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Welcome everyone to the Artdome! A nice casual place for classy people to test their artistic mettle and hone their skills in a safe, relaxed environment. What's that? “Thunderdome”? Never heard of it. This is not at all like that thing you made up which doesn't exist. How to play:
Side note: Yes you read that right. There are no loser titles or dishonorable mentions given in this contest. This is to make things a little more laid back and newbie friendly. It's not about punishing failure, it's about rewarding novelty and encouraging experimentation. Be aware though that critiques will still be as frank and honest as you'd expect from CC. This means that if your work sucks you will be told exactly how and why you need to "git gud" in no uncertain terms. This is not done to punish you for failing but to help guide you on the path to making something better. We love you, please don't be mad. That said, If you guys get annoyed with the current format and decide you want loser avs/DMs/etc let me know. I'm not married to any specific format at this point. The Rules:
(This will probably be expanded later as people demonstrate why we can't have nice things. If you have any suggestions or think I missed anything let me know.)  Click here for the most recent prompt!
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ing yourself for added motivation. 
tags but straight-up pornography is not. Yes, we can tell the difference. 
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FAQ: What do I get if I win? You get a spiffy gang tag! Does something happen if I lose? You don't get a spiffy gang tag. The judge picked that lovely drawing just because it had a cat in it! Most judges highly value technical skill but at the end of the day they are allowed to use whatever tortured logic they feel is appropriate when picking a winner. This will occasionally mean the winner is the piece the judge enjoyed the most rather than the one with the most detail or the best anatomy. Consider submitting something involving a cat the next time that person is a judge. How do I get my art into the computer? Scanning is usually your best bet but well-lit photographs can also be acceptable for things like paintings. Be sure to clean up your work with something like Photoshop before submitting it! What do I do if I can't afford Photoshop? haha check out this loser who doesn't know how to steal Photoshooooerrr what I mean to say is you should probably use Gimp (https://www.gimp.org/downloads) instead. It's free and works pretty well! Seriously though, gently caress Adobe and it's subscription-based bullshit. I will literally never stop using CS5 you assholes!  How do I post my picture? Upload your file to something like imgur (https://imgur.com/) and post the link they provide. Do not under any circumstances put quote tags around your submission. Do I still own my work? Yes, your art is yours and you are free to do whatever you want with it after the contest is over. We reserve the right to save/archive a copy of it for posterity though. Are we only allowed to talk about the contest? You can talk about whatever you'd like but ONLY if you've participated in at least one contest (again, general forum rules apply). Is smack-talk allowed? Hell yes. Just be prepared to back up your words with your art. Can I challenge somebody to a one-on-one duel? Sure, why not. They don't necessarily have to accept your challenge though. (more to be added as needed) The Hall of Winners: Round 1: Create Our Gang Tag Winner: Al!  Round 2: Vanitas Winner: lofi  Round 3: Album Cover Winner: Sedgr  Round 4: Sci-Fi Book Covers Winner: Prolonged Priapism  Round 5: Make a Map Winner: Solenna  Round 6:Metaphors Winner: lofi  Round 7:Rerepeat Winner: Aetass  Round 8: Caricature Winner: Lofi  Round 9: Costume Design Winner: Flavius Aetass  Round 10: Religious Art Winner: Solenna  Round 11: Baby Advice Winner: Al!     Round 12: Ponysona De/cute Winner: 138  Round 13: German Expressionism Winner: readingatwork  Round 14: Graphic Novel Page Winner: al-azad  Round 15: Food Winner: Etuni  Round 16: Mystery Winner: Angrymog  Round 17: Horses Winner: there wolf  Round 18: Nyx Winner: Angrymog  Round 19: Pigs (and other animals) in SPAAaaaaaace! Winner: Krispy Wafer  Round 20: Hands Winner: Sigma 6  Round 21: Bigg Daddy Roth/Garbage Pail Kids Winner: NAG  Round 22: Sharks Winner: Angrymog  Round 23: Tarot Cards Winner: Saucy_Rodent's spouse  Round 24: Magic Forest Winner: lofi  Round 25: Death in the garden Winner: void_serfer  Round 26: Robots/Deus Ex Machina Winner: Tree Bucket  Round 27: Draw your username Winner: Truman Peyote 
readingatwork fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Feb 1, 2021 |
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Since I made the thread that means I get to be the first judge. As such today's prompt will be...Prompt 1: Create our gang tag That's right, Your first prompt is to create the gang tag that will be handed out to contest winners. I'm really not going to set a whole lot of limitations on this other than to encourage everyone to have fun. The winner will be determined by cleverness and general graphic design skills.
