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Gotham's Most Wanted

by RenRen's Sketchbook | Art-Making Voice Actor!

This is a compilation of every Gotham's Most Wanted post I have made from the first all the way to the last! Every villain, every faction, and every description that goes into the designs in both their real world and in-universe inspirations!

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RenRen's Sketchbook | Art-Making Voice Actor!

@renrenssketchbook.bsky.social

#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted | (1/???) - The Joker/Jack Napier - Harley Quinn/Harleen Quinzel - Scarecrow/Jonathan Crane - Mad Hatter/Jervis Tetch #DC #dccomics #joker #harleyquinn #scarecrow #madhatter #batmanau #au #auart #art #digitalart #artsky #fanart #dcstudios

Designing the Clown Prince of Crime was a challenge. I didn't want to do a simple Joker design, the original look is iconic and of course I wanted to pay homage, but with the background of Timeless DC, it'd be lazy to copy and paste the original, right?

Joker was probably the first of these villains when I started to take a lot of horror inspirations for the design, for those with a keen eye, you'd recognize the sock and sleeve patterns to be those of Laughing Jack, the creepypasta! That and Joker's outfit in general is an homage to the character as well.

The main reason why I went with this more -different- approach to the Joker is because I based this man off of alt rock, punk runk, pop rock,etc. I got into Set It Off last year and ever since, the Joker was going to be the singer of those songs in the Timeless AU... So, yeah, Alt Rock Joker!

So, if I made Joker different than his usual, I wanted to do the same for Harley... I used to be a classic Harley enthusiast and always advocated to use that for interpretations because it's too damn iconic, but also because a lot of modern Harleys miss the mark BIG TIME.

But, I decided to give this design a gamble, with her being a member of Joker's band: The Maniax, I felt it was natural to give her this, alt-punk, diner derby girl kind of vibe... A large amount of this was based off of those things: the LEGO Batman Movie Harley, and Burnice from Zenless. I don't see this Harley being redeemable, really. Much like how Joker was inspired by Set It Off (Wolf in Sheep's Clothing [REBORN]), Harley is based off of the song 'Partners in Crime' ft. Ash Costello!

Scarecrow's my favorite Batman villain, he has a lot of designs that slap and I love most, if not all of the designs... Minus the first BTAS design. Scarecrow was also the first ever villain I drew for this whole villain series, which can explain the different style compared to the rest?

I went with the Injustice 2 approach where Crane would submerge himself in Fear Toxin and turn into this hulking figure of your nightmares, while still looking like a scarecrow; one of the designs that has always been consistent with me drawing Scarecrow is the plague doctor mask, as I'm just a sucker for those because I'm a basic bitch who believe he's a master character designer with no degree in art-

Keeping with the fact of him growing, his boots are all but destroyed on the bottoms where you see his gross feet and hands as they're covered in bandages and blood & dirt, I wanted to make this guy feel and look like he can barely keep himself together, as if he needs to stay on that wooden post to keep his stability. In terms of movement, imagine Faust from Guilty Gear - STRIVE - as a great example!

Mad Hatter is probably one of the more different ones compared to his classic counterpart. I based a lot of this Hatter's color scheme and overall aesthetic off of Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter from the live action Alice in Wonderland movies. I wanted Jervis to look like a real fairy tale creature come to life. I don't have the entire lore laid out for him, or any of the villains yet, but I will say one of the things I wanted to showcase was that this Hatter looks like a walking corpse, as if he was wronged and killed but brought back to life by some twisted game of the minds.

Lore aside, I think the best parts are the hat and bow tie, I wanted to originally have it be white polka dots but I kept adding more and more to the tie until it became that hypnotic, optic illusion looking anomaly, which is perfect for the Mad Hatter!

I didn't draw it here, but yes he would have his heart shaped axe that he had in the Animated Series. And while I am NOT looking into drawing more villains as of late, I do perhaps want to give this Hatter the Wonderland Gang as seen in Paul Dini's run on Detective Comics (The Carpenter, Tweedle Dee & Dum, March Harriet, etc).

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RenRen's Sketchbook | Art-Making Voice Actor!

@renrenssketchbook.bsky.social

#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (2/???) - The Penguin/Oswald Cobblepot - BANE - Man-Bat/Kirk Langstrom - Solomon Grundy #batman #batmanfanart #oswaldcobb #thepenguin #bane #manbat #solomongrundy #art #digitalart #artsky #au #auart #aufanart #dccomics #dcuniverse #legobatman

So, the Penguin has at least four main inspirations that went into making this design. First was the Matt Reeves version: Oswald Cobb, I liked that version the most out of any Penguin for a while and still think that one is my favorite version, but it bounces from that one, or the Danny Devito Penguin, which was the second inspiration.

If you look closely, he has the penguin flipper hands, and that crooked nose, and admittedly a better hairstyle than Penguin did; imagine this version as a refined 'Batman Returns' Penguin! The third design was the pin stripped suit of Jack Skellington... And that's about it.

The fourth and final design I inspired this look off of is the Telltale Penguin, where he's more lean and angular rather than short and pudgy; I love all forms of the Penguin but I always imagined my own Penguin to be that lean and brutal type that the Telltale version showcases in spades, so add the grimace and that scar on the side of his mouth and you have yourself Timeless Penguin!

BANE was one of the last characters I did for this villain series, and his design is straight up based on Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid. When I was thinking of concepts I literally just said to myself 'Buff Psycho Mantis...' and the rest was history.

