkle blue was because I could not for the LIFE of me find a good seller of Periwinkle blue fabric more than one yard, and when I did find a seller, the shade of the color was all wrong... So I just said fuck it and went with the iconic black and very very dark grey. This Bats was based on a few things as usual: the Belmonts from Castlevania, Gerard Way's unused Batman concept, and the White Knight Batman suit, much like how the old MK III was based on the WK suit as well. That's my favorite in the comics so it only makes sense I suppose. Not much to really go into, other than a few things: 1) No, his skin is not pasty white naturally, he just applies a lot of make-up to look like an undead vampire, since he's a dhampir. 2) The bat logo is my own design, taken from real bats in flight, though I did look at the concept bat logo designs for The Batman '22 to get a general feel as to how you would translate a bat in flight into a logo. 3) The stitching was added last minute both in the drawing, and in the cosplay that I'll get done... one of these days. A friend of mine saw this and said it was very Corpse Bride-Tim Burton, which I take as a huge compliment since Burton's a huge inspiration for this world. 4) Yes, he still has a radio voice filter. Catwoman's look isn't too different from the first design I did, but I just made it darker, and more streamlined. Absolute Catwoman was a good inspiration mainly for the color, and it also pushed me to give Selina paws for her boots and gloves! She still retains her glowing green goggles. As you can see as well, her skin is much lighter than the previous version, and the sheet says it upfront that this Catwoman is on her sixth life. So she has the Burton 9 lives gimmick and a friend of mine gave me an idea to have Selina get more pasty the more she dies. Idk if she goes down to her last life, but we'll have to see. Also, BOOBS- The Timeless universe has changed a fair amount. Now, every Timeless hero is in their own little time capsule, which includes the mythos. That means, this Nightwing will not be the same as the eventual Timeless Nightwing I will draw for the Titans. So this is a different continuity! With that in mind, I went to the more iconic Nightwing design with the black and blue, this Nightwing is very much inspired by the White Knight design, as is Batman. I decided to give his jacket a little bit of spice and added gray harnesses for his escrima sticks! He is very much a very Red Hood coded character, since this AU actually has Dick and Jason being childhood friends, blood-brothers you can say, and since Jason will have the Grant Morrison Red Hood design, I figured why not give Dick a more... Modern Red Hood look while still keeping true to Timeless Gotham's aesthetic? I say that as if I wasn't mainly inspired by White Knight Nightwing lmao Idk what it was about the original Robin design that I did, but it wasn't hitting. So I made this one! I inspired this look off of the Black Parade uniforms from My Chemical Romance, the bird medal was taken from Gerard Way's unused Robin design since I actually really like the idea of the Robin emblem being a medal rather than the classic R, it fits too because Timeless Robin wasn't meant to have the classic R either. I made the medal different at least in comparison to Way's design. I made this Robin very much similar to Tim's eventual Red Robin look, I figured since Tim is the only person in the Timeless universe to take on the identity of Robin, I would just skip to the Red Robin identity and leave it at that, I think it matches up with Timeless Batman and the aesthetic of the villains especially! Not much to say, other than Welcome to the Bat Parade, I guess.
August 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (10/10)

- Carmine Falcone
- Salvatore Maroni
- Rupert Thorne
- Black Mask/Roman Sionis
- The Designer

