Character Design Contest ♯150 (What The Dickens) Winner

So, I'm going to give this weeks CDC win to superfly30 for their interpretation of Mr. Jaggers from Great Expectations. The reason I chose this one was because not only did it feel the most complete entry this week, but it also kept the closest to the source material. The character actually looks like you could imagine him looking from the authors description of him. So congrats to superfly and well done to everyone who entered.

Kaldath’s Corner: A Frozen Parody

For all you Frozen and or Harley Quinn Fans out there, here is a little something I discovered today. You may or may not have already seen it but I present

Do You Wanna Kill The Batman!

JReveiws: Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 12- Hell Bent

Series finale time. So, how was it?

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Pop Quiz – A Most Egg-cellent Christmas!

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Your challenge this week is all about intricate detail.

The task is to create an elaborately detailed Christmas ornament inspired by the glorious imperial eggs by Faberge.

You only get one entry so bring the bling, be creative, and above all else, have fun!

All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine forums,ImageShackPhotoBucket, or whatever);

  • Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
  • The image must be new and designed specifically for the Pop Quiz;
  • No copyrighted characters please – they will be deleted.
  • Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. 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). See this post on how to get the direct link for most sites.

This contest will close at 6pm Eastern on Sunday, December 6th.

OCD (Open Critique Day) #36

How this goes:  You post a work of yours, finished or WIP, and then others give you critiques on your work. I do not mind if you post non-HM pictures or piece of writing. Just make sure that you only post pictures that are your own design and not any that are copyrighted or based off of copyrighted characters. 

Also, if you post a work, it is highly recommended that you also give someone else a critique.

Even this is called Open Critique Day, I allow (even welcome!) for you guys to post and discuss on this for the weekend until 11:59 pm Sunday.

Character of the Week: Candruth- Manhunter

Oh, it's Candruth again. Anyone else surprised? Nope. Me neither. And honestly, can anyone blame me for picked Candruths work when this is the quality she puts out consistently?

Gallery- Candruth's Characters :3

CYOA Wednesday: Channel – U – Part 5

Channel UIt is once again time for our Chose Your Own Adventure Wednesday post and once again we return to the pages of the Book Channel-U. Last time we had a choice after separating our ship into two separate ships to take command of a rescue mission or an attack mission. Base on your votes we are going to take on the rescue mission soooooooo lets get to it.

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Character Of The Year 2015

So, it's that time of the year again. It's December, and that means you guys can have some polls and decide which of this years CDC winners deserves to be crowned our Character Of The Year. The winner gets put in the Hall Of Fame.

There are four polls and you can votes for as many pictures in each poll as you want. The polls will close on the 17th, so we can have our final four (or five if one of the polls is tied) in a poll for the week up to Christmas Eve.

Good luck to everyone, and lets keep it clean.

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Character Design Contest ♯150- What The Dickens

So, this week we're going to do another Public Domain challenge. But, to keep it interesting, we're going to have a different twist on the theme. Instead of doing a category based challenge, we're going to take a look at characters created by one single author, in this case Charles Dickens. You have free reign with the entire Dickensian catalogue, so pick any character you feel like.

And incase anyone is struggling to think of any ideas for who to do, here's a list of Dickensian characters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dickensian_characters

As per usual, no limits on the number of entries and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges that I am hosting: Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters, no characters based on RPG’s or other games. The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warnings. Only post characters that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to a contest before. If you aren’t certain, don’t enter it, because I’m not going to go back through all of the contests and check.

If you don’t know how to enter, there’s a handy little diagram below the jump.

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Pop Quiz Results

Only two entries this week but what a pair! No, I'm not talking about the pair of ... um...thrusters...on Nug's probe as it penetrates the deepest reaches of space. I'm talking about a pair of great entries from two great machiners.

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Nug's entry is beautifully done...as usual...but also made me spit take my coffee, and HerrD's combination of art and description is pure genius. The details in both pieces are remarkable.

So therefore I refuse to make a choice. I can't. I could not name one the winner without feeling that I would be short changing the other. So congratulate each other boys...you both earned it!