Well this is just a quickie concept for an update to Blink I put together in about 30 mins. The base pic is of the bust for the latest Terminator (Terminatrix) recoloured to Blink’s trademark green for the clothing and the pink skin with eye markings. I think it turned out quite nice for such a quick manip.
Category Archives: Digital Concept Gallery
Black Widow: The Red Skull Diaries
Continuing on in my current trend of using busts as the basis of manips, here is a fictional cover for a graphic novel featuring Black Widow. I was going for a gritty drawn effect, and i think i got it not too bad. The pic is made up of multiple layers with a city skape and a skull-like cloud formation in the background.
Target: Warren Worthington
Just a quickie really. After i submitted the Beast pic, I figured I could do the same to classic Angel. Again it was a bust on a rock, found a matching background (The eagle eyed among you may recognise it from an early hulk manip i did). A bit of cutting n blending and a few filters and i had a painty pic. i added the heads up display as though a Sentinel was targeting him – hence the title. The red ‘beam’ through the pic is Cyclops clearing a path through the Sentinel for Angel.
Target: Scott Summers
Just a quickie really. After i submitted the Beast pic, I figured I could do the same to classic Cyclops. Again it was a bust on a rock, found a matching background (The eagle eyed among you may recognise it from an early hulk manip i did). A bit of cutting n blending and a few filters and i had a painty pic. i added the heads up display as though a Sentinel was targeting him – hence the title.
CoConcepts: Judgement’s Day
DCG Theme Day – Your own interpretation of other members character. Something about WonderWomanGoddess’s character description appealed to me and so here is my attempt at bringing it to life. I hope you don’t mind I took a couple of liberties 🙂 Original Description: “She’s called Judgment. A near death experience gave her the power to see into a persons soul, to see their most extreme sins and virtues. She’s a vigilante, and uses her power to determine if those who cross her path live or die. Visually, she has red hair, pale skin, green eyes. Her eyes have a supernatural green glow. Her standard outfit is a black or dark green tank top, black mini or pants, and old school black cowboy boots. The only distinguishing feature about her outfit really is her belt buckle, which is a metal pentagram with a green eye in the center of it.
Supergirl Concept Wallpaper
I was looking through some of my old works in progress and found this pic of Diane HeideKruger and it got me to thinking about a concept for Supergirl in a new movie. I tried to bring together the white Supergirl uniform together with the original but give it a movie spin. I dunno if it works.. but i like it 🙂
Target: Hank McCoy
Just a quickie really. Had a picture of a Beast Bust crouching on a rock, found a matching background. A bit of cutting n blending and a few filters and i had a painty pic. It looked a bit bland so i added the heads up display as though a Sentinel was targeting him – hence the title.
Captain America – Our Shining Light
I submitted the plain colored version of this the other day and thought I might even try my hand at a bit of shading on it. I also took the opportunity to show the front of his shield rather than the reverse. So here it is.. enjoy
Old Wingnut is Back…
I was looking through some old files and came across a sketch for an animated style Cap. I can’t remember where the original idea came from so I’m afraid i can’t credit the original. I decided to do some simple coloring in Paintshop. I think it turned out quite nicely. I might even try my hand at a bit of shading on it.
Back to the Forties :Curse of the Red Skull
Well this theme day came around sooner than i expected, and due to an excessive intrusion by work, I have to submit this before i’m totally happy with it. Manipped from a pic of Buster Crabb as Flash Gordon into what a 40s version of Cap and Bucky might look like.
UK DD Wallpaper #3
The third piece I submitted for the competition to choose the UK DD Film Fan Wallpaper. After I did the other submissions I wanted to try something a little different.
Clark’s Worst Nightmare
Clark pays the price for having a bit of fun with Lois the previous evening. Just another silly toon in the south park style;)
UK DD Wallpaper #2
The second piece I submitted this for the competition to choose the UK DD Film Fan Wallpaper. After I did the first submission, I wanted to expand on the DD Radar feel which involved more manipulation.
