HeroMachine Character Portrait Creator

Yikes. Nix on Photobucket, CS! They put it in the new instructions for the blog contest entries. Have a look. Photobucket betrayed us all. I’m beginning to shift to Dev-art, but I’m a slow learner and am way behind.

I am relatively new to Heromachine. I admit that my designs are standard to say the least. I do not know how to use some of the finer parts of HM3. As such, any suggestions or constructive criticisms are not only welcomed, but encouraged.

Super belated on my part but the image link you’re using appears to be broken FunkMachine so alas, I canna see your wrestler cavalry nor their boojie fans 🙁

Off the top of my head, my guess is your dealing with one of two issues.

1. You don’t have ‘multiples’ turned on. In the top right hand corner of the item display window there is an option to select either “Multiples” or “Singles”. You have to switch to multiples for any item category where you plan on using more than one piece.

2. You’re actually adding the items just fine and just not seeing them. This happens to me all the time with facial features. Either they’re too small to notice or, adding them later in work on my piece, the layer they’re automatically inserted into is hidden by items already in the image. Easiest fix imo is, after clicking on the item you want to add and making sure multiples is on; if you don’t see it appear immediately, while still having that item selected, go to the “Transform” tab. First, click on the top-right button of the four buttons under “layers” to bring it to the top. Second, Increase the size to like 300/400% (you can make it smaller again once you’ve found it lol).

Gave Lady Anaconda a quick background as well.

Heyall! I’m back! Didja miss me? ;D

Anywho, here’s my entry!

“Manmooth Shaman”
Far predating their distant cousins, the werewolves, the manmooths were the result of a prehistoric shaman’s spell. Cast to protect his clan during the ice age, it allowed them to take on the aspect of woolly mammoths. And it worked; his people survived through to the great thaw. However, by that point, the magic was so deep in their blood as to be irreversible and hereditary, which is why manmooths walk the earth to this day.

[img]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img922/5757/B1kSRB.png[/img]
[i]Top and hair make up his headdress, and the insignia serves as the head of his staff.[/i]

“Agent Couture”

Did the basic pose first, masking onto insignia shapes where needed.
[img]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img924/3049/5mFekF.png[/img]

Then did the same to add accessories/details/clothes/etc.
[img]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img924/629/c5tQ9e.png[/img]

Next I hid the insignia shapes and did the base color for everything.
[img]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img923/8527/hZn9qS.png[/img]

To finish the character herself, I used gradient background items to add highlighting/shading.
[img]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img923/544/zgaMk2.png[/img]

Repeated the first four steps on making her gadgets.
[img]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img924/5994/sMFYzI.png[/img]

For the finished product, I added text from the fonts category, graph-directs made of insignia shapes, and colored/patterned the background.
[img]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img924/4075/5HZY93.png[/img]

Been away for awhile, too busy for HM 🙁

But got a lil free time on my hands now (tho possibly only for now) so I’m jumping back in while I can!

Entry for [u]CDC 335[/u] “Agent Couture”

[img]http://imageshack.com/a/img922/681/6eRlHP.png[/img]

[i]Show Your Work:[/i]  [url]https://www.heromachine.com/forums/topic/show-your-work-progress-of-a-design/#post-147454[/url]

And an entry for [u]One Part, Many Characters[/u] “Manmooth Shaman”

[img]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img922/5757/B1kSRB.png[/img]