The Calm And the Fury: Art Contest

[Vexed]

@StrawberrySmiles I really think you should carry on with it - I love your idea, personally and from what I can see of it the execution is really great too! But yeah, I feel your pain with mouse shading. It's been a while since I had to do it but the mental scars remain XD It's a real headache. But you seem to be doing really great with it so far.


@Gin She looks awesome! Can't wait to see her shaded~

 

[Gin]

This is/was my idea: The Calm being a girl working on a fields of a small farm; the Fury being the same girl, but now in the midst of combat protecting that farm.

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I might quit, though - shading (with a mouse) is a big pain in the butt. Plus, everyone else such better ideas (and art).

I love your pencil sketches. If you don´t like shading it with the mouse, you could do it like you normally do, and then scan the image and use something to enhance it.(Gimp, Potoshop,SAi...Gimp is a free program)


Also, you should watch art that motivates and inspires you, (not the other way around)... That is the purpose of art(all arts in general, including music and writting...) Hope to see your finished work.

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

I love your pencil sketches. If you don´t like shading it with the mouse, you could do it like you normally do, and then scan the image and use something to enhance it.(Gimp, Potoshop,SAi...Gimp is a free program)


Also, you should watch art that motivates and inspires you, (not the other way around)... That is the purpose of art(all arts in general, including music and writting...) Hope to see your finished work.

I don't have a normal way of shading either, except maybe traditional. But then I can't flip her face to be identical lol.

 

[Marquise*]

My computer is down since 3 weeks but I am penciling something up and we got the scan going... Hope my CPU can stand my Photoshop because my motherboard if fried.  BTW VERRRRRRRRRY nice subs!  I concentrate on another more personal angle and cross my fingers that everything hold up well patched.  I might do a 24hours challenge out of this!  (It has to do!  Really... 3 weeks without a really functional computer... didn't realized how dependent we turned up to be to this tool!)

 

[Lunarea]

We've just shared an interview with Hiroki Kikuta:


http://blog.rpgmakerweb.com/interview/hiroki-kikuta-interview/


It is very long, and absolutely fantastic to read! I hope you enjoy it and that it continues to inspire you!


We're down to crunch time now -- just under a week left to enter.

 

[Vexed]

Fantastic interview. Really candid and insightful! I can't wait for the full packs to release. Placing in the contest and hell, even just getting Hiroki to view my work would just be the cherry on the cake - I just want the chance to use some of that awesome music~

 

[Depthfiend]

xD hey guys i know i missed the date and i just started my piece but the calm and the fury just reminded me of 1985 RAN.


as i watched it again i plan on doing 3 scenes


1st is calm where lord Hidetora Ichimonji meet lady sue on the ridge praying to buddha


2nd is when lord Hidetora Ichimonji meets Tsurumaru seeking shelter from the storm. after being attacked and betrayed by his two sons


3rd is when lady sue and Tsurumaru flee to their homeland as sue points out there burnt and ruin castle in the distance.


xD as you can see ima bout to have a Akira Kurosawa  marathon xD


but i thought id try and share what i have done never worked with oils before and i took the picture with a potato


so ya enjoy!!!

 

[Marquise*]

Quick weird question here; I saw that we had to enter our full name and address... 


By any chance do you accept to only publish the graphic artist pseudonym if it is that graphic artist is used to not disclose on the world wide web his/her name for security and privacy sake? 


I mean, some always sign/use just their visual artist names and it is my case since more than 30 years. 


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ADDENDUM: Really inspiring composer and really humble too; it is like he don't realize that music is an art too.  And, therefore he is an artist too.   Really good advice in there about goals and motivation!


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[Milennin]

Never played any of the games with his music in it, but really enjoyed the interview. I like that he gave long and interesting answers to some of the questions.

 

[Lunarea]

Quick weird question here; I saw that we had to enter our full name and address... 


By any chance do you accept to only publish the graphic artist pseudonym if it is that graphic artist is used to not disclose on the world wide web his/her name for security and privacy sake? 


I mean, some always sign/use just their visual artist names and it is my case since more than 30 years. 

The full name during submission process is for legal purposes - contracts, for example. The submissions are not public. The art credit can be as the author wants - either their name or a pseudonym.

