Comrade Hero

Thanks to Sharby for slaving away dilligently at this.

Graviton Girl - Who's your Momma?

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Well, I did write a guide to collecting art...it's located on my website below. Aside from hitting conventions, I mostly network with artists to get more art, which usually snags me some discounts. I don't normally collect more than one piece of work from an artist at a time unless I like their style alot. As far as freebie art goes, I got one from Celtic Bolt and Jim Tessier, but I don't ask for freebies unless I really like the style. It's my preference that no one draws Bayani unless they ask me first. I'm fairly picky, and like some control over how my character's portrayed. If I like someone's style enough to request art, I'm always willing to pay for it. (I apologize if this sounds obnoxious or snobbish to anyone, but I prefer quality over quantity of pictures)

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That was a fine guide you wrote, wish we had it stickied. I go for quality over quantity as well, and the waiting time has tended to reflect this.

This sounds like fun!

See if your artistic juices can work capitalistic manufacturing magic on my villain Rack.

Tricky.

The real question is am I really gender confused?

o_O

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Ah... Liquid Television... when MTV was somewhat edgey.

Yeh, Super Anorexic spies don't do it for me too.

ooh! Cant wait Squirrel! I love how your lighting is almost opposite of mine.

-CJ

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Although super slinky Charlize in skintight costume does it for me.

Thread Highjack return in 3...2...1...0

I don't have a lot of money to spend, and the exchange rate for New Zealand to US dollars makes me cringe at times. But it is possible to get nice inked and/or colored pieces from $5USD - $50USD if you're willing to put in the time and effort to track down the artistic talent.

I thoroughly recommend scouring the artistic community at DeviantArt.com. You will find many talented people creating pieces for reasonable prices, in differing styles. And oft times, if you are polite enough you can 'persuade' someone to do a paid commission for you even if they don't advertise this service.

Another good potential resource is the ComicArtCommunity.com auctions. If you play your cards right you can pick up inked commissions at around $40USD-$75USD from budding artists who produce really good work - D9Arts and ComiCommission from Brazil spring to mind.

I'm nowhere near in the same collecting league as Thor's Assassin, Katfood or Rowr but at the momment I currently have 17 commissions that are either waiting to be started or are currently in production.

The one rule you should take to heart is never 'beg' any of the artists on these sites for a discounted price or a freebie. The situation for many of these artists is that creating pieces isn't highly profitable and it's a means of supplementing their income, and not the main source.

You never cease to amaze Graver. You go from strength to strength.

Agreed.

That's one fine looking piece

That's really, very good.

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I got bored during sever down time, so i just slapped together a wallpaper, lol.

1440 x 900

Yea, it's kinda big, but thats my computer's screen size.

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Heh, my screen is the same size, widescreen FTW.

Psyche may be physically well endowered, but I hate her constant complaining.

Ghost Widow get's my vote.

I would nominate Red Savior from the CCCP - extremely well known not just on Pinnacle, but across different servers due to the excellent RP group she runs.

I hope this doesn't turn into a popularity contest based on who has the most art pieces, or is most prevalent in posting in this forum - but I can see it happening already.

Really nice job Graver.

Fantastic

Brilliant stuff.

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This is the famous person....does it look to much like him?
Da pitt model

I'm going back to work on Shautru....

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That's really, very good.

I'll take Milla Jovovich ala Ultraviolet mode FTW when you finally get around to doing my little missy Albtraum.

Bloody brilliant.

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Top left panel:

Ms L: (pained voice): "Swine! You shall come to justice this time!"
NN: "More dramatic dribble Liberty? I see you are the same!"

Top right panel:

Ms L: "Why do we keep doing this...fight?
NN: "Ugh! What?"
Ms L: " I mean, it just seems like another stereotypical girlfight to excite all those little boys hoping that clothing gets ripped off and they see us naked!"
NN: "Hmmmm...I, er...ah. That isn't why we do this! We do this for the eternal fight between good and evil..."

Bottom left panel:

Ms L: "That is what they want you to think! Now look at how they have us? Pressed together, sexily, and suggestive."
NN: "Ummmm.."
Ms L: " We should end this and love one another...Like I discovered with my roommate in college?"
NN:" What the??"
Ms L: "I wonder what ever happened to Vibrate Girl anyways?"

Bottom right panel:

NN: "That did it! For the last time Liberty, it is not gonna happen!"
Ms L: (sobbing) "PRUDE!"

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Nice one MarDun, you made me spill my iced coffee over the cat. That was hillarious.

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Hi, just did a rough sketch of one of my characters in the COH game. His name is Etons Emond, he is a stone tank, so you can probably figure out what his name means.

I was just doing this for fun, but it came out pretty good so I think I may actually decide to do a penciled version. I drew this in pen, so all the extra lines, mistakes, etc. cannot be fixed. Lemme know what you think, and if you reconize some costume parts



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That's one brutal looking SOB. Well done!

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Okay... ran into a snag tonight *pounds head into wall*. Apparently, they changed the formulation of the multimedia board I use for these watercolors or something. The boards I had been using I had sitting around for a couple of years. Either way, the last of those was used for Hems. The new ones I ordered, however are completely inferior in quality! *pounds head into wall some more* After the first wash of color, not only did the board begin warping slightly, but the color actually soaked into it (it's not supposed to) and ended up drying in a weird bleeding pattern... hell, in one spot it bled clean through to the back side! *pounds head into wall again and again*

I'll try to come up with a work around... maybe using gesso on the board... or *pounds head into wall* something... I don't know. I'll have to start over as the pencils are wrecked now. Might be able to get a print out and do a transfer, but things are going to be a bit delayed until I can think of something that will yield the quality of the previous works.

Either way, things are going to be delayed, but, hopefully I'll have some forward movement very soon... or kill my self, which ever *pounds head into the wall several more times*

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That's terrible news Graver. Here's hoping you'll find some board that won't throw a spanner in the works like this.

Naughty Nadya vs. Ms. Liberty.

Panel 1
Ms. LibertySpeech Bubble) Give it up, Naughty Nadya. You're undisciplined.

Narrator box: Lord Recluse once said that often the only difference between victory and defeat is not strength,

Panel 2
Ms. Liberty: (Speech Bubble) You're too slow.

Narrator Box: agility,

Panel 3
Ms. Liberty: (Speech Bubble) And I'm way out of your league!

Naughty Nadya: (Speech Bubble) Laugh it up, Liberty Loser.

Narrator Box: or even experience.

Panel 4:
Naughty Nadya: (Speech Bubble) Your overconfidence will be the end of you!

Narrator Box: The difference between victory and defeat is simple: sheer force of will!

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Almost finished. Just need to add some detail to her top and leather pants and I think i'm done. I think this is my favorite one yet. Almost looks like one of my paintings.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...eralKitty3.jpg


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Very, very nice.

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Here is Aurora Frost......I looked at a certain unnamed men's magazine for inspiration.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m...uroraFrost.jpg

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That wouldn't be House and Garden would it?

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Looks spiffy. Very good detail innit.

And the concept for the character doesn't sound too bad, either.

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For the curious:

Comrade Hero

Nikolai Alexandrovich Biryuk was born on November 5, 1970. The son of Aleksandr Biryuk, a high ranking diplomat in the Soviet Union’s United Nations delegation in New York; and Caroline Jackson, daughter of US shipping and oil magnate Thomas Jackson. Nikolai was born in the United States, but raised in the former Soviet Union by his father’s family in the Ukraine. His younger sister Nina was born in 1975, and was raised by his mother in the United States. Nikolai would not get to see his mother or sister in person until nearly three decades later.

Nikolai graduated from secondary school in 1988 and joined the Kharkov Higher Military Aviation School for Fighter Pilots. He graduated with honors in 1993, receiving his Pilot-Engineer diploma. Nikolai subsequently attended the Ministry of Aviation Industry Test Pilot School in Zhukovsky, receiving his Test Pilot Degree in 1996. Upon graduation, Nikolai was selected as an experimental test pilot and posted to a classified Russian Federal Space Agency test site somewhere in Siberia known simply as Lot 11.

Nikolai excelled as a test pilot and enjoyed working with the various ‘X Planes’ being constructed and tested at Lot 11. In the aftermath of the Rikiti War in 2002, Lot 11 came into possession of a number of Rikiti artefacts and technology. Some of this was reverse engineered and incorporated into the Phoenix Project - an attempt to create a fighter spacecraft that could make sub-orbital leaps through the edge of space. In 2003 Nikolai was given the honor of piloting Phoenix IV on its maiden voyage.

Nikolai piloted Phoenix IV to the edge of space with no problems. It was during testing of the sub-orbital ‘leaping’ ability that Nikolai ran into trouble. Phoenix IV was unexpectedly exposed to a massive bombardment of unknown cosmic radiation during one of the tests. Nikolai’s spacecraft exploded spectacularly, sending him hurtling helplessly towards the Earth. Nikolai plummeted over 70 miles and crashed into the frozen wastes of the Arctic. The resulting impact created a massive crater and briefly lit up the night sky with an eerie crimson glow.

A week later rescue crews recovered the unconscious Nikolai, and were astonished to find him alive and complete unharmed in the middle of a smouldering crater a half a mile across in diameter and 100ft deep. The cosmic radiation that had destroyed Phoenix IV had activated the latent mutant potential in Nikolai - creating a near indestructible man infused with cosmic energies he could now control and channel through his body.

Nikolai was immediately transferred to Moscow for debriefing and assessment by order of the GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie) Russian Metahuman Identification and Utilisation Division. Nikolai was quickly recognized as a potential asset and began specialist training to help him master and control his metahuman abilities. Nikolai was called ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ in recognition of his astonishing survival. But it was Nikolai who decided to adopt the mundane sounding 'Comrade Hero' as his hero identity, despite suggestions of several more exciting and dramatic hero names.

Given Nikolai’s parentage, it was decided to send him to the United States. Obstentiously as part of the Russian Federation’s continued assistance to the ongoing reconstruction of Paragon City, but primarily to gather intelligence and curtail the activities of the newly emergent Council. Moscow was particularly worried by the ease with which the Council had overthrown and absorbed the remnants of the 5th Column into its ranks.

Nikolai returned to the United States in 2004 and was granted a Paragon City Hero Registration Card in April 2004. He was also joyfully reunited with his mother and sister, and introduced to his American relatives.

As Comrade Hero, Nikolai strives to protect and educate the peoples of America against the depredations of criminal subversives, against capitalist exploitation by immoral corporations, and against oppression from the corrupt governmental policies and practises.

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I really don’t want to get into name calling and make this into a big thing. Basically someone has been ripping some of our site copy and certain aspects of our site design for quite awile. While the site design aspect is not a big deal it just shows a lack of creativity of said imitators. However copying text that we spent the time putting together to appeal to our clients/audience the "MMOART" way, is just not cool. I think in such an artistic market originality and integrity is a necessity. I just fear that they are often overlooked for the sake of convenience.

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Agreed.

I hope this site is of some help Gill. W

While it is tailored as a 'what to do' guide to the buying and selling of art over the Internet, I'm sure the fraudulent use aspect might apply in your case.

ComicArtCommunity.com Help

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Hey that looks pretty good. I like the coloring. I wish the flag (?) he's holding had a few more highlights to it, like how his costume does and the rubble he's standing on. But overall, good work.

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It's the flag of the Russian Federation Comrade Hero is holding. He's a post-Soviet version of Captain America, Judge Dredd and Superman all rolled into one.