This week’s win goes to Atomic Punk. Love the pseudo-vintage vibe of the character, and the details in the face and uniform are very effective. Well done you!
Posted in Uncategorized
Honourable mentions: Cliff for London Fog and JR19759 for Grawp.
And this week’s winner is hawk007’s Burning Veins. Really beautiful use of colour and contrast. Well done you!
Posted in Challenge Favorites
Here is a cool video I found on my Twitter feed from marvel and is posted on Marvel’s youtube page:
Posted in Things I Like
In honour of Star Trek’s 50th anniversary, your Pop Quiz challenge this week is to design an original alien lifeform worthy of a place in the Star Trek universe.
You only get one entry so be creative, and above all else, have fun!
All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or whatever);
Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).
This contest will close at 6pm Eastern on Sunday, September 11th.
Posted in Challenges, Pop Quiz
Ah, September. Kids are back to school, it’s cooler in the mornings, and people like myself are already three months into Halloween planning. But now is that time that people also look back and reflect on the summer movie run for the year. So let’s take a look at a sample of what this year had to offer from May-August. Now, my list is a bit short, and will be missing some obvious entries. We live pretty far from the closest theater so we don’t get a chance to see everything. So here’s what we have, in order of release (and spoiler-free!):
Heromachine 3: Design choices, starring Apatite
This is a little piece on how I personally make choices in character design, using my latest Heromachine thing, Apatite, as an example. I’m not a professional and these are only my uneducated opinions, but maybe they can help you as well?
Posted in HeroMachine 3, Tips & Tricks
Hey guys, JR here, trying out something today. Depending on the turn out for this, I might bring back the caption contest as a regular post, but obviously that’s down to you guys.
So, what I require of you is the best and funniest replacement dialogue for the word bubbles of this picture.
Everyone can have a maximum of 3 entries, entries must be in by next Wednesday (14th Sept) and Must Be PG-13. Leave your replacement dialogue in the comments below.
Posted in Caption Challenges
As the old saying goes, money makes the world go round. Whilst it apparently can’t buy you happiness, it can buy an awful lot of other things; flashy cars, huge mansions, private jets, presidential nomination, you know, stuff that people without money can only dream of. And the same is true in the fantasy worlds of comic books. In order to get ahead, you need dollars. But which characters have accumulated the greatest wealth during their time in print?
For the record, I am not including any characters on this list whose wealth cannot be quantified, so I’m not including any aliens such as The Collector or Gods like Odin and Thor, nor am I including guys like Namor and Aquaman, who would be undeniably wealthy due to being rulers and having access to any shipwrecks they should want.
Warning: Actually, no opinions this time, although some of the facts are conjecture, but done by people who know a lot more about finance than I do so hopefully they’re accurate.
Posted in Comic Book Stuff, Lists
Ok folks, this week your CDC Challenge is to design a character based on one of the four elements: earth, fire, water or air
There is no limit on the number of entries. Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck. The contest will close at 9:00am Eastern on Sunday, September 11th.
Rules for posts, contests, and challenges: 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 warning. 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.
All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or whatever);
Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).
Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges
This week’s win goes to Melmo44 for this absolutely exquisite entry.
Well done, and thanks to all our entrants.
Posted in Challenges, Pop Quiz
Three middle-aged nerds (including yours truly!) review all of the MCU movies in chronological order. Short, funny, and full of good vibes, check it out and let us know what you think!
Nerdmudgeon.com
