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Published: 2012-08-24 02:19:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 9556; Favourites: 119; Downloads: 898
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Description This is Kate Bishop, Marvel Comics' wonderful new female Hawkeye from the series Young Avengers. I've been a big fan of the series ever since it started back in 2005, and Kate was always my favourite character. She's long been on the list of characters I'd like to make fan art of, and finding some excellent archery stock photos here on dA presented a golden opportunity.

Model:
Costume and weapons created entirely in Photoshop
Rooftop modelled in 3D in Bryce using a free water tower model and textures from cgtextures.com
The sky, cityscape, moon and reflections use stock photos from sxc.hu

If you like it, please leave a comment.

Kate Bishop is © Marvel Comics
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Comments: 18

MightyMorphinPower4 [2012-08-30 20:44:08 +0000 UTC]

Awesome

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bszpak In reply to MightyMorphinPower4 [2012-08-30 20:53:02 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like it!

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leroysquab [2012-08-29 06:29:07 +0000 UTC]

Well, heck... I've already told you how highly I thought of this one and now my appreciation deepens that much more having seen the stock. Terrific job!!

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bszpak In reply to leroysquab [2012-08-29 12:16:37 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! It did involve a bit of clean-up, but really, the stock only helped things. I'm not sure i could've come up with such a dynamic pose myself.

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derekmetaltron [2012-08-25 16:03:31 +0000 UTC]

Love it, you've captured Kate well there! Would love to see you try Stature (my favourite Young Avenger - always been a fan of the size changing types)?

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bszpak In reply to derekmetaltron [2012-08-25 17:07:07 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, Mr. Hartnell. It's not impossible; I like Cassie too and I can think of lots of ways to make a pic of her visualy interesting. But I tend to work pretty slow though, often a month or more per image, and I jump around a lot of fandoms (so many characters to fan art, so little time) so it may not happen for a while. Already have several other (non-YA) plans in progress.

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fdjs [2012-08-24 10:54:24 +0000 UTC]

its amazing...very unbelievable.... hope u dont mind to see my stock images looking forward to you to use our stock

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bszpak In reply to fdjs [2012-08-25 03:53:44 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. I'll take a look, certainly. I can't promise anything -- I mostly only use stock for faces, since I like the greater control 3D offers for bodies. But we shall see... something may inspire me.

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fdjs In reply to bszpak [2012-08-25 04:46:24 +0000 UTC]

okay, thank you so much

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AcheronTulip [2012-08-24 04:01:36 +0000 UTC]

Wow this is really awesome!! I love her character as well and this looks so legit!

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bszpak In reply to AcheronTulip [2012-08-24 04:33:12 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Kate is awesome -- I love the idea of a normal human who should by rights be a spoiled rich kid turning herself into a kickass superhero just by sheer force of will. She's like Green Arrow without the annoying sexist undertones.

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AcheronTulip In reply to bszpak [2012-08-24 13:40:24 +0000 UTC]

Seriously! It's just really awesome. haha I always liked how green arrow and Black Canary were together. But he did have that undertone at times. It wasn't easy for him when it came to trusting people. lol

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bszpak In reply to AcheronTulip [2012-08-25 03:49:22 +0000 UTC]

I love Black Canary in BoP, but never really warmed up to Ollie on any of the times I tried to read him. But it's cool that you like them!

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AcheronTulip In reply to bszpak [2012-08-25 04:25:10 +0000 UTC]

lol that's cool Maybe it's just he arrows I like haha Have you ever watched young Justice?? OMG Black Canary kicks butt in that show! hehe and in Justice League Unlimited!

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bszpak In reply to AcheronTulip [2012-08-25 17:04:07 +0000 UTC]

Arrows rule. I watched the first season of YJ, though I didn't really get into it too much. I do keep meaning to check out more, but there just aren't hours in the day...

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AcheronTulip In reply to bszpak [2012-08-26 00:39:58 +0000 UTC]

I hear ya, I LOVE it.Saw the whole first season now I have to finish the second season! It's taking me FOREVERRRR! My dad has em on his ipod so I watch it when I come over.hehe

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RobynRose [2012-08-24 02:46:05 +0000 UTC]

awesome work. You've blended teh character and background pretty seamlessly. Did the floor grid help you out? (just curious)

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bszpak In reply to RobynRose [2012-08-24 03:20:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I didn't really need to use the floor grid since the bg was 3D... I just temporarily added a 3D model in an approximation of your pose to work out the relative sizes and camera angle properly. The grid would've been useful if I'd decided to do it entirely in Photoshop... but I'm too lazy. And thanks for the great stock! I don't do straight-up photomanipulations much since I like to have full control over the characters, but I couldn't resist that awesomely evocative photo.

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