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Invertation · Sep 27, 2011, 10:53 PM // 22:53

How you do it is beyond me, Penguin. The process is just as enticing to watch as the result.

KiyaKoreena · Sep 28, 2011, 01:26 AM // 01:26

So many wonderful drawings and paintings! I don't know why but I really love the Halloween moon and its cool to see it all over. :-)

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Made some more progress on mine.

GeminiJuSa · Sep 28, 2011, 01:39 AM // 01:39

@Penguin: That, is AWESOME! Not only the final result, but the video itself! It's very inspiring and interesting. Suiting music too! Wow, now I want to pic up a brush and paint traditionally too (but I'm so sucky at that it's sad)

@Koreena: Looking good! It's gonna be really nice to see the final result.

Using the tv for reference screen is awesome too. Maybe I should connect the computer to father's wide-screen HD tv and enjoy the game HD-style? Good for inspiration I suppose

Death By An Arrow · Sep 28, 2011, 02:18 AM // 02:18

-grumblegrumble-

So I'm gunna do what changes I can, but for time's sake im going to do what I need to finish as fast as possible. as I now have 4 nights to finish this and I have yet to paint yet :| I have lost my long weekend to some family thing, and I was counting on doing a lot of work then :/

UnOrthOdOx · Sep 28, 2011, 03:01 AM // 03:01

I hear ya on the time crunch. I'm not sure I'll be able to get done, so I'm filing away the marsh photo shoot as 'plan B'.

I still want the other for the yard, however, so onward.

Day 1:

Draken Burst · Sep 28, 2011, 05:18 AM // 05:18

Welp looks like Penguin's gonna win this one. Grats. :P

Sura · Sep 28, 2011, 10:41 AM // 10:41

@Death By An Arrow
Yes i will add flames or something similar to the pumpkin

. The last drawing you posted looks very cool! I love the towering Mad King over the small human on the rock

. But as Thistle and Bonjela said some of the proportions look a bit off (like the big right shoulder), but i am sure you are working on that

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@Marshmallow
That's so adorable! I look forward to the finished piece

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@Ravenhawk
The bear is soo cute

! Your piece is really coming along very nicely. One thing i notice that the figures in the background on the right side are very small. They look rather far away. I don't know if that's on purpose i just noticed it.

@Draken Burst
Those pictures are awesome! Charrlie using his mighty Cake Knife... Love it

@Penguin
wow that's amazing! Both paintings (sides??) are very, very awesome!

I haven't had much time to work on my piece. Rendered the chair a bit more, tried new colours and increased the contrast. I hope the colours and the contrast are not too extreme :s. I know that my screen shows the colours duller than many other screens and is not color-calibrated, so i hope that it doesn't look too awful on your screens. But it's only a test and wip anyway and I will tone it down before i send the final to Arenanet, as they definitely have good screens

Followedbyrocks · Sep 28, 2011, 01:37 PM // 13:37

Eeep, uh, hi. I'm kind of late, and I've never actually posted in Nolani before (though I have lurked here for about a year or something now)...so this is a bit awkward...ha.

But I've decided this year I'm going to give the official contest a shot, so I thought I'd join in on the workshop here as well. Sooooo, if you'd let me even though I'm late to the party, I'd like to enter...

Name: Followedbyrocks
Art Form: Digital Painting
Idea:Spooky Ritualist in Ancient Armour (yay mummy armour XD) summoning spirits
Progress Gallery:http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z...een%20Contest/
Real Life Prizes:[ ]
Official Contest: [x]
Workshop Awards:[x]

I started the sketch today so the progress gallery's rather barren looking, but hopefully I'll have something to show in a few hours.

Tommy's · Sep 28, 2011, 01:41 PM // 13:41

Uhh.. WOW Penguin, that video has now been watched many times by me, and I'm still amazed with your painting skill! You get the right colors down so fast and hardly correct them. Did you make a digital sketch first for colors, or was it all straight from the imagination? Either way, extremely impressive.

*sets the bar higher for myself*

Btw, do you have like a place where you keep all your paintings online? I would LOVE to see more, besides the wintersday and halloween entries.

Odinius · Sep 28, 2011, 04:59 PM // 16:59

Today I finally found some time to get started on one of my props.
First part of the first one is in the oven right now before I can make her some arms and legs.
When she is done she will be doing something sinister to a Moa which I will post when it's done.

Also made a progress gallery.

Name: Odinius
Art Form: Polymer clay
Idea: A bit like last year only bigger and with the new halloween stuff from last year.
Progress Gallery: http://s63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...loween%202011/
Real Life Prizes: [X]
Official Contest: [X]
Workshop Awards: [X]

And for something extra: in my initial concept there are six columns to the top of the castlewall, I scrapped that and thought I make them shorter and put statues on top of each one.
Here's where you people come in: I'd like some suggestions for statues as long as they are GW related.
Thanks in advance!

Widowmaker · Sep 28, 2011, 05:49 PM // 17:49

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Originally Posted by Odinius

Here's where you people come in: I'd like some suggestions for statues as long as they are GW related.

Assuming I'm following what you want, the first thing that springs to mind is using a statue for each of the six gods, the GW2 concept art uses that idea. It would be quite amusing to have them looking on in horror.

Perhaps six of the henchmen? I'm sure Cynn believes there should be a statue to her by now.

GeminiJuSa · Sep 28, 2011, 10:39 PM // 22:39

@Odinius: Skulpting is kinda hard. I think yours is looking quite good, but is it really that massive? It looks like it'll be hard to harden, or maybe I'm just not getting the scale of it. How big is it?

@Sura: I like that grainy look in the background, did you use a filter for it or a brush?

