There is no Batman. Part 1.

The first word in concept art is concept. What is the reason or story behind the design. For these I thought of the squandering of Batmans death from Final Crisis. Bruce Wayne is Batman, there should be no replacement. It diminishes his work if someone else can just be the same. Dick Grayson is not a substitute for him. He is Nightwing, which is a good thing because he has come into his own as Nightwing. Putting him in the bat-suit just made him seem like diet Batman. Now if you want to kill Batman off and make his death have an actual impact on others, you use his death to inspire. The Batman family doesn't have him to rely on so they have to borrow a slang phrase and step their game up. Below from left to right is Tim Drake as Robin, Dick Grayson as Nightwing, and Stephanie Brown as Batgirl. Like Dick for Nightwing, Tim has embraced the Robin character. The Red Robin costume from Kingdom Come, just doesn't work without Alex Ross painting it. If Batman inspires after death than certainly a black cape and cowl work here. I kept the R symbol but placed it in the center like a classic hero, as if to remove the idea of him as a sidekick. The Red tunic has the shape of a bird including the part under the belt mimicking a birds tail. Nightwing has always taken the look of a darker but still bird-based theme. With Batman dead, it was time for a significant change, and it turns out bats fly at night and have wings too. The core design is still Nightwing but the upper body has the colors reversed to mimic some of his older Nightwing costumes which always featured more blue. The bat replaces the featured wings and the now his head is covered. One thing I think Dick would do to keep differentiate him from Bruce is uncover his nose. Stephanie Brown got to be Batgirl for about 12 minutes before the relaunch and no one remembers. It was a role where no one really did a decent job after Barbara Gordon. Helena Bertinelli is better and more known as the Huntress, Cassandra Cain never speaks so getting to know her as a character never going to happen, and Barbara had grown into the Oracle role better than anyone would have guessed, so in my opinion, Stephanie Brown, who was basically useless as Robin or Spoiler, was the best chance to make Batgirl a character again and I don't think she was given a fair shot. This design is equal parts Huntress, Batgirl, Spoiler, Robin, and Batman. To be her own Batgirl I thought she might go overboard on the bats. Two on the boots which is a Batgirl staple, one on the domino mask, the utility belt, and as opposed to a symbol on the chest I made it a functional part of the suit, attaching the cape.