Category Archives: Challenge Prizes

The winning prizes for all HeroMachine challenges.

Caption Contest 8 Prize!

Coyote, the winner of Caption Contest 8, chose a "Vampire Pirate" as his winning illustration theme, and here the ol' swashbuckler is:

Vampire Pirate

If you want to win your very own professional custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason), get on over to "Caption Contest 10: A Hell of a Challenge" now and submit your entry!

Caption Contest 7 Winning Prize

Here's the prize for Caption Contest 7, which was won by Ashton. It's a drawing of his father's friend, who's very ill. I think it was extremely generous and thoughtful of Ashton to think of his dad this way, I really hope they liked it. It turns out that drawing trees in ink is very hard.

Hiker in the woods

If you want to win your very own professional black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason), make your entry for Caption Contest 9: The Poetic Pooch going on right now!

Caption Contest 6 prize

Count Libido and I have completed his prize for winning Caption Contest 6:

Count Libido

I'm very happy with the way this one turned out, I think it's got a lot of pizazz. If you want to win your own custom illustration of whatever you like, enter the HeroMachine Caption Contest 7, going on now!

Caption Contest 5 Prize — Creature:Blackout

Cameron and I have finished work on his prize for winning Caption Contest 5, the dual-aspect character Creature:Blackout. Here's Cameron's description:

The characters name is "Creature: Blackout", and he's a super-powered mercenary in the world of Aberrant. Costume wise, he wears a featureless white lycra bodysuit that also coveres his face, removing all facial featurs but his eyes (egg-face is also an appropriate name). When he uses his powers, six shadowy, black tentacles manifest from his back, and his whole image changes from a featureless humanoid to a horrific creature whose image is so terrifying as to be capable of driving people permenantly mad (especially his face). His other main power is the ability to generate a large inky blacknesss that can envelope large areas and induce a state of sensory deprivation in which only his horrific imaghe is visible, allowing him to ensnare and affect large numbers of people and this has also lead to his name.

I'd like an image of his leaping towards the viewer in his horrific visage (I always visualised it as a kind of flayed-human kind of image) with tentacles writhing.

And here's what we came up with for the illustration:

Blackout

If you want to win your very own custom black and white illustration of whatever you like (within reason), you can enter Caption Contest 6:Hicks and Chicks, going on now! But you'd better bring your A game, because the entries there already are pretty stellar.

Caption Contest 4 Winning Prize

Leiha has received her custom illustration for winning Caption Contest 4. It's a friend of hers who likes to bow-hunt buffalo, and here is the final version:

The Buffalo Hunter

You can see her winning entry here. You can win your own custom illustration in Caption Contest 5, now going!

Another winner

Would you like your very own custom drawing by Jeff "Professional Illustrator" Hebert, only you don't know how to get it? All you have to do is enter the "Create Your Own Caption Contest", just like Dan did, who now has this illustration of one of his characters, "Miss Music":

Miss Music

The description he gave me was:

If you're up for it, you could do a picture of Tammi in her Miss Music costume. Nothing special - she dresses like a drum majorette with the short frilly skirt, cowgirl boots, that fancy top with ties from side to side, and the big furry hat with the feather sticking up.

I think it turned out pretty well, hopefully you all will like it too. And then you'll get your butts over to Caption Contest 3 and enter yourself, so you can get your own drawing of whatever you like!

Contest final custom illustration

Scorp has approved the final version of the contest-winning Mideios' final illustration, so without further ado, here he is:

Mideios final color drawing

And just to refresh your memory, here was the contest entry itself, direct from the HeroMachine:

Mideios - original web

Many thanks again to all the entrants, and to Scorp for giving me such a fun character to illustrate.