Jake and I have finished his HM3 prize for winning Character Contest 26 (Golden Oldies), a kobold body in Companions-Standard so Jake can outfit him like a regular character:

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I finally completed Blue Blazer’s prize for winning Caption Contest 54, and have posted his Stretchy Arms to BodyMaleStandard in HeroMachine 3. You can place most gloves on them with a bit of manipulation, and if you use the Masking feature you can get a spandex look pretty easily. Enjoy!

I’m not sure what I have going on there in that image, sort of a Michael Jackson meets “When I Think Of You I Touch Myself” by way of Reed Richards. Or something. But you get the general idea.

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Kaldath was in the right place at the right time, and I was able to get his HeroMachine 3 prize for the just-concluded Character Contest 28 (Child Of …) done:

It’s shown here colored, obviously, and in its default size and position. For longer fire-hair, you can use the Multiples setting, move one of the items all the way to the bottom of the stack, then scale it way up on the y-axis, like so:

Hopefully this will help make your fire-related characters easier to bring to life. Thanks to Kaldath for picking a great item for his prize!

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TheNate has approved his prize for winning Caption Contest 64, and it is now live in HeroMachine 3 under the Insignia-Standard set:

It works well either as a straight Native American style chest symbol, or if you scale it up and make it somewhat transparent, it can serve as a great body tattoo. Nice suggestion, Nate, thanks!

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The old D&D rules about the crazy possible consequences of drinking two active magic potions at once used to fascinate me. I don’t know what is about to happen to this fellow, but it ought to be fun finding out. For us, if not so much for him.

I’m still trying to learn how to do color for comics-style panels using Photoshop. I found a couple of tutorials with good tips, so on this one I was trying to figure out flats (big blocks of single colors that serve as the base) and having line art on a separate layer with no white fill for coloring, and so forth. Some day I’d really like to learn how to do a full-on painterly style of image, without black lineart, but just color serving as the borders of the shapes.

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(From “Master Comics” Number 57, 1944.)

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Many thanks to Hammerknight for putting together recipe cards for two more poses. Let him know in the comments that you appreciate his work putting these together, and any requests you might have for additional help topics. Click on any one of these to embiggen it.

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I am finally getting to the many back-logged contest prizes I owe people. The first to get approved is this Rocketeer-styled aviator jacket for Ian’s Caption Contest 67 victory:

When I get to converting all the various Male tops over to the Female template, this one will go along with them.

Thanks for the request Ian, I think it’s a great addition!

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You KNOW he’s got sandwiches in that utility belt somewhere …

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(From “Master Comics” number 57, 1944.)

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