Caemgen's Commission Contest #4

Last one of the year and it's got to be quick!

I've got two (2) PresidentNelson (from dA http://presidentnelson.deviantart.com/) commissions to give away and I didn't clear any contest nonsense with him so I'm not going to draw this out too long and hold up his getting to work. So the prize is the commissioned art by him, coloring by J. Wade Webb (http://jwwebb.deviantart.com/) and... errr.. well, I guess that's it? For Color Commissions (which this is) you'll Receive the Orignal Art plus a Hi-res Print of the colors. This is a single character drawing, sorry but I'm not paying more so you can beat up 472 ninjas and a pirate

How to enter would probably be relevant about now...

Hmph, well... I got 3 of these for myself and I need to come up with poses for my characters for the art... So to enter suggest poses for each of my 3 characters. The two entrants I like best will get the free arts. Not saying I'll use any of the suggestions, already have a couple ideas myself, but I had to pick some way to give these out.

If you don't know my characters... Well you either probably don't deserve to win or you should pay more attention!

Fenian:
http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c1.../Fenian%20new/

Caemgen
http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...Caemgen%20new/

Alpha
http://s26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...d/Alpha%20new/

If you want a little bit of bio info on them you could read my journal on my dA page here: http://kaemgen.deviantart.com/journal/

I may or may not spring for an additional character or two in my own commissions so feel free to use that in your entries or not as you see fit.

You're description of the pose for each character can be as detailed or as plain as you want. I would bet "Standing" won't be good enough to win but I'm not expecting a novel and good writing isn't required as long as I get what you mean.

Again, try to have an idea for each of the 3 characters in your entry...



This contest will run until it closes. If I get an email from the artist saying he needs the references NOW then it will be ending really soon... But I expect this will be up for at least 24 hours. The point is, enter quickly - There's no gaurantee you'll have time later.

Everyone is eligible to enter but the winners will be picked by me alone and will be based on whatever I feel like basing it when I decide to end the contest.

I reserve the right to use the ideas of anyone who posts here whether they are a winner or not... Mainly because I don't want someone later claiming they gave me the idea when it may be just like the one I already have in my head. Don't like it? Don't enter. *shrug*


If you win you will need to have references ready ASAP for the character you want done as well as the pose you want for them... Like I kind of mentioned, don't know how impatient the artist may be for the references so I don't want to delay too long...


And I gaurantee this will not be like the last contest where I got art for people after the fact... Only the winners are getting art. This is the last art I am buying this year. Period. Definitely. Gauranteed. Unless a couple people I really want art from suddenly open for commissions!

But seriously... I'm expecting a drought of new purchases from me after this little spree. I've said it before but sheesh, I have SO MUCH pending that it's getting hard to keep track of it all. I think instead of more art buying I'm instead going to let the pending stuff actually get done and maybe spend some cash printing off and framing a few things for my walls... But ya'all don't care about this, you all just want me to post so you can enter... Alrighty, alrighty...

Last comment: as always, I reserve the right to change, modify, strike down, create, ignore or manufacture rules at any point of the contest... and even afterwords. Any questions feel sfree to ask and I'll make up an answer that sounds reasonable once I get around to it...

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Ok, shooting from the hip...

Fenian: Making me scrambled eggs in her underwear! Ok, just kidding. Since all of her pictures are showing her all zappy, I'm going to say her doing the "floating book" routine thus signifying her mystical powers without the electrical special effects. Through one of those Celtic knotwork thingies onto the cover of the tome.

Caemgen: I didn't see any pictures of him descending with wings out, all Batman style. He needs one of those. Get on it.

Alpha: You need a good "Alpha in repose" image. Not so much like the one where he's looking beaten down, but a picture of him in full armor and helmet leaning against a wall or something, waiting for the rest of the Patrol to show up. A juxtaposition between his heavy armor and his relaxed stance.

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You didn't specify if your characters were to be alone in the image or not, so this is what I'm thinking...

Fenian
I see her in the middle of a mob doing a dance while they're all doing the "shaky shaky dance" from getting Thunderous Blasted. Some sparks of electricity here and there to signify what just happened.

