Teen Challenge #27: The Ogre Slayer

[Plate]

Congrats to Evil_Sloth and Sketcheth for winning challenge #25 with a tie! Good job, guys.

And special thanks to Narmo for covering for me while I was away to deal with a death in the family. Much appreciated.

The Rules:
Anyone ages 13-19 may submit an entry at any time before the deadline. Please host your image on a remote image-hosting site instead of uploading it to the CA server. This makes it much easier to transfer it to the poll thread.

The Topic:
Character: The Ogre Slayer
Less vague than the preovious topic, as requested. The ogre slayer is a character who has gained a reputation for saving terrorized towns by hunting and exterminating the large, violent, disruptive creatures known as ogres. The design is open to interpretation, but keep it original (no decapitated Shreks, please :P )

The Deadline:
Wednesday, April 11 at midnight PST
Two weeks.

[Evil_Sloth]

Dude awesome topic, I gotta make up for my shitty effort in the last one.

[Narmo]

Love the topic !
I'm in as much as it is possible to be !


Good luck everyone, and be creative.

[Wolfbane]

Awesome topic! :D i'm in!

[Wolfbane]

Okily dokily, here's my entry (updated!)
http://i18.tinypic.com/4i3kphj.jpg

Detail:
http://i13.tinypic.com/2cgc51s.jpg

The land of thermapolina has always been haunted by the dreadful stench of ogres, evil and rotting creatures that dwell in the mountains. Every now and then the local villages were plundered by the savage creatures, being robbed from their young ones as the ogres feed on children. One day, the wise king Aeraklies decided to put an end to this madness. A massive army was assembled, and they attacked the ogres at their homeground, deep within the peaks of horror. The environment was playing on the ogres side, and became their advantage. The cold and exhausted men got lost, and were killed one by one by the overwhelming ogres. Yet, Aeraklies would not admit defeat. Again and again, he marched armies from all around the corners of his empire. Like pigs for the slaughter, they were chopped down by the retaliating enemy.

Then the king got a crazed idea. So bizarre that h almost got thrown out of his own throne by the bewildered people. he planned to breed his very own ogre, and train it in perfection to kill his own kind. For there were no stronger creature than a larger ogre. A scout group were mustered, and quickly sent up into the mountains to steal young ogres. Despite grave losses by the kingdoms scout group, they managed to catch but one ogre cub. Deep within the hollows, the king chosed to breed his forthcoming Ogre Slayer. 20 years went past, before the king finally returned from the dark dungeouns. Nobody knew how he did it, but following him out of the tunnel was a massive ogre, trained by the king himself to hunt down and exterminate his own specie. Even though the creature was brainwashed to follow human orders, and kill ogres, it's natural instincts occured frequently. Therefore, dicipline was outmost important. His sly skin reveal several scars, indicating the rough treatment he recieves if he "misbehave".

During the first year, people were more afraid of it, than being willing to be rescued. But now when over 50 years has passed, and the old king Aeraklies is dead. People salute him as a saviour and hero, as he passed by town after town, cleansing the nearby hills and mountains for ogres.

[myalias]

Hi, i've wanted to join in on one of these for a while
update: some polish

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/3703/teenchalenge27rd1.jpg

awsome entries everyone

sketcheth: i dont want to reply in my sketchbook without having some work to post first (although i appreciate all the coments :) ), but you mentioned you think im fifteen, im actually 18 (19 in a few weeks) sorry if there was any confushion.

[Evil_Sloth]

Looks like this is going to be the challenge that seperates the men from the boys...

[asoir]

aww, kinda boring topic..im out

[Wolfbane]

aww, kinda boring topic..im out

I'll pretend i didn't hear that :D

[sketcheth]

Sorry to hear about your loss. Cool topic. Doing an original one will be the challenge. I'm in for this. I'm terribly down because I dropped out of the last one. Lame. Can't wait to see what ya'll cook up!

[asoir]

haha, don't you find ogre slayer a little cliche? well, i guess it could be pretty open ended. it's just that already i'm seeing orc-ish stuff... :P

[DeviousMaroon]

First post, first Conceptart.org challenge.. This seems to be a fun place to begin, an interesting topic for my first victory! >: P And I believe that any topic makes a good challenge, because it's really what YOU, as the artist can do with it to make it interesting and unique?
Good luck everyone. E:

[bluefruitbowl]

Doesn't the cliche-ness of the topic make it more challenging? I think it does. It's a theme that everyone and their mother has seen before, it'll be awesome seeing all the reinterpretations of it, trying to make it more new and original.
Whoohoo. I'm in.

