C.O.W. - #113: Sound Creature

[Fozzybar]

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http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=110879


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Round #113

Topic:
Sound Creature

Deadline (extended):
Wednesday, 02 April 2008



note: The deadline won't be EXACTLY after a week...it can last up to 24 hours more, i am human and have to work also, you know ;)
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How to post

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However if you are done with your entry, post the final image in the following thread.

THREAD FOR FINAL ENTRIES (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=121713)

READ THE INFO IN THE 1ST POST OF THE FINALS THREAD TO SEE HOW TO POST YOUR FINAL IMAGE!!!

[Fozzybar]

Big thanx to davi & Mike Corriero who came up with this cool idea in Ventrilo Chat!!!

ADDITIONAL INFO

1. This is a special round. There is no written topic. Listen to the sound file to hear what noises the creature makes and come up with a nice creature design and concept based on the sounds.

2. No individual/character!!! Make a concept of a species!


:?::?::?:Click here to listen to the CREATURE SOUND (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/activities/cow-wizzle3.mp3) :?::?::?:



Enjoy!

[mcmatz]

WooHoo!

Great subject and I love that sound...

--Madeline

[JakkaS]

Absolutely Fantastic And Refreshing Idea!!! :)

Davi and Mike :bow: :bow: :bow: ...






aahh....



and Fozz.....:assspank:

[Fozzybar]

oh yeah, my ass feels so tingly now :perv:

[JakkaS]

Lol :)

[Ramitxon]

Fantastic idea, but where the hell did you find that noise?:wtf:

[davi]

thats...actually just me making noises into my mic.. :davi:

[Artifex33]

Whoa, interesting!

[Ramitxon]

thats...actually just me making noises into my mic.. :davi:

Haha, I would like to see your face making strange noises...

[Fozzybar]

Who said that it was his face?

[yoitisi]

Ow Fozzy, now I'm scared to go to sleep :P

Nice topic!

[chaosrocks]

wow way to stretch the medium
congratulations on a refreshingly new concept
crx

[Sellis]

Let me be next in line to congratulate Mike and davi on a great new way to make your mind work, brilliant idea people.

Stu

[jhagen22]

Great idea! Already have a sketch for it.
It's kind of an aquatic-primate. The noise comes from sacks in his neck/chest that inflate. He either vibrates them in the water to make the smaller noises or hoots out of the water to make the larger noises.
The only thing I need to work on is not making the sacks look like big hooters when he's floating in the water. :rolleyes: :P

[Mydrim]

Wow, cool!

Altough, I cannot imagine an offtopic creature that you could disqualify this time:)

[davi]

if you do a design of a lava, desert, ice creature i think that might be cause of disqualification...

[UCT]

davi this sound has got loads of flanger on it. I cant think of anything that would naturally make a noise in a swamp like that. Sounds submerged deffinately because of the water/backing noise etc. The middle sound has far more repititon of an accent and the pronounciation is far cleaner, its makes the rest of the noises seem relitively in audiable. The animal seems well active as it seems to move forward and away from the recorder very quickly, its like the hyperactive round. Im not convinced its a realistic sound, possible something dying maybe.

Great topic and great idea, Im just bummed cos Im stumped already.

EDIT: seems like im bitter cos the idea isnt there, once again great idea.

[Filicireg]

I swore that I'd try and submit something for the next C.O.W., but this one is sounding rather difficult. Hope I can think of something.

[Mike Corriero]

Haha.. NICE! Davi.. you're a cooky guy, great sounds. I'm glad we didn't start off with a large "roaring scary belch" of this creature sound test topic. Did I say this would probably be a hit..? yea ;) I think there will be a lot of participants in this round. I can see this being a special week popping up here and there, depending on how this week takes off.

UCT, just take it for what it is :)
I wish we had a professional sound effects guy lol, but this is low budget/no budget stuff lol. I'm sure you'll come up with something, the creatures sound and the background environment gives more than enough information to conceive something believable to go along with the idea.

Fozzy thanks for going along with this and setting the topic up. Davi, thanks for the sound file and you're talented mouth..I mean..voice :P ;)

[Vyse]

...and you needed 113 rounds of cow to come up with this brilliant idea? damn!
but reeeeally cool!

It´s just that the background noise makes it hard to think of something thats NOT living in a djungle, unfortunately....!

You should do this again some time, its awesome!

[Mike Corriero]

jhagen22 -

Shit, I had worked up a sketch a while ago that looks kind of similar to this and it popped in my head when I heard the sound file. I was going to produce something similar to my older concept. I guess I'll just move on with it, the final tends to always turn out quite different anyway.

Your sketch is looking good btw.

[Oni Rem]

I like to try this one, would it be ok if mine is not colored?

[Renren]

I'll try to participate, seem's interesting. Still dont know if i should go for a lizzard- or a bird-like creature... probably both in one.
Nice sound, I'm really curious about how you made it... does this background sound comes from a game ? (no, I'm not addicted to wow... Am I ?)

[UCT]

Sorry Davi & Mike, didnt want to seem super critical of your input, its a great idea. Struggling with it though.

Any crits? idea is that the 'laughing' toad, jumps straight out of the swamp and as it come back down to hit the water surface it lets the inards of its green sacks trail behind them, when they hit the water they make the mating sound (which is what we heard). Will have to do an explanetry drawing aswell etc.

[retter]

i agree with all the positive things people have been writing about the unique and refreshing change this topic has brought but i have one problem...

i'm going to be listening to that sound so many times that it may actually drive me insane :xpld:

[NARobles]

I keep thinking that sounds like something from a Zelda game in a lil fast forwarded way.
I'm new here. Thinking about trying my hand at COW. =D This is really an amazing challenge idea!

[Arteater]

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs27/i/2008/086/3/c/C_O_W__113_Sound_Creature_by_arteaterproductions.j pg

[Cloister]

Sounds like my 6-day old daughter instructing a family of crickets on how to prepare a banquet of pancakes. I think I'm in. :)

[Ramitxon]

I've decided to make it my cellular's ringing tone. I hope to get inspiration from there or else die from insanity. This topic is very interesting, I must make an effort as I just signed up for cgsociety challenge. But I think it is worth it. This last week was spectacular, we'll see what comes up with this one.

