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Carlie

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Posted September 11, '08 8:55pm UTC

Hello and welcome!

This is a spin-off of the original GFX Art Battle, but with some updated rules and changes. Please make sure to read the rules before entering, since they have been modified. Good luck, we look forward to seeing some creative artistic entries!

Competition Rules
1. Must be hand drawn, either on paper or in a program. It can then be manipulated in an graphics program. But unoriginal artwork cannot be used as the main focus. Copyrighted images cannot be used. All pieces containing copyrighted images will be disqualified.
2. Submissions must follow the current theme that has been chosen by a moderator for that week. If you submit more than one piece, please clarify which one you would like to be judged.
3. If your image is larger than 600 pixels wide, please provide a link to the image instead of posting it in the forum. Otherwise, the image will be cut off.
4. Artists cannot win in subsequent weeks. You can still submit, but if you won the week before, you cannot get first place again the next week.
5. After the deadline, a moderator will pick the winner, and they will be awarded a 25 AP award.

Hello and welcome! \r\n\r\nThis is a spin-off of the original [url=http://armorgames.com/community/thread/1185080/gfx-art-battles]GFX Art Battle[/url], but with some updated rules and changes. Please make sure to read the rules before entering, since they have been modified. Good luck, we look forward to seeing some creative artistic entries! \r\n\r\n[b]Competition Rules[/b]\r\n1. [i]Must be hand drawn, either on paper or in a program. It can then be manipulated in an graphics program. But unoriginal artwork cannot be used as the main focus. Copyrighted images cannot be used. All pieces containing copyrighted images will be disqualified.[/i]\r\n2. [i]Submissions must follow the current theme that has been chosen by a moderator for that week. If you submit more than one piece, please clarify which one you would like to be judged.[/i]\r\n3. [i]If your image is larger than 600 pixels wide, please provide a link to the image instead of posting it in the forum. Otherwise, the image will be cut off.[/i]\r\n4. [i]Artists cannot win in subsequent weeks. You can still submit, but if you won the week before, you cannot get first place again the next week.[/i]\r\n5. [i]After the deadline, a moderator will pick the winner, and they will be awarded a 25 AP award.[/i]

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Ogt2

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Peasant

Posted March 16, '09 8:16pm UTC

O.o Dubbul post

Morgue-Anne XD

CEN! ZOPH! JUDGEMENT! DONT MAKE ME WAIT TILL TOMMOROW AGAIN!

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Zophia

9,434 posts

Scribe

Posted March 16, '09 8:18pm UTC

O.o Dubbul post

Not for long when I am lurking!

I did a really bad doodle of strop being all pissy not too long ago.

There was a little present from me in his ear that constantly mocked him with everything he said, even if it wasn't clever. Such as "Yeah like your mom" or "That's what she said"

Poor Strop~

CEN! ZOPH! JUDGEMENT! DONT MAKE ME WAIT TILL TOMMOROW AGAIN!

Just a few more moments~

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thoadthetoad

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Posted March 16, '09 8:20pm UTC

Interesting how much fun there can be in one name.. I think he should have gone with Morgan..

Morgan Mc-fey?

I'm good with that.

lol.

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Zophia

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Posted March 16, '09 8:35pm UTC

Oh my, a judging.

C: Nya.. *drags a blanket to the Imagenarium, kicks off shoes, and leans back in chair, feet on table*
Z: *yawns, picks up an ice cream before starting the work*
C: *rises, wanders around a little, goes back and sits, waiting'
Z: *slurp*
C: *plays with glove*
Z: Awright, finally found the page where you stated the theme.
C: Nice...
Z: Sssssnnaakke's written thingy isn't worth bringing up, right?
C: Nope. I don't think so..
Z: Okies.
C: *rises again, wanders out*
Z: Sooooooooooooooo many pages with nothing but chatter. :<
C: *and comes back with a glass of water and a cup of tea*
Z: From 342 to 356... Only six entries posted... *continues search, munching strawberry ice cream*
C: Sorry... *takes a couple of pills, drinks the water*
*time passes*
Z: There we go! All entries found. I hope. *nine deciliters of straw(p)berry ice cream now gone*
C: *drinks some tea* At least there was some decent ones..
Z: Yup. Hmm... Hang on, I need to change my MSN settings. White font shows really bad in TextEdit. x_x
C: *spills tea, curses* You could just... Nevermind.
Z: It's easier to change the settings here than do the Cmd+a -> change font colour there.
Or so I thought.
Nvm that.
First place?
C: I will not say it, people will be killing me for this... Seriously...
Z: Awright. It is......

