Maveric's Art Thread

[Maveric]

I'm not much of an artist. I can draw decently. Back in 2001, CoH was in developement. While hanging out in the forums, killing time I started playing around with a new program I obtained; Photoshop 7.0. I'm also an avid collector of superhero, sci-fi, and fantasy art. I would take sketch drawings of my favorite superhero pics and photo manipulate them. I would basically color in the sketches and add special effects, usually inspired by a hero of a fellow forum member. I would call these my "maveric" versions of their heroes as I would usually make the heroes similar but different. Alot of my sketches that I photoshopped were from a relatively unknown artist named William Anderson.

My Computer recently crashed several times and I was forced to buy a new one. I lost alot (but not all) of my pics/art. If you have any extra pics of my character from a while back or if you have any pics I have done in the past for others please post them in this thread and or e-mail them to me at maveric@sbcglobal.net .

I'm going to use this thread to show off pics of my main CoH character: Maveric, some alternates, tribute pics, and some art that I photoshopped for others.

If you want me to do some art for you, please don't spam this thread, instead send me a PM instead with some visual references and or descriptions. I'll warn you now, doing art is not a priority in my life, and I won't garauntee(sp?) that I'll even get around to doing it. I usually do tribute pics for people's creative ideas that I'm impressed by, and who don't necessarily ask for it...

Okay first things first...

[Blur]

:chuckle: Cool beans!

[Maveric]

Here's Maveric's first appearance in CoH back during the Dallas Gaming Convention before Pre-Beta opened up. I had purchased a cheap ass digital camera and was trying to take pics in a hurry in a relatively unlit area... sorry for the fuzziness...
-Mav

[Maveric]

Here's a very early tribute pic of Maveric done by Poison!

[Maveric]

This is one of my early pre-CoH heroes who I haven't been able to make in CoH .... yet.

[Maveric]

this is a tribute pic i did of a forum member's hero called Myst who had weather controlling powers

[Kinetix]

I like her face, It looks familiar...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/Badjoke/Kinetix/kin1.gif

If it inspires you :)

[Maveric]

this is a tribute pic i did of a forum member's hero called Slick who had Ice/Water powers...

[AfterglowNoMore]

Here's the one you did of Afterglow waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v364/Afterglowiscool/afterglow3.jpg

[Maveric]

Below are some of my alternates that I play in CoH

[Yin]

Ugh. I can't find the one you did for Yin.

[Charon]

Dunno if you saw this, but here's the random MS Paint Portrait I did of Mav.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/CharonGlue/MSMAV.jpg

[Charon]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/Bone-Squad/CharonMav.jpg

Charon by Mav.

[Maveric]

SWEET! I like it :D

[Maveric]

wanted to repay the favor ;) : found a random amatuer sketch from the Penciljack forums of an ultimate style deadpool, and i just did a few modifications and colored it up...

[Blur]

Woah! I like the look. Great drawing Mav!

[Charon]

I like it !!! Very.... alternate universe sort of look. It's awesome! Thanks mav!

[Maveric]

If Maveric were a Magic Card...

[Maveric]

look what i found! the original pic that i photoshopped and drew inspiration for Maveric from.

[Maveric]

This was one of the early tribute pics done of Maveric by fellow pre-beta forum member Red Bee. Last I heard, he was doing professional colors on Dark Horse comics Chronicles of Conan. Anyone heard or seen from him lately?

[Maveric]

this was a more recent pic that i photoshopped after i re-rolled Maveric as a Martial Artist and used it briefly on my crey report...

[Kinetix]

Dayum :eyebrow:

[Charon]

Original Art by.... Um... Wherever Mav found it! Coloring by Mav... I just prettied it for random amusement, plus I think Mav might have lost this one since he didn't post it yet.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/CharonGlue/MavDesktop2.jpg

[Maveric]

Pic was by William Anderson of Omni-one productions, and yes, I lost that one :P thanks! that pic was "Stealth Maveric".