[Evil_Sloth]

omg steps...
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2134/orgekiller002bh7.jpg
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/9594/orgekiller003gs4.jpg
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/2821/orgekiller004uu5.jpg
http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/7695/orgekiller005ri4.jpg
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4485/orgekiller006xs5.jpg
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3219/orgekiller007aj5.jpg

more final than not./m\
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/3191/orgekiller008fp0.jpg

[Apts]

Hey, thought i would give this challenge a shot, I was just wondering how far we can depart from the brief as i would like to do a sort of misunderstood ogre rather than just a normal clobber the ogre scene.

[monacartonuda]

http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/4552/monacartonudaogrohs9.jpg

Appart from his clan, the confused ogre's mourn is guttural as he is attacked by a bone warrior, the ogre recognized that smell and the marks on that body; it was the ogre murderer.

[dmitri]

Looks like this is going to be the challenge that seperates the men from the boys...
And, with this topic, the boys shall be pretty damn victorious. :dur:

Oh well. I can't take this topic even remotely seriously, so here's some unfinished silliness. I don't know how much time I have for this and how much more ogreslayerness my head can take, but I want to post it anyway. Stupid puns, yarr!
(One of them being that the poses and stuff have been borrowed from this painting (http://www.abcgallery.com/S/serov/serov148.html).)

Наш герой!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v675/iirto/2_46_3.jpg
Vot, Mihail Medvedev,
Our Emperor’s beloved beheader,
Executor Supreme, a showman - extraordinaire!
Even little Sven here met his axe,
A hero he is, our magnificent Misha!

[Bendragon]

Looks like this is going to be the challenge that seperates the men from the boys...

Well, it is the teen challenge :P

[ChaoticKnight]

Hey everybody! Some crazy entries. We got some crazy kids on this site.
I'll post mine up soon.

[bestow]

holy fucking shit, this is gonna be the best TC yet!

got my wacom just in time bitches! FEELLLL MY WRATTTTTHHH

[life on the sofa]

evil sloth: thats wicked dude, but i think it would be more dynamic and reealy cool if he had his arm raised above him aiming his spear at the ogres chest about to skewer that big green bastard lol:) but it is a realy great painting even the background is great

[AlexC]

you ladies are going down!

[life on the sofa]

EDIT!: BAH! THE HELL WIT FEMALE OGRE SLAYERS LOL i feel forced to go with the burly body building creep. but its too late at night for me to be arsed to post new pic :)
sofa

[bluefruitbowl]

Alright, obligatory irate girl post:
her boobs do not make sense. 1) They are ridiculously impossibly huge. 2) If the character is in profile, the current breasts you have drawn mean that her left boob is significantly larger that her right. 3) Breasts don't start lined up directly under the armpit - they start in front of the armpit. 4) She's a warrior type, right, so she would have probably bound her breats down, because bouncing boobs are a pain in the fucking ass. 's why people wear sports bra.
I don't mean to sound like alksdjalkdjal. Just you know. Gotta represent. Cheers!

[asoir]

More Boobies!

[bluefruitbowl]

Here (http://holylandarchive.com/photos_src/TWCSEA02_800.jpg) ya go, Marco. :]

[dmitri]

asoir is so cool and manly. Learn from him, boys.

I lost my drawing, so I can't continue with it anymore. Oh well, what a loss. :}

[asoir]

*flexes muscl- GAAH my arm!
;)

mia- ....less boobies!

[yungks.ae]

some good stuff going on right now... maybe I'll enter some time soon.
"ConceptArt.org is Proud to be a part of the DeviantART Network."
what's this all about?

[Dile_]

its an 1mankeymankeymankeymankeymankey joke >.< *Edit .. lol , you can't type A.P_R.I_L *

myalias: very nice colors on that right guy... I hope you finish it off!


I guess I won't enter... You people have to much badass skills for me to be scared ^^

[life on the sofa]

lol yeah she has funny boobies but im more into comicbook stlye drawing so anatomy is like...BASIC BASIC BASIC! usualy in comics it better to have everything outta proportion and exaggerated so as long as her boobies are on her chest were they belong im happy lol:) thnx for takin the time to beat it over the head with a pole of critisicm lol i do acctualy appreciate it maybe i will touch up my anatomy knowledge :)

[DEVi6745]

...D-deviant art network? *BANG, SPLAT, THUMP, OOZE, ROLL CREDITS* Ey Mon, Eets de Eeepral phools joke, ya foo.
WolfBane's reminds me of the hills have eyes..
Sloth's.... that's a sketch? Have you been taking crazy pills? : | And as much as I realize how much of a poll threat your magnificant peice will be.. The action with the legs is nice, but it looks like he's just posing for the camera, and whats he doing with his weapons? That's a fucking awesome peice for a person of 15 years, I hope I can learn from you. : )

[Mitchell]

I don't do enough challenges, count me in.

