Agent Canada's Artwork (Old CoH Stuff)

[Agent Canada]

Hello everybody.

I'm Agent Canada and have given away a lot of free CoH character art over the years, but these were never commissions or even full art piece. They were doodles made with whatever pens, pencils and markers happened to be on hand, they were always drawn on standard 8.5 X 11 photocopy paper and with rare exception they were always black & white. I began offering the free drawings as a way to combat my anxiety, then quickly came up with the themed lottery format to keep it fresh and organized. I've drawn quite a lot of SG mates but posting them all would be pointless as some of the heroes no longer exist and some of the players wouldn't be around anymore. I am going to post those that have my characters in them though as they would still be relevant. With the exception of the first batch, I tried to add a little role play element to the nature of the lottery. The Red Automaton was a highly advanced android who lost his memories after a vicious battle and a lot of his pictures represented his "broken memories".

Origin-01:

SeasonsGreetings:

CrestedMoon-01:

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[Agent Canada]

All of the original text is long gone so I can't really explain the doodle names, but they were all based on symbolic images.

BlackasPitch-01:

The Memento ones were done after the closure announcement and feature the heroes from multiple Super Groups.

Memento-01:

This last one was made as a lot of CoH heroes were being remade over in Champions Online as a fake promotional poster.

CoC01:

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[Agent Canada]

I joined a smaller and tighter knit Super Group as The Flaming Yank and while most of his posts were edited screen caps, I did a few doodles for that group as well. I later joined a task force specific Super Group as Galvanic Man and did his pictures up like a War Journal.

USA-01:

Squadron-01:

Alienix-01:

Alienix was Galvanic Man's sort of girlfriend but my real life one as well. Alienix is also the Warshade in the previous photo.

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[Christopher Robin]

Heya Agent Canada, I hear ya man. I too gave away a bunch of art and many of those people aren't back (sadly some will never be)

and I don't always know which to post either. I also drew with whatever I had on hand (usually an orange mechanical

pencil with 2b lead or an old Parker Jotter pen) on 8½" by 11" typing paper. It was mainly my way of

giving something back for the gift that CoH is and to it's amazing community.

 

Funny, as it was my first MMO I somehow thought they were all this way.

For all its flaws I couldn't truly appreciate just how good it was until it was taken away.

 

I am glad you found your way here though, welcome home.

 

Great stuff so far, I really like that Alienix pic. It's like that moment when she's talking about badges or

something innocuous and it starts to dawn on you that something is just a little bit... off.

 

Oh and the Rikti punching. Rikti punching is always a good time.

 

 

Edited January 3, 2020 by Christopher Robin

[Agent Canada]

Thanks Christopher, and you are right about the MMO community, I ran my lotteries in Champions Online and while I still put out a lot of art it was always a harder slog. I always told myself I'd keep doing it till it started to feel like work and I'll be honest, the feedback and appreciation in City was always more rewarding. My only real regret though is not starting earlier, I came into CoH later in the  game's  life and was running around on Infinity and Pinnacle long before I starting doing art for Virtue.

I'm posting the odd bits and pieces now and leaving the Hawkbrand and Sector Protector stuff for later. These next three are one off pieces from various Virtue Super Groups.

Recruits-01:  (That's me in the background, Atomico was way more fun to draw.)

Galaxy-01:  (Once again I'm in the background but only because I'm huge.)

Live-01:  (I don't play a lot of villains but when the brain in a tank costume piece came out, I had to use it for Baron Mechanus.)

The two in the background are SG mates who just happened to have similar backgrounds.

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[Agent Canada]

One of the other nice things in City was that completely separate Super Groups could be linked together on their respective forum pages. Seeing as how a lot of these groups shared a lot of the same players and being a bit of an alt nut, I usually joined these other groups as well. Since my lotteries were now being run an multiple pages, I felt the need for a neutral forum avatar. This AC avatar would also act as part of the banner for my fake comic book covers.

ACAvatar-01:

CanadaPants-01:  (Drawn in response to a compliment that "You rock, like Ben Grimm!").

All right, next up is the Hawkbrand stuff. His RP element was that he was a teen superhero, and an art student, so most of his lottery pictures were "art pieces" to be turned in as school assignments. Some of this stuff is pretty traditional, some if it is silly, but it was almost always fun.

Officers-01:  (An offhand request for an JLU style banner that just kind of stuck in my head, very rough but fun.)

The winged silhouette in the back is my Hawkbrand character.