[Hexism]

oh damn i love your work arteater , especially the spiked pouch thing.


nice work guys , I only have this so far:
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/7606/soundcreatureix9.png

Its an (amphibian ?) bat-creature that uses the sound sacks on its neck to imitate sounds of other creatures .. it's like how some fisherman use a certain low frequency call to get sharks to get closer to their boat, thinking the sound is from a dying fish .. and *whoop* , sushi. lame story , i know. any crits would be appreciated.

[Fozzybar]

It´s just that the background noise makes it hard to think of something thats NOT living in a djungle, unfortunately....!well, if we have a topic like "Jungle Screamer" you won't be able to think of something that's NOT living in a jungle as well...so see it as another hint for the environment the creature lives in. But i can think of more than only a jungle there. Could be a swamp or steppe as well...;)

UCT
I think if we didn't know how dolphins sound and we would post a mp3 with dolphin sounds you would also say that a mammal or sea creature never could make such noises. There is so much to discover in millions of galaxies or even here on earth in mircocosms, the deep sea or even on land which will blow off our mind when we will hear/see it the first time and in relation to davis sound this ones will be much more strange and alien ;)

[roidvoid]

i love this topic im totally going to do something...

[REGNIRUTH]

I'm in, I'll have something soon. the sound file sounds pretty funny, can't really think of anything evil. but I've got something.

[UCT]

UCT
I think if we didn't know how dolphins sound and we would post a mp3 with dolphin sounds you would also say that a mammal or sea creature never could make such noises. There is so much to discover in millions of galaxies or even here on earth in mircocosms, the deep sea or even on land which will blow off our mind when we will hear/see it the first time and in relation to davis sound this ones will be much more strange and alien ;)

I hear ya. Like i said i was basically being objectionable towards the sound because i couldnt process it with an idea. Thats childish on my behalf espeacially when this is a new type of round. This is going to be very popular round because of the new angle its taken.

'Much more strange and Alien' - I'll take the hint.

[Sapphire]

Fantastic idea, bravo to Davi for producing something convincing! Animals can make some really crazy sounds. I'll try to get something up for this. :D

[davi]

I've been watching a lot of David Attenborough and discovery channel animals films lately, my head is way full of animal ideas, now i just need to figure out how to make them :}

I'm not sure ill be able to finish my design or not since I'm having stylus problems(i hope thats the solution) and I'm waiting for a new one to come in the mail.

I'll post a WIP for sure though, and if i get my stylus soon(and it is the fix to the issue), ill def pump out a final render for it.


I'm so happy you guys are enjoying this :)

Vyse: The whole idea of placing it in the jungle was to give it a sense of focus in the design. If i would have just made the creature noises, it would have been wayyyyyyy too open.

[Mike Corriero]

Davi - ChaoticKnight posted in the lounge thread I created that he may be able to help with some real sound mixing and manipulating software. He offered up his help if we want to try and get another round like this going. Whether it be the week after next or a month from now. Just something to think about in case you want to try and get some more realistic sounds.

and Foz - thanks for your post. People have to think, if we had never seen any... ANY type of animal that exists on earth and just heard the sound, could you even come anywhere close to trying to place it in an animal kingdom. Be it water based, mammal, reptilian, a flying creature etc..

Something to think about. Though we hear crickets, though we hear what sounds like a swamp scene, a water based environment, or what sounds like an amphibian alien creature. Wouldn't it still be possible that this "thing" making this "noise" be a flying creature that inhabits swamps or water environments? Think about cranes, herrings, loons, ducks..etc think of the noises they make. just some food for though.

I've got this idea for a FISH/BIRD alien critter that's semi-intelligent, small, scurrying, friendly, nervous....

[Arteater]

I don't know where I am going with the body, I don't like the brown.
anyone else see anything that could help?
http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs25/i/2008/086/d/c/C_O_W__113_2_by_arteaterproductions.jpg

[Nexus]

Hmm, well judging from the sound file, I think we can ascertain some definite things about the environment. It's near a water source. I'm going to go ahead and rule out large bodies of water. It could be near a lake I suppose but lake's are generally still and they make softer noises even where the water laps against the shore. Oceans make a very distinct noise and the sound file possesses none of those characteristics. My guess is that it's something along the lines of a small stream. It could be a river but the water sounds very gentle. In addition, since the trickle is so gentle in nature yet fairly audible for being such a small sound I think that it must be in an enclosed space. I'm pretty sure that the sound is bouncing off surrounding trees or some other semi-dense foliage. Otherwise the sound would be lost. It might be in a swamp or marsh but water in those environments only moves at the pace in the sound file near the connection points to rivers and streams. So all in all best bet would be forest stream. I'd rule out the jungle. Jungles usually have a wider variety of insect and other animal noises. Just something to help narrow things down. Of course, I suppose its up to personal interpretation.

[JakkaS]

Arteater - I think the head is too big ...or at least it looks so. Maybe try to make it smaller, the "crop" can be as big as it is. Maybe then it will be looking better. :)

My WIP:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/JakkaS/COW113-Sound-Creature_a.jpg

Cheers
Kuba

[aaenima]

hey, i'm new to this site and i've taken a great liking to the COW contest. i was going to enter in last week's "creature that changed history" but i didn't have the time. i really want to enter in this week's competition, but i can't get the sound link to work, it just takes me to an error page. so if somebody could describe to me what the sound is like it would be greatly appreciated. hopefully i can go off a description of the sound.

[Cloister]

Hehe... describe what the sound is like....hehe... I guess you - aaenima - shall have to look at this weeks wips and try to imagine the sound based on the creatures.

I can imagine a "sound"-forum where the activity/competition is reversed: Come up with a sound that this very creature makes. Is it likely that anyone would come up with a sound like our current one?

[Mike Corriero]

Jakkas you're quick dude, looking good.
My WIP/ almost Final.. may end up touching it up when I get a bit more time.
Loofeesh: Description coming...

[Sceptyr]

Wow, to all
Arteater- really liking it so far, and ya like previously mentioned make the head a little smaller, and maybe also add a few thin scraggly bits of hair to the upper cheeks and top of the throat sac to make it match up with the hair on the body, just an idea.

[Aedant]

Thought it sounded fun and wanted to enter. I would like to know if a pencil drawing like this one is sufficient to enter ( it's still a WIP though, I will clean it and adjust the background a bit ).
This would be called a Jekippa .

http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs27/f/2008/086/2/4/Jekippa_by_Narseith.png

[Tyrus]

Here are the chicken thingies. Just the start (of course), but I thought I'd show it.