Strop! For his "If Dosoevsky were high..."

C: It is plain cool.
Z: It's awesome lulz. And shading~<3
C: And Raskolnikov is rather .. Well, his name does mean something like being split or tormented... Or something.. I just think the story would have ended slightly too fast if that had happen... Without all the fun parts like murder and blood.
Z: o.o; Can't say I've read it, but eh... Yeah. Nice entry, Strop~ Swoop through with another entry when you have time~
C: And excellent expressions as well. Yeah, draw some more art for us to enjoy..
Z: Squee~

Second place:
thoadthetoad! I can't remember if there was a title for his.

C: Probably something like "Di.kens is back!" We need to get something done about that censorbar.. Anyway, Dostoevsky does have a similar writing style as Di.kens, as well as Poe. I do believe they bring up a little of the same theme as well, but I cannot say I have read enough Poe to be certain.
Z: ... I feel so lost in literature talk. ._.
But I really like how thoad draws himself.
C: Yeah. Have you not read "The Telltale Heart"? But yes, a good entry, and... Better than the other one, at least.
Z: Muchly~ And no I haven't.
Now, to move away from my lack of reading experiences...

Third place:
crimsonblade55~ The Really Long Theme.

Mock entry, but a good one~
C: I would like a talking book like that... On the other hand, it seems like the best way to portray me, really... *drinks some tea* And there is a fuzzy question mark...
Besides, this theme should be a lesson to impatient people, me thinks.
Z: Mhm~ I like how Sasquatch looks all tiny next to the theme. Lulz.
C: It was a long theme..
Z: Just a wee bit.
C: Well, this next theme will be in your hands.. Can I get the one after that? *drinks tea*
Z: Can't we go back to coming up with them together? *headtilt* Otherwise, sure...
C: Okay, okay..
Z: Now... The rest of the entries, in order of appearance (more or less):

Gantic

C: I never got that one, and he never got back to explain it, did he?
Z: Nope. Only thing I get from it is a rather emo interpretation of that vague square lightness on the floor with what could be seen as a silhouette of someone... But who knows, it's a Gantic.
C: He takes abstract to the extreme... The colours hurt my eyes...
Z: Aw. :< Moving on then~

Sssssnnaakke

... Yeahhh...
C: Not run, sneak.. You would not run down the stair from the fifth floor to avoid someone living on the fourth floor, not when her door is open, and the stairs are old.
Z: Actually he ran from the theme... Entry followed by "The theme is too big!"...
C: Yeah.. Another picture purely done to kill my eyes, I am sure...
Z: Heh.

kingryan

Which... I honestly don't get.
C: Just a... *wanders off*
Z: Rainy blackness?
... Cen... Don't flee!
C: *gets back with another glass of water and more pills* Haha, great pun - -
Z: *bow*
C: *swallow pills, drinks water* Hm, yeah, rainy blackness, probably an abstract idea of shadows and being able to sneak out like one..
Z: *noddles* And on we go~

thisisnotanalt
BeegÂ entrii.
C: The entry that has been fiddled with a number of times now.
Z: Four or five times, I think. He looks too happy to be fleeing. :/
C: Yeah. Would probably be stupid to shout it out like that, but when he has come past the landlady, well, does it matter? I just wonder how it will be when he gets home..
Z: Eh hehe~
C: Which reminds me I should get done with JP..
Z: Yes. You should.

Zega, our unofficial provider of lolwut entries.

C: Another happy guy. Even the... Bigger blob looks happy...
Z: It scares me a bit. My only comment is actually: lolwut.
C: That was a very related comment..
Z: Of course.

Pixie214

Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaint entry~~~
C: No, just 'ain' entry.. He looks slightly proken, the guy on the stairs..
Z: Yeah... Poor stick Raskolnikov. The gossip and complaints finally got hold of him and thrashed him against the steps...
C: It has happened to me as well... ... *drinks some tea*
Z: O.o...

