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At 11/13/12 10:26 PM, Escalus wrote:

At 11/13/12 10:15 PM, JackDGreatest wrote: What are you talking about? Christmas is all about breaking and entering.

Nuh uh, it's about giving and love! Where are your hearts?

If you think about it, Santa breaks and enters into all those houses.

Thought I'd post an update of where we are with people involved, and how many positions are available:

In the project so far, and their proposed ideas, we have:
Absinthe / Overworked elves
Aigis / Christmas beach
Artist-Lost / Fairy
EJR / Nutcrackers
Escalus / Jack Frost
Flowers10 / Three kings
HiryuGouki / Fantasy and stuff
Hyptosis / Capitalist Santa
Knocturne / Snow Queen
JackDGreatest / Krampus taking the Schlecht Kinder (idunno what that is, is it German poo porn?)
Lucasv / Mistletoe
Ludic / Undead Santa
ReNaeNae / Box of chocolates
Saminat / Abominable snowman
Tomsan / Winter globe
Zane Zansorrow/ Christmas orphan

Zanroth as a back-up/collaborative artist.
If you were left off the list, it's because I'm incompetent.

So that's ... 16 paintings so far. Which leaves 8 spots available! Hope to see some other artistic styles crammed into this collaborative project test-object.

At 11/14/12 06:10 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote: So that's ... 16 paintings so far. Which leaves 8 spots available! Hope to see some other artistic styles crammed into this collaborative project test-object.

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fine, I'll draw a christmas miracle.

At 11/14/12 10:02 AM, Tomsan wrote: lol, sounds like you really got the Christmas spirit. and no halfsies!

Jolly fucking holidays.

At 11/14/12 06:10 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote: JackDGreatest / Krampus taking the Schlecht Kinder (idunno what that is, is it German poo porn?)

The Krampus taking the bad children with him.

Great collab. I'd love to join, but I couldn't think of anything yet.

At 11/14/12 11:53 AM, Adam-Beilgard wrote:

At 11/14/12 06:10 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote: Thought I'd post an update of where we are with people involved, and how many positions are available:
In the project so far, and their proposed ideas, we have:
Everyone but me

Kicked out, already? Maaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnn

Ah fuck sake. Don't forget the important bit:

If you were left off the list, it's because I'm incompetent.
At 11/14/12 12:16 PM, Tomsan wrote: why arent you in actually TOAS?

I'm doing the main image, which is an NG nativity scene.
I was planning to show a WIP yesterday, but I got bogged down with researching medal implementation (which is surprisingly and refreshingly easy) and I'm still doing line-art.

At 11/14/12 07:53 PM, Escalus wrote: *cough* too jolly? (could use some snow help, not sure why, but snow is fucking hard for me...)

What kind of snow are you going for? Have you got an example from another illustrator's work?
Your pic looks great, btw. I'm glad you picked up the Jack Frost idea.

Ohh, powder snow~
...the kind that sparkles when you kick at it. It's so beautiful.. I wish it snowed where I live. Wonderful piece, by the way!

At 11/14/12 08:19 PM, Escalus wrote: woah, there's different kinds of snow!? *wow I feel dumb* ummm, soft snow? Yea I'll go with soft snow, not too soft though, but the kind that your feet sinks into ever so gently when you take your first step in it. kinda like this:

K, I'm glad I asked, because I thought you meant snow flakes!

I remember referring to that pic when I was doing a Friday Flood thumbnail. I don't what kind of textures you're going for the whole painting, but you could try tinkering with some scatter brushes, starting from a layer of greyish blue then working your way up towards somewhere off-white.
Or you could go more subtle, with some softer cloud brushes. You could get some hints off of this cover.

This is about as far as I've gotten withh advent pic, btw. I reckon a fair few guys in the front row need a tune up, and I need to sort out all those missing bits.

At 11/14/12 08:58 PM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote: This is about as far as I've gotten withh advent pic, btw. I reckon a fair few guys in the front row need a tune up, and I need to sort out all those missing bits.

Looks great so far.

I'll get started on mine soon. Might have a wip pic posted tonight.

At 11/14/12 11:17 PM, Escalus wrote: almost... just need to add a few more finishing touches (maybe get rid of the snow, but he's Jack Frost he's nothing without snow!) *dilemma*

...thin the out -like more transparent- around his left ankle, maybe? Gives it a more powdery appearance. :)

At 11/14/12 11:17 PM, Escalus wrote: almost... just need to add a few more finishing touches (maybe get rid of the snow, but he's Jack Frost he's nothing without snow!) *dilemma*

Looks great with snow, but I agree with lowering the opacity near his ankle to make it look powdery.

Here's my WIP. Lots of things are subject to change.

At 11/15/12 02:34 AM, Saminat wrote: Haroo! Thought I'd post up my progress on my picture! Just about ready to start coloring this beast, although I think I might redo some parts of him to make him look fuzzier, what do you guys think?

It's looking good so far, but keep note of the perspective. His feet are edge-on with the audience. Otherwise, I'm loving the character design and color scheme you have set up; very soft.