Monthly Archives: July 2015

Caption Contest Judging Delayed Due to Bad Week!!!

Sorry Folks, I've had a really bad week this week. A faulty memory, on top of  a mild case of heat exhaustion, on top of unexpected power outage Equals me having  completely forgotten about the caption contest until now. I will get the results up as soon as I can. Hopefully I will have time tomorrow morning when I get home from work.

Character Design Contest ♯131- All In One

Considering we've had a months worth of contests covering posing, costume, faces/ hairstyles and backgrounds, what's the logical next step?

That's right, all of them together!

So, that's you challenge this week. Your entry must include a non-standard posed character with an interesting costume, face and/or hairstyle and there must also be a background. Simple enough for me to say, but I know this will be a challenge for some people. Also, there are some people to whom this is their bread and butter, so getting on the poll is going to be tough.

As per usual, no limits on entries and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges that I am hosting: Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters, no characters based on RPG’s or other games. The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warnings. Only post characters that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to a contest before. If you aren’t certain, don’t enter it, because I’m not going to go back through all of the contests and check.

Character Design Contest ♯130 (You’re backgrounded) Poll

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Now remember people, no funny business. I want a nice clean vote, ok.

Character Design Contest ♯129 (Heads Up) Winner & Public Service Announcement

This poll has been very unusual. It was led for most of the week by someone who has won both polls he's been in this year and then basically overnight the person in second place jumps 25 votes to take a very comfortable victory. Now I'm not accusing anyone of anything (I can pretty much guarantee our winner wouldn't have cheated and I doubt our second place finisher would do so either, considering how the poll turned out), but you have to admit that there is something fishy about the result. All I can say is, if I do find out that someone is fixing the vote on any of these CDC polls, there will be consequences. If it is a contestant, then they are going to be banned from competing for 4 contests, and if it is an outside party then the polls are going period, and I'll just pick a winner. These contests are for fun, and people trying to skew the result in favour of one person takes away that aspect, not to mention if these contests were actually competitive, well, we all know how fixing a result is viewed in sport don't we.

But anyway, enough of that. Let's put the negativity aside now and get back to normal business. The winner of this weeks contest is DiCicatriz for his entry Threshold Transformation. Congrats DiCi and well done to everyone who entered.

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Community Open Critique Week

Until Linea24 can return to the OCD's I will Occasionally post one of these COCW's Do not look for these to be regularly scheduled, I will throw one up when I have the time to do so, Also I call it a Community Open Critique week because I personally know that I am not comfortable in the role of giving Critiques on all your artwork, so this is for all of you to critique each other!

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How this goes:  You post a work of yours, finished or WIP, and then others give you critiques on your work. I do not mind if you post non-HM pictures or piece of writing. Just make sure that you only post pictures that are your own design and not any that are copyrighted or based off of copyrighted characters. 

Also, if you post a work, it is highly recommended that you also give someone else a critique.

This thread will remain active for one week from the day it is posted so feel free to post and critique all week long

Character Of The Week: Cliff- Andre Johnson

God, you guys have no idea how hard it was for me not to make this a Characters Of The Week. I had 3 pics that I was planning to do this post on, but I thought that I'd have to be a bit unbiased for once, considering two of them were other peoples interpretations of my characters. So in the end I went with the one that I would have gone with otherwise. And it's a damn good one. Apparently Cliff didn't think this was good or interesting enough for the Heads Up contest last week… you're an idiot dude. This would have easily made the poll and I'd hope it would be in the lead at this point, because it is really good. Sure the shading and masking is a bit scruffy in some places, but it seems to suit some how. I especially like the shading on the lower lip and how you used a bow and insignia to fix up the top lip. I didn't actually notice it until I had it in large view for this post, so you get plus points for that. So, the moral of the story is, next time you do something for the contest and are wondering whether or not to enter it, just do it.

Gallery- Cliff's Eclectic Mayhem

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Kaldath’s Caption Contest #69

It is time for our bi-weekly caption contest and this week I want to try something a little different. Instead of a static picture this week I have an animated Gif from the Anime series Gatchaman Crowds that I want you to caption for me. This can either be a caption about what is happening in the Gif, or it can be what you think is being said. Or anything else you think is appropriate to the image below:

The normal rules apply, which are: You are limited to Three (3) entries which are due by 5:00 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday July 21st. Of course I as always expect you to keep your entries no worse than PG-13 in nature and that you follow all the normal rules of the forum when writing your caption for the above image. That being said I wish you all Good luck!

Suicide Squad Trailer – Comic Con

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVFTrLDsW8U

Character Design Contest ♯130- You’re backgrounded

The title should give a pretty decent idea of what's going on with this contest. Simple, create a great background. You cannot include any characters in your entry, it's only the scenery I'm interested, so not even people in the background are allowed. Other than that, you have free rein as to what sort of background you can create, and don't feel restrained to just the backgrounds section, there's plenty in insignias and items-right to help here too, and that's just for a kick off.

As per usual, no limits on entries and the contest will close at midnight Saturday (blog time). Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck.

Rules for posts, contests, and challenges that I am hosting: Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters, no characters based on RPG’s or other games. The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warnings. Only post characters that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to a contest before. If you aren’t certain, don’t enter it, because I’m not going to go back through all of the contests and check.

Character Design Contest ♯127 (Heads Up) Poll

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