Cholokid

C: Made me laugh a little..
Z: It's cute, though I think there's a grammar issue somewhere that's making me not read it right... But amusing, most definitely~
C: And the wonders of c/ping the same shapes over and over.
Z: Heh~ And Waldo.

Ogt2

C: Oh yeah, the random coincident of doom. Impressive but rather .. square.
Z: Edgy? - I think it's because of that cat metaphor thingy in the paragraph that just makes such an idea easily come to you...
C: Prolly.
Z: But nice entries he made.
C: Yeah... Are we done soon? I need a shower.. And some rest..
Z: Yeah, we're done, unless you want me to comment on your - entry?
C: I don't know... Was that really all? We did not forget anyone? Hmm...
Z: I don't think so. Pelt me with moldy cheese if I did.
C: Hmm, yes..
Z: *noddle*
Now, for the new theme...
C: Well, if you have anything to say about it, I cannot stop you... There probably is not... Tea.. Cold.
Z: *worried look* You distract me now, little Cen.
C: Not little, just not very tall... Anyway, you were about to tell about the new theme.
Z: Yes... Though I do like your RaskolniCen entry.
Anyway, since people have been going "whaaat?" at the themes recently...

Theme: WTF I can't draw this!
Deadline: Monday, March 23rd

C: Hurray... At least I will not have to come up with an example for this... I probably end up - entering once again for no reason at all...
Z: I'd like that~
C: We are finished now? I can take a shower?
Z: Sure. Enjoy~
C: Thanks.... *takes blanket and shoes, walks off*

