#carrie kelley fanart

[internetgiraffekid1673]

Did you know you can move onto other brainrots and STILL be stuck brainrotting on the old thing too? My brain is a decaying piece of wood that has become an essential breeding ground for several species of rot. One of them is still the BatFam variety, so onto the next member!

Initial traces of Carrie Kelley, my child! Be honest, how many of you who have seen the Nightwing and Red Hood posts thought that I was doing Tim next? Well HA! Joke’s on you, I make the rules here! I have a very specific order in my head, and I will stick to that order!

Carrie is technically an elseworld’s Robin from The Dark Knight Returns, but Robin is my favorite superhero, and anyone who has been Robin will get my attention (yes Robin. Not Batman or Nightwing or any of the individual characters who have been Robins. Robin as a hero, regardless of who it is, is my favorite). At this point, she’s actually graduated to Catgirl and then her own iteration of Batwoman, but in my head, she’s the same age as Damian or younger, so she gets to stay Robin in my art for a bit.

I did two traces here because, unlike other Batfam characters, Carrie is in so few comics that I can’t just FIND a perfect, full body action pose from an angle that I like. The first trace is by far the most popular and easy to find picture of her, but it has her hair blowing around in the wind. This is a Problem, you see, because Carrie’s hair is a special challenge for me. In The Dark Knight Returns, she has this very distinctive hair shape that I do not like looking at OR drawing. So I knew the pose I used for my reference was going to need to be a pose where I could update her hairstyle. But, I also needed a full body, and that first photo is iconic, so two for the price of one again.

Stylization time! Carrie was honestly really easy to stylize, her hair is just a bit of a nightmare for me. I finally got a handle on it after the complete project, but it took a WHILE! Anyway, I more or less just lifted her updated hairstyle from her Batwoman costume and some cosplayers. And no, I’m not giving her pants. Damian and Tim are edgy Robins, they can have pants. Dick, Jason, and Carrie are not edgy Robins, so they get short shorts. I did give up on coloring her sleeves green. Too much of one color for me to effectively handle when her gloves overlap her sleeves. Also, I need to draw more characters with capes. They’re so fun to draw!

Characterization pose! In the comics, Carrie wears her goggles as a civilian too. I interpret this as her needing glasses, so I gave her regular glasses instead because wearing the same distinctive goggles you wear as a superhero is maybe not the best way to keep your identity secret. Comics Carrie has like one friend that you don’t see after she puts on the costume, and her parents don’t remember they have a kid, so it’s not like she has a whole lot of people to be hiding her identity from, but it’s the thought that counts. Schoolmates and random civilians and nosy reporters and all that.

I put her in a Girl Scout uniform for her civvy outfit because I think that it’s important to her character. The whole reason Batman took her on was because she was 1) crazy/traumatized/determined enough to buy herself a Robin costume, fight petty crime on her own, and follow him into dangerous situations and 2) used her Girl Scout first aid training to save batman’s life and splint his arm after he got his sh*t rocked in an ill-advised fight. I figured a salute, even if it’s a bit of a sassy one, was a good pose for her not just because of this, but also because The Dark Knight Returns is a very depressing comic, and so Batman calls her “good soldier.”

If you saw the first two posts, you may notice that I did not trace the hero text for this one, and that I used the same font for both names. This is because 1) I didn’t feel like the regular Robin font with the spiky R fits Carrie’s vibe, but she doesn’t have any comics covers of her own I can steal from and 2) I feel like Carrie’s personality is the same as Robin and Carrie. Unlike with almost everyone else, there’s no posturing, no distinction, no divide there. So the same font works for both personas.

Nightwing Edition

Red Hood Edition

[jessuru]

It took me a while, but I am with my Carrie Kelley redesign! I tried to not go way too far from the original one

[stargazinglesbian]

the many faces of robin (+ superboy)

random sketches i did during school today while i was bored as hell. jason looks disgusting and butt ugly but at least mia and tim are cute

[lingi-15]

🍀New merch incoming!!🍀 ROBIN Acrylic milk water bottle

Pre-Order now on my Etsy shop🥰

[m-sciuto]

Bat Ladies color wheel

[panspy-draws]

Carrie Kelley would be perfect for the Neo Gotham setting and this is my official application for her as Terry's Robin thank you for your time.

Cross posted on instagram!

[gbirrd]

[sprints towards you] HIGUYSCANIOFFERYOUSSOMEROBINDESIGNS

+ close-ups

[kristiano1979]

Carrie Kelly and Batman

[satsuna10]

Robins!!😻

[prehistorictoast]

So this is my version of Carrie Kelly, I never really had any issue with her design but I never really cared for how little characterization she has. Like The Dark Knight returns is fine but I guess I just wish she was in more flesh her out in main canon. (I know in main continuity she’s Damien’s tutor but still)

In my version she has a similar background to Jason however her parents break their addictions, they are still neglectful but not outright abusive. She has a passion for robotics and eventually moves to Star City to intern in a robotics program before returning to Gotham.

[photosoft0ys]

The Dark Knight Returns

[bylizhand]

gk

illustrated a little poster thing

[jessuru]

Working on a Carrie Kelly redesign!

[the-trouser-man]

Carrie Kelley mentioned!!!!!!

[dadoa]

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[rosetoya]

FB request(1) - Carrie Kelley