June FArt Battle

June's Theme is Tarot

The tarot is a mysterious subject and open to many different variants, including the [Mystic Fortune] power used within the game. This month's theme is Tarot, like the cards, other than that it is a basic theme without any extra gimmicks, that's saved for next month .

Rules


All types of visual art are acceptable for this month's theme. Screenshot manipulations, sketches, graphic design, etc. So long as they incorporate this month's theme into the work.

1. Use City of Heroes/Villains Characters- This is, afterall, a CoX Fan Art competition, so I expect you guys to keep that in mind. If there's nothing relating to City of Heroes/Villains in your entry, you will be disqualified.

2. Keep It PG-13- All entries this month must be postable to these boards without a 2 click.

3. Deadlines- All entries MUST be submitted to this thread by Monday June 27th by Midnight Eastern US time. Voting will begin by Tuesday June 28th, held here on the CoH boards. The pieces that I put up for a vote have been personally verified by me, so if you disagree with their qualifications, please take it up with me rather than the artists.

4. There will be eliminations this month instead of points, you may use the points you have accumulated through this point as you see fit, either privately or announced in this thread. At least 2 people will be eliminated this month, and at least 1 person will be eliminated through voting. If you don't submit this month, and don't use your points to save yourself you will be eliminated. The top 3 artists based on votes are safe from elimination no matter how many people use their points to save themselves from elimination.

4. Early Bird Points-If you post your final submission early, you will get 1 vote point which is equal to 1 third place vote. Since I am announcing this a little late I am extending the normal Early Bird time to the 19th. So if you post your final submission before midnight Eastern June 19th, you will get 1 free third place vote in this round. Hope to see some submissions soon.

5. Prizes- The artist with the most votes each month will receive 10 million inf sent to them through in game E-mail. The overall winner of the year will receive 50 million. Thanks to Draggynn for his donation to the prize fund.

6. Uses for points:
You may announce your use of points in this thread, or privately through PM to me. Privately used points will be revealed in the voting results with the adjusted points totals. You may use points until we are down to the final 3 artists.
5 points: Head Start - find out the next month's theme in advance.
15 points: A Little More Time - Allows an entry to be submitted and/or modified up to 2 days after the deadline. No adjustments will be made for any votes already cast if applicable.
30 points: Overruled! - If your piece is judged as not being within theme, you can overrule the judgement and have your piece placed in the voting thread anyway (This cannot overrule rules #1 or #2)
40 points: Immunity - Grants you immunity from elimination for that month - must be declared before voting begins, and can be declared in private. The top 3 based on votes cannot be eliminated due to a large number of immunity buys.
65 points: Saved - Also grants you immunity from elimination for that month but can be declared after voting is over. You can also declare it before voting begins to avoid elimination due to non-entry.

Cool theme. And, of course, seeing the BAF cut scenes, we all know that Mother Mayhem is the Queen of Cups.

Just happened across this on dA and I thought I'd share it for some inspiration.

Gauntlette's Superhero Tarot project.

This is a great theme, but it looks like I am the first one to get eliminated this year.

School starts in two weeks, and I know I won't have the time to participate anymore. Hopefully later this year I will be able to post some decent 3d sculpts of superheroes.

Great job Bubba on organizing this and good luck to the rest of the contestants!

I thought everyone had immunity until June?

*waves fist at LD's school*

CoH Fan-Art Sale still several slots open!

Read my in-game stories and check out my DeviantART page.
- coXso - It was a memorable time filled with art!

I'm glad you were able to contribute as many times as you could. You mentioned early on that you would probably have to drop out around this time. Good luck and keep an eye out over here. I'll gladly post anything you can contribute even if you're no longer in the running.

Also, any who have been absent recently due to school, maybe you'll have more time now? No one's officially out of the running yet until the end of this month. So bring it on!

made a slight adjustment to the points - lowered "Saved" from 70 to 65 based on final points stadings, so instead of only 1 person having enough points to use it, the top 4 do, even though one of those 4 have eliminated themselves.

Also, if I haven't mentioned it before, there will be no more points available to earn, and points will be allowed to use until we are down to the final 3 artists.

