| Storm lights it up
 Divine_Monkey711  Marvel Comics  2004/1/25 2:50
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| Well, it's not Halle Barry. It's an old manip with a member of Destiny's child as Storm (don't remember the name), but i thought I should submit it anyway. |
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| "Class Reunion" - The New Mutants
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/1/24 14:29
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Finally finished this piece which has taken me just over a month in all to complete. Would have been done sooner but kept adding more characters.
In the end from left to right, with their actors and actresses, the characters are Sunspot Aka Roberto DeCosta (Wilmer Valderrama), Mirage Aka Danielle Moonstar (Karina Lombard), Meltdown Aka Tabitha Smith (Christina Applegate), Magma Aka Amara Aquilla (Unknown), Wolfsbane Aka Rahne Sinclair (Kiera Knightley), Karma Aka Xi'an Coy Manh (Jaymee Ong) and Cannonball Aka Samuel Guthrie (Christopher Masterson).
All work was done in Photoshop 7 using a mix of visual effects created with Photoshop's own filters in conjunction with Eye Candy 4000 and Alien Skin Xenofex.
Hope everyone agrees the end result was worth all the work. |
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| NOVA
JustinBLong2003 Marvel Comics 2004/1/24 8:55
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| This was done with pencil on a 8.5 by 11 white paper. I used my fingers to smug the pencil to make the smoke effect. And that is about it. |
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| EMMA FROST
JustinBLong2003 Marvel Comics 2004/1/24 8:48
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| This piece was done with pencil and white charcol on a comic book backboard. Size is 8.5 by 11 inchs. With a Adam Hughes style to it. |
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| SPIDER WOMAN
JustinBLong2003 Marvel Comics 2004/1/24 8:40
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| I know that this is a very simple piece. But I thought I would put it up any ways. I don't think that I need to explain how I did it. But if you look real close, you can see her eyes. Enjoy |
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| SILVER SURFER
JustinBLong2003 Marvel Comics 2004/1/23 15:16
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| This piece was done with pen and ink first then computer colored. Enjoy |
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| SAVAGE DRAGON
JustinBLong2003 Other Comics 2004/1/23 15:06
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| This was done with a black muscle man. New background. Added sun shades, and pants. Enjoy |
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| BARONESS
JustinBLong2003 Other Comics 2004/1/22 16:03
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| Another one done for ebay. |
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| Women of the X:The Australian Years
Gouge Marvel Comics 2004/1/22 8:23
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| Well I only have Storm to go. This pic dedicated to all the regulars that have made this place great. Thanks for making me push myself with all the hreat artwork you guys post! And as always to Hub for making it possible. |
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| ShadowMan By Winterhawk
Winterhawk Other Comics 2004/1/21 19:35
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This is the third picture in my Hero's of Valiant series.
for those not familiar with this character:Jack Boniface was a jazz saxophone player from new orleans. Unknown to him, he was chosen by a voodoo cult to become Shadowman to fight evil. One night he was bitten by a vampiric Spider Alien. Jack does not know what saved him after her poison knocked him out - only that when he awoke, she was gone. But she infected his blood with a poison that altered his use of the Darque Power when he became Shadowman. Since that night, with each sunset, Jack is overcome by the urge to seek and destroy evil. Drug dealers, in particular, are targets of his nocturnal patrols.
The manip it self started out as a picture of that guy from 2 fast 2 furious. All i really did was add the shirt, hair, and mask. I really like how the mask turned out. |
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| CATWOMAN
JustinBLong2003 DC Comics 2004/1/21 12:53
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| NOTICE BATMAN IN THE REFLECTION. |
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| "Free" - Heath Ledger as Angel
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/1/21 1:49
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Continuing my posting of my older manips.
A photomanip that sprung to mind for no particular reason other than it will get a few friends of mine swooning. :)
The actor Heath Ledger (of A Knight's Tale fame) seemed to have the right features and 'look' for Warren as I imagined him. His face was a basis for the manip. The body came from a random tailoring site, while the feet came from another image. The background was also found randomly on the web. The wings are an amalgamation of those worn by Alan Rickman in Dogma and some worn by Jennifer Lopez for a FHM photoshoot.
The image was compiled in Photoshop 7 and finished off using the Little Fluffy Clouds filter.