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[GM Miss]

These are amazing, you are so talented! 

[Agent Canada]

Thanks GM Miss, I appreciate the compliments. I didn't draw a lot of my own characters unless it for an event or something, but here are a few more Hawkbrand ones.

BraveBold_01:  (Somebody entered me in my own lottery, and everybody agreed it was an official entry...so... ) 

CANADA-01:  (Hawkbrand's not a Canuck but I am, and I like to push the Canadian Holidays.)

Okay this is admittedly a silly one but an SG mate suggested a Mystery lottery where the winner's prize would secretly be a M.L.P. version of themselves and wouldn't know it till I revealed the finished doodle. I hit a snag running that lottery but hate to leave a post without any artwork so I quickly fired up Hawkbrand as the Hawkbranded Pony. When that looked too flat, I added some pencil crayons to it.

Mystery-01:

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[Agent Canada]

Sector Protector is the weird one, he started off as a City of Heroes character on Pinnacle named Crystal Crusader, but gave up the name so that the super group could be called Crystal Crusaders. The group itself was a play on the Green Lantern Corps and needed a proper name and as I had just gotten rid of a hero named Sector Protector, I took that name for this hero. The one thing he always was though was a tribute to Adam West (Adam Westings in game). I played him till closure but never really offered up any artwork through him till I remade him in Champions. His RP Lottery hook was already in place though as it fit so well with his original CoH Bio.

crusaderea5:

Sector1:

The reasons for posting these two pics is simply because the majority of the Sector Protector lotteries were held for the Silver Age Sentinels in Champions and on the official Champions forums and his costume looks a little different because of it. I won't post any of the CO lottery winners pics unless they directly involve Adam himself.

SAS-01:

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[Agent Canada]

The RP hook for these lotteries was that Adam had purchased an old curio shop,  a haunted one, and he was slowly restoring and cataloguing all the portraits he found stashed all over the old building. These portraits were strangely prophetic and would often reflect in game or roleplaying elements, which in my mind was a clever way of offering up the themed doodles.

SSTrike-01:  (The theme was Big Threat, Small Heroes)

STARRO-01:

Buh-nnny01  (A Doodle done at work to show to my co-workers.)

The biggest difference is the shoulder pads and the logo, but it's still clearly Sector Protector.

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[Agent Canada]

I also used Mayor Adam West from Family Guy as a reference when I realized he was already wearing Sector Protector's colours.

IDFile1:

Champions never really held my fancy so I eventually cancelled my subscription for the free to play option and had to kill off a few characters. She-Squatch was a pay only AT so sadly she had to go, this pic was her swan song.

GoodByes01:

I started having trouble with my eyes, nothing serious, just getting older but it was causing me to have trouble with double lines. I was told I needed reading glasses and should wear them while drawing as well, this worked but took a lot of getting adjusted to so I started offering Bruce Timm animated series style doodles instead. This was my example piece.

Adam0001:

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[Agent Canada]

The Bruce Timm ones were also offered as potential forum Avatars, so I offered to colour them as well. Pencil crayons as I have no real digital skills to speak of, but it was also to help me train myself to use my damn reading glasses.

Adamo1:

That's it for my characters. If I've drawn for anyone here on the forums who might want me to repost those pieces, just let me know.

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[Agent Canada]

I'm going to post some of the doodles, both lotteries and freebies, I did for an old CoH buddy who used to go by the name of Mariner. I don't think he'll mind as he always says it your art, go ahead. If you are on these forums and want me to stop just shoot me a message. Mariner spurred me on and entered every lottery he qualified of so he has a lot of cool wins in my opinion.

WTScan:  (This is the first piece I ever gave away on a forum, and boy was it a shock.)

Foxman-01:  (I run with an old home office scanner so this was just to see if I could even do colours on the forums, it was pretty popular though.)

Mariner-01:  (Both of these are his characters.)

The formats may seem a little strange, but I had never used a scanner (for my art), or a picture hosting site or even forums for that matter before I got into City of Heroes.

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[Agent Canada]

These aren't in sequence as they are primarily by character, but they are still pretty close to how the lotteries progressed.

FOXHUNT-01:

I liked to do comic book themed lotteries as I'm a huge fan obviously, but I also wanted people to think that their characters could be just as real as the published ones. One of the themes was "Team Uniforms", so a CoH Hero would join an established super group and be drawn in a hybrid uniform, and this is probably the best of those.