Oooh looks like I can at least buy myself one safety net! *cheers*

CoH Fan-Art Sale still several slots open!

Read my in-game stories and check out my DeviantART page.
- coXso - It was a memorable time filled with art!

I was kind of sorry to let the early bird points go. I thought it was a nice little extra incentive to get people to not wait until the last minute. With the end of the points system I wondered if I should keep the early bird as a way to get a couple extra points to get a little bit closer to an immunity buy for some people. But today I thought of a way to re-introduce the early bird points system with our new format.

If you post your final submission early, you will get 1 vote point which is equal to 1 third place vote. Since I am announcing this a little late I am extending the normal Early Bird time to the 19th. So if you post your final submission before midnight Eastern June 19th, you will get 1 free third place vote in this round. Hope to see some submissions soon.

P.S. I do intend to participate with everyone this month. I have one attempt that I'm not quite happy with, but will hopefully have something better to post before the end of the month.

Ooh yay!! Early bird point! (see? no s there ).
I'm nearly done anyway so.... yay again!! ... I'm just having trouble colouring. It appears I have lost "my style" once again *giggles*. But have no fear... there will be a submission from my side soon!

CoH Fan-Art Sale still several slots open!

Read my in-game stories and check out my DeviantART page.
- coXso - It was a memorable time filled with art!

Really?

Only one person earned the "saved" prize so lets artificially lower the bar?
If you wanted 4 people to have it why didn't you just say so at the beginning i.e.

...the top 4 point earners will get a one use "save" as a bonus...

rather than wait and see who earns it and then fudge the numbers to
get the outcome you wanted anyway? Wouldn't that have worked better?

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@DD: Oh hey how did that get loose in here again?
**Ties a leash around DD's style and hands it back**

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

I will settle this. ORANGE FTW! - Ex Libris

Oh maaaaan! I've been looking ALL over for that! *pouts* Now I have to train it all over again!

Thanks for returning it though!

CoH Fan-Art Sale still several slots open!

Read my in-game stories and check out my DeviantART page.
- coXso - It was a memorable time filled with art!

Honestly Bubba if it were a single event I could see that but this looks to be an ongoing trend.

Also you haven't made a math error in a couple months, if anything that is one area that has much improved. No (just my opinion here but) this looks quite a bit like you wanting things to go a certain way and when they don't you change the either the rules or results around until they do. It's fine if you want to be more inclusive but I really wish you would just declare these sort of things at the outset. All these changes after the fact just kills my desire to strive for the best I can each month when I know you are just going to dilute the result anyway.

My friends and family here following along were all congratulating me on being the only one to have all the
point options open to me (and were offering suggestions for how I should use them) and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.

It's frustrating.

Anyway that's my take on it but the above aside, I think this month's
theme is one of the best thusfar so kudos for that. I look forward to the entries.

P.S. I am aware the Defiance (and the other artists here) worked his butt off
as well and I have been nothing but encouraging and congratulatory to him in that regard.

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

I will settle this. ORANGE FTW! - Ex Libris

Hmm.. I see your point CR.
Didn't realize myself that a few points would have that much impact.

Early bird points or not ...here's my piece.

CoH Fan-Art Sale still several slots open!

Read my in-game stories and check out my DeviantART page.
- coXso - It was a memorable time filled with art!

A whole parent? Do you think that's sound fiscal advice? If I bought 5 cheap distant cousins and got them all to vote for me, that would probably go a lot further towards making me special too.

Edit: (needless commentary redacted)


Anyway, don't really want to get involved with drama here, just wanted to point out that at least one other definitely understands CR's viewpoint.

Yeah, umm as much as I'd like to enter, not sure when I can make time for this over other things... no offense to anyone. But I am also not a drama person, well not in this case, so I'm gonna bow out, not that it matters, I am last in the points tally. Good luck to all the rest, NICE early bird DD.

PS: See you next year!

Hey Bubba, I am hereby deleting my accrued points. Or divide them up to the other people. Donate them to charity. That way with LD gone Chris only has to worry about Defiance buying some special advantage. I really don't want to try to win an art contest that way anyway.

Ack, now I feel like I started something, whether I did or not Anyway, original modified to just leave the real point of the whole post.