#1) I’ve been out of the Batman/dc comics phase for almost a year so I don’t care that much about the topic

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anybody remember the stephanie brown essay I was working on under a research grant fully last summer? yeah it’s not done yet it super needs to be done and I’ve been avoiding working on it for weeks. someone tell me to just do it already

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Dark Nights: Metal #1

I thought this series was going to be about how the meta gene is tied into Nth metal and not some fifteen year old metal head's idea of a cool black light poster.

Apparently time travel makes you vomit blood.

I thought the page after that scanned page was going to declare the new age was the Age of the Bat. But it didn't. It declared it was the Age of Metal! After reading that, you're supposed to make guitar noises with your mouth and bang your head and throw up some devil horns. You might even fuck a goat, if you're super cool. I'm not sure when the Age of Metal began. There was the Golden Age and the Silver Age and the Modern Age (and maybe some other metallic ages I don't remember). Perhaps the Age of Metal just means the time when superhero comics began? Or did the Age of Metal start when Peter David gave Aquaman long hair and a hook for a hand? Mongul currently has the Justice League battling for their life on his new Warworld. This takes place almost immediately after Mongul was punched into orbit by General Zod, so editorial demanded that Batman mention something about how this makes no sense, continuity-wise. He doesn't say it to help explain it! He just says it because editorial was all, "You know we're going to get buttfucked hard on this by the Fangenders¹, right? You need to get out in front of this shit." And Snyder was all, "Okay, okay. Batman will be all, 'This doesn't make sense!' But then Superman will be all, 'Stop over thinking things, you stupid fucking hypocritical moron living in your parents' basement and not adding any value to anything because all you do is destroy things with your Internet criticisms!'" And the editor was all, "Yeah, maybe that. But tone it the fuck down. You're sounding like Cullen Bunn anonymously defending his shitty Twat Lobo comics on harsh but hilarious blogs offering valid critical reviews." The Justice League's powers have been rendered inert by...well, it doesn't really matter what by. It's the same old shit as usual. The heroes are too powerful so to create dramatic tension, you remove their powers. Snyder does offer a few ways that their powers can be dampened by invoking red sons and vibration domination technology and Gorgon pasties just so the Fangenders can nod enthusiastically and think, "Yep! Yep! They should have seen this coming! This is just like Justice League #45²! Idiots." Of course, those are the powers with fairly easy explanations for how to suppress them. He doesn't explain how he's keeping Cyborg from utilizing his Mother Box technology. Or how Green Lantern's ring isn't working (although, I mean, really? It's probably just out of charge like in 95% of Green Lantern comic books). And how did he stop Aquaman from talking to fish? Oh, you know what. Mongul probably decided Aquaman could keep his stupid power. Oh, just so Scott Snyder doesn't feel like he was being too subtle, I got it. It's the Metal Age and the entire Justice League is being forced to wear armor by Mongul!

Some of it is super sexy titty fucking armor!

Toyman has also been captured by Mongul, probably because Scott Snyder needed enemies that the Justice League could kill without Batman getting on everybody's dick about murder. Toyman tells Mongul the name of the toys that will kill the Justice League is Fulcum Abominus. Mongul pulls out his dick and begins sucking it because he's smarter than me and that apparently means something to him. I shouldn't feel too stupid though because why should I have known what a fulcum is? I've never owned a Warworld and seemed to have missed the adolescent phase where Roman soldiers intrigued me as much as women's nipples. I suppose the name means the Justice League will be battling an abominable shield wall? A close formation made up of Yetis? Or maybe just a few transforming robots.

Judging by Mongul and the crowd's reaction, the Aegea Formation must be where the Justice League creates an illusion that they're running away. Either that or this is Greg Capullo's way of telling Snyder to fuck off because he's going to draw whatever the fuck he wants.

