Chow 148 :: VOTING :: E. G. Brownstone, P.I.

[daestwen]

FINALS ONLY
-=ROUND 148=-
-=E.G. BROWNSTONE, P.I.=-

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ROUND #148 :: E.G. Brownstone, P.I.

DESCRIPTION

Edmund G. Brownstone, Private Investigator... of the Paranormal!

Mr. Brownstone specializes in paranormal mysteries - and the occasional adultery case (though they frequently overlap).

Time Period Open.

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ACCEPTANCE TO POLL WILL BE BASED ON THREE CRITERIA:
1: DID THE ARTIST FOLLOW THE BRIEF? (allowance for creative takes will be made).
2: IS THE PIECE ARTISTICALLY SOUND? (Is the illustration "finished?" - did the artist pay attention to anatomy, perspective, other fundamentals?).
3: IS THIS ILLUSTRATION THE BEST ONE?

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SUBMITTING YOUR ENTRY:
1: You must submit ONE full sized image.
2: Make sure your name and CHOW # are EASILY READABLE on your entry.
3: Use the Standard format (Below);

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:right: PLACE THE IMAGE IN A FRAME WITH YOUR NAME/TOPIC
:right: SAVE YOUR FILE IN THE FOLLOWING FORMAT:
Chow##_Nickname
example: "CHOW#100_Oregano.jpg"

THE REST IS EASY:
1: No comments before poll is set. They WILL be deleted with utmost malice and petty grumbling. >:{
2: Sit back and enjoy the show. BYOPC (Bring your own popcorn)
3: Good luck to all.

[daestwen]

Please review these helpful reminders if you have not done so already.

:right:ON GETTING TO POLL (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1891823&postcount=15)
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:right:NEW ROUND RULE: WIPS PLEASE! (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1910999&postcount=27)
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:right:SUBMISSION FORMAT REMINDER (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1911002&postcount=28)



PLEASE REMEMBER TO WRITE YOUR COPYRIGHT INFORMATION UNDER THE IMAGE SO I DON'T HAVE TO HUNT YOU DOWN LATER!

[agenda-b]

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Copyright: Jason Barton

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[FerrousJack]

Copyright Ron Smith 2009
Concept Art, Character, Horror, Photoshop

[Joey-b]

Here is my Final, i know its to much of an illustration/Story telling drawing, but i do like it

[blobs]

Good luck everyone!! :)

[Tommoy]

Here we go.

[Desero]

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[masque]

The Unnatural Redhead
An E. G. Brownstone Mystery

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Chapter One

My client's late and probably not lamented husband had given his heart to the wrong woman. Literally.

Skewered to a pentagram drawn in his own blood, he looked like he hadn't ended his affair happily. The blade was of a type I didn't recognize, maybe a custom job. Leave that for the cops to track down. I was more interested in the glossy strand left behind. Crimson it was, no natural shade, and not one out of any bottle you'd pick up at the five 'n' dime, either.

It didn't take long to get a reading. Tall, lithe, with eyes so dark they could drink a man's soul and a figure to die for (and many have, I thought), she was in the midst of a conjuration. I wondered how someone with that kind of power could be careless enough to leave behind such a telltale. Then the faint smirk on her scarlet lips gave me the answer -- it was a calling card, left for me, and only me, to find. I doubt if the crime lab ran its DNA it would even test human.

Looked to be an interesting case...

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Copyright: Karl G. Nyman; Concept Art; Characters; Horror; Photoshop

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WIPs:
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[Mark Tarrisse]

Here's mine

Final
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And the WIPS
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[Artofinca]

O,hai :) here is mine.
(c) Artofinca - Alexander Nanitchkov

[Delmar]

:yayca:

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[Inkfish]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v371/inkfish/businesscard.png

[ChaoticKnight]

Final!
Excellent work everyone!

[FAST ART]

finally (hope everything fit now)

[smokenmirrors]

heres my final, first time coloring from some grayscale on up... I really had fun sketchin this one up... the leg brace action was brought from the idea of getting into it with some supernatural beastys that took E.G.B. for a bit of a ride.... and the stomach grill.... kind of the idea that he could trap spirit types much akin to ghostbuster traps with his own body.... :P fantastic entries all around! :yayca:

[Antne]

Thanks everyone for the crits! It really helped.

[Wolfentir]

Copyright info: Matt Marblo, ConceptArt, Steampunk, Photoshop


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[Mara644]

great work everyone!

[Crowsrock]

Edmund G. Brownstone

Copyright by: Crowsrock

[dwinbotp]

Here's my final:)

[shannanigan]

Thanks for all the critiques guys... it really helped me bring this one around! :D

Image is self explanatory... Devil Girl, Demons and the poor schmuck stuck in the middle. LOL!

Copyright: Shannon Finch 2/22/09
Category: ConceptArt/Characters/Action Adventure/Photoshop


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[Jason Snair]

Final & WIPs.
daestwen: If you need me to type out my label in the border I can, but I just left it as is in my illustration -- as you saw in the other thread.