[UCT]

Arteaster - I like the premise of your creature. the neck is very thin although as people have mentioned, if the head was smaller it fit and not be top heavy.

Jakkas - awesome colour, really good believable contrasts. Love the nose and gesture.

Mike - you soo speedy!!! fantastic stuff again. How big (pixel wise) are your files before resizing them? I have resently taken to using A3 paper size so I can incorperate smaller brushes for detail (if im not lazy about finishing). I just courious.

Desviaciion - looking forward to seeing it progress.

Aedant - looking good, get some colour on it.


Well Ive started again cos the toad idea wasnt going anywheres and had bad angle on it, not very descriptive etc. ANY CRITS WOULD BE REALLY WELCOME! -thanks.

WIP -


EDIT: still wip but progressed. Thanks again Mike, I think im going to go back to the cereal box shape head but get better prospective etc.

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/1451/egwrgsgdsfewp5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/1451/egwrgsgdsfewp5.a3ccce0420.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=516&i=egwrgsgdsfewp5.jpg)

[edelia]

Ah, well I've never actually done this before, but lurked forever. Anyway, this seems interesting, so I'm gonna give it a go. No guarentees about a finished product, but here's my idea real quick so far:

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/6188/sound2kg2.jpg

I'll go more into detail, but basically the constant chirping sounds are the creature 'charging' the chemicals in its digestive system, and the louder noise is the final burst of light filling the sac on its chin. I was planning the light to be the "mating call," but that's not a final decision yet.

Ahh, anyway. Let's see if I actually do this.

[Mike Corriero]

Mike - you soo speedy!!! fantastic stuff again. How big (pixel wise) are your files before resizing them? I have recently taken to using A3 paper size so I can incorperate smaller brushes for detail (if im not lazy about finishing). I just courious.
The final size of this creature including the border is 3614 x 2730 pixels at 300 res.

Thanks btw, Most of the time I use to work strictly large scale start to finish. Now though, lately I've been doing the small thumbnails and the W.I.P. portions at around 150 res. 2000 x 1200 pixels give or take depending on the dimensions. Once I get the rough color down and the general idea I boost it to 300 res. and anywhere from a max. of 3600 pixels in height or width, and some times up to around 4200 pixels. I think my stilt stalker creature was 300 resolution 5811 x 3650 pixels. That's including the border, and that's an unusually large size for me only because the creature was to be very tall most of which were the legs, so I wanted the details on the body to show because it it wasn't that big if you look at the "actual" creature not the background or border.

[Mike Corriero]

UCT - I hope this paint over serves as a crit and will help in some way. This is just how I would handle your work in progress on the head, neck and chest region. This would be pushed further but you get the general idea.
I would lay down some perspective grids on the head for the eye socket canals leading to the back of the head as well as add some muscle forms popping out and separating regions of the neck and chest. I would try slimming areas down and in ways of curving the neck and eyes so it doesn't all seem very stiff in muscle structure.
It changes up the design of the head, but as you see in the WIP of yours, the perspective point of view you're going for is off, the eyes don't line up and when flipped the one eye seems a bit too large and from this point of view it wouldn't be due to forced perspective. Just some things to think about.

[aaenima]

Hehe... describe what the sound is like....hehe... I guess you - aaenima - shall have to look at this weeks wips and try to imagine the sound based on the creatures.

I can imagine a "sound"-forum where the activity/competition is reversed: Come up with a sound that this very creature makes. Is it likely that anyone would come up with a sound like our current one?

ah, you make a good point cloister. thanks for the advice, i guess i'll just try and imagine it's sound... judging by the WIPs who are mostly small creatures with small noses/airways i'm guessing maybe it's high pitched... maybe a screech? i don't know, i'll just have to improvise and hope it works out.

[aaenima]

arteater- personally, i think it would be cool if you made the whole body pinkish-skinned like the head and neck. and so it wouldn't look completely naked, you could throw in a patch of fur on the chest, and maybe a fur mohawk type thing along the spine. i think that'd look interesting. good job so far btw.

[lord_regenschirm]

Cool entries again; since the element dragon thing I'm watching from behind being eager to get in as soon as I can spare an extra week for painting.
@ Arteater: Hey mate still painting with your mouse :D ...?
I finally got a tablet a couple of days ago but the only improvement I see so far is that I'm drawing faster ... :wink: Your creature rocks I just wonder if a more greyish fur wouldn't fit better to the overall composition ... compare it to these guys:

http://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj214/lord_regenschirm/sepilok_makake_01_klein.jpghttp://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj214/lord_regenschirm/makake04.jpghttp://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj214/lord_regenschirm/makaken.jpg

[Fozzybar]

hey, i'm new to this site and i've taken a great liking to the COW contest. i was going to enter in last week's "creature that changed history" but i didn't have the time. i really want to enter in this week's competition, but i can't get the sound link to work, it just takes me to an error page. so if somebody could describe to me what the sound is like it would be greatly appreciated. hopefully i can go off a description of the sound.

Right click on the link and download it on your harddisk, that way you can play it with your mp3-player software.

[Ramitxon]

I see great concepts here, this one's gonna be tough

scorge. Looks great so far.

edelia. Great idea!, I think you can go perfectly that way.

Aedant. Great cross between frog, cangaroo rat and titi monkey. Keep it up.

JakkaS. looks fantastic.

arteater. I agree with Jakkas, maybe you cound make the body bigger.

Mike C. My hat's off man.

[Rist]

Hi guys.

This is just a sketch. Now that I have got this I will gather the relevant reference and wing it.

A lot will change I am guessing, but crits are still welcome!

Thing that need changing:

Head reduction
More body showing
Less human eyes
Natural hair/fur
Redo a drawing layer
Think about the colours

I am thinking of this creature as a frog and part marsupial. Too much frog right now. Maybe I could have him catching a fly or dragonfly.

[Hexism]

Mike: man , that looks awesome , the bird/fish parts just fit perfectly..

great progress guys , Im looking forward to see updates.

I changed my initial work ,made it taller and changed parts so it would look less like a bat and more like a water creature.

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2795/soundtd4.png

cnc would be appreciated.

[Arteater]

Jakkas: I think your right about the head, it somehow seemed ok in the sketch, now that it has color it has more weight to it.Im liking your work in progress, great color and composition.

Mike Corriero: Awesome fish-bird. it def. fits the sound

Aedant: nice work so far, imo the arm should be a little longer.