Oh my, a judging.\r\n\r\nC: Nya.. *drags a blanket to the Imagenarium, kicks off shoes, and leans back in chair, feet on table*\r\nZ: *yawns, picks up an ice cream before starting the work*\r\nC: *rises, wanders around a little, goes back and sits, waiting'\r\nZ: *slurp*\r\nC: *plays with glove*\r\nZ: Awright, finally found the page where you stated the theme.\r\nC: Nice...\r\nZ: Sssssnnaakke's written thingy isn't worth bringing up, right?\r\nC: Nope. I don't think so..\r\nZ: Okies.\r\nC: *rises again, wanders out*\r\nZ: Sooooooooooooooo many pages with nothing but chatter. :<\r\nC: *and comes back with a glass of water and a cup of tea*\r\nZ: From 342 to 356... Only six entries posted... *continues search, munching strawberry ice cream*\r\nC: Sorry... *takes a couple of pills, drinks the water*\r\n   *time passes*\r\nZ: There we go! All entries found. I hope. *nine deciliters of straw(p)berry ice cream now gone*\r\nC: *drinks some tea* At least there was some decent ones..\r\nZ: Yup. Hmm... Hang on, I need to change my MSN settings. White font shows really bad in TextEdit. x_x\r\nC: *spills tea, curses* You could just... Nevermind.\r\nZ: It's easier to change the settings here than do the Cmd+a -> change font colour there.\r\nOr so I thought.\r\nNvm that.\r\nFirst place?\r\nC: I will not say it, people will be killing me for this... Seriously...\r\nZ: Awright. It is......\r\n\r\nStrop! For his "If Dosoevsky were high..."\r\n[img]http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq105/strawpony/raskol.jpg[/img]\r\nC: It is plain cool.\r\nZ: It's awesome lulz. And shading~<3\r\nC: And Raskolnikov is rather .. Well, his name does mean something like being split or tormented... Or something.. I just think the story would have ended slightly too fast if that had happen... Without all the fun parts like murder and blood.\r\nZ: o.o; Can't say I've read it, but eh... Yeah. Nice entry, Strop~ Swoop through with another entry when you have time~\r\nC: And excellent expressions as well. Yeah, draw some more art for us to enjoy..\r\nZ: Squee~\r\n\r\nSecond place:\r\nthoadthetoad! I can't remember if there was a title for his.\r\n[img]http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr28/thoadthetoad/scan0005-1.jpg[/img]\r\nC: Probably something like "Di.kens is back!" We need to get something done about that censorbar.. Anyway, Dostoevsky does have a similar writing style as Di.kens, as well as Poe. I do believe they bring up a little of the same theme as well, but I cannot say I have read enough Poe to be certain.\r\nZ: ... I feel so lost in literature talk. ._.\r\nBut I really like how thoad draws himself.\r\nC: Yeah. Have you not read "The Telltale Heart"? But yes, a good entry, and... Better than the other one, at least.\r\nZ: Muchly~ And no I haven't.\r\nNow, to move away from my lack of reading experiences...\r\n\r\nThird place:\r\ncrimsonblade55~ The Really Long Theme.\r\n[img]http://i530.photobucket.com/albums/dd349/crimsonblade55/TheReallyLongTheme.png[/img]\r\nMock entry, but a good one~\r\nC: I would like a talking book like that... On the other hand, it seems like the best way to portray me, really... *drinks some tea* And there is a fuzzy question mark...\r\nBesides, this theme should be a lesson to impatient people, me thinks.\r\nZ: Mhm~ I like how Sasquatch looks all tiny next to the theme. Lulz.\r\nC: It was a long theme..\r\nZ: Just a wee bit.\r\nC: Well, this next theme will be in your hands.. Can I get the one after that? *drinks tea*\r\nZ: Can't we go back to coming up with them together? *headtilt* Otherwise, sure...\r\nC: Okay, okay..\r\nZ: Now... The rest of the entries, in order of appearance (more or less):\r\n\r\nGantic\r\n[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/blackcairn/AG/emptyroom.gif[/img]\r\nC: I never got that one, and he never got back to explain it, did he?\r\nZ: Nope. Only thing I get from it is a rather emo interpretation of that vague square lightness on the floor with what could be seen as a silhouette of someone... But who knows, it's a Gantic.\r\nC: He takes abstract to the extreme... The colours hurt my eyes...\r\nZ: Aw. :< Moving on then~\r\n\r\nSssssnnaakke\r\n[img]http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww334/Sssssnnaakke/run.png[/img]\r\n... Yeahhh...\r\nC: Not run, sneak.. You would not run down the stair from the fifth floor to avoid someone living on the fourth floor, not when her door is open, and the stairs are old.\r\nZ: Actually he ran from the theme... Entry followed by "The theme is too big!"...\r\nC: Yeah.. Another picture purely done to kill my eyes, I am sure...\r\nZ: Heh.\r\n\r\nkingryan\r\n[img]http://s296.photobucket.com/albums/mm193/kingryanv/blackness.jpg[/img]\r\nWhich... I honestly don't get.\r\nC: Just a... *wanders off*\r\nZ: Rainy blackness?\r\n... Cen... Don't flee!\r\nC: *gets back with another glass of water and more pills* Haha, great pun - -\r\nZ: *bow*\r\nC: *swallow pills, drinks water* Hm, yeah, rainy blackness, probably an abstract idea of shadows and being able to sneak out like one..\r\nZ: *noddles* And on we go~\r\n\r\nthisisnotanalt\r\n[url=http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7215/raskolnikovflees.jpg]BeegÂ entrii.[/url]\r\nC: The entry that has been fiddled with a number of times now.\r\nZ: Four or five times, I think. He looks too happy to be fleeing. :/\r\nC: Yeah. Would probably be stupid to shout it out like that, but when he has come past the landlady, well, does it matter? I just wonder how it will be when he gets home..\r\nZ: Eh hehe~\r\nC: Which reminds me I should get done with JP..\r\nZ: Yes. You should.\r\n\r\nZega, our unofficial provider of lolwut entries.\r\n[img]http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr165/96Zega96/RaskiiiiFlees.png[/img]\r\nC: Another happy guy. Even the... Bigger blob looks happy...\r\nZ: It scares me a bit. My only comment is actually: lolwut.\r\nC: That was a very related comment..\r\nZ: Of course.\r\n\r\nPixie214\r\n[img]http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/3973/stairspicturefrompaint.jpg[/img]\r\nPaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaint entry~~~\r\nC: No, just 'pain' entry.. He looks slightly proken, the guy on the stairs..\r\nZ: Yeah... Poor stick Raskolnikov. The gossip and complaints finally got hold of him and thrashed him against the steps...\r\nC: It has happened to me as well... ... *drinks some tea*\r\nZ: O.o...\r\n\r\nCholokid\r\n[img]http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee348/Cholokid34/waldo.jpg?t=1237095789[/img]\r\nC: Made me laugh a little..\r\nZ: It's cute, though I think there's a grammar issue somewhere that's making me not read it right... But amusing, most definitely~\r\nC: And the wonders of c/ping the same shapes over and over.\r\nZ: Heh~ And Waldo.\r\n\r\nOgt2\r\n[img]http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7527/image10cy.png[/img]\r\nC: Oh yeah, the random coincident of doom. Impressive but rather .. square.\r\nZ: Edgy? - I think it's because of that cat metaphor thingy in the paragraph that just makes such an idea easily come to you...\r\nC: Prolly.\r\nZ: But nice entries he made.\r\nC: Yeah... Are we done soon? I need a shower.. And some rest..\r\nZ: Yeah, we're done, unless you want me to comment on your - entry?\r\nC: I don't know... Was that really all? We did not forget anyone? Hmm...\r\nZ: I don't think so. Pelt me with moldy cheese if I did.\r\nC: Hmm, yes..\r\nZ: *noddle*\r\nNow, for the new theme...\r\nC: Well, if you have anything to say about it, I cannot stop you... There probably is not... Tea.. Cold.\r\nZ: *worried look* You distract me now, little Cen.\r\nC: Not little, just not very tall... Anyway, you were about to tell about the new theme.\r\nZ: Yes... Though I do like your RaskolniCen entry.\r\nAnyway, since people have been going "whaaat?" at the themes recently...\r\n\r\n[b]Theme: WTF I can't draw this!\r\nDeadline: Monday, March 23rd[/b]\r\n\r\nC: Hurray... At least I will not have to come up with an example for this... I probably end up - entering once again for no reason at all...\r\nZ: I'd like that~\r\nC: We are finished now? I can take a shower?\r\nZ: Sure. Enjoy~\r\nC: Thanks.... *takes blanket and shoes, walks off*

