At 11/1/09 03:08 AM, Occluded wrote: So I know the contest is over, but can I get a critique before this goes out of sketch and up to submission?

I'm actually pretty happy with it.

i like the drama in yours occluded but your characters relating to one another looks very flat. i think its because of all the blue glowing highlights you used. also your lighting is a bit weird. your main light seems to be the moon? then shadows should be cast by the window on the guy and the guy's shadow should cast on the fish man. it makes it look like there's another bright light source inside with the same color as the moon eliminating all shadows [which is a bit hard to do unless there's more than one light source]. if there still IS such a light source inside then if it cast a different color of light would help with contrast.
the depth from moon to trees to window to the man is good where you lose it is from the man to the fishman. the light is messing it up.
your anatomy has really improved and choice of colors are really nice too. i like the the design on the fishman's head. the texture on him gets a bit repetitive tho [shoulder area].

At 10/14/09 05:57 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote: jagon

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the lighting and colours seems wrong in your picture.
It looks like the bed is more lit than the room in front of the window, the bloke's shirt I think should be a colder and desaturated colour for night time, and the fishman may need more shading, or another light source.

no no you're absolutely right i got too caught in the toony style i neglected a lot of shading and lighting issues. i thought the hard edges and the saturated of certain colors would make the style more evident but it just looks messy i guess. forgive meh!

final me thinks...
bigger vers.

At 10/9/09 02:16 AM, Captain-Ben wrote: mmmm lips

indeed , are you entering captain?

i think this is pretty much done anything else i can fix?

At 10/7/09 11:56 PM, Fancyman wrote: I kind of want to do something for this, but I know that by the time I'm halfway done, damn sucho is gonna make the winning submission and ruin another art contest for everybody...

Seriously, he has 4 pictures in the span of 2 NG calendars...fuckin rigged.

i hear ya! damn that sucho
.. here's hoping i finish so i'm getting an early start.

well i made contact with jarvid for a message or two but she didn't have msn so she went to figure that out and now she's disappeared :S (i think its a she)

At 9/7/09 02:25 AM, J-qb wrote:

At 9/6/09 07:16 PM, vylent wrote: Hey Guys Here's My Final Piece! :D
Any last Comments Before I Post This Fucker?
Sorry About The Quality Rape :(
Here's The High Quality Pic!!!!!

Its great! but are those your own clouds?... tah tah tah

hmm i was thinking the same J-qb

the quality of the clouds and the bubbles compared to the rendering of the water and the big blotched sun doesn't look right.

composition wise i like the simplicity but remove the sun, fix the clouds cause they don't match the rough solid rendering style on the sub AND you can see they're the same patch of cloud just copied. also the really strong blue rim light on the right side of the sub around the face kills the roundness.

i wanna join! pleez!

idiotmonarch.. the colors are very pleasing

At 8/13/09 07:19 PM, sucho wrote:

At 8/13/09 12:47 PM, Jarvid wrote:

Heres my roster
0th==Jarvid !Free Ice Cream for a year!
1st== sucho (5 voluptuous women)
2nd== vylent (dog food and dildos)
3rd== Occluded (asjhfaskjhsf engraved into stone)
4th== IDuDe (Tom Cruises severed genitalia)
5th== RadioactiveRabies (The creepachu statue
6th== That other guy (Runescape FREE TRIAL FOR A MONTH)

hey vylent, wanna trade?

thats some smexy prizes and you're trading that in sucho? haha
when's the next pox contest??

nOsv3ratu gets mine.. i like the image and its funny description. a creature like that came in to my house and i touch it by mistake and it jumps i'd shit myself. hahahaha i like the expression on the creatures face. a little too human but i likes it.

hey man don't listen to those ones giving you stupid comments...these are good and you're showing real promise.
woohoo add me to msn!

my favorite so far is nOsv3ratu's hehe i like the creatures expression

here's my entry.. the tiny fire bean jelly plip plip. cute little thing is unaware that its trails spontaneously ignite. they are born from discarded candle wax when all electric lights go out their tiny little souls ignite, instinctively wandering about in the dark. they don't live very long and have been the cause of many a house burning down.

"oh the fire why does it follow me so?"
p.s i puts the higher res in the artforum mwahaha cause im a post whore!

hey hey thready my boy

brilliant work as always glad to see you're still posting. how goes artschool or freelancing or both? as im sure you're dominating either field.

katatafisch...quality work there

omagawd! that snow creature katatfisch is awesome! i like the bg and the coloring and the face and all that goodness...
here's mine.. rushed at the end.

At 8/2/09 12:05 PM, J-qb wrote:

And now former COW winners Temariix and Jagundodo start to pay some last minute attention...

hahaha do i back out? i'm halfway done :S

deadline?

At 6/15/09 07:13 AM, TheReturnOfTomsPulp wrote:

At 6/15/09 03:47 AM, jagondudo wrote: i'll try one out can i call zelda?

