Tinhead

Once again I bring you the notorious Dr. Czernin! With a companion. Her name is Eleanor Brightwick (aka the Illumineer) and she is totally creepy, you guys.



Eleanor is a time-displaced science-powered light-dispensing mind-controlling steampunk suffragette of justice. Her scheming, largely male, largely old and balding colleagues got rid of her around 1910 via a convenient time-machine accident (because she was too "uppity") and she has since embraced with a vengeance the right for modern women to wear pants whenever they feel like it. She is absurdly single-minded, can control light however she wants, possesses a grin the size of Manhattan, and is generally a hyper-dangerous bona-fide mad scientist.

Look at that grin. LOOK AT IT.

Now, as regarding her and Czernin, if these two didn't operate in totally different fields they would be bitter, bitter enemies. As it is.... well, it's only a matter of time. She's convinced that he harbors feelings for her and thinks that's hilarious, while he is unaware of this belief and mostly thinks she's creepy and weird. Also, she's an early feminist and he's Victorian. Which is awkward.

Exxtreme extra mega-bonus points if said normal/muscular arms can be textured (e.g. with options for simple bare arms or choosing from the usual list of shirt/armor/scale/zombie/tights/tigerstripes/etc/etc/etc textures available for Chest which also cover the arm-ish areas).

Also, a hairstyle with sideburns. A friend of mine has a character who can't take off his hat and goggles because there is no hair with sideburns and she was forced to fake them with a mask.

I have a Crab who is NOT a dirty villain (or even a clean one), thankyouverymuch.

She's more of a Hero With an F in Good.

(She's also an almost purely conceptual build with no pet robots at all, because she would probably shoot them by accident).

I like the little "Grae Knight" splash in the corner XD

And now, a picture directly related to both Flash's Totally Nude Fortunata and a comment above that mentioned my Crab Spider, who is "a woman who just happens to be built like a concrete wall."

There is a story behind this. It all began when someone in our SG suggested making not a cheesecake calendar, but an ANTI-cheesecake calendar featuring 12 of the characters in the group who would probably not be found in your typical pin-up line. Oougel, aka The Totally Nude Fortunata, who is pretty okay except for OH GOD THE EYES, was one of the nominees. Auma, aka Persistent Whisper, aka That Lady Crab Spider Who is Built Just Like the NPC Version and Therefore Eight Feet Tall and Totally Massive was another one (the fact that aspects of her appearance are influenced by involvement with the Infected, the Snakes, and the Freakshow didn't hurt).

Now, as fate would have it, this very same Crab once participated in a sort of "perfect girlfriend" contest in Pocket D, mostly because I was passing through, saw the announcement, and was terribly terribly bored. Not ten minutes after she joined the line-up, a guy walked up and informed her that "dude, this contest's for girls."

She replied, "Yes, yes, it is," and stayed exactly where she was.

Auma here might be eight feet tall and weigh more than a quarter-ton and be in other words generally built like a concrete wall but she is a girl, folks. Do not exclude her from girl contests. She will be very sad.


(Larger version: http://cityofheroes.deviantart.com/g...29067#/d4x5jgb)

See, look at how happy she was to participate! Would you take that away from her?

Thank you, and I shall!

And clamoring for some sort of ''occupational belt/accessory" pack might be interesting-- has that been suggested before? I know Vahzilok get saws and things...

*ponders*

I'll add my voice to the general clamor as regarding moar posting, despite the fact that I see all of your stuff already anyway. Reach out thine hand to the unwashed masses!

Wow. So. I forgot this thread existed. But I have two more pictures and now that I have assured myself that the thread DOES exist.... well, yeah. I've been messing around with plain pencils and it's been quite informative!


Here is Paenitet, an alien who has never seen a hat before because his people all have quills for hair and use them to express emotion instead of facial contortions (and, incidentally, dissolve into nasty goo when exposed to oxygen, which is why he's almost never seen outside his armor like this but I wanted to draw quill-hair). He lost his lower arms due to a conflict of interests with a wall when he first arrived on Earth via teleport, and has since upgraded the crude Vanguard-provided claws you see here with some more refined ones. Lucky he's a whiz with cybernetics. We'll just ignore his equally refined knowledge of plasma weaponry and its many uses which mostly involve burning living things to death horribly, which of course he has never done. Here. Much. He also subsists on less than four hours of sleep a night and finds human chairs uniquely unsuitable for knees that bend backwards, a fact no one ever seems to remember until they invite him to "have a seat," at which point he sighs a little inside.




