Killer Moth went through some different designs while I was drawing him; in this continuity, Drury is a CRIMINAL lawyer, where he is able to get his clients out of a lot of messy situations, but it does depend on how extreme the situation is, or whether Drury is being lazy or not about the case, this makes him either liked or disliked in Gotham, depends on who you ask. Anyways, Originally I was going to base Killer Moth off of Mothman... Because moths. But I realized a lot of my designs were dark and creepy, and while this Killer Moth is definitely more competent than other versions, while still being a goofball, I did want a bit of his costume to reflect his feelings about the costumed vigilantes and villains as a whole: that they're ridiculous. So I decided to give his classic look a bit of a revision, with the biggest change being his wings no longer extended out, but rather they're forming like a cape, like Batman's. This is for two reasons: I still had that Mothman inspiration... But also I just didn't want to spend all that time figuring out wings. I was also going to go with a darker color scheme too, but eventually it all came back to the classic orange and purple we all know Killer Moth to have!

Clayface is based on two things: the Wendigo, a vicious creature from Algonquian folklore, and SCP-096, or 'The Shy Guy.' I also based this guy on a Batfeed video, much like Mr. Freeze, but this time it was based on the Clayface Arkham Tapes episode, which I highly recommend y'all to watch! The coloring is based on 'The Batman' [2004] and put all of this together and you have a pretty scary look on Clayface. I always felt Clayface works better with horror, and I mean true body-horror kind of action, because imagine turning into THIS thing? Don't have much lore besides the basics for Basil: washed up actor, tried killing his co-stars, eventually becoming an inmate of Arkham Asylum to which Hugo Strange would experiment and eventually turn Karlo into... This.

When designing Azrael, I wanted to do Jean-Paul and save Michael Lane for a later time, mainly because I know more about Jean than I do Michael, also I just think Jean-Paul looks cooler and has more of a staying power. So I of course based Azrael off his original appearance, as well as crusaders that fought in their Holy Wars, or in modern terms: Father from BreadBoys. I was close to giving Azrael a crusader helmet, but in the end I decided against it because I feel Azrael's cloaked, hooded design is simply too iconic than to put a simple iron or steel helmet on the dude and his silhouette. The coloring was pretty challenging as I wanted to go for that all-red look with touches of gold but I didn't want to make it *too* much red, if that makes sense? But I think the darker red for the boots and arm wraps made for a great separation from the red bodysuit underneath, and of course we have all of the gold aligning Azrael's body... Also I just want to point out that if the anatomy is weird... Well, I'm still learning anatomy, but also I WAS going to draw Azrael's flaming sword... But got lazy at the last minute. I'll draw it in later drawings, though!

Hush sucks. Unless he's written by Paul Dini. But, Hush is still iconic in terms of design, and if this Batman is Dieselpunk with bits of Steampunk, Victorian era stuff... Then, I have to include Jack The Ripper, right? Well then there lied the issue: what about Hush? They're... kind of similar with their crimes? Not really? But they got the murders in random parts of the city down I suppose. Anyways, enough of me trying to loosely pin these two together, I figured if I'm going to have Jack, I needed to sacrifice Hush, but I was more than willing to make Hush... Jack The Ripper. Design wise, very much inspired by the look Jack has in Assassin's Creed Syndicate; in fact when I first saw the design my first reaction was: 'holy shit, it's Hush.' And the rest was history. I still wrapped his entire body in bandages, and gave him the classic color scheme of the original Hush to ensure the vision was still there. I will say, it would still be pretty easy to pinpoint who he is, because who else would use a scalpel that big for murders?

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#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (4/???)

- Killer Moth/Drury Walker
- Clayface/Basil Karlo
- Azrael/Jean-Paul Valley
- Jack The Ripper/Thomas Elliot Jr.

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