UnOrthOdOx · Sep 29, 2011, 03:04 AM // 03:04

Day 2 of build.

Oh, got a call from my grower today too. Can pick up my 100 pumpkins (yes...100) whenever I want...might go get a couple for the pumpkin option on the stakes as well...

Odinius: Why baking before adding the arms? Doesn't that make the joint more fragile? (never used the stuff myself...use an Oil base clay when I need to sculpt in clay, then mold and cast it)

GeminiJuSa · Sep 29, 2011, 03:49 AM // 03:49

UnOrthOdOx: wow! How much is this gonna cost you? 100 pumpkins?! It looks worthwhile so far though

Firefighter Fred · Sep 29, 2011, 06:49 AM // 06:49

Well, assuming I'm not too late; and that I can post my art for teh lulz. I present to you a piece that I like to think of as I'll be back

Name: Firefighter Fred
Art Form: Minecraft (does that count as digital media?)
Idea: A dragon attempts to eat the Mad King
Progress Gallery:Here be Dragons
Real Life Prizes: [X] sure why not
Official Contest: [X] Oh hell yea they're seeing this
Workshop Awards: [X]

Here is the finished product I suppose

As a side note, this did actually take longer than it looks like it did

Aeronwen · Sep 29, 2011, 08:22 AM // 08:22

Draken Burst – your Zombie Girl is terrifying  Maybe it is just my monitor but I would like to have seen the cake more clearly, Lucky Charrlie! Ghosts vs Ghouls is a fun concept, I particularly like the colours.

Satomz, of course. - I still remember your amazing entry for last wintersday. Can’t wait to see what you come up with this year.

Penguin - Oh My! I too had no idea what a longboard was or where that process was going, it makes an exciting story as well as amazing art

Kiya – That’s looking really good so far can’t wait to see it finished.

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Originally Posted by UnOrthOdOx

my method differs from the 'normal' ones.

You are not seriously under the impression that any of what you do is normal, are you? :P

Sura – I am pretty sure my screen is awful but on mine the lower foot is almost completely lost and it has such a pretty shape it is a shame. Actually both feet.

Followedbyrocks – Welcome

Odinius – Goodie I was sad you didn’t enter for Wintersday. Your last Halloween entry was wonderful so many details. BTW what do you do with them afterwards? Widowmakers idea of the six gods seems a good one.

Fred – I can’t stop laughing (in a good way). I am going to have to link everyone I know to that ^^

GeminiJuSa · Sep 29, 2011, 09:17 AM // 09:17

@Firefighter Fred: That would make an awesome embroidery, I was almost a bit disappointed that it wasn't, because it'd be bitchin' to have on the wall.

Followedbyrocks · Sep 29, 2011, 10:19 AM // 10:19

@UnOrthOdOx: A HUNDRED pumpkins? Wow. I take it you'll be carving them? What will you do with the insides of the pumpkins once you've carved them? Will your family be eating pumpkin pie for the rest of the year? XD

@Aeronwen: Thanks.

I actually uploaded my sketch yesterday but didn't get the chance to upload it, so here it is:

I'm just focusing on the Ritualist at the moment. Background will come when I actually work out what I'm going to do for the background, ha.

UnOrthOdOx · Sep 29, 2011, 10:54 AM // 10:54

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Originally Posted by GeminiJuSa

UnOrthOdOx: wow! How much is this gonna cost you? 100 pumpkins?! It looks worthwhile so far though

You're gonna have to be more specific...

The pumpkins are for actual Halloween, not the contest, and they are free.

Or, rather, they cost labor.

The contest is going to be more or less free for me. It's all stuff I regularly have in stock. But, by the time you factor in lighting, if you were to go BUY everything, I'm guessing $1000 or so.

Halloween itself...you really don't want to know. Years of buildup of props and supplies, lighting, etc. "This year" we'll be into it over $1000, and another $500+ in consumables and food. We have 1000 people or more over between the 2 nights we're open.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aeronwen

You are not seriously under the impression that any of what you do is normal, are you? :P

Well, there's a LOT of us wierdos.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Followedbyrocks

@UnOrthOdOx: A HUNDRED pumpkins? Wow. I take it you'll be carving them? What will you do with the insides of the pumpkins once you've carved them? Will your family be eating pumpkin pie for the rest of the year? XD

I carve a couple. I'm hoping 100 is enough, we have a huge carving party at our house on the 29th (normally the 30th, but it's a Sunday which would yield no one coming around here). The neighborhood comes over and all the kids carve one/some and put them in the haunt. Nothing can beat the random creepiness.

As for the guts...That's part of the reason I get free pumpkins. Pumpkins are ravenous feeders, sucking all kinds of nutrients out of the ground...I compost all those nutrient rich pumpkins (as well as most the neighborhood's) and return the created fertilizer to the farm, along with the seeds, which they plant for next year, along with roasting and selling the extra thousands of seeds.

Panda Claws · Sep 29, 2011, 11:20 AM // 11:20

Name: Panda Claws
Art Form: Literature
Idea: Short Story
Progress Gallery: http://tears-of-iron.blogspot.com/
Real Life Prizes: [x]
Official Contest: [x]
Workshop Awards: [x]

Here is a little preview of my project so far.

Placeholder Title

The wind howled in the streets of Kamadan and seemed to follow him in even the smallest corridor.
Noah had tried trick-or-treating once more but it turned out to be as futile as last year.
His father had told him that he should earn the candy and not just ask for it. “Here is a scythe. Now go fetch yourself some candy son. “ his father said.
But Noah was no fighter and did not have the money to pay for mercenary heroes.
That is how he ended up shivering in the small pathway between two houses.
Too afraid to check what had been chasing him for the last hour and too tired to even lift his head.

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