Zamochits Artists Challenge... FULL TRADE WINDOW OF ECTO to the winner.

The best way to kill him from past till now, owh and in history we griffon farm at augury good times good times.

Ok since i have no drawing skill whatsoever here is my entry for this fine price!!!

A POEM/Narrative.

Augury Rock - By Menlai Littiz

As I blow the primeval dust off my dry, seared lips a glint of the ether shone forth,
My eyes darted towards it like the denizens of Kaineng, to a purse.
The holy fire streamed through my veins with echoes of those gone before,
weapons meeting flesh, screams of men as they met their end.
I scrambled off the sand that had held the memories of failures past,
I thought, I would be the one to ascend atlast!
When I marched forth, with courage and might, my soul ripped forth tearing down the mighty rock, as the dust settled piling over the remains of thousands before, I felt the hand of the divine on my shoulder.
Each step, I took a breath, as the light was stolen away, until all was pitch black.
As if the breath of a dragon whirred past, braziers shone in the room to reveal the image of oneself but twisted and tormented.
The imposter looked up, his eyes met mine, his grin turned to a scream and he lunged forth axe in hand.
His axe bounced off as i shouted "dwayna shield me!", yet the creature kept forth and forth, no hex, no affliction kept him at bay... until at last one mighty firestorm broke from the sky, wreaking havoc on all who lay underneath it. As Balthazar's fury let up all that was left was a charred wreck that i knew.... was once me.

hes jumping, not flying

My entry,it took long time
Can be used as desktop picture

Ecto here, Ecto there
I don't know what to say
Augury Rock

Ultras I like you image, it's nice, but before the deadline I would try to change this, it might help your score:



It's spelled Tyria

Hell naw. Tyra is the female Elementalist all the henchmen rave about. Im working on my version once I get the inspiration. GL to all.

"But YOU'RE unique"

;x really considering entering. I have something sketched out but no photoshop is /fail.

Was in hurry at text.
Going to fix that at weekend.

Ouu, thats a lot of ectos. : P

I'd consider entering ...but I don't know > ___<;;;;;;;

I first want to thank Zamochit for holding this contest. It's great to have an excuse to flex some creative muscle and try something new. Thank you!

This is probably my favorite mission in the entire game. Not only is it quick, but has such an epic flair about it that you really feel special for taking part in it. It's one of the few moments in the game where it seems like it's as epic as it's supposed to be. It's not just queuing up a party and spending 45 minutes killing one group after another, it's just.. different. Of all the missions to create a piece of art work around, this is the absolutely perfect choice I think. And it also brought back great memories of when I was first playing the game and first facing the doppleganger with my Ele; hence why I choose to portray an Elementalist facing him down.

I look forward to seeing all the other submissions (I'm sure they'll top mine easily. :P )

I like how you really played around with with foreground/background and lighting effect. It does add to that feeling of "epic-ness" that you were going for.

I'm now debating on whether I want to do this piece on my Warrior again. I'm considering using my Ele as the subject because I don't like any of the pre-ascension Warrior armors. I actually had a similar idea to what you were going for: similar use of picture depth; have a backshot of the Doppleganger looking up as the ele is high in the air casting down.

Seems like a nice change rather than duplicating that Baroque theme I had going on in the other contest.

EDIT!

My Entry:



Are we allowed more than 1 Entry..?

Oh No =) i seem to have lost my camera to take pictures of my amazing comic, well i think its good =p, i hope i find it in time lol

Since you can't be on Guild Wars all the time, if we want to post a submission and you're not online, do we just PM you later, or post it later?

I think what he means is to send a private message on this forum when you post so he can have a confirmed time stamp of when you uploaded your work.

Phew finally finished it, used a manga-ish approach to it:



I want to point out that I know she's wearing ascended armour, and I did ask if I could use ascended armour which I got the OK for because I don't like any of the pre-ascended armour for warrior.
And yeah, I gave the doppleganger a different set of armour and different weapon to try to make her look more leet.

I don't think I've ever done anything quite like it.

But I did my best, I have no regrets.

This was really fun to work on.

It's a pencil sketch I cropped and tweaked on my computer, featuring my monk and oldest character, Lady Alasse, as she was when she ascended oh so long ago. She's wearing standard Monk armor and carrying a dead bow. (Alasse used a bow all through the first three campaigns until I finally got over some of my noobishness and got her a staff at the end of Nightfall.)

