Superhero Images

[schir1964]

Just thought I would start a thread for anyone who wanted to post thier images of their characters. This is not a critique thread. I'm not an artist and the images I post are simply templates with a bunch of cut and paste with some shoestring and leather attached. (8^D)

This thread is for those who wish to share thier artwork. However, please do not critique any artwork unless the artist asks for it. Thanks. (8^D)

- Christopher Mullins

[Jeff T.]

Hi Chris, long time no see. :)

Here's one I did with HeroMachine.

Psi-Fire

[Jeff T.]

Here's another of my characters

DYNAMO

[Jeff T.]

I'll stop here, so's I don't take over the thread. But if anyone likes those, there's three more members of my superteam. :)

ARTEMIS

[tgaptte]

Here's my current character, done with the purchased version of http://www.heromachine.com/ and colored outside of that program. I'm not an artist, but it's really cool to be able to come up with SOMETHING, without having to beg my artist friends for a picture! ;D

Tim

[schir1964]

Electrode

<img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=1109">

[schir1964]

Wow! Heromachine has really improved since the last time I tried it.

Nice pictures.

Nice color scheme tgaptte!

- Christopher Mullins

[schir1964]

Howdy Starlord!

Been thinking about visiting you, but been too busy.


<img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=1125">

[Edsel]

Here's one of my current superhero mystic.

[Trebuchet]

Originally posted by tgaptte
Here's my current character, done with the purchased version of heromachine and colored outside of that program. I'm not an artist, but it's really cool to be able to come up with SOMETHING, without having to beg my artist friends for a picture!

I didn't even know Hero Machine had a paid version. Does it do anything the free version doesn't?

[Acroyear]

Here's one I don't think I've shared yet.

This the Nth Man. He's an escaped Viper Super Soldier experiment fighting the good fight. He's essentally a "human paragon" with some mid-level mental abilities. He kept the Viper color scheme to rub their nose in it, essentially.

[Storn]

Acro, Nth Man is one of the nicest pics I've seen from you. good job.

[Jeff T.]

Originally posted by Trebuchet
I didn't even know Hero Machine had a paid version. Does it do anything the free version doesn't?

Well, you get access to the Beta version of HeroMachine2 if you make a $10 "donation". ;)

And yes, it is much better than Heromachine 1, except it only has one pose each for males and females. It also hasn't had much done to the site in almost a year. Unfortunately, Mr. Hebert has been too busy to do any more work on it.

[nblade]

Originally posted by Trebuchet
I didn't even know Hero Machine had a paid version. Does it do anything the free version doesn't?

It's not really a paid version actually. If you "donate", you get access to the Beta 2.0 version. While a big improvement over the first, there hasn't been any work on it that I'm aware of for at least the last 6+ months.

[nblade]

Damn you Starlord, posting while I'm typing up my posting :D

[Acroyear]

Originally posted by Storn
Acro, Nth Man is one of the nicest pics I've seen from you. good job.

Many thanks, Storn :)

[winterhawk]

Heromachine is one of the great inventions of the 21st Century as far as I'm concerned. Here's one I modified with photoshop. King Thunder was inspired by Lightning from Big Trouble in Little China (the more he moves, the more electricity he builds up).

[winterhawk]

This one was modified from a template available on Darran 'Max' Hight's website http://www.wuji-web.com/multiverse_index.html which specializes in WB Animated style art. I am doing all my characters for my new campaign in this style. The site was recommended by Acroyear/Bolt (a really kick @$$ artist in his own right). This is Santeria, one of the NPCs in my campaign.

[Hermit]

Thanks for sharing that Winterhawk. I loved Batman: TaS and related series.

[Nato]

I like that animation style a lot myself too. I've been watching Justice League a lot lately. I like their takes on all the characters but especially Supes and Flash.

Nice use of that template. Looks nice and polished.

Here's a crazy character I sketched out last week and want to develope more once I have time. It's...

OCTO! KING OF THE OCTOPI!!!

[Kaeto]

Her name is Indigo

[Jeff T.]

Here's the OTHER three members of my superteam.

DRAGONFIST

[Jeff T.]

ARCANE

[Jeff T.]

PALADIN, the Skyknight

[Jeff T.]

For fun, here's an old Quantum from the BBB I did.

QUANTUM

[Tamashii2000]

Originally posted by Starlord
I'll stop here, so's I don't take over the thread. But if anyone likes those, there's three more members of my superteam. :)

ARTEMIS

I love Heromachine, I use it as a base for some of the poser superheroines I make.. didn't know there was a 'purchasable' version.. it got extra bells and whistles? :confused:

[Tamashii2000]

Ok, I will give it a try.. Here's a villian I made with Poser

[Tamashii2000]

And A heroine.. speedster I have yet to name

[Tamashii2000]

I have a few others, but thier to big to be uploaded....
have to shrink em down sometime..heh


Now where did I put that shrink gun.

[Trebuchet]

Here is my character Ranger, the first Champions character I ever built way back in 1982 (Although this version of his powered armor dates from around 1986) I now use him as a solo NPC superhero in my campaign. As recently redesigned for 5th Edition using Hero Designer (I never built a 4th Edition version of Ranger because I retired him in 1987) he's 475 points of a$$-whooping with an 80 STR, 16d6EB (boostable to 24d6 for one shot), 52 PD & 52 ED, most of it Hardened. He's got 125 XP, and is heavy on the hard sciences (He's a physicist in his Secret ID.)

[schir1964]

Pics I've done for other people.

<img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=1381">

[schir1964]

Pics I've done for other people.

<img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=1388">

[EternityShard]

I might as well get in on the action as well, my solar-elemental character, Corona

[MisterVimes]

Originally posted by EternityShard
I might as well get in on the action as well, my solar-elemental character, Corona

Ooooh... show them the other one! The small one with the profile view.

[Nato]

I'm seeing lots of interesting Poser works on this thread. Pretty cool. Someone should package of form of Poser for making superhero characters.

Are you guys editing the texture maps yourselves?

[EternityShard]

Originally posted by MisterVimes
Ooooh... show them the other one! The small one with the profile view.

Well, this is highly pirated, but since Mr. Vimes asked me to post it... this original came from comicworldnews.com, from an issue of crossgen's Negation comic. Photoshopped into my character Corona...

Well, Photopaint-ed into Corona. I don't like Photoshop.

[rjd59]

This is the character my wife plays. Her name is American Rose.

[Dynamo]

My turn. Here's a scan of a piece I commissioned in B&W from a college buddy back in the 80's. I added the color later in pencil.
Fusion is a flamboyant, camera-friendly gloryhound. She saves End until a newscrew arrives and then really pours it on. (I used to drive the GM nuts checking what arcs of the battlefield the cameras were covering.)

[MisterVimes]

Originally posted by EternityShard
I don't like Photoshop.

But it always speaks so highly of you

[Delthrien]

Originally posted by MisterVimes
But it always speaks so highly of you

Oy! You nicked my line!... ;)

This is one I played with in Photoshop. The original figure was done by Albert Deschene. I put a different head on it and then played a bit...

http://home.earthlink.net/~cgball/maestro2a.jpg

Charlie

[Dynamo]

...and another from the same B&W artist (Dave Roberson) of my evolving powered armor character, Dynamo (called Sentinel back then). I've misplaced my colorized version, so it may be time to haul out the colored pencils again.

[JohnTaber]

Here is a pic from a friend of mine who since doing this picture has done some stuff for White Wolf and such. Here is a link (http://www.pen-paper.net/modules.php?set_albumName=AlexSheikman&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php) to his art db on Pen and Paper.

Anyway...here is the sketch he did for a NPC called Masq... :D

[Dynamo]

Popular topic. I posted sentinel.jpg, waited 60 seconds, and refreshed. Downloaded twice already. :)

edit: ...and up to six by the time I posted this.

[schir1964]

Originally posted by Nato
I'm seeing lots of interesting Poser works on this thread. Pretty cool. Someone should package of form of Poser for making superhero characters.

Are you guys editing the texture maps yourselves?
I use the Hero Character Template for the pose.
I then modify it with Photoshop Elements.
I use the textures that exist in Photoshop Elements, but I do tweak the color gradient to get what I want.

Many useful tools in Photoshop Elements.