I did take the Venom route from The Batman [2004] where he has that dial on his right hand to pump the Venom through his body, I was not in the mood to draw big Venom tubes and a shitton of mini tubes going through his body; so, yeah I got lazy, but it still looks cool, right?

OKAY... Man-Bat was tricky.

For the longest time, he was literally going to be a rehash of the 2004 Man-Bat, as that has always been my favorite Man-Bat design... But just as I was about to begin the drawing process, I remembered Dracula's demon form from the end of Castlevania games and I then decided to base it off of that, which is funny because Dracula exists in this universe.

So, Man-Bat is significantly more big than his usual appearances, and I decided to go with the Arkham Knight route and make his fingers the mass of the wings, rather than having the wings be slapped just on the bottom of his arms, and as for the color, blue and punk just go really nicely together, it makes for a really cool, yet terrifying design.

Solomon Grundy... Is a zombie. With some Frankenstein influence. That's really about it.

I took some design inspirations from Arkham City and the Injustice 1 versions of Solomon, and the colors were ripped off the classic Frankenstein Monster... Pretty self explanatory. The way I'm describing it makes it sound like I don't necessarily like Grundy, which isn't the case, I think he's awesome... It's just, yeah that's Solomon Grundy, not really much to say.

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RenRen's Sketchbook | Art-Making Voice Actor!

@renrenssketchbook.bsky.social

#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (5/???) - Ventriloquist & Scarface/Arnold Wesker - Tally Man - Calendar Man/Julian Gregory Day - Cluemaster/Arthur Brown #dc #dcuniverse #dccomics #batman #art #fanart #artsky #digitalart #krita #cluemaster #calendarman #ventriloquist #scarface #tallyman

Ventriloquist was a character I had no idea what I would do with. I was just going to give him the usual three piece suit and that would be it, but remember when I said that I was going to make Riddler based on Igor before I ended up with the final design? Well, that Igor idea went into the Ventriloquist instead, which I think actually works better than it would have for Riddler.

I had an inside joke with some friends that this was some sort of evil looking Geppetto, and the puppet really doesn't help with that comparison. Scarface himself is your basic ventriloquist dummy with the same color scheme as Arnold and even has a wooden brush extension from Krita to make him look more like a handmade puppet.

Tally Man is a huge stretch from the comics that even I don't know everything about, but he's basically the debt collector for anyone who owes the mob some money, and if you don't pay up, then you pay for your life...

I inspired this Tally Man to be an urban myth, something that the crime bosses (designer) summoned themselves to act as their debt collector and to keep the mysteries of Gotham City rolling, also based on his design from the comics, I inspired his look off a court jester, specifically Jester from Devil May Cry 3!

Another bit of inspiration was 'The Clown' or the Violator from the Spawn comics, maybe he'll have a similar demonic form but for now, I'm content with the Tally Man being a weird looking borderline clown dude!

Calendar Man went through some changes as well; I was originally going to make the obvious Hannibal Lecter reference and make him the usual Calendar Man from Arkham City, maybe with a muzzle to drive the point... But then I stumbled upon his concept art for Arkham Asylum where he had the colors of his classic costume with the inner portion being of calendar pages... So I went with that approach.

Then, Persona 4 Revival got revealed and I got in that Adachi mood, so I figured I would inspire a bit of his design off of Adachi as well, pose included! I decided to give him a faceless calendar mask since my original design from 2021 originally had a whole calendar for a face, but I thought that was lame for nowadays standards, so I went with this mask instead!

Cluemaster was actually the last supervillain I drew for the Timeless Batman roster! I originally wasn't going to include him, but then I realized if Stephanie is in the AU, with her and Tim going to the same private school, then where is Cluemaster?

Being the headmaster of the private school (still pending on a name), I was originally going to give Cluemaster a very stereotypical three piece suit and tie with the mask, but I thought that was lame... So, I went digging for any more horror tropes and even almost based his design off the Reeves Riddler! But eventually I ran into the Grabber from one of my favorite horror movies: The Black Phone, so you can definitely see the design inspirations after one glimpse of the titular villain.

I then gave him this raggedy coat inspired by the 2004 version of Cluemaster since I do have immense nostalgia for that version, and I recently rewatched that episode of The Batman '04, so the time was right for this design of the Cluemaster!

Lore will come out later, but just know this: this guy is twisted!

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RenRen's Sketchbook | Art-Making Voice Actor!

@renrenssketchbook.bsky.social

#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (7/???) - Anarky/Lonnie Machin - Deacon Blackfire - LORD DEATH MAN! - Lady Arkham/Jeremiah Arkham #batman #batmanau #batmanfanart #au #auart #fanart #art #digitalart #artsky #dc #dccomics #dcuniverse #detectivecomics #anarky #ladyarkham #drawing #sketch

Anarky was a character I was stoked to draw, he's my third favorite Batman villain, believe it or not. So designing him was not hard at all because I simply love his classic design to where it didn't need to be altered in any significant way other than how it looked. And for that, I based Anarky off of V from V for Vendetta, one of my favorite movies of all time.

There's not really much to say here, other than when you look at V from the movie and this Anarky side by side, they're basically copies of one-another, Anarky is just pinkish red with the giant A on his chest. I might make a cosplay of this Anarky one day but that will be at a later date...

'Remember, remember, the Fifth of November.'

