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.
Because of how lame and scary they were, I think my mind just blocked them out. It's unbelievable how much scary stuff goes down in this game but I still went back to it. Like that midget's frigging minions, or when the minion turns into the huge guy.. or when Sanches or whatever that huge guys name is rips his torso off, or the first time those heads didn't just blow up, but turned into super gay tentacles!
lol, I thought they were pretty cool, not lame. It is odd how much freaky crap goes down yet you still go back and play it again? Pwnberry cloud here *hits Xzeno in the face* *pwnd* pwnberry cloud complete.
OOOOOOOHHHHH! Great poetry everyone, can't wait to hear more from you all! Oh, but your words don't rhyme to well. Darn, not all poetry is supposed to rhyme you know?!
C'mon seriously, when are we gonna get crackin' down to business?
Thank you for taking the internet way too seriously, Xzeno.
No problem, I'll be here all week!
@ Cen: I'm sorry I have offended you. My intention was to point out the slight flaw in the piece, but as you stated, this does not detract from the overall (comic) value of it. I even find that your artwork manages to capture D&D better than had it been exactly as the rules dictate it should be. Additionally, as Zophia stated, many (if not most) DMs ignore this rule. At the end of the day, the fact that it did not follow the rules to the letter doesn't really matter, because the basic idea is still readily understanding by gamers and non-gamers alike. In short: I wasn't sayin', I was just sayin', y'know?
@ Klaushouse: I'm the type to apologize in earnest if I offend someone, mostly because I really am sorry. But at some point, I must stand up for my wrongdoings because they weren't wrongdoings at all. Pointing out flaws in things is not rude. (pointing out flaws in people is however quite rude.) If I have offended by doing so, I shall apologize not because I regret saying what I have, but because I regret offending.
Everyone is taking this 'way too seriously', as Strop so eloquently put it. Where no offense is intended, none should be taken. My innocent comment has sparked nearly a page of border-line flaming, most of which was directed at me. The man up to his neck in water is often the one screaming that he's the driest. Lighten up!
o.O Whut!? You had enough time to type up all that but not scribble some fairly fun looking doodle that refers to DnD? Whut? LoLWhut?
I'm too lazy right now. But I would also rather submit something mildly inspired than whatever I would make if I just sat down with MS paint for ten minutes.
Pwnberry
What in Sam-he... oh, I get it! Pwnberry! That's hilarious!
Xzeno, my main problem is that I am an artist. I put stuff up on the net for people to comment. Yes, you commented, but never the art. It was not critique, it was just, as said in my example, it was pushing all the attention to something I stated earlier, I hate to talk about. Would be like I, instead of telling you, what you could have done better in a story, tell you that you used a wrong font.
Just that. Yes, I am easily offended, but it always has a reason. Oh well.
I still need to draw something!! *stares at homework*
why is it that as long as we are not getting constant entries this thread seems to always be bound to go off topic sometimes?....I have nothing else to say right now as I have no idea what you guys are currently talking about and have no recent entries to comment on so I shall leave it at that.
Cenere you weren't exaggerating when you said you have tons of those were you?Well anyways thats an interesting one right there, now if only people would actually pay attention to signs that don't talk about Nazi zombies(If your wondering what I'm talking about click here) Seriously though I actually like it....I have nothing else to say again....
Man, they should just lock this up, I haven't seen poetry in FOREVER. [Note to Users] You have comment boxes on your profiles, keep the discussion THERE.
Meh... Re-Live old thread of mine!
Bars To Fangs The ground is hard to beat When your lying there for life Can't get on your feet Until they are there to take a life
So as I turn from rods of steel And turn to a world unreal Unraveling complete with leather wings And pungent breath that makes my eyes sting
Is a viridescent body of reptilian hate Who would've know this was my fate Of chops and gore Lay the repulsive core
Not to dig up the past, but it might be pertinent at this point to explore what constitutes rudeness and what does not, and what an appropriate reaction might be:
Criticism is a tricky thing to navigate, but on this forum we like to use the maxim that constructive criticism is the only acceptable criticism. What would that mean in this context?
I think Cenere raised the objection most aptly- constructive criticism is necessarily relevant. For example I had a friend who, in the middle of a lecture about ophthamology, pointed out a grammatical error to the consultant who had prepared the slides.
The correction was supposed to be helpful but I judged that to be rude in the extreme. Why? It had nothing to do with the content and therefore was disruptive to the lecture. If she really felt the need to point it out (and it may be good to do so as the slides would no doubt be used in future) then she should have done so in private, after the lecture was finished.
How does that relate to this case? You could deduct that I am implying that since Xzeno's comment was misdirected that it was a display of rudeness. Maybe, maybe not, again that is context specific and a matter for each and everybody to decide. Which brings us to the more subjective matter of tone and delivery.
This is the tricky part since on the internet, tone and delivery is difficult to discern as we can't read body language, volume etc. nearly as well. All we have to go on is conventions like bold but reliable examples are few.
Then there is the matter of judging whether a comment is valuable whether or not it is rude. I'm not a DnD player and I know jack-all about why you'd use so many different dice for it, so I found the explanations interesting. Given that dice and DnD jokes based on misunderstandings of the system are very common on the internet, I understood however that none of us purported to have any real knowledge of how DnD works. Where Xzeno appears rude is that his delivery implies that we did, which is presumptuous and also makes him look...not-so-bright. Hence my backhanded response.
That's my breakdown. What you choose to do with it is up to you. I'm not demanding any apologies from anybody as I don't think any are specifically required but just be aware that your behavior here will always somehow reflect on you.
p.s. Thoad, please don't use so many "wns" in one post- once in a while is perfectly fine but when your posts start resembling something that'd come out of an unmoderated thread on Newgrounds, I do start twitching :P
p.s. Thoad, please don't use so many "wns" in one post- once in a while is perfectly fine but when your posts start resembling something that'd come out of an unmoderated thread on Newgrounds, I do start twitching :P
w...what are you implying? So I like to call it a pwn (pronounced pawn, I can't stress this enough guys, PAWN.)berry cloud instead of a TONberrycloud. what's the matter with that...? :*(