UTC: Awesome design

Lord Regenshirm:No more mouse here, 6x8 wacom , thanks a lot for the photos

[Arteater]

how about this, I moved the head back, shortened the nose, and made the body bigger
http://fc06.deviantart.com/fs28/i/2008/087/c/6/C_O_W__113_3_by_arteaterproductions.jpg
update , Im liking the body much better . Thanks all for your help
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs26/i/2008/087/4/a/C_O_W__113_4_by_arteaterproductions.jpg

[UCT]

Mike - thanks for the paint over, I tried getting the head looking like a cereal box on its side but i think the perspective issues were more obvious/and trickier than i thought. I was going to put more muscel structures into the creature in other areas but leave the side part of the neck for the gills, but i think it needs to be consistant all over the animal to make it work now.
Thanks for the time mike.

[E.Silva]

First ever attempt at C.O.W (After hearing the sound, I had little or no choice about making an attempt. Who on earth could resist some sort of warbling aquatic chipmunk?)Here's the concept.

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z147/dumbarton/Zumdingerconcept.jpg

Going for a sort of amphibious pelican with wattles (flappy neck things). hopefully it's not too bad. Planning to do a painting soon. C&C on design is very much appreciated.

[Michael Jaecks]

Here's the beginnings of mine. The notion here is that the creature's mouth makes that sort of baby-talk gibbering while the fins on its back vibrate to make the buzzing sound under the gibber. His eyeballs are located on his chest under the mouth and ears, because I figure his ears are the primary sense organ. Right now I'm most perplexed with what to do about his tail. I've done several versions and liked none of them. Gotta get away from it for a little while and come back with fresh eyes. :)

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a379/neorepto/soundcreaturewip.jpg

holy moley though some of you guys are fast. Nice work. MikeC's is really adorable and I'm looking forward to the finals from everyone. Scorge, you're guys head, face and expression is really interesting. I like Jakkas' too for the same reason.

EDIT 5:49pm... just updated the line drawing with a WIP render. I have no idea if th efinal will actually be purple... it's just something I'm experimenting with.

[Dan!]

-updated-
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q81/DECYPL/decypl_cow113.jpg

[mrpank]

wow, this thread is going very quickly,niceee :lounge:
wip :lifedrawing:

[UCT]

Micheal Jaecks - Look at shrimp tails,
http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/shellfsh/shrimp5.gif

could work by making the tail shorter and less out of balance with body, LOOKING GOOD BTW.

[Searious]

definatley entering this time, heres mine so far and without the background tell me what you think?
http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/9013/progressrz4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Arteater]

Searious: I think its a great idea. Quick crit. I think the nose is a little confusing, is this a side profile? or is he semi facing us? The dark indent effect you have below the eye is misleading to me, and the anatomy of the leg is a little off, kinda looks twisted, cant wait to see the finished product ;)

[Michael Jaecks]

UCT: yah. maybe shrimps the way to go. Definitely shorter on the tail though, you're right. Apparently I have a talent both this week and last for starting out with a front heavy or back heavy critter. ;)

[Matteo'89]

Hi, idea is so cool so I would like to try. This is my first attempt and as you can see I didn't bring any original concept :P but it's just a WIP, so I think I will add some extras ;)...

BTW, cool entries guys.

Jakkas - when I'm looking at your works I'm proud in fact of that I'm Polish :P but only then, 'cause I don't like Poland anyway...

Arteater - your idea is so cool, I like those kind of creatures ;)

So here is my WIP:

Update

And I'm still thinking how to make a body, only with feather, only with fur or maybe fur on the bottom of the body and Feather on the back and his little wings? We will see :P...
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z34/Mateo-89/COW113-SoundCreature-WIPcopy.jpg

[B]Here is sketch -> http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z34/Mateo-89/creature2-Mateo.jpg

[Lucid_Concepts]

The Birdy Fisherman. My idea is that a relative of the angler fish family has evolved over time to instead hunt birds in the swamps and rainforests. Their tongue like appendage comes out of their mouths and makes the funny little noise from the soundbite. The birds are attracted to the noise then try to eat the little wormy thing poking out of the water, becoming dinner themselves.

Here is a quick sketch of the general idea, although for the final I want to take more of a birds eye view.

[REGNIRUTH]

here is a sketch of my creature that i thought of, i thought of a Raptor, ostrich and a monkey. i think overall he looks good and believable, something that would make that weird flangy sound. speaking of monkeys and gibbons, they sure do vocalize in interesting ways. i'm currently painting it at the moment. Is it allowed to have multiples of the same creature in one image?

[edelia]

A little bit of progress..


http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/6025/soundxc0.jpg

[Niva.]

This sounds like manbearpig! Half man, half bearpig!

Definitely a neat idea for this round.

[Niva.]

Michael Jaeks, that is absolutely an awesome drawing, love the creature design! Honestly the only thing bad about it is I'm not sure how it matches the noise but it is a spectacular job so far.

[Mike Corriero]

UCT, glad I could help a bit. I looked at your Final thread entry and it looks a lot better, came out really nice.

[aaenima]

thanks fozzy, i tried what you told me and i got the sound to work and i'm well on my way to finishing my first c.o.w. entry

[mcmatz]

Okay, here's what I have so far.
Very rough drawing.
And I can't help it.
It's just what they look like in my head.

--Madeline

[Arteater]

now im lost on a background, is there a law on proportion? I'm so used of the same boring backgrounds, I think I resort to because they are easy and safe.
Maybe no background, what do you guys think? maybe I should do some "Environment of The Week" challenges.
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs29/i/2008/088/0/8/C_O_W__113_5_by_arteaterproductions.jpg

[Arteater]

E.Silva: I like your guy a lot, I like the profile sketch in the top right

Michael Jaecks: Man that turned out nice. You have some serious skills, this looks 3d. Great eye and vary clean

Decypl: I think your creature looks like he would sound just like the clip, great work

Mr.Pank: Vary nice line work and cool design

Matteo: love the big legs and neck, and his pose ;)

Regniruth: Awesome creature, those big front legs work well with the concept and the design, cant wait to see the end

McMatz:That waterbear rocks!
Great work everyone else, this round was real fun

[Searious]

im getting there not sure how to tackle this backround now. some really good entries so far.
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/1549/sofarzi2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[UCT]

UCT, glad I could help a bit. I looked at your Final thread entry and it looks a lot better, came out really nice.