I'm not four years old so the crowd chanting "Do not run! Pain is fun!" doesn't amuse me. It does make me question why I've spent so much of my life reading comic books though. It's at this point during the battle that I need to apologize to Scott Snyder. It's my first apology of the new season but it won't be my last. The problem with writing the critique as I'm experiencing the "art" is that I tend to point out flaws before the artist has a chance to finish. It's like when I'm in the middle of cleaning a floor and somebody thinks they're the next George Burns and says, "You missed a spot!"³ So, um, my apology is that I assumed Snyder couldn't think of ways to dampen the powers of the other Justice League. But he continues explaining how they've all been shut down. Green Lantern's gauntlet has a mini-black hole. And you know what they say about black holes when they're not making anus jokes, right?! Not even Green Lantern light can escape! Plus it's a mini-black hole so don't worry about how heavy and dense it is. Even though it must be even denser than a non-mini black hole if it can still capture light in its gravitational pull. And Aquaman has lost half of his strength to the vambraces made from glass forged in the heat of Apokolips! Each creature in the Fulcum Abominus has been designed to counter one of the Justice League members. So not only do they not have their usual powers, they have to battle creatures that wouldn't care if they had those powers anyway! Wonder Woman can't even outsmart hers because it has a Cassandra Engine! And we all know what that means! Well, most of us do. Those who don't can always watch old reruns of Red Dwarf. I hope the solution to defeating the Fulcum Abominus isn't to switch opponents because that's been done fifteen thousand times. Although it would be more original than just having Batman defeat them all after the rest of the Justice League are incapacitated. That's been done about sixteen thousand times. I can't think of any other way this conflict might end. Maybe it'll have something to do with the metal! Or maybe Toyman will have programmed the Fulcum Abominus to turn on Mongul once he's done sucking his dick. He'll be drained and distracted at that point! Batman comes up with a plan to be eaten by Toyman's machines. He comes up with it the way Dr. House came up with solutions to his medical mysteries. You know how somebody would say just the right word and he'd sort of glaze over into a fugue state for a few seconds before snapping back and yelling, "I am a genius! You people are all idiots! And this show shits on the scientific process to pander to people who believe intuition is some magic panacea that comes out of the ether!" Anyway, Wonder Woman says "Formation" and Batman is all, "That's it! Formation! These machines were formated by Toymanster! If I reach into the gaping maw of this one, I'm sure to find a WayneTech Emergency Shutdown Switch!" Or something. I mean, there is a button in the creature's throat and it does have a bat on it and Batman does push it. But it doesn't shut the thing off at all. It just makes it eat Batman. By pushing the buttons in the throat of the creature (which Batman realized by knowing that the command to form the fulcum formation was done by a cry from the back of the throat (because Batman knows everything (which means Toyman must know everything because you can't give subtle clues to people who know everything if you're a dumbshit like me...I mean Mongul))), the Justice League turn the machines into Voltron armor. This allows them to "form up" like the Roman formation and turn into a giant robot. Batman is the head, of course. Aquaman is the balls.

Is that why Snyder introduced the stupid rhyming chant earlier when it made no sense because the Justice League wasn't running? Just so Batman can act childish now? Eh, works for me! I mean, I'm the guy who chose to write that Aquaman was the giant robot's balls.

