Artist Showcase 2011 - September Submission Thread

Sorry for the delay this month, DragonCon had me super busy.

Some details have been adjusted in the past few months so please review to make sure you know the deal:

TIMELINE: It's open for work created from the 1st of the month untill the end of the month. There will be 14 days of polling after and winners of each category will be announced on the 15th.

RULES TO ENTER: It would be chaos without them, so here's the premise.

1) There's no set theme, an artist can post any work they've done within that month but they must choose ONE FOR ANY MEDIUM THEY CHOOSE TO ENTER by the deadline (defaults to their most recent unless specified).

2) For their submission choice they MUST include the following information when posting:

MEDIUM : Traditional / Digital / B&W / Color / Web Comic (required - if you don't specify which medium that it's for, it's not a submission)

REASONS FOR CHOOSING : (not required - but offers insight into the artists creative thought)

SUPPLIES / DESCRIPTION : (not required - but offers insight into the artists creative process)

POLLING: the first 14 days of the next month voters will be able to submit there choices for the following criteria before the winners are announced:

All votes will also apply as points to the 'Artist of the Year' ladder which you can track at THIS THREAD HERE.

MEDIUMS: (pick what you feel your entry fits under)

Best Traditional Drawing (paper/pencil/ink/paint/canvas)

Best Digital (tablet/3d/photo)

Best B&W

Best Color

Web Comic / Strip / Panels

For this category you may submit a sample (1 IMAGE) of any Web Comic/Strip/Panel layout that you've produced for 2011. In the case of web comics you should also provide a link to where to view the entire comic.

GENRES: (You don't submit to these below, they are chosen from all entries above)

Comedy
Horror
Originality
Special FX

PROGRESS:

Most Improved

Each vote will count as a point for the artist and the one with the highest point count will be considered the overall 'Artist of the Month'. Voters can vote once for all criteria or just the ones that they can come up with a choice. I know there's no glory of picking the next theme but it does offer an artist a chance to focus more on different areas of their work and get a decent idea of what parts of their work people do like.

Here's hoping all you great artists can pluck something out of your monthly pieces to submit :)

I'd love to enter, but I don't think I'll be able to.

I do have that new work of mine...

@DomDom: ahhhh, a little Dom fix to get me by, thank you :)

Always love a good Wondy pic and by the way, some incredible stuff you've been doing over on the Genesis project. Your skills are widening fast and furious speedy.

@Roxanne Starr: hahaha, well if the artist gives his approval I suppose I'd allow that :)

It almost looks like the parking lot dude XD

@Roxanne Starr said:

@tonis:

If you color it, he'll probably go for it! LOL!!!

this would be 'Babyface' :)

@Roxanne Starr: strangely enough, I know this language XD

@Roxanne Starr said:

@tonis:

I just made a link to this monstrosity on your DragonCon thread! LMAO!

haha, well it's like taking Rosemary's baby and breeding it with the essence of the comic industry. You can't help but wanna hug him XD

@Roxanne Starr: lol, that's what it's gonna look like here in a few weeks. Although I hope I don't run into any of that when I go look at the leaves :D

@kiss_lamia: nice, and good way to spread them across the categories. Good stuff KL :)

I hope these are still good to go...

@ARMIV2: very good 2 go, nice ones ARMIV :)

@tonis: Thanks!

@deadpool1109: definitely can also go in digital for the coloring you did on it, very nice job :)

@deadpool1109 said:

@tonis: Thanks tonis. This was relatively easy to colour, the lines came beautifully when i uploaded it on my comp to colour. still took me an hour and 45 to colour it... a mouse is a bitch to colour with!!! that and I have no real experience with it.. :P

believe it or not, I do all my coloring with a trackball, which is even more convoluted than a mouse to draw with. The thing is though, when it comes to coloring, I almost never do anything even close to drawing.

If your using a program like photoshop, where you have layers, the key is making layers for the white areas that are going to be colored. I usually do that via the magic wand or using the pen tool and plotting the mask. It's far faster and much cleaner than actually trying to color between the lines manually. If you ever need more details or instructions on the process send me a PM and I'll be happy to walk through it ;)

Drawing with a mouse is a bitch, but coloring is cake no matter what you use as long as you don't try coloring like you draw.

@deadpool1109: I've heard good things about sketchbook pro and seen some incredible work produced with it.

Layers are definitely essential because if you ever need to go back and edit something, like a color, you're not reworking a whole selection process to make an adjustment.

Making the masks can be a real bitch, especially on uninked worked. I gotta say after spoiling myself on well inked work I'm hesitant to color raw pencils because there's so much manual labor behind it. When the inks are solid the magic wand can grab most of your parts and it's a matter of a little 'gap' adjustments to get some areas.

If your one of those guys who does the whole process digital, from lines, to inks, to color. Well by the time you hit the color phase there shouldn't even be any work left other than to pick a color because you make all the masks as you draw and ink. :)

@mfundo: nice choice, I'm becoming a big fan of the Missus too since I got hooked on Young Justice. :)

@karbacca: very good picks, that Beast was a huge fan favorite in the RR contest and that Captain Cold is just as cool with his 2099 upgrade. :)

Man, there's alot of really great entries this time around!

@M.S. Feather: hehe, the expression on his face is hilarious. I can't help but wonder what he's about to endure :D