[The Widowed]

Why is he posing in front of the Thundercats icon? O_o

[Charon]

That's the thundercats emblem?! Was found on a random google image search for "Dark Horse" since that was Maveric's alias at the time, and it looked like a cool logo so I yoinked it. Haha, weird coincidence.

[Stan Walker]

good lord..those pics look great

[Maveric]

Woah! I like the look. Great drawing Mav!

found a cool amatuer sketch of Flash and thought about the Blur. Played around with some of the special effects. wish I could figure out how to do layers and blurring... unfortunately there are no "idiot's guide" to photoshop that can explain it easily enough for me to understand...

[Blur]

found a cool amatuer sketch of Flash and thought about the Blur. Played around with some of the special effects. wish I could figure out how to do layers and blurring... unfortunately there are no "idiot's guide" to photoshop that can explain it easily enough for me to understand...

Wow that's great! :) I really dig flashes costume, and this is prety close to Blur's alt costume, thanks so much mav!

[Maveric]

thanks to Elemento, an old CoH pre-beta forum member, for e-mailing the next several series of ealry hero tribute pics that id did way back when.

i will post several of them with some comments.

something you should know when looking at these following pics. you may notice the style of photoshopping graduallyand randomly change in quality for two reasons.

i had just aquired Photoshop 7 and just started self tutoring myself how to use it through trial and error.

the computer i was using at the time had a very old and outdated graphics card and the gamma setting was extremely dark. i normally used a black background for most pics since the forum backgrounds were also black. unfortunately i didn't realize that this camaoflaged alot of obvious coloring errors which didn't become noticeable until a year or two later when i upgraded the computer...

i also thought it was kind but irritating that no one had mentioned alot of the coloring errors and didn't say anything negative about it.

i wish i had the original black and white sketches unfortunately William Anderson doesn't have most of his sketched posted anymore on his website...

[Maveric]

i actually like this one. i thought i did a decent job on the feline characteristics.
i remember this character spawned a big thread about "furries". for those who don't know, "furries" do a search on the internet...

[Maveric]

anyone remember what happene to this guy? can't remember who's character is was but i thought he tried to get a supergroup going. never saw him in game though...

[Maveric]

i really enjoyed elemento's characters, especially amalgamite. i did the first pic but didn't like how it turned out... used to much opacity on the coloring. the second version i did had a multicolored uniform rather than multicolored skin. i didn't care for either that much but had a hard time finding a good sketch to work with. the second one was a modified ultimate captain america sketch heavily modified.

[Stan Walker]

impressive as ever Mav :)

[Maveric]

impressive as ever Mav :)
How About this?

[Thermyte]

Woah!

That looks very schweeeeet. :chuckle:

[Stan Walker]

How About this?


HOLY CRAP!!! i just about fell outta my chair!!! thats awesome!!!

[Maveric]

http://www.cohguru.com/forum/showpost.php?p=28788&postcount=11

a color request by Charon

[Maveric]

I recently found the back-up disk that had all my back-up pics on it :singdance :singdance :singdance :singdance

[Maveric]

here's one i did for an old CoH forum member's hero Geonosis

[AfterglowNoMore]

here's one i did for an old CoH forum member's hero Geonosis
Of the Union of Freedom if I recall.

[Maveric]

there was a guy in the prebeta forums (forgot who) who i did a tribute for, who had a hero named..... blurr. the original version had a horrible attempt at a blurring effect, so i have attempted to fix it up a bit...

[AfterglowNoMore]

there was a guy in the prebeta forums (forgot who) who i did a tribute for, who had a hero named..... blurr. the original version had a horrible attempt at a blurring effect, so i have attempted to fix it up a bit...
I think that was Gaia's husband Starshadow's character for the Paragons of Justice, but I could be wrong.

[Maveric]

Captain Avenger... an alternate of mine who never made it into the game.

Capt. Avenger

Alex Avaryman was born a military brat. A term used to reference kids of full-time soldiers, especially those who travel from base to base. The brown eyed boy with brown hair grew into a rather large and very muscular brown eyed Man with brown hair... His father, a command sergeant major in the army, instilled in his son the military code of honor. Although Alex felt too restricted by military life, he had decided that he could show his pride by representing the USA as an Olympian. He spent nearly all of his time either at school or in physical training.