 

[Lunarea]

xD hey guys i know i missed the date and i just started my piece but the calm and the fury just reminded me of 1985 RAN.

Date has been extended, you have until January 23rd -- meaning, there's still a bit of time left!

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

I'm not pleased with my coloring - it doesn't remind me of my style at all. It's also taking too long, and it's kind of tedious.


Unfortunately, I won't be doing this contest.

 

[Depthfiend]

oh sweet!!! im on it!!

 

[Marquise*]

The full name during submission process is for legal purposes - contracts, for example. The submissions are not public. The art credit can be as the author wants - either their name or a pseudonym.

*cybermental hugs and kisses* OOOoooh... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you... I love you~!   errr in a very platonic manner at least!  (This was not entierely professional.  )


@StrawberrySmilesWhy?  If you started something...  You could present it!  It ain't because you made something different that it means it is bad.  In fact, we all should work and try to work in many styles.  Sometimes we might like it sometimes not.  Sometimes it please others, sometimes we have to defend our personal style to others because, well, it is how we decided to portray something.  If we all did the same, the world would be boring in art!


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I thought more of situation than character there and took it maybe really too close to home.  And yeah, this is what I get from working very fast...On the other hand, it forced me to get running my scan and my Photoshop while my computer is kinda acting up!

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Got this one on because my computer troubles are still also on freezing too often. (So just in case I can't finish a thing.)


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I almost couldn't finish this one tonight and will now proceed to try an attempt The Calm and The Fury altogether.  I<m very happy to just save enough often bow so my frequent crashes didn't ruined all that I do.

 

[Gin]

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Finished...hugs to everyoneeee...

 

[Marquise*]

Awwwww... @Gin I think I see a winner there!


Just sent my two made... Will attempt to finish and send my mix of Calm and Fury in the next hours... Hope my computer cooperates WAY better that last 3 days!

 

[JosephSeraph]

after 3 days and probably more than 20 drafts, finally im coloring it. now to focus on submitting it on the deadlinee aaaaaa!!!


lots of great entries! surely mr. kikuta will be very pleased!

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[dragoonwys]

Woah, so many nice entries around! I made one for the fury category too, those sample osts are great.


Good luck to everyone and their entries~

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[Marquise*]

So many nice entries... so few hours!!!!  Just Midnight on my side and it is 9 PST... RUSHHH~! 


(Lets Corvo (my very old computer) pump a few gigs in its ol' CPU... I can't anymore race that motherboard at full speed!)


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I failed!  Missed Exterminator and two poison clouds before the end.  The spoiler shows what it looked like in 11:59 PST

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3 hours later on after a minimum of one freeze and one reboot each 8 minutes...  I finally finished it! (I shouldn't had slept or eat.   I think at least it was an interesting racing challenge on really hard to use tools.  But it is frustrating as I wished to make that offering.    <3 )

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Again, thank-you for the music and heart opened interview and chance to redeem my 3 weeks of computer misery in almost 3 days!  *cybermental hugs and kisses*  I will have to sleep and care of Daughter Cat (the tap dancing one on the giant bedbug) later on before trying to fix stuff or get trough a new challenge (Hopefully, a constructive one of my choosing)!

 

[JosephSeraph]

I managed to submit at the RIGHT VERY LAST MINUTE  after my internet dying up as I uploaded it! ;-;

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This was the concept for the dual cover but when I tried to use both of them circling eachother it didnt look harmonic so I just let go of this concept!

There's lots of things that could get some polish and fixing but DEADLINE :c but welp, I did managed to submit! Phew! Hahah

T'was fun!


Hope we get to hear. Mr. Kikuta's thoughts on all the artwork! It's all so fresh and varied ´v`)/


and @Marquise* MY PC CRASHED LIKE 234093805 TIMES DURING THE LAST STRETCH TOO I WAS GOING MAD INSANE HAD TO RESTART THE PC A COUPLE' TIMES BECAUSE THE WACOM DRIVERS KEPT CRASHING, SAI JUST WASN'T HANDLING SUCH A HIGH RESOLUTION FILE BECAUSE I HAVE LITTLE RAM IT WAS HELL WELP