TRADING CARDS - Storm

Storm is definitely a powerful and respectable X-Men character, but honestly never really one of my favorites. I think a big part of that was just how she spoke in the cartoon. It was always so over-the-top and grandiose that I didn't get in to it as a kid.

One of the most powerful X-Men Storm wields the awesome forces of nature with skill and wisdom - the same qualities that have earned her the leadership of the X-Men's Gold team!

Draw Every Day 141-150

The next ten drawings are more of my alphabet project. As the alphabet went on, people started voting for more and more charaters for each letter. Instead of just picking one vote, I decided to draw each character that got a vote. O is for Omega Red . P is for Power Girl . Q is for the Question and Quicksilver . R is for Robin and Rocksteady . S is for Spider-man, Superman, Storm and Silver Surfer . T is for Thor, Thing and Toad . U is for Unus the Untouchable . V is for Venom and Vertigo . W is for Wolverine, Wonder Woman and Warlock . X is for X23. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram for daily updates @natexopher

Draw Every Day 101-110

I feel like I need more practice drawing female characters, so I spent some time drawing my favorites. I also felt the need to draw an adventuring pug. Because pugs are awesome. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram for daily updates @natexopher

Storm

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: storm, colossus, nightcrawler

That's right, when the team decided to have some international members, they got Storm from Africa, Colossus from Russia, Nightcrawler from Germany, Banshee from ... nevermind. I never liked Banshee and Thunderbird died before anybody like him, so we'll leave it at Storm, Colossus, and Nightcrawler.

Storm always seems to wear black or white or both, but I prefer white because I grew up with her 90s costume. I thought about adding her headband...thing... but decided to just let her hair flow freely. I tossed in her cape..thing.. and some jewelry to get some sense of tribal goddess in her design.Colossus likes to wear red and yellow. He also likes to not wear pants. I was fine with the colors, but thought he should have pants. Sure, it's fine to see his metal legs when he's fighting or something, but it's just weird when he's in costume but not armored up.
Nightcrawler and I have some issues. You see, I like Beast, who is a blue furry guy who is very acrobatic. Then along comes Nightcrawler who is also blue, furry and acrobatic... but instead of being as smart as Beast, this guy can teleport. To make myself feel better, and make the two characters a little less similiar, I went with a dark blue-gray for Nightcrawler kind of like they did in Ultimate X-men. This way, he's different enough and I can appreciate him for who he is instead of be indignant because he's stealing my favorite character's thunder and adding teleportation to it.

Who's up next for the X-Men? How about a few members made popular in the 90s?