xerox-kitty's Old Fan Art: X-Terminators Boom-Boom
By xerox_kitty 3 Comments
With just 24 hours left to go in the X-Men Evolutions Contest, I thought it would be fun to post the last of my old Fan Art. As expected, many (many) years ago I used to spend time drawing my favourite explosive blonde. Before she was Meltdown, and before Boomer, there was a little mutant called Boom-Boom!
The pose is stolen from Tony Daniel's art in X-Force #39. The issue featured the birth of 'Prosh', the evolution of Ship who accidentally took over a Phalanx body during the Phalanx Covenant. After telling the tale of how he acquired his shiny new body, Boomer had to have a closer look. And that's the pose I've stolen.
As fun as Tony Daniel's art is, that's one infeasibly tiny tiny waist, and standing on tippy toes is very reminiscent of Rob Liefeld. However, about 14 year ago, I absolutely loved the feisty pose.
Once again, the head seems disproportionately small, and for some reason I've tilted it upwards. It never really looked like it was connected to the rest of her body. And instead of pointing, she's launching a few casual time-bombs. Seeing the two images together it looks odd, but I still quite like this. Maybe just because it was so much fun, which I hope everyone has when drawing their Contest entries!