Batgirls Rolling In To Bring A Bit Of Joy To Your Life! This Prints Now Available From My Artpal Shop

Batgirl, rolling out! - Amy Fay

She's bold! She's brainy! She's the Best! Bat! EVER!! Batgirl's rolling on in to strut her stuff to show the likes of Robin just how it's done!!

Batgirl’s rolling in to bring a bit of joy to your life! This print’s now available from my artpal shop for your viewing pleasure!

(via 'Christmas Cheer ' Greeting Card by Amy-Fay)

This sweet little snowman is now for sale: perfect on mugs, postcards, greeting cards, you name it! 

This is Baby Money Yoda, reblog in the next 60 seconds to receive a blessing from our green bean prince.

Originally Posted to my Waterfall!

So let’s have a context-copy-paste from there: 

The old-ish stuff! (part 2) Classic Batgirl!

Now we get to the good stuff, AKA, Batgirl!

(Done pre-Wacom tablet upgrade.)

Now if you were to ask me what my favourite incarnation of Barbara Gordon is, honestly, I'd be torn between two:

--Batgirl of Burnside

and

--1966 Batman

Interestingly enough; Batgirl of Burnside draws incredibly heavy on Yvonne Craig's influence on Batgirl, and it's not hard to see why.

See, originally, Batgirl as an identity wasn't meant to be a side-kick (that was a 1990's post-zero hour retcon! And a messy one at that!)

Batgirl was basically meant to stand on equal footing with Batman; she was an ally, not a copy. Inspired by but not working for nor under. That was pretty much established in her debut episode, in fact! She loved what he stood for, but had her own way; a much more empathetic, working-with-the-people approach!

That carries on to the current run today! So, wheras Bruce nowadays is happy to inspire fear and act as a semi-urban-legend, Barbara wants to be right on the street with the people--using a combo of criminal psychology with the most updated tech!

It's fascinating really!

But I digress.

While Burnside put emphasis on the practical design, the 1960's were all about stage presence! Something I wanted to capture here, using Yvonne Craig's history as a champion Ballerina!

It's actually a lot of fun to see how or if you can truly meld fight-coreography with the grace of dance...and ya know, I think it can be done. But I wanna explore and push it more!

Honestly, I think I’m most proud of these two designs; not just for the complexity of the outfits themselves, but for how much I was able to finally learn when it came to capturing definition.

Both are designs now available on my redbubble shop! Please, feel free to have a look around! 

Done for-fun as part of a mini twitter contest thing; I’m actually really proud of this one, if only for the chance to experiment with a different stylisation! 

Also available for sale, too, if anyone’s interested!