Deacon Blackfire, like a lot of these other designs, went through some changes. Originally I was going to go for the exaggerated pope robes and have them be big and wavy, hell I even had one of my old reference photos be Asuka from Guilty Gear - STRIVE -

But the more I drew a lot of the other designs before Blackfire, Timeless Batman and Gotham were beginning to take its shape and I realized that maybe that wasn't the way to go, maybe Blackfire should be a different type of preacher. I rememer watching a lot of the Behind the Scenes work on BTAS and TNBA, in this case the latter and Bruce Timm described designing Scarecrow with western preacher clothes... And then I remembered how Father Gascoigne from Bloodborne looked, so combining those two ideas I was able to craft this Deacon Blackfire to fit the Timeless Gotham aesthetic!

That's all there is to say, since this is a very basic design as it is. What you see is what you get!

A lot of these villains are pretty serious in their own rights so I wanted to really dig deep and get someone who would be a good joke villain, but nothing ridiculous like Kite-Man or Crazy Quilt... And I always had a love for Lord Death Man!!! (the exclamation marks are necessary whenever you say his name).

A bit of this look was obviously taken from his robed appearances in the comics, but also from Ghostface, believe it or not. I was going to give him a Ghostface looking mask but make it skull-like, but I felt the decal on the hooded piece just looked better. One a side note I also saw this after I finished this design, but when you look at Lord Death Man!!!... He has the exact color scheme of Lord Garmadon from Ninjago, which was not intentional at all, but now that I see it, I'll role with it as an inspiration!

Also, yes he is an actual skeleton man, and yes he does have his moments of being a badass but he's relatively simple to defeat. He's like a Saturday morning villain.

This batch of villains were all essentially cult leaders, so I figured I'd throw Lady Arkham here as well.

Not really much in the way of design changes minus a different approach to the outfit with the majority of the costume being a straight jacket rather than the leatherbound outfit L.A. sported in the Telltale games. I based the straight jacket look off of one of Scarecrow's designs from Batman Begins and went from there, and polearm is also a different design but that was just me drawing it without much care to simply copy the Telltale design. As long as it has that concussive ball of death on the top, it's the Lady Arkham staff.

You also might notice that this Lady Arkham is actually Jeremiah Arkham; in the lore he would go crazy as one does in the Arkham family, especially after getting closer to the revelation of Hugo Strange's true allegiance and the use of Arkham Asylum, there may have been some good in Jeremiah, but none of it mattered now as he made this crusade and cult of prisoners who have been experimented by Strange to rise up against the corruption of Gotham and to tear it out by the roots, it's a changed up version of the plot from Telltale, minus a lot of the key elements... But to be fair, it'd be cheating if it was an exact copy.

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RenRen's Sketchbook | Art-Making Voice Actor!

@renrenssketchbook.bsky.social

#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (8/10) - Deadshot/Floyd Lawton - Firefly/Garfield Lynns - Gentleman Ghost/Jim Craddock - Lady Shiva/Sandra Wu-San #batman #au #auart #batmanuniverse #DC #DCCOMICS #dcuniverse #fireflydc #deadshot #ladyshiva #gentlemanghost #art #artsky #digitalart #sketch

Deadshot was tricky. I wanted to go for that classic look but also make it look like it fits in this Dieselpunk/Steampunk world... then, I had the weirdest inspiration: Mixing the jacket from the Rocketeer with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter! So I gave him that same Victorian look that Gotham By Gaslight would have, while also giving him his signature wrist-gun-bracers and a long sniper rifle to complete the look.

I also gave him a broken brimmed hat to make room for his one red eye piece to make it look more prominent, if you look closely, you can see the crosshair in the eye piece as well! Overall a simple design for Deadshot compared to some of his canon or other fan designs, but I think the simplicity works really well!

Firefly took the longest to actually think of what to do with him. I was originally going to do a take on The Batman 2004 and the Arkham Series, but I felt those two designs just didn't fit the vibe of this Timeless Gotham... So, I went back to the drawing board and remembered the shelved Batgirl movie with Brendan Fraser as Firefly, and I actually really dug his design and hope that one day the movie can come out to streaming services, or hell maybe even DVD... But anyways, I inspired this Firefly off of that movie's version, with slight nods to the 2004 design with the color scheme and the helmet.

I also decided to base a bit of this design off of the Rocketeer, as when I was really thinking about what Firefly should look like, it dawned on me that Deadshot wouldn't be the ONLY one using that jacket in this universe if it's universally available... So, I based his aesthetic off the Rocketeer and gave him a golden chestplate and helmet to boot, along with a fire shooting bracer on his left forearm so he can shoot fire with both hands next to his fire gun.

This actually turned out to be one of my favorite designs out of this entire wave of villains, fitting because Firefly's always been one of my favorite underrated Batman villains.

It was till the very end of this drawing and when I deleted the Krita file that made me see that the Ghost's hands were comically big... Oh well. I guess he makes them big because he's dead.

Anyways, this is your average Gentleman Ghost... the only thing I added was a mustache because I based both Ghost's design and lore off of H. H. Holmes, I figured if I was going to have horror of both the real world and the fictional worlds inspire this Gotham, then one of them has to be based off one of the most infamous serial killers... That's really all I can say about Gentleman Ghost as he is, again, your standard design; though I will say I do really like how I made him look ghostly with the blue line art and the gaussian blur on the outer edges, and this was from my first attempt since all my other ghostly attempts were rather... haphazardly done.

Lady Shiva isn't exactly a villain in the Timeless universe, but she is an assassin that would go after Batman for the money before Bruce enlists her teachings to make him a better combatant against assassins.

Design wise, I based her off her usual classic design since it was simple and effective, only thing I added were the flower designs on the bottom of her coat but that's about it. Not the biggest fan of the pose I gave her, a part of me wished I gave her a sword pose and a sword in general, or her usual arms behind the back, authority pose but, eh it's fine.

I also tried to do the Kaneko (former smt artist) black lip aesthetic, which I think turned out decently well, and I also tried to make her look a bit older since I would think Shiva was almost as old as Bruce usually, although in this universe she'd be like, 10 years older than Bruce seeing how he starts being Batman at only 21 years old.

So, yeah! Lady Shiva, the deadliest woman in the DC Universe!

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RenRen's Sketchbook | Art-Making Voice Actor!

@renrenssketchbook.bsky.social

#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (9/10) - Henri Ducard/Count Dracula - Hugo Strange - Gray Owl - Lock-Up/Lyle Bolton #dc #dccomics #dcuniverse #fanart #skecth #art #digitalart #artsky #batman #thebatman #hugostrange #dracula #lockupdc #courtofowls #talon #batmanfanart #au #auart #aufanart

So here is one of the major changes in the Timeless Universe... Ra's Al Ghul and the League of Assassins do not exist. Because I hate both of them, they have the exact same story arc every single time, and whenever they try to add characters like Lady Shiva or even Bane to their cause, it doesn't amplify their presence, but merely makes the plots more convoluted... So, with that in mind, originally I was going to have Ra's but he would be this world's equivalent to Dracula... But the more I got references for the design... I figured why not just have Dracula and be done with it?

So, a much more interesting character is here with the Count! I based his design off the Bela Lugosi Dracula, as well as the great Sir Christopher Lee's take on the Count, and Drac's appearance from The Batman VS Dracula, one of the coolest Batman animated movies! So he is pretty simple in terms of designs compared to other Drac designs such as the Castlevania series. But I think that fits seeing how a lot of other villains in this Timeless barrage are pretty simple all things considered!

As you see from the post, in this universe, Dracula would have been one of Bruce's teachers, disguised as Henri Ducard, where he would teach Bruce about being a great detective in order to become the greatest, but the lessons would be cut short due to Ducard's mansion being lit ablaze after Bruce used his skills to uncover the truth of Ducard actually being a vampire. Dracula would return to Gotham after stalking Bruce's activities and resettle in the abandoned Arkham Asylum, ruling from the shadows as his pawn gets everything ready for the great Dracula's return to full strength...

Professor Hugo Strange... Is straight up Giancarlo Esposito. Yes, I know, he's a very tight casted man in these calm yet scary villain roles... BUT IN MY DEFENSE... I was watching the Payday 2 Dentist trailer and was caught in the moment, okay!?

So, a lot of Hugo's design is in-turn, inspired off of the Dentist from Payday 2, as well as Isaac a bit from the Netflix Castlevania anime, which is probably my favorite video game adaptation, ever. There's not a whole lot to say about Hugo since he is pretty much what you would expect: long white coat, surgical gloves, and of course that majestic, eeeevillll beard. I do think Giancarlo would be good to have as Hugo Strange rather than what others fan-cast him as, like him as Mr. Freeze...

Gray Owl is essentially the 'leader' of the armies of Talons for the Court of Owls, who in this universe, answer under Hugo Strange. Dracula does not approve seeing how owls are natural predators of Bats, but as long as they're useful. Gray Owl was inspired by Death from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, same voice and he would also have a whistle similar to Death, but it would be more like the Talons' usual 'Hoot Hoot' from the comics!

Overall, again another really simple design, I will draw some of the Talons themselves if I do big centerpieces to get better at scene composition, but for now, have their General!

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RenRen's Sketchbook | Art-Making Voice Actor!

@renrenssketchbook.bsky.social

#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (10/10) - Carmine Falcone - Salvatore Maroni - Rupert Thorne - Black Mask/Roman Sionis - The Designer #dc #dccomics #dcuniverse #batman #batmanart #art #digitalart #artsky #au #auart #fanart #blackmask #sketch #falcone #maroni #thorne #designerdc #characterart

Before the costumed criminals and gimmicks, there was the organized crime that claimed to rule the city from its roots without ever realizing the true ruler of Gotham in the Timeless universe.

The three crime lords are those I decided to include all together since they're very basic guys in suits to where they didn't really deserve their own character sheets. Falcone's was probably the hardest because I cannot draw anything other than basic character poses yet, but I'll get there!

Each Crime Boss has their own little flair; Falcone has the cape like a king, Maroni has his coat draped over him like a cape, and Thorne just wears his coat normally. I wanted to show the heirarchy of power withing the Gotham Underworld before Riddler comes in and rains on everyone's parade. If you look closely, Falcone even has the iconic cat scratches from Selina!

Roman was actually really fun to do, I've been getting more into Black Mask as of late so when I got to design him, I wanted to do something a bit different. I made his suit a brighter shade of pink with his vest being purple, a part of this was inspired off of Cesar Romero's Joker suit with its coloring, but I also took cues from the Absolute version of Black Mask with the brighter suit scheme, I was originally going to give him the white suit from Arkham Origins but I wanted to be different!

The mask I decided to leave totally blank, I was gonna add yellow or red specs in the eye sockets, but I think having it be a plain black mask just makes him more creepy an ominous, especially if used in the right lighting scenes! Overall, Roman is Roman!