UK DD Wallpaper #1
I submitted this for the competition to choose the UK DD Film Fan Wallpaper. I was torn as to what I should do – a simple cut’n’paste type OR a more involved manipulation. In the end I compromised and had a mess about with filters n such.
Captain America Parking his Shield
I was looking for a quick something to do to take my mind off of work, so I did another in my not so regular South Park style series.. old Wingnut.
America’s Stupidest Heroes: Green Lantern
Here we see the latest candidate on America’s Stupidest Heroes. Justice League’s Green Lantern unfortunately but understandably looses concentration after seeing Wonder Woman coming out of the shower.
Spiderman: Liberty Lost…
Well I took some of your comments on the old spidey pic i posted, and along with a bit of artistic licence created this fake cover/splash page style pic. The basic structure and elements of the pic are the same (spiderman statuette). I decided to add the statue of liberty in the background (hence the title) and thought the smudgy painted look would maybe bring the whole pic together. Airbrushed some mist/clouds over the top of spidey and the wall (which is a flat fill of bricks distorted and smudged). Is this better than the Blast from the Past? You tell me.
Blast from the Past: Transgender Captain America
Well this is one i never got round to submitting for the Transgender theme day, but since i had three pics in it already, i don’t suppose anyone missed another one. Same base pic as i used for a Invisible Woman manip, I think Peta Wilson is a great model for this sort of thing. maybe even a good casting choice :p
Blast from the Past: He’s Behind You!
Well here is another older manip that i never posted anywhere. This was me just messing about with some pictures of hero busts – black costumed Spiderman spider-sensing Doc Ock behind him.
Blast from the Past: Invisible Woman
Well, my first manip I posted on the DCG was of the Invisible Girl/Woman, and this is another of my early manips that at the time i didnt feel was worthy of posting. Seeing as we have a bit of a lack of submissions at the moment and I am having a bit of a dry spell with new manips, I thought it would be good to compare an early manip against my later ones and see if i have improved any. I think i have.. just a smidge.. and that is only because of the help advice and criticism that is available from all you lovely artists. Keep up the good work. This is Peta Wilson (Nikita) as Sue.
Note: Not too in love with the invisibility effect. Would have been better with a busier background. Ah well.
Blast from the Past: We all stand together!
Another of my older manips that i didn’t submit at the time. This is just a collection of busts plonked together in a ‘come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough’ kind of pose. At the time i wasn’t confident enough to try and give the colossus bust arms, so the placing of the other characters is more or less to hide the fact he’s (h)armless…
Sidekicks2: RazorWing
LINK ESTABLISHED….. BEGINNING DOWNLOAD….. SECURITY FILE CLASSIFICATION XE168….. SUBJECT CODENAME: RAZORWING SUBJECT NAME: CONNOR, JASMINE DATE OF BIRTH: UNKNOWN (EST. AGE 23) MUTANT ABILITIES: SUBJECT EXHIBITS ABILITY TO GENERATE AND CONTROL AIRFLOWS ALLOWING SUBJECT TO ATTAIN POWERED FLIGHT. MAX RECORDED SPEED 300MPH. SUBJECT HAS ALSO EXHIBITED AN ACCELERATED HEALING FACTOR* ALLOWING HER TO REPAIR DAMAGE CAUSED BY IN-FLIGHT COLLISIONS. PHYSICALLY THE SUBJECT APPEARS TO BE A NORMAL FIT YOUNG WOMAN, THE ONLY EXTERNAL INDICATION OF MUTATION BEING VESTIGIAL BONES PROTRUDING FROM FOREARMS. THESE HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF WINGS. X ENHANCEMENTS: DUE TO THE ENHANCED HEALING FACTOR* AND EXTRAORDINARY BONE STRUCTURE, THE SUBJECT WAS CONSIDERED VIABLE FOR THE SKELETAL BONDING PROCEDURE PIONEERED DURING THE WEAPON X PROJECT. ADVANCES IN THE TECHNOLOGY IN THE INTERVENING YEARS MEANT IT WAS POSSIBLE TO LACE THE SUBJECTS SKELETON WITH VIBRANIUM PRODUCING AN INDESTRUCTIBLE FRAME. THE VESTIGIAL WINGS WERE EXPANDED INTO BLADES TO HELP DIRECT THE SUBJECT DURING FLIGHT AND FOR USE AS WEAPONS. HISTORY: THE SUBJECT WAS FOUND BY ALPHA RECOVERY TEAM IN….. DOWNLOAD ABORTED BY REMOTE HOST….. LINK LOST…..
