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I drew this for one of our Champions campaigns back in 2004. I'll try to dig up the Flash version so I can get the city block in the program if possible.
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Welcome one and all to this weeks Character Redesign Challenge! This week I am departing from the real of the superhero and in to that of high fantasy. For you challenge I want you to tackle this old AD&D 2nd edition character of mine:
No a lot of need for information on this character as she isn't that much of a complicated character. She is half Grey Elf, and half Sylvan Elf. She is a Mage and a Thief with a bit of a taste for the finer things in life. If Alisha can't beat you with her magic she will fall back on pure trickery if she has too.
The Rules: No limit on the number of entries you can submit in your attempts at redesigning the above image, however you most keep within the rules of the forum and blog when creating your entries. You have until Monday January 20th at 12 noon Eastern Time to submit all your entries, and the winner will be announce the next day. Good luck everyone and happy HeroMachineing!
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Posted in Character Design Challenges
Last week I asked you to redesign these characters for me:
Not a great turn out for this particular challenge and with only three entries to choose from I am declaring this one a three way tie!
MScat's:
headlessgeneral's
and
D's:
Congratulations to all three of you, for your hard work on these images!
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Truth be told, I'm trying to get the "publish to Facebook" plugin working, so as a result you get ... MORE old drawings! This one's from 2005.
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Posted in Sketch of the Day
Continuing the "Romp Through Jeff's Hard Drive", here's a cover I did for an issue of "Digital Hero" back in 2002. Yes, people were alive back then.
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I did this drawing of Wil Wheaton's dog Marlowe as a super hero. I know, I'm weird.
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Apropos of nothing other than me trying to clear off my hard drive, this is a character sketch I did for Jeff Mejia's "Legends of Steel" RPG way back in 1996 that I thought you might enjoy.
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Inspired by an AMS comment, I've just added the following items to HandRight-Standard:
Basically the idea behind these is that you can use them to simulate holding an object without having to use masking, since you can only mask one thing to one other thing at a time. So for instance, you can use the first two to put a rifle in a character's hands with just layering -- all the parts that would be covered in the hand are just not there in the first place.
If this works and there are other hands you'd like to see get the same treatment, let me know.
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This week I want you guys to create an awesome gadgeteer type hero or villain. I'm looking for tech suits, big guns, hologram computers, you name it. It can be golden age or modern, I'm not to fussy, just make it good.
As per usual, no limits on entries this week, the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). The winner gets to claim a custom made item from dblade to be put into heromachine, so long as the item conforms to his prize rules, which you can find here: http://www.heromachine.com/forum/the-heromachine-art-gallery/dblades-whiz-bang-item-dispenser/. 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.
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I installed WordPress' "JetPack" plugin today, which among other things will give you some additional "share" options and a way for you to "like" a variety of content around the site. I'm not sure how that's going to play with the forums, so please let me know if you see any weirdness there. Or anywhere, really, because I'm all about the funkiness.
I'm also trying out their auto-publicize feature, which will put all posts on Facebook and Twitter. I'm hoping they come through with images intact, which HootSuite (the previous solution) did not do. We'll see.
Thanks for your support over the years, folks! If you're so inclined, I sure would appreciate your sharing the blog or the app(s) on your favored social media platform.
As your bonus for reading this far, here's a character sketch I did for our old Champions campaign back in 1997. Lucky you!
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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!
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