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Before the costumed criminals and gimmicks, there was the organized crime that claimed to rule the city from its roots without ever realizing the true ruler of Gotham in the Timeless universe. The three crime lords are those I decided to include all together since they're very basic guys in suits to where they didn't really deserve their own character sheets. Falcone's was probably the hardest because I cannot draw anything other than basic character poses yet, but I'll get there! Each Crime Boss has their own little flair; Falcone has the cape like a king, Maroni has his coat draped over him like a cape, and Thorne just wears his coat normally. I wanted to show the heirarchy of power withing the Gotham Underworld before Riddler comes in and rains on everyone's parade. If you look closely, Falcone even has the iconic cat scratches from Selina! Roman was actually really fun to do, I've been getting more into Black Mask as of late so when I got to design him, I wanted to do something a bit different. I made his suit a brighter shade of pink with his vest being purple, a part of this was inspired off of Cesar Romero's Joker suit with its coloring, but I also took cues from the Absolute version of Black Mask with the brighter suit scheme, I was originally going to give him the white suit from Arkham Origins but I wanted to be different! The mask I decided to leave totally blank, I was gonna add yellow or red specs in the eye sockets, but I think having it be a plain black mask just makes him more creepy an ominous, especially if used in the right lighting scenes! Overall, Roman is Roman! Designer was one of my favorite lesser-known Batman villains even though he came from the god-awful War of Jokes & Riddles story arc, and I thought he could have been really cool, until it was uncovered that he was just another Joker scheme... Yay. So, for Timeless, since a lot of these heroes and villains have horror routes, I made Designer a walking-talking Mannequin! So as he's walking, he has a very stiff and doll-like feel to him, and his voice would have a little muffle to signify the stuffing and more inside of his 'skin.' Since he is a mannequin, that means his 'goons' are also mannequins! It's a little shop of horrors, especially for those who have an immense fear of mannequins. I don't have a clear story arc planned but, if I ever do something with these villains and characters, he's definitely a character I am excited to think of something for!
August 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (9/10)

- Henri Ducard/Count Dracula
- Hugo Strange
- Gray Owl
- Lock-Up/Lyle Bolton

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So here is one of the major changes in the Timeless Universe... Ra's Al Ghul and the League of Assassins do not exist. Because I hate both of them, they have the exact same story arc every single time, and whenever they try to add characters like Lady Shiva or even Bane to their cause, it doesn't amplify their presence, but merely makes the plots more convoluted... So, with that in mind, originally I was going to have Ra's but he would be this world's equivalent to Dracula... But the more I got references for the design... I figured why not just have Dracula and be done with it? So, a much more interesting character is here with the Count! I based his design off the Bela Lugosi Dracula, as well as the great Sir Christopher Lee's take on the Count, and Drac's appearance from The Batman VS Dracula, one of the coolest Batman animated movies! So he is pretty simple in terms of designs compared to other Drac designs such as the Castlevania series. But I think that fits seeing how a lot of other villains in this Timeless barrage are pretty simple all things considered! As you see from the post, in this universe, Dracula would have been one of Bruce's teachers, disguised as Henri Ducard, where he would teach Bruce about being a great detective in order to become the greatest, but the lessons would be cut short due to Ducard's mansion being lit ablaze after Bruce used his skills to uncover the truth of Ducard actually being a vampire. Dracula would return to Gotham after stalking Bruce's activities and resettle in the abandoned Arkham Asylum, ruling from the shadows as his pawn gets everything ready for the great Dracula's return to full strength... Professor Hugo Strange... Is straight up Giancarlo Esposito. Yes, I know, he's a very tight casted man in these calm yet scary villain roles... BUT IN MY DEFENSE... I was watching the Payday 2 Dentist trailer and was caught in the moment, okay!? So, a lot of Hugo's design is in-turn, inspired off of the Dentist from Payday 2, as well as Isaac a bit from the Netflix Castlevania anime, which is probably my favorite video game adaptation, ever. There's not a whole lot to say about Hugo since he is pretty much what you would expect: long white coat, surgical gloves, and of course that majestic, eeeevillll beard. I do think Giancarlo would be good to have as Hugo Strange rather than what others fan-cast him as, like him as Mr. Freeze... Gray Owl is essentially the 'leader' of the armies of Talons for the Court of Owls, who in this universe, answer under Hugo Strange. Dracula does not approve seeing how owls are natural predators of Bats, but as long as they're useful. Gray Owl was inspired by Death from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, same voice and he would also have a whistle similar to Death, but it would be more like the Talons' usual 'Hoot Hoot' from the comics! Overall, again another really simple design, I will draw some of the Talons themselves if I do big centerpieces to get better at scene composition, but for now, have their General! Lock-Up is, again, pretty basic but I guess that's the theme of this batch of villains, yeah? Basically just taking his classic design as first-seen in Batman: The Animated Series, but adding some things, removing others, and sticking with what stuck! I took some design and color inspirations from Arkham Shadow's Lyle as well since I actually loved that they incorporated Lock-Up into the Arkham-Verse and made him just as vile as he was in the cartoon! That's also where I decided to give him the TYGER logo on his right shoulder pad, as I had the idea that Strange has an operative force of both militaristic, and mythological on each side of the viewpoint of Gotham! And of course, Lyle is the leader of TYGER due to his excessive violence and zero tolerance for criminals. Which also makes Arkham Asylum more of a living hell than it already was in the Timeless Universe after Dracula set up shop.
August 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (8/10)

