Character Design Challenge 301 – Tis the season to be fugly!

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Your challenge this week is to design the ugliest Christmas sweater you can imagine.

Whether you are a pullover, cardigan or sweater vest aficionado, throw all caution and taste to the wind, and just have fun!

No limit on entries this week.

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 :,ImageShackPhotoBucket, or 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 filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. 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).

This contest will close on Sunday, December 11 at 9:00am Eastern.

 

14 Responses to Character Design Challenge 301 – Tis the season to be fugly!

  1. cliff says:

    @Herman,
    that is a friggin BRILLIANT use of shell to make the tree. Bravo!!

  2. Thanks, Cliff! Doing ugly stuff is my genre of choice in HM haha. Where’s your HM portfolio if I might ask?

  3. cliff says:

    @Herman
    I plan on saying this in my entry but “Ugly is in the eye of the beholder” … “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure “and all that

    and here is the link to Cliff’s Eclectic Mayhem.
    This year’s stuff starts on page 9
    http://www.heromachine.com/forums/topic/cliffs-eclectic-mayhem/

  4. Professor Colum Numberal has the gravitas of a Benjamin Franklin. Love the Fort Worth Witches Meetup sign as well! Capt Cyrus Gale: love it – faces are hard as heck to do, and that one rocks.

  5. cliff says:

    Ya know some people love their Christmas sweaters, hense there is
    many. And as I have mentioned “Ugly is in the eye of the beholder” I
    actually KNOW many people who would LOVE to have this sweater.

    So here we have Goth boy and studant of the Occult, Ethan Eldridge,
    who will grow up to be sorcerer Professor Eldritch, in his Winter Solstice
    sweater..

    http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_TisTheSeason_Krampus002_zpsgqkjrf5k.jpg

    and appropriate inapprpriate music
    ACTUALLY – KRAMPUS REDUX (Official Video)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kxgLs8VSJ4

    @Herman
    thanks for the view and comments

  6. cliff says:

    Not sure if it’s just a Texas thing, a Southern thing or what, but it’s common to see sweaters and shorts around here.

    PERFECT theme for the contest, and one of the girls wears shorts with her ugly sweater
    UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER (Bang Bang Parody)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty78drPhag4

    http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_TisTheSeason_Bearss_zpss3ylhdxx.jpg

  7. kellkin says:

    Who said only people should wear ugly sweaters??

    Here is another Ugly Sweater

    http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd510/Kellkin/Ugly%20Dog%20Sweater_zpsczcjybj8.png

  8. Sweaters and shorts is preparing for an ice age and global warming: that’s just smart if you ask me.

    Love, the reindeer’s face, kellkin

  9. kellkin says:

    Herman Smellville:
    Sweaters and shorts is preparing for an ice age and global warming: that’s just smart if you ask me.

    Love, the reindeer’s face, kellkin

    Thanks! Just cause it’s ugly doesn’t mean it can’t be comical lol

  10. Herr D says:

    Back in the corner of the last storeroom in the second Gimble’s re-opened store is the sweater that Myrna quit over. She said it was in poor taste. She’d been looking for an excuse to quit. Thankfully the 9-volt battery that powered the sweater and attached straw-and-star wig wore out that March.

    http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-UglyChristmasSweater_zpspkhmkezt.png

  11. djuby says:

    Contest closed. Results posted shortly.