[skorpi]

Copyright: Helen Aerni
Conceptart, Characters, Photoshop

[IanLlanas]

Copyright: Ian Llanas 2009 - Painter
My take on Edmund G. Brownstone, paranormal private eye. I wanted him to stand in contrast to the supernatural world he lives in, a hardboiled, stoic and completely capable detective that relys on his sharp wit, knowledge of the occult and, of course, his trusty S&W .357 Magnum. I hope I've improved since my last entry, as Deadred pointed out to me, and I've noticed too, that my skin looks rubbery and fake. I think this looks a little better. I used a mirror for the hand w/ the cigarette and a reference photo for the gun.

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[Felida]

I was sick almost the whole weekend :[

[Burmak]

hi everybody)

[Daniela Blanco]

Here is my final............I didn't have much time for finishing it as always.....but it was really fun and I could learn a lot by trying to fix the perspective and with the comments and critics.....
This was a great round......with a lot of amazing entries....

Copyright: Daniela Blanco 2/22/09
Category: ConceptArt/Characters/Action Adventure/Photoshop

[Deon]

My final and WIPs

[Sulk-Sal]

Copyright: Jason Licht - Concept art / Characters / Photoshop

[DecayingLolita]

feeling hopeless as ever
Copyright: Charlotte Pardy - Concept art - Characters - Photoshop

[Adam Schumpert]

"This job has taught me a lot of different things... There are some things that I wish I could scrub from my mind, like you could scrub a mud stain out of a new rug.

Still, there have always been three things I have tried to remember when it comes to my line of work. Three rules that have kept me alive this long...
First: Old, simple, and reliable is the way to go. New and flashy is all well and good when you are trying to impress a dame but, when your life is on the line you need to know that you have gear you can trust to work every time. The fewer moving parts, the less chance gremlins can screw with you.
Second: With the proper preparations... almost any foe, whether it be a drunk, abusive husband, a psychotic stalker, or a 3 ton rock daemon from the 8th ring of the abyss, can be brought down with a .44 magnum.
And Third: In this town... in this line of work... never, never, trust a pretty face...

I don't know why, but for some reason I always seem to have trouble with that last one. Some how I think she knew that when she knocked on my door...

This is going to be a bad week, I can tell already."

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Copyright info: Adam Schumpert/ConceptArt/Characters/Horror/Photoshop

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Awesome work everyone!
Take care,
Adam

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Cthulhu compels you... make more awesome artwork... he wants to see more... More... Mwwwahahahahahahaha!

[NateShaw]

great work everyone

[DauDau]

I know it may not make the cut, but at least I worked a lot on it. To me, that's a success too.

Copyright info:
Sanne Erstling
Concept Art - Character - Horror - Photoshop

[skekTek]

Great job everyone!

Just so you all know, his tie is an Interdimensional Travel Tie :wink:

[DynamiteDill]

Need to work on focusing on 1 character. Full scenes take too much time ><
Belt and straps didn't get any love. All in all, I'm satisfied ...
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(c) Leonard Dill
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[Vorace]

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[bumskee]

nice work everyone!

[daestwen]

NO ENTRIES PAST THIS POINT.

15 minute grace period.

Thanks!

[MJ_Alcazar]

And, my final. I still need to figure out how to unzip files. So, the text isn't what I had wanted it to be. Oh well, you got to work with what you're given.

Mashea Johnson - ConceptArt - Characters - Action Adventure - Other

[daestwen]

So, Only one cut today.

Since the quality was over-all so good, and because we got enough entries to fit them all in the poll, we gave everyone a pass. There were only 4-5 that were on our 'maybe' list.

The only one that didn't make it into polled was not named properly and did not attach wips: Desero. If this is fixed, I'll add it too.

[Joey-b]

Blobs, delmar, Fastart, Jason Snair and Dwinbotp

maybe ill comment all again later
thanks for including me even though i got carried away with a story and sort of not focused the drawing on the Chara!

Fast art .. Why did u vote for yourself? ur one of the persons most likely to win this.. u dont need it

[DauDau]

The first time I was accepted into the final round. Very happy about that. Thank you. :-)

[Stacybean]

Ho mon...drawing faeries and witches are one thing, but drawing a normal man and making him look cool seems like a really daunting task to me. So I voted for who I think pulled that off really well while keeping it detective-y:

Bumskee, Masque (very bamf detective face), Shannanigan (I thought from the beginning your style would be good for this), Dwinbotp (I like this all around, everything from the trench to the ghost gun to the briefcase. Probably my favorite one), and the guy who drew the old man detective with the glowing green honey comb surrounded by newspaper clippings ( I couldn't find your name on it, but I love the feel of it.)

I also really wanted to vote for markusthebarbarian, but I couldn't decide on any of these five to not vote for. I really liked the face and costume of your fellow as well though.

[JoeX]

i voted for FAST ART, but Bumskee - I really like your work and that piece!

FAST ART because of the over all character and style to the painting.

