Monthly Archives: October 2013

Character Design Contest ♯44 (History) Winner

Last weeks contest had some truly historic entries (I'll stop there on the pun front I think), but of course there has to be a winner and this week we do actually have A winner (rather than having a tie like last week). And that winner is prswirve for Lapu lapu.44 prswirve- Lapu_lapu

Make It Sew – The Costume Blog

Due to a very busy week, there will no costume blog this week. I will try to get my "Schmidt" together and post as usual next Friday.

Friday Night, Just Got Laid … Off

I just wanted to give y'all a heads-up that I got laid off from my regular job today. On the one hand, obviously that sucks. But on the other hand, I am leaning pretty seriously towards making HeroMachine my full-time obsession once again. Ad revenue has gone way up over the last few months, to the point that it's a viable option.

I haven't decided for sure yet. But if that's the way I go, that means hopefully more app improvements like finally finishing out all the left-right item sets and such.

Thanks again to all of you for your long-time and continued support of me and the site. I'll keep you posted about how things go, any decisions made, etc.

Turn Your Dog Into a Super-Hero!

In conjunction with Dogster.com, I'm happy to announce a new off-site contest! Head on over to the article for the details, but basically one lucky entrant will get to have their pet drawn as a super-hero by yours truly.

Here are a few samples of what we're talking about:

Trinket transforms into a flying powerhouse who can corral even the most stubborn criminal!

Trinket transforms into a flying powerhouse who can corral even the most stubborn criminal!

You can have your mighty muscles and violent guns, Ramona prefers to save the day through the power of love!

You can have your mighty muscles and violent guns, Ramona prefers to save the day through the power of love!

In brightest day, in blackest night, no tasty snack shall escape his sight!

In brightest day, in blackest night, no tasty snack shall escape his sight!

You can run, but you can't hide from the silent but deadly assault of this muppet-eyed sweetheart.

You can run, but you can't hide from the silent but deadly assault of this muppet-eyed sweetheart.

Tongue a-flapping in the wind, Dolly fights for dog and country in the skies high over the city!

Tongue a-flapping in the wind, Dolly fights for dog and country in the skies high over the city!

Beasley's super suit gives him a variety of powers, including the ability to sense bacon within a ten mile radius.

Beasley's super suit gives him a variety of powers, including the ability to sense bacon within a ten mile radius.

I'm also offering these on a paid commission basis, so if you're interested check out the new page for that.

Big Question ♯22

As I said last week, for this week's big question I want to talk about bad or even useless superpowers. Now with all of the super-powered individuals running around in comics land, it's inevitable that a few are going to have powers that are, at best, not very helpful for superheroics. So, what I want to know is, who do you think has the worst power set of any comics character (and I'm not counting non-powered characters here)?

Continue reading

Kaldath’s Caption Contest #13

Well after a weeks delay it is once again time for the caption contest to commence. This week the image I want you to caption for me is ..........

new

 

As usual you are limited to three (3) entries and those entries need to be in by next Tuesday October 22nd at 12 noon Eastern time. Also remember to keep you entries within the bounds of PG-13 ratings.

75 Years of Superman

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/10/14/superman-75-years-of-heroic-history-in-a-2-minute-animated-short-exclusive/

Power User Profiles: Cantdraw

This weeks Power User has got one of the best shading styles I've seen. Some of his costume designs have been a bit, ummm, risky, but I can't think of anything he's done that I haven't thought, that's a pretty damn good design. He might not be able to draw, but he sure can heromachine. Give it up for Cantdraw.

Continue reading

Poll Position: Friday Night Fights!

fridayfightnight Logo

There seems to be enough interest for me to run another Friday Night Fights  therefore this weeks poll position will be dedicated to possible Themes for FNF.

Monsters: Five different monster types such as Vampires, Demons, Golems, Bestial monsters etc.

Super Team: A five member team of supers with 5 different Hero/villain types such as Brick, Blaster, Gadgeteer,  Martial Arts, etc

Mix Genre: Five characters from a mix of genre such as Fantasy, Super, Horror, Sci-Fi, etc.

Historical Figures as Supers: Five characters from five different historical periods of time such as ancient Rome, Ancient Eygpt, Early America, French Revolution ect. The catch of this would be that you need to re-image a true historical figure from the given time period as if he or she had been SuperHero of Supervillain back in his or her day.

Public Domain Remakes: I select five public domain characters you will need to re-design.

Other: Some other theme you'd like to see.

 

[polldaddy poll="7477404"]

 

********************

Last week I asked which party role you prefer when gaming, Tank, DPS, Healer, or Crowd Control. The Result of the poll based on your votes is .... Tank ... winning by just one vote, with DPS coming in second.

Character Design Contest ♯45- Naturalism

No, not that; that's naturism. This week I want you to create a character who can control some aspect of nature, so things like plants, animals, earth that sort of thing. I'm not looking for elementals, so no fire controllers or geo-mancers, but you can have water as long as the character has some connection to a natural environment (think Aquaman style powers). Also weather controllers will count.

As per usual, there are no entry limits, the contest will close at 12am Sunday (blog time). Please read the rules before entering, have fun and good luck.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges that I am hosting: Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters, no characters based on RPG’s or other games. The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warnings. Only post characters that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to a contest before. If you aren’t certain, don’t enter it, because I’m not going to go back through all of the contests and check.