[DEVi6745]

Sweet milk chocolate Jesus.. This IS going to be a harder one than all the rest.. I saw TC #3 : Death and it was horrible! >: P But shiet.. SHIET! D;

[bestow]

badasses comin out of the woodwork all over!
my entry:
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7514/girltcfr3.jpg

my lame original idea:
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5618/ogreslayertcyz3.jpg

[ChaoticKnight]

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/2119/ogreslayfin1dh9.jpg
Finished.
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/512/closeupsz1.jpg
Closeup.
http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/6656/ogreslayfin3bo1.jpg
Thought this looked cool also. What do you guys think?
Anyways, so thats it.
Bonereaper: The legendary Ogre slayer. Bonereaper, given his nickname early on in his adventuring days, grew in legend because of his expert ability to dispatch ogres. These ogres were sometimes greater than four times his size, and he was viewed and respected as one of the greatest warriors across the land. He is rarely seen in public, and he has scoffed at anyone who has asked to become his squire or apprentice. Little else is known about him.

[AlexC]

these are the larger sketches for the topic-
a team of ogre slayers!
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/6342/60863224gh4.jpg
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/789/21810154qs9.jpg
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/3205/82487213fo3.jpg
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2329/teen1copyww1.jpg
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/7577/teen2copycg2.jpg

and this is the final!
http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/7295/teenchallange1copygr3.jpg
I feel honoured to be amongst such strong entries:)
good luck everyone
-AC

[yungks.ae]

something got me out of my art block today, have to do this quick while it's gone...
EDIT 1: worked on getting basic shapes in for figure, colour and tune up is coming next... background also worked in a little.
EDIT 2: Did colour and rendering, used a photo I took for a good texture over the image, as well. I'm done!
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6413/ogreslayerzo0.png
FINAL

[Apts]

Well here's what i've got so far, I like the idea so i will now start colouring, oh by the way evil sloth your entry now looks awesome and the steps are interesting.

woops forgot my picture entirely
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f188/alpethsm/sketchcopy.jpg

[zan9000]

Great entry's here guys. Here's mine that I started today, not quite finished but I won't be home for the next week to work on it. So here it is
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c194/Majikz/ogrepost2copy.jpg

[Plate]

AlexC - Those are some really nice sketches, but I'm not seeing any connection to the topic.

[asoir]

AlexC - Those are some really nice sketches, but I'm not seeing any connection to the topic.
hehe, i didnt see it either but he explains it in his post (after a request..)
"team of ogre slayers" kind of like those old FBI cards with saddam etc, each one is a slayer.

[AlexC]

yea asoir said it better than i could
:)

[asoir]

a joke of an entry but yeah :D
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1364/wwwcopyaf4.jpg

[DEVi6745]

Lawl. Pitiful creatures! I have yet to see someone introduce a more unique, creative method of ogre slaying. All just machos swinging big weapons or utilizing brute force. Feck, I'm probably just a crazy.

[Apts]

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f188/alpethsm/ogrepaintrcopy.jpg

Well I'm fraid this is my final as I'm going to be in france when it ends, I'm not pleased with it but oh well, my other idea was to have the ogre slayer taunting an ogre he had shrunk down and put in a glass ball like a snow globe.

[asoir]

Lawl. Pitiful creatures! I have yet to see someone introduce a more unique, creative method of ogre slaying. All just machos swinging big weapons or utilizing brute force. Feck, I'm probably just a crazy.
see, i told you all it was a pretty boring topic ;)

[Keng]

You guys just wait until you see what I'm cookin up. I'm quite happy with it so far. Two words. Pink+Pixels.

Edit: Heck, let's make it the 3 P's.

Pink + Pixels + Platform = my Piece

[ChaoticKnight]

So, how about this for an original idea: A giant hippo type creature that sits on ogres and asphixiates them? No brutes swinging around their large swords there.
(hawhaw)

[Plate]

hehe, i didnt see it either but he explains it in his post (after a request..)
"team of ogre slayers" kind of like those old FBI cards with saddam etc, each one is a slayer.