In College, he played and mastered nearly every sport imaginable. Even the complex strategy of chess was no problem for him. His buddies called him "the natural" because in little to no time at all he could learn a game or sport and become exceptionally skilled in it. All this was just preparation for his true goal-- the Olympic Triathalon. After winning gold several times at the Olympics he retired at a very early age.

Alex had lived his dream but was perplexed at what to do with the rest of his life. The Olympics wasn't challenging enough anymore. Military life was too restricting. Alex's life had gone by like a blur, always training. It was his love for America that solved his dilemma. Although he travelled alot, Alex never really had time to enjoy the places he was at. He decided to take an extended American road trip and write an essay about America, it's peoples, subcultures, and habits. Alex became a drifter, learning new trade skills, recording his adventures, learning how to live. During these years he had several adventures usually fighting for the local underdog. It was during this time that he came to eventually made his way to Salutations, Alaska. People appearantly started reporting being abducted by aliens. Alex had heard about this before in other towns but these cases were the most recent. Alex himself was singled out and abducted, but not by aliens...

Commercial break...

The scientist prepared Alex for the last step of his experiment. During the preparation, Alex became conscious unknown to the scientist. The scientist appearantly misjudged the amount of anethesia(sp?) *knock out gas*. Alex awoke prematurely and groggily grappled with the scientist who was reaching for a weapon to subdue Alex. Alex had very little strength and could feel uncounsciousness coming to reclaim him. The scientist desperately grabbed several seringes and stabbed Alex with them. Realing in pain he let go of the scientist who quickly fled away. Mere seconds passed by although it seemed like hours to Alex. Alex's mind, body, and spirit seemed to be --- expanding... If Alex had ever done drugs he would have compared this experience to a really bad LSD trip... He knew that the scientist would be back soon and probably have something deadlier in his posession than seringes... He noticed moonlight coming in from the basement window and staggered to it. Alex fell over and landed on the scientists solid oak desk which exploded into splinters. As Alex got to his feet again he picked up a journal of somekind then crawled out through the basement window. Alex pushed away the snow and got to his feet again. Here he was, nearly naked, standing in the snow, and he felt not even a chill. No time to think. He began running into the dark woods, faster and faster. The trees seemed to blur by, a hundred at a time. Alex accidently ran into and through one very large pine tree which also exploded into splinters and fell over. Alex never felt a thing, he figured the stuff in the seringes was messing with his perception of reality. To Alex it seemed as if he had been running for miles yet he hadn't even broken a sweat. Alex didn't care about that, all he cared about was getting away from the scientist and getting help. As Alex quickly approached a very large fallen tree he jumped over it with very little effort. Unfortunately for Alex, beyond the tree was a cliff that went several hundreds of feet down. As he fell he reached his hand up to the sky wishing that he could grab a cloud. Everything seemed to be happening in slow motion. He knew without a doubt that he was going to die. So Alex closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable...

Commercial break...

Alex immediately awoke to the smell of burning wood in the fireplace and soup on the stove. Alex was lying on the floor in front of the fireplace covered in a large blanket. Alex sat up and blurted out "I'm alive??? ... I am alive... A big burly man at the stove said, "Yes..., you Are alive...". Alex examined the rather large man. He estimated the this Man was about 7' tall and over 300 pounds and resembled a modern day Grizzly Adams. Alex asked the age old question, "Where am I and how did I get here".

Burly Man, "You are in my house and I brought you here, which was no small feat my friend". I set out this morning with my boys to do some hunting." At the mention of boys, several large dogs ran into the room but the Burley Man commanded them to go lay down in the corner. Burly Man, "As I was saying..., The boys and I came across yourself lying half naked, half covered in snow. I removed the snow and noticed something... unnatural. You had no sign of frostbite and your skin was warm to the touch. I tried to wake you but couldn't. I tried to lift you up and damn near gave myself a hernia. I did manage to get one of your arms a few inches off the ground but that was about it. I then grabbed a blanket and some rope off my sled and eventually rolled you onto the blanket... I think you were turning over in your sleep. Anyways, the boys brought you back and that was hard enough for them. I had to walk back on my own. I am not a stupid man and will not tolerate being played a fool. I'm gonna make an educated guess and say that you survived Dr. Niche's experiment somehow and escaped. I'm also guessing that his experiment somehow resulted in your....umm... condition. Oh, please forgive me, my name is Jericho", the big burly man stated as he extended his hand out in friendship.

Alex reached out and gave Jericho a firm handshake nearly breaking every bone in Jericho's hand before quickly letting go. Jericho screamed aloud in pain causing the boys to jump to attention and pounced on Alex. Immediately Jericho commanded then to heel which they instantly obeyed. Alex was stunned, horrified, and confused all at once. Jericho apologied and said that he should have figured that his Strength would have been enhansed. All Alex could do was apologized profusely. Somehow sensing no danger, he decided to trust his instincts and told Jericho of the recent events. Jericho told Alex about the journal he had found laying by his side. Jericho suggested that Alex read the journal for a better understanding of what has happened to him and why.

Commercial break.

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[Maveric]

Artic Fire, this was the very first tribute pic for an old forum member that i did using a new program that I had just "aquired" photoshop 7.0. i was surorised how well it turned out and went on to do numerous more tribute pics...

[Maveric]

Ceres a pyrotech / paramilitary hero

[Maveric]

a winged hero named Crimson Falcon. i wonder if he earned his red wings... i wonder if i'm the only one who got that joke....

[Maveric]

Aura the "new" forum moderator who took over the pre-beta forums mentioned that her hero liked pink and purple so I did a few tribute pics...

[AfterglowNoMore]

a winged hero named Crimson Falcon. i wonder if he earned his red wings... i wonder if i'm the only one who got that joke....
No you're not, you twisted twisted man.

[Maveric]

a tribute pic for some crazy forum guy who's hero weilded a spatula...

http://www.cohguru.com/forum/showpost.php?p=29795&postcount=38

[Maveric]

here's a tribute i did for our own forum member Solario, oh so long ago....

[Maveric]

another Mav pic i found...

[Maveric]

a tribute of some energy weilding blaster i think.... imo, i used to much opacity in the coloring...

[Maveric]

another aura tribute...

[Maveric]

a pic of a ex-girlfriend character... she wasn't much in the game so basically she just created a female version of my own...

[Maveric]

a tribute for some holy demon hero...

[Maveric]

another tribute pic, photoshopped from a gambit sketch...

[Maveric]

a tribute pic of a vampiric beast hero

[Maveric]

during the pre-beta days i ran the second oldest CoH fansite called The Registery, the guy who owned the website had a female hero called Pharoh which i did a tribute pic for....

[Maveric]

here's paradoy pic of Pharoh's character... after intense pressure to undergo extreme plastic surgery...

[Maveric]

another tribute pic....

[Maveric]

yet another tribute pic...

[Thermyte]

AHAHAH!

Good work buddy :P

[Maveric]

Echo, one of Charon's original hero concepts. He was an Ex-MI6 agent, and he was a teleporter/gun-slinger.

[Maveric]

a wolvie clone... basically a ghost themed hero with spirit claws

[Maveric]

a norse/ medevial themed hero, PoL whas short for Paladin of light.

[Maveric]

another babe tribute...

[Maveric]

another babe tribute pic

[Maveric]

a teleporter tribute pic

[Maveric]

A Hawaiian themed hero tribute

[Charon]

Oh man, the Registry. That's were I first saw mugens and thought "Wtf? Wow... cool!!" and set out on a mission against all odds and at any cost to get one of Charon... these days I can make them perfectly well myself, but back then I used to think they were IMPOSSIBLE.

[Kinetix]

A Hawaiian themed hero tribute

cool theme!

[Maveric]

a telekinetic hero photoshopped from a cyclops sketch

[Charon]

a tribute pic of a hero cop with kinetic powers

Actually that's Echo, one of my original hero concepts. He was an Ex-MI6 agent, and he was a teleporter/gun-slinger. :)

[Maveric]

Another spiritual themed hero, i think he was a martial arts healer...

