The May 2010 Fan Art Battle

good to see so many entries make it in under the wire. 'Grats to all who made it.

GAH! My internet router has been messed up for the last several hours and I've been clicking away frantically trying to get it to let me post something.

No go.

I took pictures with my camera of my monitor as it was happening with the clock showing the time... at one point the page partially loaded (as if to taunt me) and I got half the City of Heroes logo at the top of the screen and I could see the post screen's topic but it just sat there despite my cursing and verbal abuse of it.
Problem looks to be that I could send packets but not receive anything (see the first pic) back.

I ended up writing a temporary profile by hand and overwriting the routers firmware just to get a functioning connection... it's a jury rig at best but at least I can get access.

Oh well I do have an entry to post though I know it's late... I'll leave it up to the FArtmistress to determine if it's valid or not.

I chose Vanity...


Edit: added the links to screen caps in my text for those who care to see... good thing there is no streaming audio to go with it.

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

I will settle this. ORANGE FTW! - Ex Libris

Those are actually really well-done armor shinies, CR. You don't see that very often with pencil.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dispari I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

Demmit!!!
Man when it rains it pours...

As I do every month, I was going to put up the WIP stages (for those that like to see the behind the scenes stuff) in my "New Artz" thread and the finished piece here but I copied the wrong link from photobucket and posted the WIP here instead. Not realizing I then went about adding the links to my post to show the screenshots of me not being able to get online earlier and hit f5 to refresh and make sure everything was right.

That's when I saw it was the not the final image but one of the WIP's I had posted... I went to get the correct link and blaaaaarrrrgggghhhh Internet FAIL! I would have caught the mistake right away but even though I was connected everything was going slooooow and this was all of the image that had loaded so far... looked like the right one so I moved on. Had I seen the bottom of the picture I would have noticed from the boot or Luminary being missing that it wasn't the right one.

This kinda stuff has been happening since last weeks TF with the 606 group and I think VexXxa, Bayani, Planet Girl etc. etc. can all attest how many times my connection dropped during that TF... that never used to happen to me during gaming.

Oh well... here is the correct link to the finished piece and as you can see this is after I sticthed the two WIPS together and cleaned it up a bit (also fixed TTC's boot) on the right is The Tick Tock Clock who represents the sin of vanity, he had a self articulating mirror installed so he can always be looking at himself, and on the left is Luminary, the trainer from Talos Island, who represents the hawt chick.



"I'd Click Me" is how I pictured TickTock saying "I'd do me" while Luminary's reply is the best robotic substitute I could think of
for a girl rolling her eyes (except I don't think she has eyeballs) and saying... "Oh brother."

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

I will settle this. ORANGE FTW! - Ex Libris

Grrr, I love CR's art and want him to stay in the contest... But then again I am always big on sticking the the rules.

Sorry CR, if it was up to me I'd give you the boot. But luckily it's not up to me. Though this is a perfect example of why I think there should be some leeway built into the contest for contestants to perhaps skip a month or such...

OK, since there was photographic evidence, I'll let this one slide. The rule isn't just so God can **** with you. Obviously you were making a lot of effort to get in on the deadline and I won't call you on computers getting in the way.

Much like how I have to go through a terrible appeal process for my financial aid because my mother died and I was struck partially blind.... I'll never add to someone's punishment because horrible things happened to them in the first place

Were everyone as much of a stickler as Caemgen, I would be a part-time typist for the rest of my life.

LD - I need your piece to get in the May FArt Comp folder in the CoH group. I can use the folder thumbs to set up the voting thread, since they are separate files (not like the individual piece thumbs anymore...)