Character Contest 93: Public Domain

Captain Fight and Smiler!

Your Character Design Challenge this week is to pick someone from the list of Public Domain Comic Book Characters and redesign them!

The person with the winning entry as selected by our expert panel (i.e. me) will win their choice of a) a portrait to go in HeroMachine 3, b) an item to go in HeroMachine 3, or c) a custom black and white "Sketch of the Day" style drawing (also by me). The rules otherwise are the same as always:

  • All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the UGO Forums, whatever);
  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • The image cannot have been used in any previous HeroMachine character design contest;
  • Please name your files as [your name]-[character name].[file extension]. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his "Bayou Belle" character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.
  • Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this). See this post on how to get the direct link for most sites.
  • All entries must be in by next Monday, when I'll choose a winner.

No limit on entries this week, so knock yourselves out. Just make them good!

Caption Contest 123 Winners!

Many thanks to everyone who shared their humor with us in Caption Contest 123. I've picked some of the funniest lines replacing the missing dialog in this strip:

And they are: Continue reading

At least one of them is excited to be there

(From "Target Comics" volume 2, number 2, 1941.)

Ruffles Pop Quiz Winners

Many thanks to everyone who entered the Ruffles Pop Quiz! Since we only had 23 entries I'll say a little something about each.

Off we go!

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dblade's Item Voting Machine Week 22

Each week, dblade has a poll to decide which items he'll create for HM3. This week's poll is Headgear from the artist Skywarp.

Skywarp is an artist that you can find on deviantart in the following places:

http://skywarp-2.deviantart.com/

and

http://capitalcomicsstudios.deviantart.com/

Stop by and leave some comments! As you can see his drawing style is perfect for HeroMachine. He has a lot of cool designs that would be awesome to add to the ole asset bucket.

Now's your chance to decide what artwork dblade will work on next. Whatever wins the vote will be completed the following week. This doesn't mean he won't work on other pieces. The winning piece will just be guaranteed his attention.

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Pop Quiz: Ruffles

Happy Saturday, folks! Your one-day quick-fire challenge is:

Make something using this item from Neckwear!

It could be a hat, or a broach, or a pterodactyl ... Ahem. Anything, really, just so long as whatever you come up with incorporates the item into the final illustration. One caveat, though -- you can't use it as Neckwear.

You only get one entry -- that's right, just one! So make it your best. Most of the other rules are the same as for a regular contest, but instead of a whole week I'll announce the winner tomorrow evening (since I'm getting this post up a bit late).

  • All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the UGO Forums, whatever);
  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • Please name your files as [your name]-[character name].[file extension]. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his "Bayou Belle" character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.
  • Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this). Here's a quick-start guide on how to do that for various image hosting services.

The winner will receive their choice of either one item or one portrait to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 release, or one Sketch of the Day style drawing where you pick the subject and I draw it how I like.

Good luck!

That's the kind of machine I'd expect two guys dressed like that to create

(From "Target Comics" volume 2, number 2, 1941.)

SODWA promo final!

Woody just sent me the final promo painting for the Super Omega Deathbattle Warzone Apocalypse game, featuring fully painted versions of the contest winners. And dizZAM do they look great! Congrats again to all the winners and to Woody for getting such a fantastic piece put together.


(Click to embiggen.)

Sharing Day, Gravatar edition

A gravatar or avatar is the little icon that appears next to your comments on various online sites. So my question for you on this Sharing Day is:

Why do you use the avatar or gravatar you have?

I'd love a description of what it actually is as well, if it's not blindingly obvious. I really enjoyed hearing your stories about why you use the name you do online, so I look forward very much to hearing the story of your visual id too.

If you don't have a gravatar or avatar, I encourage you to make one, then post it here.

If you like, in return for answering my question to you, you may ask a question of me on any topic and I'll do my best to answer honestly and completely. Just leave your reply (and question, if any) as a comment. The goal is to learn a little more about our community!

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Places you never want to go. Ever.

(From "Target Comics" volume 2, number 1, 1941.)