- Deadshot/Floyd Lawton
- Firefly/Garfield Lynns
- Gentleman Ghost/Jim Craddock
- Lady Shiva/Sandra Wu-San

#batman #au #auart #batmanuniverse #DC #DCCOMICS #dcuniverse #fireflydc #deadshot #ladyshiva #gentlemanghost #art #artsky #digitalart #sketch
Deadshot was tricky. I wanted to go for that classic look but also make it look like it fits in this Dieselpunk/Steampunk world... then, I had the weirdest inspiration: Mixing the jacket from the Rocketeer with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter! So I gave him that same Victorian look that Gotham By Gaslight would have, while also giving him his signature wrist-gun-bracers and a long sniper rifle to complete the look. I also gave him a broken brimmed hat to make room for his one red eye piece to make it look more prominent, if you look closely, you can see the crosshair in the eye piece as well! Overall a simple design for Deadshot compared to some of his canon or other fan designs, but I think the simplicity works really well! Firefly took the longest to actually think of what to do with him. I was originally going to do a take on The Batman 2004 and the Arkham Series, but I felt those two designs just didn't fit the vibe of this Timeless Gotham... So, I went back to the drawing board and remembered the shelved Batgirl movie with Brendan Fraser as Firefly, and I actually really dug his design and hope that one day the movie can come out to streaming services, or hell maybe even DVD... But anyways, I inspired this Firefly off of that movie's version, with slight nods to the 2004 design with the color scheme and the helmet. I also decided to base a bit of this design off of the Rocketeer, as when I was really thinking about what Firefly should look like, it dawned on me that Deadshot wouldn't be the ONLY one using that jacket in this universe if it's universally available... So, I based his aesthetic off the Rocketeer and gave him a golden chestplate and helmet to boot, along with a fire shooting bracer on his left forearm so he can shoot fire with both hands next to his fire gun. This actually turned out to be one of my favorite designs out of this entire wave of villains, fitting because Firefly's always been one of my favorite underrated Batman villains. It was till the very end of this drawing and when I deleted the Krita file that made me see that the Ghost's hands were comically big... Oh well. I guess he makes them big because he's dead. Anyways, this is your average Gentleman Ghost... the only thing I added was a mustache because I based both Ghost's design and lore off of H. H. Holmes, I figured if I was going to have horror of both the real world and the fictional worlds inspire this Gotham, then one of them has to be based off one of the most infamous serial killers... That's really all I can say about Gentleman Ghost as he is, again, your standard design; though I will say I do really like how I made him look ghostly with the blue line art and the gaussian blur on the outer edges, and this was from my first attempt since all my other ghostly attempts were rather... haphazardly done. Lady Shiva isn't exactly a villain in the Timeless universe, but she is an assassin that would go after Batman for the money before Bruce enlists her teachings to make him a better combatant against assassins. Design wise, I based her off her usual classic design since it was simple and effective, only thing I added were the flower designs on the bottom of her coat but that's about it. Not the biggest fan of the pose I gave her, a part of me wished I gave her a sword pose and a sword in general, or her usual arms behind the back, authority pose but, eh it's fine. I also tried to do the Kaneko (former smt artist) black lip aesthetic, which I think turned out decently well, and I also tried to make her look a bit older since I would think Shiva was almost as old as Bruce usually, although in this universe she'd be like, 10 years older than Bruce seeing how he starts being Batman at only 21 years old. So, yeah! Lady Shiva, the deadliest woman in the DC Universe!
July 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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OH YEAH ALSO HAPPY DAY FOR THE #FANTASTICFOUR !!!

