[Herr D]

Bizzang. As sole contestant, I throw THIS in the ring! [winds up, throws]

Due 9/6/16, 2pm EST, hopefully all seven entries to be judged by 8pm EST. (See what I did there?)

 

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[Herr D]

[stares openly for a few seconds] I’ve got to look at my color usage a bit more.

[Herr D]

I’ve seen you do great pictures of char’s mostly in shadow and a few in light. Maybe a building in the background with a bright light source behind it is the backdrop for someone dragging someone else from light to dark or vice versa?

EX. 1: Unknown thing with one smoking claw pulling someone around the corner?

Ex. 2: Man pulling hurt man into sunlight toward ambulance in background?

BTW, what are you in school for?

[Herr D]

Hadn’t really been through this one, somehow. Nice works. I’d like to see you make a picture of one or two characters moving between shadow and light.

[Herr D]

That’s what having a backlog of ideas can feel like. Nice work.

[Herr D]

Hubba-hubba. Do you do cartwheel poses?

[Herr D]

I DON’T BELIEVE IN MAGIC–I DON’T BELIEVE IN MAGIC–I . . . .

[Herr D]

Is the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy From Company B a copyrighted character? That might be interesting . . .

[Herr D]

You know, I’d like to see a backstage scene from your runway.

[Herr D]

“Thrill Ride 823” XTS, the extreme sports company, realized they would schedule their 823rd event on 8/23. So they had this idea. Skydivers would jump from barnstormers minutes before a thunderstorm. As the barnstormers would peel away, the skydivers would go from the drop zone to land on pre-parked rocket-carts. The first contestant to get through the obstacle course, including a water hazard, a stunt course, and a naturally occurring cave, would win. Eight of ten of the contestants caught their parachutes on fire and were put out with desert sand and gusto from the crowd. Bobby “Brrzerk” Zerk crashed in the stunt course for a second place, allowed to borrow a regular skateboard to complete the stunt course and run the rest of the way. The winner was Rory “Roars” McTavish, the crowd favorite since he jumped with the chute harnessed to a dragon costume, which he finished the race in, despite completely demolishing the head of it against the wing of his plane. But then, things like that do make a crowd favorite.

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-ThrillRide823_zps8t8czvjz.png

*hair became flamejets, monocles became casters, and the horse made a great dragon costume base complete with parachute harness.

[Herr D]

Thank you, V! Baseball or history fan? It’s surprisingly hard to step away from bigfoot realism toward impressionism or deco-shape, but I recommend it to every serious artist once in a while.

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“Thrill Ride 823” XTS, the extreme sports company, realized they would schedule their 823rd event on 8/23. So they had this idea. Skydivers would jump from barnstormers minutes before a thunderstorm. As the barnstormers would peel away, the skydivers would go from the drop zone to land on pre-parked rocket-carts. The first contestant to get through the obstacle course, including a water hazard, a stunt course, and a naturally occurring cave, would win. Eight of ten of the contestants caught their parachutes on fire and were put out with desert sand and gusto from the crowd. Bobby “Brrzerk” Zerk crashed in the stunt course for a second place, allowed to borrow a regular skateboard to complete the stunt course and run the rest of the way. The winner was Rory “Roars” McTavish, the crowd favorite since he jumped with the chute harnessed to a dragon costume, which he finished the race in, despite completely demolishing the head of it against the wing of his plane. But then, things like that do make a crowd favorite.

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-ThrillRide823_zps8t8czvjz.png

*OPMC

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“Escape Attempt 12” The Skyway Prison had a close call at 1300 hours today, when a guard belatedly realized an alarm had been triggered on the manacle plate of a prisoner not identified at this time. From the strength of the response, seven guard teams, news sources are certain there can only be one certain prisoner involved. The prison authority has declined to comment.

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-EscapeAttempt12_zps6adqqqib.png

*pop3i0820

[Herr D]

Why, thank you, LC! I’ve recently rarely had the opportunity to use that much time on one creation. I miss having more online time.

Who is the Jack Of Clubs? Well, historically speaking . . .

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-JackOfClubs-Historical_zpskcm5ywv2.png

*popcard

[Herr D]

I am somewhat surprised at the results below. This might be looked at as a flaw in my rubric, but I’ve looked it over. I’ve been internally consistent, if harsh. Randall [R] edged out Keric [K] despite item use scores because his creation had more of what I judge on. . . . well, maybe that’s my work ethic biasing my rubric. “80% of life is just showing up” [approximate quotation.]