*blushes*

thanks for the help.

[Dan!]

thanks for the crit arteater. about your background- I felt like you could enclose the space around the creature(which is crazy lookin by the way) maybe if you tried something like this

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q81/DECYPL/C_O_W__113_5_by_arteaterproductions.jpg

hope it helps

[Nathradas]

So I'm trying to participate this time aswell.. I hope I'll be able to finish this in time. :D

http://bakaryu.de/sketch/COW.jpg

[Ramitxon]

Here's my sketch

[davi]

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[marius d]

very nice sound!!!! it doesn't "sound" as a very big creature to me!!!! let's draw guys!!!

[REGNIRUTH]

seeing alot of great ideas, LOL davi, your creature is hilarious, fits the sound. i can imagine the creature walking around like that haha.

Thanks Arteater, i'll be sure to post my WIP in a bit.

[Michael Jaecks]

Davi: those feet are adorable. Lil tri-part hooves. So cute.

[E.Silva]

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z147/dumbarton/paint1Export.jpg

WIP. The idea is that the creature puts its mouth under water, where the noises emanate from the markings on the beak. For some reason the noises attract the local fish, who proceed to swim underneath the beak. Then, as you can imagine, the beak is snapped shut, and the birdy is fed. The longer warble is just the normal vocal sound for the animal.

[Cloister]

There are some interesting wips and drawings here!
I posted mine in the final entries-section... but I might make some minor adjustments later this week.

davi: That's some nice and fun stuff, right there. The backdrop is a great painting in itself.

MJ: Nice start.

Mike Corriero: I like the colours and the style.

DECYPL: I like that head!

Try mimicing 'the sound' for three hours before you get to bed every night, and your result will improve... a little. ;)

[Mike Corriero]

Thanks Cloister,
I decided to update mine a bit, refining details, lighting, colors and edges. I left the attachment on the prior page(s) so you can take a look at the updates for those interested.
:hugsmile:
This is going to be my Last C.O.W. for a long while, after having done 6 in a row it has been fun to get back into this weekly. Good luck guys.:yayca:

http://pratt.edu/~mcorrier/Art/Loofeesh-WEB.jpg

Artist: Mike Corriero

Concept: Shallow Swamp Loofeesh
Loofeesh are a rather small, nervous, friendly, playful, harmless breed of amphibians. They have evolved from a form of fish into a winged shallow swamp dweller that contains elements of birds such as thin scaled fins mimicking wings and webbed hind legs. These large finned appendages allow the Loofeesh to quickly make its way from one tree to the next. They flap these wings but usually in short spurts and glide their way over hundreds of feet. During the flight they will dive and weave after insects and other small food sources.
They also contain smaller forelimbs for climbing and other more mobile actions. These hind legs are used for additional height when jumping out of the water for their food as well as slowly treading on top of the water at night. They are capable of holding their breath for many hours though like most amphibians and aquatic mammals they do eventually need to surface for oxygen. At night the shallow clear swamps are filled with a deafening echo of the Loofeesh' mating calls.
Some of the noises are playful, others are purely for attracting the opposite sex. Loofeesh will run around, scurrying, swimming, gliding and jumping about during the day but the majority of them are much more active at night. Reproduction is something of a mystery though because unlike amphibians, fish or birds, the babies are born fully active often in pairs of two. The babies are approximately the size of a tadpole and they use their suction-like forelimbs to hold on to their mothers back between the protective fins until they are old enough to fend for themselves.

[scorge]

Update.
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k153/scorge40/1.jpg

Cloister, looking good man.

Great progress everyone.

Arteater: Everything looks great, except the ears.
MJ: I really like it so far, very nice design. Creepy. Crit would have to be the teeth (they're too similar to the folds in the skin), and the texture(reminds me of your ugly beauty a bit much). Other than that, thanks for the comment.

We'll miss you Mike.

[VirtualSurreality]

some really good ones out there

here's my WIP so far
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/8611/soundcreatureim6.jpg

[Michael Jaecks]

Scorge: Looks like yours is coming a long. Good point on the teeth. I may rework that.

Cloister: No fair, your creature looks gayer than mine does. I'll have to gay mine up a little more. Time to bust out the fuschia feathers.... ;)

EDIT: okay, so no feathers. But, Scorge's comment about the teeth made me knock them out altogether, add a tongue... and then I was reminded that in the middle of the sound file, the creature sounds like it's blowing bubbles... hence, the rework:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a379/neorepto/soundcreaturepurpletongue.jpg

close to done maybe. I've been looking at this a lot so I gotta walk away for a while and come back a little later...

[Tyrus]

Here is my picture again. I have a feeling its too traditional and/or beginner-ish to apply here, though. Any hints?

[marius d]

please help!!!!! i can't work out how to upload my image!!!

[Mike Corriero]

Michael Jaecks@- A quick note about presentation. Crop your negative space (unless you planned on adding some additional elements there). Then once cropped, make sure you leave enough room for the concept to breathe ie;(left, top right, bottom) below the feet and ground plain and above the head. I also adjusted the background it sits on to a slightly different hue so the creatures color scheme pops and stands out more. Some minute texture was added as well..just because I always think that if you're going to place your creature on a blank background, it should have just a touch of either brush strokes or texture for some minor added interest. You could move the scale chart to the top left for a better presentation, filling that space and allowing you to crop the right side. A white border might look good on this one as well.

This all seems very rudimentary and perhaps (tediously nit picking), but I think it would make for a much better presentation. No crit on the concept itself, just the layout and background color. Btw - Love your creature and the change to the mouth and the bubbles are fucking interesting as hell dude ;)

[Mike Corriero]

please help!!!!! i can't work out how to upload my image!!!
Marius to use Conceptart.org's uploader just follow these steps; First make sure to click : Post Reply : NOT the ..quick reply

Then as you can see in this attachment:
1: click Manage Attachments
2: A window will pop up where you will click Browse, to choose your file from the location you saved it in on your computer desktop.
3: Click Upload
4: You'll see your file name appear once it has uploaded
5: Click Close Window

Now your image will be attached, just click Submit Reply and it will show up.

[Arteater]

Well Its done for now, Thanks everyone for your crits and advice
.http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs29/i/2008/088/a/2/C_O_W__113_by_arteaterproductions.jpg
Mike: It was great watching your work these last couple months, hope to see you back here soon.

M.J.: great work

Scorge: I feel I should have re-thought the ears now you mention it. Nice work on your creature.

