Bi weekly challenge due may 26

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Fri May 12, 2006 9:14 am

moving right along.. hope everyone is with me..

Mythical creature. Gryphon, manticore, dragon, unicorn, pegasus, gorgon, harpy, etc

moo

Post by **Ameena** » Fri May 12, 2006 3:59 pm

Woot! Creatures! Yay!

Does it have to be a species already known (ie one used in other stories like those you've mentioned above) or can we make something up?

Post by **PaulH** » Sat May 13, 2006 12:03 am

OK, another one from our weird and wonderful world. It could have been mythical, most people think these have been invented!

The thorny devil:

http://www.ryanphotographic.com/images/ ... 0Devil.jpg

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Sat May 13, 2006 3:38 am

anything you like as long as it's either been a picture taken by you, modified heavily by you, or painted/drawn/sculpted by you..

Post by **Ameena** » Sat May 13, 2006 4:11 am

Okay cool, I'll get started on something of my own design then

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Post by **PaulH** » Sat May 13, 2006 8:26 pm

Ah. I didn't photo that. Damn. Will have to think of summat!

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Mon May 15, 2006 12:42 am

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/ ... mpire2.jpg

speed paint I did so a friend of mine could see how I paint. Just set up my web cam and went to it.. not sure how long it was.. but between 30 mins to an hour..

anyway.. it's mythical..

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Mon May 15, 2006 4:40 am

I refuse to believe you painted that in an hour...

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:03 am

actually I'm pretty sure it was less.. closer to 30 mins.. maybe 40.. I've seen better done by others in 10 mins.. full paintings even.. so.. it's all a matter of how often you do this kind of thing.

moo

Post by **Ameena** » Tue May 16, 2006 1:28 am

Well here's my offering for this one...can't be arsed to colour 'em though. Maybe one day but not atm lol.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/A ... atures.jpg

Can't resist squeezing in rhymes whenever I get the opportunity in case you hadn't noticed

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zoom · Post by **zoom** » Tue May 16, 2006 6:19 pm

http://www.pc-aladdin.de/blup/Threeheaded.bmp
Could not resist..did this in about an hour. Great idea, cows!

Post by **Gambit37** » Wed May 17, 2006 12:23 pm

can't see much, it's very small? Could you post a JPG of the larger version? (BMPs are uncompressed and take ages to download)

Post by **linflas** » Wed May 17, 2006 12:27 pm

hmmm... one color pixel art ?

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Thu May 18, 2006 1:07 pm

unfortunately, there is no larger version !

I will upload a quadrupled version(320x320pixels), asap.

Colouring with mspaint is no fun and too time consuming!

Post by **linflas** » Thu May 18, 2006 2:30 pm

http://gimp.org : powerful and free.

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Thu May 18, 2006 3:10 pm

Cheers!
The only problem is that I am atm cleaning up my 'ordinateur' because I change computers back to my roommate!
(I gave him mine to play 3d shooters, now he doesn't play 3d shooters anymore, and I want to play Oblivion, so we switch back)
So I cannot install it right now..unfortunately

(I know gimp, liked it on linux until it crashed and I kept forgetting my rootpasswords;Gimp seems to be more stable under linux, but then again, it crashed on linux , think was not gimp's fault, though and on windows it doesn't seem to run so well.

But that could be my wrecked and screwed windows partion-I am glad that it will be gone soon!!)

http://www.pc-aladdin.de/blup/Threehbig.bmp

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Thu May 25, 2006 6:46 am

2 days left.. anyone got ideas for the next?

I was thinking weapon of dooooooom

Post by **Sophia** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:02 am

I like it

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:55 am

sounds good. Kind of an Artifact then?

(With a bit of text in addition, for describing what it is supposed to do? Like in the monster Pic of Ameena, where she had some lines pointing on monster parts. Same for the weapon of doom....)

Post by **Zyx** » Thu May 25, 2006 12:34 pm

like this?
http://psychosaurus.com/doom/images/3way3.jpg

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Thu May 25, 2006 12:56 pm

lol, I was thinking about doom as well...Although it had been the double shotgun

So strictly fantasy or can it be future/real style, too?

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Thu May 25, 2006 6:19 pm

it can be anything you likebut not yet.. 1 day left

Post by **Ameena** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:24 pm

"Like in the monster Pic of Ameena, where she had some lines pointing on monster parts"
I did? What pic?

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:50 pm

like in here : (I know I should have checked beforehand, but anyway there is a bit of description , no lines but a description...)
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y281/A ... atures.jpg

Post by **Ameena** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:09 pm

Ohh those little rhyme thingys...well I did one for my "spooky place" pic so I thought I might as well continue by adding little rhymes to future pics too

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zoom · Post by **zoom** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:35 pm

I think they are great additives. Picture kind of feels more alive, with more depth- if it is not overladen ! Actually I always write something to the things I draw.. sometimes I just write and do not draw at all! Really mad if you look at it..especially if it is hard to decipher afterwards. But it is ok

So continue with those rhymes!

Post by **linflas** » Fri May 26, 2006 7:07 pm

hi ! here's a very classic manticore made in about 2 hours. i know i haven't gave it wings, sorry for fantasy bestiary specialists

Post by **Gambit37** » Fri May 26, 2006 8:04 pm

Oooh, that's lovely -- reminds me of my youth... (fighting fantasy gamebooks!) Great expression, and amazing what you can do with simple shading. reminds me of a Da Vinci sketch...

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Fri May 26, 2006 9:02 pm

nice

you know.. people have often reffered to some of my dragons as not being real dragons because they are missing certain elements that THEY think should be there.. the simple response is.. "Have you ever seen one in person?"

same for your guy.. maybe some manticores don't have wings.. sub breed Manticoris nonflightis

zoom · Post by **zoom** » Fri May 26, 2006 10:38 pm

Nice Linflas! You would think twice attacking this fellow!