Chow 145 :: VOTING :: Supervillain Self-Portrait

[capnpyro]

I voted daedred, vorace, wassermelone, clochette and hungryan with wassermelon's being my favorite by a stretch. i love the saturated palette, reflected light and combination of smooth and grainy. 2nd choice was vorace for the very cool, very french looking illustration. i wish i could wrap my head around drawing like that.

[humboldt squid]

the gunslinging baby panda pretty much forced me to vote for daedred.

[~baxter]

Took a bit to take all the entries in, quite a boatload!

Narrowed my choices down to 3, judging by how villainous they looked, how well powers were conveyed and uniqueness.

My votes went to:

Wasser: Very interesting character! I love the vibrant colors too. Definitely my fav of this round
Villa:Definitely stands out in the crowd, nice genre choice.
Ryu: I really dug the composition. Face is very accurate as well.

Major kudos all around, was a very fun round.

[Artofinca]

panda power!

[guastaferro]

I forgot how the multiple votes worked, so i only got one in. I went Trevor, but i loved and meant to put a vote in for the Panda and the awesome dread pirate chick from Jessibean. Consider yours unofficially voted on by me.

(unless theres a way to make them official that i just dont know about...)

[wassermelone]

Deleted a vote from Wassermelone.

Don't vote for yourself, peoples.

Oops. I didn't know that was a rule!

Now I feel like a douche

[Tetrodotoxin]

Awww damn, I knew, it wouldn't be going to poll for that. I just hoped you wouldn't notice, daestwen But hey, I should have known that you can't be fooled. And after seeing all this high superbness work of everyone, it probably would have been cut for quality reasons, so I don't mind... But it really was so much fun and I would like to thank you for your great work every week


I haven't decided on whom to vote for, but here are some C&Cs, if you care:

Tugelbend - I love this flashy kind of lighting in your picture, but could you explain, what you are doing there? Is your power... letting... err... silicone... explode...? Well that's a cool idea, anyhow

Baxter-E - I don't know why, but it somehow reminds me of Jafar from Disney's Aladdin.

dirkvandulmen - thehe ^^ funny. I like the WIP without the glowing eyes better, though.

shannanigan - great pose!!!

trevor - mmmmh, that's some quality work right there, really a super villain. I also like the WIPs, but you culd have thrown in a picture of yourself, so we could judge how well you got the likeness.

jshamburger - nice colours and effects

deadred - whoa... I'm blown away, so gonna vote for you. Why didn't I notice it when scrolling through? Yours has so much character, could easily be a concept for some game... like the boss of a snowy level in some RPG.

hungryan - awesome twist, looks like your gonna be hard to defeat in that arcade game

matjosh - awesome concept, beautifully brought to canvas

Stoat - really great one, too. Maybe the keys are looking a bit like they're floating around, they don't seem to be affected by gravity. But that's really something minor.

Gax - awwww, you should have made it more of a portrait, but I know, that this is your style

JessiBean - so shiney... those colours...those skintones I'm in love with your skintones. Good to see, that you brightened the final a little bit up. It doesn't seem to be very much of a villain rather than the superhero-pirate goodgirl herself, but how could I not vote for you...?

Poison - now that's what I call a villaneous expression

Clochette - the likeness seems to be pretty much on spot and I like your style, but I'm not too fond of the glow effect of your spell... the lightning it causes on the face is great, but the glow itselfs doesn't seem to fit your style. But still an awesome picture, anyways

Sentinel13 - beautifully rendered. My little crit: the lower lip seems to be pushed out a bit, but maybe thats just me. Love the red eyes.

Goog - wow, supervillains HAVE to have some ladies around them... why didn't I think of that

Villa - yours has one of the best moods this week, I really like. Would love to see the face a bit clearer.

Adam Shumpert - great mood and colours. The feet seem a little unfinished, but that's probably due to lack of time. Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY by the way!!!

wassermelone - nice colour palette, weapon and clothing, really digging it

Vorace - great work

MJ_Alcazar - you've really improved alot from when you first started doing CHOW. Yours could have used some more highlights coming from that lightning, especially on hair, face and upper body.

renard_mxdf - that's probably the coolest weapon ever, I want one...

gtgauvin - awesome pose

Nether - I'd buy that comic... hell, it's just 0,00 €

carnifex - damn, you put so much effort in it, or at least it seems like that. Don't really like that yellow glow, but the rest of it is damn cool.

ryuloulou - wow, from the other thread, it seems like you really started pretty late, so you did one hell of a job for that short amount of time.


Sorry that I didn't comment on everyone, everyone did really great, but there are so many entries and its getting really late here... And I had to look up so many words in the dictionary. CA is not only improving art skills, but also English skills...

[trevor]

there's the ref image i used
but i relied more on a mirror
does that help?
hahahah

[mugenTaichou]

Holy cow, I actually made to ''almost got into poll''!

But I aint giving up that easly! >D

I voted for the most of the poll, cause they are all piece of artwork by itself.

But I have to give kudos to animated one, because the concept is awesome!

Everybody, see ya in next CHOW!

[masque]

Superb round, kudos for the concept daestwen. Lots of excellence on show, glad there's more than one vote 'cause no way could I narrow it down, though Stoat, Trevor, Wassermelone and Shanannigan are standouts for me.

[trevor]

oh PS:
im going to vote a little later
just now realizing how few of these, even the ones i really like,
are super villains
not to be too picky but there are a lot of mild mannered characters in there
or characters that dont seem even remotely villainous at all

[SMILEFACE]

this was a lot of fun and its cool to see everyone doing such a great job

[Carnifex]

d'aww dogged. oh well. say,at which point approximately? i'm guessing when i started adding background stuff and rain(which i used mainly for texture).
tetro - thanks! (wasn't too satisfyed with the "evil powers" aswell)
voting later,have to check all those entries properly. epic round,that's f'sure.

[Razorleaf]

I voted for Adam ..... mainly because I felt that he stayed truest to the idea of a supervillain "self-portrait". Everyone else, although great work, seemed to reinvent themselves, taking their self-portraits in a whole other direction. He followed the directions and still produced a great piece of art - it has a level of realism and depth, and yet, subtley incorporates the comic book genre of comic-villainy. Nice!

[trevor]

I voted for Adam ..... mainly because I felt that he stayed truest to the idea of a supervillain "self-portrait". Everyone else, although great work, seemed to reinvent themselves, taking their self-portraits in a whole other direction. He followed the directions and still produced a great piece of art - it has a level of realism and depth, and yet, subtley incorporates the comic book genre of comic-villainy. Nice!

no offense to adam
but i think you really dont understand the topic at all
or what this activity is about in general