You Know Despite Not Even Drawing Shazam For A Year Yet, My Character Designs Still Go Through Constant

Some random Billy & Darla sketches tonight because I want to get more comfortable with posting unfinished art,,, 🌻🩸⚡️💜🎉

Maybe I’ll post some more sketches soon also just to practice storytelling by using my art :p yk how it is.

Okay bye!!~ ✨

𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐀’𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐑𝐂 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐄𝐓

[ Master List | Darla’s Index ]

CHARACTER SHEET

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NAME: Darla Dudley

AGE: 13 years old

BIRTHDAY: March 5th 1994

HEIGHT: 5’1 /157 cm

STATUS: Alive

OCCUPATION: Student at Fawcett High

SPECIES: Human

HAIR COLOR: Black

EYE COLOR: Dark Brown

OTHER INFO: None

PERSONALITY/NARRATIVE ROLE

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Darla is the heart of her household. She’s a kind and loving girl who’s still filled with childlike wonder. She is the character who is always lookout for the silver lining in every situation.

Darla’s role in the story is to be the empathetic peacekeeper of the group. She is the sibling that hates conflict and tries to see all aspects of a situation to help find solutions to problems.

She is there to remedy situations and get everyone on the same page whenever her siblings start to argue.

She is the sibling that opens her heart to Billy first despite his cold personality, and welcomes him with open arms.

LESSON OVERVIEW

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Darla’s lesson throughout the story is showing Billy the importance of giving people second chances and understanding people before you place judgement on them.

Helping him understand that in order to be a good hero and a good brother he has to open up and let others in. Over the story Billy has moments where he tries to fly solo, but Darla is always the first one to welcome him back despite his mistakes.

Darla’s loving and sweet personality gives Billy insight into how it’s important to give people second chances and intervene when others are in trouble. Billy has done noble things in the past however, Darla is a living reminder of why these values matter.

End.

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Drew a small scene from my Shazam story! ⚡️

So far only one chapter is out but I hope you guys like it so far!!

𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘’𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐑𝐂 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐄𝐓

[ Master List | Mary’s Index ]

CHARACTER SHEET

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NAME: Mary Bromfield

AGE: 15 years old

BIRTHDAY: September 19th 1992

HEIGHT: 5’5 /167 cm

STATUS: Alive

OCCUPATION: Student at Fawcett High

SPECIES: Human

HAIR COLOR: Dark Brown

EYE COLOR: Dark Brown

OTHER INFO: None

PERSONALITY/NARRATIVE ROLE

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Mary is the voice of reason out of all her siblings, and a stabilizing force amongst their more chaotic impulses. She can be a little stuck up or a know-it-all at times however, at her core she’s always a team player.

Mary’s role in the story is to the the responsible team coordinator. Her more organized and clever approach to situations provides a sharp contrast to her siblings, who are often more reckless and impulsive.

Mary understands that Billy’s past has primed him to be sneaky and crafty when put into a bad situation because she’s the same way. This gives them both a friendly sibling rivalry dynamic.

LESSON OVERVIEW

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Mary’s lesson throughout the story is helping Billy adapt to a more team-oriented skill set. Showing him how to take everyone’s needs into consideration to help people who rely on him.

Helping him understand the importance of teamwork and being reliable so that he can become a proper leader/hero.

Mary’s clever and quick-witted personality is a tool she’s used throughout her life to get her out of many bad situations. However, once she was placed into the Vasquez house she’s learned to use those skills to be a pillar of strength for her siblings. Being someone who her siblings can rely on in times of need, and she’s teaching Billy how to do the same.

End.

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Concept art I’m working on for Tawny and The Wizard. I wanted to make the Wizard a little more unconventional than a regular Wizard, I added a bell to the end of his hat and some dangling stars from the brim, just to try out something fresh. I also was trying to work on a full body outfit for him and decided he would probably do most of his wizard work in pajamas because he’s chill like that.

Also, just a side note the green sticky notes covering some of the words on the page aren’t like “hidden lore” or anything like that, I’m just dyslexic lol.

Anyways below is a w.i.p of his full-body outfit, so yeah! I know the line art looks completed but I might shift around a few mornings before I move onto colors. I always make 2-3 rounds of line art before I settle on something lol. ⚡️✨🪄💕🌿🐅

𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐃 𝐃𝐑𝐀𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗

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➸ Mary Bromfield’s Character Info

- Character Introduction Sheet

- Character Arc Sheet

- Character Lore/Background info

- Character Relations Sheet

- Other Info

➸ Mary Bromfield Drawings

- Mary Character Desc.

- Char. Designs for Mary and Billy

- Char. Designs Mary/Freddy/Billy

- Char. Designs Mary/Freddy/Billy/Darla

- Char. Designs +Rosa

- Char. Designs +Samara

- Char. Designs +Shazam

- Mary Marvel sketch

- Mary Marvel Completed Design

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Here’s my own version of the Shazam logo‼️‼️⚡️✨

I’ll have to refine it a little bit later in case there are any stray pixels I missed but progress pics will be attached below!

