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For the right price, they could always compete under my name... errr, I mean don't be suprised if my talent level suddenly takes off!!! |
Originally Posted by U-Naught
Maybe they'll be able to return when Wassy has the option for that? (hope hope hope)
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Fixed that for ya Wassy. |
Originally Posted by Wassy
Glad to see some more entries coming on in! And Countess Crey is a pretty darn good fit for the Queen of Hearts.
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Originally Posted by U-Naught
Here's my entry for this month:
Arachnos In Wonderland... |
and that Chesire-Mako is hilarious... I just hope it doesn't lean back more that a few millimeters... Yeouch!
Sidenote: 17 discs and THX certified w00t!
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Oh nohz! My prognostication of Clutch came to pass... someone check his toe quick!
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Originally Posted by DarkEther
And if you're not immune, then at least some penicillin to cure it?
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(All joking aside that is what 3 that dropped out this month? Including the person who had immunity and could've submitted a pic of a stain on his tie and still been in it?)
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Originally Posted by Wassy
Did Clutch drop off the face of the Earth? Really a shame, as he had immunity and could have thrown up some stick figures. Or did I miss something?
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Originally Posted by Caemgen
Mwuahahahahahaha! My evil scheme of bombarding artists with so much work that they have to drop out and leave me the sole contestant and thus the 2010 FArt champion is proceeding exactly as planned!!!!!
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Thanks, CR! (was thinking 17 discs for issue 17, kind of) And, you know, Cats are known for their sense of bal.. er, I mean, Sharks are known for their ..er ..teeth, um.. Well, he's Magic! (oh, wait, isn't he Mutant and Natural origined?) |
Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
Very cool U-Naught this looks very official right down the the NC soft logo
and that Chesire-Mako is hilarious... I just hope it doesn't lean back more that a few millimeters... Yeouch! Sidenote: 17 discs and THX certified w00t! |
A little present, this is not my work, but I wanted to do a tribute to Nei Ruffino aka Bakanekonei for her work on this subject in collaboration with eric basaldua or David Nakayama our new artistic manager that we not present no more or yet J-Scott-Campbell:
http://bakanekonei.deviantart.com/ar...t-OUT-80712087
http://bakanekonei.deviantart.com/art/psycho-69435814
http://bakanekonei.deviantart.com/ar...cover-71671658
http://bakanekonei.deviantart.com/ar...-i-p-145233081
http://bakanekonei.deviantart.com/ar...land-136831863
http://bakanekonei.deviantart.com/ar...ella-134862095
http://bakanekonei.deviantart.com/ar...time-123196550
http://bakanekonei.deviantart.com/ar...I-Am-139863393
http://bakanekonei.deviantart.com/ar...rland-90480931
http://bakanekonei.deviantart.com/ar...body-100688538
http://bakanekonei.deviantart.com/ar...rland-82316038
and, as I said on DA, Johnnykat - that piece ROCKS!
J-Kat, I love that Alice got hit with Vengeance too! LOL
Everyone's pieces are great this month. I'm sad to see so many had to drop but it is still going to be a difficult vote!
RedFire - Thanks, some pretty cool pieces in there! 
I love Mako as the Cheshire Cat.
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Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
I love Mako as the Cheshire Cat.
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Originally Posted by RedFire
A little present, this is not my work, but I wanted to do a tribute to Nei Ruffino aka Bakanekonei for her work on this subject in collaboration with eric basaldua or David Nakayama our new artistic manager that we not present no more or yet J-Scott-Campbell:.................
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Nei is most definitely a "She"
Doesn't appear so, no....
But they are doing amazing things with hormones and surgeries these days.
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Originally Posted by Wassy
Did Clutch drop off the face of the Earth? Really a shame, as he had immunity and could have thrown up some stick figures. Or did I miss something?
Anyway, this is my marker to know who didn't get in on time, and I actually DID just check the dA group this time. Let me know if I honestly missed someone.... Vote will be up this weekend... probably not until later in the day tomorrow. I have to be off on a hunt for acrylics first thing tomorrow morning so I can paint my latest illustration of a cheery 50's housewife serving her eager little son Satan for dinner. Its due on Wednesday. .... what? |
the son is being served a dinner that consists of grilled Satan (...in a jalapeno honey glaze, with a side of hot and spicy curly fries I imagine).
Both sound hilarious and a little beeezar.
...also is the voting thread coming soon?
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Sorry, it's because I use a F***in' traductor
Any apologies to Nei, who is so charming
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The grilled Satan is the correct interpretation.|
Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
Ok there are two ways to read that... either the son is actually Satan and is being served dinner by a 50's housewife or
the son is being served a dinner that consists of grilled Satan (...in a jalapeno honey glaze, with a side of hot and spicy curly fries I imagine). Both sound hilarious and a little beeezar. ...also is the voting thread coming soon? |
I'll be getting the vote up today. My errands took way longer than anticipated yesterday, and I needed to get certain amounts done on my homeworks. I'm starting to go more than a little COMPLETELY INSANE to land another 4.0 this semester.... because I'll be applying to Syracuse University for their illustration program in the fall o.o
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That sounds like a very worthy reason for the delay, Wassy. No problem!
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Originally Posted by Wassy
The grilled Satan is the correct interpretation.
I'll be getting the vote up today. My errands took way longer than anticipated yesterday, and I needed to get certain amounts done on my homeworks. I'm starting to go more than a little COMPLETELY INSANE to land another 4.0 this semester.... because I'll be applying to Syracuse University for their illustration program in the fall o.o |
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No excuses!... errr I mean, I am every bit confident that you will succeed (Go WASSY!) and clearly RL comes first and all. |
Originally Posted by Wassy
The grilled Satan is the correct interpretation.
I'll be getting the vote up today. My errands took way longer than anticipated yesterday, and I needed to get certain amounts done on my homeworks. I'm starting to go more than a little COMPLETELY INSANE to land another 4.0 this semester.... because I'll be applying to Syracuse University for their illustration program in the fall o.o |
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I just wanted to say, man - I think the simple subtly of your piece is really quite amazing. So few elements, in such simple, raw form, yet I 'got' it immediately - I immediately recognize Alice, even without much detail, The two-pistols instantly links to the new Game powerset, and the two, tiny playing cards call forth the Queen of Hearts' army of card-men. Nothing more is needed, really - those few, well chosen bits speak their parts clearly!|
Originally Posted by Lousy_Day
Wow, some great entries! Your second entry is amazing, Shia.
Here's my meaningless entry that's a waste of a great theme. I will be in survival mode for at least another month.  I had a more elaborate idea, but it wasn't going to happen in a few hours. I wanted Alice to do bullet rain on a group of carnies in St. Martial. The bullets would have been engraved with the words "EAT ME", and upon getting hit, the carnies would turn into a deck of cards. |
Its a good piece, and deserves to stand proudly in the company of many good pieces.
(didn't mean that to be so mushy - but really, its a good piece!)
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Originally Posted by Pyro_Nympho
I didn't want to post any comments in the voting thread (we all know what road that takes us down), but I'm a little confused. I sent Wassy a PM questioning the "hot chick" rule, and her response was fine, final, and I'm dealing with it.
But...is this month's "hot chick" rule mean just a female? Any female will do? I've studided all the entries, and yes, I know, everyone's definition of "hawtness" is their own. But seriously, review them all, tell me where the "hot chick" is? Is Alice "hot", and just her image or reference to it fulfill the requirements of Rule #1? Not arguing...just saying. |
Whatever the boss says. I won't argue - I hear she bites!
(not that that's necessarily a bad thing...)
My Deviant Art page link-link
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If I remember back at the first month, there were points where it was stated even just a woman's foot would've done, or a cross-dressing character, or a stick figure with large, round circles, or even a baby chicken that's burning. There has also been mention of being the "intent" that matters.|
Originally Posted by Pyro_Nympho
I didn't want to post any comments in the voting thread (we all know what road that takes us down), but I'm a little confused. I sent Wassy a PM questioning the "hot chick" rule, and her response was fine, final, and I'm dealing with it.
But...is this month's "hot chick" rule mean just a female? Any female will do? I've studided all the entries, and yes, I know, everyone's definition of "hawtness" is their own. But seriously, review them all, tell me where the "hot chick" is? Is Alice "hot", and just her image or reference to it fulfill the requirements of Rule #1? Not arguing...just saying. |
I get the feeling its not strictly, specifically as narrow as needing a generally acknowledged 'Playboy Bunny' to fulfill the requirement for a valid entry -- but the viewer's perception of how attractive each entry's 'Hot Chick' is *does* seem to matter in terms of how many votes an entry gets (especially in February's battle).
I could be wrong in my interpretation, however.
I guess I can say what I PERSONALLY had problems with on this theme.. and its just
Me personally..
... I would have ta say the problem with Alice is that Alice IS her dress.. and that dress is a full body one.. complete with full leg stockings..
you could have her drink or eat something and have her grow out of the dress, or make the dress smaller, or have her smaller then the dress and get some sexy skin shoots in.. but thats all been done a thousand times before...
ack.. and the red-queen has NEVER been any role where a sexy women would fit.( though great props to people that get her to look sexy ) ... the red queens always.. well... THE Red Queen.. i.e. theirs always something wrong with her.. though I guess having a beautiful red queen shown doing something mentally insane would work..
..you could make a sexy furry version of the chesire cat.. but then.. the main thing is the cats big big grin... it wont fit on a sexy chick..
sexy bunny rabbits with time watches??.. err... dunno.. with the posting that the game will be getting new animated tails... the coh and cov furry population has hit the roof.. it just didnt seem ta fit for an alice theme... it was like the dress.... ( to expected )...
..aside from Alice and the Red Queen.. theres no other humans ta SEXYFY in the wonderland universe..
its just hard because everythings either expected or been done before.. NOW if alice was only defined by her sea-shell bra like the little mermaid... THEN we could crank out the sexy chick rule into over drive..
err... in fact.. FORGET the sea shell bra.. err.. and the mermaid tail..