Foz:This was my favorite topic so far. Maybe it should become a challenge itself. S.O.W. sound of the week. I have tons of sound fx, thousands and thousands of sound fx. Thanks for going with the idea :)

[Artifex33]

Good gawd, but the competition is getting tight in these COW threads. Lots of good stuff here.

Arteater: Loads of progress from your first post. You get an A+ for work ethic.

Mike Corriero: Dead on with your crit on Jaecks presentation. Don't worry about being nitpicky--that was good advice that I plan on filing away for myself as well.

Michael Jaecks: Freaking LOVE the bubbles! The colors on the ear-fin-things is really luminant. Great job.

[REGNIRUTH]

Here is a WIP of my current progress and still going at it. this was done in photoshop with the use of custom brushes i have and it's working out for me better than ever.
please crit, thanks

[Arteater]

too bad my gif creator sucks
http://a181.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/108/l_fde1e9a3dd60ae2b9f25558dac8b796c.gif

[Cloister]

Arteater: I'm glad to see that you managed to bring out a working background. The head looks great! (but I think the ears and the hands and feet needs some extra care...)

MJ: Nice progress - fantastic head there. The scales are a bit monotonous, having basically the same size throughout. Some variations there will make the thighs and the main body more interesting. (A suggestion on this point is to bring in some "invisible" yellows or greens, to lift all that purple and make it even more vibrant)

scorge: looking interesting.

[Fozzybar]

ALL REGARDING THE FINAL THREAD
If you guys are not able to post your entry like it is described in the 1st post i will delete them. Just copy and paste. Is it that hard?

[Michael Jaecks]

Whoo hoo! Thanks for the kind words, crits from all and the paint-over from Mike. Truth be told I wasn't sure if I was going to knock in a background or not. And originally I considered more info for the thumbnail schematic side, but now that I've switched to bubbles I may not need it. I had some thoughts about shifted visual spectrums and vestigal nearly blind eyes and the need for echolocation... but the bubbles seem to be doing all the talking for me. I may drop the excess pseudoscience. Nice finish on the BG, Mike, can I just steal that? ;) Nah, I'll figure out what you did. :)

Cloister you havent had enough of my greens yet? :)

Arteater I like yours more and more as you work on it, but the gif is making me itch a little. He's got fleas! Eeeek! heheheh. Its cool you tried to animate it though... if any round called for it (granted we can't post it as a final) the sound round works with a little motion. :)

[Cloister]

That's it... I'm done painting creatures for the week. (I made a small update in the final thread...)
Thank you CA, and Fozz for keeping this activity going. It's always a pleasure returning to this field of friendly learning and battle!

/For the greater glory of COW

[E.Silva]

A little progress.

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z147/dumbarton/paint2Export.jpg

I had to cop out on the feet - I just couldn't get them to look right. Hopefully it's nee too bad. Favourites so far are Mike's and Arteater's, but it's all good stuff.

Of course, only looking at it now do I realise my creature doesn't really fit the noise. I'll have to change that.

[draconas]

Tyrus maybe your creature's sound could hypnotize creatures into thinking that the chick is their creature is their child which causes them to feed it.

[draconas]

sorry get rid of "chick is their"

[marius d]

thank you very very much!!!!
sorry to bother you people with my poor knowledge about uploading stuff!!!!
Mike you've been very kind to explane it very well and step by step!!!!
!!!!!!!!!HAIL MIKE!!!!!!!!

[marius d]

He's Morgon and he leaves inside the tank from ever because of a nasty experiment in a secret laboratory;he's attached to cables for feeding and breathing manners and the lonelyness makes him to make "that" sound,but trust me guys, is working out how to get out of there and so the fun will begins for him.........first thing on the list is to KILL THE NASTY SCIENTIST!!!
MMHHUUAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lege1]

My sound creature uses the placenta like part of it's stomach and long body to create various different sounds that range from high to low tones. It can trick its prey into thinking that it is a small creature by definition of it's sound. The sound creature also has an excellent sense of smell which it uses to navigate it's way through the wet cave borrows of it's habitat. It also uses its sense of smell to track it's prey. This creature is not as much of a hunter as it is a scavenger, but it will attack anything smaller than it if there are no other options for food.

-=Lege1

[Atastrophea]

Ok my idea for the creature came from an in joke between a friend and myself that Davi's sound clip really put me in mind of (btw, glad to hear I'm not the only one who's been running around goin "loloo loloo lollup" before crawling into my bed for the past few nights! ;) )

the Loloo-Lolup - Descended from a race of gliding shrews it is an amphibious creature that powers along underwater looking for food in the form of insects (water boatmen, caddis fly larvae etc.) like its shrew ancestors it has to eat constantly due to its high metabolic rate.

The sound you can hear being picked up by our high tech underwater microphone is produced by the Lolup's vestigial glide flaps vibrating in the current as it races around the streambed. This sound is thought to act as an alert, warning other Lolups not to infringe the resident creatures territory.

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Any help and advice to help me improve my work (and not get rejected) really appreciated :D

~m^-^m~

[Michael Jaecks]

Lege1: First thanks very much for the e-mail and the kind words again. Sorry to hear about the shoulder, but it sounds like you're on the mend. Just don't hurt the drawing arm! ;)

Second, this newest painting of yours is probably the most confident piece you've done for COW. The handling of the paint seems much more defined... the variation in texture is quite nice... your color sense has improved a lot over time as well. And it's really interesting and consistent stylistically. Really I think you've made some steps forward with this one. Nicely done.

Virtual Surreality: Your little guy looks very sweet and is really nicely painted. I'm looking forward to how you finish it.

[josh_041]

well i hope i can come up with something, because im kind of stumped...
i guess ill just hope for the best...
but its as though i have a picture of what it might look like in my mind....
but i just cant see it at the same time!

Edit: just wondering...im kinda new here, so are we supposed to hand draw these???

[Michael Jaecks]

Yep. Hand draw.

In the larger section of the "Creature of the Week" there should be a rules thread, newly fashioned by our leader Fozzybar in recent months.

[josh_041]

alright thanx...one last question...
after weve finished drawing them, can we
improve them with photoshop or something right?(color, background etc)

[Lege1]

Mike Jaecks: Your very welcome on the message and I meant what I said. You and a hand full of others have been a great help on here, especially in my struggles with the digi painting. I really appreciate and see how taking certain things in to consideration pays off. I look forward to constant progression and I am glad you like my piece. Thanks again man =)

[REGNIRUTH]

here is an update, placed all the values down and did whatever I can to bring out the form of the creatures. still have yet to add things later. if anything comes up that you notice, please crit.


i call these "wogs" or something, can't really think of a better name.