- Christopher Mullins

[EternityShard]

Originally posted by schir1964
I use the Hero Character Template for the pose.
I then modify it with Photoshop Elements.
I use the textures that exist in Photoshop Elements, but I do tweak the color gradient to get what I want.

Yeah, same here (except I use Corel Photopaint instead of Adobe Photoshop). I have zero artistic talent (as far as drawing goes), so I must manipulate existing art to create any personal images. I use the models from the character template collection and then layer different fills onto the model, merging them with different styles... Color Burn being the one that seems to work best for keeping the detail beneath the solid fill.

[Acroyear]

Try using layers of "multiply" if your software has that setting ont he paint tool. I use that one almost exclusively.

I used to have those character templates.... I appear to have lost them, though :( That's one reason why I hate electronic purchases like that....if it were an actual book, I'd have it for 2 decades and never not know where it was.

[MisterVimes]

Originally posted by EternityShard
Yeah, same here (except I use Corel Photopaint instead of Adobe Photoshop). I have zero artistic talent (as far as drawing goes), so I must manipulate existing art to create any personal images. I use the models from the character template collection and then layer different fills onto the model, merging them with different styles... Color Burn being the one that seems to work best for keeping the detail beneath the solid fill.

The Dodge and Burn tools from PS are what I use as well. If usually select areas I want to manipulate and then adjust the color variations, smudge, a few filters and dodge and burn usually finsih the job.

[MisterVimes]

Originally posted by Acroyear
Try using layers of "multiply" if your software has that setting ont he paint tool. I use that one almost exclusively.

I used to have those character templates.... I appear to have lost them, though :( That's one reason why I hate electronic purchases like that....if it were an actual book, I'd have it for 2 decades and never not know where it was.

Two words:
CD Burner

I burned that, Herodesigner and all the HD packages. If I make an electronic purchase it's going to be backed up... probably twice.

[schir1964]

Originally posted by EternityShard
Yeah, same here (except I use Corel Photopaint instead of Adobe Photoshop). I have zero artistic talent (as far as drawing goes), so I must manipulate existing art to create any personal images. I use the models from the character template collection and then layer different fills onto the model, merging them with different styles... Color Burn being the one that seems to work best for keeping the detail beneath the solid fill.
Actually, I have some better techniques to keep the detail. If you want to exchange notes, just email me. (8^D)

- Christopher Mullins

[Acroyear]

Originally posted by MisterVimes
Two words:
CD Burner

That would require foresight. :D

[Supreme]

Well... I guess I should post a few. We're going to crash the server soon...

This one is of my Superman knock-off, Champion. I made the figure using Poser to render the figure and then exported to Photodeluxe (we don't have the $$ for Photoshop) were I made the costume.

[Supreme]

Using the same method, I also made Champion's sidekick: Pennant. I decided on the closeup shot because when I zoomed in on her face to fix her hair, I realized that I had made a great expression which would be lost on a larger shot.

[Supreme]

This is probably the best Poser/Photodeluxe combo I've ever done. This was for another player's character in a Silver Age campaign that I played in a while back.

[Supreme]

And finally...

This is my Wife Supreme's character from the same Golden Age campaign as Champion & Pennant.

The Scarab Sorceress!

[Acroyear]

This is Thundergal from an old campaign discussion...

I have to fix the thing on the leg... and yes, it's a "homage" (that sounds better than rip off... and worked well for the Image dudes) of the old Lightning Lad suit...

I play around with photo manipulations sometimes. I'm not real good at it, but it's fun. I think I did ok on the few wrinkles I added to the original nude.

[Tweedle]

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[Nato]

Originally posted by Acroyear
I think I did ok on the few wrinkles I added to the original nude.

I don't know. You'd better let us see the original nude. ;)

[Tamashii2000]

Originally posted by Nato
I'm seeing lots of interesting Poser works on this thread. Pretty cool. Someone should package of form of Poser for making superhero characters.

Are you guys editing the texture maps yourselves?

All of my Stuff are custome made texture maps, I tend to do a pick on Heromachine then use that as a basis for the texture map in poser.;)

[OneSmallGod]

Some characters for your perusal:

<IMG SRC=http://www.nacs.net/~pietro/Images/Art/FlareinFlight.jpg>
Flare - a teenaged electrokinetic. Pencil sketch modified in PhotoDeluxe.

<IMG SRC=http://www.nacs.net/~pietro/Images/Art/HaggGIF.gif>

Haggerty the Witch - the main villain for a FH campaign, who also appeared in a Champs game which I ran. Pen and Ink.
<IMG SRC=http://www.nacs.net/~pietro/Images/Art/Julia.gif>

Julia - a little girl who liked big guns! Pen and ink.

I'm still taking commissions.
:D

[Acroyear]

Originally posted by Nato
I don't know. You'd better let us see the original nude. ;)

Somehow I don't think the Hero crew would appreciate me posting nekkid pictures on their boards. :p


Here's one of the PCs from our current game. I like the way the wings came out, but might fiddle with the rest of it some more.

[schir1964]

Captain Chaotic

<img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=2849">

[winterhawk]

This is a character sketch for Dwarfstar, who's stats are posted in "Say Hello to my Little Friend" string.

[steriaca]

Originally posted by OneSmallGod

I'm still taking commissions.
:D

Cool, cause I woulden't mind if you could creat a sketch of a superhero I played once in a Play By E-Mail Champions Campain. He was a crossdreser/chemist who found a cemical coumpound which would make any cloth which soaked in it vertualy indistructable. The 'prototype' was an old southern bell dress he had, and he decided to become a crossdresing superhero by the name of The Damsel.

Dress: White, with frills and lace, typical of the late 19th centery, with leg-o-mutton sleves.

Face: Totaly white, with red lips and cheeks.

Hair (wig): Blond sausage curls.

Weapion: A white parasol. Also a string of perls and a female purse of the style of the late 19th centery.

Looks: Defently an afemimen looking guy (looks more like a female than a man). The fact that 'she' is a he is not known to the general public.

Thanks.

Coad Name: The Damsel.

[MisterVimes]

Here's one of the villains from our game. Done in photoshop... it's not very good, but *shrug*

[MisterVimes]

And here is the Proletarian from my old campaign. He was the Superman of the game.

[Chaosliege]

Here are some we made from the outlines on the ols 4th ed char sheets.

[Chaosliege]

Here's another one. He's only been played in the PBEM Defenders, but he has the uniform.

[Chaosliege]

our team leader.

[Chaosliege]

One of our seldom used heros. great on paper, sucked in play.

[Chaosliege]

Another rarely played Defender

[Chaosliege]

Arc

[starblaze]

Originally posted by Starlord
For fun, here's an old Quantum from the BBB I did.

QUANTUM

Wow, that was really good. Sometimes I miss the old champions.

[schir1964]

Pics I've done for other people.

<img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=7418">

[OneSmallGod]

. He was a crossdreser/chemist who found a cemical coumpound which would make any cloth which soaked in it vertualy indistructable. The 'prototype' was an old southern bell dress he had, and he decided to become a crossdresing superhero by the name of The Damsel.

Steriaca-
that's just Sick, Twisted, and Wrong! (Of course, this is from a guy who wrote a character, "Lightning Girl", who was the second hero by that name - and was the younger brother of the original Lightning Girl... Didn't make a big thing about it - the other heroes just theought 'she' was a little butch. So what - so was their female brick!:D)

If you're interested, check out my Commissions section on my website:
Art Business here (http://www.nacs.net/~pietro/ARTBiz01.html )

[Patriot]

This Is one version of My Character (Patriot)
It was done by a member of My champions group.

In case the powers that be are checking this out, HE NEEDS A JOB!!!

[Patriot]

Heres another one, this guy used to be a gamer with us, but he got a job drawing a Transformer Comic (I cant remember what company), so he cant play much anymore.

[lemming]

I posted these in the personality thread, and just cross-linked.

<img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=4686">

Andromeda is an energy wielder who's original orgin was based on another PCs way of getting radiation accidents.

He was playing a Hercules clone that had been depowered by Zues to learn humilty and would occasionally get some of his power back delivered via lightning bolt. So what happens if Zues rolls an 18 and hits someone else?

Calico was originally a supervillian in one of my old campaigns and when another campaign was started I was lacking in ideas for a PC, so I thought, "What if a agency created a superhuman and had it infiltrate a villian agency?"

