Chow #006 - Retail Gigagiant Wherehouse Checker

[S.C. Watson]

http://www.oreganoproductions.com/chow/chowlines.jpg

ROUND #6

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DEADLINE
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3RD
9 PM PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
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Margaret, the Retail Gigagiant Wherehouse Checker
Suggested Theme: Humorous

Margaret is 35, works insane hours at the local Retail Gigagiant Wherehouse Store somewhere in the U.S. Midwest, and just wants to do two things: Write a novel, and take a vaction. Without her family.

She has survived Black Friday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)) – stood her ground against the onslaught of the Christmas-Sales-Crazed-Customer hordes where many of her coworkers broke down in tears or just quit on the spot. Her store manager is very happy, but she’s just exhausted after working a 16 hour day after getting up at 2am and is still expected to cook dinner for her vestigle deadbeat husband and four screaming kids (1,3,4, and 5) after getting home late to their doublewide trailer.

[redehlert]

Oh dear God....you've gotta be kiddin' me.

[REEF]

Cheery as the holidays! :^^;:

[Main Loop]

hehe, lets see the versatility in you guys..

[Bear65]

oregano...
all i can say is...awesome.
looking forward to seeing what results of this.

[Chuck,mate.]

well,
y`all come back now, y`hear?...
have NO IDEA what i`ll do for this one.
but i sure will try my best.
:)

[Rosco]

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y185/rosco44/Marg1.jpg

Hello all,

Love the subject. I suppose I will put myself out there first. This is a WIP so be kind, but feel free to critique. (I know the shoes suck...working on it)

Just for future reference is this style too catoony for this website? Still new to CHOW so just wondering.

Thanks

[Hanuka]

Just for future reference is this style too catoony for this website? Still new to CHOW so just wondering.

Thanks
nevermind being cartoony, all styles are appreciated ;)
that's a strong piece so far. maybe her feet/legs should spread some more.

[Interceptor]

This is s great topic, oregano.

[shadoman]

Hahha. This will be good.

[solorpower]

O.K.............:x

[S.C. Watson]

Hey guys - glad you like it. Just remember, as fun as they are, CHOW isn't always going to be buxom babes & broadswords. :teeth:

Rosco - that's absolutley fine. Love the style.

~Oreg.

[doven]

I could, sadly, just get a picture of one my cousins and run a couple of filters over it, you guys would never know the difference. :(

[S.C. Watson]

I could, sadly, just get a picture of one my cousins and run a couple of filters over it, you guys would never know the difference. :(
Sadly, doven, that makes two of us, though not my cousins. The topic is a little closer to home than I'd like to admit. :dur:

Doesn't mean we can't have fun with it though.

Or, another option is to do a serious portrait of the people affected. Explore the subject and see what you can come up with. Just because it's suggested as humorous doesn't mean you have to do a humorous piece. I imagine this could be a rather poignant character study if done right.

Cheers,
~Oreg.

[Muchitsujo]

This is just fuckin' awsome. Excellent topic idea. Can't wait to see the results.

[Aly Fell]

Hehheh! Cool topic... why do I keep thinking of a Bill Hicks sketch though? :)

[AmishCommy]

wachu readin' fo'???

[NOOB!]

its amazing how most of u hesitate when the topic doesn't involve fantasy and monsters,what has the concept world come too....

i'll get in this one if i find time.

[Chuck,mate.]

heeeeeeeere`s MAGGIE!
:)


http://images5.theimagehosting.com/margaret.1.gif

[4thAngle]

Well here's something a little dark... Excuse the cliché skull metaphor - Had to try it. heh

http://www.cognitiondesigns.com.au/illustration/links/CHOW%20black%20friday%20sboxer.jpg

EDIT: LOL, Chuck. If only I had Flash on this comp...

[Muchitsujo]

4thAngle, that is awsome. I see a whole series of horror movies based on this character...sort of a "When Soccer Mom's Attack!" kinda deal. Very nice.

[Sundance]

I'm hoping for a Duddlebug entry on this one, the description seems tailor made for his talents.

[Zeitwolf]

Chuck, mate - great. I wouldn't ask her where the dried tomatos are stored...

[Chuck,mate.]

Chuck, mate - great. I wouldn't ask her where the dried tomatos are stored...

:)
i wouldn`t either.

i hope no one minds i took a more catoonish/cutout approach
on this one. just having some fun.
thanks.

[Aly Fell]

Here's mine... not sure about the colours, as it looks different on different monitors at work, so some tweaking may be happening later... :) I might grubby her up a bit more as well...

AmishCommy - Hehheh! "We got ourselves a reader..."

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/2817/largemarge6sp.jpg

[NOOB!]

ah crap...posh urs is so similar to mine that i have to start again.

where in the u.k. do u live? i need to come and kick ur ass..

[S.C. Watson]

Guys, these are great. I love them all! Chuck,mate - saw yours yesterday at work and saw that it was animated - fantastic idea (though it's not animating at home... :\ ) Rosco - I love the expressions, 4thAngle, having worked retail, I *know* that feeling.

Posh, that is great - I love the guns in the photo.