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Ogt2

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Peasant

Posted March 16, '09 8:48pm UTC

...

You'll pay for this.

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thoadthetoad

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Peasant

Posted March 16, '09 8:50pm UTC

hmm....extremely difficult theme, this is.

I got an idea though, featuring self drawn me again >D

have fun with your shower cen *waves*

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Cenere

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Jester

Posted March 16, '09 8:56pm UTC

have fun with your shower cen

Oh, I had... Now my back is entirely red and painful..
At least I smell better than before...

You'll pay for this.

So this was worse than mine?

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thoadthetoad

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Peasant

Posted March 16, '09 8:59pm UTC

Oh, I had... Now my back is entirely red and painful..
At least I smell better than before...

*noms your back*
Oh, you're not a lobster...WHERE THE HELL IS MY LOBSTER?!

Anyways, I can't wait for this theme. lol.

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Cenere

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Jester

Posted March 16, '09 9:01pm UTC

*noms your back*
Oh, you're not a lobster...WHERE THE HELL IS MY LOBSTER?!

*axes Thoad* It is okay, I am a extraordinary being.

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thoadthetoad

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Posted March 16, '09 9:03pm UTC

*axes Thoad* It is okay, I am a extraordinary being.

*has an axe in his face*
'Tis but a scratch!
*epic monty python reference*

indeed you are.

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Cenere

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Jester

Posted March 16, '09 9:06pm UTC

And it would have been even better if you knew about CnP.
Look it up some day.

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thoadthetoad

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Posted March 16, '09 9:13pm UTC

And it would have been even better if you knew about CnP.
Look it up some day.

CRAB BATTLE.

Idk, but I guess I'll check it out one day or five or 70...maybe.

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Cenere

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Jester

Posted March 16, '09 9:16pm UTC

He murders a pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna, with an axe he stole from a janitor's woodshed, with the intention of using her money for good causes, based on a theory he had developed. Raskolnikov believed that people were divided into the "ordinary" and the "extraordinary": the ordinary are the common rabble, the extraordinary (notably Napoleon) must not follow the moral codes that affect the ordinary since they are meant to be great men. An extraordinary man would not need to think twice about his actions.

Just for you, Thoad.

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thoadthetoad

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Posted March 16, '09 9:23pm UTC

I like that quote, even though I still don't understand half of it. The only person who uses poetic imagery and that I can understand would most likely be poe.

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Cenere

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Posted March 16, '09 9:29pm UTC

Taken from Wiki..

Poe is okay, I just rarely read horror...
Did we not have this discussion last time....

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