August Fanart Battle - VOTE

I vote Shia, brilliantly funny as usual. Love the inclusion of the poster also.

Aprosaath

Sure today is the first day of the rest of your life. But so was yesterday. And look how that turned out.

Toxic Shia: Ahahahahhahahahahhahah lol snort ahahah. heh... Mr Clean... he's bald like
Positron... get it... Too funny, and a great piece of art as well. Only a true fan would
ever willingly go through PTF more than once. Also bonus points for tieing in a previous months
entry by Lousy day in the form of the poster on the wall to add to your piece. If I could con/crit
anything it would be the shadows... one of the speech bubbles has a drop shadow and the other
doesn't and the shadow at the base of the toilet doesn't have her leg in it etc... minor deets only
though, truly this is one of your funniest pieces ever. Nice!

The Foo: Your piece was pretty damn funny too. Very clever the way the autograph covered his chest emblem
in the first panel just enough to make you wonder... is it really him? NOPE! It's superman clone number 638 heh.
Then in the last panel even the villains tied up in the background are laughing at him HA! what a diss.
Good stuff Foo. Oh and even though it's fixed now the "Slay" made me chuckle because I know a villainess that
wears pink and has a ponytail.


Lousy Day:
Impressive colors as always and you manage to sum up the theme with minimal clean forms. Visually it's like the
opposite of Shia's piece... drunk and passed out in a cold and dark toilet versus bright sunny and bounding energetically
out the door to snap a once in a lifetime photo-op. Also bonus points for use of a previous piece as well... for those that
missed it/are not familiar, I believe that piece in the window of the girls apartment is a real life stained glass piece done by
Lousy Day of Statesman vs Recluse (right LD?). Great emotion and action in the piece you can almost hear the Sqeeeeeeeee!

Side note: Is it just me or is that bust of Statesman on the top of the tv checking out her butt?!?!?

Aprosaath: Great work on your piece as well, honestly one of your best I've seen and you totally nailed the theme.
You can really see the (almost obscene) joy on Lil' Kat's face now that she has the final piece for her collection
and the look on Crestent is priceless... "hey isn't that my spear... and my shoe... and... hey whats with the huge glass case
with my name on it... ummm... uh oh... huuurrrk!" These were my thoughts before I noticed their was a caption
on the DA version (was looking at the Photobucket one).
That's a challenging background and floor you chose too, looks like your are pushing yourself to improve with each piece.
If I would mention any con/crit it would be the shadows on parts of the piece don't totally sync with the objects casting them
(like the one at the back of Crestent's foot... or is that smoke?) and the wood frame stops short on the upper right corner box of
the 4 stack cube (top row, looks like a window pane in the thumbnail). Minor stuff though, on the whole I really enjoyed this
piece, great job man!

Was a toss up between Shia and Aprosaath... Shia's made me laugh the hardest (posi-vodka lol) but in the end Aprosaath
went and took the theme of obsessive fan one step further for me, after all why settle for stickers and things from the object
of your desire when you can collect the object itself!

Vote goes to Aprosaath, gratz man.

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Originally Posted by Projectionist I vote Shia, brilliantly funny as usual. Love the inclusion of the poster also.

He's Alive lol!
Hey Projectionist we missed seeing a piece from you this month what happened bro?

One --> Artz Giveaway <-- To Rule Them ALL!

I will settle this. ORANGE FTW! - Ex Libris

Aprosath, the sheer fanaticism of collecting the hero she's a fanatic of is enough right there.

Here we come to the final moments!

Who's artistic skills will pay the bills? Find out after we come back, on Iron Artist International!

I vote for Toxic.

Gotta go with Shia this month. All sorts of little things hidden in that piece.

Lousy Day was my second choice

I vote for Shia.

I hope September isn't the last month, since I will be away for the better part of the month.

First off: I'll cast my vote for Lousy_Day's piece, dashing off to grab a paparazzi photo. Nice work again, man!


Second: THANK you to all those who voted for me! (squeee!) - Hericane, Amerikatt, ChristopherRobin, Mr_Bandwagon, Scootertwo, Thornster, The Masked Shrike, ... and, of course, Crestent! (hope I didn't miss anyone!)

ChristopherRobin, thanks for the critique! (yeah, that's neither smoke nor shadow - the figures were the last part, started as big, loose blobs of digital paint that I refined and fixed and cursed at and fixed some more and cleaned up - but didn't quite get all of the messiness clean up!)

and, Amerikatt, "does her obsessee still have that original bubble gum smell?" - Well, let's just say that he does show some "Use", but he's incredibly rare (they only ever made one!)

Annnnndddddd time's up!



That does it for August folks and here is the counts:


Toxic Shia - 16 votes

Foo - 3 votes

Lousy Day - 4 votes

Aprosaath - 8 votes


So the month goes to Shia for the passed out fanatic! Gratz man! Take a bow. This win actually does mean something as the eliminations are starting back up next month!

Hooray, I win!

Yes, yes, yaaay, I am a weeener! Yay me! Yay weener me! Im gunna go get drunk and celebrate!

Congrats, Shia on garnering top honors in August's contest!

Congrats, Aprosaath for coming in 2nd place! (*wonders why she doesn't have anyone collecting Amerikatt trinkets and placing *her* in a plexiglas display*)

Congrats, Lousy Day for coming in 3rd place!

Congrats, Foo for coming in 4th place!

You are all winners!

(*group huggles*)