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Description
Another Mutants and Masterminds RPG character.

Silver Oracle combines the typical gadget-using crimefighter with some twists.

He is a good martial artist but not among the very best. This, however, is compensated by his superpower: Silver Oracle can sense the future a few moments ahead, predicting his foes' next move and giving him considerable advantage. This also serves as "early warning system" against traps, ambushes, disasters, old ladies about to try to transverse busy streets and so on. He sometimes gets "Oracular Visons" of greater scope, indicating a possible future (often some trouble he has to stop from happening), but he has no control over such visions.

He also carries two magical tools: his cloak, usually brilliant in white-silver, can be used to camouflage, blending with the surroundings (think the Predator), used as a protection since it is very resistant, or flashing brightly to temporarily blind and disorient opponents. The eye-like jeweled clasp allows him to see things magical or spiritual in nature when concentrating.
His Staff is used mostly as a weapon. He uses it to fight in melee or shoot magical blasts (about as powerful as an average throwing weapon for someone as strong as him, but unlimited ammunition). it can also be used to project his sight to distant places, though he loses awareness of his surroundings when doing so.

Finally, instead of technological gadgets, he uses various magical and alchemical trinkets to supplement his other abilities and tools. Potions that cause smoke clouds, animated ropes that imprison foes, a talking stone translates languages and other utilitarian little magic items.

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On the technical side, I'm satisfied with the results, though in the future I'll probably do some things differently. The most glaring flaw is how much more detailed those gemstones are than the norm of the drawing. They look really out of place. I made the shading and highlights way too blended, as well. Looking at my other stuff, I think more sharp edged light and shadow works better with these simpler kind of linework.

I wanted to draw an "old school" superhero, with a costume without much unnecessary lines, no armored costume, with the good old underwear on the outside...that sort of stuff. In the end I made one version with only the basic costume, and another with the full gear - cloak, staff, utility belt.

Grey and white is not the most exciting combination of colors for a superhero, but I wanted to get away from certain color combinations I tend to use too much (mostly various combinations of red, white and gold). Well, at least the little blue here and there breaks the monotony a bit XP

This is part of an...experiment of mine. I'll use the same base linework to draw two more characters - This same guy, but older and in another super-heroic identity with a different costume, and his disciple, a hero with something of a more "modern superhero" visual style. I wanna see if I can make them all distinct enough despite the similar anatomy and the same pose.

Drawn and Colored in Photoshop with my Genius tablet.

Description
Another Mutants and Masterminds RPG character.

Silver Oracle combines the typical gadget-using crimefighter with some twists.

He is a good martial artist but not among the very best. This, however, is compensated by his superpower: Silver Oracle can sense the future a few moments ahead, predicting his foes' next move and giving him considerable advantage. This also serves as "early warning system" against traps, ambushes, disasters, old ladies about to try to transverse busy streets and so on. He sometimes gets "Oracular Visons" of greater scope, indicating a possible future (often some trouble he has to stop from happening), but he has no control over such visions.

He also carries two magical tools: his cloak, usually brilliant in white-silver, can be used to camouflage, blending with the surroundings (think the Predator), used as a protection since it is very resistant, or flashing brightly to temporarily blind and disorient opponents. The eye-like jeweled clasp allows him to see things magical or spiritual in nature when concentrating.
His Staff is used mostly as a weapon. He uses it to fight in melee or shoot magical blasts (about as powerful as an average throwing weapon for someone as strong as him, but unlimited ammunition). it can also be used to project his sight to distant places, though he loses awareness of his surroundings when doing so.

Finally, instead of technological gadgets, he uses various magical and alchemical trinkets to supplement his other abilities and tools. Potions that cause smoke clouds, animated ropes that imprison foes, a talking stone translates languages and other utilitarian little magic items.

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On the technical side, I'm satisfied with the results, though in the future I'll probably do some things differently. The most glaring flaw is how much more detailed those gemstones are than the norm of the drawing. They look really out of place. I made the shading and highlights way too blended, as well. Looking at my other stuff, I think more sharp edged light and shadow works better with these simpler kind of linework.

I wanted to draw an "old school" superhero, with a costume without much unnecessary lines, no armored costume, with the good old underwear on the outside...that sort of stuff. In the end I made one version with only the basic costume, and another with the full gear - cloak, staff, utility belt.

Grey and white is not the most exciting combination of colors for a superhero, but I wanted to get away from certain color combinations I tend to use too much (mostly various combinations of red, white and gold). Well, at least the little blue here and there breaks the monotony a bit XP

This is part of an...experiment of mine. I'll use the same base linework to draw two more characters - This same guy, but older and in another super-heroic identity with a different costume, and his disciple, a hero with something of a more "modern superhero" visual style. I wanna see if I can make them all distinct enough despite the similar anatomy and the same pose.

Drawn and Colored in Photoshop with my Genius tablet.