To celebrate... #BootlegVerse #Marvel - The Fantastic Four!

- Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic
- Susan Storm-Richards/Invisible Woman
- Johnny Storm/Human Torch
- The Thing/Ben Grimm
- H.E.R.B.I.E.
To begin, the uniforms of the Fantastic Four went through some changes in the few years I've been drawing them. Originally they had suits that were similar to the World's Greatest Heroes suits, then I gave them the classic blue and white jumpsuits from the comics, until finally I was inspired by the SPD Power Rangers/Dekarangers, specifically the Yellow Ranger, to give them the big number four on the side of the costumes, which separates the colors! The only differences for the characters are Johnny's with his added flame decal, and Ben's suit being designed after Potemkin from Guilty Gear [- STRIVE -], I always had Ben wearing a full uniform minus the pants, although no-shirt Ben goes hard af. H.E.R.B.I.E. was modeled after Astro Bot! When the game came out I had only made one design for H.E.R.B.I.E. that looked to be inspired by ROB the Robot, but after Astro Bot came out I was kind of in a mood, so this is the new HERBS! I think he's simply adorable, as H.E.R.B.I.E. should be!
July 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (7/???)

- Anarky/Lonnie Machin
- Deacon Blackfire
- LORD DEATH MAN!
- Lady Arkham/Jeremiah Arkham

#batman #batmanau #batmanfanart #au #auart #fanart #art #digitalart #artsky #dc #dccomics #dcuniverse #detectivecomics #anarky #ladyarkham #drawing #sketch
Anarky was a character I was stoked to draw, he's my third favorite Batman villain, believe it or not. So designing him was not hard at all because I simply love his classic design to where it didn't need to be altered in any significant way other than how it looked. And for that, I based Anarky off of V from V for Vendetta, one of my favorite movies of all time. There's not really much to say here, other than when you look at V from the movie and this Anarky side by side, they're basically copies of one-another, Anarky is just pinkish red with the giant A on his chest. I might make a cosplay of this Anarky one day but that will be at a later date... 'Remember, remember, the Fifth of November.' Deacon Blackfire, like a lot of these other designs, went through some changes. Originally I was going to go for the exaggerated pope robes and have them be big and wavy, hell I even had one of my old reference photos be Asuka from Guilty Gear - STRIVE - But the more I drew a lot of the other designs before Blackfire, Timeless Batman and Gotham were beginning to take its shape and I realized that maybe that wasn't the way to go, maybe Blackfire should be a different type of preacher. I rememer watching a lot of the Behind the Scenes work on BTAS and TNBA, in this case the latter and Bruce Timm described designing Scarecrow with western preacher clothes... And then I remembered how Father Gascoigne from Bloodborne looked, so combining those two ideas I was able to craft this Deacon Blackfire to fit the Timeless Gotham aesthetic! That's all there is to say, since this is a very basic design as it is. What you see is what you get! A lot of these villains are pretty serious in their own rights so I wanted to really dig deep and get someone who would be a good joke villain, but nothing ridiculous like Kite-Man or Crazy Quilt... And I always had a love for Lord Death Man!!! (the exclamation marks are necessary whenever you say his name). A bit of this look was obviously taken from his robed appearances in the comics, but also from Ghostface, believe it or not. I was going to give him a Ghostface looking mask but make it skull-like, but I felt the decal on the hooded piece just looked better. One a side note I also saw this after I finished this design, but when you look at Lord Death Man!!!... He has the exact color scheme of Lord Garmadon from Ninjago, which was not intentional at all, but now that I see it, I'll role with it as an inspiration! Also, yes he is an actual skeleton man, and yes he does have his moments of being a badass but he's relatively simple to defeat. He's like a Saturday morning villain. This batch of villains were all essentially cult leaders, so I figured I'd throw Lady Arkham here as well. Not really much in the way of design changes minus a different approach to the outfit with the majority of the costume being a straight jacket rather than the leatherbound outfit L.A. sported in the Telltale games. I based the straight jacket look off of one of Scarecrow's designs from Batman Begins and went from there, and polearm is also a different design but that was just me drawing it without much care to simply copy the Telltale design. As long as it has that concussive ball of death on the top, it's the Lady Arkham staff. You also might notice that this Lady Arkham is actually Jeremiah Arkham; in the lore he would go crazy as one does in the Arkham family, especially after getting closer to the revelation of Hugo Strange's true allegiance and the use of Arkham Asylum, there may have been some good in Jeremiah, but none of it mattered now as he made this crusade and cult of prisoners who have been experimented by Strange to rise up against the corruption of Gotham and to tear it out by the roots, it's a changed up version of the plot from Telltale, minus a lot of the key elements... But to be fair, it'd be cheating if it was an exact copy.
July 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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❗(TW// BLOOD)❗