I wish people would stop 'calling dibs' on stuff.Its fucking stupid.

sheesh was just playing along and anyway nobody can stop you from doing whatever its just some of em are scared someone else does the same topic and totally beats their ass. like me im scurred so i called it. so you're calling zelda too ey?

lol this sounds awesome can't wait to see the entries.
i'll try one out can i call zelda?

hmm sorry for double post but it might be hard to read maybe...

the nameless can only be described as a giant squidlike creature. its so enormous it has its own gravitational force which draws space dust and rock forms onto its body. its eye blazes as bright as any sun and the force of its stare causes dust surrounding it to rotate and give the illusion of a galaxy. it approaches unsuspecting planets and devours their atmosphere and whatever else gets pulled into its orifice leaving a barren rock. its basically a moving black hole with hands.

good heavens! hehe the work is getting more and more awesome everyweek! i think its those flashy titles turkey comes up with.

im really digging the sphincter colon earth eater thing [the fatalus].

j-qb that is super cool the plain eye and the head in profile kinda ruin it for me tho. but the body swooping over the planet is really nice. gives a sense of eerie quiet doom

zulucs i though it had already eat the planet and its belly was engorged with cosmic energy and junk. nice tho. very comical.

the other entries are cool too so far.

here's mine a bit rushed cause the deadline is almost over i think sorreh!

At 6/3/09 04:23 AM, idiot-monarch wrote: Creepy video game characters sounds fun, but there's not a lot of room for originality there. Most pics based on the same games are probably gonna be extremely similar.

i guess thats true but weren't there a number of the HD contests where you take a game sprite and make it higher quality?
what happened to those anyway? those were the first artworks i saw a couple years back and made me join the forum so i could join in hehe but fight after i joined they stopped :(.... guess to make way for better contests?

ImpendingRiot's gets mine cause the description was too funny and the drawing is cute and colorful semi real without trying too hard.

ThinkXIII the curves are mesmerizing awesome work!

my floaty grapevine flying snails :P

hq

wohoo this week was awesome Lots of entries keep up the spirit guys!

i vote for ThinkXIII

awesome character ThinkXIII i like the spewage from the orifices!

here's my take .. toc-sick is full of nuclear waste but the's keeping it together, keep your distance and you wont be sprouting tumors or extra appendages. he flats around paddling his little octopussy limps ingesting more nuclear waste as he goes about. he's pretty much glowing from the inside out.

i vote ImpendingRiot...nice colors and i like the sharp appendiges. also the important thing about these cows and chows is the concept so even though a few of the other pieces looked really nice and had strong concepts important body parts were missing or out of the frame. i think there should be a rule about having the entire creature's body in the frame.

vylent: awesome creature, colors maybe a tad saturated but i guess it works, the armour looking plates are a nice touch. only thing is how the third hand is attached to the abdomen...can't imagine much flexibility or reproduction :P

HenryNougat: very normal creature idea i guess. big, muscular, horns just the lava thing is different but even so its a bit on the boring side its what people would expect. the rendering is a bit wierd esp. that spraypainty type brush on the creature. good try tho keep using these activities to practice

Lundsfryd: awesome! i like the knife weapon thing on its tail. the coloring is a bit flat tho just one variation of orange and your shadows aren't very prominent. the first thing you should do when rendering is to define the shape of all the objects on the creatures body so it can read instantly. then move on to colors then details.

LegolaSS: not a bad idea, scale wise it looks very tiny which i'm guessing was what you wanted? i suppose typical arena creatures are huge and look daunting at first sight..kudos on going in another direction. messy linework tho, could have been polished up a bit more.

ThinXIII: schweet! was my favorite, the fleshy grooves and growths on the horn and body and the eye of course, is awesome..the only thing like i said before is that i can't see the whole creature... i dunno how it walks, if its sluglike, or crablegs or tentacles or what? i'm sure you leave it to your imagination but the point is to give us your concept.

RoflMetroCop: not bad but the plain colors you used on the creature itself light blue for the skin and darker blue for the shadow makes it really flat and the dynamic background [if its even so dynamic] overshadows the creature itself.

Sleaze: very very odd but i liked your description. funneh!

The Chomper: nice anatomy on that one, really nice. wish you'd rendered it out with some color tho.

well since the point of this thingy is to improve...
gassy turtlei like the expression on the face but the body is flat. the most important thing i've learnt about drawing is to first define the shapes and planes before doing anything else like adding details and stuff.
K-Guare i lol everytime i see it, great colors just messy. some cleanup would have been nice.
commune628 the idea itself is really nice mixing in the tentacles with crab legs and shell. like i said before defining shapes do help a lot.
jagondudo just horrible look at the messy work on the tentacles?! spend more time on your work man.
RoFlMetroCop i like the leathery looking mask thing it reminds me of those pink blob things in doom 2 that shoot fire at you, what's it squeezin there?
zhacross lol my favorite the big afro was genius and the texture on it was great. the texture on the creature wasn't bad either... some of the tentacles are believable with their shape the ones around its mouth are kinda flat.
IdentiC shame on you using pure white and worse the airbrush for highlights...i'll guess you ran out of time and not lazy :P
Sleaze clever idea just a wee bit messy and on the flat sdie with no deep shadowing there.
ImpendingRiot great colors , nice shape and the creature just sickens me!

my vote goes to ImpendingRiot

bumpity...trying out a fanart contest :P hopes i win
higher res