Designer was one of my favorite lesser-known Batman villains even though he came from the god-awful War of Jokes & Riddles story arc, and I thought he could have been really cool, until it was uncovered that he was just another Joker scheme... Yay.

So, for Timeless, since a lot of these heroes and villains have horror routes, I made Designer a walking-talking Mannequin! So as he's walking, he has a very stiff and doll-like feel to him, and his voice would have a little muffle to signify the stuffing and more inside of his 'skin.'

Since he is a mannequin, that means his 'goons' are also mannequins! It's a little shop of horrors, especially for those who have an immense fear of mannequins. I don't have a clear story arc planned but, if I ever do something with these villains and characters, he's definitely a character I am excited to think of something for!

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RenRen's Sketchbook | Art-Making Voice Actor!

@renrenssketchbook.bsky.social

#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted (11/???) - Bedbug - Ragdoll - Punchline/Alexis Kaye - Bob The Clown #timelessbatman #batman #dccomics #dcuniverse #dc #art #sketch #artsky #krita #digitalsketch #fanon #au #auart #originaldesigns #oc #punchline #bobbatman #dcragdoll #spookymonth

Bedbug is a villain I am sure not a lot of people know or a lot may have forgotten about him since he was only used in, two comics during Paul Dini's time on the Batman book?

As the Timeless universe for Batman expanded, I decided to give Scarecrow some lackeys for a story arc that would warrant them, and here is what I came up for Bedbug!

I envision him as an escaped Arkham patient who would be personally experimented on by Jonathan Crane, even before he turned into the Scarecrow, but after a divine presence speaks to Crane himself, after he becomes the villain he would need his own henchmen, and Bedbug would be born with the utilization of the infested bugs that were dosed in Crane's fear toxin formula. These bedbugs would then be controlled by Bedbug himself, using them to seep into a person's mind as they sleep, biting and eventually eating their way through the bran to control Gothamites like zombies.

He wears a straight jacket with a bed sheet from his padded cell, he manages to get a single arm loose from the confines of the jacket and he has a hand-stiched mask made of leather, pleather, and other materials around the asylum that Crane could offer to his subject.

He has no name or identity after he was turned into Bedbug, as when Batman would unmask him, his face would have been practically chewed away at by these Bedbugs around him, until he [probably] meets a gruesome end like that one dude in Kingdom of the Crystak Skull with the ants.

Ragdoll is literally Sam from Trick 'r Treat mixed with a traditional Scarecrow design, and the Ragdoll design from The Batman 2004, like how a lot of other designs in this series are inspired off of that show.

He is the second member of what Crane calls 'The Acolytes of Fear' and always seen with Bedbug as they commit crimes, though in different fashions. Where Bedbug gets into your head and controls you from within, Ragdoll plays off the fear of pediophobia, where he enters the house of a victim and can change his size to be a lil' ragdoll that was given to little Carl as a birthday gift, that dad conveniently forgot. This makes Ragdoll a good spy and informant/assassin for Scarecrow's little group project.

He's very lanky to give the usual Ragdoll sense both in the common tropes of an actual ragdoll, and the DC character itself with him being able to slip through cracks and crevices to make a quick getaway. He has the same button eye and stitched up look that Sam would have with a few more stitches and even different fabrics sewn together to give it more of a put-together look, that and the suit would be very droopy, as you can see with that feet!

Bob was based on the character of the same name from the 1989 movie and that was it: the Number 1 Guy... Until he got killed by Joker.

I decided to base this off of a Spirit Halloween clown costume because I ran into a fork in the road when deciding what to do for Bob... I always imagined him being the most lowkey of the MANIAX and he would still be an accomplice in the crimes Joker commits with his band, but he's there to serve as the drummer and getaway driver for the group, so he's kinda just... There.

His main flair I gave him would be the star shaped sunglasses and the crazy orange hair that was inspired off of Captain Clown from The Animated Series! I imagine Bob would have the best fate out of the MANIAX, he would just go to jail, serve his time, and then be a free man to be another band's drummer. Bob is just Bob.

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RenRen's Sketchbook | Art-Making Voice Actor!

@renrenssketchbook.bsky.social

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#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (12/???) - Tweedledee & Tweedledum/Dumfey & Deever Tweed - March Harriet/Harriet Pratt - The Carpenter/Jenna Duffy - Toymaker/Griffin Crank #timelessbatman #batman #au #art #krita #digitalart #artsky #gotham #sketch #digitalsketch #dc #dccomics #dcuniverse

If y'all remember the original ten posts, I only drew Mad Hatter, yet I always had the idea of the Wonderland Gang from Paul Dini's run in my head... But for some reason I never drew them minus the Hatter, but that changes today!

The first two out of four members to show are the muscles, the twins: Tweedledee & Tweedledum! Their designs were heavily based on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland interpretation of the two characters, and it made for a really good companion piece for the Mad Hatter himself; originally I was going to stick true to the designs and make both of them red, which would mean just a simple copy, paste, and horizontal flip for Dum, but then I remembered that the ideal voice for these two would be the Ray Chase type, based on Agni and Rudra from the Netflix DMC show.

So, now Dee & Dum have their own colors for a nice color contrast, but also to make it easier to tell which one is which. I'm still figuring out the lore for these two but the story arcs I have right now is that, after the first huge major arc of the story, the crazies would be out and one of the main arcs would be of Mad Hatter and his Wonderland Gang tormenting Gotham, hoe and why? That's still up for debate... But everything will make sense in time!

March Harriet was one of my favorites, mainly due to me just loving the bunny suit trend... So I think out of all the Wonderland Gang, she's probably my favorite here.

I based her design off of a Playboy Bunny outfit mixed with a Spirit Halloween looking costume that I found on Google. I gave her the same pasty white skin as a lot of other characters in the AU do to fit the vibe, and gave her the light brown color of the LEGO Batman Movie March Harriet! Decided to also give her a Wolf cut, Butterfly cut, whatever the hair style is, I liked the tomboyish look of it and figured it would look great on her!

She wouldn't be too important to the story but it does kind of go into why she's dressed like this: I wanted to have the same effect as the Silent Hill 2 nurses where it was a look into the psyche of the main character in question, this is how Jervis sees women, at least some of them. I wanted to make a design that made that point across while also not using it as an excuse to just make an overtly sexy design, I didn't want it to be demeaning while also showing off a crucial, creepy flaw with the main villain, and I think Harriet's design is good for that! It definitely beats all the other times they try to make Hatter a dark character where they just make him a name on the Epstein files-

Carpenter was a character I was really hung up on... Do I go with the story idea that Jervis would have his female goons where the Spirit Halloween sexy costumes, or do we actually make a Carpenter design? As you can see, I picked the latter.

Carpenter, based on design, would be the most lenient with the group, since they're all brain washed minions of Jervis in his journey to find his Alice, which would be his ex-wife for reasons I will get to at a later date. So I made her the usual purple shirt with the white coveralls, and gave her a cut lil hat to complete the "fantasy" carpenter look!

I used this hair shading technique that you see with a lot of other artists and even animated shows and movies, I keep telling myself I need to use this more but I haven't on the villains after Carpenter so that will be something to work on in the future.

But yeah, like with Bob from the MANIAX, I can see Carpenter actually getting a good sendoff at the end of a Wonderland Gang arc, where she can hopefully go back to a sustainable life depending on how messed up her brain functions are because of Jervis, but only time will tell!

Toymaker is NOT a member of the Wonderland Gang, but I needed to fill the void with a fourth villain so I figured I would add him as a companion piece. While his name is Toymaker based on the Batman 2004 show, as usual, this is clearly a jab at ToyMAN from Superman's rogues gallery, while also being mixed with the Happy Mask Salesman from Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, even with the slouch and all.

He's one of the few villains that doesn't have that chalk white skin, instead going for a more gray, more drab tone to kind of show his unkept look. I wanted to make his hair look like it's plastic, something I inspired off of Melvin from Jeff Dunham's Spark of Insanity show.

Another piece of media I pulled from was actually Jason the Toymaker, but only for the shoulder padding you see donning Toymaker's shoulders... Now that I think about it, it's ironic to use two characters with the same name for this version of the Toymaker. I actually went ahead and read the Jason story and... Yeah, it's a creepypasta. It sucks. But the design is cool at least, albeit a bit too... Pretty Boy Anime-ified.

But, yeah! Toymaker! He'd be more of a minor villain, fighting alongside a villain maybe like Riddler, maybe Joker, or hell maybe even Killer Moth since they would both be minor villains in their own right!

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RenRen's Sketchbook | Art-Making Voice Actor!

@renrenssketchbook.bsky.social

about 2 months ago

#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (13/15) - Onomatopoeia - Clock King/Francis Grey - Ratcatcher/Otis Flannegan - Magpie/Margaret Pye #TimelessBatman #batman #dc #dccomics #dcuniverse #sketch #digitalsketch #art #artsky #fandesign #oc #clockking #onomatopoeia #ratcatcher #magpie #au #auart

YES! I KNOW ONOMATOPOEIA IS A GREEN ARROW VILLAIN! I was reaaaaally hesitant on including him, believe me!... But then I did my research and found that Kevin Smith, his co-creator, had Ono be a thorn in the side of Batman for some stories, and he was featured in Batman: Caped Crusader... Plus, I do think he looks cool. So, there.

The main outfit was actually from this very fancy, royalty-looking suit design I found off of Pinterest... May have been AI, I have no idea, but if it was then I drew this with my HANDS, so it's automatically better. I didn't want to just copy the Caped Crusader design, so I did some liberties and added some white to contrast that black and make him stand out more, especially with the trimming around the cuffs of the pants and shirt!

The pose was a lil awkward, I made it look like he's standing like Ronald McDonald, BUT you could chalk it down as Onomatopoeia being a pretty weird dude, so he'd have a pretty weird stance. And with his whole schtick of his dialogue being only... Onomatopoeias, then maybe he would actually do "Ba-ba-ba-ba-baaaaa..." if he's hungry... Does McDonald's even exist in Timeless Batman's world?

I don't have too much to say on the role Onomatopoeia would have in the overarching story, I can see him being an assassin like he normally is for the mob or for a higher villain. Maybe Dracula, maybe Penguin, or maybe Hugo Strange. I'm not certain if he'll have as much of an effect on this Batman as the mainline Ono does, but that would be cool to think about... Kind of. Iykyk.

Clock King is, again, another Green Arrow villain, but a LOT of Batman projects used him like BTAS and The Batman '04, which is where I got the secret identity name for this Clock King. Kind of a shame this design turned out so good, idk if the Timeless Green Arrow Clock King would turn out as nice, but maybe we'll see.

