| Tara
 HubCap  2003/8/14 7:56
 8656  4
| From AC Comics Fem Force. |
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| Fairchild by Sleepenemy
SleepEnemy 2003/8/17 10:22
8040 7
| One of the gals from Gen13 |
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| Battalion by Stifler
Stifler 2003/8/18 20:05
5883 3
She was in a comic. I swear. Just no one ever read it cause we were like way beyond everybody else.
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| She-Dragon by Optical Intruder
Optical_Intruder 2003/8/21 9:13
5425 7
| She-Dragon, from the pages of The Savage Dragon. |
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| Ballistic by Heroglyph
Heroglyph 2003/8/23 3:06
5191 3
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| The 10th Muse by Optical Intruder
Optical_Intruder 2003/8/26 13:51
4954 4
| Done as part of the 10th Muse/Savage Dragon crossover cover contest. Started to throw a lot of detail into this one: the stitching on the leather, the pounded metal look of the breastplates, etc. Unfortunately, the base pic they provided was a bit washed out. |
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| Savage Dragon/10th Muse by Optical Intruder
Optical_Intruder 2003/8/26 13:53
4443 2
| My submission to the 10th Muse/Savage Dragon crossover cover contest. I won second place, which isn't bad, considering I only had 5 days to do it. Looking back, I should've put more work into the Dragon, I put most of my effort into the Muse. |
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| Savage Dragon
DarqueImages 2003/8/27 21:08
3663 3
| originally intended to be a Martian Manhunter pic, I found myself suddenly slapping a fin on this one and...... |
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| Magdelena
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:23
5007 6
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| Stardust
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:23
4695 6
| From A.C. Comics Femforce |
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| She-Cat
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:24
4889 4
| From A.C. Comics Femforce |
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| Rayda
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:25
4339 1
| From A.C. Comics Femforce |
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| Ms. Victory II
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:25
5484 3
| From A.C. Comics Femforce |
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| Ms. Victory
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:28
4733 2
| From A.C. Comics Femforce |
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| Lionheart
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:29
4633 1
| Crappy manip from my early ones don't even know the publisher of the comic (Avatar?). |
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| Lady Pendragon
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:31
6219 6
| Had fun doing this one, really love the model Buffy Tyler. |
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| Hazard
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:32
3964 3
| From wizard/Black bull's comic gate crashers. My first attempt at a hair color change. One of my old ones. |
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| Fathom - Aspen Matthews
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:34
4661 2
| Inspired from one of the issues when she actually wore clothes hehe. |
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| Bliss
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:37
5185 3
| From DV8? Don't know much about the comic. |
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| Bliss II
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:38
4884 4
| Another one with a different costume. |
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| Bliss III
HubCap 2003/9/2 7:39
20983 4
| Yet another costume from her. |
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| The Original Black Cat
BlitzCraig 2003/10/4 19:50
4741 3
Flashback from the '40s. If anyone has some advice on how best to do masks like this, please let me know, 'cause I'm not really happy with it...
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| Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
LocalHero 2003/10/20 13:48
5003 2
| Oldie for a transgender theme day. Sofia Vergara as a female version of the old british comic character. |
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| Jack-in-the-Box by QuantumFX
QuantumFX 2003/11/3 6:11
3695 5
| Jack-in-the-Box by QuantumFX |
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| Velocity
Aharmona 2003/11/4 20:18
4752 7
| Elizabeth Jo Anne as the vivacious Velocity from CyberForce. |
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| Confessor by QuantumFX
QuantumFX 2003/11/9 0:34
3474 2
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| Samaritan by QuantumFX
QuantumFX 2003/11/10 20:46
3282 1
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| Vampirella
Aharmona 2003/11/12 14:54
6417 7
| Aria Giovanni as Vampirella. |
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| Vampirella
Aharmona 2003/12/2 22:11
5009 6
| Unknown as the vixen, Vampirella. |
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| Fathom
Squedge 2003/12/15 14:28
4477 4
*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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