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Re: Superhero Images

Wow. I haven't been by the forums lately, and now I get to catch up on all this cool artwork. Great stuff all around!

Re: Mech-Inspired Powered Armor

Originally posted by Mark Rand

A young inventor, facinated by mechs from comics, television and role=playing games, uses one as the inspiration for a suit of powered armor. Once its completed and tested, he or she applies to the Avengers.

Which mech should it be?

What weapons does it have?

If necessary, what can it convert into?

I'd go with the Garland mech from Megazone 23. It was also a motorcyle in one form, then a humanoid suit with a blaster hand weapon. It was taller than a normal human, but it wasn't gigantic; I believe it was around 8-9 feet tall tops. Iron Man's had at least one suit that looked that big (the space armor)

The Madox Suits from BGC is another one (incidently, there was a single OVA called Madox-01: Full Metal Panic, that covered the first Madox suit long before the time of BGC). You'd need to change the main weapon, which was a chaingun, but that shouldn't be too hard.

3 more excellant pieces there Storn!

re: Empress

Very nice image!

Originally posted by Agent X

Choose what parts of the Golden Age you want to emphasize and have fun. You can even run a Bronze Age version of the Golden Age ala the 70s writings of The Invaders.

I would also suggest tracking down issues of DC's All Star Squadron (not the Young All Stars though; I felt the writing on that was not as good). All Star Squadron was a very good (imho) modern take on Golden Age characters. The series starts just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and they had a good way of explaining why the heroes couldn't just go in and end the war right away.

Originally posted by Solomon

Another character, same campaign.

 

Fenrir.

 

Nice looking stuff there Solomon!

Re: Thrash (A new Look) Colored!

Originally posted by Wildcat

OK Photoshop was kind, and I was able to get this pic colored today. I decided that I'd color it in 2 ways. 1st with no shirt and showing all the tats, that Thrash normaly has. Then one that was a bit more respectable, with a shirt. I'll post the one with the shirt 1st, then one with both. I'd really like some feedback as to which one looks better.

 

WC

Very nice Wildcat! I like the one with the shirt better myself, only because he doesn't look mean enough with the shirt off. He's got that kind of "Don't mess with me" look, but his facial expression doesn't really make him look dangerous. With the shirt on, he's a good looking super with a smile on his face. Maybe you can tweak the shirtless facial expression, make him look a little meaner or something?

Re: character image

Originally posted by drrushing

Here's a character of mine. He's been retired for a while. Two of my favorite characters have always been Spiderman and Iron Man. This was my attempt at an amagimation of the two. This is Scorpius, a power armored character with all arachnid inspired powers. Oh, one other note, without deliberately trying, I've posted several images that are cropped. Sorry, my scanner only takes 8 1/2 x 11 pages, most of my images are larger than this, so I placed the central mass of the character in the scanner. Anyway, here he is: Scorpius

I really, really like this image. I really like the look of the extra limbs on Scorpius, and the blue & white for the costume is very appealing to the eye

Re: character image

Originally posted by drrushing

tell me what you think. This is a picture of my current Champions character: Nightwatch. It's a simple pencil drawing and colored with Berol Prismacolor pencils.

I really like it. The character looks pretty intense. Liked the Polaris image as well

Damn,

I haven't been getting updates on this thread, come by and see all kinds of new, cool images. You guys are just awesome. And damn, Cynthia is here too!

Originally posted by Mangog

Here's Scorpia

Another neat one there! Is she wearing a tie?

Re: The Black Enchantress

Originally posted by Wildcat

OK here's the 2nd (and last for now, will do more) Pic I colored from the Coriolis Effect. The Black Enchantress was originaly Drawn by Glenn Johnson, and All Kudoes should go to him for the great art to work with.

 

 

I did these pic because I plan on re-vamping them and changing things around to fit them into my campaign world. Here hoping that the Character designs come out as good as the color job.

 

WC

 

PS if anyone likes I can post one withough the BG

Wildcat,

Great coloring job on these two images, Especially Black Enchantress. She looks fairly menacing now!

Being the greedy mulch I am, I wouldn't mind seeing her without the background.

You going to do Dr. Arcane too? He was my favorite from that book

Originally posted by Mangog

Thanks!

 

Here's a sketch of Giganto from a series of drawings I did revamping Terror Inc.

Mangog. I love the look of Giganto! He looks less like the thing now, and a bit more reptillian. Kudos!

Wildcat: If you can post them, I'd love to see them. Hope they say it's ok to do

Originally posted by GestaltBennie

But Marvel's Nighthawk was never one of the big leaguers, and enough time has passed since his published heyday that most people probably won't have a problem with this.

 

Scott Bennie

Actually, there is a new take on the Squadron Supreme out now, called Supreme Power. It's written by J. Michael Stracynzki. The first issue had some rough sketches of what Nighthawk will look like in the series costume wise, and he doesn't look anything like the old costume designs.

Nighthawk was also a fairly popular character, as evidenced by his longterm appearance in the Defenders comic, and a mini-series a few years ago that brought him back after he seemingly died (shortly before the Squadron Supreme mini-series that brought back the original Nighthawk).

