KATANA DRAWING SUICIDE SQUAD HOW TO
KATANA DRAWING SUICIDE SQUAD SERIES

It being created by Jack Kirby, you do want to do a good job with the toys that Kirby gave you. When you're dealing with Kirby characters, is there kind of that unique challenge to operate within a set of strictures because you can't go too far off the reservation with that without alienating any of the people who love Kirby and/or his creation so much? We pretty much just continue with his roots and his ambitions as an international terrorist. He's been used a fair amount since then, so there's not a lot of redefinition involved in the character. Kobra was created by Jack Kirby, of course, and had been set up and then was used a little bit and then sort of fell fallow until we brought him back in the Outsiders on a more or less regular basis. The first time I used Kobra back in Batman and the Outsiders, the character had not received a lot of exposure for a while. Do you think that gives you a really great opportunity to redefine the organization for the post- Flashpoint DC Universe?

KATANA DRAWING SUICIDE SQUAD SERIES

Going to the series directly, and I know there's not a ton you can talk about because it's just barely been solicited, but Kobra playing a role in Katana's story is interesting to me because it's an organization that played a huge role for a fairly short time in the DC universe and since then has drifted in and out. I have to admit that I probably would have rather written the title myself but it's very gratifying to know, as you pointed out, that you've created something that has caused enough of a ripple in this immense organization of the DC universe that has its own niche, that's able to be its own thing even after all these years. Was it odd to see somebody delving back into that iteration of the team, or was it gratifying to know that, again, something that you'd created had left an ever-lasting impression that when DC was putting together their All-Star team of titles, that it's like, 'No. Obviously that period in time was revisited during Convergence. That was where the character of Katana came from when we came time to put together The Outsiders. I've always enjoyed stories of samurais when I was a kid. You mean samurai characters other than Katana? Do you have any personal favorite samurai comic stories? I have to ask because I have a few myself. In the same sense, and in that sense only, she's perhaps like Batman in that she has this central core that you can't stray too far from, otherwise you don't have the character anymore.

It's very gratifying that no matter who seems to write the character, they all seem to appreciate the core of the samurai nature of the character and they never take her too far away from that no matter what kind of adventure she has. For now just enjoy drawing Katana from Suicide Squad and I will prepare my next tut.

I will eventually do the real comic book version of Katana as she is seen in DC Comics mags. Anyways, this depiction of Katana is how she looks in the film. She welded her own sword which was a katana and took on the name of the sword she made.

Her real name is actually Tatsu Yamashiro, but when she lost her whole family she began training with a martial arts master named Tadashi. The original Katana had a family with two children. They both have some form of red and black that makes up their comic book uniforms, they both use katana swords, and they are both mentally screwed up in the head. Another comic book character that she reminds me of is Deadpool. She is another villainess that uses blades as her signature weapon.

KATANA DRAWING SUICIDE SQUAD HOW TO

Today we will be learning how to draw Katana from Suicide Squad, step by step. I just had to go ahead and do one more Suicide Squad character because I think she is so cool looking even though I really don't convey that through this lesson.

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