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Perynne · Dec 02, 2010, 12:31 PM // 12:31

@Marsh: Nuuuuuu..... I was really looking forward to seeing yours finished. ._. Please try to get it finished, or even work on it a little more?

@frostkisses: Oooh, that's looking very nice! The snowglobe is so cute and Dwayna's expression is spot on, although you could perhaps make the corner of her mouth a little more turned up so she looks more like she's smiling. Right now, it's a bit of an unclear smirk.
Also, you planning on doing any last, funky effects after colouring it with colored pencils? I'd suggest using some white acrylic or white gel pen for snowy splatters/glitters/highlights. :3 For example, this page gives some tips on using markers, but at the bottom it shows what I mean by using white paint for highlights: http://fav.me/d1p29ui

@InfestedHydralisk: I've got Monument armor too, for Dervish and Ranger at least. :3

@GeminiJuSa: Oooh, the lineart looks so nice and clean.

I've really got nothing to comment on at this point, it's looking great! <3

@Shadow Sin: Welcome to the workshop!

Oh my indeed.

Aeronwen · Dec 02, 2010, 01:00 PM // 13:00

Announcement is up now

http://www.guildwars.com/events/cont...intersday2010/

The Guild Wars Wintersday Art Contest

The days are shorter and the nights are colder. That crisp chill in the air means that Wintersday is almost here! Of course, that means it’s time for the annual Guild Wars Wintersday Art Contest, where we ask Guild Wars players to focus their creativity on festive holiday endeavors.

Put your creativity and talent to work by creating Wintersday art with a Guild Wars® theme. Dream up your own way to bring a Wintersday twist to Guild Wars, and enter your art into the contest before 12:00 Noon PST, December 31, 2010!

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The Guild Wars Wintersday Art Contest

The days are shorter and the nights are colder. That crisp chill in the air means that Wintersday is almost here! Of course, that means it’s time for the annual Guild Wars Wintersday Art Contest, where we ask Guild Wars players to focus their creativity on festive holiday endeavors.

Put your creativity and talent to work by creating Wintersday art with a Guild Wars® theme. Dream up your own way to bring a Wintersday twist to Guild Wars, and enter your art into the contest before 12:00 Noon PST, December 31, 2010!

How to Enter:

Create an original piece of art with a Wintersday holiday theme and a Guild Wars flavor. You may draw your own art using any media (2D, 3D) at your disposal. You may also use or incorporate Guild Wars screenshots, renders, concept art, icons, photographs, or any other Guild Wars images to create your entry.

Contest Winners from 2009

See even more winners from 2009!

For each entry, submit a jpeg image of your original work (scanned or photographed) or a saved file of your computer-generated art and attach it to an email. (Please use compression to reduce the file size, when possible.) We strongly encourage you to submit your work electronically rather than via postal mail.

In the body of the email, provide us the following information (in English): valid preferred email address, your first and last name, your age, and your full address, including street number and name, city, state or province, zip/postal code (if any), and country.

If you wish to be mentioned by "handle" or in-game name rather than your first and last name, please indicate your preference in your entry and provide your handle or in-game name in addition to the information listed above.

Submit your entry to: [email protected]. Please use "Guild Wars Wintersday Art Contest 2010" as the subject line. If you would prefer to send your entry via postal mail, please use the following address:

Guild Wars Wintersday Art Contest
ArenaNet, Inc.
227 Bellevue Way NE #75
Bellevue, WA 98004 USA

No other methods of entry will be accepted.

ArenaNet, Inc. collects personal information from you when you enter this contest. This information is subject to the Privacy Policy of the site through which you entered this contest.

How to Enter:

Create an original piece of art with a Wintersday holiday theme and a Guild Wars flavor. You may draw your own art using any media (2D, 3D) at your disposal. You may also use or incorporate Guild Wars screenshots, renders, concept art, icons, photographs, or any other Guild Wars images to create your entry.

Minami · Dec 02, 2010, 01:08 PM // 13:08

Hi everyone

I am not going to be able to follow the thread, and I don't know if I will enter either.
We'll see, but I don't know much right now. We have a serious family emergency, and I'm not concentrating on anything but that.

Good luck to everyone who enters, you all do such good jobs here.

InfestedHydralisk · Dec 02, 2010, 01:29 PM // 13:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Perynne

@InfestedHydralisk: I've got Monument armor too, for Dervish and Ranger at least. :3

Maybe my video can be saved after all!

Nemesis-of-the-Gods · Dec 02, 2010, 02:12 PM // 14:12

I haven't gotten to do any updates on my art-piece yet since I hardly got to work on it yesterday, but I may today, just wanted to say the following;

@Aeronwen: Thank you, that's great to hear! =]

@Frostkisses: Aw, thanks! That's nice of you to look through my gallery. Thanks, I really try to add depth with my shading so it's good to know that it looks decent ^^
Haha, my scanner REALLY isn't that great, I may use a friend's better scanner for my final piece but I'm not sure yet. Good to know that it's not raping my contest entry, because yes they do 'rape' artwork!!