Both Keric and Randall used the “mechdrawers” as flying conveyances. I’m not going to do more than mention the Jungian tie-in, but the dream symbolism doesn’t detract from the item abuse. That’s a one for findable with or without prompting / questioning. That’s at least a two for “abuse,” or leaving category in an emphatic manner. That’s a three for incorporating / manipulating in a way that makes it less obvious but still present and belonging to the pic. Randall’s was partly covered by posing, but still edges out Keric’s.

When it came to the “holsteredguns,” I felt harsher. They were still weapons on Randall’s hoverboard, but they were laserbeams / energy bolts on Keric’s. So Keric got a whole point over Randall here.

Then there’s the “woodarms.” Yeesh. They might have made better damage masked to the conveyances than symmetrical features or ripples in the lava or whatever, but okay. That’s worth a two. Keric’s, while it doesn’t look that much like a ‘sea-doo,’ the double-item usage, positioning, and a je-ne-sais-quoi about how it just seems to belong (???) led me to give it a four. I just—like it. I don’t understand that myself. It IS a long way from arm to conveyance . . .

General contribution category went about the same. The emotional content was about the same for how the items contributed to the overall picture. Keric’s items were a much bigger part of the story the picture told, nearly 100% of it, since only one other item was even used, apparently.

Bells here means presence by virtue of item or holistic effect contributed. Keric here suffered a bit for sparseness and what looked like a scaling issue. I can’t tell for certain whether the ‘giant’ is falling behind and to the right of his seadoo or whether it’s just kind of big for him. Ambiguity never helps.

Whistles is about minor pieces or features like placement, shading, highlighting, etc. Keric got a bare one point for a random-looking dispersion of energy bolts and picking the companion that looks most like he’s bailing out. Randall got a four for posing and developing an entire character. Faint praise. It looks interesting. This is where Keric might’ve pulled ahead by adding a scoreboard and a life meter for the giant, transforming the entire thing into a video game without adding an entire background. Or shadowing the bailout to get rid of the ambiguity and be the only contributor who did any shading. Or adding an energy effect for a bolt hitting something or scaling them down for dispersal or distance.

Finally there are background and story. Randall did and Keric didn’t. The three items in my rubric can add to the total score twice or more, as they are the point of the contest. Doing what is obviously more work can overshadow that. In this case, that would’ve only tied everything up. Keric’s score might have compared better if I’d bothered with half points or quarter points, but in this case, it wouldn’t have changed the outcome. Randall wins.

Pick your three, Randall!

 

 

Backstory score: ………………..R3……K0

Bkgd score:……… ……………R3…..K0

Item WOODARM:…………….R2.…….K4

Item HOLSTEREDGUN: …….R1……K2

Item MECHDRAWERS: ….…R3…….K2

Bells: ………………………….R4…….K2

Whistles: ………………..…….R3……..K1

Items-story:……………………R2……..K4

Emotional:……………………..R2…….K2

[Herr D]

[rapid scuttle through lair with worried expression, types “allow for isostasy” into automated graph keyboard set into wall, awaits answer for ten seconds, reads, releases large swath of bubbles]

. . . what’s ‘irrelevant factor to current calculations’ mean? [irritated mumble, heads for dictionary]

[Herr D]

LullabyOfTheSin wrote:

wow, extremly original team detected! (+1 intensifies) the “&” name shall win name of the year award, i am 100% sure about it (+1) simply wonderful! (big +1 for you)

Why, thank you! I was going for one of those during-credit montages that they wind up using a still from to bridge the dead air between show and commercials. “and” as a character name is something I’ve done before in writing. It was originally supposed to be an excuse to use no capital letter at the beginning of a sentence, but hey, it turned out to be indicative of an inability to just do one thing. Supertaskers are practically speed demons, right?

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“Thoth Startled Hearing Smashing Stone Tablets”

I had a thought about this one. Somewhere or another, be it an external dimension or a distant planet, the being thought of as Thoth might have been listening in while tapping at a relief when humans started being irreverent toward aliens or supernatural beings even greater than himself by smashing the Ten Commandments’ stone tablets. He goes into an ibis’ pose as a defensive reflex, he turns and hunches to defend himself with the hammer, popping the hidden Book Of Thoth unpasted from his headwrap which goes flying into a corner. Dust settles a bit. Silence.

Then he blurts out, “FINE! Humans. Awwwk!”

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/2015hm/HerrD-ThothStartledHearingSmashingStoneTablets_zpsdofnasrn.png

*WLAE

P.S. I forgot to mention, his loincloth makes a reference to how he ‘enabled’ five lives to be created in his thrice great craftiness, and so ruined the perfect year . . .

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