Special rules: The dimensions of your submissions must be between 145-180px wide and no higher than 60px tall (mods, let me know if these dimensions should be tweaked). Current judges: Me, Sebmojo, Keetron ~ Good luck everyone! ~ readingatwork fucked around with this message at 23:12 on May 27, 2019 |
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May 25, 2019 19:54
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Good Sir/Madam/Porpoise, I accept your challenge! I'm well on for this, it looks really fun!
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May 25, 2019 20:38
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“I shall participate, good sir and/or madame!” i'll def give it a crack
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May 25, 2019 22:05
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one question, is there a file size limit? i'm specifically thinking for animation, not gonna make a 6 meg gang tag but, it's still pretty low for avatars
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May 25, 2019 22:11
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I don't know, let's say 250k? That should give you some room to work.
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May 26, 2019 01:25
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I'll pipe up as a co-judge since I'll be the one handing them out. Don't be too worried about the signing up deadline, this is a bit of a special week as we want something people will be happy to have underneath their avatar.
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May 26, 2019 05:12
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I will participate.
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May 26, 2019 14:58
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I am not participating in this specific challenge but will act as either a backup judge or backup co-judge if needed and am definitely going to be present as a spectator.
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May 26, 2019 17:16
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I participate good sir/madam/void creature!
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May 27, 2019 02:44
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ok, here is my gangtag submission: mostly done in aseprite, then imported into GIMP to optimize the animation, 180 x 60, ended up being under 50k after optimization, so that was a nice surprise
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May 27, 2019 19:57
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Thanks for participating everyone! I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone's submissions.  Keetron posted:I am not participating in this specific challenge but will act as either a backup judge or backup co-judge if needed and am definitely going to be present as a spectator. Sounds good. I'm putting you in as a backup judge for now but just let me know if you want to hand off the title to somebody else.
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May 27, 2019 23:25
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readingatwork posted:What do I do if I can't afford Photoshop? I just want to say that I really like CLIP STUDIO PAINT and while not free it's a very decent substitute to Photoshop.
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May 30, 2019 08:13
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Art Dome! Yay Blender! 150x60, 103kb
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Just a friendly reminder that the deadline to submit is Monday night at midnight. For this round you do NOT need to have declared participation to enter. Also, if anyone knows of any non-CC threads that would have people interested in participating let me know so I can be an obnoxious rear end in a top hat and nag them to come over (with mod permission of course).
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Jun 8, 2019 02:57
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Yeah go for it, make a thread in gbs if you feel bold
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Jun 8, 2019 03:01
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Oh god, we don't have to let the plebs in do we?
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Jun 8, 2019 10:59
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Act as you see fit 
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sebmojo posted:Yeah go for it, make a thread in gbs if you feel bold Just sent a PM asking a mod for permission. This will certainly be interesting...  E: I got approval. I'll post it once we have our new writing prompt so people don't have to wait a week to participate. readingatwork fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Jun 11, 2019 |
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The submission deadline is Tonight at Midnight PST (roughly four hours from now) so please post your submissions by then. After that me and the judges will have until Sunday night at midnight to finish our crits. I'll probably announce a winner Tuesday night so be prepared to post a new prompt shortly after that (I believe within 24 hours is the norm). For the next prompt I want to see if I can get more people to participate so I humbly request that the winner keep any materials requirements for their prompt to things people likely already have (pens, pencils, free software etc). After that though I'm going to let go of the reigns and let people do pretty much whatever the hell they want. Thanks again to everyone who participated! I look forward to murdering each and every one of you in honorable artistic combat next round.
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Results for Round 1: Create Our Gang Tag Looks like we only had two submissions but fortunately they were both pretty good! The Winner: Congratulations to Al! for making a fun, well executed concept that I absolutely loved. Honorable Mention: I'd also like to extent congratulations to Lofi. I'm 100% serious when I say you'd have gotten one of these even if there were a bunch more submissions. Great work! I guess that's it for Round 1. The actual critiques will be coming along shortly. Best of luck to you in Round 2 Al! I eagerly await the opportunity to crush my enemies for your amusement. Thanks again everyone!