Instead of saying "ass" on the next page, Snyder inserts the title page and credits. Apparently the logo for Metal is a Satanic Hexagram. Can hexagrams be Satanic? They made it into a six pointed star but not so that it looks like the Star of David. It's got some bend to it. But the star is enclosed in a circle with symbols at each point. Those symbols are combinations of Justice League symbols and the bat symbol. So Wonder Wobatman and Superbatman and Aquabatman and Black Computer Batman and Green Lanterbatman and the other one. It's totally metal. Also the word metal is textured like the bumper on a pickup truck. Is that metal? I mean, it's metal, literally. But is it metal, 80's figuratively? When the Justice League return to Earth, they find a mountain has appeared in the middle of Gotham. Apparently it didn't kill too many people because the city somehow made room for it. But Batman is still upset by it for some reason. Probably because he's thinking about how he vowed to never let anybody else be crushed by a mountain after his parents were crushed by that mountain in that alley. The Flash finds a door inside the mountain with a pseudo-Challengers of the Unknown symbol on it. It's an hour glass with most of the sand in the bottom half. That's probably not a good sign, right? Inside the door, they find a cryogenic pod with five people inside. I bet one is a white woman, one is a white man with blond hair, one is a white man with brown hair, one is a black man, and one is white man with red hair! Nearby the pod is Red Tornado. They don't seem to recognize him even though earlier somebody mentioned Aquaman's hook hand. If they remember that, they should surely remember Red Tornado! The Blackhawks appear, led by Lady Blackhawk, Kendra Saunders. Get it?! She's still a hawk! Oh, Scott Snyder! You're so fucking clever! I bet Geoff Johns hates the fuck out of you. It always hurts to be usurped. I imagine. Nobody has ever been able to usurp me. Or wanted to? Lady Blackhawk tells everybody that this is the start of an invasion but she can't tell them who is doing the invading. That's called dramatic tension! It's also called bullshit writing. Just fucking say it, you resurrected nutcase! Instead of revealing cool shit, she spends a few pages taking everybody to Blackhawk Island where she has a map of Grant Morrison's Multiversity. She's all, "Nth metal is this thing that's behind all these things. It's such a crazy thing! Hawkman, the most boring hero in the Multiverse after Aquaman, has been studying it his entire lives! Yeah, you heard me right! I said lives! He decided it didn't come from anywhere in the known Multiverse through assumptions and poor science. Unless over the course of all his lives, he had time to use good science? You know what? Who cares? Just believe me when I say it must have come from somewhere else. He didn't know where until he binged Stranger Things last year and Eleven turned over the Dungeons and Dragons map. That's when he was all, 'A-ha! That's the one place on the map I didn't search! The other side of it! The dark side of it! The Dark Multiverse! And now that I've decided that the known Multiverse is much like a two dimensional representation of it, the other side of the map must exist in reality! A Dark Multiverse!'" "I'm not the worst," mumbled Aquaman.

Ha ha! Wanting proof! How silly!

I like how Kendra wanted proof of Carter's theory which caused Carter to want to prove her wrong. What the fuck does that mean?! You don't prove somebody wrong who just wants some evidence that your theory is reality! You just prove your stupid theory. I already hate this new version of Hawkman. Yes, I'm biased because I've hated every version of Hawkman so I didn't have far to go to hate this one. But I hate him more passionately than I ever hated the other ones and I haven't even met this one yet! The other ones I just sort of hated for no real reason. This one is a scientific idiot. Kendra isn't much for science either. She just found the word wagon over and over again because a wagon would carry a dark beast named Barbatos from the Dark Multiverse into the Non-Dark Multiverse. And then she decided that Wagon was the root of the name Wayne (you know, wainwright? Wains! Wagons!) which must mean that the Wagon was Batman and he was the bad guy. That's when the Blackhawks pull their guns on Batman. But they don't shoot him in the face for some reason. Some heroes they are! Red Tornado begins screaming about the door being left open which probably saves Batman's life. He then flips the fuck out which means he'll be dismembered in a few pages. His stories always end in dismemberment. Batman steals Kendra's Nth Metal and races back to the Batcave to destroy the Multiverse in the pursuit of knowledge. The Nth Metal reveals Carter Hall's diary hidden in Wayne Manor. It's there to tell Batman he was right to pursue whatever he's been pursuing. The mysteries of the Nth Metal, I guess. And once he's been proving right, he's visited by Dream of The Endless. Well. I guess Snyder can still surprise me without me needing to make a snarky comment about how dumb his twist is. I don't know why Dream has appeared but it's pretty cool that he's been allowed back into the regular DC Universe. I'll say this about Metal: it's entertaining and interesting. But it's also built upon the dumb shit that Scott Snyder likes to build his retcons. So far we've learned that the Meta-gene is actually the Metal Gene because Nth Metal is behind all superpowers. We also learned that Nth Metal couldn't have come from anywhere in the DC Multiverse so it must have come from the other side of a two-dimensional representation of the Multiverse. I know that's just a metaphor but I bring it up because it's a metaphor from Stranger Things. The other big twist is that Wayne means wagon. In both the meta/metal and wagon/Wayne plot elements, we see the thing Scott Snyder bases almost all of his stories on. He starts small by looking at words and their meanings to expand those observations into a bigger story. Usually I'm just annoyed by them. But this time, he gets to really fuck around with the DC Universe by making this Nth metal/meta-gene connection and I'm always up for a good buttfucking of the DC Universe. Oh yeah! How can I mention all the word play without mentioning the Dark Nights title of the series? Oh, probably because it's been used before. But this time it's the Dark Nights bring the Dark Knights of the Dark Multiverse! It's boner and/or lubrication inducing! _________________________________________________________ ¹"Fangenders" is my inclusive term for what was once thought of as Fanboys. Being an obnoxious comic book know-it-all knows no gender boundary. ²I don't actually know what happens in Justice League #45. But if you were instantly angry at my lack of knowledge, you're a Fangender. That was the whole point, dum-dum! ³I have a floor cleaning business. This isn't just an analogy of a thing I rarely do. It happens all the time. I'm getting angry just thinking about it! I should probably footnote George Burns as well but what's the point? You have access to the fucking Internet, lazy!

