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.
Give it to Crimson, I have plenty of merits and have won this competition before. No need to be greedy about it.
I would say something,but you do have more merits then me and have won plenty of times before.Although it would have been better if both winners were given the merit if we were to both be given all of the negatives of winning as well( which pretty much means we can't win this week and get a merit for it no matter how good/bad our art is)so if he were to choose for only one of us to get the merit then I would think that the other should get a chance to win this week,and also if possible still get to be in the champions exhibit....please I am grateful that you chose me and all as one of the winners,but I don't think choosing two people to win next time would be such a good idea,unless the rules are adjusted for such cases.It is quite confusing and annoying.I don't really want something like this to happen again.Also Cholokid I shall talk to you further on your profile about this situation.
*refuses to accept a merit* I will not take the merit! No way no how. You are going to receive it. PERIOD.
@Strop (again) I guess Carlie just has bad grammar. lul.
@Cenere Ah, yeah I'm the same way. When I get into a hot spot during classes I can find a way to get out of it. And when I'm in trouble, just act very sorry, if that doesn't work cry, if it still doesn't work act like your going to barf. xD
But also I only speak a little Spanish, same as you do German. (hooray for translators!) So, I do really bad in that class.
hey just because we want the other to have it doesn't mean we don't want it.I have already discussed it in private and have settled on who would get the merit if only one of us were to get it.
Probably that it will not rain, Deth? I think you could say that?
Poor guy, though, he got a shower of money?
- @Cholo: Sadly my next exam where I can do that is in a half year. Written assignments suck, and I still need to finish it! 4am... Gantic, solutionplz?
I'm guessing your talking about CholoKid's first submission.I never really understood that one myself.What does it mean Cholokid.I can't make heads or tails of it,and I really don't want to try.Also....
The reports of my not wanting the merit were exaggerated.
Now pop quiz who's famous quote is a reference to?(don't worry if you don't know it,I'm just having a conversation concerning English at home and thought it would be fun to make an English reference)
Well you do have more merits then Cholokid and myself combined.
Yeah but I haven't had any in over a month I'm just too lazy now.
As for your quote, isn't that Mark Twain? It's either him or Albert Einstein, I learned that in school but I wasn't really paying attention and they look a lot alike. :P
@Those whom want to know what my first entry means: No. Haha, sadly I cannot say.
@Cenere We just got back from X-mas break and have midterms at the end of the month. Not at all looking forward to that. I'm almost positive that I will fail Spanish. Sad, everything else I have mid 90's in.
@Cholo: What is even worse, I have just found out there is another exam the 12th-15th = =... Still a written assignment.. I am going to die from stress...
@Cenere Man that's tough. I really hate essays, if that is what you mean by written assignment. Do you have the same stress problems I have? What happens to me is I will get so stressed out at times that fluid will build up in my stomach and start to burn it. Causing my stomach to get really upset. Making things even hard and more stressful.
Even worse than that, Cholo.. It is ten pages of something... Analyzes, methods, stuff like that. University education is bad... And we just get it the 12th, and then we should be able to make it on three days.. My stomach is upset just generally, not quite sure why, though. I tend to get really hyperactive and stressy, and then procastinates a lot. Sometimes, like now, my wrists and hands begin to hurt, which makes it hard to write without keyboard mistakes, and it often spread to elbows, shoulders, hip, knees and ancles. Yesterday I managed to get pains from my fingertips, up through both arm to my neck, and most of the joints as well as some ribs hurting, and my head trying to kill me... I have weird phantom pains like that. What amazes me the most is that, in the moment, it is only my good wrist hurting...
I haven't even fixed up my entry yet. But should I put up a solution before the judging? The answer is not as important as the puzzle, since the solution is the path. But maybe I will and not go poking at everything.
The Sun and Moon stick out in our minds as opposites, since one is the symbol for day and the other for night. They also resemble the alchemical pictures of a sun and moon, although I made mine with familiar cartoon faces and no shading whatsoever (via line art). The symbol that I said was Money is also an alchemical symbol for the sun, which is also a symbol for gold. but what are the other obvious symbols for the Sun and Moon? Should be obvious.
San and Si, the characters for three and four in Chinese represent life/living and death, respectively. You add them together, you get qi (seven) as you normally would if you add up opposite sides of a die. I'll lose points for this, but unfortunately I'm not exactly sure of the meaning behind seven, but it's not a good number. I'll just mention it but not elaborate: Sun/Moon and 3/4 also have something to do with yin and yang, but that's not entirely relevant to solving what each box means.
The Dinosaur and Plastic bottle thingy are directly derived from my previous art entry. Again, life and death, but there is more. The dinosaur is a predator, something for a human to escape from as seen in Jurassic Park. And who doesn't eat/drink/use plastic containers? There's yet another thing behind it, but I won't go into it. What we want and what we don't want, but referring back to the previous one, it's all the same isn't it when you add it all together (the meaning of 7)?
So what does this mess add up to? Life and Death. The want to live.
I assume everyone understands the basic symbols on this die.
Money and Love are opposites, right? You can one or the other. I wouldn't know, but they are related to relationships. I won't go into it any further since those are major symbols that are probably in everyone's minds and I already linked the alchemical aspect.
II and IIII are Roman numerals. IIII is the number shown on clocks. So what does this pair represent? Time. And as a horrid, horrid pun: What do you get when you add II + IIII? VI, Six. It'll make sense later.
Male and Female are clearly opposites. Again symbols everyone probably has somewhere in their head. What do you get when you add a male and a female? What do the symbols represent?
Sex! Now that I have your attention, the answer being sex is another wordplay, say Freudian for pleasure if I remember correctly. Pleasurable stuff is sexual. What we want and what we don't want.
Love? Money? Time? Pleasure? Life? Losing weight/Being fit? (That's actually in there if you look for it, but it might be too obscure.) What does this all have to do with resolutions? Freud?
Tangential note: Freud, like Einstein, are both well-known and influential and both were wrong about a lot of stuff, or actually, I should say are wrong by today's accepted paradigms.
I'm not going to explain the keyboard code and why I put it in there. And I didn't cover everything. And here's an obligatory mention of dice because I couldn't come up with a good pun.
