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First sketch of the New Year! Well I've been working on commissions, but I needed a break so here's a quick sketch of my Kin/Will Brute Wamma Jamma Momma! I like Kinetic Melee mainly for the sounds and the long animations!
Here she is when I first made her up some time last year before I had access to the alpha parts:
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Quote:Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
To what Alex suggests:
Yeah there would be many ways to game that. An artist voting for himself getting a 25% value score will either lead to everyone voting for themselves (in which case those in the lead will get further ahead and those behind will not have a chance and quit) or if a couple vote for the same person you could end up with a winner that is the crowd favorite not the top artist... it could become a popularity contest again rather than an art contest.
Sorry, what I meant is that the votes would only count as 25% of total score, so if you got a million votes, but only 12 points, you could still lose. By not allowing the votes to totally rule the score, no chance of popularity contest. Only one vote at the end of contest.
Quote:Also while I probably gave away more free art of other people's characters this last year (I'm a big fan of it 
) I would be against a separate area where people suggest use of their heroes and can award points based on this... it would lead I think to too much pressure to cram in as many people in each piece as possible. Also it could lead to people dinging certain artists because "they didn't choose me even though I was clearly perfect for that piece" (this month is fire... how many people have a fire based character?).
Who they want to draw should remain a voluntary choice on the artist's part to avoid hurt feelings and unnecessarily crowded pieces (of course an artist is still free to ask for volunteers to be in a piece but it shouldn't impact score to that degree).
To clarify, you get one point per piece regardless of how many characters you include, so no way to stack up by doing every single character. I see how the fire theme might suggest you draw a fire themed character, but um you don't have to? Saving someone in a fire, any other character fighting a fire character, um too many to list, but you get the idea...
Sorry forgot to clarify, one vote at the end, not a vote each month, maximum of three points a monthQuote:I'd also be against letting artists ignore the theme for a small penalty in points as one of the best things about this contest is how it forces you outside your comfort zone and makes you try things you ordinarily wouldn't. You would get people drawing what they are best at all the time if they think they can earn enough points to win... what's the point in having a theme then? Think if the theme was tragedy and 10 artists submit their best tragic pieces but Foo submits a piece with boobs and wins that month. Who would follow the theme after that? :P Also this will put a lot of pressure on Bubba to "interpret" what is and what isn't technically valid.
This is not a come and go as you please contest, the past winners have all done 12 pieces to win, so if you want to win, you should expect to do 12 regardless. That's why you get a point for turning a piece in on time each month. It would take a person with real dedication to find this contest in May and try to win by submitting enough pieces to catch up, even with the point handicap. And if a person does stick figures, follows the rules, turns them in on time, then they deserve to win, unless you are some sort of stick figure bigot!!!!!, Sorry that's just me being silly.Quote:Also if it is come and go as you please kind of contest you wouldn't want to require 12 pieces to even have a shot at winning for there exists the very real possibility that you may have no winner if all contestants miss a month at some point (because there isn't the pressure of elimination keeping them in every time) or you might have one person draw 12 sets of stick figures and win because everyone else has 11 or less submissions. etc etc...
Really appreciate the feedback, let's keep the discussion going, unless of course Bubba has decided and we are just hijacking the thread.
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I was actually thinking about a point system as well, and would say that would work, but I would suggest that you allow anyone to enter any time, and whomever has entered 12 entries over 12 months will enter in a vote, with the vote will count as 25% of the final score.
I guess one point for a valid entry, one point for making deadline, and one point for including a submitted character. You still need 12 entries and a minimum of 12 points to be considered for the title.
I would also suggest opening a thread where folks submit their characters and awarding contestants a point for using those characters in their submissions. That way folks on the boards can participate and get some free art.
I'm thinking this way if you want the FArt Title, you're gonna have to work for it, plus folks on the board will not only see lots of art, but will see their characters in the art, and the winner will be decided via hard work, based on a body of 12 pieces, with some help but not entirely based on votes.
Only sticking point is "valid" entry and that's gonna be up to the judge to be able to be impartial and stick to their guns, and to be as clear as possible about the rules.
The best method I guess would be to see the rules for each month as the instructions from a client for a commission, you want to stick as close to those rules to make the client happy. Now since you can still get two points without a valid entry, you can disregard them if you want. But is that any way to treat your client?
I've not done any math to see if there's any way to game this, so if there is, then this obviously won't work, but if there is a way to make it work, I'd love to hear any suggestions to improve upon it.
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Thanks everyone, it's good to be back! I missed you guys and gals as well!
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Just a quickie, here's to a great New Year!!!
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Thanks again for letting me help celebrate another 50, now go out there and level some more!!!
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Hey there, I'm Alex, I've been gone awhile, but I'm back, so time to start a new thread!
Here's my main, Ill/Kin, the concept is that he draws his costume with his Illusion powers so it's constantly changing depending on his mood.
And here's a WIP:
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Thanks everyone! I have about 12 other pieces that I can't show yet, hopefully when the Facebook game launches, I'll be posting those up, so I've been pretty busy, mainly spending time with the kid, a year and a half already!
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Hey there! Thanks to the reactivation weekend, I can do a little more than lurk! Here's some stuff that I've done. Sadly the weekend is pretty much up, so you can find me at my Deviantart page
Soothing Radiance of the Justice Girls
Southland and Soothing Radiance of the Justice Girls
Spirit of Texas of the Justice Girls
Nike IX
Futalia, Alessandra Brutanari and Alyssa Brutanari
Kiss
Flamewave
Icicle
Spybot
Big Battle
Assassin Devil
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I've missed you guys too!
Here's the latest one Therra Paladina:
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Thanks, just finished another one and when the client gives the okay to show, I'll post it!
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Thanks everyone, it's nice to be back if only for the weekend.
I've been pretty busy taking care of the baby so no time to play, barely any time to draw!
Here's the latest:
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Hey there, it seems my forum account also got reactivated for the weekend, so I thought I would post some pics I've done.
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Grats Johnstone!!!
Let me know which of your many toons you prefer a sketch of, you seem to have quite a few there!!! -
ooh colors
and whoever figures out the answer to John_Printemps question gets a free sketch. Of course if you were already told by someone that doesn't count! -
Happy Birthday!!!
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She's a Flying Purple People Eater!
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Here's an update you can click and see!
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Inks done!!! Now to bust out the crayons!
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For Black Giver from TA
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It's Ms. Jeckyll AND Ms. Hyde!! I had no idea my lovely Minion was getting an entire comic of made.
Looking good though, Alex, I like Hyde's costume "modifications" .
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The Ring Mistress burning confuses me. As a viewer, I'm not really sure how it happened.
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That's a good point. I think an addition of a hand shooting the fire in that panel should clarify that.
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