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Bumble the Boy Wonder
mr_thehun
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Dei
LittleSin
LittleKagsin
Zappit
Silver Jelly
David
ElJuski
North_Ranger
Gusto
Azurephoenix
Bowielee

So we don't have to scroll through the other thread looking for all the entries, this thread will be dedicated to submitting, discussing, and asking about everyone's work.

To keep the thread from getting too cluttered or derailing, I ask that we ONLY use this thread for entry related posts.

After all the entries have been submitted, you will choose your top 3 favorites, the ones you feel deserve to win, and rank them first, second, and third. First place gets 3 points, second gets 2, and third gets 1. You will send a PM through conversation to me , The Judge , and Dave will count up the votes when voting has closed. The person with the greatest total at the end of it all wins!

Go!

I reposted this from the original thread.

Azurephoenix's entry: Topic - I heart Video Games.

I guess I'll get this started. I'm not going to get any more done on this before the 7th so I may as well enter it. This is way less than I was hoping to accomplish but my drawing skills can't quite match up with my imagination. This was originally going to be a group shot of Jay, Scytherex, Ravenpoe, Frank and my main multiplayer characters from Mass Effect 3 but due to sickness, incompetence and procrastination I only got Jay's Asari Adept semi-completed. I'm not happy with my linework and I really need a better scanner to show the shading better (it's really grainy... I swear it looks much better on paper).

Anyhow... that's it, I hope you like it... it's my first colorization too so that was an interesting learning process. I will likely start a thread in the Artist forum chronicling the continued progress on this as I do want to finish my main idea.
Game on everyone!

Category: Hot girls, superheroes, and monsters

Came up with this character - Inq. She's got the ability to create solid, animated creatures from the ink in her tattoos. Each monster is tethered, and her ability is limited only by the images printed on her skin.

Category: I heart videogames.

Comments: I wanted to do something very different from my usual style. I decided a) pop art, and b) stencil. I kept fuzzy edges on the stenciled stuff to try to give it a Bansky-like softness. Also, I'm not really doing two categories, but I liked the literal idea enough to use it here.

Subject: Hot girls, superheroes and monsters

Title: Lady Cult

Comments: For my gallery show I painted a picture of a Lovecraft based super heroine for shits and giggles. When this contest came up I spent a month wracking my brian over what I should do...only to realize I already had painted a picture about my preferred subject! I'm not a cheater though so I decided to do a new picture AND experiment with some stuff I had lying about. I used tubed water colours for this with oils pasters and a bit or sharpy. I wanted a dark, watery look.

I like the results so much that I may actually frame it!

I wanted to do way much more with this mock Rolling Stone cover, but here you are, my I <3 Videogames entry.



which is funny because you thought I'd do the literal song thing, didn't you? Well I assumed I had more time too, so feh.

Literal song translation!

In preparation of the new Tenacious D album, here's my interpretation of the hit song Wonderboy.

Couldn't stand leaving it the way I had it, so got more work on it done. Guess I'm operating on minimal sleep tomorrow.

I Heart Video Games

Should be fixed now

Following the Mass Effect trend here:



I call it Paragon Choice.

Topic: I Heart Video Games (or Monsters, Babes and Superheroes, depending on your point of view )

So Mass Effect 2 is one of my favourite games of all time, and the relationship between Shepard and Liara is one of the most real relationships I've EVER seen in a game. Now I haven't finished ME3 yet (drawing this made me wanna go back to it) but even in Mass Effect 2 I vowed to remain faithful to Liara because it seemed more like the right thing to do, and actually strengthened the relationship they had after saving the galaxy from Sovereign a couple years earlier.

Anyway, I used a couple references for this, and made a couple different sketch layers wich I decided to keep at full opacity in the final piece. Makes it look sketchier overall, which is an effect I like overall in my drawings.

Thank you for your votes!

I don't do the drawing thing, so I opted for a cross stitch entry into the I Heart Video Games category.

Fuuuuck no time to color. Still, I like how it turned out. Monsters, Hot Chicks, Superheroes.



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I just noticed people are leaving comments about their work, so I thought I'd do the same. My original idea was an Old West steampunk zombie hunter. While thinking up design choices, it evolved into this. The lady is wearing a (loosely interpreted) Korean hanbok, and she's wielding a woldo, very similar to the Chinese gaun dao (the weapon is what actually led me to go with the Korean theme). The animal she's riding is a haetae (mr_thehun might recognize it as a xiezhi), a creature common to both Korean and Chinese mythology, that symbolizes justice.

Also, sorry about the compression artifacts; I'm gonna blame that on imgur since the original .png is fine. Updated to link to cleaner version

Too late! Anyone that enters after this, feel free to mock their punctuality!

Feel free to begin discussing/complimenting others and your own work! Let's try to keep it positive, unless someone specifically asks for critiques.


Voting shall begin shortly, stay tuned....

Excitement!

I don't know about you guys, but it's kind of hard to choose who I'll be voting for. I know two of them for sure but I have three other pieces I have to narrow down for the third vote...

Gusto said:

Excitement!

I don't know about you guys, but it's kind of hard to choose who I'll be voting for. I know two of them for sure but I have three other pieces I have to narrow down for the third vote...

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Seriously!

I think there should be no one feeling bad about how many votes they get, because honestly everyone is in contention for my votes, and it's excruciating to try to just pick three.. What have I doneeee

I can't WAIT to vote!

This will be my legacy

You know, since I'm participating, I'm not gonna vote. I'll leave judgement up to others.