So she had worked undercover for several years feeding back info and since the villian agency was destroyed, she got reassigned as liason to a hero group.

Her martial arts consisted of manuevers such as Pounce, Bat, Fling, Yow! and Squirm.

Pictures by the late Sam Bell.

[Patriot]

Another artist in my group did this

[starblaze]

Originally posted by Supreme
Well... I guess I should post a few. We're going to crash the server soon...

This one is of my Superman knock-off, Champion. I made the figure using Poser to render the figure and then exported to Photodeluxe (we don't have the $$ for Photoshop) were I made the costume.

Pretty good, but his legs look kind of wierd.

[SuperBlue]

My turn. this is a Villain in my up-and-comming Campaign, Named "Dark Hammer"

[Chaosliege]

lemming, how did you get the pics o show in the thread? That was cool.

[MisterVimes]

Originally posted by lemming
Calico was originally a supervillian in one of my old campaigns and when another campaign was started I was lacking in ideas for a PC, so I thought, "What if a agency created a superhuman and had it infiltrate a villian agency?"

So she had worked undercover for several years feeding back info and since the villian agency was destroyed, she got reassigned as liason to a hero group.


Your villainous agencies have summer picnics?
If word gets out all the bad-guys will be flocking to SWORD!
Something must be done about this.

[schir1964]

Originally posted by Chaosliege
lemming, how did you get the pics o show in the thread? That was cool.
I think you have to use a URL link to your own site for the pictures to show up like that.

- Christopher Mullins

[Acroyear]

Terra Force

[lemming]

Originally posted by schir1964
I think you have to use a URL link to your own site for the pictures to show up like that.

- Christopher Mullins

&lt;img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=4686"&gt;

You just have to find the ID# of the post where you made the attachment. (So if you attach something, you have to edit to actually do the link to display)

Woo! Would of thought enclosing the url in a code tag would of worked. That's better.

[lemming]

Originally posted by MisterVimes
Your villainous agencies have summer picnics?
If word gets out all the bad-guys will be flocking to SWORD!
Something must be done about this.

Actually, SWORD is a "good" agency. They're sort of like SHIELD, just more ex-Nazi scientists.

[Chaosliege]

I recently purchased and downloaded the character template pack. I as wondering what would be a good program for editing these templates to make good superhero pics. Keep in mind, I can't afford $600 for things like Photoshop pro. I'm talking about a reasonably affordable program that can make effects like engulfing flames or radioactive aura.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Chaosliege
I as wondering what would be a good program for editing these templates to make good superhero pics. Keep in mind, I can't afford $600 for things like Photoshop pro. I'm talking about a reasonably affordable program that can make effects like engulfing flames or radioactive aura. The GIMP (http://www.gimp.org) (the site seems to be down right now) is free for the downloading and can be had for the PC platform as well as Unix/Linux (the website claims that the PC version is more unstable than the author would like, but it's never crashed on my Windows box, unlike MS Photodraw). The learning curve can be a little rough, but it's simpler to learn than Photoshop, easily as powerful if not more so, and isn't crippleware without a Mac. Free documentation and tutorials are available online. I recommend Grokking the GIMP (http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html), which is browsable online, downloadable, and available in hardcopy (gotta pay for that last one).

[Chaosliege]

Originally posted by Dynamo
The GIMP (http://www.gimp.org) (the site seems to be down right now) is free for the downloading and can be had for the PC platform as well as Unix/Linux (the website claims that the PC version is more unstable than the author would like, but it's never crashed on my Windows box, unlike MS Photodraw). The learning curve can be a little rough, but it's simpler to learn than Photoshop, easily as powerful if not more so, and isn't crippleware without a Mac. Free documentation and tutorials are available online. I recommend Grokking the GIMP (http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/index.html), which is browsable online, downloadable, and available in hardcopy (gotta pay for that last one).

Would you say this program is better than Adobe Photo Deluxe? I got that program with my scanner, but I've only used it a couple of times, and I don't know a lot about it.

[lemming]

Originally posted by Chaosliege
Would you say this program is better than Adobe Photo Deluxe? I got that program with my scanner, but I've only used it a couple of times, and I don't know a lot about it.

I think it's better than Adobe Photo Delux. It's got most of the features of PhotoShop. There are also many plugins. Being that it's free, it doesn't hurt to go check it out.

I've been using it on Linux for quite some time now and prefer it over pretty much anything else. (Though I use Perl and Image Magick a bit as well...)

[schir1964]

Originally posted by Chaosliege
I recently purchased and downloaded the character template pack. I as wondering what would be a good program for editing these templates to make good superhero pics. Keep in mind, I can't afford $600 for things like Photoshop pro. I'm talking about a reasonably affordable program that can make effects like engulfing flames or radioactive aura.
I use Photoshop Elements. A scaled down version of Photoshop for $99.00 approximately. I haven't really found anything that I couldn't do with it. As far as what I wanted to get that is. (8^D)

- Christopher Mullins

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Chaosliege
Would you say this program is better than Adobe Photo Deluxe? I got that program with my scanner, but I've only used it a couple of times, and I don't know a lot about it.
I've never used Adobe Photo Deluxe, but as I understand it, the program occupies the same niche as MS Photodraw, tweaking scans and adding frames, text, and such, optimized for photo-type images.

The GIMP is rather a full-featured graphics program, covering the gamut from tweaking individual pixels to messing with layers and channels.

Better? That's a hard call without knowing what you consider better. The GIMP is significantly more powerful than anything I've ever used but Adobe Photoshop, and it might be more powerful than Photoshop. That's better by my standards. It's also free, free as in beer and free as in speech. That's also better by my standards. It's not easy to use. That doesn't make any difference to me, since i'm one those freaks that get a dopamine rush from problem-solving. But most people want an application that will perform the simple operations that they need with a minimum of fuss and no learning curve issues. Those people will never like the GIMP, because they are not the target audience.

Try downloading the program and reading the first chapter or two of Grokking the GIMP. The only thing you'll lose is a little time. Since you've already got Photo Deluxe, do the same thing. See if it does everything you need with a minimum of fuss. After you've tried both, decide for yourself which is better.

(If you like the GIMP better, remember I steered you right when I make my bid for the statue of venus (http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=380&perpage=40&pagenumber=6). :D )

[Ben Seeman]

Here's my first Champions character. Tekno is a light manipulator who also carries some mean GlowStix.
<img src="http://www.uglychild.net/Tekno.jpg">

[MisterVimes]

Originally posted by Ben Seeman
Here's my first Champions character. Tekno is a light manipulator who also carries some mean GlowStix.

Dude... those are GI-NORMOUS pixie stix!!!!

[Acroyear]

He's all the rage at the local rave.

[Ben Seeman]

He's actually a lighting technician at a dance club in Windsor, so he's definietly in with the party crowd.

[death tribble]

Lots of nice pics.

Trouble is I have to go home, bring in some, scan them in and see if they will thn survive posting.
I got mine done by my brother and another of the DMs who was a good artist.

[MisterVimes]

Not my artwork, but I found a great resource for George Perez JPGs that might be helpful to some of you.

George Perez Archive (http://vu.morrissey-solo.com/moz/perez/art.htm)

[MuscaDomestica]

Here is Moth Man for a golden age Champions Game, I used Hero machine with a little bit of photoshop thrown in. He is a cross between Puma Man and Arthur from the Tick, He should have moth wings but Hero machine's moth wings are too fairy like for the character, he has hawk moth wings which look much more like hawk wings.

http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~DBJacobson/MothMan.jpg


::edit::
Can't get the antennae right, just did a quick mockup in Photoshop.

Also how do you post an image in the post itself?

[Logan D]

Here's my character Lora Doubet, a cyborg brick/martial artist. I first created her in 1992 for my first ever Champions game. She's actually gone through a couple of revisions since then and been played in a couple of different campaings with slightly altered backgrounds. Currently, she's been adapted to a more cyberpunk theme than superhero and is being played in Michael Surbrook's Kazei 5 PBEM. These pictures are of her as an UNTIL special agent. Her uniform is a variation on the UNTIL dress blues as imagined in the campaign world. With some input from Rob Hudson on design, I came up with a uniform inspired in part by the AMP Uniforms from Silent Mobius and something I had seen from Masamune Shirow. Even a little bit of the Rocketeer found it's way into the design.

[Logan D]

Trust me, you don't want to be on the receiving end of that!