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Tim Drake Week 2017 - Day 6 (part 1): AU

Category : Gen

Genre : Angst / Murder / Mystery

Fandoms : DC Comics, Batverse - Superverse

Continuity : Post-Crisis/Pre-Flashpoint

Summary : Tim really didn't want to deal with a murder case.

Word Count : 1861

To read it on AO3

Day 6 : Crossover

Author’s notes (under the cut ‘cause it’s long) :

A few things before starting this AU : 1. This What if Universe is "What if Tim had never talked to Dick and Bruce ?" It basically went down like this : Batman got a lot more violent until meeting Steph a year later. She underwent about 6 to 8 months of training and is a pretty good Robin (she and Cass are still BFF of course but she's also Wonder Girl's BFF). When Tim's parent died when he was 13, he was sent to a foster home. But there's like 1 social worker for 17 cases and Tim's personality is not as big as that of some of the other cases his social worker had to, well work. So he ended up in a few pretty bad foster houses and decided to run away from one when he was almost 16. He got out of the state of NJ and right into NY where he made his way into Metropolis. Also he's a lot less sexist that he was in canon 'cause women didn't let him be in this verse and Tim is a character that usually learns when confronted with his problems (it doesn't show here 'cause there are no female characters).2. Tim shows signs of (complex ?)PTSD + Development of Borderline Personality Disorder in his early days. Meeting Dick and Bruce and becoming Robin kinda helped prevent Tim from actually developing the PD but he still kept some of the symptoms up to the end of the preboot. So if he hadn't met Dick&Bruce, Tim would have most probably developed the PD so here he was diagnosed with it. Remember that once you have developed a personality disorder you can't get rid of it but you can be taught on how to control your behavior.3. As for Kon, without Tim there to form YJ he and Bart sometimes see Secret and she comes to ask for their help but nothing more. He and Wonder Girl met a few times during the different crisis but without being forced to hang out together nothing ever came out of it. The Teen Titans were never re-formed. And Kon's parcour was similar to that of the 2nd part of Superboy v3, without the extra fuckboy crap. After Roxy's cameo she and Superboy stayed in contact, as such he went with her instead of going to live in Metropolis when Cadmus Disappeared. Superman still had him go live with the Kents but Roxy is a constant presence and ends up visiting a lot once she stopped bailing her father out. She's still very much his sister (like we needed the blood transfer for that to happen), Kon still only does superheroing on the W-E once he lives in Smallville but with Superman, Supergirl and Steel. Some of the character changes never happened without Tim like : his arrogance is still partially there, he's more angry because his friends are scarce. He still talks to Hero who is, by all means his BFF along with Bart I retcon Geoff Johns' retcon that made him slightly homophobic OKAY. STill, between his PTSD and depression he has his own anger issues. Overall he met the others but beside Bart never really befriended them. He and Kyle worked together a few times though and he really looks up to him. Without feeling like he had to protect Cassie, he never died (one of the scientist also miraculously thought about sunlight in Infinite Crisis)