#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (6/???)

- Harvester/Cornelius Stirk
- Victor Zsasz
- The Phantasm/Andrea Beaumont
- Mr. Bloom

#dc #dcfanart #dcuniverse #dccomics #art #fanart #digitalart #artsky #batman #batmanvillains #phantasm #harvester #horrorart #batmanau #au #auart
Harvester is a huge stretch. I've never heard of this guy until I listened to the Spotify audio series: Batman: Unburied where Harvester served as the main villain. Even without a visual reference I was always intrigued by the villain's voice [by the goat Sam Witwer] and the fact this villain served really well in the horror of Batman's rogues gallery, which is where I think Batman thrives in! So to kickstart the design... It's Edward Scissorhands. That's it. A lot of these designs, as you see, are based on certain horror icons and mythological/folklore figures, so for my Harvester who has very little appearances, I felt there was no wrong answer, as long as you make him a crazy cannibalistic serial killer, then it's fair game! I also decided to give him a mask that is similar to The Trapper from Dead By Daylight as I felt it gave a finishing touch to the design, and the creepy factor since you can still see the Harvester's teeth through the mouth of the mask. I made his claws rusted with blood to give off the illusion that he never washes or tends to his needs, which realistically would dull the knives and make them less effective... But so is functioning anything with those bigg-ass scissorhands. Very creepy, very cool, just how I like it! Victor Zsasz also went through some design changes; originally I had him as this buff dude with scars, an eyepatch, and the tally marks but then I was looking through those horror references and thought about how deformed and messed up the Outlast patients were... So I went with that, while also giving Zsasz the attire of Pinhead from Hellraiser, which explains the weird stomach hole in the corset... I decided to also give Zsasz a very soulless look, again, like the Outlast patients, it adds to the scare factor of what a killer like Victor Zsasz would be. I imagine this being one of Timeless Batman's more challenging threats, not because of his physical nature, although Zsasz fights like a lunatic, but because of the mental will Bats will have to show to not kill this dude outright. The Phantasm was always going to be in any AU that I do of Batman because the movie [she] originated from is by far one of the greatest Batman movies. Also her design is just, so damn cool. I went back to her inspiration that inspired Bruce Timm with the original design, and that was DC's Reaper. I took the belt, mainly. Originally, I was going to have her cloak be held up by the skull and a chain wrapping around her body like a sword belt, but I decided against it. The only real change I gave to her design were the wrappings around her legs and arms, if you're noticing a trend, I love my wrappings! Not really much to say, other than, it's the Phantasm! Mr. Bloom was a HUGE stretch; while appearing in the highly acclaimed Scott Snyder New-52 run on Batman, this was during the Jim Gordon-Batman era where he had that mecha-bunny suit that was actually pretty cool. It's a shame Bruce himself never faced Mr. Bloom, as he is such an interesting villain and a great utilization of horror that Snyder really perfected with his spores growing from the inside of people and Gotham itself, Bloom is definitely a heavy hitter in this AU, I just need to really think about his involvement. But, design wise, it's basically his classic look, there's no real need to change it since it's already such an interesting design... Though I will say, I did base his tentacle-y hands and feet off of Slenderman's tentacles in how a lot of fan artists would draw them flowing, so maybe there is some design change after all!
July 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM