MISS Ion—MISSES Character Reveal

in #misses5 years ago

Welcome.

Today's MISS reveal has been mentioned quite a bit throughout this series, but has yet to be revealed herself. Not fully, anyway. Her birth name and current abilities were revealed a couple of weeks ago. Now it's time to show her completely powered up form.

Before that, the links below will take you to any reveal you may have missed. Including this one, there are ten in all.

MISS Support

Generation One

Team MISS


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Meet MISS Ion

Since quite a bit about MISS Ion was revealed previously, I refer you to the link to MISS Lead above to catch up if you have not read it yet.

MISS Ion (Noelani Kekoa) is the ultimate manifestation of human potential. Her mastery of MISS (modesty, intelligence, spirituality and strength), elevated her to become a being one with the universe. For the brief period that she is MISS Ion, she is godlike in her awareness of all things—past, present and future—as well as her ability to work with or reshape matter, space and time. She is immortal and indestructible.

The height of her abilities comes during a test to define her power limits. It is during this examination that all her abilities become fully realized all at once. In doing so, she becomes aware of the entity known as Wrong, which has been behind a good many tragedies and accidents which have occurred previously, and through MISS Ion, it intends to achieve ultimate power and god status.

MISS Ion also becomes aware of something else. Something that, if it were known, would shake the very foundation of the MISSES Endeavor. Because of it, and because she is not yet ready to handle all of the powers she now possesses, she essentially lays down those powers. In do doing, an enormous amount of energy is released, and she is MISS Ion no more.

Concept Art

Once again, credit for what follows goes to Graphics Manufacture for the character design.

As I've mentioned before, sometimes I know more of what I don't want in a character design than I know what I do want a character to look like. That doesn't seem to help much when it comes to conveying a concept or idea. It's much better when the vision is clear, and when it came to the design of MISS Ion, that little fact couldn't be more apparent.

What follows are the sketches I received first for MISS Ion after I had sent the supervising artist my first instructions.


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Sketches

These first three sketches were what came back initially, after I basically said I wanted a character that was feminine in nature, with cosmic effects. Space and stars and light and maybe nebulas. As a being one with the universe, MISS Ion should look the part.

As initial drawings go, these were just not doing it for me. I had been way too vague, although the artist did try to incorporate the elements I did give them. None of it bespoke of power incarnate, though. In looking at it, I got a little disheartened that maybe I wouldn't be able to describe what I wanted, and they wouldn't be able to draw it.


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These next two were created out of my attempt to get the character back to looking more like Noelani or the MISS Lead character (Polynesian in appearance, a little more recognizable as being or originating as human). In doing so, the cosmic elements were lost, and the hair in either case just wasn't happening for me.

Realizing this back and forth could go on forever, I decided I needed to come up with an actual concept, so I spent sometime deciding what I wanted MISS Ion to look like, which ended up combining some elements from all of these sketches, in a similar way that took place with last week's character reveal, Wrong, as well as adding new ones.

Interestingly enough, this revamp moved us out of the sketching phase to ink.


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Inks

I think the transformation is nothing short of amazing. The concept was, use a few things from the anatomy of the human body—heart and main blood arterials, but make them relating to space—a sun and energy manifested in lightning or electrical patterns. She should still look like she was wearing her uniform, and her hair should be dark, flying out from her head in all directions, and reflecting stars.

I also wanted some kind of light manifestation around part of her head.

Aside from the fact that she now looked a little younger than I wanted, and not as physically imposing (though she does appear very powerful to me), I felt we were finally heading in the direction I wanted the character to go.


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Colors

In moving on to colors, a few things got lost in the translation. The energy or electrical effects went green, which is generally associated more with a ghostly or supernatural appearance, which wasn't what I was going for. The light circle moved to her forehead, which seemed kind of out of place to me, and her flower seemed to become detached and start to float out into space.

So, for the first time in the color phase, I asked for some changes. This became the final result:

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This was much closer to what I was going for, and as has been the case with other characters, I felt we were at a point where we could call it good, even though there were some things that could still be changed.

This is the last of the character concept art I have currently available to reveal. I have yet to ask for more art, but maybe I will attempt to do that in the coming days. Or not. I'm hoping, however, in the process, anyone reading has gotten a good taste of what MISSES is about, and that enough has been left unanswered to elicit interest in more characters and story.



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Images courtesy of Glen Anthony Albrethsen

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As a starting point I kind of liked the one under the purple one. In it I liked how the collar looked in particular, (horse shoe type magnet), I thought that added to the "uniform". I am really not sure about the rather "brightness" of the orange heart blob, to bright, it seems to be out of sync with the rest of the uniform.Also not sure about the flower light in her hair, I understand the flower, kind of like an ode to her history a personal adornment, but the light thing I do not get. I am glad I have never had to try to get across what I want in an image for someone to draw, You have some good people you are working with it seems.

Hey, @bashadow.

So, the intent of MISS Ion's appearance was to give her some kind of cosmic entity look, which meant that her being was reflecting an existing section of space somewhere, which in this case included a sun where her heart would be, along with the lightning strike looks where her main arteries out of the heart would be.

Trying not to duplicate a costume or uniform is on an existing superhero is tough, and where I was headed with this.

The flower and the light on that side of her head are meant to be separate. The light isn't really doing much, and so I agree, it could be eliminated. Again, it was meant to represent some part of space reflecting through her body.

It's a definite process as far as communicating desires to artists. The first three characters and the last two are the most recent. They were all created towards the end of 2017, while the middle five I revealed were the first attempts. They were undertaken earlier in the year. I haven't used either artist since. If I did, I'd try to go with Graphics Manufacture simply because they were the fastest in turnaround. I had five characters in a less than two weeks compared to five characters over the course of a few months.

Yes, a very hard thing to convey. It must have been tough for the people trying to draw MISS-Ion, and representing space. I just realized her name with out a dash is mission, no wonder she represents space and everything sort-of. I think you are going to have a hit comic/graphic novel when all is said and done with it.

Hey, @bashadow.

Cool that you caught onto that. There's intentional wordplay going with nearly all of the characters, especially each MISS. Partly out of trying to find code names that haven't been used yet, but also to have a little fun with the English language. My hope is that the comic won't only be entertaining, but that it will pack a message along with being somewhat educational, all without it being preachy or overtly teachy. :)

So, there's layers I'm hoping to accomplish here.

Well, thank you. I'd like to think I have something going here. I just got to get more of it fleshed out and then I need to get some scripts and art going. :)

i saw the word play for some of the others, but completely missed this one.

It is a little more subtle. And I did make a little bit more out of the other names, too. Missable and Misspeak to MISS Able and MISS Peak have negative to positive connotations, while the rest, like Mismatch to MISS Match do, too. Mission to MISS Ion though isn't really a negative to positive kind of thing. So it is a little bit different. :)

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Those green vains look like her spiritual and supernatural power.

I had prefered her to be younger just like this. In some believe, people could live up 500 years and yet, still remain younger.

Hey, @maxwellmarcusart.

I guess it's all a matter of preference, I suppose, as far as coloring is concerned. I also want her to be younger looking, but now she's more preteen or very early teen rather than 15 or 16, I think. And, because of her size, she's supposed to seem older, anyway. So, I don't know. The MISS Lead version of her looks like she's in her 20s, so somewhere, there needs to be a happy medium. :)

Yup, she being in her 20s is better off.

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Super art, especially MISS Fire!)

I think MISS Fire will be one of the more fun characters, once things get underway. She kind of lives in the now, and that can be good, and it can be bad. :)

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