Contest February - April 2016 Visual Art Contest - WIP Thread

I demand a recount of the short story contest! All my votes go to this!

 

There is no way that I'm going to be finished in 3 weeks

 

That was on the 6th so you have less than 3 weeks.
But a half finished entry still shows support for the contest, and you never know, incomplete entry may spark some minimalist feelings bringing out our inner art critic, with glasses raised high and noses turned higher we may decree your partially finished entry as brilliant and not only vote for it but try to pay you money for the original.

Or maybe not. Point is you don't know if you don't try, and the more entries the more likely the odds of a second one. Then there is a second chance to enter a fully finished project.

 

You could show a work in progress of your brilliant Gura'dai conversion. Was an orc, changed into gura'dai to fit into your continuity. Boom! Thematically golden and we get the visuals to go with the beautiful fluff you have been fleshing out! Just one idea anyway! I believe in you! You can do this.

 

Because I hate myself I went from digital to traditional for the picture. and Yes, they have pants

 

Here is an update of the thing

 

That looks incredible! That's so cool!

 

thanks! no too much I can add in now that I have put some color down. but I am very pleased with it!

 

Spoiler: Pipe Story: A 3 Act Opera

SoB: How did all those monkeys get on stage?
CF: There's going to be a lot of crap on stage.
Sob: There was already a lot of crap on stage!
Both:

Spoiler: Oh hohohohoho

Gave Crowsfoot a crow since I couldn't give him a Terradon.

 

I'm flarted. I think dioramas are against the rules, but let me look in the big box of valuable prizes for something for you, Bowser.

 

No, the dioramas are fantastic and should definitely enter. The next step is for bowser to make a stop motion.

 

Weird. I think the rules were meant to preclude models and dioramas (dioramae?) but they don't. So @neveroddoreven will enter and we are all screwed. Thanks for pointng that out TDF (in sarcastic voice).

 

That is looking pretty awesome, Hype. Try cheating by manipulating the exposure / contrast using the link above - I think the colour density would look awesomer with a boost. Don't dump the idea of doing some other digital post production if you want to uber-tweak.

 

Thank you for the subtle nod Bob..I had tottaly forgotten about this 0_0 Time to get my scribbling on! I think I may have left it a bit late to do the whole 3D model thing...

That looks so cool! I love the pose

 

Hey @Phoedinn, do you have a 3D WIP you could clean up for an entry? Or even just a sample - I want to know what you are bringing.

 

Uh...yeah probably actually! Just looked at the entry date again and I still got over a month. I'll post the blockout I did a little while ago and try to do some more work today
I'll post the images when I get home!

 

Don't worry so much about time, we wnjoy the WIP as much as the finished product! Enter anyway and let us see what you got!

 

Hang on, is this still due April 30th? I'm seeing posts saying less than 25 days to go...

 

Oh, I'm a goof.

The Comp was meant to be Feb- April with entries due March 30 and April being voting month.

But I put April 30 as the entry deadline in the rules 'cos... goof.

This comp was always going to be "late", but I had been planning to eventually synch them one month later than the story comps. (that is Jan - Write, Feb- vote on writing and draw, March - vote on drawing. April start over with a drawing comp.)

Given it is in the (error prone) rules, it would be unfair to exclude any entries up to April 30. BUT it is undesirable to have all the artists going nuts and being unable to focus on writing during writing month for the next story comp. In addition, we would go straight from April drawing AND writing month into the next drawing month for the following art comp. Even us intellectuals need the occasional break.

Dilemmasaurus!


Proposal:

• I will alter the art comp finish date to 14 April (a two extension, or a 4 week deadline, depending if you are Phoedinn or not)
• I will curtail the voting period to the end of April (2 and a bit weeks)
• We start next comp one month behind the next story comp with the same theme as the story comp (ie drawing month- May, Voting month- June, theme up to @Slanputin or the censors)
• It's all my fault, Boohoo.

Please give me feedback / alternatives. I will alter the rules-post-deadline in one week if that proposal seems fair enough.