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| Black Canary
QuantumFX DC Comics 2004/1/16 17:37
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| Well, I thought this little side project would get done after my villian manip. |
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| Wonder Girl (redo)
Tazman DC Comics 2004/1/14 20:55
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| Dagger
Tazman Marvel Comics 2004/1/14 20:26
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| "Ecstacy" - Angelina Jolie as Stacy X
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/1/14 5:02
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Continuing my posting of my older manips while I play catch up with my New Mutants pic.
Stacy isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I was just beginning to really like the character when she was binned from Uncanny X-men. So this is my tribute to a character with a lot of potential. Got to love the self proclaimed 'first X-man to make a living on her back'.
The snake skin effects were produced with photos of various snakes from the web,combined with other reptile pics, and then imported with use of the opacity and hue and saturation control panels in Photoshop 7.
The background image came from a performance troupe called the Fluffgirl Society. Don't ask me what they perform, I didn't dare guess from the pic.
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| Shadowcat
Aharmona Marvel Comics 2004/1/13 20:09
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| Unknown as the playful Kitty Pryde. |
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| Arrowette by Heroglyph
Heroglyph DC Comics 2004/1/12 17:00
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| From the pages of Young Justice. I cranked this one out rather quickly, about 3 hours. It definitely needs a new background. Comments welcome. |
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| New Mutants Taster
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/1/12 15:27
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Just a preview of the manip I'm currently working on - this is the part for Dani Moonstar that I finished tonight.
Hopefully it leaves people wanting to see more. ;)
Comments always appreciated so I can get it right on the final version! |
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| "Intangible" - Lacey Chabert as Shadowcat
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2004/1/12 3:18
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Since I've been a bit tied up working on a new manip, I have a couple of old pieces still to post. This is one of them. Obviously inspired by the comic look for Shadowcat, Lacy Chabert sprung to mind after her appearance in Lost in Space and she seems to have the right look for the young Kitty Pryde.
Images came from various sources - the clothing is a blend of actual clothes and in some places simply the manipulation of skin with the Smart Blur tool to give a leather effect. The basic pose is Kelly Brook, and for once I didn't do an awful lot beyond adding clothing, combining various elements from fashion websites. |
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| Colossus
Brick Marvel Comics 2004/1/10 21:10
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| This started out as a simple exercise using Opticals metal tutorial... (see the rest in the first post). |
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| Firestar by Dark Knight
Dark_Knight_DK Marvel Comics 2004/1/9 9:44
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| My friend nightowl gave me this pic and I couldn't resist to do a firestar, what do you think? |
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| X-treme Call to arms (the poster) by the Heromorph Gang
Winterhawk Marvel Comics 2004/1/9 7:29
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Team 1 from the last group project.
Sunfire by Aharmona
Rogue by Dark Knight
Mystique by Magestyk7
Blink by Winterhawk
Compilation by Winterhawk and Aharmona
Kick ass Background by Aharmona |
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| X-treme Call to Arms (the comic) by the Heromorph Gang
Winterhawk Marvel Comics 2004/1/9 7:29
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Team 2 From the last group project.
Mystique By Brick
Magma by Angelophile
Feral by Angelophile
White Queen by Sleepenemy
Bad cover design and compilation By Winterhawk |
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| White Rabbit by Heroglyph
Heroglyph Marvel Comics 2004/1/4 16:46
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This obscure villain made her debut in Marvel Team-Up #131 (July, 1983)in which Spidey teams up with Frog Man. She has only shown up two more times since her first appearance.
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| honkey-tonk woman
Daruma TV and Movies 2004/1/4 11:50
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| Faye Valentine and Ein from the "Cowboy Bebop" anime series. If you don't know about this show, rent the dvd with the episode "mushroom samba" next time you're at the video store. Anyway, I nearly gave up on this one, but once I had the idea to put the dog in, I couldn't resist. Then I found the page curl tool and did the "old photo" effect. Not crazy about tha actual manip, but I liked the concept. Enjoy! |
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| The Apprentice by Scarlet
Scarlet Marvel Comics 2004/1/3 9:30
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| Scarlet Witch by Swofford; Dr. Strange by Webspinner. Rendered in Bryce 5. |
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| Vampirella
Aharmona Other Comics 2004/1/2 14:48
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| Aria Giovanni (again) as the vivavicious Vampirella. |
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| Silver Surferess sneak peek
BadDog69 Marvel Comics 2004/1/2 12:34
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| working on a Heralds of Big G theme (no, it won't be called that!) consider this a WIP |
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| Wonder Woman (2) by Heroglyph.