[Logan D]

Richochet - A character I created and drew for a friend. One of the most unique character designs I've come up with.

I forget the original origin. This is from an ancient (circa 1982!) Villains & Vigilantes game. The basics are that his powers come from an alien battlesuit. His defensive powers consist of a directional forcefield shield, and his offensive powers are in the form of a set of semi-independent levitating spheres about the size of golfballs that he controlls mentally. They are capable of instantly accelerating to several miles per second speeds and can cause a lot of damage, but they can also rebound from surfaces in order to change direction instantly without doing damage to those surfaces if Richochet so chooses. Indoors or in tight spaces, this can create an extreme autofire effect as the spheres bounce off walls to hit the target over and over. Trickshots are also a specialty of his. He can also "see" through the spheres, and can send them out as scouts, giving him a form of clairvoyance. From these powers and the vaguely "R" like symbols on the battlesuit, he got his name.

[Logan D]

-- This is a picture that I did of a character from Shelley Chrystal Mactyre's PRIMUS Sourcebook. She appeared in the Golden Gate Guardians Play By EMail (PBEM) game.

[Logan D]

This is my version of Tsai Min, the Dragon Queen, from the VIPER sourcebook.

[Tamashii2000]

Your a VERY good artist Logan D..

[aylwin13]

Originally posted by MisterVimes
Not my artwork, but I found a great resource for George Perez JPGs that might be helpful to some of you.

Thanks muchly, Mister V. This is one of the best Perez sites I've ever seen. :D

[MisterVimes]

Originally posted by aylwin13
Thanks muchly, Mister V. This is one of the best Perez sites I've ever seen. :D

De nada..
And to avoid a derail, here is Infinity... an NPC that will be appearing in my campaign

[MisterVimes]

And while we're on the subject...
Justin Tyme

[Chaosliege]

Originally posted by lemming
&lt;img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=4686"&gt;

You just have to find the ID# of the post where you made the attachment. (So if you attach something, you have to edit to actually do the link to display)

Woo! Would of thought enclosing the url in a code tag would of worked. That's better.

Ok.. I may be an idiot here, but I can't find the ID# of any of my posts. Where do you find it at?

[Acroyear]

Attach the image as usual.

Go back and edit the post and include the attachment ID# (which you will see when you view the image) just put the url of the image when you view it.

[Chaosliege]

Thanks.. I didn't think I was ever going to figure that out.. It's so simple and I never thought of it. I feel kinda stupid now. :rolleyes:

[urbwar]

Here's an image I had done for my old Aberrant campaign.

The character is named Lamashtu, after an ancient Mesopotamian Goddess. She has claws and flight (which is obvious from the image :p ), but her main power is the ability to infect people with various plagues by touching them. She was going to be part of a group called "The Pantheon" which was various Novas whose powers allowed them to take on the names of various deities in mythology. Never got off the ground though, but I kept the image for future use. Hopefully someone will get some use out of it.

Here's the link to the jpg, as the file is too large to attach to the post:

http://hjem.get2net.dk/kmp/images/supmisc/lamashtu.jpg

[urbwar]

Here's a link to another image I ordered from the same artist. It's a rendition of Doctor Zero, from the Shadowline Saga comics Marvel did way back in the day...

http://hjem.get2net.dk/kmp/images/supmisc/drzero.jpg

[MisterVimes]

In the near future My team will be facing off with some Golden Age Nazi Villains. Three follow.

Oberst Stahl

[MisterVimes]

Nachteule (Night Owl)
Another insidious Nazi Villain

[MisterVimes]

U-Mann, an aquatic Nazi Villain.

[TechnoViking]

Here a character I made from a Freedom Force template and Photoshop.

Mike

[schir1964]

Work I've done for other people.

<img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=19130">

- Christopher Mullins

[Chaosliege]

Well, turns out that disk I got with my scanner had Photoshop on it. I've been playing with it little bit. Still reading up on Gimp.

<img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=23154">

[schir1964]

Images I've done for other people.

<img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=23202">

- Christopher Mullins

[lemming]

Here's a quick pict of Witchcraft's familiar, Sunshine.
I played Witchcraft in Steve Long's game at Game Storm and happen to have lots of cat pictures on my laptop...

<img src="http://www.herogames.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=23962">

[Hermit]

It's a feline presence attack!

[lemming]

Originally posted by Hermit
It's a feline prescence attack!

I forgot to credit the feline who is acting as Sunshine. Played by Little Tyke (http://www.kittydream.org/cat_html/little_tyke_06.html) at House of Dreams.

[Tclynch]

Originally posted by Nato
I like that animation style a lot myself too. I've been watching Justice League a lot lately. I like their takes on all the characters but especially Supes and Flash.

Nice use of that template. Looks nice and polished.

Here's a crazy character I sketched out last week and want to develope more once I have time. It's...

OCTO! KING OF THE OCTOPI!!!

That is F'n GREAT! I LOVE it!:D

[death tribble]

My brother and a friend of mine who has sadly disappeared without trace did some of the artwork for a long running Champions campaign that I played in.
Although some of the pics are in Black and White, some are in colour but none are computer generated. All pen, pencil and ink.
We also had a fansheet with original art in that, including the covers. Would anybody be interested in me posting this ?

[urbwar]

Originally posted by death tribble

Although some of the pics are in Black and White, some are in colour but none are computer generated. All pen, pencil and ink.
We also had a fansheet with original art in that, including the covers. Would anybody be interested in me posting this ?

I know I'd like to see, so if you wouldn't mind scanning the stuff, please do!

[death tribble]

This is the villainess Flux.

Her power was to do with electrical current. This is from a copy I had made for Champs 5.

Artist and creator was Paul Geelan.

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[death tribble]

This is the second version of the Demon armour worn by the villainous Mahoney Snark, evil head of Snarko and the villain group, the Chaos Corps.

Artist and creator Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

We had a fanzine recording our exploits. It was called Two Tickets to Acapulco after Foxbat's run in with the Guardians memorably recorded in the cartoon strip in the rules.

Again artist is Paul Geelan. The hero with the spoon is the Unicorn created by Gary Young.
The can is Red Stripe, a beer.

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[death tribble]

This is the mark 2 version of Arachneida.

She held this version until she lost her powers. Basically a female Spiderman created by Selma Stephen, the character became an everyman one after Selma went her own way.
The original version is not available to me as I quarrelled with the person who had the sheet and was the main DM for the campaign. it is unlikely that we will ever speak again either.

This version was drawn by my brother, Paul.

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[death tribble]

This is the first villain in the campaign, the Cyclops.
An alien from another world and a brick. He had a slight EB emanating from his eye but was immensely strong.

I have a soft spot for this guy.

Artist was Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

This is the last version of Arachneida.

Arachneida lost all her powers after they were neutralized by a Champion of Order. At the time she was psychotic had four extra limbs and spider fangs as well. And was shown to be the daughter of Arak the spider god, lord of Chaos.

Refusing to give up, Arachneida went to the Magician who designed and built her a web gun and a bike. Although she had lost her enhanced physique, she could still fight crime.

Artist is my brother Paul.

[death tribble]

The first hero in the campaign. My first character. The first leader and the one who came up with the name, The Protectors. (Well it was 1984, I had not seen To Serve and Protect which was not out until at least a year or more later and the GM Paul Geelan put me on the spot).

Paul Geelan was the artist and I coloured it in.

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[death tribble]

This is one of Angie's characters. Angie married the guy I ain't speaking to anymore. She banned me from their house before I had even got there and passed the message through someone else. I wouldn't mind if I had done anything to warrant it but still QED.

The Great Alfonso was one of the younger team members until his untimely death murdered by Master Spite. Master Spite was originally a member of the Chemical Compound called Arsenic, who Alfonso had incinerated while enraged for taking down the Magnetic Mistress.

[death tribble]

My second character was the Magician

He had magic attacks including a specifiable Energy blast. If I wanted fire or cold, I got it. He also had a variety of abilities like Flight and Teleport. He was an inventor and performer so was reasonably well off.
Like most of the characters he was built originally pre-4th edition.

He suffered from depression. Dismissed from the Protectors on grounds of gross negligence after he killed Dr Magic using a Holy Water blast.

