Titfortat 12: Man-E-Faces vs. Ninjor – One vs three!

Titfortat

Man-E-faces (1.8m, 80kg) comes with 31 points, he’s smart, strong, and relatively fast. Too bad that the former actor went to the wrong sorceress. All he wanted was stronger skills to play different characters, a wider spectrum from very emotional to stone cold. He wished to be powerful, a fast learner, and charismatic on stage. What he got is three personalities in a misformed head, which he’s hiding under a huge blue helmet. She made him a monster. Another hybrid creature made by evil magic. Only the heroic Masters were able to teach him how to control these faces, how to choose the right personality to each situation. And to not become evil.

Ninjor is 10cm shorter, 10kg lighter and 3 points faster than Man-E-Faces , making him one of the fastest fighters in our MOTU titfortat tournament. With 32 points, he’s in the same league as Triklops, Rio Blast and Snake face. Jitsu’s former student is the only real Ninja in Eternia, since his master lost his hand to Whiplash. And his honor.

The reason for this titfortat is unclear. Two strong characters with lots of potential are in the ring. It will be interesting to see which identity Man-E-Faces chooses for this fight. Let’s start!

It appears he comes as his own human version. You could think this is the most balanced person in our hero, but it is also the physically weakest. The robot and the monster have faster reflexes. And even before the fight starts, he changed to the robot man! Did he change his mind?

Ninjor doesn’t move or flinch at all. He’s observing, and watching Man-E-Faces changing again, this time to the green-faced monster. And as he changed, he’s already attacking! The hero makes the first strike, bluntly running towards Ninjor, making a high pinched noise! Ninjor routinely jumps to the side, aiming for a kick into Man-E-Faces’ ribs. This goes all so fast. The hero takes that kick, but in the same moment grabs the leg, and spins around. Ninjor flies, obviously surprised by the wild energy in that humanoid mixed creature. But he lands elegantly on his feet. The green face is turning to the right, showing a hint of the human face, and then moves back. Did he try to change again, and not succeed?! Ninjor does not hesitate to use that moment of distraction to land a swipe on the hero, getting him of his feet. A series of punches land on the blue helmet as the hero falls.
Man-E-Faces lands on his belly, obviously struggling with the combination he had to take. When he gets up, Ninjor is on his back, trying to figure out how to strangle his enemy with the huge helmet.
A sudden change in the way Man-E-Faces moves makes it clear, he’s the robot now. And that makes him extremely smart and strong. Instead of trying to get Ninjor off his back, and to get back up, he rolls onto his back, an onto Ninjor. In a very unnatural way his arms move back, and he starts hammering the back of his helmet against Ninjor’s head. The martial arts fighter is locked under his enemy, who does not stop to hammer down his head until blood and brain sprinkle the ring. A barbaric move by a humanoid robot with maybe a little evil magic acting ends this titfortat.. Ninjor lost.

Man-E-Faces

Crossover: Man-E-Matryoshkas

Crossovers

When I got this idea, I had to draw it immediately, because it fits so well. The famous and beautiful Russian dolls are a great way to display all three faces of Man-E-Faces. His strange helmet has just the right voluminous shape to make him a doll. Let’s hope for him that the human part is the biggest one! MOTU’s Man-E-Faces as Russian dolls.

 

This project was a good chance to use some tools. I used the symmetry tool from Sketchbook. The line prediction caused some effect I think is beneficial, it simply rounded the corners. I also finally learned to copy and paste objects. It’s a while ago that I drew it, but it will always be one of my favourite drawings. 

 

 

 

 

Man-E-Faces

Crossover: Glow-Garmel

Crossovers

“I hate these SMASTERS” may Glow-garmel shout while he waves his mesh. Gargamel is a very mean character in the smurfs, and he ruins the perfect live in the smurf village. Combined with Scare glow he does glow of course, but also got a purple collar and skeleton- hands of course! His even meaner cat Azrael is now Panthor. I’ll call him Azraelor! Very simple to crossover, any violet cat will make a MOTU fan think of Panthor..

So far so good, black background and aura around his head are fine. BUT the smurfs gave me headaches, maybe because I tried to put too many details in a tiny object. Man-E-faces might be obvious (though he’s got that olfactory bulb), he is now Man-E-smurf, but Stratos (Strato smurf, hmhm!) was not a good choice. He has just not enough outstanding details. And yes, he tries to climb down the table, while he is obviously able to fly. That’s smurf in a nutshell, isn’t it?

Yeah but the table… I was not able to get that perspective, and very clear: Drawing everything in the same layer does not help! I tried, because I didn’t know better, and that made it impossible to erase and try again. A new layer for table would have given me all options to work it out.

Be what it is, this was an early work in Autodesk Sketchbook and it is not too bad I think! More to come

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