Wintersday Workshop 2011!

Aeronwen

Aeronwen

not so much fell as.....

Join Date: Jan 2009

UK

bone

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Kiya - That is wonderful. It is the first time I have found a grentch cute You have so many talents!

Valdis - it is a busy time of year

KiyaKoreena

KiyaKoreena

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

USA

Kirins of Holy Light

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Updated entry form. Cleaning my craft room this week so I have room to start the second project.


@ Aeronwen. Hehe. It won't be so cute once the mouth is done.

Thistle Xandra

Thistle Xandra

Site Contributor

Join Date: Aug 2010

Well... Awesome news Award prize list has been updated as I'm sure many of you have been eagerly awaiting

TLDR version:
Anet's donation is:
3 x EL Reindeer Tonics
1 x Prize Package A: 1 Charr plushie, 1 Guild Wars 2 artbook (signed!), 1 Guild Wars Mouse
3 x Prize Package B: 1 Guild Wars 2 Artbook (signed!), 1 Guild Wars Mouse
7 x Prize Package C: 1 Guild Wars Eye of the North game box
10 x Prize Package D: 1 Guild Wars 2 t-shirts, Guild Wars 2 postcard book

Awards have "picks" assigned to them for the RL prizes instead of me purely assigning prizes to awards. Awardees will get to choose from what's left in the prize pool when it's their turn.

I hope everyone is as excited about the new prize list as I am

` Marshmallow

` Marshmallow

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2009

Canadaa!

Last Friday Night [TGIF]

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Yayayayayayayay deeer D':!

Sasultra

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2010

I live on earth...I think oO

(ULOB)

Me/

awesome

KiyaKoreena

KiyaKoreena

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

USA

Kirins of Holy Light

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Oooh nice prizes. Must work harder....


Ok, grentch is starting to creep me out. The eyes are a bit iridescent but wont really show until after they get glazed. Might need to get some nail polish and touch them up too though. Later, must not get ahead of myself.
Boo!


What kind of texture do you think their skin would be? Scaly, leathery, short fuzzy fur?

Sasultra

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2010

I live on earth...I think oO

(ULOB)

Me/

@KiyaKoreena
LOOKS amazing omg *Scared* it`s going to look sweet Gj I love clay its great.

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

those prizes are amazing....

(grentch...scale-ly...with hair in the 'appropriate' places )

Death By An Arrow

Death By An Arrow

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2009

The Kurzick Mob [Mob]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Thistle Xandra View Post
3 x EL Reindeer Tonics
1 x Prize Package A: 1 Charr plushie, 1 Guild Wars 2 artbook (signed!), 1 Guild Wars Mouse
3 x Prize Package B: 1 Guild Wars 2 Artbook (signed!), 1 Guild Wars Mouse
7 x Prize Package C: 1 Guild Wars Eye of the North game box
10 x Prize Package D: 1 Guild Wars 2 t-shirts, Guild Wars 2 postcard book What is this, and why haven't I heard of this before?! O: Is this some sort of art collection? cause that would be AWESOME.

Also, excited for those shirts. Damn I want one of those shirts.

... of course, the reindeer tonics are nice too. GUH anet; always bringing the best prizes.

Also; question: How do you determine the 'order' for picks for the RL prizes? You say they wont be assigned to categories (good idea) but instead people will get to pick them in order.

... what is this order, and how can I get to the first spot Is it like the traditional A-net way of Grand prize-->First-->Second-->Honourables? Or do you have some other wizardry in mind?

Edit: School distracted me again before I could remember to provide advice!

@Kiya That grentch looks SO awesome! Really like the wrinkles in the face, definetly feels very grentchy. What was the whole idea again for this? I seem to have missed that with all this real life stuff going on right now :|

` Marshmallow

` Marshmallow

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2009

Canadaa!

Last Friday Night [TGIF]

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Wow Kiya, thats clay? O__O I bought sculpey clay and never made anything, its so hard and i dont have the right tools r___r

Sasultra

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2010

I live on earth...I think oO

(ULOB)

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Yea it can be tricky. For sculpting and fitting I only used my hands I tried using an exacto knife lol..didnt have any real tools that would of be helpful I should of bought some. All good I like my turn out. love clay work

Death By An Arrow

Death By An Arrow

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2009

The Kurzick Mob [Mob]

R/

Ahh I see now! I may have noticed better if I wasn't cramming right now D:

This weekend I won't actually be able to work on my painting I have planned before the workshop. So I may work on a sketch of that painting and then a sketch of my workshop entry so I can technically start entering.

That being said, I might get a sketch and then won't be able to work on it for... a while DX School is ending for the holidays so I have a bunch of tests, blame them not me!

KiyaKoreena

KiyaKoreena

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

USA

Kirins of Holy Light

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Most of my tools are just regular household stuff (except for the clay rolling machine, which was a great little investment. Really saves your hands.) The things I use most often are a metal chopstick, some paring knives, toothpicks, quilting pin, scrapbooking scissors, the clay rolling machine, and a sheet of plexi so I can easily move my projects from one table to the next. And since necessity is the mother of invention (plus I am cheap and also hate driving to get anything) a lot of other things have been found useful like thimbles, mesh, bottles/lids, etc.

Sasultra

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2010

I live on earth...I think oO

(ULOB)

Me/

@kiya

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ I used altogether tools: Clay, Paper clips as wiring for grentches arms, legs and snowmen legs-wooden base stand to help grentches and snowmen stand up(THE snowmen wouldnt stand up properaly at all I called then drunkards lol, so I had to get my mom to hold one up with string you can see it in the picture the black string I would of used fishing line, but had none) Qutips lol I cut them to help make snowmen spikey. The wiring was most hard for the snowmen..omg so hard of the hands, Also used exacto knife...and best of all my hands ...BUT clay rolling machine sounds like heaven Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ

Morag D

Morag D

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2007

UK/Austria

[bone]

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ZOMG charr plushie!!!! and gw2 t-shirts.. and art books... YAYAYAY so cool! now the game is definitely on XD

Kiya, that's a great little grentch, the facial expression is awesome and so detailed!

Aeronwen

Aeronwen

not so much fell as.....

Join Date: Jan 2009

UK

bone

R/

Kiya, you are right not cute at all now. awesome though.

GeminiJuSa

GeminiJuSa

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2009

BhLd

E/Mo

@Sasultra: Thank you. Yeah, I figured there weren't much love going on in the shop, so I thought "Hey, wintersday is perfect for love and cuddling up next to one another" so I got that idea. And also to challenge myself; I rarely draw couples and when I do it's just ugly doodles in a notebook.

@Koreena: This is looking good! You really are good at crafting ^^

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

ah....others who should have been art instuctors (like my training)....use ANYTHING you can find that works----you would be AMAZED at the stuff in your kitchen that works soooo good for crafting/art type projects (and I have borrowed a few things when I was teaching )...and then a trip to the dollar store, or (my fav) the hardware store!

the work is going so well ....makes me want to get some of my old stuff out and make something!

Sasultra

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2010

I live on earth...I think oO

(ULOB)

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@cosy- I agree dollar stores are the best I got all my materials at dollarama

@GeminiJuSa- NP

obastable

obastable

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Mo/

Ok, so I actually started working on my entry the other night, after a nice chat with Thistle inspired me to get off my butt and get going.

I must say, I haven't tried to draw anything other than stick people in about 8 years, and drawing in Photoshop with a mouse is a slow process (I really miss the hubby's old tablet).

Nonetheless! I have made progress, and said progress is currently uploading to Flikr. When I get back later I'll actually link it up & explain WTF I'm trying to do. Hahahah!

Thistle Xandra

Thistle Xandra

Site Contributor

Join Date: Aug 2010

Quote:
Originally Posted by Find_&_Seek View Post
Ello Folks, I'm not sure if this is the right thing to be doing but I'd like to enter this to one of the competitions sections xD PS am not the best at photo-shopping.

Sooo yeh...