Anytime I wanted a new character sheet I just photocopied the old one. It was to me a classic design.
artist again was Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

This is Mindshock. A mutant with illusion powers and that was about it. An experiment by the main GM of the campaign.

One of the few foreigners in the team. Not counting the Alien Contingent.

Artist was Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

This is the third hero of the Protectors, the ego powered Mindstorm. She became the second leader of the team.

Again the character sheet never changed. Simple classic look.
Artist was Paul Geelan.

[death tribble]

This is Nemesis, the ID that the Avenger took after he decided to hide from the police and the Protectors. Or some of the Protectors. He killed the Cobra in cold blood when said Cobra was completely at his mercy.

As Nemesis he continued to stalk crime and fight villains until he was held prisoner by the Coven. Escaping he gave himself up after helping take down the Coven. e got off with a ten year sentence for manslaughter.
The Flame never forgave Nemesis aka the Avenger aka Winston Pollock for what he did and bringing the Protectors into disrepute.

Artist was Paul Geelan and it was his 2nd hero character. When I have most of the Voidwalker pics together I will post these as a batch so you can see the evolution of the hero.

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[death tribble]

The second incarnation of the Ranger was a woman. Created and drawn by Paul Geelan.
The original Ranger was killed by his arch foe a crazed hunter.
The Sword was bequeathed to a Brazilian woman who became the second Ranger in modern times.

The Ranger was created by Chris Briggs and nicknamed the Headsman after he killed two villains by cutting their heads off. Fotrtunately this was not on Earth or in front of cameras.
Itb was partly this that led to the Protectors being a bit more concerned about what people did.

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[death tribble]

Bane of the life of the hero White Tiger, The Red Elf was the right hand goon of the Overlord, London's version of the Kingpin.

Died by jet engine.

Drawn and DMed by Paul Geelan.

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[death tribble]

The Samurai, Japanese hero of a noble house.

Drawn by my brother Paul. Rarely played

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[death tribble]

This is the archer Sureshot. Basically a rip off of Hawkeye.

The brown mark is cellotape. This is an old sheet again dating from 1985. Second character of the guy who I don't speak to anymore.

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[death tribble]

Created like Mindtorm by Gary Young, this version was drawn by my brother Paul. After Gary left, the Unicorn was used by everybody.
A traitor to his own people, the Aupheans, the Unicorn was an Alien scout who went native. He was the team brick.
He liked Jazz music and drink. One of the easist of the heroes to get on with, he was friends with most of them. Except Dreadnought who almost got the Magician killed on one occasion. And the Unicorn never forgave him for it, Diplomatic Immunity or not.

[death tribble]

I have a couple of pics which are based on other comic characters and am a little unsure whether to post them.

The most contentious is a Wolverine rip off called Wolfclaw.
It would be silly to post the image later to be told to remove it. It looks like Wolverine in that it has the three claws on each hand and is a similar design to when he first made his debut versus the Hulk. Can I or should I post it ?

The second is based on Big Barda, once head of the Female Furies and is an armour wearer. The drawing is adapted from it but looks less like it. Is that one safe to post ?
Thoughts please.

And if you have any comments on the art of Paul Geelan and my brother Paul pleas post those as well.

[urbwar]

Originally posted by death tribble
This is the last version of Arachneida.

Arachneida lost all her powers after they were neutralized by a Champion of Order. At the time she was psychotic had four extra limbs and spider fangs as well. And was shown to be the daughter of Arak the spider god, lord of Chaos.

Refusing to give up, Arachneida went to the Magician who designed and built her a web gun and a bike. Although she had lost her enhanced physique, she could still fight crime.

Artist is my brother Paul.

I like the look of this one. Kind of a cloak and dagger (ie spy genre) feel, with a bit of a masked pulp hero because of the mask.

I also like the background on this character. Pretty cool

[MisterVimes]

The Stranger

[death tribble]

This is harm whose powers were quasi magical. A member of the Protectors she was part of a smaller unit called the Stray Cats, looked after by the Magnetic Mistress.

Created by Angie andthe main GM.

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[death tribble]

This is Crimelord whose costume is similar to one of Crimebuster. I don't have one of Crimebuster, sorry.

Created by Angie and the main GM.

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[death tribble]

As the Flame founded the Protectors so too in time did the Warlock found the Pentacle, an Organization of evil sorcerors and things backed by agents.

The Warlock was one of the original villains debuting at the same time as that most wretched of things, the Overkill device. Naturally the Warlock tried to steal it. He was stopped but not apprehended. Mind you he did have a helicoptor smashed on his head and we did break the Overkill device. This time.
This is the original Character sheet, the mark 1. I will post others so the evolution can be traced.

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[The Mad GM]

Since there is so much Poser (software by Curious Labs, not the insult) work being put up, I'll put up mine from my website:

Attack bot (http://home.triad.rr.com/jpgrigni/Attack%20bot.jpg)

[death tribble]

Sorry don't know what poser is except as an insult.

Like the pic Mad GM. The reflection you get is good and something you don't see often.

[The Mad GM]

I meant Poser, the software that does human form modelling. I'll go edit my post to capitalize it.

[Deejmeister]

Since people are plugging thier favorite artists here, I should show off my friends' art. This is HotBlood by my friend Marc Curlee, and Silver Sorceress by Jacob Blacmon.

Hmmm... I can't seem to get the attachment to work.

[death tribble]

This is Arsenic a member of the third Chemical Compound.
The main GM created the first two versions and Paul Geelan created the third version which included Arsenic. This drawing was done by him as well.
Arsenic made one appearance with his colleagues. Attacking the Protectors he made the mistake of taking down the Magnetic Mistress with his poison attack. This triggered the reat Alfonso's enraged and Bye Bye Arsenic.

This is the before version. Master Spite who I will post down the line is the after. (NB not tonight with this batch)

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[death tribble]

This is Lawrencium, a teammate of Arsenic in the third Chemical Compound. Partly Radioactive he was the brick of the third Chemical Compound. drawing by Paul Geelan.

Included here also as a completely shameless way of getting Lawrencium back on the Super names list.

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[death tribble]

This is Magnesium from the Original Chemical Compound designed by the main GM of the campaign.

However this is a Magnesium whose powers have gone into overdrive and is overloaded.

Paul Geelan did this artwork as a favour to the main GM.

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[death tribble]

This is Britain's Fist.

A hero. Who was also a racist and not a very pleasent individual to the criminal populace. He did not steal from them but he most certainly hurt them. An NPC vigilante.
Created and drawn by Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

This is another oldie villain created and drawn by Paul Geelan.

Assassin was a persistant foe in the side of the Protectors forming at one stage an organization called ANGST (consisting of Assassin, Nightmare, Green Gnat, Stiletto and Talon) to fight the Protectors and then one called DAEMON. However the defeats had gone to his head and he had set his armour to explode. He was taken up into space to stop that from happening.

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[death tribble]

This is the Golden Titan.

And that is all I really know apart from some stats, powers and disads. I just liked the drawing.

Paul Geelan drew this one.

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[death tribble]

this is the Silver Titan, one of life's immovable objects. He was created when the Warlock set off a nuke in an African country in order to kill 100,000 people. His deal with you know who.

The Titan didn't like that and came after him. And went throough anyone else who got in the way. A walking defense bank who was hard to hurt or move. And yes that includes TK.

Drawn and created by Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

This is Sureshot going for the Street look. This is from a cover for TTTAP done by Paul Geelan. The actual character sheet really is not much to write home about.

But this is how it actually looks.

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[death tribble]

As we have Sureshot, it would be wrong not to include one of his arch foes, presenting Foil ! The Greatest swordsman in the world.

Sureshot was supposed to be a great archer but he also had a few levels with a sword. Big mistake. Paul designed Foil with a lot of levels with sword and guess who he came after ?
Unlike some of his foes, Sureshot never really got one over on Foil.

This is the original character sheet. Drawn by Paul Geelan.

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[death tribble]

Well after a few adventures, Foil got a new character sheet.

And here it is.

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[MisterVimes]

Epoch. Warlord of Time

[MisterVimes]

Kronos, the Lord of Time

[death tribble]

This version of Foil was drawn by my brother Paul. I got to run Foil while Paul Geelan was abroad.

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[death tribble]

Another of Sureshot's arch foes was Emerald Arrow. She and Sureshot built up a long running feud. Fed by him whistling the theme tune to the Archers after he bagged her on one occasion.