Looking great people!

~Oreg.

[neoknocker]

Geez. Pretty awesome work so far. The competition'll be fierce.

Good luck, all of ya!

[Xpose]

I hate to ruin the streak of great entries but here's my a WIP of mine.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/xpose/drawings/margdone.jpg done... didn't get to work on it as much as I had hoped though =[

[FridayEve]

http://www.fridayeve.com/gallery/dsg/chow6_fridayeve.jpg
hope to see more during the week.

[AmishCommy]

did anyone see the shot of the lady being trampled worrying about her weave (on the Daily Show)?

[redehlert]

yeah. that was my mom.
totally....



kidding.

[doven]

Oh, Oregano, sorry I came off more negative than I meant to... I'm still definitely gonna try to do one this week.
First hand experience can only ever be a good thing...

[NOOB!]

i love that friday eve !!are you using just the water rake and sum other brush?

i think amazing how most the character designs look similar for this challenge,dunno if thats good or bad,but i'm liking it.

[Aly Fell]

Lovely work Friday Eve! Is it me or is it quieter this week... :\

[Chuck,mate.]

Chuck,mate - saw yours yesterday at work and saw that it was animated - fantastic idea (though it's not animating at home... :\ )

~Oreg.

ho, common..... a twitching eye and a shaky hand? animation?...
give a guy a break....
:P
ho, alright... i won`t do it again.
:)

[CaptainInsano]

I started this one but don't think I'll be able to finish it... But I want to post it anyway :D

I got the idea from that Norman Rockwell painting of the same topic.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/ParkerD/chow_margeretcopy.jpg

[Moquan]

ho, common..... a twitching eye and a shaky hand? animation?...
give a guy a break....
:P
ho, alright... i won`t do it again.
:)

I think he meant his computer at home wasn't playing the animation correctly. I like the twitching idea. I feel that way sometimes. I hope to see more ideas, this is a wonderful character idea! I'm finding it a bit difficult to pull of personally. (One of these days I'm going to actually muster up the courage to post in a _____ of the week thread!)

[NOOB!]

Lovely work Friday Eve! Is it me or is it quieter this week... :\

probably cos its not fantasy....

[masque]

When I read the brief I immediately knew I wanted to do a psychological portrait rather than an illustrative treatment -- for many reasons, I have a lot of empathy with the character as I envision her (I could write paragraphs about that, but if you don't see it in the image, it wouldn't make much sense anyway). Meet Meg.

http://www.metrocast.net/~chipartist/ImagePost/MegCHOW6Fweb.jpg

Not my usual illustrative approach (is there a smiley for "radical understatment"?) but very much what I wanted to do with this portrait.

One perhaps odd request of you viewers: If I were to do this in a physical medium I'd do it large, perhaps even slightly over life-size, to force a gallery viewer "into" Meg's world. The only way to do this on screen is to ask you to view the image at 100% scale, about 18-20" from the monitor, the approx. distance from which I worked on it. Will require a largish monitor, and perhaps d/l'ing the image to open in a less cluttered context like the Windoze Fax/Image Viewer.

How 'bout if I say "Please"? :^^:

[4thAngle]

probably cos its not fantasy....

Also, it's a busy time of year right now.

FridayEve, you sure nailed that character... Almost looks like a housewife I know.

[Jska]

Hey everyone... kinda funny how these are all kinda similar! I myself work retail and DID work Black Friday so I know how it goes... (unfortunately)

Here's my WIP :)

http://www.jskaconcepts.com/badaboom/margeWIP.jpg

C&C much appreciated. I may ink this comic book style and colorize accordingly :)

[Chuck,mate.]

I think he meant his computer at home wasn't playing the animation correctly. I like the twitching idea. I feel that way sometimes. I hope to see more ideas, this is a wonderful character idea! I'm finding it a bit difficult to pull of personally. (One of these days I'm going to actually muster up the courage to post in a _____ of the week thread!)


ho...
:bashful:
i think you`re right. me so stupid...
my apologies oregano.
:)

[JakkaS]

Poshspice, this family photo is just great idea….very funny…I like it.


This is my, maybe I change something...or maybe not ... :)
Inspiration was a saleswoman from Federico Fellini’s movie “Amarcord”.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/JakkaS/Chow006-RetailGigagiantWherehouseCh.jpg
Sometimes the only way out is to give it up and run away with your boss who's mad about you...

[Bear65]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/bear65/ConceptArt_Entry_by_bear65.jpg

Loved poshspice's peice and Friday Eve's you are both very talented painters.

This was a lot of fun. Funny to see so many people's pieces with similar subject matter, as I'm sure some of us are very familiar with either seeing people like this in the day to day or even have family that remind us of the character.

[solorpower]

Got what I could get done. Wish I spent more time on this one.......

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b335/solorpower/Chow6_web.jpg

[Helzon]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/Helzon/Margepost.jpg

[solorpower]

Hey everyone... kinda funny how these are all kinda similar! I myself work retail and DID work Black Friday so I know how it goes... (unfortunately)



Yes, I've noticed that too. This is one idea that can be drawn at face-value (hence the similarities), and it takes time and a bit of "creative day-dreaming" to change it up a bit.