Clobberin-01:

Another comic book theme was the "Hero Throwdown", the winner got to fight an established hero of their choice. in this case Vixen.

Girlfight_01:

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[Agent Canada]

I ran the majority of my CoH lotteries while in the A.S.T.S. but opened it up to the allied super groups even if I wasn't currently on that individual team yet. so the lotteries got pretty big. The next couple were one-off lotteries but they are still Mariner's wins.

Airboy-01:

Guard-01:  (This lottery was a funny one, I allowed people in the Super Group to "sponsor" one of their unaffiliated characters, and all they had to do was log in with their A.S.T.S. hero and earn some SG Prestige. I say allowed because one of my die-hard rules was that all entries had to be SG related.)

The good Doctor here is probably Mariner's longest run or best known hero and I have drawn him a lot as he survived the transfer to CO and we both ended up on the S.A.S. team. I'll keep it CoH related here though.

Zombie Bash-2:  (I've drawn this villain many times as well and it was actually Mariner who named him Seymour Graves.)

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[Christopher Robin]

Just Airboy's luck his opposition decided to go "old skool" on him.

 

Also, over time, you would hope that Zombie Bash would... See-less Graves.

 

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[Agent Canada]

Well Mariner and I are both older fans, older as in I hit 50 last year, so that's pretty old skool to begin with. As for Seymour he ended up becoming one of my regular Halloween Lotteries, that and the Famous Monsters ones. I did a series of lotteries where you got to lose to the iconic comic book villain of your choice, it was run as a three round kind of event. The first two rounds were losses but the third round was a victory, the catch here was that you had to risk entering a loss round to qualify to enter the third round.

MageWar01: (This was techinaclly a CO one but doesn't feature any CO IP.)

Presto1: (A Christmas joke for you older folks.)

SSketches02: (Flintstones Style)

Thanks for all the comments and reactions.

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[Christopher Robin]

On 1/12/2020 at 3:10 PM, Agent Canada said:

Well Mariner and I are both older fans, ...................................................

 

Presto1: (A Christmas joke for you older folks.)...........................................

 

........................Thanks for all the comments and reactions.

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Was one of Mariner's mains a Dolphin themed sonic hero?

Because I think I drew a birthday quick sketch for someone with a

similar name (he may have gone by Dolphin on the old boards though).

 

Oh look it's a Major Award... which I'm sure he totally won and had shipped directly

from a region in France known as Fragile (pronounced Frah-gee-lay).

 

Np, and right back at you Agent Canada.

[Agent Canada]

He might've been before I knew him, as I said I joined up rather late in the game's life. His water guy that I knew was called War Trident at the time.

Lol, yep, that was totally A Christmas Story and that was totally the Leg Lamp.

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[Agent Canada]

More Doctor Presto doodles.

Invader01:  (During City's absence I would still offer Anniversary type lotteries. )

FMonsters02:  (We are both fans of horror films as well as comic books so he loved the Famous Monsters lotteries, he finally won one too.)

That wraps up the mariner stuff.

One of the other cool things about Super Groups, forums and even deviantArt at the time was that people were actually very generous, I've had quite a few of my doodles coloured and reposted as kind of a grand prize for the community. This first one was an art exchange through dA, I drew one of his characters for him and he coloured my girlfriend's picture for me.

alienix_01_in_color:

I know nothing of this kind of colouring so this piece blew me away.

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[Agent Canada]

I don't really use it anymore but you can visit my old dA page here.

https://www.deviantart.com/agentcanada

Here's the last two related coloured ones I have.

clobberin_01_in_color:  (The same artist that coloured the Alienix one also did this one up.)

TseuWck:  (This one and a bunch more were coloured for free on the Champions Oline forums as part of that whole Grand Prize attitude I talked about earlier.)

That's it for now and thanks.

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[Agent Canada]

I'm going to post another Bruce Timm doodle, a Champions Online one, as I went and remade the character here last night to try out Ice. Forgot how much I liked
Ice so he's a keeper.

Winter01:

MWLS:

The CoH costume still needs a few tweaks but I have always preferred the classic tights look anyways.

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[Agent Canada]

HAPPY VICTORIA DAY WEEKEND TO ALL MY CANADIAN FRIENDS, REAL AND IMAGINARY!

This is a new piece I did over on Facebook, when I asked who was the most popular Canadian Superhero. The Chapterhouse Captain Canuck came in first place with Alpha Flight's Puck and I loved the way the doodle turned out.

VDSpecial01: