Crucible City Gallery

Last Updated: 8/21/04

Many more added. Note: some links may not work until a few days after 8/21.

These are drawings and sculptures of characters from Crucible City MUX. All images are copyright Dave Van Domelen as of the date listed, although many of the characters are property of their creators (mine are indicated by an asterisk after the name).

Drawings

Myrmidon *: A revision of Myrmidon for Mutants and Masterminds MUX, now with a more mythical bent. My main character on Crucible City MUX.
Manitou: A friend's character on Crucible City MUX. She's 8 feet tall and possessed by a shamanistic spirit.
Seraphim: Another Crucible City denizen, an angel of light. Tried using gold gel pens on some details, but all my gold gel pens were dying, so it didn't work so well.
Reaper: Counterpoint to Seraphim, Reaper is a darkness-shrouded scythe-swinger from CCMUX. This is mostly a painted work (pencils, then inks, then paint and a little colored pencil on the skintones). The cloak is made of shadow, which is why it sort of blends.
Reaper 2: A second design for Reaper, although in this costume she may not keep the name. Design sketch. 3/27/04.
Kiryu *: My secondary character on CCMUX, he's a 1/144 scale prototype for a Mecha-Godzilla-sort of war machine. Isn't he cute? Twined around Manitou's arm. 5/27/04.
Inazuma: A kitsune in search of redemption. Same player as Reaper. 6/4/04.
Ion: Magnetic-powered young hero. Pencils. 6/19/04.
Meeba: Silly-putty-like shapeshifting artificial life form. I used no inks on this, went straight from pencils to a variety of pink markers. 7/2/04. (Disclaimer: not exactly how Meeba's player sees the character looking.)
Pix: A 12" tall young woman with dragonfly wings and a psychedelic pixie dust attack. Pencils for the art, prior to some tweaks. 8/13/04
Alpha Girl: Your basic flying brick, this is only one of many costumes she wears. And yes, the pose/background is an homage to the cover of Superman #1 (1938). Pencils of a rough design sketch sent to the player for corrections (mostly to the boots and the chest star) before doing the final piece. 8/14/04
Sniper: Sort of a cross between Batman and Green Arrow, with a SUPAR STAELTH JET (which may or may not be shown in this picture, you be the judge!). 8/20/04
Vanir: Gravity power sort, in blue leather. Uses miniature black holes as his main attack. 8/21/04
Puppy: Supernaturally lucky shapeshifter who really likes the color orange. The "after Foglio" scrawled in the corner refers to the fact I took the basic pose/setup from Foglio's art for the Shadowfist card "Charmed Life". 8/22/04 (estimated)

Sculptures

Fenris Walker: Actually a kitbash, but I'm sticking it here because it's also a CCMUX piece. November was dominated by an invasion from a reality where the Nazis won, and this was one of their mecha.
Manitou Heroclix - Made from a She-Hulk (Rookie) base with extensive putty additions.
Myrmidon Heroclix * - The clickbase is rookie Nightwing, the figure is the Mage Knight Immortal Zealot with the crest taken from the Mage Knight Infantry Captain. Putty used for the tunic and visor. In my original character drawing, the tunic was draped over the left shoulder, but I had to cover up a big shoulderpad on the right shoulder of the Zealot. Myrmidon does not have Nightwing's ranged attack, but he does have a "move by" ability that I suppose could be used to represent the ranged attack...jump in, attack, jump back.
Myrmidon Action Figure *: Built up frmo a Mission Vision Flash. The belt is from a GI Joe figure, the energy blade from a Gundam, and the tunic from plastic undersheeting for a mattress. I used thin clear plastic sheeting for the visor. View without tunic. 5/9/04.
Kiryu Clix * - The base figure is the mount from a Shyft Serpent Sniper, with the limbs of a Whirling Golem added on. The backpack is made from styrene sheet and rod pieces. The barbels are a single piece of copper wire shoved through a hole drilled in the snout, and the antlers are painted on a partially-cut sheet of clear plastic.

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