And here is the fellow who introduced the above to hats, because clearly human hair exists as a secure resting place for headwear. His name is Dr. Istvan Czernin and he is, as his title suggests, a licensed surgeon. Never mind that the license expired over eighty years ago or that he's been dead since an accident involving way too much electricity in the year 1900. Nowadays he's less of a medical doctor and more of a witch doctor, but don't tell him that to his face-- he's a revenant that feeds on pain and fear and what he does is "ethereal science," thank you very much. He doesn't see YOUR much-vaunted modern medicine returning life to someone who just drank lava, now does he? No, no, he doesn't. Aside from that, his propensity for following wars around, his unsettling appreciation for sharp instruments, and his hopelessly outdated sensibilities regarding gender equality and social class, he's a pretty decent guy (and nice to have around if someone, yanno, drinks lava).

Okay, then!

1. I've got a Paypal account, so that's not an issue.

2. Here is a link to my DA account, with pricing structure and email for Paypal: http://unosombrero.deviantart.com

3. Examples are above; in the DA gallery

4. Umm..... hi, I'm Tinhead and these are the official forums and I'm now open for commissions >>

Okay, so I started taking requests from the people in my SG a while ago and after a while I got to wondering if anyone would be interested in commissions-- likely fairly cheap ones, since the artwork is fairly simple and done with colored pencils on textured paper rather than with the use of a fancy graphics program due to my lack of a tablet and my hatred for drawing with a mouse.

The question is: how would I go about starting on something like that? I've never done commissions before, and I'm not certain on pricing or method or anything, really. I can manage a pretty quick turn-around, though-- I drew three pictures this week.

Here's some of my work:













Any thoughts?

Colored pencils GO.

Never really posted much on the forums here, but I do it now in the name of solidarity with my bro FlashToo. 'Sup, Flash?

What side do you pick more than others?
I play blueside almost exclusively because my SG-mates are there, but I started redside and still prefer the Isles. Sure, they're crappy and run-down and full of hopeless people, but they have a lot more personality to me than the vast majority of blueside zones. I love how the ferries have shacks built on them, I love the Luddites, I love the old-style architecture, and I love Recluse's constant broadcasting in Grandville. It just ''pops'' more than your standard everyday New York expy.

What play style do you prefer?
I like teaming because adding synergistic powers together into a Steamroller of Seizure-Inducing Doom is the whole point of a multiplayer game. You become part of something greater than yourself, something that can wipe out hordes of enemies without stopping, something that can take the weakest individual character and buff them into a murder machine. As for positional preferences, I like being in melee because I like charging into the fray and seeing if I can somehow survive the resultant explosions. That being said, melee characters are something I've never been able to stick with-- my mains at the moment are a Dominator, a Controller, a Peacebringer, and a Crab Spider. I like a variety of options at any given time. Flexible utility, as it were, as opposed to hitting the same buttons over and over to punch a guy in the kidney when I could be hurtling him and ten of his closest friends into the nearest wall so my buddies can set them on fire while I convince the boss to take an ill-timed nap. Flashy effects and orange numbers don't hurt.

What power set(s) do you favor?
Depends on the concept; I have to be able to make whatever it is match what I want, with what it looks like mattering way more than what it might actually be. My ghost, for instance, is an ice/thermal controller, with all the powers colored grey and light blue. Nothing else seemed right.

What zones do you like the most?
Nerva Archipelago (the hilarious store names, the hot-dog stand, the marina...), Saint Martial (casinos with gargoyles go!), Port Oakes (old Spanish fort filled with ghosts, that bar made of boats), Grandville (because VERTICAL and punching guys off high places).... and Founder's Falls (canals). Croatoa's pretty nifty, too, but it'd be better with architecture like the Isles.

Do you usually play as a male or female (word of hatred) ''toon''?
Usually males, I suppose because most of my concepts work better with males and because the female walk annoys me. Out of my three mains, one is female. None are attached, though this may be because one is an android (Dom/PB), one is a ghost (Troller), and one is a violently unstable Crab Spider (uh... Crab). I've never noticed much inherent difference between playing male or female aside from a vague expectation that a) single females must end up romantically involved somehow and b) all males are obsessed with females. Given that I've ignored both a) and b) and gotten away with it just fine, I can surmise that these are merely tendencies and not rules.

Views on Role Playing?
The only reason I stick around. If it doesn't have a personality and a story to go with it, I can't play it for longer than about 10 levels. I just lose interest.

Servers?
Virtue.

Does no one know or is this another one of those issues people have given up hope on....?

Where did it go? I've found pictures from years ago that suggest Dwarf-form Peacebringers had an eye aura at one point, but now they definitely don't.

Meanwhile, Dwarf-form Warshades maintain that nifty glow....

When did the equivalent for Peacebringers vanish?

...this picture from 2005 suggests that they had one at one point (pulled from here: http://blogs.gamersinfo.net/index.ph..._the_arthropod); would it be terribly difficult to re-instate whatever was removed?

While the Warshade Dwarf has a very visible/noticeable eye aura, the bright glowy equivalent for the Peacebringer Dwarf seems to have been.... misplaced. There's no aura at all (though the human form has one when using powers and the Bright Nova's eyes seems to glow as well...).

Minor, but... odd.