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Ilaekae
November 6th, 2006, 07:20 AM
I didn't feel like waiting a year, soOOOOO...

We're gonna do it again! And this time, I'm announcing the topic...

THIS IS VECTOR-ONLY! How you interpret the topic is up to you. Whatever treatment/style you use is up to you. Anything goes...as long as it's VECTOR ONLY.

And the topic is...

MASKED...
(This includes any definition of the word that can be construed from the definition of the word "Mask.")

This challenge is running simultaneously with the "WE WUV DWESSUP..." vector-only challenge, but you can't use the same art for both...

Official Starting Time: Monday, November 6, 2006

Deadline: Sunday, November 26 ,2006, at midnight where ever you are. (I've extended the deadline one more week because of the holidays coming and to make sure everybody who's busy on other challenges has a chance to enter...)

Ground rules:

You can scan a guide sketch in, but it can't be a part of the final art in any way. It must be deleted before you post.

All art, including any linework, coloring, shading, etc., must be VECTOR ONLY. You can't use any part of your app that executes as a rasterized image. No brushes, no rasterizing filters, no nothin' that you're used to in Photoshop and Painter. This includes the brush tool in Illustrator. Pen only.

You can use any filters as long as they don't rasterize the image to work properly. This rules out most, if not all, photoshop filters. Basically, pretend you're working in Illustrator 4.x or so, or its equivalent.

Coloring can include standard fills, the blend and gradient tools, and any opacity and deformation tools controls you might have access to, AS LONG AS THEY DON'T CHANGE THE ART TO A RASTER IMAGE to execute properly. The first time around, I asked for the "outline/wire-frame" version to prove you really did a vector-only drawing, but I think you're all honest people, so that won't be necessary this time around. But... trust me, I'll know if you're cheating... :)

Once your art is done, convert it to a jpeg for posting. Color sometimes muddies a bit in the conversion, so MINIMAL correction is allowed at this point, but DON'T add any additional detail or art effects. Make sure your jpg title includes your nick so I can keep track of them (for example, "endroid-blahblah.jpg").

WHEN YOU'RE FINISHED: Post your final piece in this thread. I'll open up the final poll Monday night after I transfer all the entries to my Image Event account.

TRASH TALK and the random killing of small fuzzy things is mandatory--especially cute wuvable bunny things! Collateral damage is to be expected... Any bitching about possible "Modernist," "Abstract Shit," "Manga Shit," etc., influences will result in the pelting of your home/studio with bags of ripe cat shit...

Anyone who wants in is in. You can post your involvement here. All judging will be by open poll....

Good drawing...

entdroid
November 6th, 2006, 01:20 PM
You're soooo going down, kitty! >:D
I'm in!

Fozzybar
November 6th, 2006, 02:04 PM
Anyone entering with a green mask from the movies "The Mask" is a loser i tell you....there - i said it :)

Ilaekae
November 6th, 2006, 02:12 PM
I keep seeing Boris Karloff covered in blue masking tape slouching off into the night...

I really have to get some sleep...

guggemmaneuver
November 6th, 2006, 02:16 PM
why not. :)

Fozzybar you'd better not puss out like last time

Fozzybar
November 6th, 2006, 04:16 PM
How can i puss out when i didn't puss in. Ilaekae is a pussi n. I am not. No puss in, no puss out.

I will work like a maniac until middle of december, maybe then i will have some time to show you poo eating kiddies how real vector art is done...hoho...:perv:

Ilaekae
November 6th, 2006, 04:23 PM
...talk...talk...talk...

Fozzybar
November 6th, 2006, 04:27 PM
Yeah you're right...too much talking too less personal art...i would like to do more of the last :(

kingcoyote
November 6th, 2006, 10:01 PM
Hmmm... A chance to redeem myself after my last vector only disaster? Ooooh, and a chance to take the Vector crown from the mighty Entdroid in the process?

November is gonna ROCK!!!

Sundance
November 6th, 2006, 10:26 PM
Well, I said I'd give it a shot...I'm pretty sure I've got a bag of cat shit for a brain...I haven't completed a piece of art* in over a month. I'm in a one-on-one TD, I'm in on the Guys Calander, and I owe about four pieces in a paying job...

Yeah...cat shit for brains...

*the opperators of this site would like you to know that the term "art" in reference to the doodles submitted by this member is used extremely loosly.

LaPalida
November 7th, 2006, 01:49 AM
Ilaekae ... question. Why no brush tools? What if you make your own brush? Or are you talking about some other kind of brush?

Ilaekae
November 7th, 2006, 12:07 PM
Most brush tools operate by laying down pixels--rasterizing--which makes them NON-vector. A vector tool like the pen doesn't.

Vector is a "point-to-point" process based on postscript math which is what makes it so "hard-edged." You tell the app "where to start," "where to go," and "what direction" and the app does the rest. It's a kind of "what you see/do may be not what you get," where painting programs plunk a spot of color down right where you tell it with the paint tool--kind of an "on-off" approach...make it red-don't make it red.

Sundance
November 7th, 2006, 12:21 PM
What about Live Trace in CS2? Does that work...or am I totally fucked.

Ilaekae
November 7th, 2006, 12:53 PM
Technically--Live Trace (expanded) creates an image that can be seen as a path and modified...so...it probably qualifies. I would kind of think of it as cheating if you painted something and then live traced the entire image, though...

Sundance
November 7th, 2006, 12:56 PM
Technically--Live Trace (expanded) creates an image that can be seen as a path and modified...so...it probably qualifies. I would kind of think of it as cheating if you painted something and then live traced the entire image, though...