Mike Corriero- your creature looks great, looks as if it was watercolor something. It has a nice old style feel to it.

ArtEater- I like how your creature came along, like the job done on the skin and teeth. Especially the gif animated version, that's awesome.

[lord_regenschirm]

@ Arteater: First of all ... I'm SUCH a MORON! I confused the names of you and Anthis who actually used to draw with his mouse ... I'm very sorry :bashful:
To your creature: It absolutely rocks! Hardcore definition especially of the head I thought you won't (/can't) go any further after I saw your last entry when it still had the all brown body but you tought me better ... Two thumbs up for you on that one it's my absolute favourite so far! (And nice work on the integration of the silver fur :confident ...)

[Arteater]

Lord regenschirm: Thanks a lot, this is my final update. I havnt seen anything from anthis in a while. then again I havnt done many D.S.G. like I used to

Lege1: I agree with M.J. about your entry this week. i remember not too long ago we were talking about spray paint and you were real new to everything. Now your skills are climbing fast with the digital brush

This is my last update

http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs25/i/2008/090/c/a/C_O_W__113_done_by_arteaterproductions.jpg
:vodkamachine:

[Renren]

I really love your's... Just one detail that hurts my eyes : The spiky things and the teeths could need some shadows or textures, perhaps like those on the neck.
The rest is great ;)

[nuru]

This is my lazy, sunday morning sketch.I'm not sure if I'll have time to work it up into something finished/ bigger and better or not... :)

He floats around by means of the bubbles which form, shift and re-form on his back.

[REGNIRUTH]

ArtEater, I recommend some red shades on the teeth and spikes. because the light would be hitting the red skin and it would reflect a red tint of light.

still no one has nothing to say concerning my previous update?

[Oni Rem]

hey all, i don't know if i can get in with just this, but this is all i can get too

this is what i imagine the sound creature to be, fat, short and walks like a penguin...

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q147/Shadowkhon/SoundCreature1.jpg

[yoitisi]

Wasn't planning on entering this round, but since I got a sketch that looked like it fitted with the sound, I might give it a shot as well :)

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[Michael Jaecks]

All righty I think I finished. Posted in the finals thread. Many thanks again to MikeC for his suggestions on changing the background. I decided to run with it. My version has slight differences, but the end result is pretty close. I'll definitely use the suggestions in the future too.

[Lege1]

Arteater: Thank you much for the recognition. We were talking about spraypaint not too long ago but I've taken the time to put in some effort with the digital realm and I am really glad you and a few others are seeing the results. Thanks much and great entry on your end. You and MJ look like you've damn sure entered the 3d realm of 2d rendering. =) Great work no doubt and thank you for everything.

[Mike Corriero]

Yoitisi- That's looking FUCKING awesome ;)

Glad I could help Mike, looks great..definitely improves the image without having to spend a lot of time on the environment for what is a creature concept activity. Especially when the sound already lets us know the type of habitat it generally lives in.

Arteater- crazy texture on the bare skin..it's impressive. As mentioned by someone else, just put a bit of extra time on the spikes ie; lighting, shadow, texture..make them so they don't appear as white shapes slapped on top of the drawing, but rather so they fit 3-dimensionally on him. The texture of the skin and fur are handled very well.

[Arteater]

Thanks a whole lot everyone, I found the time to add a little shadow and highlights to the spikes, of course I found some more things to clean . Its done for now,so check out the latest version in the finals thread.

[JakkaS]

Michael Jaecks , daveneale , davi, Cloister , Mike Corriero - these are my favs from the finals thread :)

davi - lol, this one is really funny, the creature looks so happy on this picture :) The questions is....it is after or close before the matting time :) hehe

MJ - dig the color palette

MikeC - the creature looks bit flat but as always ur creativity and ideas are cool. I really like to watch how u mix all this creatures, taking parts from few species and making a new one.

Cloister - stuning picture...dig the mood and color palette

Arteater - after changes it looks definitely better...and I agree with people ...these spikes on his head are flat.

Oni Rem - lol....funny creature

yoitisi - cool head..u should finish it :)

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Here is my almost done entry. I will post it in the final thread (with descriptions) tomorrow...

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/JakkaS/COW113-Sound-Creature_e.jpg

Cheers
Kuba

[Matteo'89]

Yeah, I had waiting for this creature 'Jakkas' :), nice job you've done!

[jhagen22]

I ended up changing my critter a bit from my original sketch. I've now gone more of a lizard route and I like it better this way.
My creature creates sound by going into the water, inflating its neck air sacks and forcing the air through an organ within its mouth beneath the tongue. The sound is kind of a gurgling whining sound.
I think I'm going to call it "Mann's Gurgling Lizard" after Hubert Mann, the intrepid scientist that braved the amazon to find this little guy. :P
As for the art, I've decided to make it a finished pencil illustration and then do an overlay of color in photoshop. My last few attempts at working mostly in photoshop have fallen on their butts so hopefully this will look far better when finished.

[yoitisi]

Updated with final in the final burning thread :)

[TRUZART]

I call him Carnivorous Canary.... been watching the dino documentaries on discovery channel, and I felt the sound had a dino-ish sound so i made this guy....

[marius d]

I told you guys that he was working out how to escape from there, and now he's looking for the nasty scientist!!!!!do you wanna see what happens?! next post!!!!!!

[scorge]

Ahhh........Finally got a final in. Been too long.
Please let me know what you think. Always appreciated.
Thanks.

[Michael Jaecks]

scorge: It turned out very well. Where'd you get that fancy new fern brush?

[scorge]

Thanks MJ. I made that brush originally for tree leaves, but it actually created a killer fern instead. Experimentation at its finest. Still kind of feel like a cheater for using it.

[jhagen22]

Finally had the time to finish up the pencils on this one. Now I'm gonna go in with some color. It's gonna be a race to finish.

[Arteater]

Scorge:Great job, the frog is awesome too

Jhagen22:Nice work, I hope you can finish. 1 crit, The inside of the opened mouth creature should have a little more structure and anatomy, and not so dark, but the mouth parts rock! keep it up

[Lander]

You are all crazy!
Dam that is some crazy cool shit you all came up with. I'm really glad I checked in last night. I didn't have time for this but it was just to cool to stay away.