[Maveric]

Actually that's Echo, one of my original hero concepts. He was an Ex-MI6 agent, and he was a teleporter/gun-slinger. :)

it's been a long time, and i'm having to recall all this from memory :P

[Charon]

No problem, I've wanted that pic for ages! :D

[Maveric]

a spider babe themed hero tribute...

[Maveric]

this one was a tough one... i think it was a parody hero.

[Charon]

Handsome Surgeon!! I haven't seen that guy in ... well, years. Yankee Daring's partner in crime(busting) and RL brother. Man, you're bringing back some major memories here.

"Keep your fame... We want your money!" - Heroes Inc.

:D

[AfterglowNoMore]

A Hawaiian themed hero tribute
Heh, that's one of my characters. His name was Lono, after the Hawaiian God of, I think, music and agriculture. He was with the Aegis of Hope.

[Maveric]

an updated tribute pic....

[Maveric]

this one turned out alot better than i had expected when I originally did it. I had to do alot of editing...

[Maveric]

Here's the one you did of Afterglow waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v364/Afterglowiscool/afterglow3.jpg
considering how long ago and not so skilled i was at the time when I made that pic, thought it was time for an updated version... :)

[AfterglowNoMore]

Sweet hippie humping christ that's awesome!

[Maveric]

a re-touched up poison tribute pic from long ago...

[Maveric]

a re-touched up old tribute to one of poison's alternates...

[Maveric]

inspired by a fellow forum member's hero...

a tribute to Red Cat

[Impact]

Wow Maveric....these are just amazing man. :D :cool: Keep the great art coming :thumbup:

[the_starcrosser]

Awesome! :D (did that used to be jean grey?)

[Maveric]

Awesome! :D (did that used to be jean grey?)
Not sure, but your probably right...

anyways, here's another tribute of a forum member's hero that I liked...

[the_starcrosser]

Is that..... OH MAN! It is! WOOOOO!! :o :lol: :thumbup: :*
That's awesome Mav! *hugs*

[Elemento]

I think that was Gaia's husband Starshadow's character for the Paragons of Justice, but I could be wrong.
This Blur was actually a person named Suave who was shortly part of TEAM1, then quit. Now I hear he has reformed a very small version of TEAM1 with Starshadow after the original TEAM1 fell apart.

[Maveric]

a tribute pic for Kinetix

[Stan Walker]

Wow

[the_starcrosser]

Sweeeeet 0_0

[Quakester]

MAN! I sure do good work! ;) :P


Nice job Mav!

[Maveric]

MAN! I sure do good work! ;) :P


Nice job Mav!

How about a Maveric Sketch for me to photoshop?

And a Quakester sketch as well... :p

[Synergy]

Hey Maveric,

Good to see you are still around, sorry to hear you're not playing anymore.

Anyway, a long time ago (IE Back on the old boards) an artist named HBOMB sent me a sketch of Maveric to host when he was having problems with the internet. Not sure if its your character since the character is using a sword, but since you were the only Maveric back on the old boards, I figured its was a good possibility.

It's uncolored and since you were looking for Maveric sketches I thought I would pass it along.

BTW, great drawings as usual! Keep up the good work.

[Quakester]

How about a Maveric Sketch for me to photoshop?

And a Quakester sketch as well... :p

Sure bud...This is the first day I've felt sort of like normal so I'll try to work on it today...along with my growing backlog of other stuff. :p

[Maveric]

Hey Maveric,

BTW, great drawings as usual! Keep up the good work.

Thanks!!!

[Quakester]

Not sure if you are even doing this any more but never let it be said I didn't finish a request.
Mav (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/Quakester/maveric.jpg)

[Maveric]

here's some photoshopping i did of an ultimate style Greatest american hero...

[Dynamo-Man]

Awesome! :D

[Yin]

Nice! A lot of these brought back a lot of old memories.

[Dynamo-Man]

It's funny, I have TGAH theme song on my MP3 list, and I just heard it right before I opened this thread last night. :)