Tim didn't know what he was doing. He was lucky Perry White had some sort of conscience hidden and locked somewhere deep inside his gruff journalist interior and exterior otherwise he'd be living on the street (or maybe not, he was pretty resourceful and a hard worker after all. And he had pretty much lived under a bridge for about two years before meeting Mr. White six months ago). And okay, working at the archives of the Daily Planet was about as exciting as feeding your goldfish but Tim got to read weird stuff in the comic and in the miscellaneous news items which gave him a sense of randomness that was much needed despite his desire for a slightly more stable life than what he had had in the past few years.           Of course, this lack of excitement was not that common, even in a simple archive room because this was metropolis and, while obviously not on Gotham's crime levels, it was in its on category as far as big crisis went. And he wasn't talking about one of Ms. Lane's dubious request either.

Now if only he could convince the guy -whose trembling hand held a a gun that was pointed toward him- that he was simply a low-level employee, maybe he could have a chance of making it alive because, unlike what a lot of people thought, completely unexperienced people were as dangerous for low mortals like himself as perfectly trained ones for the simple reason that they were unpredictable. And really Tim may not have been all that attached to his life but it didn't mean he wanted it to end this soon.

So, here he was, sweating profusely when none other than Superboy arrived and started a "conversation" with the man (read: made unfunny jokes about the man) who, in frustration at the young man, started shooting at them.       Superboy put himself between them before punching the guy who lost consciousness on the spot. He was about to turn the guy in to the police when Tim stopped him urgently:

"Wait! Don't you want to know what he wanted?"

"What? No. Why should I care?" came the condescending answer of a superhero Tim just knew he wouldn't like. As such, he couldn't help the equally condescending tone as he answered him:

"Well this isn't exactly Metropolis Bank you know. Why do you think a guy in his forties who obviously never touched a gun in his life visited the archive room of a big newspaper, genius?"

Superboy glared at him and replied, clearly losing the little patience he had:

"Okay then, what did he want Smartass?"

"How would I know? He just showed up and pulled a gun on me when you appeared and insulted him before knocking him out without asking him what his goal was", Tim snapped.

This seemed to have struck Superboy speechless and increase his annoyance with Tim. Not that Tim felt any better than him…or that he minded, he was seriously hoping not to see the young man again after whatever this was (hopefully it wouldn't last more than a few minutes or he might get really angry and he was trying to control his "intense anger" dixit the therapist he was "forced" to see as part of his deal with Mr. White -because it was pretty obvious that Tim was not *okay* and while Mr. White wanted to help he wasn't going to let in some kid who could be a danger to his employees).

Superboy took a deep breath as he closed his eyes, trying to calm himself, and turned to face the man. He tied him up and they waited. It only took a minute before he woke up. He looked up, surprised, and tried to move his arms before he realized he was tied up. Superboy looked at him with a cold look in his eyes which made Tim shiver slightly from fear and it effectively stopped the anger he felt toward the young man. In his annoyance, he had forgotten that Superboy was, in fact, a powerhouse, no matter how ridiculous he could seem on TV (granted that hadn't happened in a while). Good Cop/Bad Cop it would be then... he hadn't expected to ever play the part of the good cop though. He placed himself besides Superboy and tried to be engaging.

"Excuse him he's not very welcoming toward people who shoot others for no reason." Okay, so Tim was indeed not used to being the good cop... or soothing... or nice in general, he was quite clearly out of practice even if his therapist had helped him make tremendous progress in behaving in a more acceptable fashion. "What I mean is, why are you here?" And now Superboy was looking at him like he was an idiot, like it's not hard to not be tactless. As if the guy was allowed to say anything considering he's the one who insulted the man without thinking things through and startled and annoyed him into shooting at them. Tim continued while trying to prevent the anger that was starting to build again from coming out.

"I mean you obviously didn't come here for the money. "

Now the question for 300 000 $: Which is worse, Condescension or Hostility? Seeing as the man was now frowning and more ready for a fight than scared to death, hostility might have been better. Oh well. He could see Superboy rolling his eyes, yeah well, it was still mostly his fault they were in this situation.