I also like your entry, very original, it makes me giggle. I like that your coloring is even and smooth. I do have to agree with Shewmake on the fact that the left eye looks a bit crooked from the right eye, but it may very well be the camera angle. As for the background, perhaps more snow or something of the like.

@Shewmake: Thank you very much

Haha yes, I will most definitely be added ornaments, some presents, perhaps even some lights, and making that star into a glowing light above Melandru. I'm still workin' on it

The piano for that music is very beautiful!

@GeminiJuSa: I'm liking the line-art so far, the picture makes me laugh, it's a very funny and nice idea for those minions to be doing all the work to make Wintersday special for the Necro XD I like the detail work that you have added into the trees and her armor so far, also in the moon. I do notice that the clouds seem a little slanted, since you made the bottoms of them flat, they don't really match to the horizon line for me. But it's not a huge problem, just something that catches my eye. I assume you will color this to make everything stand out more individually.

@InfestedHydralisk: I would totally help you, but I do not have any Monument armors, my boyfriend has it for his Derv, but it's dyed blue-ish, don't know if he'd be willing to redye it since it's a weird combo though heh.

@Shadow Sin: Sounds like an interesting idea to me

Also, Thanks Aeronwen for letting us know that the site has officially released the contest! I'm so excited! The only thing that concerns me is that are the headset/mouse and tonic the only prizes? I saw that in previous years they were giving away signed artbooks and I thought that would be SOOO awesome to win something like that... Kind of a let down if that's all that the prize is this year. But I will still enter because I really want to, even if I don't win anything at all it will be fun either way. Glad I was shown this contest here on Guru too! This is all so exciting!

~Well, I will hopefully add an update soon. For now, I am off. /wave

Perynne · Dec 02, 2010, 03:53 PM // 15:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Minami

Hi everyone

I am not going to be able to follow the thread, and I don't know if I will enter either.
We'll see, but I don't know much right now. We have a serious family emergency, and I'm not concentrating on anything but that.

Good luck to everyone who enters, you all do such good jobs here.

Oh no... I hope things will go well. Good luck to you, and best wishes. *hugs* We will understand, family always comes first. Take your time and don't worry about the thread.

I can help out with the thread in Minami's place if no other mod is able to, so that we will have at least one helper for Tzu. This thread does need at least one mod to look after it, if even a temporary one.

@Aeronwen: Ooh, thanks for putting that up! <3

Ravenhawk · Dec 02, 2010, 03:54 PM // 15:54

Gaah Reindeer Tonic! Do WANT! Whattodowhattodo....so tempted now...but I doubt I'd win anything lol.

@Minami - I hope everything's okay. :hug:

Aeronwen · Dec 02, 2010, 04:23 PM // 16:23

minami I hope everything is ok - we will be thinking of you.

Tommy's · Dec 02, 2010, 07:18 PM // 19:18

Omai Minami *prays* hope everything will be good

And I read this on the website

Quote:

Originally Posted by ArenaNet

The Guild Wars Wintersday Art Contest 2010 marks the introduction of the brand new Everlasting Reindeer Tonic.

Is it really a new one, or just copy pasted from last year (again). If its the last I'm not gonna enter. I'm already very busy and I'm not gonna waste my time on a contest which has no heart, because I'm more and more feeling like Anet doesn't care anymore. I'll probably still participate in the workshop, but probably not in the contest. Not for sure about either. Just feeling a bit meh about Anet and their contests atm.

Perynne · Dec 02, 2010, 07:29 PM // 19:29

I updated the first post with new galleries and information about the contest. Please let me know if I missed something, or if you'd like more things added there.

I will be helping out while Minami is away, so please send any PMs and such to me until she is able to return.

The workshop deadline is 1.1.2011, one day after the official contest closes. This should hopefully give people time to work on their entries after Christmas and before New Year's.

@Ravenhawk: Go for it! I'm sure there's a tonic there with your name on it.

@Tommy's: Eh... I'm having so much fun just entering the Workshop, that I don't really care about the official contest.

Of course, that headset and a reindeer tonic sounds awesome, but this is the place where all the actual fun happens.
But yeah... their prizes have lost some quality. I guess it's because they're putting all effort into GW2. I'm just glad that they still take the time to host the contests among everything else.

KiyaKoreena · Dec 02, 2010, 07:34 PM // 19:34

I hope everything gets better Minami.

Looks like a copy pasta. I'm kind of feeling the same meh too Tommy. I will probably still enter, but not going all out like before. And I will try and get more involved in the thread here after the weekend. Time to find a decently priced and good looking artificial tree to replace our old one. 15 year old fake one sheds almost as many needles as a real tree...

Tommy's · Dec 02, 2010, 07:39 PM // 19:39

I already stated that I still might enter the workshop for fun

And its not about the prizes. Its about the lack of interest they are showing. The Halloween Contest paste was (I'm pretty sure) copy pasted from last year, which is not so bad, but no more attention had been put to it. And now this again... A brand new tonic? seems pretty much the same as last year. I don't care that its the same I think its a pretty lauzy thing in the first place, its just the fact that there, once again, hasnt been any attention and double check to prevent such things. It gives me the feeling that Anet goes like "Oh its this time of the year again, you overthere, could you copy-paste last years info during your cofeebreak". I don't think they acknowledge how much time some people spend into these things. Just makes me loose my motivation to put time into it.