I based this design off of an armor set from Lies of P, specifically the Puppet Princess Formal Dress! I wanted to really hit the king aesthetic, similar to how Brave and the Bold did their Clock King! A bit of Lord Fraquaad from Shrek was also influenced in the design, mainly for the hat... Not sure what that hat is specifically called but I wanted to do something different besides a usual European crown that CK would normally have.

I'm playing around with Clock King having the ability to freeze time, or maybe he could have a similar six second rule like that of Ringo Roadagain from JoJo's Steel Ball Run, if I went with the former, he'd be your average villain, but if I go for the latter, then he could be a more honorable interpretation of the villain, which I don't see a lot of, but I could be wrong.

Originally, Ratcatcher was in the Nightwing villains roster, but plans changed for Timeless Nightwing as a whole, and now he's a Talon-

So now we have Ratcatcher here as a Batman villain! This design can be botched down to being The S*ic*de Squad's Ratcatcher II design with the colors of his Arkham Asylum bio art. At first I wasn't goo on board with it, but the different shades of green, orange, and a lil bit of purple make him stand out a lot! If I do change my mind though, I can always change the colors on Paintnet or something, but I'm happy with the results!

I imagine Otis being like his appearance in Arkham Shadow where he's this crazy religious zealot, but not on the same level as say, Blackfire would be. Otis is a follower and not a leader, he would be one of the weaker villains in both physicality, and mentality. To be fair, his main fighting moves are from the help of his rats, which a certain point in the story is responsible for even giving him the ability to speak to rats... I do have ideas of what he could look like under the gas mask, but that will be for another day... Eh, I'll just spoil it: Imagine Peter Pettigrew from Harry Potter. That's Otis.

Like with a lot of these villains that I added to the rogues gallery, Magpie was a character I had no intention of having at first, especially since I already had Catwoman as the thief character, but since Selina is the typical anti-hero/ally to Batman and his Outsider group, I decided to have Magpie as a fun obscure choice, and as a potential dark side to Selina. Maybe she's a friend or an old fellow thief that worked with Selina? I'm not sure yet.

But her appearance was mainly inspired by Beware The Batman's Magpie design, with a lil bit of inspiration from Misa Amane's goth egirl design from Death Note, since while I used her as a point of reference for Punchline as well, you can see it a lil more here with Margaret!

She shares similar attributes to Catwoman being the long boots, the corset, the hair... kind of, and the flair for making for an alluring shint object thief, but she carries the same chalk white skin tone that puts you off whether she's human, or not, as in this universe, villains can be very misleading with the way they ALL look.

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RenRen's Sketchbook | Art-Making Voice Actor!

@renrenssketchbook.bsky.social

about 2 months ago

#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (14/15) - David Cain - BRAINIAC-2 - Nocturna - Professor Pyg/Lazlo Valentin #Batman #TimelessBatman #DC #DCComics #DCUniverse #DCStudios #professorpyg #davidcain #nocturna #brainiac #brainiacdc #art #sketch #digitalart #artsky #krita #au #fanart #digitalsketch

David Cain was originally added because Cassandra Cain was in the AU, and I had only drawn her mother, Lady Shiva. But AFTER I designed David, I removed Cassandra from the AU because I could not fit her within the narrative as I wanted to in this Batman's time. But, I decided to keep David anyways and I'm glad I did, because not only was my time not wasted, but it's just a cool design.

I based this heavily off of Kabal but I tried to make it look like it could fit the Timeless Batman aesthetic with less of the Walmart-Ninja, or military ninja vibe that Cain normally has... Although when I say this and I look at it as I'm writing this lil paragraph, he looks a LOT like Storm Shadow from G.I. Joe...

I kept the traditional overcoat from Cain's usual design, added the Kabal mask from Mortal Kombat, and that also included Kabal's hook swords, as I did not want to give Cain dual katanas, because I hate how that's the default sword for every artist with very little understanding of different swords and cultures- who said that?

Other than that, it's a very simple and basic, all-white attire that finishes it off with the red, dotted, almost bug-like eyes in appearance that gives this David Cain a very killer vibe, literally. The story relevance for Cain here would be that he is an assassin, and as of right now he does not have any huge story significance other than going up against Lady Shiva at times which could make for a cool story arc in the future, but that will be decided later on.

Moving onto a much more simple design, we have Nocturna. She had a lot of revisions, kind of... Originally, she was going to be a lady of the night with a nightclub in Gotham, then she was going to be a ghostly assassin, and then I wanted to do something a lil more unique [kind of] and I decided to basically make her Sadako Yamamura from the Ring series... Same schtick too.

Black hair, black dress, pale blue skin with no mouth and very large eyes that pierce your soul... Like I said: not too much to really talk about with Nocturna, other than the potential lore I could drop? I imagine this being a good murder case, detective story with a case of untraceable corpses that are seen in front of their TV screens... Or maybe screens in general.

It would be a Batman/Zatanna story and it would end with Nocturna being sealed, dragged into a ghost dimension, or outright killed by Zatanna but I doubt about that last one. It sounds like a really interesting story though, so I might write something like it in the future!

Like with Ratcatcher, Pyg as going to be a Nightwing villain, and in this case, Pyg IS a Dick Grayson villain during his time as Batman in the Grant Morrison run, so by default I do consider him a Nightwing villain as well... But I said screw it and I made him a villain in the Batman AU!