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[death tribble]

My first mastervillain design, the Weaponsmaster. A scientist, he hated Viper and Cobra for the way they went about things. He also did not get on with the Magician.

Drawn by my brother Paul.

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[death tribble]

Supersuit was one of the most unpopular of the Protectors. The reason for this was because she would not open up to people. Bad role-playing really on the part of the main GM whose North East Protectors Supersuit was a member of.

Drawn by my brother Paul, the idea with the armour was to have something close fitting but not chunky. Supersuit was a woman.

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[death tribble]

After Dr Apocalypse managed to destroy most of Genocide's resources in one fell swoop (draining all the mutant energy in the world into yourself making you THE biggest mutant on the planet will do that), the organization fell apart. Whilst the agents despaired, the surviving Minutemen built the next Generation of Minutemen without the flaws of the previous versions. The prime unit of this was Monitor.

Monitor eventually became the Coffee Machine in the Protectors base. Ignominious isn't it ?

Drawn and created by Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

This is the Psitan, archfoe of Spirit. Spirit was played by the girlfriend of Paul Geelan and was an egoist with some brick powers I believe (don't ask). Bit munchkinny.

However the Psitan was always able to hit her first with his ego-powers and leave her mentally paralysed before running away.

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[death tribble]

The Spectre was the campaign's first killer vigilante.

Originally a police inspector he began hunting villains to kill them. The Protectors had several run ins with him usually while solo operating.

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[death tribble]

After spending a few XPs, voila the new character sheet

Again drawn and created by Paul Geelan.

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[death tribble]

One of the early villains again, Nightmare managed to get away with what she was planning to do in her first appearance. Area effect presence drain will do that to you.
The first people she caused to flee were The Flame and Mindshock.

she became a mainstay in the campaign. Nightmare sold her soul to the devil for power. And hated the Warlock who made a better deal. Nightmare's bargain did make her immune to the Demoness's soul touch power though.

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[death tribble]

Like Nightmare a member of ANGST, Stiletto was again created and drawn by Paul Geelan.

Stiletto's origin was that she assassinated the Queen of England in a divergent reality where the sun never set on the British Empire. Unable to cope with the ensuing hue and cry she fled to this dimension.

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[death tribble]

The original Dr Apocalypse was a recurring villain but at this stage was thought dead after the Bravarian Illuminati sent an assassin out who sliced and diced the good doctor's brain.

So his son became Dr Apocalypse 2 and came after the Protectors. Later his daughter would take on the heroes but that's another story.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan.

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[death tribble]

Now some of you might recognise this little lady. This is Herculan's daughter, Carnage. Well not 5th edition obviously.

Carnage is half alien and a brick. She is also a regular member of the Chaos Corps, banes in the life of the North East Protectors especially around Halloween Night.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

This is the stretching villain, Elasto. Another member of the Chaos Corps.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

Deputy leader of the Chaos Corps and lover of its leader, Mahoney Snark, Thorn was an egoist. Secret ID was a barmaid

created and drawn by Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

This is Paul Geelan's adaptation of a villain I believe in Enemies: The International File called Pretty Poison. The idea was ok but needed work so Paul did this drawing and reworked the stats and origin. Voila Poison.

Thaw almost ended up as her husband on a couple of occasions. And she almost got elected as head of state in the country's elections after Communism fell.

Another member of the Chaos Corps.

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[death tribble]

Epoch's design is based on a DC character who time travelled.
I have the Secret Origins comic with the pic in it.

[MisterVimes]

Originally posted by death tribble
Epoch's design is based on a DC character who time travelled.
I have the Secret Origins comic with the pic in it.

Yep. I photoshopped a Lord of Time pic to get the look I wanted.

[MisterVimes]

A very Byrnesque pic I did in photoshop.
Hornet

[death tribble]

This is for a hero I did not get the chance to play. The armour and design is based on Big Barda of the Female Furies.

In the campaign, the armour is designed by the Magician.

Drawn by my brother Paul. As always any criticisms welcome.

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[death tribble]

This one is he contentious one and I will happily remove if it is too IP. If a moderator also removes it before hand for this reason, so be it.
However having seen the Epoch design which was adapted from a DC comics villain, I felt that it should be ok to post this one.

Wolfclaw was a Wolverine rip off as you can see. The costume is when he was a member of the group MAIM, Mutants Against Ignorant Mankind.

Created by the main GM of the campaign. And often badly played. 5d6 HKA before Str and trying to figure in martial arts and that ws used in preference to most anything else. Sadly.
Drawn by Angie.

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[Kaeto]

This is Aquarius.
She can turn into water, control it, use it to add to her size, and of course use it as a blast.

One time her team was fighting beside a sewage treatment plant so using he control of water hit the villians with a 'sludge hammer'. :eek:

[Kaeto]

This is Frostburn

As is obvious she has cold powers.

(The caption for this pic is "Now that was refreshing."):D

[death tribble]

This is the original costume for Demon, the armour wearing leader of the Chaos Corps. The Infamous Mahoney Snark.

He was not as good in his armour as he was a business man. At this he gave us much more to worry about.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

This is the Dr Apocalypse 2 armour after it has been in for an upgrade.

To recap, Dr Apocalypse 2 is the son of Dr Apocalypse and is out for revenge after the Protectors aided in the death of his father. At this juncture Doc Apoc 2 is a member of the group VILE. Villains International League of Evil.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

This is the third rendition of the Flame character sheet. I am not putting up Mk 2 as it really does not give much to people.
However Mk 3 does.

As you see the Flame is in flight and about to open fire. There is a little water damage which is why the right hand side is blue.

At this point in his career the Flame has clashed with several of his team mates for their lax attitude to law enforcement
ie looking cool is more important than enforcing the law and the penchent for some of them to let the villains go.
He was also liaising with the government over the running of the team. No easy thing when Thatcher is in charge.

The drawing is by my brother Paul.

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[death tribble]

Sometimes your mistakes come back to haunt you. Other times something you were supposed to find inert like say a Skull turns into the real thing.

So the whole group of us are in our first multi-part adventure which pits the Archon and his champions, The Protectors against the forces of the Destroyer. We had to collect pieces of something like the key to time. So having collected the first bit, the Magician (Yup my character) hit the wrong button in the time sphere and we ended up in the 13th Century. Up against the Swamp Witch. She was functionally blind but made do with sonar. And used Telekinesis in the form of a huge purple demon.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan this was the first villain in the campaign to have reflection. She became another recurring foe joining the Warlock in the Pentacle.

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[death tribble]

Those who have been following the thread will have seen me mention Arsenic and what he became Master Spite. This indeed is Master Spite, a thoroughly horrible villain.

If you killed him, he regenerated. He has a couple of nasty transformation and killing attacks. Spite joined the Pentacle and had his revenge on the Great Alfonso killing him in combat despite stringent efforts to save his life.
Spite became one of the villains that got pounded in order to stop him doing something nasty. because his nasty was nasty indeed.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

And as we are talking about the Pentacle, what about the man who made it all possible ?

Ladies and Gentlemen let's hear it for the Warlock !

Shown here at the start of the Pentacle's formation.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan.

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[death tribble]

Here we see the Warlock in typical gloating mode. Near the end of his terrestial life he will soon die at the hands of the Protectors only to come back as a powerful Demon.

Some villains. You maim them, you kill them. And then they turn up on your doorstep for revenge. What did we ever do to them ?

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan. My favourite of the Warlock drawings.

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[death tribble]

The attached is an example of aul's warped creativity on occasion. He wanted a Demon a little bit different for a witch to summon and this is what he came up with.

Mysteria looked like an ordinary paranormal but was a witch. And what she summoned up was Vincento. First time he appeared he did not say much. Until someone actually stunned Mysteria. he then pulled out a humungous handgun and opened fire on the offending hero uttering the line

'You hurta the bossa lady, you make a my day !'

Vincento was hunted by Elvis the Centaur. (Yup, Presley crossed with a centaur).

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan.

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[death tribble]

He talked like Noel Coward (see the original Italian Job with Michael Caine and a 40s film called In Which We Serve), dressed elegantly but was the result of Genetic experimentation down on Willow Farm carried out by Marion Willow.

This is Dr Jackal. He was smooth, suave sophisticated and kept his erstwhile partner, Mr Punch in check.

