MELTER WHO?

so, for those that have been following me on twitter, i mentioned a wee while back that i had to draw/design this character below, the melter, to hopefully make him look kinda cool and contemporary. especially since i have to be drawing him on several pages of the next issue i'm working on.

needless to say, i found it really really hard especially with his flowing puffy sleeves and groovy peter pan boots with ribbed green tights. luckily upon further googling, i found that there were variations in his costume designs even though there were just very slight. still... phew...

so using the 3 images, i conceptualise something that will hopefully work. the third one, i'm happy with. happy enough that it won't drive me up the wall whilst drawing him on several panels of pages.

here's a bigger shot. i couldn't help thinking his shape and design is slightly reminiscent of nite owl from the watchmen movie. but it kinda works right?