I made this logo on photoshop using their 3D tools. Then, after I was done doing that I took my 3D assets into procreate on my iPad so I could add a bunch of just lighting and filters and stuff. I wanted to make it similar to the 2019 movie logo, but I think maybe I’ll scale back the dramatic lighting so that way the golden accents on the letters come through better,,, but this is what I have for tonight! :D

Enjoy! ~✨

Just finished Darla’s slightly older design! Now she’s with everyone else, yay! She’s about 15 in this design so all the ages go, Darla 15, Mary 16, Billy 16, Freddy 18. And I’m done with the main cast now yippieeee! ~✨

Note: I always say “about (age)” when I post designs, because since I have birthdays for all of them it really depends on the time of year I’m writing In. 💀

But if you were curious of the birthdays I gave them it’s,,,

Darla - March 5th

Mary - September 19th

Billy - December 23rd

Freddy - May 21st

SoOoOoo, yeah! ~✨

Trying to re-work my Shazam character designs. Obi first up is Billy.

I didn’t want to modify them too much because I like what I’ve done so far. However, I really wanna try and them them all model sheets, so that requires a lot more focus and intention with my lineart than I’m used to lol,,,

I was also inspired to work on this today specifically because I read the new chapter. At first I thought it was gonna be the same, “Billy’s long-lost parent ruins Vasquez family adoption” plot line that the new52 had, but I was pleasantly surprised. I can’t tell which run I like better so far because like,,, I’m really confused on why Billy & the Captain are 2 different people??? I have a hard time following that part. But, I enjoy the characterization a LOT more in this one. In the new 52 Billy is a little too much of an asshole imo. 💀

Like, I think in this new Dawn of DC version of Billy would have never yelled at Darla, and wouldn’t have picked random fights with Mary. Unlike his 2013-2019 counterpart lol. I really DO like characters who are a bit jaded & a little snarky though. I guess it’s a fine line that writers have to try and not cross.

Anyways that was my little ramble. If you would like to discuss the new run with me, or maybe let me know which version of Billy you prefer both my DMs & comments are open, as always. :)

Enjoy! ~ ⚡️❤️

Handmade DC intro title card for a Shazam film that I made up!!⚡️

This post is kinda interesting because I have not tried my hand at video editing in a while. I’m hoping to get one of my friends to help me install photoshop on my computer so I can remake this sequence with actual 3D assets. But for now? They’re hand drawn in procreate.

I thought I would share some behind the scenes of how I made this for anyone who might be interested in doing something similar! :D

[ Behind the Scenes Info Below ⬇️ ]

Okay so I decided to make this intro as kinda like a “ooh what if I made my own Shazam film? How would I do the opening DC title? I would want it to be like a dark and spooky night, then have the camera be panning down through the clouds. Then I could easily transition into the opening scene because that takes place during a dark and stormy night. OOoOoO.”

But first, in order to do that I had to make modifications to the DC logo. I didn’t want to use any premade 3D assets they had; I wanted to make my own. However, I don’t currently have photoshop, so I had to improvise and make a 2D logo kinda look 3D with some extra layers and shading tricks. I did this in procreate, but any art app will do really. Just keep your preferred perspective in mind.

Then after I was done with making sure my perspective was all good and in check I then proceeded to decorate the hell out of the logo with a bunch of clipping masks lol. I just slapped a bunch of different things on there. Some lense flares, some random brushes, some multiply layers, whatever. I didn’t really have a plan in mind when I did this I just kinda went with the vibes.

Then after that I made another file where I just worked on the little sparkle effect that I added in. For the sparkle effect I just picked like a default brush in procreate that looked pretty and then animated it to do a little slide across the letter “D”.

Next, I did some work on the backgrounds. I made sure to have really “tall” files so that way I could make them slide down in my video editor. This kinda gives that vibe that we are descending through the clouds, hopefully towards an establishing shot, for our opening scene, for our fake movie.

I made two parts for this. One animated background where I changed to opacity of the backlight for each frame to kinda give the illusion that lightning was peaking through the clouds. The second was just some clouds that I was gonna overlay on top of the DC logo, so it just felt more like everything was in the scene together.

I would provide video examples of this, but tumblr only allows me to upload one video per post. And if you’re wondering what brushes I used to this? I just googled “Procreate free cloud brushes” and downloaded the top result.

The ones I’m using are made by an artist named DI, and I got them off of gumroad. Info for their socials provided in the third image below.

And then once I had all of those assets together I just edited them all together in a program called HitFilm Express. I used to like it a lot since it’s free, and I used to use it to edit YouTube videos. That was back when I used to upload my Minecraft videos with my friends online lol. However, recently HitFilm has put a lot of features I used to use behind a paywall so :/. I’m probably going to look for alternatives sometime soon.

Normally I don’t mind being restricted in some sense for a free program, but they disabled the ability to fade clips in and out, and I think that’s a vital tool. It’s a shame to see it locked behind a paywall because I used it in pretty much all my projects.

And lastly the audio! I just found free to use clips of rain sounds, thunder claps, and then some ambient music. The track you can hear in this short clip is the intro to the song Redeye - Green House (1994). The artist is also known as Tobias Beldermann if any of you guys were curious where I got that from.

Buttttt yeah! That’s about all I have for showing you guys how I made my little 5 second clip. I’m not really one who’s qualified to make “tutorials” in any sense, because most of what I post online is just me dicking around and having fun, so I don’t want to be super serious. But, I also like showing my process just so if anyone out there is maybe interested in doing something similar, well then they have some ideas for where to start.

Anyways, if you guys want to read my first couple scenes for my Shazam story Shazam:City of Brotherly Love I’m going to link it here.

It’s still a work in progress, and if I end up doing any edits I’m just going to make them to the the post itself. Just because it’s not really worth it to me, posting almost identical chapters/scenes over, and over again lol.

Okiii byyeee!! I hope you enjoyed!! ~✨