SKYMAN Drafts

As you all know, for some time I've been leaning on deciding to do one last selection of characters for my "WARMAN" series, known as the SKYMEN, to close out the series until I eventually start working on it proper. These are the same kind of WARMEN that you're all likely familiar with, but made for aerial combat first and foremost, with winged jetpacks and even more futuristic high-tech armor.

Today I went and worked on drafts for how I see the general looks of the nine models I have planned for what will be the final batch of models, which I plan to get designed in the next couple of months (perhaps around Christmas time, like what happened in 2015 with the massive influx in new WARMAN designs). Take note that these are not 100% final and on-top of possibly changing these brief descriptions over time, I will leave a good chunk of their designs and appearance to their designers to imagine.

M-17 SKYMAN (White): The first of the SKYMEN to be created- using the same all-around build style of M-10 as a base. The result is a similarly heroic, spiky white-haired model that looks to be steadily younger than M-10 with only slightly less developed muscles and a more rounded face. His white hair isn’t super exotic, resembling that of a typical anime male character with short hair, but it has its two longest streaks in the front dyed black.

M-18 SKYMAN (Brick Red/Maroon): A Jamaican-style model built to look slightly older than M-17 with a love for dancing, partying, and all around having a good time. His hair is a set of giant dark red dreadlocks formed into a ponytail.

M-19 SKYMAN (Turquoise): An Asian-style model with Japanese delinquent hair turned up to 11. He has an attitude but is normally kept in check by M-17 and M-18 and forms a power trio with the two models. He’s slightly less slim than M-18, favoring speedier tactics, but still muscular.

M-20 SKYMAN (Hot Pink): A model with a giant heart-shaped pompadour on his head. He is a highly brave and fearless fighter that cares deeply about his comrades and his own image, and has a love for sweet treats- especially chocolates.

M-21 SKYWOMAN (Tangerine): An energetic model with a love for action. She sports well-developed curves and her personality is a mix between the serious side of M-07 and the happy go lucky vibes of M-12. She’s based all around ranged weaponry and considers M-20 her best friend.

M-22 SKYWOMAN (Chanteuse): A “foil” of sorts to M-21, personality-wise. She would be just as curvy as her.

M-23 SKYMAN (Navy Blue): A hyper-gothic model with average-sized muscles, big thick navy blue hair on one side of his head (dyed black in some parts) that obstructs one of his eyes, and a love for all things dark, twisted, and metal. Even with his serious motives and spending most of his life dedicated to listening to music and attempts at forming a one-man band, he’s a decent guy deep down, is loyal to his crew, and is very flexible in his fighting style- preferring anything that can do massive damage.

M-24 SKYMAN (Pewter): A dandy, classy and elderly man built like he jumped straight out of the early 1900's but with the new and sleek armor design of the future. He's the oldest-looking of the SKYMEN but is clean, well-fit, and refined, along with an impressive goatee, old-fashioned futuristic eyeglasses in place of a visor, stylish hair, a smooth voice, and an eye for battle. He’s the brains of the team, with extensive knowledge on almost every type and style of weapon out there.

M-25 SKYWOMAN (Silver): One of the two “Metallic Power” models, a curvy female model with an almost hourglass appearance that embraces her attractive figure and built for maximum agility on land and in the sky. However, with all the weight poured into her body, she requires stronger fuel for flight, limiting her airtime.

M-26 SKYMAN (Gold): The other of the two “Metallic Power” models and created as a tag partner for M-25, M-26 is a fighter with a bodybuilder shape, being the tallest (just four inches higher than M-01) and burliest of the models yet, with super well toned but not exaggerated abs, arms, and legs- giving him the ability to wield the biggest weapons ever imagined. He has some shaved facial hair around his chin but overall his current hairstyle is unknown.

For those curious, you can see the Wiki page of the SKYMEN here, which still needs fleshing out:
http://warman.shoutwiki.com/wiki/SKYMEN

The final WARWOMAN: M-11

Several years ago, I made a series that was intended to be my take on a “battle androids” series, which I dubbed “WARMAN” as the title characters were initially an all-male group of humanoid war machines sent to dispatch a hostile alien race. The series was meant to blend in extreme action and a small amount of fan service, as all the WARMEN have exposed chests made of artificial skin as tough as steel. The idea was to create a series that both men and women would enjoy (the former enjoying the intense action and badassery of the main characters, the latter enjoying the clean, refined, and muscular builds of those same characters).

As time went on and more models got designed, I started getting feelings this the series would be too focused on male fan service even with one of the models being a female (despite the lack of camera angles that if the series materialized into game/animation/comic would intentionally show off the exposed chests or in a few cases- rears of the models), possibly to the point where it would drive away certain types of viewers, primarily straight men that wouldn’t find even the hyper-action or general badass-ness of the series a saving grace. Plus with recent controversies form the past two years about portraying females in fiction, and the otherwise low count of main female characters in the series up to this point (which clocks in at just one), I began working on a new game-plan.

In December of 2015, I launched a successor project in the form of “WARWOMAN”, which is focused on female models (with a 1:5 m/f ratio) as opposed to the male-dominant WARMAN line of models (which had a 9:1 m/f ratio) so I could better represent women that can both look good while still being dominant forces having immense strength, knowledge, and wielding powerful weaponry and other tools. Earlier that year before WARWOMAN’s creation, I had begun searching for artists to design up the appearances of the WARMEN- the different design styles of each artist becoming a plot point for the multitude of different scientists that would create the WARMEN in-universe.

Below is the original WARMAN design document; which shows off the current designs as well as the design specifications that documents how a WARMAN or WARWOMAN is built:

http://superjustintheblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/references-for-aimed-designs-for-warman.html

As of early August 2016, the main first lineup of WARMEN were completed after four years since the series’ beginning in July 2012, with M-08’s creation. Oh the other hand, the WARWOMEN have had all their members designed as well.. with the exception of one: M-11 WARWOMAN, the protagonist of the WARWOMEN chapter.

This is her basic appearance/documentation on the blog entry that also gave rough design concepts for the other models prior to their completion:

“Female, balanced build, has medium-length hair that extends down to her neck in some kind of exotic style (like a pseudo-bobcut), shares some personality traits with M-10, being the heroic determinator who acts on the serious side and is a bit of a tomboy”

For a more direct guide to her appearance, along with the specifications shown on the blog post:

>Anime-esque art style, to match M-07 and M-10’s style. In the concept artwork, she would be facing forwards (ala M-07 and M-10 or off to the right.

>Her main color is #088468 (teal or turquoise), which is the color of her eye and hair. Some parts instead use #22d690.

>Her body shape is moderately slim but still displays some muscle, and her height is 6’10’’ (2.8 meters). The body should look like a 22 or 23-year old female's.

>She sports a moody tomboy/boyish personality, but still has some feminine traits. Kinda reckless in fights, and doesn’t smile often.

>Her hair is short, arranged in a messy but exotic short-cut which goes down to the backside of her neck. (A bobcut of sorts is probably the one I see her with the most)

>Her breasts are a non-dropping F-cup, which is smaller that M-07 and M-13's H-cup and M-12 and M-14's G-Cup, but larger than M-15's E-Cup. Her hips are not as wide as some of the other models (though still large by normal human standards), but her buttocks are noticeably rounded and thick.

>Her highly-detailed armor is colored various shades of blacks, grays and dull/pale teals. In addition, there would be a small amount of visible scars and other forms of damage on the armor.

>Her chest, back, and the upper half of her thighs are made of skin while her buttocks are covered in black latex, with some muscle on the chest. Every other part of her body (excluding of course her head) is armored up with many pieces of metal, like the other models.

>>the lower or upper halves of her breasts (your preference) are covered with armor to form a one or two-piece “bra” of sorts that does not show (or otherwise hint at) the nipples under the armor.

 >>The vaginal area is also covered in armor, which extends to covering her privates under the cleavage of her buttocks. Her legs/buttocks can also be covered in a skintight black material.

Once she is completed, I will declare the WARMAN/WARWOMAN series fully finished for now. SKYMAN will be saved for a later day.

The fates of Aozora's Adventure and WARMAN

As I may have hinted in the past, I currently have no plans to continue neither Aozora's Adventure  nor WARMAN past the former's third arc (currently ending at Aozora's Adventure RPG 2) and the later's sequel story, WARWOMAN.

The reason? Until I actually start to further develop these stories and actually have them in some kind of playable format, I don't want to keep adding in characters to concepts that would ultimately see no use even after they first were launched in late 2009 and mid-2012 respectively. Therefore I've been mostly just sticking to improving and adding onto existing character concepts, as the Aozora's Adventure Wiki shows until I can find some way to make them into games. And that's not counting all the background and minor characters, including the respective enemy species of each series and in the case of Aozora's Adventure Oriental and Aozora's Adventure Darkness/Darkness 2, both the remaining heroes and villains.

Aozora's Adventure is planned to continue into a fourth arc, with Aozora's Adventure IV and Rock Aozora 4, while WARMAN would get a third installment in the form of SKYMAN- featuring eight new WARMEN that are built for aerial combat (tl;dr Strike Witches with muscular dudes and busty girls instead of moe girls, more advanced and detailed weaponry, dieselpunk-themed environments and far less intentional fan service through millions of crotch and booty shots.).

As for my other series concept Otaku-Ball, there's not really much going on with it, though I'd still like to get that title done someday.

Details and References for aimed designs for WARMAN/WARWOMAN.

Since I'm seeing if others could maybe contribute the designs for the various WARMEN in my rather very young (in concept) WARMAN series, I'd prefer to list off better descriptions for each of the remaining WARMAN concepts.
http://aozoraadventure.wikia.com/wiki/WARMEN
As always you can find the currently-made content for the series above, which includes designs for M-10 and M-07 to show how detailed I need these guys to be (and yes their chests are intended to be shown), and a general synopsis of the series itself.

A bigger look at all the models can be seen below:

Initially, earlier models are based about raw power, thus they have slightly more bulky appearances than later models, which are geared towards a more balanced speed/power tradeoff. Though I since then decided having each model just vary in power and agility, with some later models having more of a power build than an agility build even if they don't have low ID numbers, especially M-10 who's considered a "balanced build" but favors strength slightly.

And just to refresh anyone's memory, models with higher numbers are considered "newer" than those with lower ones. They're also full, 100% artificial; and despite their very human-like anatomy and the material used to make their skin very life-like, they possess no sexual/reproductive organs whatsoever as they don't really have any reason to breed.

Additional notes:
*Every WARMAN is based on adult males 20-40 in age range. No younger, no older, and no abnormal modifications to make them into non-humanoids with stuff like additional limbs, a tail, etc. The rare WARWOMEN, which in official canon currently only includes M-07, are based on adult females in the 20-35 age range and follow the same design basis and restrictions as the men.
*All WARMEN and WARWOMEN's skin areas display muscles on the chest in varying sizes. Power-builds typically have thicker muscles than those that are themed off of agility, with balanced models sorting muscle sizes that are in-between, though there are subversions.
**The skin of the WARMEN is entirely flexible, thus is is not composed of individual parts of skin, with visible "cracks".
*A WARMAN and WARWOMAN's hair is mono-color, usually sporting an exotic design. The hair's color does not have to match or otherwise influence the color of the model's armor (However the armor cannot be completely black). No model is completely bald, and any parts where hair would've grown is instead shaved.
**No model wears helmets, collars, or other accessories, or has parts of armor on their faces (such as chin-guards), but they can wear glasses. If the hair is styled, in the case of a WARWOMAN's, the hair scrunch used to support the hair is made of a combination of metal and a very flexible latex.
**The armor on a WARMAN cannot produce light normally, and fumes/smoke can only erupt from a WARMAN's body while it is combat, with the purpose of venting out the amount of heat present with the WARMAN's body while it is firing off weapons. There are no holes on a WARMAN's body for this specific purpose.
***Small sources of light can be present on a model, though it isn't mandatory nor is encouraged to include own a model. These sources of light must be very small and not be present in large amounts around the model's whole armor.
*Every WARMAN has a bare chest with no armor covering it from any sides, WARWOMEN wear two pieces of armor on each of their large breasts that resembles a detached two-piece bra (with the cleavage in-between the breasts fully-shown), but it can wrap around the back of the WARWOMAN's chest.
**And yes, the breasts of a WARWOMAN are intended to be large in size compared to the standard female. On average they are about a size between an H-Cup and a J-Cup.
*The skin on the chest of a WARMAN must have some kind of tattoo pattern/markings painted on with lines that runs across the WARMAN's skin and is colored the WARMAN's signature color. The markings have a "painted-on" look, not a "burnt on" look. Markings on their faces that are also these colors must be present.
*Every model's limbs must be thick/bukly and detailed, and can not be made of only one large part. Because the more your body parts can last in battle, the better.
**The arm must always at least resemble and move like a traditional human's arm, it cannot be super-thin or super-simple in design. Nor can one arm be bigger than the other.
**Their arms cannot be made into or have the ability to shape-shift into something that isn't a hand, like a blade, hook, claw, or firearms. If desired (but not required), small blades and some types of tools and small ammunition can be installed into and used from the sides of the hand or arm or the tips of the fingers (like razor-sharp nails or lighters on the tips of the fingers or a medium-length blade that can be unsheathed from underneath the WARMAN's hands should they not have blades on the sides of their arms or want a stealthier approach).
**Certain types of guns that are manufactured can mount themselves onto the sides of the lower arms of a WARMAN through the use of magnets and are fired by the WARMAN's arm muscles and consciousness once attached (though no references of a WARMAN or WARWOMAN should include any of these types of guns). WARMEN and WARWOMEN are still capable of using guns and other handheld weapons normally by holding them with one or both hands.
**WARMEN cannot fire off beams of plasma or other hard-light weapons form their body; they must find a weapon with this specific purpose. to use or attach to their arms.
*The design of every WARMAN's foot area, while still robotic, resemble standard thick work or army boots, not naked, sock-less feet. It is strongly advised to divide the foot/boot into multiple parts that can be bent on the end of the boot, since outside of a few rare exceptions, a WARMAN's metal is not fully flexible.
*The legs of each model are generally thicker compared to a standard human's, and the entirety of it must be armored up completely. WARWOMEN generally sport thicker legs than a WARMAN to show off more of a curve.
*A posterior can be implemented onto the WARMAN's design on their backside, made of either metal (with thin folding lines across the buttocks that move along with the model as they walk or move their legs), skin (for WARWOMEN only), leather, or latex. The cleavage in-between the buttocks can vary in size, and If made of skin on a WARWOMAN, the area where the privates on a normal human female would be are covered up using metal, leather, or latex. Posteriors made of skin on a WARWOMAN are part of the skin on their backs.
**WARMEN take the metal/leather/latex buttocks and have realistically-sized rears, though there are exceptions where the buttocks are made slightly larger than a traditional man's, especially if the model has wide hips. WARWOMEN will (though not always, as shown with M-07) take using posteriors made of skin (as noted above) and (regardless of material) have buttocks that reach bigger, but still realistic sizes (usually with more of a cleavage).
*The bodies of the WARMEN themselves cannot hold any type of supplies like first aid, or food. They already have all the stuff and as they are robots, and injuries are "healed" via self-repairs and charging. As for food, while they can ingest human food and drinks; they do not need it to live and can simply get their energy by fueling or through receiving energy though their "backpacks". The only time food would become a necessity is if the model is on the verge of running out of energy and needs to burn up the food for reserve fuel, or decides to go for long periods of time without a backpack. The backpack is not made of fabric or any kind of material other than metals.
*While there can be a few electronical parts that are energized and powered by the model's fuel, such as small lights, there can be no monitors or other screens and complex electronics on the model's body. The model also cannot use electricity to attack directly, such as through electrical cannons/discharges or floating power cords.
*The thrusters for the jetpack the WARMEN use can be placed on either the direct bottom of the boots, on the sides/back of the boots, or on the back of the model's "backpack". If it is on the back, the model may need to sacrifice storage space for repair supplies or other goods the WARMAN may find essential to prevent damage to the goods while using the jetpack strapped on the WARMAN's back. Optionally, if the jetpack is on the model's backpack, they can be made to fold and expand out. WARMEN do not use propellers/helicopters to fly.
*WARMEN themselves should be very resistant to catching fire as their bodies frequently build up heat from all the weapons and utilities they can use at once.
*The "backpack" on the back of a WARMAN must be removable (No straps ala a traditional backpack worn around the model's arms). Models attach and lock their respective packs onto their backs when they go into battle to provide them extended life, armor, fuel, and energy. They're also necessary for fueling a model's jet boots if they do not sport a jet pack somewhere within their back packs. As detailed in the second bullet, a WARMAN can remove their backpack and still live, though they will be required to eat human food in order to sustain the energy needed to power them, or else they will become inactive.
*WARMEN are full 100% waterproof, and should be able to survive in any body of water even with all the bulk they may sport.
*Every Model has their ID number imprinted onto one of their robotic legs (either the left leg or right leg) and placed horizontally or vertically. The format is "M-##".


With that said, onto the list. All of the designs are both male and light-skinned (with the same skin tone as M-10 and M-07 unless otherwise noted, and their hair color is the same as their main color:

M-16: Light Blue (medium-range hair, is the only male of the WARWOMEN group, the "pretty boy" who acts slightly on the flamboyant side but doesn't play the trope completely straight)

M-15: Cream (Female, fits the "tough girl" architecture, sports a lot of battle damage and lack of visible pupils dup to her injuries that she never cares to get fixed)

M-14: Dark Grey (Female, Details unspecified, appearance, personality, and build type can be determined by designer)

M-13: Indigo (Female, Black skin, Frizzy long hair, wears lipstick that matches her signature color, the “bulky powerhouse” of the WARWOMEN, has the thickest legs and posterior area. Typically acts serious and direct when doing her job, though outside combat she’s more comfortable, laid-back, and supportive)

Her physical shape is based on a general dark-skinned stripper(sorry I had to say that)/performer and is very curvy like M-07, with strength that almost rivals those of "heavyweight" models 01, 02, and 06.

M-12: Bright Pink (Female, untrimmed and straight short hair on her head, longer hair is curled up into two large thick pigtails on the sides of her head, has a cheerful “Girly Girl” personality who likes cute things despite her occupation and role as a war machine, is somewhat clumsy and likes to make people and herself happy, but can snap if frustrated.)

She a slightly less curve to her figure than M-13 and is not as bulky, being based on a balanced power-agility model, leaning slightly towards agility, but still sports the WARWOMAN tradition of larger than normal breasts and (to a lesser extent) buttocks.

M-11: Teal (Female, balanced build, has medium-length hair that extends down to her neck in some kind of exotic style (like a pesudo-bobcut), shares some personality traits with M-10, being the heroic determinator who acts on the serious side and is a bit of a tomboy)

The only real inspiration regarding her that I could think of would be something along the lines of a more mature Ryuko Matoi from Kill la Kill in her late twenties (thus, acting like an adult), along with the basic mold of most other female protagonists in Shonen/Seinen anime. Thus she should display a lot of bad-assness much like M-10 with some of the other female models' sexiness.

