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1. Tartyrsause. Looking forward to the complete (shaded) drawing though! This is hilarious!
2. Leaf-nin. Awesome way around panels! Eventhough the Spring girl's head is off, I still find this very creatively well done.
3. SyrusB/Liz. It's either that I don't play the game as often as I would like, or maybe the fact that I'm far from artistic...but ... I don't get it? But as usual, beautiful drawings though!

DeeDee, I'd love to have your loadingscreen ingame. Seasons look great on Atlas this way!

Good luck everyone!

Though my activity is way below my wish, I have actually put an alarm in my phone to make sure I vote every month. So here goes!

1. Leaf-nin
2. SyrusB/Liz
3. Tartyrsause

I agree with Amerikatt. Honorable mentions to DeeDee!

Sad to see you go, Furry_Jackal.
Your art has been amazing!

Thanks for the heads up on this DeeDee!

1. Tartyrsause
2. SyrusB / Liz
3. Leaf-nin

I think it's an eye, airhead

It looks like I've picked the right time to check up on the boards!
And wow, great prices to win this month! Well done DeeDee.

My votes (and my wife's). Difficult month yet again:
1. Tartyrsause
2. Leaf-nin
3. Furry_Jackal

Great entries everyone!

These are my wife's and my favourites combined .

1. Tartyrsause: Because it's hilarious!
2. Leaf-nin
3. Furry Jackal

1. MasterElemental
2. SyrusB/Liz
3. Furry Jackal

Impish Kat, then you should have a look at this!
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=287000

Gratz to the winners!

I wouldn't be surprised if it was milk. Very creamy milk. Kitties like that.

No, I just read the discription you gave on DA. And now the world makes sense again, once more .

The references look great DeeDee. I'm glad I could inspire you.

And OMG you're really making the outfit? That is awesome! I'm impressed already.
Ofcourse I have no clue on how to work a needle, with or without machine.

Hahaha with the thumb up! LOL
The suit looks really detailed. Nice work Tinhead.

To bad you just missed the deadline CR.
It's a great piece. And I am now curious to what Neko's Secret is .

1. Tartarsause. This piece had the biggest inpact as I nearly fell off my chair laughing.
Definitely a funny twitch to Valentine's Day.

2. Furry_Jackal. I got a brotherly feeling out of this one. Very nice done, Lovely style.

3. daveyj3. My first thought was 'wow, that's massive'. Then reading the scene behind it, I had to give it a vote. You make simplicity very pretty to look at! Well done.

And cute it is!
This turned out lovely, DeeDee.

So it looks like we have another participant.
Great looking piece Furry Jackal.

Someone asked me to explain how I made the referencesheets for Haymaker Hannah and Healing Impulse and put it here, so here goes.

I'll take Hannah's picture as example.

I used Paint Shop Pro X4 using only basic stuff as that's all I know for now .

First I made screenshots in CoH and picked out the one I wanted. With the crobtool I cut out the piece I wanted to keep and used the eraser, with hardness: 0 to erase the background around Hannah. It helps to zoom in to get rid of all the background, even the colors that blends in with the character.

To check if I got it all I added a new layer underneeth Hannah's layer and filled it first with a dark background, erases all the white colors still around Hannah, then filled the background with a light color and erased all the darker colors that were not supposed to be there.

Then I went looking for a suitable background. I did this on the webs, looking in sertain colours and only big pictures. Then I pasted it on the layer with the backgroundcolour so it will appear behind Hannah, as a background.
I used the Move tool to get the best part of that background behind Hannah and pressed CTRL+D to actually drop the background on the layer. I did the same for another screenshot.


Then I resized the largest picture to the same height as the smaller one. And saved that image.
I opened a new image, with the height of the picture I just saved, and calculated how much space I needed to add both pictures and a text area.
I used the Fill tool to fill it with black (in this case). Then I pasted the pictures, each on a side.


Now it was time to add the background story. I used the Text Tool, put the colours on purple, adjusted the size to my wish and started writing. The preview appeared immediately and can be alterated at any time using the Text Tool, because the program saves it as a new Vector layer.
I typed, making sure the text fitted in the space I reserved for it.

Using the Text Tool again I added the title. The program save it on a new Vector layer.
Then I add another raster layer on top of what I have sofar and pasted the two signes I found on the webs for "Natural" and "Tanker". I may have had to resize them a little to make it fit better.


TADAAH!
I hope I was clear enough about how I did this.

Lol! Looks like I'm not the only one!

Hah, there is so much art to check out that I hardly have time to actually play the game anymore .
It will take me a lifetime to check it all, so I'll just do what I can .
No use in replying to all of it afterall. That would take too much time, I don't think my lady would appreciate me spending ALL my time looking at very pretty artz , though she can definitely appreciate what I've shown her sofar!
(sorry DeeDee for making your topic offtopic )

Which brings me back to the Fairy Tails.
Thank you very much DeeDee! The wallpaper was a BIG success!
You should have seen the sparkles in her eyes when she opened that laptop.
She also says thanks .

I said it on DA and I'll say it again...

Oh my word! This is my Hannah!

This looks wonderful, LimeDolly. You definitely got her spirit right.
Also.. the lips are adorable!

Thank you so much!


@CR: Thanks! I thought so too. Even though I can't draw, I can manage a few alterations on existing pictures .

Wow! Night Hornet! That is awesome, sexy and quick!!

I'm being spoiled. First Lime Dolly, now you. And it's not even my birthday yet!

Thank you so very very much!

This is an awesome thread!
And also, Night Hornet, most awesome replies on many many requests!

I'm gonna use my (for now) temporary VIP power to make use of this thread it and post some references to my own character in the hope an artist feels like drawing/rendering, or whatever skills he/she has available, one of them, or maybe even both.

Wow, I just looked at your first drawing and then went alle the way to the last. You have improved very much in a really short time!
Very impressive.

If you feel like drawing one of my characters, I'd be honered!

or

--falls off his chair--

Wow. I never bothered to look futher than the all-access part of the forums, because I'm a Free-Player (only VIP for one month to get the 3rd Tier filled) and wouldn't be able to reply on anything anyway, but boy oh boy did I miss out!
There is SO MUCH art on the forums.. I never knew!

--climbs back up--

The Fairy Tails are very cute. My wife will LOVE them, I'm sure of it! She has two or three of those herself.
Do you have a wallpaper sized version of it, by any chance? And would you like to share it?
I would love to surprise her with a Fairy Tail wallpaper on her laptop!

Congratulations to the winners!
(wow... I'm only the 2nd one to say that? (not counting the host, sorry DeeDee )

Also welcome to the new participants! Some great looking art sofar!
I'm looking forward to what everyone comes up with next.