Hey, Thistle, I'd like to participate in the workshop also
Name:
Find & Seek or Lyndz
Entry: Wintersday card
Type: photo shopped image
Link: http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/c...masGWscard.png Looks right! Only thing is that you linked one shot for where your progress gallery would go I've linked that one now, but let me know if/when you change it

KiyaKoreena

KiyaKoreena

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

USA

Kirins of Holy Light

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Todays progress:




Plan for tomorrow is more definition of muscles, adding fur, texturizing, and hat.

Starfleck

Starfleck

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2010

Ex Diku Mud Addicts [iMud]

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ZOMG real-life-prizes!! Sad to admit I've slacked off this week, largely due to my sudden overwhelming urge to play Mechcommander 2 due to RTS withdrawal over the past few years of GW-addiction. Nevertheless I'm committing myself for the moment to cartoon-izing Togo's face at an appropriate size in what's left of my space. I'll probably scrap it later for a slightly smaller gwen-head and better proportions. For the time being that super-huge-head/eyes -feeling is the ultimate goal, and I've found that one sometimes has to overdo it in order to bring it back down to the right size.

@Thanatos: Excellent step. It's definitely coming to look much more realistic now (even though "realistic" doesn't quite apply to the comical exaggerated Gaki's face ). I still wonder, though, if both the scene through the window and the things in stockings should be out of focus more, or if it's possible to bring the treelights, brick and woodwork, and wall sconce closer to the stockings' level of focus? I don't know digital art very well but from a freehand-artist's perspective they still don't seem 100% believable.

@Marshmallow: I'm secretly jealous of your superior ability at cuteness ...no but seriously, you've got a supreme talent for the chibi stuff peeking at your other gallery pieces. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with, definitely. Those baby gods themselves will probably melt.

@Valdis: Haven't seen progress in your gallery yet, actually, but I'm looking forward to it since of course it's the patron god of my main necro character.

@Draken: Secretly jealous of ambidexterity >.< . Cool fur detail, keep up the great work.

@Morag: Don't reveal another update for the moment, yet. Seriously. You've got a great thing going and as soon as we see that Tiffany-style coloring you're gonna blow our minds. Take your time and do the face justice and I think the whole thing will just fall into place after that. Softness softness softness. . .

@Koreena: I'm wigging out at the rapid progress . That thing is going to look as beautiful as it is ugly, no doubt.
I'm starting to think it's even uglier than it is beautiful, but I am impressed

@SasUltra: I actually did think that the artistically-colored frames were pretty interesting as a separate entity from the photos you took. I do no, however, think it's a good idea to frame all together several shots from roughly the same angle with slightly different coloring or special effects. Here's my thoughts on how you could progress from here (yes, there is progression possible): this to me looks like a great opportunity to do like a little mock comic book page complete with dialogue and narration. Throw in a snowball-explosion here or there and you can do some seriously cool things with cropping close-ups, photoshop coloring, show off some creative writing, and still be able to use a (nearly) undoctored photo as the base of at least one frame. Totally believable as a drawing in my honest opinion. Anyways, that's what my mind settled on when I took another closer look at the old photoshopped frames.

obastable

obastable

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Mo/

Progress gallery link: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjxfkpGk

There's 4 pics up there, which I think I renamed in the wrong order, but whatever. I've barely been home the past 36 hours, have more antibiotics in me than any person would want, and I have had 4 hours of crap sleep with an IV stuck in my hand.

So I started with a white blob vaguely in the shape of a cat and have erased/blended/smudged/blurred/etc/etc/etc nearly 30 different shades of white, blue, pink, and gray to create the image thus far.

I've said it before & I'll say it again. I cannot draw. HOWEVER, I was pro at coloring when I was a kid. You know that kid in your class that you envied in grade 2 because their pictures were always so awesomely colored?? Yeah, that was me.

It's a long process to "draw" something via layers of shading but it usually comes out pretty darned cool.

Earlier this eve, and not posted yet, I fine tuned the ears a bit (3 more layers), added some color to the eyes (4 layers), added the nose (4 more layers) & worked on something else ... (5 layers so far). Photoshop is on the hubby's computer & he's home/awake so I can't tinker and/or take a screenie to post up this evenings progress yet.