Superboy placed himself between them again, apparently no amount of annoyance could prevent him from protecting people. Good to know. He glowered at the man who cowered and started trying to explain himself and apologize every few words.

"I'm sorry I just, I've been wrongly accused of a crime and, I, sorry, I, I got out of jail a few months ago but no one wants to believe me, I tried to get journalists to help but they wouldn't and the library doesn't have every newspaper of the Daily Planet and I don't know how to use the internet well enough and I needed the information. And I didn't expect anyone to still be here at this hour"

Tim looked at the man then shared a look with Superboy. They both seemed to agree that this man most likely needed help and the police wasn't going to be it. So Tim turned back to the man and asked him what his name was and when the crime had happened: April 19th 1998.           And Tim found it, a young woman had been lacerated and slowly bled to death. She was found on an altar in her boyfriend's basement along with every single one of the boy's close family members who were found surrounding the altar in a circular fashion, stuck in a prayer position, forehead against the floor, arms resting next to their heads, a knife in the neck. They were all wearing dark robes with a hood lowered, stained with their blood. And okay, Tim felt like throwing up. Superboy barely seemed phased but the widening of his eyes gave him away. The man, Martin Bastre, was the boyfriend in question and the haunted look in his eyes as he managed to get up and look at the screen wasn't that of a man who committed a murder so much as that of a man who couldn't prevent it. Tim now truly believed that he was innocent and if he had to think objectively, there was almost no chance anyone would bring back this kind of story to the surface unless they were innocent... or a narcissistic person who wanted everyone to remember their crimes (which would suggest they considered this their best work, a work which could never be reproduced or they would have simply done another one. Since this one concerned his family and girlfriend it could very easily be his favorite work).     And now Tim had a headache.   So maybe his gut chose to believe the man because the other possibility was too screwed up, even for him, or maybe it was because he really believed it. In any case he really wanted out of this right now. He had been forced to look into too many murder cases in his life and now that he had a choice he'd rather be far away from it. So first he told Martin that even while his gut seemed to believe the man, he still had a thing to talk over with Superboy. Then as he whispered his thoughts to the young man he could see that the reasoning had never entered his mind - then again, managing Tim's brand of pessimism mixed with naivety was a very hard thing to do.     Tim tried to make sure Superboy understood he only told him as a "just in case" scenario and not as a really big possibility for the man to be that horrible so he wouldn't go and knock him out again after Tim left them to their own device. This seemed to slightly surprise Superboy.

"Well I'm not gonna join you in anything dangerous. I'm trying to work on my issues not worsen them. So I'm gonna help try and find a few things to connect together but I'm just a kid who was, honestly not that good at school, and I may be able program a VCR player but I am no genius okay, my abilities stop at web design and hacking photoshop."

Superboy looked at him as if he was a very strange person. Then again, he was surrounded by teen heroes, so he was probably not that used to non-heroic types being involved in a case like this refusing to go out and fight bad guys.

In any case Tim ushered the both of them out, saying it was too late and that if the Martin's murderer friend had been out for 20 years, one more night wasn't going to change anything. He told them he would looked through the archives during the day and to meet him again tomorrow night at the Planet when no one would be around.  Once the two started leaving. Tim turned on to go home without looking back. He was in no hurry to continue this adventure but if the man was actually innocent he really did not deserve what had happened to him. And someone had to help. If it was him and SuperAttentionSeeker then so be it. He still hoped their working duo wouldn't last.

As he got home, Tim never noticed the mics hidden in the plug sockets of his apartment. He made himself a warm cup of hot chocolate before slipping in his bed, soon joined by the two cats who had decided to overstay their welcome. Not that Tim actually minded. Especially not tonight. He burrowed his face in one's fur and held the other close to his heart. The two almost teddy bears started purring and helped him fall into a semi restful sleep, hoping not to have any nightmares about the pictures he saw that night.

Authors’s Note 2 : I only wrote this as a "mise en bouche". This is why a lot of things are not explained (like how Tim ended up working there). If you want me to I might write a multi chapters fanfic about it (I know everything about this AU, which includes this arc and the others).