I'm well aware of that, but my problem is that the line of text is the only apparent connection to the topic, the drawings themselves make no reference to ogres or the slaying thereof; none of those characters even have any weapons. If the requirements were that loose, you might as well draw a kitten sleeping on a pile of marshmellows accompanied by the sentence, "This thing kills ogres all the time." I won't disqualify the piece because it seems he put a lot of effort into it, I'm just saying that you have to draw a line somewhere between being on and off-topic, and in my opinion an on-topic piece should clearly present at least one of the key words.

see, i told you all it was a pretty boring topic ;)

And again, the topic isn't boring, it's the limitations people put on it within their minds that make pieces cliche. Just think if a topic like this showed up in a Last Man Standing round - I can guarentee that there would be some amazingly original interpretations that you'd probably never have thought of. Sometimes the overdone subjects are the most challenging, because you really have to push yourself to stand out.

[DEVi6745]

lol.. I'm just being odd, but seriously I did expect more legolas-like entrees. I myself have been dreaming up this odd idea of a biologist who handles a type of large mosquito that carries a fatal disease.. then a scene withall these large ogres dead with a mosquito bite and mushrooms growing from their decaying mushy corpses.. I have yet to fully execute it.. I don't think I've ever tried to do something that weird. MY IDEA. : ( GL to those who are still working too >: P

[AlexC]

plate, while I get what your saying, I think that placing a sort of limitation based on the fact that they dont have weapons etc, really narrows the creativity down a helluva load.
Personally I dont want to go with the cliche muscly guy, mutant with gigantic weapon idea..
sorry- just trying to think out of the square here..

[asoir]

I'm well aware of that, but my problem is that the line of text is the only apparent connection to the topic, the drawings themselves make no reference to ogres or the slaying thereof; none of those characters even have any weapons. If the requirements were that loose, you might as well draw a kitten sleeping on a pile of marshmellows accompanied by the sentence, "This thing kills ogres all the time." I won't disqualify the piece because it seems he put a lot of effort into it, I'm just saying that you have to draw a line somewhere between being on and off-topic, and in my opinion an on-topic piece should clearly present at least one of the key words.



And again, the topic isn't boring, it's the limitations people put on it within their minds that make pieces cliche. Just think if a topic like this showed up in a Last Man Standing round - I can guarentee that there would be some amazingly original interpretations that you'd probably never have thought of. Sometimes the overdone subjects are the most challenging, because you really have to push yourself to stand out.

haha, sorry if i came off an ass, i'm only pulling your chain. and i agree, it can be interpreted in lots of ways. just need to get the juices flowing.
peace

[bluefruitbowl]

I think, AlexC, the kindof problem with your cards is that none of them give any indication of how any of them ogre-slay. Like, giant guy with sword is pretty self explanatory. Hell, even a ogre-squishing hippo is pretty self explanatory. The cards have very little indication of what they do, largely because the veiwing window of them is very small. I do like them though. I just wish two of them weren't yellow paper. Throws off the unity or somesuch.

[savant]

My first Teen Challenge entry yay wooooo:
*updated with final pic*
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/6084/teenc01finalfa8.jpg
I'm not sure if I'm supposed to have an description so I'll write something, just in case.
Leopold Robinson is the hottest name in the ogre slaying scene in England these days. His arrogant attitude and charming looks make women go crazy but not only that, he's also a very skilled hunter. Unlike many of his fellow hunters, Leopold trusts in skill and strategy instead of brute force. He uses lightweight throwing knives which can pierce deep in the ogres flesh causing lethal damage.

Nice entries people! I especially dig Wolfbanes one, nice atmosphere and story.
Keep em coming!

[Plate]

I think, AlexC, the kindof problem with your cards is that none of them give any indication of how any of them ogre-slay.

Thanks, this is exactly what I was trying to get at - Alex, I don't mean to imply that you have to do a "cliche muscly guy" as you put it - I love the strange and original characters you've created, it's merely that they lack the setting to clearly connect them to the topic.

And asoir, no worries, I really didn't mean to call you out or anything. Just trying to clarify some points. :)

[Chance.]

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b14/Q-Caddle/TrueOgreslayer.jpg
No one believes him when he claims to have taken down over 200 ogres in his career. Not even the ogres.

[Keng]

Disclaimer: Not by me.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/KraftDinner/MSp.jpg

Claimer: By me.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v92/KraftDinner/Ogre2.jpg

Took me at least 4, no 5 hours. Mixture of tablet and mouse. Might do a bit more on it, this is it for now though.

edit: I also want to add that this was the most fun I've had with a piece in a long while.

[bestow]

nice eggplant guy, we should have a pixeler's part of the conceptart forums, but theres already pixelart.com or whatever

p.s. i'm scared of how long it took you to do that radial gradient in the bushes

[Keng]

Actually, there's only 5 colours in the bush. It didn't take quite that long. Bout 15mins. It was the part where I had to redo it on another computer to get the colours right (my monitor has about half the normal range of colour and 1/4 the range of shades :P) that took so long because after reformatting, the paint bucket wouldn't work. For a lot of the patterns I found that copy and paste was my friend. But even then...

