This is one criminally underrated Batman villain.
One of my favorite episodes, honestly.
So Anime Milwaukee is over Valentine’s Day weekend, so this new piece is finished just in time. The many loves of Harley Quinn! The first picture is the finished woodburning before I added any color. Then with the realization of this being Harley’s loves and the con being over Valentine’s Day, the second picture now has a bit of color: white, red, and pink <3
The many loves of Harley Quinn <3 Also a good picture to show the progress of my woodburning. From being sketched onto the wood, to being burned into the wood :) Hope to have this one done soon!
Huzzah! Here are all of the art pieces I’ll be putting in the art show at Daisho Con. Long live crafty geekiness. If they don’t sell in the show I’ll have them either:
1. Available on my Etsy page
2. Available at the Holiday Geek Expo here in Minneapolis in December
Sailor Moon, Attack on Titan, Black Butler, and Harley/Ivy. Yeah because I’m an all around geek like that <3
BTAS - Robin’s Reckoning, Part 1 [X]
Batman Begins [X]
the BTAS batman is way more frightening
Because being calm like this -oooooh can’t be goodSee this is why I really don’t like the new Batman movies;
Batman is a calm, stoic and logical character and he is, for the most part, ALWAYS calm in what he does and that is terrifying and he knows it’s terrifying - especially to the majority of the volatile villains who cannot find their calm most of the time. It’s also why he’s a great opposite to the Joker in that respect.
Christian Bale is a man in a Batman suit putting on a funny voice and purposefully angry voice, it’s not Batman and it doesn’t convey the feeling of eery calm that you get from a stone faced Batman locked straight onto you - it conveys an angry guy baring his teeth and shouting like he has a chest cold.
That’s also personally why I prefer Michael Keaton’s version of Batman; because he’s calm, collected and didn’t raise his voice the majority of both the Batman films he was in. He was the night! He was calm. Dark. Full of mystery and full of danger people couldn’t read straight away because of how calm he was. That’s what Batman is.
Okay, rant over, going to go draw. <3
I don’t mind the new Batman movies, I rather like them, but this is a good point too. BTAS is the first Batman I really remember getting into many, many years ago. And this post is right. He was really, really calm, and would kinda have a conversation in this calm voice like, “Alright. It’s you, me, and 30 stories,” like he was just saying something normal, like, “Alright, it’s you, me, and the coffee shop across the street.” Just calm, like nothing bad could happen, then the camera shows you the view below the bad guy and it’s like, “Oh crap.”
And yeah you know Batman doesn’t kill people, but the BTAS Batman would make you question it each time. Like you just know he isn’t going to do it, then he keeps talking and you’re like, “Weeeeeell… maybe he is… omg he is omg omg omg omg OMG OMG OMG BATMAN!!!” Then it’s like, “… oh… nevermind… but damn!”
I think the only thing more intimidating is when the bad guy would be like, “I’ll never tell never!” And Batman would be like, “Smirk.” Then he’d be like, “Alright, suit yourself,” then just let them go. Like JESUS! I mean he’d catch them, sure, but just that two second smirk like, “Well o.k. if you don’t want to tell me anything that’s fine,” then, “Just kidding gonna drop you now.”
He’d yell sometimes, but it was usually unexpected and justified, you know? Like when Harvey Dent became Two Face? And he reaches for him like “HARVEY!” Because that was his friend. And he sees his face and just shakes his head like, “No…” He’d yell over stuff like that. But even when you were arguing with him, he wouldn’t yell. Robin yelled about Tony Zuko and Batman was like, “You’re not getting involved,” and his voice got harder, but not loud, it was just that, “Batman out,” snap, and that’s it, don’t need to yell.
Randomly I’m really into Batman lately what is this?
I wish Batman was depicted like this more often. Many of his villains are mentally ill and victims of tragic circumstances, it would be nice to see him try to help them as much as he helps the people they put in danger because of their problems.
I agree. I mean I love the dark and gritty Batman world, sure, but I really love the Batman: Animated Series world. I liked the idea that not all of the bad guys were these terrible, unredeemable folks. I liked that, at some points in the series, they really just.. wanted to be normal. And I liked the times when Batman understood that, like here. "I had a bad day once, too.“ I like that the bad guys in this series felt so… human. Not completely bad, but not completely good. Some were terrible, some were just going about things wrong. This was the first series I watched as a kid where good and bad wasn’t this clear cut definition.
Sometimes, Batman had to be the hero and stop the Penguin.
Sometimes, the Penguin just… wanted the girl to like him
Sometimes, Batman was right about everything.
Other times, he felt guilty about the things he did: Two-Face, for example, was a good person before. Which yes, the Nolan movies captured, but in the animated series him and Bruce were friends, for a while! (there were episodes he showed up in BEFORE the Two-Face episode, there was a friendship between them, and it killed Bruce to see that happen to him).
But the best part about the moments where Batman felt guilty about the villains? He actually… cared about some of them. He cared about Robin and Batgirl, sure, but… having nightmares about Two Face. Feeling bad for Mr. Freeze and his wife. Just… episodes where the good guys learn the back story of the bad guys and just had this moment of, ”… wow. Shit.“ Because then, as a kid (and adult), you’re watching like, "Wow… so you’re not flat out bad.” Because some of us have, as Batman says here, “A bad day.”
It also answers the question that I had as a kid of, you know, why doesn’t the hero just get rid of the bad guy? You keep locking him or her away, they get out, and do it all over again. But this series, this CARTOON, shows that hey, the bad guys are people too.
Harley just… wanted a dress.
What the heck I don’t remember this episode at all I thought I saw all of Batman the Animated Series WHEN DOES THIS HAPPEN SOMEONE TELL ME!
Finished just in time for our local comic book convention. Two of my favorite ladies in the Batman universe: Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. The side of the glass is painted with Ivy’s leaves, while the outside of the clock is painted like Harley’s outfit.
I had a lot of fun making this one. I don’t usually make things for a comic book convention (this is the first one I’ve had a table at), so I’m having a lot of fun with these. My dad is huge into comic books and I grew up in a house with lots of comics, so making this stuff is giving me this awesome feeling of nostalgia.
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Harley Quinn appreciation post! I absolutely love Harley, I always try and make something with her when we go to conventions. I have a major soft spot for Harley and Poison Ivy, I remember falling for them before I knew what “yuri” and “OTP” was (it was the 90s, it was a different time for me, lol). But I can’t help but make things with her and “Mistah J,” too.
This post has coasters and mirrors I’ve made with Harley on it, be it woodburning or painting or both. And as always, I do take commissions. Feel free to send me a note, or to check out the shop here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/snowtigra?ref=si_shop
