Bi-Weekly Artwork Challenge, Submit one sample every two weeks!

Non-specific Challenge attempt by a (hopefully soon-to-be) super-mod at Newbie Animations wing. This is also meant to temper the discipline of authors of drawings, et cetera.

Your objective, should you undertake it, will be to submit a drawing of any type (except sprites--they got themselves a whole section to themselves!) that is a finished piece of work. For all intents and purposes, you submit your piece HERE, on this link, until further notice. I think it'll be all right, though...

Submitting Rules and Guidelines:

1.) RULE
State the date you completed the project (required for record-keeping and gauging progress)

2.) RULE
Give a title (required for communication purposes, same as above mostly)

3.) GUIDELINES
If you write background information (optional), confine it to a paragraph of no more than five complete sentences (guidelines). Stay on-topic about the image itself, too! Here, you may also insist about the nature of critiques (or if critiques are even desired).

4.) RULE
Do not post the same image only slightly modified (like it's a work in progress--we got the rest of the site for that). Only official completed images may apply. Those pieces, if found down the page somewhere, end up nixed.

Why all the formality? We get to write peer reviews! Yay! We got to, otherwise, we don't find out what we did wrong (or right). And remember kids! No ridiculous flame wars please...

For Peer Reviews, follow these Rules and Guidelines:

1.) RULE
Send reviews to the artist via PM. The Date and Title of the piece must be written, alongside the word REVIEW, so that there will be no mistake as to the nature of the message. This ties into the artist's ability to communicate the title successfully in the reply post.

2.) RULE
Nobody write any reviews in this thread. It'll get exceedingly messy, and I'll have someone delete that stuff outright. If you wrote War and Peace, make sure you got a back-up to send to the artist via PM. Otherwise, I doubt anybody will endure your complaining. La, la, la, we can't hear you (Sing-songy tone of voice)!

3.) GUIDELINE
Unless he or she stated specifics in the background paragraph (i.e., artists may recommend, demand, or refuse to hear critiques--just say so before they get the urge!), your PM will be about the piece and the piece only. Be as specific as you can, and informative. Try not to sound like a jerk and denounce the piece outright. And don't hail to the other side of the spectrum and sugar-coat things when you seriously need to communicate a precise flaw. Furthermore, don't randomly get stuff off your chest unless you honestly believe it to be pertinent and beneficial to the artist. Again, no flame wars in the PM system!

4.) RULE (THIS ONE'S FOR THE ARTISTS)
Suck it in, artists. If someone's beef links to a pervasive and chronic illness in your technique, be sure to listen carefully! You should learn how to take criticism early before you submit a portfolio for review to a college or a commercial art career. Otherwise, you never figure out your deficiencies, and if they become pervasive and chronic still...?

I certainly hope this will pave the way for star artists (or any artist!) to submit something regularly and receive feedback. The rest of the site's the playground, but this is the showcase thread (I HOPE) demonstrating our progress and our prowess. Above all, have fun trying to best yourself!

This post has been edited by Neophyte Ronin on Dec 16 2005, 03:45 PM

Excellent idea! I hope it'll get the attention it deserves! Let's see if I can finish a peice on time.

So how do I begin? Where do I submit?

finished does that mean photoshopped and all that? or will a pencil art suffice?

.... whehehehe second chuck of text

Well, all you need is a method of transmitting your best work over here. Typically, that involves a scanner. Anything you can scan (or take a reasonable digital photograph of) may be applicable.

Even the most horribly feathered sketch may be brought in. Of course, in terms of technical review, we'd insist you resort to single, firm strokes of the pencil where you want the line to go--something I'm still working on--among other things. You'd never be able to submit the same type of image unless it's drastically altered from the original.

Sorry for not clearing that up. Flash, Photoshop, or plain old white paper and number two pencils are equally considered submissions.

To set a frame of time, we can begin the countdown on Saturday, the tenth of December.

I restate what I previously posted.

Title: Cuty
Finishing Date: December 11, 2005

yay! looks like im the first one to put something up here!
ok first off all. the design is not originally mine... i saw this doggy somewhere on the web (cant really remember where, probably deviantart or sumthin) and i just had to draw it myself.
it took me bout 2,5 hours stretched out over the last 3 days. hope you like it as much as i do. its completely done in pencil. accept for a wee bit of photoshop smudging and blurring to erase some folds in the paper and some scanning messups

myone




this is scott (hehe me) for the AWOF project! I basced him on the LF RE design.
hope you like

Tiana Sandoval. Brotherhood of Evil member. ;) Don't know how to cg metal so I gave up! T_T

Disregarding the fact that I'm a month short a day late, here's my first entry.



Our newest family member, Mistletoe, kindly posed for this. My mom suggested the caption "Kiss me, I'm cute!", which then inspired his name.

Im gonna add in a joke, sorry if its a little to big

Title: Saia Wisheart
Finish Date: Today
Info: Something I did for a fightclub on Polykarbon BBS. ;)

http://www.deviantart.com/view/28370291/
Might take a while to load though. PNG format because photobucket was being mentally handicapped.

Title: blurryness
Finishing Date: January 30, 2006

Description: ok, heres something totally different from what i usually do. i was kinda boring myself to death so i gave myself a challenge, make a pic in photoshop using only black and white, and the smear and dodge tools. (thus the blurryness) it ended up being far more timeconsuming than i thought so i ended up leaving out the face and doing solely the upper body.

This post has been edited by superschaap on Jan 30 2006, 01:06 PM

Title: Woman in White
Finish date: Feb 3 /06 (drawing) Feb 6 /06 (finishing touches)

**Disclaimer: Not nude, but visible buttocks. If you're easily offended, don't click the link.**

Woman in White

Random sketch, decided to finish it. Done in pencil and brush pen, touched up in Fireworks. Model used for the left arm. Fairly happy with her except for the hand and the loose hair.