*squishes the crab, kills the annoying bird, and pees on the more annoying yellow fish.. then walks off with ariel over his shoulder* ... on second thought.. it could be that I NEVER thought Alice was a sexy chick.. err.. unlike other Disney characters...
...now if you dont mind.. I have a red-haired princess that needs to be introduced to my own breaded fish stick.. *walks off into the sunset*...
Too late I already mentioned it in the voting thread.
But yeah I noticed the hot chick rule is being very very loosely defined and in some cases glossed over. As long as Wassy okays it though it's copacetic.
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I guess I can say what I PERSONALLY had problems with on this theme.. and its just
Me personally.. ... I would have ta say the problem with Alice is that Alice IS her dress.. and that dress is a full body one.. complete with full leg stockings.. you could have her drink or eat something and have her grow out of the dress, or make the dress smaller, or have her smaller then the dress and get some sexy skin shoots in.. but thats all been done a thousand times before... ack.. and The Queen of Hearts has NEVER been any role where a sexy women would fit.( though great props to people that get her to look sexy ) ... The Queen of Hearts always.. well... The Queen of Hearts .. i.e. theirs always something wrong with her.. though I guess having a beautiful The Queen of Hearts shown doing something mentally insane would work.. ..you could make a sexy furry version of the chesire cat.. but then.. the main thing is the cats big big grin... it wont fit on a sexy chick.. sexy bunny rabbits with time watches??.. err... dunno.. with the posting that the game will be getting new animated tails... the coh and cov furry population has hit the roof.. it just didnt seem ta fit for an alice theme... it was like the dress.... ( to expected )... ..aside from Alice and The Queen of Hearts .. theres no other humans ta SEXYFY in the wonderland universe.. its just hard because everythings either expected or been done before.. NOW if alice was only defined by her sea-shell bra like the little mermaid... THEN we could crank out the sexy chick rule into over drive.. err... in fact.. FORGET the sea shell bra.. err.. and the mermaid tail.. *squishes the crab, kills the annoying bird, and pees on the more annoying yellow fish.. then walks off with ariel over his shoulder* ... on second thought.. it could be that I NEVER thought Alice was a sexy chick.. err.. unlike other Disney characters... ...now if you dont mind.. I have a red-haired princess that needs to be introduced to my own breaded fish stick.. *walks off into the sunset*... |
and I don't see it being that hard... we are not limited to ONLY characters from Alice i.e. this is a CoH crossover so the hawt chick can be anyone from the CoH universe including one of your characters or something from the accepted cannon like an NPC and she doesn't have to be the centerpiece, she could just as easily be a part of the background like someone who accidentally wandered into Wonderland.
You know, it's actually more accurate to refer to her as the Red Queen rather than the Queen of Hearts. The Disney version makes her the Queen of Hearts, but especially in Through the Looking Glass, it's based on a game of chess, with the Red Queen and the White Queen. Also seen with the Red and White Knight having a battle. So, Tartyr was perfectly fine in his example.
The Hot Chick rule was always meant as lighthearted fun rather than a constricting, defining influence on the arts, as I understand it. It seems to me that Wassy was very willing from the get go to be very loose and easy going on this requirement... She ok'd my baby chich with a lighter near it's butt, Shia's (was his, right?) Mako with a bra on, etc...
If we are going to be really strict about it then we will need to know whose definition of hot we are going by... I think someone mentioned playboy bunnies but I personally find cuteness much more hot. Some people are into heavy chick, some like chicks with errr... Sticks.
And as for an argument against Alice being the hot chick... Errr, what does a dress have to do with it? It's hot, not sexy, so the amount of skin should have little to do with it. Heck, some chicks could make a burqa attractive! (eh, I probably spelled that wrong...)
I may be willing to hear the argument that the character is a little girl and thus should not qualify but nothing says she had to be kept a little girl for the art...
As for other human characters... I believe the idea is to blend Alice with CoH but that canon doesn't need to be adhered to se who says there couldn't be s hot female Mad Hatter?? I've seen some really great arts of such a concept.
In truth, it has been said since early on that it was the intent that mattered... That so long as the entrant intended part of the art to fit the Hot Chick requirement that it would qualify... So if people drew a sexy female rabbit with that intention then all should be good. Same as if someone drew Alice with the intent of her being the hot chick...
Honestly, my intention was to throw in another baby chick joke, this time to have the tail feathers on fire. My intent was to have it get more and more engulfed for as long as I was in the contest...
Alice was not intended as a hot chick in my entry since I did view Alice as a young girl... As such, I did not meet the Hot Chick requirement... Even though I fully supprt Wassy's very lax enforcement of the Hot Chick rule, my piece doesn't meet it at all. Due to this I am disqualifying myself so Wassy doesn't need to even be faced with the question...
Good luck to all remaining...
And U-naught Lord Recluse as Alice is just...just...awesome and yet disturbing.
I need mental bleach.
Lotsa great entries this time, and some real variety, too! Caemgen, I'm glad you did get the piece in. And Toxic_Shia, I like both your pieces as well!
Sad to lose the other contestants, tho
Maybe they'll be able to return when Wassy has the option for that? (hope hope hope)