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Bi weekly challenge due may 26
Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 9:14 am
by cowsmanaut
moving right along.. hope everyone is with me..
Mythical creature. Gryphon, manticore, dragon, unicorn, pegasus, gorgon, harpy, etc
moo
Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 3:59 pm
by Ameena
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?
Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 12:03 am
by PaulH
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
Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 3:38 am
by cowsmanaut
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..
Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 4:11 am
by Ameena
Okay cool, I'll get started on something of my own design then
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 8:26 pm
by PaulH
Ah. I didn't photo that. Damn. Will have to think of summat!
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 12:42 am
by cowsmanaut
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..
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 4:40 am
by Stryker
I refuse to believe you painted that in an hour...
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 8:03 am
by cowsmanaut
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
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 1:28 am
by Ameena
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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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:19 pm
by zoom
http://www.pc-aladdin.de/blup/Threeheaded.bmp
Could not resist..did this in about an hour. Great idea, cows!
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 12:23 pm
by Gambit37
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)
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 12:27 pm
by linflas
hmmm... one color pixel art ?
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 1:07 pm
by zoom
unfortunately, there is no larger version !
I will upload a quadrupled version(320x320pixels), asap.
Colouring with mspaint is no fun and too time consuming!
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 2:30 pm
by linflas
http://gimp.org : powerful and free.
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 3:10 pm
by zoom
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
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 6:46 am
by cowsmanaut
2 days left.. anyone got ideas for the next?
I was thinking weapon of dooooooom
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:02 am
by Sophia
I like it
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 11:55 am
by zoom
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....)
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:34 pm
by Zyx
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:56 pm
by zoom
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?
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 6:19 pm
by cowsmanaut
it can be anything you likebut not yet.. 1 day left
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:24 pm
by Ameena
"Like in the monster Pic of Ameena, where she had some lines pointing on monster parts"
I did? What pic?
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 8:50 pm
by zoom
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
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:09 pm
by Ameena
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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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:35 pm
by zoom
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!
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 7:07 pm
by linflas
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
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 8:04 pm
by Gambit37
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...
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 9:02 pm
by cowsmanaut
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
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 10:38 pm
by zoom
Nice Linflas! You would think twice attacking this fellow!