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How to Draw Batman - Tech Version

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How to Draw Batman - Tech Version

How to Draw Batman – Tech Version – Easy Things to Draw

This is the tech version of batman I’m drawing from my mind. I had no preparation to draw this, I am making it up as I go along. I talk about my process through narration. I use ballpoint pen. Check out the entire video, and please like and share if possible.

Also, don’t forget to check another tutorial Kids Drawing Revamp #1 – Easy Things to Draw

Hey guys, how are you doing, I’m Enrique and welcome to easy things to draw, hopefully you guys are having a really good day, this article is about an old video that I had from the channel sketch monster and I want to import in this channel, I’m actually having to record over the video because the original footage of this didn’t have commentary at all, so I just thought I can bring something different to it.

What I want to do with this is slowly merging my two channels together, realistically, I’m getting rid of the sketch monster channel, I might just make that only digital, I’m not sure yet and I will take most of these videos and delete them from sketch monster and put them over here, on easy things to draw…

  As I said before, I don’t want to upload the same video so I’ll go over it, what I’ll draw today is a made-up version of Batman just going to tech version because I love drawing tech, I usually go through phases where I love to draw robots and things related to them, you know, like all kinds of machines and it’s almost the only thing I do, then I go to another phase where I like to draw only monsters most of the time so I go to get back to draw people because I don’t draw that as much as I used to…

The first thing I will do to get started is ghosting the image, this is something I’ve talked about before, so if you need to go over this theme you can go see a video that I have, where I explain with more detail what the ghosting is about. In this step you should go quite light with your pen, the one I’m using is a regular Ballpoint pen, is one of those who give you free to advertise and those things are very generic…

  I originally did it to prove a point, which is, it really doesn’t matter what tools you use, just depends on the level of knowledge you have, because spend hundreds of dollars buying tools it won’t make you better, what will make you draw better is to learn and practice, of course I like my fine Ballpoint pen a lot better, but the one I’m using, which is free and the most common is good, I mean, it’s okay and also adequate to draw.

I continue with my drawing and I want to make like plates coming down in like the shoulder and neck area, I was thinking of giving like a samurai style, maybe a cyber samurai type, that’s actually the first thing that comes to my mind, you can find millions of amazing versions of Batman if you ever go looking for them…

  If you don’t know this character, even though I doubt it, I’ll tell you a little bit about his story, Batman is a character created by the Americans: Bob Kane and Bill Finger is also owned by DC Comics. His first appearance was in the story “The case of the chemical syndicate” of the magazine, Detective Comics N. °27, published on March 30, 1939.

Batman’s secret identity is Bruce Wayne, who is a billionaire and philanthropist who owns the Wayne company in Gotham City, after witnessing the murder of his parents in a violent assault when he was a kid, He swears revenge and fights against crime, for this, he undergoes a rigorous training

His clothing, fighting utensils and vehicle is characterized by the design of a bat. Unlike most superheroes, he doesn’t have superpowers, he has to resort to his intellect, well as scientific and technological applications to create weapons and tools with which he carries out his fights. He lives in the Wayne mansion and in the underground we can find the Batcave, which is the center operations of Batman. He also gets help from allies, among which we can find Robin, Elwood, Nightwing, the local police commissioner, James Gordon, and his butler Alfred Pennyworth.

Batman is one of the most emblematic characters of DC Comics, he even got his own magazine in the year 1940, given to for his good acceptance. Three years later, Columbia Pictures released the first television adaptation of the character, which was followed by the Batman and Robin series in 1949. In the 1960s, another series was released, called “Batman”, which used a more “camp” concept and this ended up setting aside his somber tone with which it was originally conceived.

Later, the writers Dennis O’Neil, Neal Adams, and Frank Miller produced newly written material about the Batman universe, which passed between the 1970s and 1980s, taking up the original designs and elements of the franchise.

Tim Burton’s namesake film, released in 1989, is considered to have played an important role in the popularity of Batman, also was the series of films launched with “Batman Begins” in 2005. In addition to the previous productions, there are several more in which the character and his elements have been incorporated.