[Plate]

Pixel art rules.

But I've babbled enough in this thread already, so maybe it's time I actually post some drawings. Some preliminary ogre designs from the sketchbook:
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c27/Plate11/Sketchbook/hp_scanDS_7434838.jpg

And the sketch for my final:
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c27/Plate11/Sketches/ogslayer.jpg

Looks like this is gonna be a strong competition. :)

[Keng]

Love the design of your big hand ogre. Makes me smile. On your final sketch, you need to point the legs/feet a little more to the left. Right now it looks like he's twisting unnaturally at the belt.

[myalias]

Wow very nice entries here, very motivating. I had to redo mine to get up to par :P

The story behind this is pretty vague because i kept changing it while painting, but basically he's an ogre shaman outcast who killed his tribe out of revenge and became corrupt.

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/2207/teenchalenge272gi5.jpg

[Evil_Sloth]

fuck me myalias! thats brilliant! <3 teen challenges.

[Mitchell]

Cool stuff myalias! Pretty interesting stuff going on in this thread. Wolfbane, you have a pretty cool one going.
I guess I better post mine before it's too late. kind of stupid but oh well.


stupid little description: The year is 2450, Cities have been taken over my evil spirits known only as *scream* "OGRES!" Who ya gunna call? "Ghostbusters!" ..
i mean "THE OGRE SLAYER!":

EDIT: Dile - thanks man, they were looking a bit flat. Tried to fix that, hopefully they look better.

no ref used. and yes that is a lens flare you see heh heh.
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/7563/nudebody5hi7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Apts]

Well my entry is clearly way out of it's depth (plus it was just plain awful) so I'm redoing it, skeith your entry looks awesome lens flare and all.

[Dile_]

myalias- Thats really damn cool.. made me look in your sketchbook.. and lol.. You know what i wrote.. haha.. I'm still in chock over your talent :D


Skeiff- I think thats one of the best entries so far! Very nice execution, although, the boobies looks pretty flat compared to the rest of the body.. I wish they had more of a shading to flow into the rest of the body more :)
as i said, great entry!

Great stuff everyone :)

[Lewis]

Sketches

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3752/ogre1yw9.jpghttp://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4731/ogre2py4.jpg
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/9429/ogreslayerskbc6.jpg

The WIP in PS

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/9114/hmmgb1.jpg

Hoping to get it finished :)

TC is improving a lot, the entries are setting a higher bar everytime a new TCround is started. Good job!

[OmertA]

heres my entrie

http://http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/3986/finalorgehighcontratstzp4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Odyism]

Wow :D
These entries all look amazing, lots of talent from the teenagers @ CA.
I wish I could have entered, but I'll have to wait until #28.

[life on the sofa]

woop wooop death to the ogres, i wud re-enter but im too lazy and busy but my entry was a kitten with a fluffy marshmellow pillow(inspired by plate's sarcasm about what an ogre slayer can be lol)........but inside the pillow...a sillouette of a minigun and in the background a bloody mess ogr ogres left in his wake....he was known as...puss in boots! .....because he has boots too.:D i might post the sketch to show you all lol cos its funny

[mc2mc2]

Opps I forgot to upload my entry yesterday....:^^;: hope I can still enter.

Entry:
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6568/ogreslayerzcpicrb7.jpg

Detail:
http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/4346/ogreslayerzcdetailbp1.jpg

yea...its horribly skewed but I'm too tired of this piece to fix it.

[ChaoticKnight]

My finals up on page one. Any crits?
myalias: Love this pic. can't wait to see it finished. The colors work perfectly and intensify the mood.
OmertA: I like the shadows in it, but it appears a little too contrasted at the moment. Maybe some more detail will allow it to work, but maybe try brightening certain parts up a little? The anatomy of the figure is getting lost a little. It has great potential though!

[Wolfbane]

Commence the voting! :D

[Plate]

The deadline's up, but there seems to be a glitch in the forum because it won't load any full pages (sets of 60 replies) of any thread in my browser. It's been like this for me all day, so I'll try again in the morning and see if it'll load all the entries. If not I'll find another computer to try it on, or someone else could set up the voting thread in the meantime. Sorry for the delay. :/

[Wolfbane]

Have the same problem Plate, think the site needs some cleaning since things been going slow lately.

[life on the sofa]

i can try and set up a poll if you like i have plenty of time...