#dc robin fanart

[luca-is-a-pengu]

[colbycheeseslice]

Don’t listen to him Steph, I think it’s funny!

[theartistonthemoon]

What a lad, right guys?

[kikikokokat]

The last (and my favorite) of the Robins is done! I've officially finished each of the five Robins! What's next? 💚🦇

[internetgiraffekid1673]

Parallels Between the Girl and Boy Robins

I've been stewing on a thought for a while, and when I was messaging @redplanetlobster, I realized it's actually a good one worth sharing.

All 3 of the Girl Robins from DC (Helena Wayne, Carrie Kelley, and Stephanie Brown for those unfamiliar) have notable parallels to the last 3 Boy Robins (Damian Wayne, Tim Drake, and Jason Todd). Check it out:

Individual drawings under the cut, words/image description in the alt text.

Now, this isn't to say that anybody "stole" anybody else's gimmick---especially not the girl robins stealing the boys' thing: Carrie predates Tim by 3 years and Helena predates Damian by like 30 years. And obviously Jason was created long before Steph, although she was a well established character by the time Jason was resurrected.

But I do find these parallels fascinating. On the part of Steph and Jason, some of their similarities are intentional (mostly them being dead and having a rather strained relationship with Bruce), but many of them are not. And I don't think Helena or Carrie were even a thought in the writer's heads when creating Tim and Damian.

This is especially fascinating because, despite these similarities, these characters are VASTLY different from each other and I don't think they'd even GET ALONG with each other without some serious work.

Jason has no particular beef with Steph and sees her as proof of his point, but Steph thinks he's a conceited asshole who tried to murder her boyfriend. Tim and Carrie were trained by an obsessively paranoid Bruce and carry that paranoia with them---they can throw each other MUCH further than they trust each other. And while Damian and Helena may get along all right if it's later in Damian's arc, an early Damian would have SO many complexes about her existence and there WOULD be bloodshed.

Idk, I just think this is incredibly interesting and want a fanfic or a robin crossover event that explores it (and locks these pairs in a room for an extended period of time).

Btw, I do find it hilarious that Duke Thomas (most recent Robin technically) and Maps Mizoguchi (prooooobably gonna be the next Robin) are actually COMPLETE opposites lol.

[faceless-ghostt]

Wha? Me? Meme redraws? Never… I mean, asides from now

a story in two parts, Reddy is very done with these two. (click for better quality, reference under the cut)

(if you want more of my YJ content you should totally join the YJ98 discord sever btw)

shameless plug aside, references

i am sorry to say that the meme redraws will probably continue

[tayvengeance]

Thinking about Timbern being cozy in bed, bc how else do you help your vigilante boyfriend unwind after a long night

[sapphiretheartist]

Ha. The little shocked Robin in the corner makes me laugh.

Quick doodle that actually turned out really decent.

Yes, it’s these two again. Get used to it. They appear together in a lot of my most recent sketchbooks. So they had to invade this one at some point. It was only a matter of time.

[into-the-mortuary]

happy little jaybin :]] i drew him whilst i waited for my laundry (i love you 24hr laundrettes)

[raindropren]

I'm missing the many Tim and Damian Sketches I made from my old tablet so here's all the sketches i've made of Tim on my new one. Also the absolute laziest Cass and Steph Doodles I made after reading a Batgirl comic .3.

A cameo from my oc, DCU!Poodle :3

I like these two. I like these two alot.

Assume any Costumes to be very wrong. I refuse to use any ref images. I go off pure memory and my memory is really bad.

Anyways, um. I like these sillies.

[moseslikellamas]

I’m sorry I can’t stop thinking about Robin and no one in my personal life knows anything abt him/Nightwing. I keep thinking about that awkward area where he wasn’t Nightwing yet but he wasn’t Robin really either. In my hc, Dick becomes Nightwing at 18 mimicking the transition into adulthood. Pose ref is Mellon_Soup on tiktok. Suit Ref is literally just Teen Titans tv show, I am on a rewatch and making it everyone’s problem. This might be the cleanest line work I’ve ever done.

[luca-is-a-pengu]

Baby Dami is holding a big boy sword for the first time. He doesn't know that the man on the side is carying most of the weight outside of the frame

[colbycheeseslice]

Robin ❤️

[theartistonthemoon]

Take a chance on this bird Batman!

Progress shots below:

[young-justice-art]

Miss m: Robin I was gonna make cookies

Robin worried about hurting her feelings: ya I was bored you can help me finish

Miss m:ok

1 hour later

Kidflash:these are the best cookies you’ve made miss m

Robin:🤦‍♂️

Miss m:runs out the room

Kidflash:Robin you look creepy

Robin:Kidflash shut the fuck up

[internetgiraffekid1673]

Batgirl and Robin Car Doodles

I was locked in a car for 8 hours yesterday and had to do something to keep from going insane. I'm not super happy with these renders, but I figure someone out there will enjoy these.

Flat color drawings and design notes under the cut:

I love Batgirl and Robin duos! They're such cutie patooties! Here we have Dick Grayson Robin and Bette Kane Batgirl, Jason Todd Robin and Barbara Gordon Batgirl, Tim Drake Robin and Cassandra Cain Batgirl, and Damian Wayne Robin and Stephanie Brown Batgirl!

All these pairings are accurate to the comics---these characters existed as Robin and Batgirl at the same time and teamed up frequently. The only one I'm missing are the famous Dick and Barbara duo and Cass and Steph during Steph's Robin run (and technically Damian and Babs, but. . . .eh).

I have a /thing/ about giving heroes kneepads. I've seen what they do to their knees! If you have no invulnerability, you will either wear kneepads or I will make you suffer the consequences! Hence Dick, Bette, and Jason's trashed legs here.

I am greatly entertained by the fact that while the Robins' suits stay very similar from person to person with only some style differences, the Batgirls have cycled through damn near everything. Robins range from "how much skin are you covering and how much black are you wearing?" But Batgirls have been everything from "Robin but Girl" to "Knockoff Batman" to "Batman if he was small and possessed by a spooky eldritch entity" to "EAT MY HOMEMADE PURPLE!"

Batgirl Steph originally looked exactly like Barbara but with more purple and less yellow, but I wanted to highlight the contrast between Batgirls, so I went for her Batgirls! design here: that one has the lower face mask that nobody else wears. Buuuut I was also giving everyone white-out eyes for stylistic consistency and because it's easier to draw, so I went for a Raven-esque shadow effect from her hood that I think worked decently. I also gave her a bat-eared hood to match with the other Batgirls all having ears somehow.

(Bye-the-bye, while Robins and Batmans are usually drawn with whited out eyes in their masks, Batgirls in Barbara's suit style are not, and neither are people with Bette style masks. This is fascinating to me because the whiteout lenses aren't actually canonical---it's a stylistic choice that all live action adaptations remove, and many individual comic panels that are close-ups of faces demonstrate that you CAN in fact see their eyes behind their masks. This is with the lone exception of Cass, who I believe has a spiderman thing going in her full-face cowl).

For similar contrast reasons, I gave Babs her navy blue style instead of her OG purple, even though she usually looks better in purple. Sorry Barbara, you generally look best as Oracle anyway.

I hate Damian's edgy gray robin suit with a burning passion. WHERE IS THE GREEN!? YOU KNOW: THE COLOR MOST OF US ASSOCIATE WITH DAMIAN! WHERE IS IT YOU BASTARDS?!?!

Anyway, while I liked the posing, the renders definitely suffered from lack of sleep and car jostling, so I think these may be good candidates for a redraw sometime next year.