From a reference painting at “A Painter’s Room”. I’ll put the black and white version after the jump.
Posted in Sketch of the Day
(From “Police Comics” number 2, 1941.)
Posted in Daily Random Panel
The gang at Project: Rooftop have a cool new feature where they redesign an old public-domain character along modern lines, kind of like we’ve done a time or two with character contests here at HeroMachine.com. Their first pass is with “The Red Cross”:
However, they’ve overlooked his greatest enemy — the hypervigilant copyright attorneys employed by The International Red Cross. They’re almost as vicious as Girl Scout lawyers!
I always like the thoughtful super-hero fashion design stuff at Project: Rooftop, and this looks like another great feature.
Posted in Bad Super Costumes, Super-Hero Stuff
Here’s the second pass at the site redesign, taking into account the feedback from the last time around. Changes include:
I’m feeling pretty good about this iteration, I’ll incorporate whatever good suggestions come up in comments, then write it up and send it to UGO for feedback. There’s still an awful lot of bright in-your-face color going on at the top thanks to the ads, but there’s not really a way around that unless I go total grayscale for the top area, and I’m not willing to de-emphasize the links to the other HM versions enough for that.
Posted in Meta
Can’t promise these’ll be in color every day, but in response to the comments on the Superwoman redesign, here’s at least one more. I do need to work on my coloring skills in Flash, particularly the need to figure out an easier way to consistently get the line colors right, so it’s probably worth while for me to do at least some sketches that way.
(Captain America is a copyrighted character of Marvel Comics, Inc.)
Posted in Sketch of the Day
In honor of the wee-inducing release of the Iron Man 2 trailer today, Character Contest 29 challenges you to come up with the best “Power Armor” character you can. If you are chosen as the winner, you’ll get either any item you like, or a portrait of yourself, to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 release.
Contest rules are simple:
I’ll pick the Finalists next Monday, though this time we’ll go back to the old system of me just picking the Honorable Mentions and overall winner, by request in the comments.
No limit on entries this week so knock yourself out!
Posted in Challenges
Congratulations to our Finalists for Caption Contest 71! You can vote for as many as you think are award-worthy until next Monday, when the overall top vote getter will receive their choice of either a portrait of themselves, or any item they like, to be included in HeroMachine 3. Good luck!
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Congratulations to Kaldath for winning Character Contest 28 with his unusually-posed “Spider-Cat”, daughter of Spider-Man and Black Cat:
We’re at the point of needing to rename this the Kaldath Award, I think. Congratulations to him and to all the great entrants for that contest, it was some really nice work.
Posted in Challenge Favorites, 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
