Character Design Contest Winners for January 2013 Poll

For the month of January there are five winners. Contest #9 started on January 28th, this means more then half of the contest time was in January. (Believe it or not February will have four winners.) So take some time and vote for the best character. Poll will be open thru Febuary 15 until midnight. Good luck everyone. The winner will win a prize from our prize giver DBlade, the Mighty and Wise. (I have to suck up a little to get the prizes for you. lol)[polldaddy poll="6888138"]

Share Day #H5

Today will be an open share day, so almost anything goes. Let's here what you have to say.

Open Critique Day #H11

Here it is again, time to let us see what you have been working on.

Holy Horrible Costumes Batman!!!!

This week's "Super Bad Costume" continues on the theme from last week of Live action Super Costumes. Now I  present you with not just one but three bad costumes from the same movie 1997's "Batman and Robin"

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Now to be fair the Batgirl costume isn't that bad. The Silver on her outfit works well with the black and isn't over done as it is on the other two costumes. I would have to say my main problem with the costume is the complete lack of a Cowl. That is Batgirl, not Robin Girl, or Nightwing Girl, but BATGIRL!! Batgirl needs a cowl just like Batman, and lets not get into the fact that the domino masks does nothing to hid her or Robin's identity.

Now onto the other two monstrosities! I just don't know what the costume designers were thinking when working on these outfits. Let see we are making costumes for Batman and Robin, two superheroes the operate at night and use stealth and the shadows to move about unseen. Hmmm I Know what will work just perfect for that lets put A LOT of reflective metallic silver on the costumes! Yeah that will be perfect!!   While we are at it lets add that silver on as a bunch of random patterns that have nothing what-so-ever to do with the characters concept and do nothing but distract the eye from the fact that we sculpted nipples onto the chests of each suit!

Well you have my view on these costumes what do you think ? Leave a comment below and let us all know!

Poll Position: The Spider-Man Fashion Edition!

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This weeks Poll Position is going to be a bit different. Instead of determining who would win in a One on One battle I am instead going to ask you to vote in two separate polls  for 8 different Spider-Man costumes. The First Poll will be too determine which of the 8 is the best Spider-Man costume of the lot and the second is to decide which is the worse of the lot!.

 

The images for the Poll will be available for your viewing pleasure after the jump. Please feel free to comment upon any or all of the costumes as well as letting us know which you think is the best and the worst in the comment section below!

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Character Contest #H09 “Horror Movie” Winner

There were a lot of awesome designs this week. The winner this week is Kellkin. Sorry for the short and sweet but I've been busy.

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Quick and Easy Challenge #7 “Wild Card” Winner

Here it is, a little late but it's here. Keith_Kanin-RoyalFlush_zpsfa0f1228 Everyone did a great job this week.

The winner this week is Keith Kanin.

It has been a busy few day, along with my wife and I having colds, so this has to be short and sweet.

 

Products

It looks like I might be able to figure out how to get your character illustrations printed onto pretty much anything -- iPad cases, shirts, mugs, hats, playing cards, you name it -- through Zazzle.com. Basically I'd add more options to the "Export" screen, so you could either save it as an image (all the current stuff) or to a product. You'd pick the product, click go, and you'd be taken to a Zazzle page with your image on that product. Then you could order it any way you like.

My questions are:

  • First, is that something you would want;
  • Second, what kinds of items would you want as an option?

You can see all the options they have here.

Weekend Open Critique Day #H10

It's time again for a weekend OCD. Let us see if we can help you.

Character Contest #H10 “Old West Villains”

This weeks contest takes us back in time to America's old west. Gunslingers and Indian fighters, stage coaches, and the pony express. Your challenge is to create the villain of an old west story. The bad guy that wanted to kill every good guy and still his woman. The guy that every man with a badge had to fight. I'm going to put a limit of three entries per person this week. Have fun and good luck.how-to-post-cartoon-620x7994