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Carlie
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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.

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crimsonblade55
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Yeah, I'm actually really disappointed in that. :< The theme wasn't 'Horses', it was 'Equines'... Yet everyone just went horse.


Look up the definition of Equines. I put it in dictionary.com and it literally gave me this definition:

a horse


It also gave me this one:

of, pertaining to, or resembling a horse


In fact I looked at definitions of the word using Google, and only one of the many that were given said that they were anything, but horses. So to me it might as well have been horses.
Cenere
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Equine is a word used for the family of horses (which includes donkeys and mules).
And horse-like...

Oh well...
Would be like feline or canine.

crimsonblade55
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Shepherd

Equine is a word used for the family of horses (which includes donkeys and mules).
And horse-like...


Your getting it mixed up with Equidae Cenere?
goumas13
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Equidae is the horse family, Equus is the genus of animals in the family Equidae that includes horses, donkeys, and zebras.

Cenere
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Your getting it mixed up with Equidae Cenere?

I do not. I am just not expressing myself properly. But then again, I am not sure how I should put it...

Instead of drawing horses, it could have been horselike anyway. I actually had a few tries on some other drawings such as a marionette horse and some of the horse monsters.
crimsonblade55
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Shepherd

Instead of drawing horses, it could have been horselike anyway.


Yes well that would fit my entry now wouldn't it?
Cenere
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Yes well that would fit my entry now wouldn't it?

It was funneh.
... And now I wish I had a car. Darn...

I like onlinedictionary better.
equine - hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck
equine - of or belonging to the family Equidae
equine - resembling a horse

Yus.
crimsonblade55
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Shepherd

OK well one thing concerning the judging though.

Besides Sasquatch's head looking a bit rectangular, but that is a minor detail that might be intended so no more words about that.


Well in a way that was sort of intentional. I actually thought that you wouldn't like the overkill bevel and emboss, but apparently from what I can tell you did. As for the rectangular head. I was trying for absolutely no reason to make him look like this guy.

http://home.roadrunner.com/~ddkingolin/E3Gumbi.jpg

Though the pose was really more from Cactuar, but thats a minor detail. Also quick question did you get what I meant by a Hybrid though?

About the current theme I will figure out what I am going to do. I already have the idea to do something related to Heroes since tomorrow is the premiere of season 4 and its one of my favorite shows...but I will figure it out.
Hectichermit
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So I know that you want to limit the use of filters and such but in my opinion they are the tools that are given to those to help the artist express themselves now I can understand that you disapprove of some methods of creating a piece of work, anyone seen Mr. Brooks a psycho path that kills people and takes pictures and considers it art, but when you say drawn by hand or in a program and you strictly go by those standards it brings my old question that if I use a 3D program to render an Image it would use more computer calculations...that is what filters do to create an effect, then possible any filter from any 2d program. Yet I was told I could use a 3D program that I have created my own models and such. Now if you consider that a 3D program is a viable method of creating art, why do you disapprove of filters that in a very small way fall short of the capabilities of a 3D program?

Zophia
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Let me just post the definition I found when naming the theme:
Equine

of, relating to, or resembling a horse or the horse family

The OnlineDictionary definition is good too~

Would be like feline or canine.
Exactly. Or lapine, vulpine, bovine, avian, reptilian, insectile, ichtyoid... No wait, not sure about that last one.

BUT, that is no longer of any importance^^;

So I know that you want to limit the use of filters and such but in my opinion they are the tools that are given to those to help the artist express themselves now I can understand that you disapprove of some methods of creating a piece of work

Filters are indeed a tool, or tools, if one uses many.
But adding filters onto a piece does NOT always improve it. I'm quite certain Cenere does not over all disprove of the use of filters.
There's no reason to limit the amount of filters you use if you know what you're doing or genuinely want to experiment. But it won't necessarily make whatever you're adding them to look better.

anyone seen Mr. Brooks a psycho path that kills people and takes pictures and considers it art
I wouldn't consider that art.

but when you say drawn by hand or in a program and you strictly go by those standards it brings my old question that if I use a 3D program to render an Image it would use more computer calculations...that is what filters do to create an effect, then possible any filter from any 2d program. Yet I was told I could use a 3D program that I have created my own models and such. Now if you consider that a 3D program is a viable method of creating art, why do you disapprove of filters that in a very small way fall short of the capabilities of a 3D program?
There is no issue with the general use of filters. However, Cen seems to have found that the filter you had applied to your drawing made it look "like a plastic figure".
I would actually like to see what it looked like before you added the filter. I have no idea whether the effect is good compared to what it looked like before, but the texture it has given the fur and some of the armor does not add up to the general shading perfectly, so it can be concluded that there is still something that could be worked on to make it look better.
No one expects anyone to do anything perfectly, of course, but when there's room for potential improvement...

Anyway. A slight criticism is not the same as saying DO NOT USE FILTERS, MORTAL FOOLS. (No, I don't think Cen would ever say that anyway. >_&gt
Cenere
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Anyway. A slight criticism is not the same as saying DO NOT USE FILTERS, MORTAL FOOLS. (No, I don't think Cen would ever say that anyway. >_&gt

DO NOT USE FILTERS, MORTAL FOOLS!
That was fun.

Anyway, in addiction to what Zophia already explained:
It does not matter how many filters you used. One seemed to be enough to give it a texture that was not very good for what you wanted to achieve. Personally I think you should have used the lasso tool to make sure it was only used for the chainmail, and then either found something else for the rest, or left it as it was (whatever giving the best result).
Yup.
Gantic
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Yeah, I'm actually really disappointed in that. :< The theme wasn't 'Horses', it was 'Equines'... Yet everyone just went horse.


Miss me? :P
FloydTC
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Miss me? :P


no but I dont know you.
Zophia
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Miss me? :P
More "obscure" interpretations coming soon? :3
Gantic
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More "obscure" interpretations coming soon? :3


Maybe next theme. I have tests to study for this week.
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