Heroglyph DC Comics 2004/1/1 23:42
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| I started this one a few weeks ago and forgot about it. Finished it up tonight. |
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| The M.O.A.P.
QuantumFX Other Comics 2004/1/1 8:12
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| Behold... the Mother of All Photoshops!!! |
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| "Mall Rat" - Victoria Jolly as Jubilee
Angelophile Marvel Comics 2003/12/16 11:28
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I'd been toying with the idea of a Jubilee manip for a while, but didn't get around to doing anything about it until fairly recently - for Jubilee's actress I've used model/actress Victoria Jolly who seems to have the features and youngish looks that Jubilee has always had.
I've had fun with this image, lifting elements from around 30 other model pics to create the image - for example, the coat is actually made up from 3 different jackets, the top Jubilee is wearing is from Christina Aguilera, the legs are Donna Air's, the hair came from a style catalogue, the hands belong to Krista Allen and Pamela Anderson - there's the usual Frankenstein's mix of body parts there. |
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| Black Cat by Dark Knight.
Dark_Knight_DK Marvel Comics 2003/12/15 14:38
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| Since I have a photoshop 6, I try some of the techniques from Serayala |
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| Ice christmas by Dark Knight.
Dark_Knight_DK DC Comics 2003/12/15 14:36
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| Merry christmas to all !!! |
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| Fathom
Squedge Other Comics 2003/12/15 14:28
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*updated production notes*
If I keep getting all these compliments, I'll get a big head! (Not that I mind...)
I keep getting asked the question, so here's a pretty basic answer:
How did I do the Fathom pic? Well... I'll try to explain it. I started with the concept. I wanted to do a Fathom pic that both showed her body and her powers in an interesting way, so I settled on the concept of her in water form swimming in the ocean.
I went into Poser and used the Poser 4 Nude Female model, and played until I was happy with her positioning. I relaized pretty early on that I wanted a real face. There are some things you can cheat away with poser, the face isn't really one of those... I wanted the clear lines and a definite pose, though, so scrounging through hours of source pics didn't appeal to me. For some reason, whenever I see a Fathom comic, I think of Claire Forlani, so she was my first (only, really) choice for the facial model. I scrounged up a decent pic of her and went searching for a base pic for the background. I ended up grabbing a pic that someone rendered in a 3d program of the sea bed.
Next, I set about attaching Claire's lovely face to the poser body, both of which I had desaturated. I matched the greys as closely as I could and then inverted the image to a photo negative. I applied the "plastic wrap" filter to the image with a fairly high highlight strangth, a medium level of detail, and a low level of smothness, to give the "watery" appearance. I duplicated the layer, and set one layer to a "hard light" setting with an opacity of 36%, and the other to a "luminosity" setting at the same opacity. The low opacity and layer settings allow the figure to seem transparent but solid at the same time.
Then I created a new, empty layer with the following effects: drop shadow, inner glow, inner shadow, bevel and emboss. I played with the seetings on the layer, changed the opacity to 74%, the fill to 3% and painted hair on her with a small paint brush using the color white. Unhappy with the lack of "motion" of the piece, I did another layer, similar to the hair layer, but with an outer glow, as well, and the opacity and fill set to 100%.
In this layer, I used a specail brush made of lots of individual dots. I "painted" the air bubles around her in white with it, staying roughly around the frame of her body, deleting or undoing any I didn't like.
I added a bit of grain (noise filter) to the background, to make it more photo-real, and then did the logo and signature.
Yes, there are an infinite number of little tweaks I gave the pic all the way through the process, but I can't remember them all without going through each saved version of the image (I save A LOT so that I can remember how I did a particular effect, or go back a step if necessary. Repeating your successes is much easier that way, as is avoiding repeating those elements which are particularly unsuccessful.) This is just the bare bones of how I did the pic.
Whaddya think? |
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