HeroMachine Character Portrait Creator

Really tough decision this week - so many great entries.

Honourable mentions go out to...

Yamá Oþûruz Àtl, the Shadow-Behind-the-Lights,

Kellkin

and Ubiquitous Pixel

All very creative and worthy of the win.

Runners up this week go to CantDraw...

and Ubiquitous Pixel

Both are great takes on classic characters and beautifully rendered and realized. Both also worthy of the win.

And the win this week goes to...

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Great stuff again this week folks! Every single entry showed a lot of imagination and creativity. So here we go...

Honourable mention goes this week to Xinmodic.

Great colour work and awesome details. Good job

Runner up goes to Superfly30.

Love the way you handled the body paint and the headdress. Brilliant!

And the win goes to...

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Your challenge this week is to use one of the Aztec gods featured in the link below as the inspiration for a modern day superhero.

http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/gods/aztec-gods-a-gallery

This week’s winner will receive a HM3 rendering of their winning character, designed by moi.

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. Please keep all submissions PG13: full or partial nudity is prohibited. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered in 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, Deviant Art or whatever);Do not use Photobucket.

• Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
• No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
• 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 at 9am Eastern on Sunday, March 3rd.

Your challenge this week is to use the items above to create a HM3 hero or villain.

The challenge is that you cannot use them for their intended purpose. For example the belt can be used as anything - except a belt.

This week’s winner will receive a HM3 rendering of their winning character, designed by me.

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. Please keep all submissions PG13: full or partial nudity is prohibited. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that have been created solely using Hero Machine, and that you know for certain have never been entered in 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, Deviant Art or whatever);Do not use Photobucket.

• Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
• No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
• 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 at 9am Eastern on Sunday, February 24th.

This week, honourable menrions go out to...

Calvary Red and...

Runner up this week is...

Suleman

And the win goes to...

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