Zappit said:

You know, since I'm participating, I'm not gonna vote. I'll leave judgement up to others.

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You're still supposed to vote... you just can't vote for yourself

Azurephoenix said:

You're still supposed to vote... you just can't vote for yourself

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This!

So..when do we vote?

If you feel you're ready, shoot a PM to The Judge and rank your top 3!

How long should we let voting run? Until Friday 11:59pm? The weekend?

Friday works.

Send Dave our advertising message, Bumbz.

I already did!

Not a late entry, just moving it from the other thread to here.

Votes sent.

Dun dun dun DONE.

No entry from Silver Jelly? THIS CONTEST IS OVER.

Hey yeah! What the fuck Silver Jelly ??

Sorry, tomorrow I have my first public presentation at a congress... and my partner was in the hospital. I've been working really hard (both in the article and the presentation)

You may watch the album I did of the power point presentation if you like, though
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150863276635956.432812.723740955&type=3

Yeah I mean we had 5 weeks to work on it and I basically did mine in an hour and a half.

I CAN'T CHOOSE!

Cajungal said:

I CAN'T CHOOSE!

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Why did I read that in the booming "SKATE OR DIE" voice?

My husband didn't vote for me! I find that hilarious! He said there were others that were more impressive.

What a jerk right?

Not really. He has a point.

My husband would do the same thing, except he'd at least have the decency to lie about it.

I had trouble deciding between who to choose for the #1 spot it was a rough choice between two users


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Voted. Also, I'm still going to finish mine regardless of competition. I like how Link is turning out.

Tell us!

Any chance we can get vote totals as well? I'm curious about the level of interest the contest managed to garner.

I have the totals as of Thursday night but I'm not sure when we want voting to end...

I was under the impression that Friday was the cutoff

Bumble the Boy Wonder said:

If you feel you're ready, shoot a PM to The Judge and rank your top 3!

How long should we let voting run? Until Friday 11:59pm? The weekend?

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Gusto said:

Friday works.

Send Dave our advertising message, Bumbz.

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Alright. This is Gusto and I've tallied the votes:

Congrats to our top three!

drifter - 28 points!
Zappit - 18 points!
Bumble the Boy Wonder - 16 points!



(Let me know if you'd like to see everyone else's scores too.)

Sure, I'd like to know how badly I failed.

I'm already ready for the next one!

Halforums Art Event Part 2 - 20xx : EVERYONE BREAK DRIFTER'S FINGERS.

Congratulations to everyone that participated!

We're allll winners!

I'm honestly ready for the next one too. Wanna spearhead a thread, Bumble the Boy Wonder?

I can't wait to do this again.

By the by, hubby is telling me I need to get rid of some of my art stuff.

So, anyone want to puy my submission for this thread? $30.00, 11x17.

Would this be something we would be interested in doing maybe once a month?

Monthly contests would be awesome, but not sure if I can participate every month

Ah, when I asked for vote totals, I meant total number of people who voted. I wanted to know if voting was mostly sequestered to the subforum, or if there was broader interest. Although looking at total points, I'd hazard a guess that voter turnout was on the low side.

Also, wewt! In commemoration of my win, I am promoting myself from common shitlord to Shitlord Supreme.

16 people voted on this, and there were a some that mentioned being unable to choose a winner and didn't vote ( Cajungal)

Ooh, my guess was off by one. Not bad.

Can I suggest that whoever wins the contest each has to be the judge in the next contest?

Wouldn't you have a sense of pride knowing you trumped the previous champion though, instead of winning while they were on the sidelines

Sorry... I was going to last night, but I konked out early after a long work day.

drifter said:

Ooh, my guess was off by one. Not bad.

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No you weren't. Bumble, according to my count, we had 17 voters giving a total of 102 points.

I know that feel bro.

Gusto said:

No you weren't. Bumble, according to my count, we had 17 voters giving a total of 102 points.

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Did you count up the points? I just checked the e-mail notifications, 2 of which were from mr_thehun one of them being non-votes. If I only counted one of his e-mails, I get 16

Gusto said:

I know that feel bro.

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Well I suppose I was hoisted by my own petard since I voted for the three winners...

Oh well... it won't stop me from submitting another sub standard entry next time... SUCKERS!!!

Oh, also, new rule next time.

If you enter the contest, you must submit a vote.

It doesn't do anyone any good other than yourself to not vote. Since you can't vote for yourself, you're only taking votes away from other entries.

Bumble the Boy Wonder said:

Did you count up the points? I just checked the e-mail notifications, 2 of which were from mr_thehun one of them being non-votes. If I only counted one of his e-mails, I get 16

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Yeah I actually got the point totals (102) and divided 'em by by 6 to get 17. My guess is Dave added his votes to the total without sending himself a PM.

Ahh, that would make perfect sense then.

mr_thehun said:

wait, I didn't say I wasn't voting, just saying it was hard. You guys counted my votes from the first one right?

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He said he got 2 messages from you, one was your votes, the other was a non-vote message. That's the way I understood the post.

Bowie's right. We got your votes, no worries.

We shoulda let mr_thehun vote twice to make up for Zappit 's lack of voting.

Gusto said:

Yeah I mean we had 5 weeks to work on it and I basically did mine in an hour and a half.

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Well, some of us do have some pressing medical needs. And I say that with a completely neutral face.

Besides, I think I got slapped on as a participant by accident. Oh well, gonna go and scan some other shit I done drawn...