captain america (Patreon)

speaking of sideshow, so some of you may have seen this image going around twitter yesterday, stating that this design was created for this updated captain america print

now, while that IS true, its not actually what i created this design for. 

it was originally made as part of a series of statues that started with cap and widow. the intent was for me to fully art direct these two statues from the very basic design (sideshow had been creating a body of statues with original designs and this was going to follow with that).

unfortunately as the statue approached the sculpting phase, the sculptor re-interpreted the entire design to fit their own aesthetics. attached is the final product 

now, if i can be shady for a sec

i absolutely hated this final look and tried to distance myself from it as much as i could. it leaned into all the design tropes i was trying to avoid for this design (heavy armor, modern military boots, no exposed wings, etc)

they also made me remove the exposed wings off the print, which i was super not happy about. the art director at sideshow is an old friend of mine and it took me like a week to pass that note to me cause he knew what my reaction would be.

anyways, the design got to exist largely intact as a print, but it'd have been really cool to see it as a statue.

i might post the widow design one day soon too.