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BatPony and Joker

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So I finally caved in and drew my favorite fandom as ponies.  I know these cross overs have been done to death, but because of what the Brony fandom has done for me and my art, I felt it only seem right to combine the other fandom that I'm part of that has also helped me through tough times.  Might it be watching the show and movies, talking about it with other fans or making art based on it, I realize just how much I have grown not only as an Artist but as a person, thanks to the people I have met all because we like the same thing and see it than more than just a form of entertainment as so many people often diminish it to simply be.

These two characters mean so much to me.  They represent my childhood for me, but also represent two very different sides to me.  On one side, I feel like a tortured frustrated melancholic artist, trying to save the art world from the <nobr>corrupted</nobr> cesspool that this world has become.  The other side, I  feel like an incurable optimist, to the point of delusional joy, like art is the only thing that makes me happy and if anyone dares to diminish what I'm doing, calling it nothing more than a hobby...? well...chaos breaks lose.  

Batman and Joker are to me, two of the most perfect characters ever invented.  The thing is, neither of these personas are evil or good to me.  They both have inarguable logic as they both represent the best and worst sides of humanity.  They show how two very different people react to one bad day.  Neither of them acted in a healthy way and that is the point.  But one still clings to his belief that humanity still believes in good, and that it is worth saving.  This is what Batman and Joker mean to me.  As for the whole reason behind making them ponies?  Well, I wanted to portray that cross overs need not simply be a character standing in a pose like they're in front of a photographer.  I hate those.  How boring.  There's no story.  To me, there needs to be a point to a cross over, and even if it is simply recreating an already existing scene, at least your not only reinventing their aesthetics but the world they exist in as well.  Here for me, if Bruce Wayne and his Gotham existed in the same world as Equestria, this is like the metropolis of Earth Ponies.  Gotham would still be dirty, grungy and harsh as it always should be.  There would be no magic here.  It would be industrial, loud, polluted and dangerous.  Batman and Joker HAD to be Earth ponies.  They're super power is their intellect.  Despite Bruce Wayne's strength, it's his detective skills that give him that edge.  However, I felt he needed to have the build of bulk biceps, and be huge.  He looks even bigger than he really is as he's on his hind legs and  te armour makes him appear even bigger (not to mention Joker's scrawny build helps too...)  Having them as unicorns or pegasai would make no sense to me.  You could argue that Bat Pony should be a pegasis, but for me that would give him an advantage in his anatomy rather than an advantage in his ingenious gadgets that would allow him to do so much more than just fly.  Besides, if anyone from the DC universe should be a pegasus, it would be Superman.  (anyway...)   Batpony had to be of a similar build to Bulk Biceps, and it took me a while to figure out his mane and coat colour, but in the end I decided to keep it neutral tanned browns to contrast with Joker's garish ice blue coat and electric <nobr>green</nobr> mane.  

It took a while to get Joker's face right.  I wanted him to have the characteristics of his design in the 90s animated series, the elongated chin and sharp features, his cheekbones exaggerated to imply he's hardly eaten.  I like to think of the Joker like this; if he's in and out of Arkham...well, would you eat the food in there if you had delusions of grandeur?  You would end up pretty skinny, right?  They both had to be earth ponies.  They had to be on the same level in that perspective.  Batman's dominance over the Joker as he dangles over the edge of a roof of a tall building, Batman is torn.  He wants to drop him, destroy this abomination that dares to claim that deep down everyone else is just like him.  But to do so would only prove that he was right.  Joker stares mockingly back at him, daring him, almost willing Batman to drop him because he has lost all faith in this world he sees as one big joke that no one else seems to get.
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