Caemgen
Leaning against an outcropping of the Cliffs of Morah watching the tourists scramble around with a smirk on his face and a ball of flame in his hand.

Alpha
Don't know if he does Nova form, but something with his just beginning to change from human form to Nova. Like...the crouch down, and still able to see the human form, but a shadow of the nova form is right there too.

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Fenian -
I find this pose to be soft, yet strong just like the toon

Caemgen -
with this pose I see Caem's wings spread at full width perhaps perched atop a building.

Alpha -
in this pose I see Alpha in an alley fight with a random thug and Alpha is using the box as a bit of leverage to tackle him.

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I always have trouble coming up with ideas for art, so I am certainly willing to offer any I get for your characters! (btw, I am ALWAYS accepting ideas for new pieces...from anyone...really...please help! lol)


Hmm, Fenian kinda has a pirate look to me, so put her in a old fashioned bar, half on a stool, getting a little drunk.

Caemgen needs to be in a pin up sexy pose, like from a firefighter calender, maybe winking at the viewer.

Alpha...hmm...maybe sitting on the corner with a towel and a can of wax, shining his armor?

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Some interesting ideas, some amusing ideas and some interestingly amusing ideas But I'm not commenting specifically until at least the contest is over.


One thing I will comment on: The idea is for each of my characters to have a commission to themselves. It's possible I may include a villian or two but I'm not thinking team up between my characters in a single piece...


And lastly, the artist has ok'd a delay so this will run at least 24 hours... but I don't think I'll push it past 48. I'd rather have him working on my arts than catching up on old episodes of M*A*S*H.

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Caem and Fenian should be eating cookies. Daybreaker is holding a cookie jar. When put together, the composite image makes them eating cookies from his jar. Which is his helmet.

Eww.

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Fenian Girl: I think she should be shopping for lingerie! And behind her is a Skull about to smash her head in with a bat. Fenian has her hand up behind her with her index finger waggling back and forth in that "Naughty naughty" waggle. But her finger is completely electrified ready to fry the Skull. But her face is all non-chalant.

Alpha: He needs a very iconic image of him destroying a Crey building or maybe just the giant Crey industries stone sign.

Caemgen: I like the poses you have so far in your images. I really like the one of him on the building top. BUT something new...hmmm...May be hard to do but how about him standing in the rain exhausted and battered from a fight with a bit of blood and scratches here and there. Maybe with a bunch of different AVs at his feet.

Good luck everyone!

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Lets see what poses would be nice for em...

Fenian- uhhh I vote for her bending over...

Caemgen- Hip thrusting

Alpha- Cutting up some poor sap with a... Wait wrong alpha. Okay the real pose would be him I guess sending an energy blast with his right hand kinda like in the pose of when you use the Fire Controllers power Char.

That's all I got.

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Crestent lvl 50 Mind/Emp Controller http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...cGallary-1.jpg
http://crestent.deviantart.com/
http://www.creyindustries.com/viewhero.php?id=21809

Hmm...well I'm a fan of showing other sides of characters, so not so much with the standard poses, but I also don't know how much background the artist is likely to want to do, so not too detailed either

Fenian - Cleaning off graffiti from a Neighborhood Watch sign

Alpha - In civvies, looking at a wall/album/newspaper clipping of the mall incident, maybe with a computer or some piece of evidence, if you want to pay for two characters, the suit off to one side

Caemgen - Doing something completely ordinary, like buying groceries or reading the paper with coffee at a street cafe.

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Again, a wonderful and generous offer from you Caemgen, thank you very much! A few ideas, mmm...

Alpha - walking towards the viewer either, a) walking out of a decimated structure; b) with a mushroom cloud blooming behind him in the near distance, c) either previous option with him dragging his opposition along the ground as he lumbers toweard the eye of the viewer.

Fenian Girl - Putting on her costume in front of her mirror at home. Perhaps being butt naked holding up a costume option in either hand, mulling over her options for pounding face that evening.