Well, thats my story and i’m sticking to it.;) Here we see the lovely Jessica Alba playing Jasmine ‘Jaz’ Connor AKA RazorWing, another survivor of the Weapon X program forced to undergo the same procedure as Wolverine. She was liberated from Weapon X by the X-Men, and has undergone a period of deprogramming by Charles Xavier. She still finds interacting with other students at Xavier’s school difficult. Wolverine, although a loner himself, feels an affinity to Jazz and takes her under his wing, as they both find they share a common goal – finding out about themselves and tracking down the individuals responsible for mutant experimentation.
Notes: For a theme day. The large base pic i found of Jessica was a great starting point, and the quality was so good i didn’t want to mess about too much. The ‘wings’ created from scratch, i tried to get a bone/metal effect that i liked. Added the gold piping to her jacket using a blurred multiply layer. It’s hard to tell from this pic, but i also added ribbing and the logo to her tshirt. Eye color adjusted to make them more vivid. Added the blood drip to the wing tip. Next thing was pulling it all together. The pic in the upper corner is another publicity shot of Jessica to which i manually added her pre-operation bone wings. This was run through an interference filter to give the impression of a video screen, part of the ‘computer download’ above is shown on this screen. The pic below that is a rendering of the female p4 skeleton which has had the wing blades added and also run through the interference filter. The addition of the wolverine pic in the background was a last minute choice, but I think it fits the whole picture quite well. It is from the Wolverine/Punisher comic. The final addition was the logo. This is made up of three layers – a black/white gradient, a white/crimson gradient and a chrome layer on top. The font is Skeksis.
Xmas Gift for Anyte : Devi from ‘I feel sick’
Well, I thought it was a bit off that lovely Anyte didnt seem to get a xmas pressie.. so i did a quick manip based on one of her requests. Hope you like it hun. Merry Xmas 🙂
XMas: Gift for Trygonez – Ghost Cop
After completing my manip of Trygonez as Captain Britain, I somehow came to the conclusion that maybe he didn’t quite fit the request, so I did another one.. Here is Trygonez as Ghost Cop, a character who appeared in Planetary. The poor chap’s spirit had somehow been trapped on a Hong Kong street corner when he was brutally murdered, and he was forced to return and dish out some retribution on other murderers.
This was also a lot of fun and didn’t really take that long to do, including the time to find the source pics. The main body of the pic was taken from one of the posters for Matrix Reloaded (yep that’s morpheus’s body in there). I removed the original head and blended Trygonez’s onto the body. Much additional shading and roughening later and a bit of a gradient fill over the top, followed by a run through the watercolour filter and it isn’t that far away from the Cassady pinup I used as the inspiration. Enjoy your Christmas Trygonez!
XMas: Gift for Trygonez – Captain Britain
Since one of Trygonez asks was for a male character from the X-Men camp, I thought I would look for one that hasn’t been done a million times. I know technically Cap here isn’t a mutant, but as one of the mainstays of eXcalibur, i guessed he would qualify.
This was actually a lot of fun to do, even if it does have a lot of fiddly layers. The body started of as Antonio Sabata Jr in shorts. This provided the base for the shading, lighting. everything else you see is artificially created, with the exception of our very own Trygonez’s face which i had a heck of a job colouring from the blueish tinged original. If you check out behind the flag.. you may see something in the cloudy sky… Merry Christmas Trygonez, I hope you enjoy your present.