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JOHANN KRAUS was a German psychic who was able to teach himself to communicate with the dead and mastered the ability  to send his own soul out of his body in ectoplasmic form and into the etheric plane.  In February 2002, Johann was conducting a seance in Germany when the soul of a recently deceased Chinese boy contacted him and a shockwave of psychic energy travelled through Johann, killing the entire family he was hosting the seance for and destroying Johann’s earthly body.  Kraus now exists inside an ectoplasmic containment suit that allows him to have a physical presence and anchors him here on the earthly plane of existence.  He n

“X” is for X-51, the Machine Man… Sole surviving robot of a government project, X-51 was raised as a human son by Dr. Abel Stack.  Powered by solar batteries, all of the other robots in the series went insane after gaining sentience, while X-51 survived and was called “the robot with a soul”.  Dubbed “Machine Man”, after living his early life on the run from the government and trying to enjoy a normal life, he became a superhero for a time. Today you are challenged to draw X-51 for about a half hour! The deadline for this challenge is Friday, July 14, 2017! Reference images for MACHINE MAN can be

"V" is for Velma... "AND I WOULD'VE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT, IF IT WEREN'T FOR THOSE MEDDLING KIDS!"-- A Phrase often used at the end of a blissful episode of SCOOBY DOO and more often than not whom they are referring to could be the Sherlock Holmes of the Scooby Gang, Velma Dinkley! Velma is the highly intelligent, if somewhat near-sighted, member of Mystery Inc. who seems to have all the answers when clues must be interpreted or a villain is being confronted! You are to draw Velma of SCOOBY DOO for today's DSC!  Thirty-minute time limit. Deadline is Wednesday, July 12, 2017! Reference images for VELMA can be found via the links provided be

CHARLEY’S WAR was a British comic strip by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun that was published from January of 1979 until October of 1986 and is considered by some to be the greatest British comic strip ever created.  It tells the story of underage British soldier Charley Bourne, who joins the Army during World War I at the age of 16 (having told recruiters that he was two years older) and is quickly thrust into the Battle of the Somme.  Charley is a working-class London lad from a close-knit family.  Naive and not too bright, Bourne nevertheless gets worldly wisdom as he survives the horror of the Great War for the next several years.  Brav

Created by legendary anime director Hayao Miyazaki, NAUSICAA is the princess of a small kingdom called the Valley of the Wind on a post-apocalyptic Earth with bioengineered ecological system, who becomes involved in a war between kingdoms while an environmental disaster threatens humanity.  Most of the world is covered by the Sea of Corruption, a bioengineered toxic forest of fungal life and plants which is steadily encroaching on the remaining land. Today, you are challenged to draw NAUSICAA for about a half hour! The deadline for this challenge is Thursday, May 25, 2017! Reference images for NAUSICAA can be found via the links provided b