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SOD – Laundry Day

"Maintaining your Secret ID For Dummies"

Pop Quiz 23 Results

Many thanks to the folks who entered yesterday's Pop Quiz! Since we had a relatively small pool, here they all are:

Man, these are all so good! All of the usual suspects hit it out of the park, from Lime and Kytana to djuby and Atomic Punk and ... well hell, EVERYONE did amazing work this time around, seriously. I really hesitate to pick just one. But, that's how the game is played, I suppose, so just going with my own personal knee-jerk response, I'm going to pick Scatman as my personal favorite:

Mostly because besides being a nice, tight illustration, it gave me a chuckle. And I kind of needed a chuckle today.

But honestly, there were twenty others just as good that I could have gone with, you all completely outdid yourselves. Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with us!

And since I shouldn't have to be the only one to agonize over a hard decision today, please speak up in the comments and let us know which one YOU would choose as your personal favorite, or any others that you care to remark on.

SOD – Say what?!

SOD – Self Portrait

I drew this earlier this morning for the Daily Sketch subreddit. The green gradient either represents a deep philosophical statement on the antagonism between the external Superman self (as represented by the shirt) and the inner death of Kryptonite, or I just like green.

Pop Quiz: Riding it out

Happy Saturday, folks! Your one-day quick-fire challenge today is to create an image that involves something riding something else (keep it clean!). It could be a mermaid riding a dinosaur, or a dinosaur riding a robot, or a robot riding a chimp, or a knight riding a horse, or a man riding a motorcycle made of donuts, you get the idea.

You only get one entry -- that's right, just one! So make it your best. Most of the other rules are the same as for a regular challenge, but instead of a whole week I'll announce my favorites either tonight or tomorrow morning. Elaborate backgrounds aren't necessary, though if you've got one it's fine.

  • All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like ImageShack, PhotoBucket, the HeroMachine Forums, whatever);
  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • Please name your files as [your name]-[character name].[file extension]. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his "Bayou Belle" character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.
  • Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this). Here's a quick-start guide on how to do that for various image hosting services.

I'll pick one entry as my personal favorite, which will get to be featured in the side bar to the right for ultimate glory! As a bonus you're allowed to say you won the Internet for a few days.

Good luck!

It's from a Nigerian prince!

Barbario Smash!

Our very own Barbario stars in this awesome trailer! This is pretty darn cool, and Barbario certainly fulfills his promise as a bona fide bad-ass. Well done, sir!

SOD – Adam Strange

I haven't done one of these for a while, but I got the overwhelming urge to draw Adam Strange today.

Power User Profile: djuby!

Back in the day, we used to have a little feature I called "Power User Profiles". It was a way of getting to know some of the more prolific and creative members of the community via a hard-hitting Sixty Minutes style questionnaire. I'm bringing it back this week in lieu of a broader Sharing Day because I got fascinated by the profession and style of djuby. So without further ado, sit back and enjoy getting to know this intrepid illustrator better.

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