Oh...well...thats good. I'd never cheat :bashful:

LaPalida
November 7th, 2006, 01:14 PM
Thx Ilaekae but I understand the principles and differences of raster and vector images, I think you're talking about some other kind of brush tool that I don't know about. In Illustrator there is a brush tool that creates vector paths with a premade stroke that imitates different effects like (charcoal, paintbrush, calligraphic pen or pen tool) but stays vector (and you can also expand it to outline etc).

Ilaekae
November 7th, 2006, 01:55 PM
Oh...I know what you're referring to...I'd be okay with that as a "vector" tool even though it actually isn't "pure."

llothcat
November 7th, 2006, 02:20 PM
oooo ....I'm in!

I'm so addicted to opensource things. This gives me a chance to show off the latest build of Inkscape.

iwantjelly
November 8th, 2006, 04:26 AM
I'm in.

Fozzybar
November 8th, 2006, 05:18 AM
stop telling us if you're in or not...give our nipples a blast when it's time to show the artwork :)

iwantjelly
November 8th, 2006, 05:47 AM
When I say "I'm in", if I don't do anything that means I pussed out. By proudly announcing that I'm in, I kind of self-spank my lazy butt to work.

And don't worry, I'll do my best to blast all nipples around.

Ilaekae
November 8th, 2006, 10:13 AM
Muppets have nipples?

Fozzybar
November 8th, 2006, 12:01 PM
they get hard when the puppetmaster is doing his job...and iwantjelly, you're one controlled masochist.

Cookiedough
November 8th, 2006, 12:30 PM
Just to be clear: the illustrator brushtool is allowed, the photoshop brush isn't? Sweet! :^^:

Ilaekae
November 8th, 2006, 02:42 PM
I'm gonna allow it because it operates like a standard bezier tool rather than a rasterizing fill tool...sigh...

Sundance
November 8th, 2006, 10:13 PM
what about lens flare?

Ilaekae
November 9th, 2006, 12:38 AM
How about I come up there in the balcony and see if my size 13 boot fits up your steamed-felt butt?

Fozzybar
November 9th, 2006, 04:21 AM
if your boot is vector-only it's fine...

Sundance
November 9th, 2006, 05:58 AM
How about I come up there in the balcony and see if my size 13 boot fits up your steamed-felt butt?

Sounds like fun!

:lens: :moon: :lens:

Ready and waiting!

Ilaekae
November 18th, 2006, 03:46 PM
Just bumping this one, too, as a reminder that you're all gonna be in trouble on November 26th...

llothcat
November 19th, 2006, 03:27 AM
work'in on it...sketches in me sb...

Cookiedough
November 20th, 2006, 10:32 AM
Is fanart/redesigns allowed?

Ilaekae
November 20th, 2006, 01:44 PM
Sure, if it fulfills the requirements.

llothcat
November 24th, 2006, 07:34 AM
the program can do alot...and I'm still learning it....behold my progress:

Ilaekae
November 25th, 2006, 04:41 PM
It looks like it's going to be just you and me, llothcat, because it looks like everybuddy else is a...

PUSSY!

iwantjelly
November 25th, 2006, 05:30 PM
In France, sunday is tomorrow. It's 23:30 now so if I'm right I have 24 more hours and a half to do it ! I'm currently working on it !

Don't pussy me too quick please.

Ilaekae
November 25th, 2006, 05:58 PM
Thank you, 'Jelly. I was just reminding everyone. Around here, some of these people would forget their own names unless someone reminded them once in a while... :P

iwantjelly
November 25th, 2006, 06:07 PM
Good to motivate your troops, Ilaekae.

Back to work to finish my nipple blaster.

And maybe prepare my very own to be blasted...

iwantjelly
November 25th, 2006, 09:01 PM
Done.

LaPalida
November 26th, 2006, 03:09 AM
Well I won't make it. I got lasers in my eyes :O Now I can evaporate people just by looking at them :xpld:. Because I'm getting LASIK wewt!

fedezz
November 26th, 2006, 10:43 AM
Here you go. Nothing fancy but it'll have to do. Can't wait to see more entries.
http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/5855/fedezzmaskedfinalbu2.jpg
Hope you dig.

Cookiedough
November 26th, 2006, 06:46 PM
Ooh, there are some really really cool images here already. I'm hoping the Americans are working hard. Here's my entry, i'm calling it done, cos i'm outta time.

http://home.planet.nl/~jaina010/blah/TD/Cookiedough-masked.jpg

entdroid
November 26th, 2006, 07:03 PM
I also did a piece of fanart, my personal tribute to my favourite comic book, "Donjon" ("Dungeon"). It's not very known, I think, but I'm just addicted to it and it fits the topic perfectly :)

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/2496/entdroidmasked4webdd1.jpg

Ilaekae
November 26th, 2006, 08:57 PM
Just an alert...I've got some people over and they're gonna be a while yet, so if you need some extra time, take it.

Beautiful work so far everybody...

Ilaekae
November 27th, 2006, 01:13 AM
Ever wonder why it takes 'em so damn long in there in the morning?

It's late, so I'm going to leave this open till the morning in case somebody wants to mess with theirs, or isn't quite finished yet...lets figure around noon EST or so...

entdroid
November 27th, 2006, 07:26 PM
So... uhm... is there gonna be like a poll or something? Or those are the kinda things that scare kitties out? :P

Ilaekae
November 27th, 2006, 09:02 PM
Pbbfsssssssstt!

Up in a few minutes. I had to go to the potty first...