Perynne · Dec 02, 2010, 07:45 PM // 19:45

GW2 probably drains all of their motivation these days. But yeah, I do understand what you're saying, it would be good for everyone if they even bothered to check the text before submitting it to their site.

Ah well, at least Nolani is still going strong.

Ravenhawk · Dec 02, 2010, 07:57 PM // 19:57

@Perynne - Well, the problem is, I am not sure if I can finish in time. Would suck to have a half finished painting by end of December. lol. Also can't even find the time to participate in the workshop to get some progress and nice critiques done >_<" We'll see. Maybe next year I can paint faster lol. I can't even follow the progress gallery of others in the workshop. Q_Q I might get some free time during my after X-Mas vacation so maybe I'll just pop out of nowhere and post a progress gallery lol.

Re: Anet Copy Pasta -
As a programmer, copy pasting is unavoidable sometimes. They only copy pasted the first paragraphs that explains the prizes briefly but at least they did not copy paste the prizes of artbooks and stuff from last year. lol. Once you get so used to certain methodology, it becomes mechanical. Not making excuses there though just saying that I understand how that happened lol.

frostkisses · Dec 02, 2010, 08:08 PM // 20:08

@Pery - Thanks for the link, I may try that. Always afraid to try something like that in case I screw up my original drawing since you cant really just erase the layer

I was kind of thinking...(we did it in art class when I was oh...well...a youngin yet haha..but we used..) toothbrushes and white paint to flick them to make "snow". I'll see what I can do about the mouth. Thanks for the feedback!

@Nemesis - No problem

I've become quite the art stalker lately lol. Thanks for the comments, I appreciate all the feedback I can get since this is probably really my first time displaying anything I've drawn to anyone other than family.

@Minami -

so sad to hear, especially around the holidays. I hope everything turns out for the better.

On a side note WOOHOO for the deadline! Really hope I get my scanner for x-mas.

KiyaKoreena · Dec 02, 2010, 08:33 PM // 20:33

They made the same kind of mistake for the Halloween contest. The title info wasn't changed so all month it came up as Halloween Art Contest 2009 when linking to the page even though the body material was updated to 2010. Didn't get fixed until after the contest closed. Target audience should not be your proofreaders! But the same thing happens with weekend events...

Well we just have to make our Workshop even more spiffy.

I have a vintage unopened Factions tshirt (black one, XL, that came with early orders) and am willing to rehome my festive fungal wallow from last years entry if there is interest in either. Working on gathering some in game prizes to donate too.

frostkisses · Dec 02, 2010, 08:37 PM // 20:37

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I want the wallow!!!!! Definately my 2nd favorite mini <3 they're so fat ...n ...spikey! number one being my kuuna

If you made a plushie of that I'd probably break down your door lol

GeminiJuSa · Dec 02, 2010, 09:08 PM // 21:08

@Oh_Frustration & Perynne: Thank you! It looks cleaner than it is though. The original traditional drawing is very clean, but the computerized scanned version... it took me 2h to extract and I'm still not completely happy with it >_<

@Nemesis-of-the-Gods: I'm glad you like it. I'm having a lot of fun with the making of process, I just hope the results will turn out nice. There are several things in the line art looking a bit flat, I'm gonna give it more depth with the colours. As for the clouds; I haven't decided if I should discard the clouds' lineart and make them lineless, or if I should redraw them. It's leaning towards lineless.

And I hope things clear up for minami. Go go minami! ~<3

Perynne · Dec 02, 2010, 09:25 PM // 21:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by KiyaKoreena

Well we just have to make our Workshop even more spiffy.

I have a vintage unopened Factions tshirt (black one, XL, that came with early orders) and am willing to rehome my festive fungal wallow from last years entry if there is interest in either. Working on gathering some in game prizes to donate too.

Oh, that would be wonderful! Either prize would be much appreciated. Wallows are super adorable. <3

I'm guessing since this is a more relaxed contest, things like excluding Europe won't be happening? I hope at least, I'd really love to have a chance at winning one of your plushies.

Thistle Xandra · Dec 02, 2010, 09:34 PM // 21:34

@ Arya, loving the blue version!

@ Marsh: Nooooooooooooooo {repeating}

@Frost: That's looking so good so far

Minor critique is to fade out her skin behind the snow globe since you did it for her hair.

@gemini: how do you get your lines so perfect?! Please don't tell me it's just proactice D: I need a magic secret becomes my lines are always so wobbly no matter how hard I try to get them straight

@aero: thanks for posting that! I wish the deadline was later though

@minami: aww… sending hugs your way

I hope everything works out for you!

@Pery: yay! thanks for helping out with the workshop

Umm… i might not end up writing my story after all… I've got a couple of really important deadlines coming up with the most important one being on Dec 30. If I can get Verene's permission, I'm thinking of reworking the pic I already have going for her ranger into something I can submit to both here and the GW contest. I'll just have to save the story I was planning for next Wintersday or post it as a separate thread after the workshop when stuff on my side cools down.