[Deon]

Darn - I guess next time I do CHOW, I'll stick to portrait format - didn't realise landscape would end up so small on the poll - oh well:)
Voted for Burmak, Felida and Vorace.
Wanted to vote for FastArt - it's awesome, but he just doesn't look like a detective to me.
I was a bit surprised by how many conventional detective types there where, but as Stacybean says, drawing a normal man and putting a lot of character into him is difficult - for that my hat goes off to you, Bumskee, sorry, I should have voted for you too:( He really makes me think of Constantine, though.
Some really awesome work here, guys. I learned a LOT on this one and it was serious fun to boot!

[shannanigan]

My votes.... limited myself to 5.

Dwinbopt - Ok I'm a chick so I'm allowed to vote because I think the character is smexy right? Well too bad, I did. LOL! I think the 3rd eye was very cool, yet subtle and the ghost gun to kill ghosts... great idea!

ChaoticKnight - I like the traditional PI threads on a very non-typical PI... and the wall turning in a Giant Monster... freakin' awesome! Since CHOW is not just about the character design (so I've been told. ;) ), but also the "feel" of the whole piece and its effect on the character... this one is tops for me!

Masque - I just really like it... I can't exactly pin point a reason. I just do. Though.... it could be one of the same reasons I voted for Dwinbot's... :D His outfit, pose and the whole scene reminds me of Kolchak/Nightstalker... of which everyone knows by now, I am a huge fan.

Inkfish - I love this guy, its Watson after seeing better days!

Blobs - Now that is a PARANORMAL PI. really great character design.


As for the ones I didn't vote for... I thought some could have had more "detective" and/or paranormal in the design, a little more complete or had a little more personality to the character but all in all I liked something about all of them. Great job everybody!

[anamirela]

Great work everyone!
As usual I limited myself at three votes:
bumskee: simple, elegant and minimal. Showing exactly 3/4 of the character with no background, just a suggestion of atmosphere, impressed me the most.
nateshaw: great atmosphere, I can feel the story behind. The loose rendering and James Dean look cached my eye.
antne: nice comics touch. You put a lot of work and inspiration in this piece, I love all the details, even the joke :)!

[Antne]

Thanks for the kind words Anamirela. Much appreciated.

I voted for Vorace. I thought it was a very original design, a lot of fun and energy, and really bad-ass.

[Sulk-Sal]

I voted for Blobs, Fastart, Smokenmirrors, and Dwinbotp.

Blobs: Great looking character.
Fastart: Just a great style, and so many nice elements to the piece as a whole.
Smokenmirrors: Great character, and I love the way you used the light and dark and have some great negative space there.
Dwinbotp: Just great mood on that one.

Great round to everyone. Really looking forward to this next one!

[Daniela Blanco]

This is the first time my character is in the Voting thread...........I'm really happy of finally doing enough for getting there........but I really need to work more next time...

I voted for Blobs, Fast Art, Dwinbopt and Chaoticknight

Everyone's work are great.....but yours stand out..............awesome work everybody!!!

[Wiggers]

Voted for Fast art, Markusthebarbarian and Delmar.

[FerrousJack]

Voted for 3:
Shannanigan: Conveys the brief the best. He's a PI and he does paranormal. No question about what he does or who he is.

Tommoy: Also conveys the concept very well. Reminds me of Ghostbusters, and the pose expresses a ton of emotion.

Jason_Snair: Feels like the most developed character here and the presentation is excellent.

[Sekino]

Last weeks was too crazy for me to participate, but it sure was fun to vote! I went for 5 choices this time:

agenda-b- The image is just so eloquent. I love how one can instantly peg the PI, the distraught ghost and the crime evidence in a glance. They were a few technical issues (guy's arms too long, the green 'vapor' is puzzling...) but the storytelling won my vote.

FerrousJack- I like the character, a sort of steampunk Sherlock Holmes to me. Really, I loved the overall style and colours.

Masque- I've noticed your style in the previous CHOW and I'm glad to see it again. I like the strokes you use while colouring, mixing blues and reds. This one really tells its story well and has a great layout.

Antne- What can I say? It's well done, funny and campy :)

Jason Snair- Again, the campiness won me over. The character was well done and the collage of newspaper articles was fun.

I think I went more for the character and entertainment value than just technique this time around.

I definitely loved Bumskee's, Fastart's and Burmak's as well. Gorgeous stuff!

[skekTek]

I limited my votes to 3 only. That...was HARD!

blobs - Absolutely brilliant! That painterly style is something I'm trying to accomplish myself.
dwinbotp - Love the whole feel of this pic! Looks like he really loves his job!
MarkusTheBarbarian - I can't deny it...I'm a sucker for period pieces! Atmosphere and lighting, top notch!

Awesome round everyone! On to the next one!

[daestwen]

Please, guys, remember not to vote for yourself! It just doesn't make sense.

FAST ART, I've removed a vote from yours. :P Please don't vote for yourself next time!

[Mr. P Show.]

I voted for Inkfish. I just couldn't stop looking at his right hand.