Still to do: FUR!, background, foreground, the something else, and check out everyone elses WIP (I feel like such a poop head for not having done that yet).

Tee Wrex

Tee Wrex

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2011

IL - USA

Easily Annoyed (WTF)

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Love the Grentch - I often used tinfoil shaped by hand to make textures I need. Or, I will use needles, toothpicks, and other things for detail work. Also, of course, clear nail polish for eyes and glossy bits! =D

Tee Wrex

Tee Wrex

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2011

IL - USA

Easily Annoyed (WTF)

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Obastable - OMG KITTEH! ITS SOO FUZZEH!! Nice work! Looking forward to watching this one progress!!!!! (Note to self - combine posts next time!)

Minami

Minami

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jul 2008

Dallas, TX. USA

Not in any guild at the moment

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Off topic:

Hey everyone!

We're back home, and I am happy to say that our trip was a huge success ^_^
We went to perform at The Fillmore in San Francisco with Metallica for one of their 30th Anniversary shows.
It was absolutely awesome, we had a lot of fun!

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/bla...sitemID=167005

/off topic

Maybe soon I will get back to my entry

Sasultra

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2010

I live on earth...I think oO

(ULOB)

Me/

@Starfleck

I never thought of that to be honest and it`s a great idea and I like to experiment with it my only issue is I don`t have photoshop or any good editing programs. I have been using paintshop-photobucked for editing .

Do you have any advise where I can get free good editing program. and Thank you for your feedback

Aeronwen

Aeronwen

not so much fell as.....

Join Date: Jan 2009

UK

bone

R/

WB Odinious. Looking forward to seeing your piece. I already hate Skyrim, it is like invasion of the body snatchers, everyone has disappeared!

Kiya, he is coming along nicely. I am looking forward to seeing the hat.

Obstable, I hope you get better soon, sounds awful.

Minami, Great news that King was back on stage. He is looking good in the pics. Is there any vid of his performance?

Iceblue

Iceblue

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2010

W/

Not sure if I should edit my original entry or not, but figured it might get lost in the shuffel of things.

My gallery is here... so far i've only collected things for inspiration. I hope to start drawing this week.

http://iceblueguildwars.deviantart.com/gallery/

Minami

Minami

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jul 2008

Dallas, TX. USA

Not in any guild at the moment

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@Aeronwen: Thanks ^_^ Yes, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHCDgBjcng

@Morag: ^_^ Thanks

ShadowsRequiem

ShadowsRequiem

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Inde is Smoking [Hawt] *ToA*

W/E

hnmmm maybe I'll draw something... XD

BadDrizztfan

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2007

[ASSA]

N/

Hi everyone!
Like I said in my first post, I scribbled around a little to get some ideas... well, here's what I ended up with:



I would like to know which one you prefer... right now I like the first one more, but that's mostly because the sketch simply looks better. I think if I fix up some things the second image can look positively EPIC!


@Koreena:
Nice work so far! I'm digging those ears, they are so smooth! Makes me want to touch them (doesn't matter that the little rascal would prob try to chomp my finger off :P) I'm wondering though, is the material you are using somewhat flexible? If so, you should adjust the pose a little, because right now he looks as if he's sitting on an invisible chair! Or of course you could sit him down on a huge present or some stupid adventurer's corpse (whatever the little guy prefers ) instead of trying to change the posture... unless that has been your plan all along?
Cheers

E:
@Thistle:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...&postcount=303

Link to my gallery

Penguin oO

Penguin oO

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2009

Canadian eH

Zos

Mo/D

cool prizes but the only one i want is the reindeer. I wont be entering this year cuss i think that there is no chance of me wining it QQ. Competition seems fears. i shall save my big guns for gw2

btw did Anet graved u guys 3 codes of reindeer's or just tonics. OMG i cant imagine that tonic in Pre ... drools


Also got to DO some work. Started adding some furry texture: