Conclusion

Okay so I produced the final design of Bubble-Gum girl which i felt came out quite decently although tweaking would still be nice to do. Like i had already said an arch rival or enemy would be a definite nice thing to produce and perhaps a few panels with Bubble-Gum girl to give the character a basic story background and recognizable personality. Through the project I have learnt alot about Steve Ditko from his history as well as what characters he had created and a little about the private individual that he is.
If i was to go further with this project another thing I would like to do is continually work at producing drawings in Steve Ditko's style as oposed to the current not so similar Bubble-Gum Girl piece of work.
 I would edit Bubble-Gum Girl even more and work towards producing a few pages of panels towards eventually creating a short comic book strip story of how she gained her powers.

Bubble-Gum Girl Finished

So heres Bubble-Gum girl with the added shading which brings her more to life. Id like to add the knife/katana on the back at somepoint perhaps, also if i were to work on her past the assignment an arch enemy or rival would be an idea that could be fun to produce.

Bubble-Gum Girl Colour

Okay ive added basic colour to the drawing now, I will begin to add shading to finish the drawing off after this. As you can see i kept with the red and green of the hair and eyes and chose violet for the top and black for the gloves and shorts.

Bubble-Gum Girl B+W

Heres the outline of Bubble-Gum girl, i will soon add colour. I took the original drawing and did relatively the same character pose although certain things are tweaked, the character is more to a correct scale, the face itself looks more realistic with the head looking more above.
I also added binoculars to the belt she is wearing as opposed to the glass bottle that was shown before.
I think i will keep the hair and eye colours the same as planned which were red and green.

Thinking about what I wanted to produce for a final piece I decided to look into doing another version of Bubble-Gum Girl, this time in full colour and more realistic.

A look at a comparison of art styles

  - Steve Ditko

To the left are 3 panels from Steve Ditko's work of batman while he was at his time at DC comics. Here you can see the difference in his work to other drawings of batman.
Here he looks more mysterious and has a less typical heroic and handsome appearance along with Steve Ditko's noteable claustrophobic feel within his panels.

To the right is a piece of work by another comic book artist that was a possibility to look into during this assignment "Neal Adams". Here you can see his drawing of Batman is much more like the typical view of him in comics and movies today. Here he looks very heroic and has that handsome hero look in general. He also seems to look more physically strong in this version and quite different to Steve Ditko's work. Although it is a quite different style I very much appreciate Neal Adams work also.


One reason i decided to choose Steve Ditko's work was because his looks very different to the designs and artwork you would see in comics today and so it was unique in that sense. His background was also very interesting as he had worked with Marvel as well as DC (The two major comic book companies) and other small independant groups.

Another image i produced for the character bubble-gum girl.
I feel it has the element of humour to it.

While Looking more into Steve Ditko's history, i came across this documentary that i thought was very interesting, heres the 1st part of 7 that i watched.
Its obvious he had an enormous fan base from his and stan lee's co creations of Spiderman and another slightly less famous Doctor Strange.

 Just looking more into Steve Ditko's history, i find it quite interesting that he left Marvel for reasons never specified although he use to reject interviews saying that his work was what he wished to share and not his personality, i guess he was quite a private person.

Then moving onto DC comics as well as working with independant publishers.

But very cool how he contributed to the creation of spider-man, creeper, doctor strange, hawk and dove, Mr A and question.

Typography

Here I decided to produce various types of font styles for the title of the hero Bubble-Gum Girl.

MoodBoard

I had been finding it sometimes quite difficult to replicate Steve Ditko's art style at certain points and so I decided to produce a moodboard with pieces of his work to emphasize his art style.

BubbleGumGirl?

So as for this super-hero design that relates to my quote. I made a first attempt at designing the character today, it ended up becoming a female as i felt it suited the theme more nicely than a male would. Bubble-Gum girl was the name of the character I had decided upon. When this girl chews bubble gum it makes her and only her gain special attributes which are increased strength, speed and charisma, she also carries a gun and a katana !!

Comic Book Art

Today I decided to compile myself work from different artists for inspiration and idea's to look upon more than just Steve Ditko's work. Here are some of the images from the folder i had put together for myself.

Drawing in another's art style.

I decided to look at one of Steve Ditko's piece's of work and re-draw it myself in his art style. Heres the outcome of that work.
Spiderman!

An Idea

Upon deciding on using the duke nukem quote and the artist Steve Ditko as an artist. I thought of a possibility of working on a super-hero that rely's on bubble gum as his/her source of power.

Might be quite an interesting concept to design.

Some screenies

Just some shots of duke nukem 3D and the new forever to come out soon

He's Backkk

Just a drawing of Duke Nukem here since my quote is from him. I guess you could say he has that super hero appeal here also which is relevant to Steve Ditko. Also my graphics tablet was being screwy during this -_-

A possible quote?

As for choosing the game quote, i felt as if i was already quite set on one. Duke Nukem was a character i quite liked for his bold 80s style go in guns blazing, and cocky attitude along with the quote itself -

"Its time to kick ass and chew bubble gum and im all out of gum."

Evaluating this, i felt the project would be quite fun to base around this quote.

Steve Ditko - Artist

And so i started to look at Steve Ditko's work as he was one of the artists that caught my eye with his comic book artwork.

An American artist that was most famous for being co-creator of the marvel comic book heroes Spider-man and Doctor Strange

Choosing a quote and artist,,,

Looking at the list of quotes and artists and choosing one straight off the bat was a tough decision and so, the logical thing to do i thought was to narrow it down - produce some drawings until im set on one of these completley.