Honourable Mentions: Cliff- Greyscale Model & Superfly30- Frontier Sunset
Winner: Tango- Fly For Love
Posted in Challenge Favorites
A new year, and yet some things never change. AMS being incapable of doing anything that could be described with words other than “sublime” or “jaw-dropping” is a good example of this. This week he has posted three brilliant pieces in his gallery, but I have to give the nod to this on because, in my opinion, it is one of the best he’s ever done. The pose has such attitude, the costume is powerful and sexy whilst not being outlandish or unrealistic, and of course, being AMS, the shading is perfection. But my favourite part is her face. AMS is quite good at faces when he want to be (mainly when he doesn’t do characters wearing masks or helmets or such things), and this one just combines everything in the picture into one expression, containing all of the power and attitude of the rest of the picture just in a look. Perfect.
Gallery- Planet AMS
Posted in Character of the Week
Ok guys, for this weeks challenge I’m taking away your ability to use colour. Your entire picture must be done in greyscale. Think early 20th century photography and you get the idea. You can create anything you feel like, provided your picture has a background, and the only colour used is white, black or grey. Sounds simple enough right. Just make sure it’s not flat or boring, which is the problem you’re going to face working in greyscale.
As per usual, no limits on the number of entries and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). Please read the contest 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.
Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges
3rd Place 2015 Hall Of Fame Poll
Comments Off on Hall Of Fame: Manhunter by Candruth
Posted in Hall of Fame
4th Place 2015 Hall of Fame Poll
Comments Off on Hall Of Fame: Heavy Unit Turtle Shell v2 by Extremely Epic
Posted in Hall of Fame
Honourable Mentions
Cliff- Get In Shape & Brons- Xoyotec
Winner: Vampyrist- Shapes Shonen
Posted in Challenge Favorites
So, to kick off a new year of COTW’s we’re going to have this very interesting piece by Hawk. Now I’m sure everyone can tell why I’ve picked this. It’s is very difficult to do a back facing pose on Heromachine and make it look good, we don’t have items that facilitate such a pose, so you have to work around it and usually it looks slightly off, no matter how good you are. Hawk has managed to get round this problem with what can only be described as “a lot of shading”. If I had to nit-pick I’d say he could have used different gauntlets or paid a bit more attention to their placement, and trying to do something for the feet, rather than basically blacking it out, but those bits don’t detract from the picture in too severe of a fashion, as I said, nit-picks. Overall, the item usage to make the pose work is excellent and the atmosphere is brilliantly done.
Gallery- Hawk’s Nest
Posted in Character of the Week
So, new year, new CDC’s. For this years contests I’m going to be focusing more on the Challenge aspect rather than the Contest aspect. I’m also only planning to take the CDC’s up to the 300th contest, which is going to be CDC197 under the current numbering, and then see what happens afterwards. As with the end of last year, I will be judging the contests and picking a winner at the end of each week, so polls will not be making a return.
Anyway, in line with the new CDC ideology, this weeks Challenge is for you to only use shapes in creating your character. And when I say character, I mean character, no random combinations of shapes into some form of abstract or minimalist art. You are only allowed to use items in the Insignia’s or Backgrounds- Shapes/ Backgrounds- WordBalloons categories and nothing else.
As per usual, no limits on the number of entries and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). Please read the contest 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.
If you don’t know how to enter, there’s a handy little diagram below the jump.
Posted in Challenges, Character Design Challenges
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