For me, I am just r e a l l y short on time this week (and next week, and the week after that, and that...) basically until after New Year's, as I'm sure everyone has plans and things to do this time of year. But I will try to continue on each week! :teeth:

Keep these theads active Mr. Oregano!!!! 8) 8) 8) 8)

[cgfuller64]

Wow Bear65...I Love your style!!! Ink then photoshop?

[Jska]

Damn I really like all of these... a lot less entries than last week though!

Here's the colored version of mine...
http://www.jskaconcepts.com/badaboom/margeclr.jpg

Tried to give the atmosphere a dreary flourescent lightbulb-esque feel... Tried to desaturate it a bit as well. I hope it works :/

[shadoman]

Helzon, that is great! I love her expression and style. If that is smoke above that tuft of hair on the right of the elf, my only suggestion would be to fix the juxtaposition around there. The smoke and hair kind of blend in together too much. Otherwise this is my favorite so far.

[Helzon]

Hey Shadoman...I thank you! and will hop on the hair/smoke situation on the double! :yayca:

I don't like to handicap these things before it goes to poll...but I gotta say...loving these entries so far. Can't wait to see what rolls in just before the deadline....

[vigostar]

WOW, helzon your really good with the cartoony stuff... man you have my vote and its not even colored yet...

[redehlert]

Nice one Mike! Love the strung up elf. :)
Cheers!
D

[Helzon]

vigostar: I so appreciate that vote of confidence...but let me caution this...as learned from experience...the 1000lb gorillas on this site are waiting for the utterly last...nanosecond to post....and they are gonna tear this joint up...call it hair raising on the back of your neck.....call it what you will....but I got a feeling...they are just tweaking things to incandescent perfection.

Hey Dave! thanks bro..i'm humbled man..and can't wait for you to jump back in the fray next week.
Cheers!

[Bear65]

Thanks cgfuller64.
Yeah its ink then Photoshop. There's a lot of pencil in there too, i never erased it because it kind of makes an interesting texture. And I've always liked the look of the sketchlines...

[romance]

Here be mine. C & C welcomed. Rip, tear, destroy.

http://www.artofromance.ca/ca/projects/CHOW/Margaret.jpg

[Aly Fell]

Heh heh! Some great stuff coming through! Smashing work Romance, I love her... er.. you know what I mean....

[redehlert]

boy...our impression of the midwest blue collar working woman is rather bleek.
keep em coming!
d

[masque]

boy...our impression of the midwest blue collar working woman is rather bleek.I think that's because the brief is rather loaded with negative stereotypes, not a great deal of room for other than bleak (or bleakly humorous) if taken straight up.

[Muchitsujo]

I think that's because the brief is rather loaded with negative stereotypes, not a great deal of room for other than bleak (or bleakly humorous) if taken straight up.

More then just bleak, I would say many of these are down right scary. Unfortunately many of these are not that far from the truth...

[jabberwookie]

http://elbandersnatcho.com/dsg/margaret.jpg

oh the irony. work is picking up for me and I have run out time for this. ALSO, my gf, Margaret, worked for a similar type of store a year and a half ago in customer service. the horror stories she told are nuts. Now she makes 6 figures in an engineering company. how the tables have turned.

[Bear65]

I don't know if this is allowed, but a friend of mine was not able to sign up to conceptart.org because the weird text that appears at the bottom of the sign up sheet didn't appear so he couldn't complete his registration.

Chris Grim
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/bear65/maragart1.jpg

[Standing]

With sprog in tow, Margaret turned for home, wishing that Christmas came but once a millenium rather than once a year and hoping that Daryl hadn't been at the draino again - it gave him the trots like nothing else on earth.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v395/stan23/margaret.jpg
My entry isn't all that finished this week - my excuse is that I'm switching computers (getting a G5 - get in!) and have not been able to get a lot of painting in, so sorry.
Nice entries this week by everyone else -
chuck_mate - cool animation
Posh - class - I love the fit birds that you paint, but I think that your ugly people are even better

[4thAngle]

haha romance that's great.

[romance]

Thanks Posh and 4thAngle

[Jska]

Romance, that is awesome. I am drooling! hehe
- edit because of the painting, not because of the specimen.

[doven]

I'm visiting relatives in Texas and I left the powercord for my laptop in Georgia like an idiot, so... none of that fancy photoshop stuff for me this week. Instead I got to try out the ever so confusing yet rudimentary ArcSoft Photo Studio!!! Oh swanky~!

ANYWAY... here's Marge.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/doven/Margie.jpg

[Bear65]

another one from a friend who could not see the text when he registered.

AlanAtwood
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/bear65/Margaret2.jpg

[Antilight77]

http://digitalmack.com/DigitalV7/art_pages/conceptdesign/2005/q3/meglomart1.jpg

This is a shot of your beloved heroin after she was on her way out the door when the boss came over and told her she need to work the next shift as well.

Nice work all.. very inspirational!

~tim

[S.C. Watson]

new round is on: Round 7 (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=669407#post669407)