Category Archives: Tips & Tricks

Advice and hints on how to create the perfect character illustration.

Hammerknight Recipe 3: Sit on it

(Hammerknight has once again been kind enough with his time and talent to put together a stellar set of “recipes” or instructions for how to do some pretty neat tricks with the HeroMachine 3 Alpha. With no further ado, I’ll … Continue reading

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Mechanics of Creation 4: “Females ONLY!” Poses Post

Sorry I’m so late today! As promised last week, here’s is the follow-up to my Super-Sizer Poses Post. I have to say, I felt kinda dumb neglecting the larger and more detailed problem of creating females. Oh, and just so … Continue reading

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Create a Character 4: Basic Humans

The one thing I wish I’d done at the beginning of this would be to give a basic art instruction course on the human form. I’m not terrific at drawing a human form, mind you, but I remember enough from … Continue reading

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Hammerknight’s Recipes, Vol. 1

(Hi everyone! Damien here. Hammerknight is going to be doing a bit of this from now on, and this is his first post! These are some of the how-to’s he’s been posting on the forums, and he’ll be joining me … Continue reading

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Mechanics of Creation 3: Super-Sizer Poses Post!

Damien here with the super-giant post on how to make the head-on views of HeroMachine 3 work in your favor! (Or at least not hold you back too much.) So give a big hand to Violodion for suggesting this…almost a … Continue reading

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Create A Character 3: It’s Not Stealing PER SE…

Sorry to make this one so much shorter, but I’ve had a busy week, done a whole other new Masking tutorial (see right, over…no, up now…there ya go, Quick Links! Check it out and let me know if I missed … Continue reading

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“The Official Masking Tutorial Work-In-Progress”

Damien here! All right, apparently we still haven’t gathered all the relevant information into one blog post. So I’ll give you, right here, a comprehensive list of the abilities and faults concerning Masking. Mostly, it will be a reiteration of … Continue reading

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Mechanics of Creation BONUS!!! A DamienBlog

That’s right, today is a BONUS Mechanics of Creation, requested by Whit and seconded by RSC5 within literal seconds of each other. So any brain damage or seizures should be blamed on them. I don’t know if they have a … Continue reading

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Mechanics of Creation 2: “What You See”

Time for the latest DamienBlog! Today we’re going to look at the idea of “What you see isn’t what you get.” Now, for many of you who’ve been with this site for awhile (especially you contest finalists!) there’s a certain … Continue reading

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The Mechanics of Creation 1: A DamienBlog

Jeff said I could start ANOTHER weekly column if I wanted, and I think this one is closer to the idea of what he wanted me to do in the first place anyway. So I give you Mechanics of Creation, … Continue reading

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