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hell yeah!!!!!! i really think lofi's was excellent and a way cleaner design than mine, and i also think people might have been intimidated by the technical restrictions of the prompt (and animation is a very niche thing to do). i plan on making my prompt very specific but very open to interpretation if im getting that gangtag, i just ask that you preserve smallbarf  john candy. it might also be a good idea to make it link to this thread, as i plan on repping the hell out of it in cspam.i already know exactly what im doing for a prompt but i wanna put a little work into it so it'll be coming later this evening or tomorrow
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Grats! As a general note I'll try and not need it but feel free to pm me to get your winners gang tag if it doesn't show in a week or so.
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Grats! I totally agree with the decision, but I'll have my satisfaction next time!
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Prompt 2: Vanitas webster's dictionary defines a Vanitas as "a sweet painting of a cool skull with maybe some fruit or flowers and poo poo" You're probably most familiar with this genre of work cuz it was very popular with the goddamned dutch    morte sighed as he unsheathed his katana et cetera. But we want to be more general here so we will go with the wikipedia blurb: "A vanitas is a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, often contrasting symbols of wealth and symbols of ephemerality and death." so i'm not expecting a dutch master still life, anything that meets the above definition will work for me. as such, i'm leaving the format totally up to you: painting, sculpture, photography, performance (one of my favorite contemporary artists is paul mccarthy hint hint) etc. deadlines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjVmeKWOsEU
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Jun 12, 2019 13:32
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gently caress yes this is my poo poo. In like a skeleton is inside you.
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Jun 12, 2019 13:54
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Oh hell yes I'll be participating. I'm all about the futility of pleasure and the certainty of death.
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Jun 12, 2019 14:08
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Yeah, I am in. Life is empty anyway and death is certain. Nice prompt, reminds me of wabi sabi: Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect.
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I’m in this time
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Posted a thread in GBS pointing here. May God forgive me... https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3891803
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Jun 13, 2019 04:34
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I accept your Vanitas challenge.
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Jun 13, 2019 11:54
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I accept this challenge! Here's to having my poo poo together enough to actually participate this time.
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Jun 13, 2019 20:27
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Put me in coach. I ready to play today.
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Critique time! OK, so this was kind of a weird one and animation isn't my forte but I'll do my best. Al!: This is a very solid piece with an impressive amount of detail for being so small. Perhaps a bit too much detail, in fact. It's not that the piece itself is flawed but when shrunk down so small the individual parts get a little lost in all the flashy moving bits. I remember when I first looked at your entry I had to concentrate for a moment to figure out what the two figures were and what they were doing. Looking at it again I think that's because they're right in front of the Artdome sign which, while a good element, is also very busy and draws the eye like a super magnet. I think a combination of making the foreground fighter a just tad bigger and toning down the sign a smidge would help the piece's readability. It's still a great piece though and I'm super stoked we get to use it to represent the thread. lofi:  Your piece is a bit simpler than A1!'s but it's also clearer and more striking at a glance which matters an awful lot in images this small. Overall though I think it would have done an excellent job representing the dome. ...With a handful of minor tweaks. Hear me out. First off I think the dome itself could stand to be stretched out horizontally by about five percent and the bars made just a hair thinner. This would give the corners of the “D” and “E” a bit of room to breathe which would aid in the “DOME”'s readability. Second, the red you chose for the blood is just a shade or two too dark and causes those parts of the word to recede too much into the background. This combines with the previous issue of the letters being just a bit too close to the edges of the dome and makes them hard to identify at a glance. Finally, I think you could have done a bit more with the empty space in background. Maybe some spotlights or something? Just enough to add a little texture to that space. It's not awful but the solid black feels underutilized to me. But that's kind of it. Again, it's a good piece and I'm glad you entered it. I look forward to seeing your future submissions. Pshew! OK time to actually DO some art instead of just writing about it. Good luck everyone!
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Thanks for crit!
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thank you!
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Jun 14, 2019 13:38
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I'm in for the vanitas challenge. Sounds fun!
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Just wanted to chime in to recommend this plastic skull I got for anyone looking for a good model to reference. It's about the size of your fist but has a decent amount of detail including all the bits behind the cranium and behind the jaw which is useful for odd angles. It's probably overkill for this project but it will be useful for practice later so whatever. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B016YNFF1A/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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This is the one I've had for a couple of years now, it's hella useful for drawing and makes a pretty boss decoration too. It's weird to think that a real person's head has been 3D scanned and copied so many times.
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