Teen Challenge 99 :: The Magician

[Nibras]

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Round 98 :: Possessed Machine

Topic
This weeks topic is The Magician. I want to see a magician who I'd want to adopt me aka an awesome one! Open to any interpretation, see how far your mind can go. Be creative, push yourself and try something new. Most of all, enjoy yourselves and have fun!

Topic picked by last, last weeks winner Lilnebo

Topic will be chosen by whomever won last week till Teen Challenge 100

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We are trying to keep Teen challenge open and community interactive. I'd love to hear all your suggestions and ideas. If you'd like to suggest a topic do so in this thread - Topic Ideas (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=146413). Any other suggestions to do with the way Teen challenge is run in General can be posted in the suggestions thread or you can contact me personally

Deadline
Sunday, August the 22nd, 2010
12:00 am GMT

RULES
1. Add a border around your image with your name and the topic, like they do with the other of the week challenges.
2. Please use the attachment manager, it helps preserve the images to forever and beyond.
3. Mark your final as final.
4. REMEMBER TO POST YOUR FINAL IN THE VOTING THREAD BEFORE THE DEADLINE!

[hunchback]

some chick super disgusting right now O_O

[hunchback]

rule of thirds bitchessss

[Aragah]

great topic

but still missing the poll thread for the last one

[jordyskateboardy]

Heh I'll join this one just for the sake of warming up for LTS I guess.

[Benjie]

The Magician! whoohoo easy!

[lancer_idenoure]

ooo this sounds fun. ill see if i have time for it

[Ludic]

Uh, don't think i'll enter this one, I just have no idea how to portray it.

[Nibras]

Give it a try if you can Ludic, well as long as it's enjoyable. It could be a really nice way to push your own limits :)

[hunchback]

fuckin hipsters

[Benjie]

Here’s mah sexy wizard man soo far.... not cool enough to adopt anyone just yet, need to get some more magician stuff into it.

[Sarynroth]

here is a quick wip, will probably add some magic glowy things round hands which should give me some practice at different light sources.

[Vertical]

Here he is, in all his super quick sketch glory. I figure fighting dragons is acceptably awesome. Could you tell that's what's happening?

[Benjie]

Not into this dude at the moment, a lot to improve.

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[xinranliu]

Final :o

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[PieMonster]

Preliminary sketch :D

[Benjie]

Noooo piemonster! got to spend another 10 hours on my dude now :(.....

[hunchback]

dammit pie

i luuuuuuuuv pie :D:asslick:

[hunchback]

now i have to fight dirty

going for cuteness with this one.

probably do one with lots of vaginas next.

[lancer_idenoure]

wow didnt know there were this many good teens here :) time for me to step it up. i think ill do some more studies instead of tc99...gotta work on anatomy. oh and lilnebo, any idea yet of how tc100 is gonna work?...or when? haha sorry youre probably getting a lot of that

[hunchback]

another rough sketch thinking about this dude in a throne room with all these chicks

[Vertical]

WIP, Made it kinda different. Still some problems.

[Nibras]

I love you bendik

lancer_idenoure:: I am trying to sort it out, it's just a bit hard while juggling school. I think judging will be okay. I am just waiting to give absolutely everyone time to sign up. Like I said there might be a 1 week break before Last teen standing is running, it's just a bit hard with school but hopefully I'll get it done. I really wanna do it too :D

[jordyskateboardy]

Here is my really fucked up wip. Still got looaads to do just want to show I am actually working on something and didnt just say id be in and then drop out. I know its super crap but yea thats just how it starts out eh. It´s almost like an homage to marko composition wise lol. Night dudes and keep up the amazing work it´s great friendly competition.

[PieMonster]

Well, here's the final. It took me waaaay longer than I expected, and I'm still not quite happy with it, but it was a lot of fun. And I got a bunch of helpful tips from Jordy along the way, so thanks so many to you, mister!

[xinranliu]

pie
so
awesome

[hunchback]

dude you still got time. Lookin solid, id smooth some stuff fix the hands and maybe work on the lighting and stuff. I just wantcha to push it to the max :D

[Benjie]

Well I guess its done, going to have to step things up a ton for tchow 100!, need to plan things out more carefully. anyways everyone’s shit looks super sweet, soo many good teens its scary.