Anyway, the idea behind this picture is the confrontation: being suddenly brought face-to-face with the darkness within herself. I really wanted to try to capture that moment. The way I see it, the final trial of ascension is really a test of the person's character, of his bravery and his capacity to look his own, personal evil in the eye, accept it, and defeat it himself, without any outside help. It would be a life-changing experience, and a victory on a much more personal and even painful level.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do this.
Lady

P.S. Never tried posting any pictures on this site before. . hope I'm doing it right. ^^;

ooooo i like tht.
my ones going good done the hand watercolour approach gonna get some retouching done on GIMP and should be good to go also this is specifcally for CHARLIE i hate you cos u are way 2 good not to be a proffessional line artists. or maybwe you are maybe you are god of art anyways love every1 art t look fantastic

This is my submission. I'd like to also put a little description/backstory on it as well:
The image was drawn on posterboard, using a #2 pencil, an ultra fine point sharpie, and an 8 ct. box of colored pencils. The actual size of the drawing is roughly 6.5 inches x 6.5 inches. That proved to be tough when adding specific detail to the pictures. I also had to take a picture of it using a digital camera, as I do not have a scanner :/ but it's all good.
I made my submission comic-style, so that it would read left to right, up to down. I was going to cut it in half horizontally but decided to leave it together, therefore I numbered the scenes in order of which they should be read, otherwise it is very confusing.
The warrior is wearing 71 AL Amnoon Oasis Gladiator armor, and his weapons consist of a Wingblade Sword and a Defender. The Doppleganger is wielding an Eternal Bow in the beginning, because 'back in the day' when I used to ascend my characters, that's what he used - also another small detail to keep this thing as 'historically accurate' as possible.
All of these drawings in this comic were all based off of actual screenshots I took while repeating this mission over and over again to get as many different angled shots as possible. When I have the Doppleganger using Frenzy, which was one of the ways to kill him 'back in the day' not only did I write it above his head so that people would know, but I also drew the animation that went along with it - the text was due to the fact that not many people would know what the animation around him was for anyways . It felt pretty good to go into Amnoon and buy a full set of armor for around 4k - even though it wasn't max, it still brought back memories.
The fact that I had to make other colors in this proved a challenge as well, as I only had the basic 8 pack Crayola colored pencils, I had to 'create' the gray for the warriors gladiator armor, as well as alot of the crimson and light brown colors used frequently throughout the comic strip. Thanks for giving us an opportunity to do this, this was very fun and very nostalgic.

Text in the Comic (for those who cant see it):
(Great Ritual Priest Zahmut): Turai Ossa is expecting you.
(Warrior): I'm Ready.
(Lord Valodor): You are no cleansed and ready to be judged... ...Let us hope you are up to the tasks that be ahead.
(Warrior, upon seeing his nemesis): It's him!
*And the battle begins...*
(Warrior): He's matching my every move! How am I to defeat such a challenge!? I need to wait for the perfect time to strike!
*Doppleganger used Frenzy!*
(Warrior): Now's my chance!
*...Victory!*

-The End-

Hope you guys enjoyed it and Good Luck to everyone else in this contest!

well sorry i was already halfway done when i realized u didnt want presteige or foreign armor so i just went with it anyways and i completly just made up a doppleganger, and im not really good at color or backrounds(as u can see) so thats about it

one thing that always struck me about the doppelganger fight is that it didnt seem epic or even scary enough. So i thought what would be scarier than fighting an evil version of yourself in the dark

anyways hope you all like it

TJ

And 4 years later this is still my mesmer's primary armor, just upgraded to higher AL after Ascending. Alt version is

Prophecy...
Becomes History

Only found out about it yesterday and with me just starting Photo plus last week in college I'm happy with what I did

Kiya, you were so quiet about this contest. I didn't know you were entering. Liking the vector art effect you gave it.

Here's my entry:



Not even you can stand in your way...



Hope you like it

Long time since I've posted here, but been lurking around every now and then. This contest really inspired me, since the doppelganger mission is the creepiest one in the game. I always saw the doppelganger as something that aspires to become your character. Kind of like take their place... the longer you fight them, the more they become like you, until they end up taking your place entirely.



Slightly larger version (or as large as Photobucket allows it) is here.

Perynne, that's an awesome picture. Really like your idea of the Doppleganger wanting to "replace you". That idea is especially apparent in the creepy vein textures in the Dop's face. Great work, one of my favorites in this thread so far.

And Minami, you know how I feel about your picture

I love these contests, you always get to see such great entries.

Done.



12 Chars, blah blah blah.

My caricature of Doppleganger.



That one was made with a pen. I hope You enjoy it. Peace!

(for interested, here You have version without background: http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/4419/gildars.jpg man it took me 9 lessons to draw it in my exercise book)

^

0_o


12chars.

every1's looking great i think i may be able to finish mine in the nick of time if i work on it tonight. btw minami what program you use for modelling?

Bahahahahahaha


That caricature is truly awesome rofl xD