M-10: Black (Already done)

M-09: Pink (Long Hair, dark skin, self dependent and moody at most times with 1/4th closed eyes)

Based on a particular male NSFW model that to prevent people being scarred for life, I had to crop more than I originally did (especially since all I wanted to show was the hairstyle and to a lesser extent the eyes)

M-08: Sky Blue (Short hair with a short spike trim in the front)
I don't really have any design or personality preference for him, probably a calm, supportive character with a bit of a smooth, and happy go lucky (though not too cheerful) personality.)

This is unfinished concept art of M-08 from artist Dedyk, if you want a bit more of an idea on what he should look like in the end


M-07: Orange (Female, Already done)

M-06: Green (Short, partially messy hair, Shaved on one side)
No design preference for this one either; though from what it feels like he'd have shades of a generic Shonen anime/manga protagonist.

M-05: Yellow (not blonde) (Long, somewhat-messy dirty blonde hair with a front bit that grows in front of his right eye, a lazy but confident fighter, has lazy eyes and mild freckles on his cheeks, has slimmest chest area, the design of his mechanical legs resemble baggy pants).

Again no real design basis for him, aside from his chest area being the most skinny (but still showing muscles) of the ten WARMEN. So expect him to have a bit of a "pear" shape when you go from his hip to his legs before it goes into the robotic legs, especially when viewing him from his side. Additionally, the yellows present on his body progress in the shading order of yellow to dark yellow to a darker yellow, not yellow to orange to red.

M-04: Violet (Shortest in height despite being a bit bulky, made to resemble a 21-year old, wild purple spiky hair [spikes extend a great distance], "crazy", impatient, and grumpy personality, shows pointed teeth)

M-03: Navy Blue (Long clean/smooth hair that drops below the face and covers one eye, falls under depression easily, but not as much or often as a generic "depressed" guy, and he is up to fighting and putting up his best efforts.)

Hair-design wise I had mostly Venom from Guilty Gear on the mind, but with one or two snippets trimmed to show the other eye. (leaning towards exposing his left eye)

M-02: Red (Long hair formed into an axe blade, "cool" and carefree personality,  likes fighting the most out of the others while smiling and providing positive influence, wears sunglasses)

I should point out that this guy likes to smile and is yet another design of mine to be loosely based on Johnny Bravo (mostly in his personality). The mohawk in his hair forms into an axe, with a razor-sharp blade forming the very top of the "blade" hair.

M-01: Brown (Most heavy and muscular of the pack, the only one with beige skin, the loyal one that always gets the job done.)
Perhaps based on a typical "bear" model, minus all the body hair and developed into a more bodybuilder shape than a "fat" shape. Also while he is larger, he's not super-huge or anything. He's a more natural height/shape.

And with that that's pretty much all.

Bonus: I also wanted to share a quick fun fact; here's the model that I took M-10's (facial) design from:

M-07 WARWOMAN Preview

By now everyone should know about my recent WARMAN series, which I launched earlier last July. Since then I got a brief overview of the series and the series' protagonist M-10 WARMAN posted onto my deviantART. Not long after I began work on M-07 WARWOMAN, the only of the WARMEN to be female, and the only one aside from M-08 WARMAN that remains loyal to the good guys of her team (i.e. wasn't put under control by the Parous).

I made quite a bit of progress on her design; and I'd say by now it's completion ratio is in the late 20's. Her profile art will take advantage of burning in the multiple layers of cell-shading, which I've done previously on M-10 WARMAN.

Since I'm getting "this" close to finally revealing more stuff about Otaku-Ball (I know I've already made a blogpost on it, but this one will describe all the features that will be utilized), I created this little c*appy teaser image within a pathetic timespan of 30 to 40 minutes.