A great fun villain created and drawn by Paul Geelan

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[death tribble]

Part of the dynamic duo, Dr Jackal and Mr Punch, the latter was a simple and simple minded brick.

In England there was a tradition known as Punch and Judy shows where Mr Punch usully used a truncheon to beat up Judy, the Crocodile, the Policeman and the Doctor. He also talked in a high pitched voice.

Typical dialogue:-

Mr Punch: Can I hit them Dr Jackal ?

Dr Jackal: No, Punch

Mr Punch: Oh, what a pity.

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This is what happens when you cross Carmen Miranda with Dr Doom. Always good for a laugh, this is Dr Strangefruit.

And if you should thwart his plans, the obviously you were his arch enemy. The good Doctor would turn on the hero and say

'You ! You're Richard Reeds !'

And if you don't get that then you really need to read the Fantastic Four.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan.

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[Storn]

Death Tribble asked me to comment on Paul Geelan's work. I'm sorry to hear that this person has dissappeared.

The artwork is raw. That doesn't mean much, my artwork was raw once upon a time too.

If Paul was around, I would point him towards Burne Hogarth's dynamic anatomy... the anatomy needs to come up a notch. Also, to start paying attention to line weight, it is uniform and that is the kiss of boredom in a drawing. Lastly, ditch the color pencils. Granted, these are a decade old and now we have digital color. But color pencils, unless you are doing tremendous amounts of work with, are just cheap looking.

Learn watercolor instead. Or acrylic. Watercolor is fast!!! But very difficult. My favorite superhero traditional paint is goauche, because it is SO graphic, so matte. And it scans better than any paint I know of. But many people find goache very difficult to master.

What about digital Storn?, you use it! Unless you learn at least one traditional means of painting, applying color, digital will be a horrible crutch. I find going back and forth between traditional painting and digital painting, they inform one another. But digital is SO vast and SO easy, it is a horrible trap of TOO many options for a new artist. You might not believe me, but it is the plain truth. Trust me on this. There will be a few exceptions, but they will have to work twice as hard as they need to.

Lastly, to make a transition between hobby artist and one who works in this field, or any other illustration field... ya got to be able to tell a story. Now, I'm doodling costume designs and bad guys in my own thread and that is fine and cool... nothing wrong with it. But I get hired because I can do multiple figures in action with a foreground, middleground background that tells a story. And perspective, anatomy, design, emotion, drama... its all there. Now we are talking about a much more difficult beast to deal with than simple head to toe shots of superheroes/villians.

Here endeth the lecture.

[Domino]

Here is my character, Silverwing. He was penciled by me and inked by Champions artist Barry Winston in 1988, and photoshopped by me in 2002. He was placed over the LexCorp background picture from the Superman Animation Cel Painting Kit.

http://members.aol.com/dominousa/images/silverwing.jpg

[Enforcer84]

Originally posted by Domino
Here is my character, Silverwing. He was penciled by me and inked by Champions artist Barry Winston in 1988, and photoshopped by me in 2002. He was placed over the LexCorp background picture from the Superman Animation Cel Painting Kit.

http://members.aol.com/dominousa/images/silverwing.jpg

Very nice!
I like the shield alot.

[death tribble]

This is Necropolis who was another member of the Pentacle. I have no other info on him.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan. Cropped slightly in order to upload.

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With so many paranormals running around, it was inevitable that the Police would come up with an armed unit (SWAT in America) to take on the villains. Especially with so many agents wandering around as well.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan

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This is the Chamaeleon part of a group called the Tribe.
Created by the main GM and drawn by Paul Geelan.

Not a good group, the Tribe were created by a drug and led by the person who experimented on them as infants. And the players had a hard time trying to arrest them as some people wanted to let them stay free.
Chamaeleon mimiced others powers like Rogue of the X-Men but without the drastic side effects.

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Bluebottle is another member of the Chaos Corps and a living example of the "harm" that television, cinema and the media can do to people. As priests have warned for some time, there are hidden messages on records and in the visual media.
Bluebottle picked these up while watching the movies of the Canadian director, David Cronenberg (Yes blame Canada).
After watching the Fly, he finally 'got' the message and became the villainous Bluebottle.
For the record Cronenberg thinks Bluebottle is deranged and needs psychiatric help.

From an original sketch by Paul Geelan, this was drawn by my brother. Created by me from an original outline by Paul Geelan.

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Dark Angel is another of the first villains in the campaign. She was more than a little deranged and had a hatred of winged flyers. Talon was her sister.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan.

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This is a villain with an artillery piece on his back. Hardly practical but this is Champions where almost anything can happen.
Based on a competition winner in 2000 AD, the gun was an added extra. Drawn by my brother Paul.

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This individual handed you a lit bomb. The bombs were based on the old anarchist designs of pre 1900 society basically a cannonball with a fuse in it.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan.

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created and drawn by Paul Geelan, this villain was created rather quickly but looks good using one of the old character sheets with four added pincers.
Pincer never made many appearances.

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Created and drawn by Paul Geelan, the Red Tigress was created as a foil to several of the martial artists in the campaign. Again this is one of the old standard templates with added colour and detailing.

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After Dr Apocalypse turned himself into the world's most powerful mutant and biggest as well, Genocide was wrecked as it attempted to destroy them.

While the Minutemen analysed their mistakes and brought forth a new set of robots to continue the struggle, a lot of the human agents lost hope. Those that did not were the more fanatical mutant haters and they formed X-Terminate. One of their most effective operatives was the X-Terminator.
His brief was to kill mutants which he did with relish.
Killed when he fell off a flying platform and there was no-one to catch him.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan.

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The premier killer of X-Terminate, the X-Ecutioner was a power suit with deadly weapons and anti mutant defenses. His secret ID was also a reporter who made life difficult for the heroes.
Killed in a nuclear power station.
Created and drawn by Paul Geelan.

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Another character sheet based on the original templates. Soulfure was one of the first villains with a damage shield and like many others she just wanted to be able to touch normally.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan

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an Irish villain but one not concerned with the Troubles. Leprachaun was a teleporter and thus a thief.
Created and drawn by Paul Geelan around one of the old templates.

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The Dragon Queen was part of the Cherry Blossom Triad and was thus involved in the war between the Overlord and the Triad. The hero White Tiger tried to stop this from overly effecting everyone else.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan

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Scrapper was one of the first NPC heroes in the campaign.
A Canadian national, he was murdered with a whole group of other heroes by the organization called Pegasus.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan.

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Warpath were created and drawn by Paul Geelan and were a very successful team of villains. These were formed by Magnetic Maestro and Baroness Dark. And did many nasty things of which more later. There were usually 7 members in the team at any one time and if you failed you were drummed out.

The Maestro's main power was an EMP. So they liked to go near hospitals etc

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Baroness Dark was the other founding member of Warpath.
She was a witch and one of the few evil spell casters not to be in the Pentacle founded by the Warlock. If I recall correctly.

After one of Warpath's adventures, it was she who was drummed out of the team. This was organized by her lover and team mate, the Magnetic Maestro.

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The third member of Warpath and the first to go was the armour wearing speedster the Bronze Bolt. I like the idea of the character as I had never come across it before. A speedster in armour.

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The Magnetic Maestro in his secret ID was a businessman. He discovered that someone was stealing equipment. And thus he came across Jonah. Jonah used a crossbow as her weapon of choice and had a number of trick gadgets for it. She had other weapons and devices as well but the Crossbow was her trademark. Jonah was one of the few regular members of Warpath whoever was in charge.

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Like a cross between Freddy Kruegar and Leatherface, Bogeyman was a nasty piece of work. He could mentally paralyse people and then use his chainsaw on them. He also could discern someone's greatest fears and then make them relive or feel them.
Useless against two members of the Protectors who had Knows No Fear as Psych Lims.
The fifth member of Warpath.

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Maze was the sixth member of Warpath recruited along with Golgotha when fighting a Minuteman, which Baroness Dark summarily dispatched to Hell. Maze used mental ability to trap people in a maze in their mind. They then had to solve it to get out. Trying to blast or wallop them had a similar effect.

There is slight water damage tyo the sheet for which apologies.

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Golgotha was Maze's lover and someone who the American airforce had experimented on. Golgotha joined Warpath to stay with Maze. So he was not exactly happy when she had a baby by the Shining Knight.