So there’s a huge amount of Batman versions to blow your mind on, if you guys have a favorite Batman version, please send me a link to it or just tell me, that way I can go search for myself because I love seeing different versions of the characters.

I continuing with the drawing and I putting in little parts, I still don’t know where the neck part is going to attach, which I do know is I want that neck area to be a little more complicated, I also start finding for smaller shapes, and this is something I have said in the past, of all kinds of things, you star large, very broad and then you start to focus on different aspects of the drawing. If we’re talking about design, I don’t want to over complicate the forehead, I’ve talked about tension and release, tension in the area of massive complications, well not massive but just complicated area, right here, would be in the area of the face mask, then I release private upper forehead, the ears.

Now I’m trying to give this dimension, I want the plates do not overlap completely but give the feeling that they’re touching so you can see a little crack in between the plates, that’s like attention to detail thing. I wasn’t quite sure what to do with the lens/eyes if it’s gonna be completely robotic, and then it made me think that this won’t be the real Batman, maybe, you know, it’ll be a more robotic version of Batman…

Now I want the line I’m making can bottle the chin over the cheekbone, it in carrying through all the way to the back of the forehead, you have the sweeps and that sort of thing and you can check out in this channel, since they were in my main channel before and that doesn’t exist anymore.

Continuing with the drawing, I’m going to the forehead of the far the side of the eye, now I’m choosing which lines I want to make thicker, as they’re going to really be the main focus, with at least one line you’ll create several different focuses, whatever you do darker in your drawing, it will push forward about the viewer so you’ll have to be careful what you pick and that’s why I can get away with kind of scribbling stuff in and then I put a thicker line, you know that too, if you’ve been drawing for even a little while…

You’ve already done exactly the same thing I’ve done, you know, you start drawing with a pencil and then you try to erase it, but the line is really dug so you can’t get it out, what I mean by that is kind of the same thing, but this time you’re doing it on purpose, although with this drawing I’m using a pen and it’s a little different.

Now I go around the side of the necklace and I push it downward, I just add abstract shapes at this point, fiddling with a small shape, just making a kind of mess around, also I’m trying to duplicate this piece on the shoulder, trying to mirror it, and that’s it, all I do is pretty much random, I also do this on the shoulders and the neck, I have no plan with this, I just do what I feel will look better.

We’re almost at the end of this drawing, I’ve always found pretty funny to darkening the contour, we’ve already got to the part of the drawing where the only thing left is just darksome things here and there and I feel like my drawing is almost ready, I just throw a couple of extra lines to kind of make it more presentable to the viewer, that’s also something I always think, “is this presentable enough” or “what can I do to make it more presentable”, I also like to darkening a couple of things, because this makes very clear what to look at and is more dealing to the viewer.

And that’s it, we’ve already finished our tutorial on how to draw tech Batman version, some things I have to say before saying goodbye is that I’ve started a new page in Patreon, although I already had one, like about two years ago, but this time I’m working really hard on it, since the one I had before I never took it very seriously and now I’m giving to Patreon another chance, this time I want to do it more seriously and consistently, so if you have time go visit my page…

  Another thing you can do to support me is subscribing you to my channel “Easy Things To Draw 101” (the whole title together) and activate the little bell button, That way you’ll get notifications every time I upload new content to my channel, you know I like to teach you how to draw easy things, what can be: superheroes, monsters, body anatomy, robot or things related to mechanics, You don’t have to worry if you don’t know anything about it, because I always try to explain..

How to draw step by step and I try to do my tutorials the best way to help you guys, also it doesn’t really matter if you’ve been drawing for a long time or if you’re new, my tutorials and other videos are made for all types of artist, you can find drawings for beginners or also if you are a more experienced artist, you can review some themes, It is always good to do it because one can forget some things.

Another thing I like to talk about in my videos are experiences that happened to me and can happen to you as an artist, they can be, blockades when you are drawing or also can be bad art teachers among some things. And that’s all, thank you so much for seeing my tutorial, I really hope it can help you and I see you in another tutorial where I will teach you easy things to draw, goodbye.

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