His design is heavily based on Beware The Batman's Professor Pyg and a lil bit of Eddie Gluskin from Outlast: Whistleblower. I gave him the usual pinstriped suit with some wrinkles and even some skin exposed from his abdomen to give the illusion of a bigger frame. If you can't notice it already, his shoes also have the indication of being custom made to look like hooves that pigs would normally have! Just a little something to give the vibe of this guy being really into the whole pig aesthetic...

Lore wise, I imagine Valentin being a ringleader for the Circus of Strange, where Croc comes from in this universe, but the circus would be a breeding ground for dangerous and mistreated humans made to be circus attractions with very little regard for their safety. This also includes the helpless victims, especially women and children, to become Dollotrons that reflect Pyg's very twisted ideal of perfection, brought onto him by his mother in early childhood. He would be incarcerated in Blackgate, later Arkham Asylum but would only grow even more insane, and whether he takes place before or after Jack The Ripper is still up in the air, but regardless he would be one of Gotham's most sick and disgusting murder cases, and something that will make for a really good arc for Waylon Jones.

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RenRen's Sketchbook | Art-Making Voice Actor!

@renrenssketchbook.bsky.social

about 2 months ago

#TimelessDC - Gotham's Most Wanted - (15/15) - Joe Chill - Judge of the Owls & Talon - Quincey Sharp - Count Dracula, Reborn #Batman #TimelessBatman #DC #DCComics #DCUniverse #DCStudios #art #au #digitalart #sketch #digitalsketch #artsky #characterdesign #dracula #courtofowls #talondc #arkhamcity

Joe Chill, in my opinion, will reflect how your Batman AU will be, you can design Chill off of many ways but the main two that prevail are either he was a desperate crook who was scared, or the merciless monster who killed for the money, and for the hell of it. As you can see, I went with the latter.

Chill was heavily inspired by Judge Holden from The Blood Meridian, in both the face and the outfit, while also being the garments worn by lower-class citizens or street urchins in Victorian settings. He's a petty crook but above all else, this is the monster that Bruce Wayne fears the most, which is also why I obscured his eyes from looking normal human eyes, and more like a monster who is looking from under your bed.

I do have this Batman find Chill, and he does go to confront him, and Chill has no remorse nor empathy for killing this kid's parents in front of him. Batman of course wouldn't kill Chill, but it would not be a pleasant encounter for either party, especially since Batman would have to conquer his fear of the man who took everything from him.

In my time developing for this AU, the Court of Owls became more and more of a bigger presence, not just because I adore the Court, but also because I feel like for this gothic-horror inspired AU, I feel this Bat-Man should have his final adversary be the Court of Owls, with the overarching story of his world coming to see that these are the true demons of Gotham City.

To get the Talon out of the way, I didn't want to go for the usual Talon design, as believe it or not, I do have my reserves about it, because while it's not as absurd as the League of Assassins are with their blatant 'Mall Ninja' vibe, the Talons still give off that stealthy ninja vibe, and I didn't want to really go for that. Instead, I made them look like armored knights, I made them look like soldiers, I made them look like the enforcers of the Court of Owls, but above all else I made the Talons feel like they fit this gothic, dark world...

For the Judge themselves, I did some research and saw some inspiration from real life owls and some fan designs on Pinterest of owl warriors and sorcerers to get some pointers in the color scheme, originally I was going to give the Judge a very forest green color scheme, but I think this rogues gallery has a lot of green already, so I think this light, reddish-brown makes for a very regal, very cult-leader vibe, and that of course all tops off with the Judge's mask.

The identity of the Judge on my end is still up in the air, but this is the ending villain of Timeless Batman, so it only makes sense to give one of our final villain spotlights to the Judge and his Talons.

Beware the Court of Owls, that watches all the time.

Quincey Sharp is only really known from the Arkham series and I kind of wanted a corrupt mayor in Gotham that wasn't just Mayor Hill, and someone who can steal the spotlight after Hill is brushed out of office. Sharp's design is based on a character from Lies of P, but to be honest, I can't really remember at this moment in time, but to fit with the aesthetic, I did decide to give him that stereotypical 'Victorian Rich Guy' aesthetic that you see across a lot of media... And me and my friends joke around a lot that this is an evil Sir Topham Hatt from Thomas and Friends-

He has his signature cane, signature pose, and the wrinkles on his face. Doesn't get more Sharp than that!

The first major antagonist of Timeless Batman is Count Dracula himself, something that was in the works for a while now was what the endgame was going to be. Originally it was going to be Dracula, but this Batman had his corpse taken by Dracula and later would burn his castle down to escape, seemingly killing him when in reality, he merely weakened and reduced Dracula to the old mom in the wheelchair from Spongebob.

Why would Dracula wait at least 10-15+ years to enact his plan for Gotham and Batman? With this revelation in mind, I got to work on a possibility that, maybe Dracula is the one keeping things in check for now, being the Count, or the King of these [universal] monsters in Gotham, and Batman [freezing] him would only open the floodgates.

With this new idea in mind, Dracula would need a new design, something similar yet distinct from his original, Christopher Lee inspired design from before, which is why I basically made a more simpler version of his look from the Castlevania anime. With paler skin, longer hair, and a more young and athletic build, this Dracula is truly reborn and ready to vanquish the bat that dares take the name "Alucard" as one of his aliases. But this body is merely a tool, for the true desire is the body of Bruce Wayne, who was marked from birth as a being of great potential, of strength and diligence.

The endgame of at least the third or fourth year of Batman's career is whether Dracula will take Bruce's body and mind, or not.

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