Caemgen - I'd actually like to see him in a "normal-lifestyle" setting or atmosphere. I say make him alone in a library or study, researching his physical condition/appearance, which he has no answers for. I can see him in front of a fireplace sitting in a chair, legs crossed and kicked up on a comfy foot stool. His arm is draped over the arm of the chair with a wine glass dangling from his hand. His other hand supports an open book on his lap called, "Geneological Abberations". Caemgen's head hangs low into his chest reading and his wings hang low to the ground in a very relaxed or weakened posture. Maybe the room is very dark with only a single light source illuminating his immediate person and reading area.

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For Fenian I see her doing the Jacobs Ladder from the Electric pool at the point before the blast when both hands are covered in electricity and the body is leaning back in an almost defensive pose like this


For Alpha I see him delivering an Incandescent Strike (PB powerset) to and uncooperative informant that may have a lead to who killed his wife. If you were to have just him in the shot it could be him at the Apex of the jump which would look cool in and of itself like this


Or if you wanted to have another figure then show the point of impact and have the informant go flailing (yay ragdoll physics ) like this


For Caemgen I see him trying to learn more about how he came to be a demon born of normal parents with no seeming mutation occurring by studying those that seek to bring demons into the world, namely the Circle of Thorns. He would be in the Hollows perched on one of those floating stones near the ritual site looking down on the Mages something like this.
Or a more dramatic alternative would be to have the same shot but with the camera in the center of a ritual and up in the distance over the shoulder of one of the acolytes you see Caemgen crouched on one of the stones looking down with an inscrutable expression like he is deciding to wait and see what happens or break up the ritual (and some heads).

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Interesting idea, Caemgen. Here are my thoughts on poses.

Fenian: The scene is dark except for an island of light given off by her waning electrical charge. Standing with her feet spread apart, bent over with her hands on her knees, and her head hung, as if she were catching her breath. While littered about her, you see a couple of feet, maybe some hands, or a head or two, of those that fell before her (don't think gruesome, more like just glimpses of the defeated while the rest of their bodies fade into the darkness.)

Caemgen: A steamy shower scene. I see him standing before a mirror, a towel wrapped around his waist, his reflection in the mirror. His eyes... gazing looking past himself, at a silhouette in the doorway behind him, maybe a curvy silhouette.

Alpha: I see him laying on a gurney, unconscious, clinging to life, doctors and technicians working on him, fitting him with the cybernetic replacements that will save his life and change it forever.

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Now that work's settled down a bit, I can resume my forum lurking activities.

Caemgen: The first thing that sticks in my mind is a seductive look on his face, standing in a bedroom, dressed with only his wings to cover him, holding a rose between his teeth and a pair of glasses balanced in one hand, and a bottle of something bubbly in the other. In the corner of the room lying on the bed is a gorgeous woman in a beautiful dress admiring Caemgen's backside.

Daybreaker Alpha: Alpha is standing in a ransacked office (or is it a lab? the room is in ruins and it's hard to tell exactly where he is) holding a sharp-dressed woman against her will, cybernetic hand against her throat with her back pressed against the wall. She has distinct chin-length black hair and her glasses are broken and sitting at an odd angle on her face. He has a questioning look on his face, full of anger, rage, and sorrow. It's hard to tell if he's merely yelling at the woman or ready to rip her face off. Or both.

Fenian: Fenian's at one with nature and her powers, standing with her arms out, hands cupped open, electricity flowing and arcing throughout her body and communing with the stone monoliths surrounding her. It's dark outside with the sun starting to rise faintly on the horizon. She's meditating and has come to terms with her powers and the sereneness of her expression and of the area around her signifies her acceptance of her powers and the fact she can use them for good.

