More Little 90s X-Men

I hope you guys are liking these. I'm thinking about turning these into some t-shirt designs and a big group poster. Who are your favorite X-Men?

Inktober 2015 - Little 90s X-Men

One of the big things I'm working on this Inktober is a series of X-Men characters based off their looks in the 1992 cartoon show. These are for that commission I mentioned in my last post and they really wanted to see Gambit, so that's who I started with.

Draw Every Day 231-240

To keep myself inspired, I went back through my alpahbetical list of characters and tried to work through the one's I hadn't drawn yet this year. This post picks up at D - for Darkseid (with a quick skip to T because someone said Darkseid looked like Thing). Follow me on Twitter and Instagram @natexopher for daily updates

Draw Every Day 41-50

This update is from mid February, so it features a few of my favorite couples to celebrate Valentine's Day. It also features some characters from The Big Lebowski and the start of my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cover recreation. February was an interesting month. Check my daily updates on Twitter and Instagram @natexopher

Gambit

TRADING CARD - Gambit

Coming in at #4 is Gambit. He's one of my favorite X-Men mainly because he was in the 90s cartoon show. He's also pretty awesome in the recent Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon, though he is still in his theiving days in that show. I prefer him to be on the team, but his dark past is part of what makes him interesting.

"Smooth and suave, Gambit always seems to have the winning cards - especially when this ragin' Cajun charges up the deck with his mutant power, dealing defeat to villains."

I'm kind of surprised such a love-him-or-hate-him character would be the fourth card in the series (still no Wolverine?) but I love him, so I won't complain.

x-men group poster

so a while back (longer back than i'd like to admit) i drew up all of those individual x-men images hoping to one day compile them in to a group image. for some reason, i could never get it to look quite right. every once in a while, i'd reposition, resize and reconfigure, but it didn't work. so i finally decided to make the changes i needed to make, redrawing arms, changing poses, to make it actually work in a group image. while i was at it, i went ahead and made their costumes a little more mainstream and current... still with a little nate x twist here and there.

hope you all like it!

- nate  x

X-MEN: gambit, rogue, psylocke

Back in the day, X-Men had two teams, Gold and Blue. Most of the members were from the first two classes, but the Blue team had some newer members.

Gambit is awesome. It's hard not to like this guy... unless it's the Gambit from the Wolverine movie. In the comics, Gambit has pretty much only had one costume. Cartoons have tried variations and I took some inspiration from all of them. You basically just have to make sure he has his signature coat and is wearing black and magenta. He always talks like he's super confident, even refering to himself in third person, but seems unsure of his place on the team.Rogue is a cool character if you give her flight and strength. The whole 'I can't touch anybody or be close to anybody' thing only goes so far... and isn't always helpful in a fight. I much prefer the tough southern belle dramatic one. It adds another layer. She typically wears green and yellow and had a short coat in the 90s that... maybe doesn't make much sense, but it adds something. I also like the hood she sports now, but maybe I just like the 90s too much. I gave her the newer style hair, but I'm not sure I'll ever understand the white streak.Psylocke is a character that I actually don't know a whole lot about. I know she's a telepath and a great fighter. Apparently she was just a British telepath but then someone took her mind and put it into a ninja with purple hair. I don't know, but it makes her look cooler I guess. I tried to add some sort of Japanese influence to her look instead of just giving her a leotard.

Who's up next? Maybe I can interest you in a few time travelers...