[benu]

Some reaylly great stuff here! Sofar, my favorites are JakkaS, Cloister's, daveneale's and mrpanks creatures.
Here`s my wip:
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[marius d]

wow man! so far this is my favorite!!!it's very well presented too!!!!!

[jhagen22]

Arteater - I agree with what you said about the mouth so I made a quick change and it looks a bit better. If I had the time, I'd do more but I think it looks okay.
By the way, I love your creature. Kick-ass design!
UCT - The alieny look to your critter is really appealing. Nice job!
Desviaciion - Cool bat guy there. Looking forward to the finished product.
JakkaS - I like the creature you have there. Kind of has a plucked bird look to it.
Mike Corriero - Looks great! Doesn't look much like my first sketch though...looks better! :)
Aedant - Good start on your creature.
Tyrus - Cute little creatures. Maybe punch up the values?
edelia - Cool, looks like a Miyazaki-type of creature.
Rist - Weird creature there. Cool, but weird. :P
E.Silva - I like the shot of how it fishes there. Looking good.
Michael Jaecks - Nice looking creature, but as always what really gets me is your painting style. Quite nice!
DECYPL - Very fun entry!
mrprank - Great looking horror type of creature!
Searious - Looks good. Good looking aquatic critter.
Matteo'89 - Nice colorful bird-like creature. Would like to see it rendered a bit more.
Lucid_Concepts - Fun wip. Keep it up.
REGNIRUTH - They look great. My only crit would be maybe some shadows on the foreground creatures to help to ground them.
mcmatz - I have to say that yours is the most original take on this in my opinion. Going through them all, it's monster, creature, creature, monster, furry teddy bear type of critter? lol cool. Hope to see if finished. :)
Nathradas - Really like the neck anatomy on your creature.
Ramitxon - Eagerly awaiting seeing your creature in color.
davi - Nice fun creature.
scorge - Great original look to your creature.
VirtualSurreality - Great work so far. The head is very nicely rendered.
marius d - Crazy monster you've got going so far. Interested in seeing it pushed further.
Lege1 - Dude, that is a crazy critter you've got there! That's just nuts. Heh, I like it!
Atastrophea - I like the flying fox look to your creature. What sort of coloring/painting style did you use?
nuru - I like the flying shlumpy look to that creature of yours. Hope to see it finished.
Oni Rem - I can't help but chuckle looking at your critter. Looks great! I hope you can finish it.
yoitisi - Great design man! That space in the chest is a nice touch.
TRUZART - I agree that it looks like you were inspired by dinos. Very cool take on it!
Lander - Good creature! I like the natural pose. Looks nice and realistic.
benu - I like it. Good job on your wip so far.

...man that was a lot of crits to do in one post!

[jhagen22]

Heh, forgot to add on my own wip progress shot.

Changed the mouth on the critter up front. And I've started to put down color. The color will be lighter as I want the pencils to show through.

[REGNIRUTH]

thanks jhagen22
yeah i noticed that, unfortunatley I already posted a final version, damn i how could i miss that. thanks for the heads up. Hopefully next time I won't make such a mistake.

[Lege1]

Jhagen22: Big ups no doubt man. I've been putting in mad work and trying to progress as much as possible. My big secret..........................
"Burning the candles at both ends."

Jakkas: Your creature came out incredible. I love that!

[Atastrophea]

Atastrophea - I like the flying fox look to your creature. What sort of coloring/painting style did you use?


Hey, thanks for feedback :) I dont know if you can call it a style, its a mix of pencil, pen, charcoal, gouache, acrylic and watercolour as I've run out of money and am down to the dregs of my 2d art materials until my next student loan :bashful:
I like the expression on yours - he looks like hes just about to lick his eyeball lol. you seem to have lost a little of the lovely textuire going from b/w to colour? although maybe thats just cause your colour wip is smaller....

I've tried to revise it a bit, got some helpful crits from some friends and borrowed my parents scanner so I could try fiddling with the levels a bit and getting it a bit lighter/clearer. not sure how successful that was though :S

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Does anyone think this is worth entering into the final thread? (I'm a bit dubious as theres so many amazing entries on here) might I get more helpful crits if I put it into the finals though?

~^-^~

[benu]

jhagen and mariusd- thanks for your comments.
jhagen- I like the creature's mouth a lot. The outlines of the one in the background could be thinner especially on the lighted side.
lander- mmh, delicious green. I like the pose, too.

[Michael Jaecks]

Duh.. posted this in the wrong thread. Now correcting...

Fozz: Will you be posting the sound final in the voting thread? I think it would be cool for non-participating voters to hear the sound we had to work from. :)

[Arteater]

Fozzy: Has anyone ever thought of making a calendar out of the C.O.W. winners?? It would probably be too hard to get all the rights from all the artists, but it would be a kick ass calendar ;)

[Mike Corriero]

Arteater - From what I've heard, there is talk of a creature book in the works. Though it's still up in the air as far as I know.

[marius d]

TO JHAGEN22:thanks for the crit!!!i'll try to please you with final illustration soon!!!!

[jhagen22]

Here's how my final looks. Description is in the final thread.
I like how it came out. Soft wash of color to help the pencils shine through.
Let me know what you all think.

[Arteater]

jhagen: turned out great, I say its fantastic
;)

Mike C: A book would be awesome, I know I would love a copy. And is the Creatureblogspot for anyone? A lot of great art in there.

[Ramitxon]

Hey guys, I see fantastic entries this week, unfortunately I cannot participate, too much work right know, I'll comment them on the poll. Grrrrrreat work pals.

[JakkaS]

Link to my final:http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1711198&posted=1#post1711198
Matteo'89, benu, jhagen22, Lege1 - thanks guys :)

Cheers
Kuba

[Arteater]

Jakkas: Great work, this guy turned out nicely. I love all the poses, you have really captured this creature,s features and character. the colors rock too

[Atlam]

Hey guys! I'm pretty psyched to be throwing in with so many awesome artists for such a fun idea. Great designs this week too, glad to be here!

[scorge]

I was going to save my exaltations for the voting thread, but Electric Goat, your vision this round is perfect. Fantastic.

[Fozzybar]

Posting and Final threads closed for now...will see when i have time for this. Maybe tonight ;)

[Fozzybar]

poll is on:

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=121713