On July 8th, we received the shocking and tragic news that Dark Wanderer (Jason Sizemore) had passed away. Most members are well aware of his friendly, helpful and generous nature yet he was also driving force behind the scenes here as well in his role as a moderator, playing an essential part behind the scenes for many years and was greatly responsible for the success he brought to Artist Challenges, Secret Santa and other special events. Additionally, he was a terrific artist as well so we will continue celebrating some of the excellent art he created. Farewell, Dark Wanderer. You will be sorely missed and never forgotten at Heromorph. Rest in Peace.

Before I even read the image title, just by looking at the thumbnail I saw it was an Egyptian Iron Man you definitely demonstrated your purpose on this image... Very Nicely done...

Not much to say here... I just want to say 'I agree'... this is a kick-ass pic!

Whoa just plain out Whoa....this is freakin awesome....now I hope the Gauld on StarGate don't get ahold of this Technology.....eh....get it.....Rai??? lol....nm.....

WHOA!!! Awesome! Incredible shine! I love this version!

Though the dude must be hot. Unless he invented some wort of air conditioning inside the suit.

Nomination for 2005 D&B

from this day forth he shall be known as "Sekhemet" I likes it :)

I'm with Was on this. Sounds good to me. Congrats man

Superb piece, all the prior comments pretty much sum up my feelings. So to be different, I think he needs a proper Egyptian name, since "Iron Man" is an english description.

I say call him Sekhemet which means "Powerful One" in ancient Egyptian.

Yeah, I sort of figured that after I posted that, i went to the forms lol and saw the results there

No DW... The site just has a brain and re-posts cool stuff everyonce in a while...

Congrats on your victory.

So, I take, with this poping back up in the recent 50 I wont the Jan contest? or was it just a fluke of the site that randomly posted it back?:)

I love your background,
not that the character isnt great, it is.
I always have problems
comeing up with a background
for my pic's.

None of it is Poser. I don't even know how to use that program, let alone even own it :) Like I said I did it all from scratch using for the most part the pen tool ( or vector tool in Paint shop ) for the shapes, to get the metal effect I simply took the back ground and did alot of shaping and altering to fit around each piece of the armor the way I thought it would look if he were flying over the area. for the brass and gold I would set the layer transparancy of the copied background to 40% and duplicate it. for the silver I used the same background but at a 25% transparancy. Once I got the desired look I would go to the ( lets say shoulder for example) magic wand it, then to the layer acting as the reflection control X to cout out the excess around the Object.

fantastic concept. and its so obvious when you think about it.

Very clean, great idea, apropriate background.. all around its my favorite... I wish you would share a little snippet about how you made it. How much is poser?

I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley!!! Good job!!! Very nice

This rocks, DW. The eye on his belt was a great touch.

Say "DW" this just might be your own personal best yet masterpiece!

Wow ,remind me never to shake his hand. This is a very good pic and captures the theme of the challenge to a Tee. Great Job!

Thanks guys, the idea actually came to me to make it in that format, when my warrior showed up in the random gallery images, one of the comments liked how I did a 3D feel from scratch,so I figured why not do it in my style of creating art :)

Terrific details and reflections, but the most impressive thing about it is that you did it from scratch. Great work and more, please!

W O W !!!
nuff said.

DW, I don't normally comment on Challenge entries before the Challenge is over, but I gotta say-

This is really good. Excellent work!

BB

Wow!good work here.....great idea too....

This looks GREAT! - Great Job - good eye for details!! --

great job, DW! can't wait to see more of your work

That is pretty damn sweet. The reflections on the metal are excellent. Great job.

if THIS don't win..."OFF WITH THEIR HEADS...BOTH OF THEM!"

I can and the word is dayum! This rocks DW! Great job!!

This is just too friggin' Cool! I can't even think of an adjective that is good enough to describe it.