Wintersday Workshop 2010

Bagel head? lol tho I prefer this Leia. ^^ rawr!

@ Pery- I love your work so far. And to be honest I think the more "cartoon like" coloring would work better with your piece anyway I agree with Tommy that the red needs to be toned down a bit, takes too much away from your ele.

@Tommy- Yay! Glad youre still putting something together! I dont think the bear looks like a dog. He is cute though That poor elf

That looks pretty neat, and quite an original idea too!

Responses to me piece:
Pery; Thanks I think I'll throw in the highlight whites around the end, just seems like it would be an easy finishing touch activity. Plus it lets me make sure all the highlights are togethor and not too bright.

Aeronwen; You know when babies try to shove their feet in their mouthes? You know how they almost always get distracted and just hold on to their feet? It's like that :3 I think the left leg could use more darker shadows where it bends, that might not be noticable enough. But yeah, hes just grabbing his feet playfully

Moar Comments Now:
Pery; That looks really nice! The ground textures in combonation with the building textures really help to fix the distance problem ^^ The buildings look sort of blurry, but not too blurry, so they feel farther away and the dirt helps accentuate that.
The snow on the ground erks me though. Parts around the edges feel like they're piled up, when theyre suppost to be flat. Since the dirt next to it is flat, it makes the edges look like they're folded up strangely... did that make anysense o.O Either way try fiddling with the perspective on the snow.

Tommy; I like the idea ^^ is the elf teaching the person, or is the person at a workbench?
And for the bear; the nose is too bulgey, whereas a polar bears is straight. The ears are also less perky and circular; theyre short, triangular, and rounded off.
If it helps, i drew a bunch of polar bears in preperation for my piece you could take a look at.

Hope this helps ^^

@Tommy: Were you going to make this picture more stylized/cartoonish or going the more traditional route? Just wondering since I've a few artists that would be some nice inspiration if you were to go the stylized direction.

Hey again everyone! I'd definitely like to sign up and I'll give more details in a few days. It's my birthday tomorrow and I'm still in school so busy busy! Does anyone know if Arena Net is having an official contest? I know they did last year but the page wasn't directly linked in their contests so I'm not sure if the 2010 one is showing.

Hey Arya, welcome ^_^

Happy Birthday!!

As far as I know, the official contest is not announced yet. It usually gets posted around the 1st of December.

Welcome again Arya ^^ and happy birthday

pretty much what minami said; we're just getting head starts :3

Thanks for all the comments on mine! Glad to hear I'm going in the right direction.

@Eastern Magik: Thanks for the link. That's a really good cloud tutorial, I shall have to put it to good use.

@Tommy's: Um, yeah, definitely either have her legs on one side of the sleigh, or put the polar bear there. Not sure if Anet gives extra points for panty flashes. I like how the elf looks so far, he's really too cool for words.
And yaaaaay! Glad to see you decided to do something for this after all!

Leia <3 And yeah, I think my ele's hair is less of a bagel head, since the bagel is behind her head, not on the sides so much.

@Death By An Arrow: Thanks! I'll keep tweaking the background and especially the snow. Yeah, the snow does look a little flat.... I'll try to get more of a three-dimensional feel to it next time I sketch (if I remember ).

@GeminiJuSa: Not sure yet if I'll put a vintage tweak on it. It's a good idea though, and I'll definitely consider it. Earlier I was sorta thinking that it looks a bit like an old poster anyway... something from the fifties or the sixties. But so far it's been purely accidental.

@AryaBladedancer: Welcome to the contest! Glad to see you are entering too.

yay! I'm loving all these WiPs, although others respond so fast that I don't have anything left to say

Found a model for one of my new characters, will probably sketch that sometime over the next few days and post the intro and 1st chapter drafts if they come out well

Thank you for the replys all Yeah I better make her sit sidewards, already made a scetchie for that, but thought this would be more playful. It won't be a pantyflash since she will be wearing norn armor pants (in red, for a nice christmas outfit ) What about her legs up in the air perhabs? I want it too look like she's having fun, and not tooo elegant, a bit dorky actually

And yes the elf is pulling the sled. The poor little man. I'm planning to put Rudolf on the sled too, so it will be even heavier Perhabs make him a bit more sunk into the snow.

@ Charlie: I was planning on doing it quite realistic. I want to give the elf a very skinny accentuated face, a bit like this one I drew quite some time ago. The scetch is a bit cartoonish I agree. But depending on how much time I have I will put more or less realism in there. The polarbear will be very cudly though, as long as it won't contrast too much.

Well, if she has pants, then I think it would be ok for her to sit in the sleigh with her legs more open. Also, if you want to make her look playful, the idea of drawing her legs partly in the air is a good one. A big, big smile and lots of movement should help to make it playful. She could even have one of her hands up in the air waving or something.

If I'm on a sled with my legs in the air, and I start waiving, I fall But I guess thats just me! xD Though the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of her legs in the air. and then still put the polarbear in front of her, need to figure out the perspective a bit more, I really suck at that. Also think then perhabs I need to work on a bigger canvas, hard to draw a good smile in such small canvas.

Any ideas for a cool sled btw? if I want to put a polarbear, a human and a reindeer on it, it should be quite big I guess :P

Santa sled! Just google what sleds Santa uses, and you ought to get a nice, big, difficult-to-pull one.

Also, it's possible to wave hands and legs in the air (with one hand holding on), if you're going slow enough. Or really, really, really fast.

LOL XD

Well, you could always just draw a normal wooden sled, and make it really long so that there is room for everyone. I can't really think of other sled-types that would allow you to wave your legs up in the air....

Happy Birthday Arya
@Tommy, I was only joking about sidesaddle, is it even possible to ride a sled that way?

Haha I want to have a go in that sled .

Verene, thanks! I prefer drawing women with proper curves and softness, so it's good to hear that I've succeeded. Also, my ele is really around 35 years old in the game, and a very typical aristocratic female who doesn't do huge amounts of workout, so she would have a little more "padding". My skills aren't good enough to draw her realistically like that, so I figured I'd go for something like this.

oh bah. the first pic you did of frost, she had some "padding" AND she was naked lol i think you do fine. but yes the deathly thin eles have got to go!

Happy birthday Arya

I see nice progress on loads of people, where i havent had a chance to even start myself (or just not felt creative one bit and clicked photoshop away after stairing at a blank canvas for a while) ... /sigh ...

Wish we got word on the official date soon, perhaps some presure will get me going ...

Blearghh this is hard to do.. :C

That looks so nice now Marshy!! ^_^

yay random miku! so damn cute
lol
i love the colors you picked for the aurora!
my suggestions would be to not have them coming out of the ground..so to speak. maybe more left to right instead of top to bottom? like this
little more aesthetically pleasing to my eye.. but that could also be just me?

Aw thanks Minami C:!

Frostkisses - O:! Thanks think I'm going to redo them (again xD <3) because that piccy does look more.. ierno..naturals @ u@ <3