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by **SuperginraiX** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:36 am

Straight to the current topic: http://www.theouthousers.com/forum/view ... &start=395

The rules? We have no rules!

Except we do.

Anyone wishing to participate, post your related artwork and I'll throw it in a nice article next monday. Make sure to include any information that you want put up on the frontpage such as Deviant Art home or Outhouse Art Thread.

If you don't want your art to appear on the frontpage but you still want to post it in THIS thread, just tell me you don't want it on the frontpage and we're cool.

Any offtopic artwork is welcome. It just won't make it in any article unless it's on topic. This should be a good thread to get advise on how to improve your art so feel free to fill it up with any art you want!

If you officially want IN, let me know, I'll add you to the list! You can let me know your topic whenever you think it up and it will also be added. Membership is pretty easy: just show up in the thread once a month. Preferably with art but we know how art is. Still, the more active you are, the better your art will become. I've seen MAJOR improvement by every member of the Newsarama Art Group so it's totally worth it.

OK, that's enough rules. He's our...

Art Group Members
eltopo- Authority (topic starts April 6-- Deadline is April 12) Frontpage Gallery
Timberoo- Power Pack (topic starts April 13-- Deadline is April 19)
jsalwen- Master of the Universe (topic starts April 20-- Deadline is April 26)
Derm- John Carpenter Movies (topic starts April 27-- Deadline is May 3)
SuperginraiX- The Melter (yes, the Melter) (topic starts May 4-- Deadline is May 10)
NUKEM- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (topic starts May 11-- Deadline is May 17)
John Q.- Heroes of the Stone Age (topic starts May 18-- Deadline is May 24)
shifty- Plain-clothed Super-Heroes (topic starts May 25-- Deadline is May 31)
Shutupyourface- Hawkman (topic starts June 1-- Deadline is June 7)
Greg- Brother Voodoo (topic starts June 8-- Deadline is June 14)
Hunter- Fairy Tales (topic starts June 15-- Deadline is June 21)
ziza- The Eternals (topic starts June 22-- Deadline is June 28)
eltopo- Stray Bullets (topic starts June 29-- Deadline is July 5)
Timberoo- Wonder Woman and the Wonder family (topic starts July 6-- Deadline is July 12)
jsalwen- ??? (topic starts July 13-- Deadline is July 19)
Derm- ??? (topic starts July 20-- Deadline is July 26)
SuperginraiX- ??? (topic starts July 27-- Deadline is August 2)

So let's see what you've got! I'll hopefully have my work done by wednesday. Weekend was full of illness.

by **Timbales** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:12 am

holla!

by **John Q.** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:41 am

I've never read The Authority, so i did some wiki-diving and settled on The Engineer because she had a pretty cool look.

by **SuperginraiX** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:45 am

What's the color medium? I like how that turned out!

by **John Q.** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:54 am

SuperginraiX wrote:What's the color medium? I like how that turned out!

Cheers man.

Coloured by hand, using inks and brushes. I prefer to do just about everything by hand.

And then the white was tidied up in (to my mild shame) MS Paint, as i'm on a new computer, and haven't gotten around to find a version of photoshop for it yet.

by **Doc Jon** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:34 am

Hey, john. You did the Engineer justice. Nice job.

by **John Q.** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:36 am

jsalwen wrote:Hey, john. You did the Engineer justice. Nice job.

Thanks man

by **Timbales** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:36 am

Nice, I like how you did the 'hair' and crown.

by **Doc Jon** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:03 pm

The girl would have to go first. She was too unpredictable. But despite her myriad abilities, she was still human, and therefore vulnerable. He would probably have to use the staff to keep his distance, but with the proper application of force, he could sever her vertebrae at the 3rd cervical level and take out Jenny.

Swift and the Engineer would have to be next. The Engineer may be a brilliant woman, but she was no expert in combat, regardless of what wetware she may be employing. In 3,500 of the 3,892 scenarios he ran, the Engineer preferred to use high caliber weapons in trying to take him out. It would be a simple matter of positioning Swift in the line of fire and letting the Engineer do the rest. Despite that technology running through her veins, killing Swift will most certainly make Angie pause, if only for a moment, but it would be enough. The nano-edge dagger he carried could pierce her shell in that moment.

His lover would come next. Apollo, his beautiful husband, would want to talk. He would try to understand these actions. He would hesitate. He felt for the capsule on his belt with just the smallest twinge of guilt. Apollo didn't know about it, but it was developed by Bendix. It would rob the sun god of his abilities for 15 minutes. The Midnighter lost count of the number of ways he could kill a normal man in 15 minutes.

The Doctor would be difficult. In the proper frame of mind, the Doctor might easily be the most powerful being on the planet, but he was soft, easily distracted. Any number of sonic weapons or even something as simple as a flashbang could distract the Doctor from using his abilities.

Hawksmoor was a different story. The man knew how to fight, and would certainly not hesitate to kill. His alien-enhanced form made him difficult to read. There was no scenario he could run that guaranteed him victory, and the Midnighter smiled.

The girl walked into the room from the door that was 15 feet from him. This was not a good position for him, and he would be hard-pressed to close that distance and get into effective combat range. He cursed himself silently for making such a tactical mistake.

"Hey, dad. What chu doing?" Jenny said.

"Nothing, honey. Just thinking."

"Still trying to figure out how to take us all out?" Jenny said casually.

The Midnighter smiled, "You know me so well."

by **eltopo** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:28 pm

I guess I should draw something
hahaha

by **eltopo** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:29 pm

John Q. wrote:I've never read The Authority, so i did some wiki-diving and settled on The Engineer because she had a pretty cool look.

very cool
you did a great job with the texture of the metal

by **John Q.** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:11 pm

Cheers guys.

Kinda waiting for someone else to put sommet up. :lol:

by **Doc Jon** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:12 pm

I put something up.

by **Mark-G.** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:50 pm

As I mentioned elsewhere, I don't know anything about the Authority... but after looking into the cast I'll probably end up doing Midnighter. He's seems the closest to my style of drawing.