I envisioned a Green Arrow who returns to Star City after some sort of near death/actual death experience a super broke Oliver Queen who is sweaty, gritty, and trying to be the people’s champion while living among them
some of my initial passes of his costume— wanted to stay away from skintight spandex or just permutations of whatever has been done the last couple times liked the idea of looser, less restrictive stuff
He's meant to be very grassroots & a little grittier aesthetically. He's lost his fortune but it doesn't make him angrier or lost, he's finding new ways to still help people and be GREEN ARROW He's helping defend homeless encampments, he's protecting student protests (cough)
for more difficult redesigns I like to think about a story idea that I think would be interesting. Ultimately, I think that if you don't have an interesting take, you can't make a design that would be different enough to matter
If I do a Green Arrow design with different areas of skin showing and moving around what's darker green or light green, I'm not doing much, IMO The Injustice suit is the biggest departure from the usual suits, and that's not even that different
my initial passes (labelled B,C,D) are kind of emblematic of this problem; what kind of story am I visually telling with the design? How is Ollie being challenged? He just looks more casual or his aesthetic is a little changed!
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