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Quick Update

I'll be closing this contest sometime around 12:59pm Tuesday the 29th (later tonight) and hopefully soon after naming the winners. Winner announcement may be delayed if I drink too much at hockey game but I should be sober enough to do it

Once I post the winners names I'll also send them each a PM on the boards. If you are notified that you won please send me the following via PM asap so I can forward it on to the artist:

• Link or links to reference pics to the character you want drawn.
• Brief description of the pose you are after, if you're picky
• Any other details which may be relevent (ex: I always specify Fenian's bandana should have shamrocks instead of the black dots the game provides.)
• E-mail address the artist can contact you at if they have further questions. It'll be much faster if he can contact you directly rather than going through me but if you happen to not want to provide this for some reason I imagine we can work around it.
• Home address you want the original artwork and the colored print mailed to. If you do not wish to send this through me I can have the artist contact you directly (assuming you provide an email addy) or you can just forgo the actual art if you are that privacy concerned...

Please note: Winners art will only contain one character and I'm a bit unsure as to how much background is included. Most examples included in this sale had very simple or no backgrounds so please keep that in mind when describing pose/scene desired.

Not that it matters for the contest but:

I've already decided on what I'm going to be asking for. This in no way affects the contest or the possible winning of future entries.

Each "scene" I will be asking for includes multiple figures (which I'll be payng extra for) and while one (maybe two?) elements are similiar to suggestions above I think that's mainly coincidental and definitely is not mean any winners have been decided.

I'm finding the suggestions very interesting and there have been several similiar to stuff I have previously considered and several others that I will definitely consider in the future So if you haven't entered yet you should definitely consider doing so... Nothing has been decided and you could very well be a winner!

And sometime after the end of the contest I am going to make a nice long post responding to most suggestions... I've thoughts on most all of them one way or another but I just don't think it right to share until this has ended...

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Contest's over, people. He's doing the cookies.

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go outside the box.

get them done like a totem pole ^_^

each one being a segment of it

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1st intermission of hockey game, time left to enter is dwindling...

(my team is sucking, thanks for asking...)

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BOOOO EVIL PENGUINS! BOOOOOOO!!! SCREW YOU CRIESBY!!



(Guessing the Buffalo game?)

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<--- yep, buffalo game. 'zawright though, Sabres stopped sucking and came back from 3-0 to win 4-3. . I think that extra beer and me yelling "Shooooooooot" helped.


Mm, bout 40 minutes for last minute entries. Post now or no arts gor you!

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OOops... Guess I may be a bit late here.

Amd nope, I didn't pass out! Sheesh! Seems my dear old mother had no problem driving to the casino earlier in the day but apparently the conditions were too bad to drive herself home so I had to go get her... *sigh* The only condition that changed was the sun went down - who would have guessed that???


Anyway, on to the winners...

StormVyxen and ChristopherRobin

Almost everyone had fabulous ideas and on strictly pose alone I was stumped totally who to choose. However, after reading over all the entries again I noticed that these two both nailed one of the opponents I was having in the pics - StormVyxen with Countess Crey appearing in Alpha's pic and CR with the Circle of Thorns going up against Caemgen...

StormVyxen's scene of Alpha holding the defeated Countess is very close to what I finally decided on for his pic...

CR's suggestion that CoT may have something to do with Caemgen being what he is... Well when writing up the svene to have drawn I decided kind of the reverse of what CR suggested - Instead of Cae investigating CoT, they are harassing him, hounding him... But close enough for government work

Sorry, I know I never asked people to pick opponents in this contest and that it was likely the pic would contain only my characters... But again, there were so many good suggestions for poses that I had to come up with some kind of tie breaker.

A very honorable mention goes out to PowerStream for his suggestion containing the image of Fenian waving her finger to warn off someone sneaking up behind her. That had him neck to neck with the above two but I had to whittle away one somehow. Honorable mention also to EnnVee, the Fenian pose you suggested is awesome and I can definitely see myself getting that one in the future. I'll find you some kind of consolation prizes early in the new year for you two...

Thanks to all for participating, there were many great ideas and it was really, really difficult to come up with the final two. I think I said it last time but this is definitely the last non-random contest I am having... being a judge sucks when there are so many great entries.

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A HUGE Gratz to StormVyxen and ChristopherRobin you both had awesome ideas! You deserve the art, and I'm glad you enjoyed the pose I picked for Fenian to use at a later time Caemgen.

btw Caem, did you win, loose, or break even last night ?

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Grats StormVyxen and ChristopherRobin! Very cool ideas from you both!

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