As to using Nighthawk for the Champions, I don't see a problem with it. As others have pointed out, names get used and reused over and over in comics. Granted, the bigger names are not copied (for obvious reasons, like avoiding legal hassles), but the middle tier to lesser ones are less likely to draw a fuss.

Originally posted by Mangog

Another try

Great image! Looks like a cross between the Blue Bullet armor seen in The Invaders comic, and those bulky robots you used to see in movie serials (and in the serial program on Voyager). Neat!

Re: Star Spangled Hero

Originally posted by Wildcat

Hello All.

Finaly got my scanner hooked back up after the move. and I drew a new pic for the Golden Age champions segment of the Dimension hopping adventure I'm running in my game. The heroes (Avantguard) will find themselves in the bodies of Golden Age heroes from 1938. This is a Pic I just finished for one of them.

I will admit that I used Redmeanace's template that he posted a bit ago for the pose of the hero. I'm in the midst of another GAC char usign another of his poses also... so look for that soon. (also coloring SSH in Photoshop)

 

 

WC

Wildcat,

I like it! I've been catching up on this thread today, and damn, alot of nice artwork's been posted. Kudos to everyone for the good work!

Re: Another American Eagle

Originally posted by Wildcat

OK this was the last pic I did of AE, and the one the char stuck with to the end of the campaign. Not the greatest color job, but hey I don't think much of any of my coloring from back then.

 

WC

PS Feedback welcome on these three... which one is best etc...

Of the two colored ones, I think this one is better. I can see why the player chose it.

I also think the coloring isn't bad; not being an artist myself, I tend not to get too picky over that kind of stuff

Re: Re: Re: Speaking of Winged Characters

Originally posted by Wildcat

Thanx I had it colored once, but think it got trashed in the Big D a few yrs back, but I'll look for it.

 

As for a new take on AE Get this... the PC who took on the mantel of American Eagle was a Brick. So he just added wings, and Voila the Strongest AE ever.

 

That was a real cool story arc of my that campaign (if I do say so myself)

 

WC

 

PS I have 2 other versions also... I'll need to scan them to show ya so it might be later today or tomorrow.

In one of my old games, a pc was called Demon. He was a demon from hell, but he liked little children and puppies, so he fled Hell, and came to earth. He was very mellow, unless a puppy or child was threatened, then he became this whirlwind of destruction. The group Demon made the mistake of trying to capture him by holding dog pound hostage. They never did find all the agent's body parts....

Looking forward to the other pics when you get to post them

Re: Speaking of Winged Characters

Originally posted by Wildcat

Here's an old Pic I did Of my Campiagn's American Eagle (The Orig Died During the VOICE of Doom Adventure) Yeah the Wings were inspired by Arch Angel, as was probably the pose, but can't remember right now... I did 3 versions of him, but this was the 1st

 

WC

Wildcat,

I love this take on American Eagle. It's very well done. You should consider coloring it in

Wildcat,

Great looking image!

Sketchpad,

those are really good looking updates of those V&V characters. I especially like Nightmare, with the image coming off his cigarette smoke. I always did like those two characters; Nightmare plagued a few of my old Champions games in the past too

Originally posted by Evil Thoughts

Did you get permission to post it on Green Ronin's site?

Since it was posted to their message board, he didn't need permission. It's a thread about his game, and the artwork is *his* artwork. Seriously, I don't see what the big deal is. As Storn pointed out, both pieces are available from his website, for free. If Hero didn't have a problem with it being on his site, why would they have a problem with him posting it to a thread about his M&M game? It's set in a world that uses alot of characters from Champions, so it's obvious that some champs character would show up in the game.

Re: Another old Pic newly Colored

Originally posted by Wildcat

This one is my version of the Terminator from the Old Teen Titans Comics.

In my world he's called Death Stalker the Terminator, to distinguish him from the villain group Deathstroke.

 

WC

 

(this is the Pic I made the Chainmail patter for previously seen on the Beserkers)

This one looks awesome WC!

Re: Another Beserker

Originally posted by Wildcat

OK gang here's the latest one. The feedback I'm getting is 50-50 chainmail-no chainmail so I think I'll give ya a side-by-side comparison.

 

WC

I like both. Each has their own qualities to it, so I can't decide!

BTW, this one is the best of the three so far

Re: Another super-patriot

Originally posted by American Valor

This one's another favorite character of mine. It still needs a little cleaning up, but I like him.

Looks cool AV. I downloaded it, but for some reason, only part of the image shows up in my image viewer. When I look at the thumbnail though, I see the whol image (which looks awesome, btw).

Anyway you could repost the file in a smaller size?

What's with the name Dark Patriot? Is he more of a vigilante type? I had a character a few years ago called American Gothic. He was a patriotic character, but he mainly fought street crime

Re: Next Bererker

Originally posted by Wildcat

OK her's the next one... Still wondering if the Chainmail is workign or not... let me know wich one looks better.

 

WC

Not bad Wildcat. They both look good, though I think Thor looks a bit better.