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[hunchback]

benjie the colour really helped it

good job !

[Nibras]

Wow Pie Hubby, my reaction when I saw this was "WHAT THE HELL" *jump off the bed" "recheck the screen" "Wow, piemonster just gave a couple of hundred people some heart attacks :/"

Your best piece to date, really awesome work

Benjie, looking really killer. Very strong anatomy and the mix of rainbow colours is brilliant. All in all a great entry

Jordy, Looking forward to your piece. Looks gorgeous so far


DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED! because it started late and I am still working on Last Teen Standing. So you all have till Tuesday to finish this off :)

[jordyskateboardy]

Frickin hot pieces from everyone this round. i'll comment properly on each one of em when we get to the voting. So I've been very busy with preparing my new room for the big move out in a week to uni. Today i had some time again so i put in a few hours. Still needs loads of work but at least I finally established where i wanna head after a change of light source just recently so mind the slopyness and the crap face. I'll fix all that tommorrow so for now bare with me with this fugly wip. Night dudes.

[Icophant]

Cool topic.

[lancer_idenoure]

more time?...hmm...maybe, maybe...
ugh, started college yesterday an i already have to write more than a page for one class...ugh. i'l see what i can do on the weekend.
as for now, some crits! :D

icophant: ok a few things: try to establish the light source better on his robe. right now its mostly one value. also, his head looks a little small. so you dont have to redraw it, if youre using photoshop you can use the lasso tool to select it, copy it on a new layer, then get the marquee tool (M) and select the new layer, then right click (or alt-click, whatever), then hit free transform and you can scale it (hold shift for same proportions). aaaand i think it could use a crop when your done to take off the right section and just a tad off the right.

jordyskateboardy: nice idea, just check his neck, its skewed off to his right. also, bring back the glow from his staff just a notch. you have it so almost 2 feet away its almost pure white. that and your outline light (or whatever you call it) is really thick.

benjie: i like your final, i just feel it could use some rimlight (THATS what its called, jordy) behind the guy. also, all his limbs seem a little short, especially his legs. great entry! :)

piemonster: wow...thats awesome. anatomy looks good cept for her boobies. i know we all love cleavage ;), but you have hers almost up to her collar bone. i also think you could push your values more, especially in her glowy-magic hands. then clean up your edges a bit (make some softer and some harder) to make things you want to stand out more. especially on your sword handles and the guy's armor. metal has really sudden highlights because theyre so reflective. hope that helps :) how old are you btw, 18?

vertical: your composition looks pretty cramped and right now it looks like hes looking at the dragon's instead of its face. i dont know if that was your intention, i was just pointing that out. also, if those are mountains in the background, then you'll need to raise the horizon line a bit...unless theyre fighting on a cliff, in which case its fine, youll just have to show that.. other than that, just clean up your edges and finish it :)

hunchback: wtf? i see no vaginas in that last one! haha anyway, wow thats a lot of work; lots of different stuff. i think i like the hippie one the best...minus the top hat/bunny thing. maybe some less cliche magic? any plans to finish that? its got really nice lighting, just push your changes in value to define the forms more and it would look great.

xinranliu: i think your values, color, and anatomy (ref on his right hand?) are really good, your edges just need cleaning up. the chalk-brushed fire's not really workin for me. define his face more and maybe lighten up some highlights on it as well and i think youd be set.

sarynroth: nice concept...hmm not much to crit on it yet. id like to see his right arm be more visible. and maybe lose the white background. good stuff!

sorry if these are a little on the harsh si-WHAT AM I SAYING!!??? last teen standing is next week!!!(maybe) this is a really good round though...like REALLY good. keep it up dudes.

[Vertical]

Thanks for the crit lancer! I doubt I'll be finishing it though. There's just not enough time, and I didn't really give it any thought before painting so I got bored of it..but now I know what it will to make a super awesome picture for TC100!

[Sarynroth]

Lancer thanks for the crit I don't think I'll be able to finish as I am having to sort out sooo much stuff for uni. That being said I should be able to do TC 100 as I should have everything sorted.