Golgotha was the last original member of Warpath

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The first of the new recruits, Jigsaw disconcerted the heroes as his body parts were able to function on their own and he could split apart without seeming to suffer any harm. More than a little freaky.

As always, Paul Geelan drew and created the members of the group.

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There were few many limbed opponents of the Protectors which made Golem stand out to begin with. Standing over 9 feet tall also helps. Injured in a fire, Golem had to be rebuilt and came back as this monstrosity, idle as a member of Warpath.

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Cross Feur from Terror Inc with Durak and you have a fairly good picture of Vulcan. Hideously strong and with fire powers, he was a very nasty opponent.

Both he and Golem got taken down before the others when we fought them.

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How evil were Warpath ? Try this for size. Babies went missing or died. When the team investigated we came across this. The amalgamation of the brains of these babies into the Psi Killing Organism or PSIKO for short. It was destroyed but left the Protectors with a real dislike for Warpath.

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This is the original Dr Apocalypse and the original picture.
It is a standard template picture that has been inked over.
Drawn and created by Paul Geelan, Apocalypse would usually betray any and everyone.
He was trying to steer the Earth ot of orbit for a race of machines when the Protectors and Brother Death, special agent of the Bravarian Illuminati caught up with him. Brother Death sliced and diced Apocalypse's brains to illustrate that one does not mess with the Bravarian Illuminati. The Protectors at the time did not know that Brother Death worked for the Illuminati. That's their story and they are sticking to it.

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Dr Apocalypse returned to plague the Protectors several more times after his death. His son took the name and attacked the team; and then Apocalypse's essence was used to power a villain base before he was able to build himself a new body.
Then Dr Apocalypse drained mutant powers from all the world's mutants making him one of the biggest paranormals on the planet and an instant target for Genocide who lost lots of material trying to take him down.
The picture you see here is of Apocalypse at the time he instigated the Four Horseman of Dr Apocalypse and caused a Volcano to appear in Birmingham, England.

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This is a photocopy reduction of the original big nasty of the Campaign, The Destroyer. Star of the first Crisis on Infinite Earth set of scenarioes that Paul Geelan and the main GM ran, the Destroyer was an epic villain and out to destroy all creation. The first time out the combined team beat him eventually.

Created and drawn by Paul Geelan.

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After the Flame lost his powers when several of the villains try to return themselves to normal by removing their powers, he had to find another way to continue fighting crime.
Three battlesuits used against the Protectors were transformed to let the Flame use these for heavy work while a gun and flak vest came into play where mobility and lesser power was called on.

The main GM then rigourously enforced the foci limitation and tried to destroy or ruin the gadgets in every scenario they appeared. Something that was not done to other people.
Ever get the feeling that some people are playing favourites ?

Anyway this is what the Flame was like after losing his powers.
The drawing is by my brother Paul, the concept is by me.

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This was what happened to Arachneida when Daddy Dear (Arak Demon God of the Spiders) activated her true potential.

Spider fangs and extra limbs. Deeply unpleasent of him.
Drawn by my brother Paul.

The main DM who was playing while I was DMing this decided on a quick and dirty method of curing her. Arak was a Lord of Chaos, there was a Champion of Law present. Get one to touch the other and bingo, cured ! Ever seen what happens when postive and negative collide ?

So Arachneida lost her powers and enhanced abilities. And she was quite bitter about it.

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This was an attempt by the main DM to do an Amazo or Super Adaptoid. Composite Man had part of the powers of quite a few of the Protectors as you can see from the Uniform design.

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This is another 'hero' called the Flame. Designed by me and drawn by Paul Geelan, what the main DM did not pick up on was that this Flame was working for Genocide.
I did say he was a member of the Diamond Dogs. Which if you listen to the David Bowie song does give it away in the first couple of lines.

The whole look was predicated on making the figure different to the original Flame drawing.

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[dbsousa]

Here are the members of Good Guys, Inc.

From Right to Left:
In the air, Golden Eagle and Avenger
on the ground. Kid Ninja, the Bolt, Barracuda, da Flea, Buster, and Cheshire Cat.

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This is another character I came up with that was a fire user.
Blaze was also an ID I toyed of using for the Flame when he was outside the Protectors.

Drawn by my brother Paul.

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An American Pilot who got tangled up with a UFO, YCSTJM was rebuilt by the aliens. Including bits of the plane he was flying......

Due to his partly horrific appearance, the pilot took the name 'You Can't See The Join Man' as a way of trying to make people realise he knew what he looked like and to reassure them. They still freaked. He became bitter and was a villain for a while. Eventually he went to Japan where they gave him a sleeker look as this sheet shows. He also changed his name to Steel Sentinal.

This is the second version of the character sheet and is drawn by my brother Paul from an original by Paul Geelan.

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I came up with an organization called Wavelength. All members had waves as their powers ie Alpha waves, Beta waves (atomic particles basically), Light, Sound etc.

I settled on a standard uniform for them and my brother Paul drew the result. About half the members were women and the rest were men (they could have been aliens or animals just in case some one wants to make a comment on obviousness).

This is Alpha, one of the female members.

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This is one of the male members of Wavelength Light. All the members were built around the concept of wat their wave was so Light had a flash and a Energy Blast. He could also fly.

Most of the group could making them difficult to engage and capture. They were not a great success but they kept going.

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This is the head of Wavelength Doc Spectrum. Unlike the rest of his team, his costume is slightly different being black with a rainbow of colour along one side.

He did not make as many appearances as the rest of the team.

However it was enough for Paul Geelan and the main GM to mercilessly rib me with the spoof Waveylength comprising such luminaries as Permanent Wave who made your hair curly and Good Bye Wave whose power sent you flying out of the combat. And then there was Dr ZX81, which was a computer predecessor to the Spectrum.

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This was the first mega villain of the main GM of the campaign. Simple costume and many of you may have seen something similar or used something similar. Best thing about the guy was the costume.

The problem with this guy was many fold. High CVs, high powered and high defenses. And this was at the start of the campaign. Oh 10d6 Entangle is along the lines of what I mean by problems. And there is the matter of little or no disads that you can take advantage of, such as no vulnerabilities or hunteds other than the team. And then overused.

after some complaints the vllain was revised but it still left a bad taste in the mouth. And unfortunately the GM did not learn his lesson. A new mega-villain came in called Necromancer who was overused. Try several unlinked scenarioes on the trot with him appearing each time.

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One of the best ideas that the main GM came up with was the Chemical Compound. The second incarnation of which featured Uranium who was basically an excuse to use the neutralization or suppress power.
plus the character sheet picture looked pretty good.

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Dr Density was a brick who also had ego powers but nothing too gross. Unlike Spirit who was a teammate.

Density was created and drawn by Paul Geelan. However the main GM liked Dr Demsity and Paul liked Moonlight Shadow so the pair swapped characters.

Unlike the Wolverine rip off Wolfclaw that the main GM would play, he never once played Dr Density badly. Density was a mutant who never rammed that fact down people's throats.
He was a goody goody and really thank whoever for that. It was always a pleasure to run up against this guy.
Later versions had a cloak but this is the original picture.

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From one of the most loved members of the Protectors to the most hated. Lightray was supposed to be going straight when he joined the team. Instead of which he assisted in an attempt to kill us.

I really like the design on this sheet which is why I am including it. Drawn by the main GM.

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As the topic came up about playing in different eras here is the Victor, Britain's premier hero of the War years.

I like the design of the Victor's costume as it does not have a Union Jack but is suggestive of the flag.

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This was the first villain I designed and had a character sheet for.

Paul Geelan was the artist. It is a simple black armour over one of the existing templates.

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[MisterVimes]

Graviton

[Lord Mhoram]

Here is the first of two pictures of my currently active long running PC, Black Cat.

This was originally a pencil sketch that I scanned in. Then a wonderful soul on the HML offered to do computer inking for anyone on the list, and he did the rest.

[Lord Mhoram]

This is the secod of two pictures of Cat. I had her history up, and her character sheet with picture online, and a then acquiantence (now friend) saw it, and went home and read her history and background and felt inspired (as he said) and came in with this picture of Cat- as he put it "I made some changes, you can think of it as Black Cat the animated series or something).

[Blue]

Some very nice stuff in here!

Here's my contribution. This is a now deceased character. I never quite got the wings right (They're supposed to be kind of ethereal wings formed out of light energy).