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Firstly, thank you for reading. I am humbly asking the many fine artists here, and elsewhere to bless my kitbash with their fine talents.

Hexwing Art Competition (Cash Prizes)

This is an open competition for any artists that wish to compete for drawing the best Hexwing full color drawing. This competition is being posted on Transtopia, Allspark, TFans, TFW2005, IDW Publishing, and Devil's Due Publishing art boards (if moderators are willing). It will be judged on quality, and creativity. Of the artists that choose to do this, I would ask them to make Hexwing ?theirs.? To view her, and interpret her in their own styles.

Prizes:

1st Place - $70 US

2nd Place - $60 US

3rd Place - $50 US


The three winners will receive their prizes via Paypal, or personal check (which ever is preferred). By entering this competition the 3 winners agree to submit their final artwork at size 8x11 average at 330dpi. in PSD Photoshop file format, and high resolution JPGs of both lineart and colored artwork. This artwork will be accepted by me, SkyQuake, after the prizes have been awarded, and just payment given.

How to enter:

Post your art piece in this thread at half the size up to full size (enough to see the kind of detail that you put into it). The competition will end on June 01, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. (U.S. Central time). No submissions will be accepted after this. It will then be judged for an undisclosed amount of time (depending on judges schedules).

Good luck to everyone who competes, and may the best man, woman, or mech win! And as I said, make Hexwing yours.

Hexwing's pictures can be found here.

http://home.insightbb.com/~furnace/Hexwing03.htm

Additionally, to add some background to Hexwing, here is her bio:

Hexwing

Allegience: Unknown

Function: Supreme Decepticon Commander

"They will love me in despare, and choke on the darkness that I nurse them with."

Description as recorded by Feedback (Decepticon jaguar of the Cobalt Sentry team).

We tried to stop her, but we were too late. Hexwing has defeated Galvatron, and so ascends to lead the Decepticons. Where she has gotten her power is (quietly) guessed at, but I believe I record the truth herein. Hexwing is an interdemensional being like that of Unicron, or Primus. My evidence comes from interrogating one of her spies (who will not be reporting back to her). Apparently, she was much bigger at one time, but suffered some sort of calamity upon entering our universe which destroyed her original body. From what I can gather, her mind fractured shortly afterward into nine distinct beings, all carrying a bit of Hexwing within them. Viral (the headmaster) appears to hold the bulk of Hexwing?s core consciouness. Like her 8 sisters, Viral seems to have a growing mind of her own, but Hexwing lords over her viciously as Viral appears more like a hunched-over floating wraith, than a being of character.

I believe the only reason why Hexwing chose to take over the Decepticons is that she needs an army, and what better way of forming one than stealing it? For what purpose? Soundblaster, Chargoil, and I are still working on that, but it can?t be good for her new conscripted troops. The way they now bow to her sickens me!

Abilities:

At Hexwing?s core must be a being of energy. She is able to manifest energon weapons of great power. Her shock-whip paralyzes limbs on contact. She can bond with smaller micromaster-like beings called Minicons that were captured from? who knows where (need more info). She is also able to hurl ball lighting from her hands. These balls of energy do great damage to internal circuitry for even those that are grounded. Also, some balls have been observed to magnetize the metal objects that they impact with. Thus, this causes her foes to magnetically bond together or with surrounding objects. Needless to say this can immobilize several troops who are unfortunate enough to be standing too near each other, or on a metallic planet. Hexwing is also stronger than any of the other current combiners. I do not know if Predaking will be salvageable after he defended Galvatron? and fell. Even Lord Zarak appears to fear her. The secret of her power? I suspect that she still has a link to the Astral Plane from which she comes.

Weakness:

Even the most powerful despot must have a weakness. Currently, she doesn?t appear to have one. Yet, I do detect a beginning divergence in the 9 beings that comprise her (based on some surprisingly public arguments). If this divergence can be nurtured in some way? Also, if the secret to Hexwing?s power does lie in the Astral Plane, should that link be severed, maybe she can be dealt with (in a fittingly violent way). There was also a rather embarrassing episode when she threw her ball lightning at Superion. This magnetized Sups, who was already swiftly approaching her. They magnetically bonded in a most peculiar place. Hehehe?. I don?t normally pity Autobots, but poor Superion? Talk about a black widow tearing apart her lover?.

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Here is a link to a page that combines the entries from this, and other boards.

Hexwing Art Combined Page

*DON'T FORGET TO CLICK REFRESH ON THE PAGE IN ORDER TO SEE THE NEWEST ENTRIES*

Updated with links to other boards that will be competeing. It's still very early, so there are only a few entries just yet, and there have been some that have expressed interest both public, and private.

UPDATE:

Here are the links to the other boards that will be competeing.

Allspark
TFans
TFW2005
Don Murphy Message Board
IDW Publishing Forums
Devil's Due Publishing

Just a reminder for those of you working, or considering. There are 3 weeks until the Hexwing art contest completion.

Thanks!

Edit:

Also, Devil's Due Publishing added to boards list.

Howdy All!

This is another friendly neighborhood reminder that yet another week has passed. There are now approximately two weeks until the completion of the Hexwing Art contest.

I should have a page up soon with art entries from various boards in order to help keep track of the great pieces that have been posted, those still being worked on, or those still currently in the dream phase of artistic talent.

In other words, please still post your entries on this board, but I will also provide a friendlier way of viewing your pieces together. Also with your entry, please post a link to a page of your other works so people can further review your talents as an artist. After all, this contest isn't just about Hexwing. It's about maximizing the contestants exposure as an artist to the public.

Keep up the great works, and I look forward to each entry, and how you view Hexwing.


Edit: Also, someone asked me if art pieces could be done as a team. I have nothing against teams (and there's nothing in the rules that says you can't). If someone wants to do the line art, and someone else wants to do the coloring on a piece, that's fine. However, a prize (if won) would be divided between the winning team's members.

Page added to show entries from this and other boards together. For ease, this has also been added to the first post of this thread.

Hexwing Art Combined Page

*DON'T FORGET TO CLICK REFRESH ON THE PAGE IN ORDER TO SEE THE NEWEST ENTRIES*

Howdy All!

Well, it is now approximately one week until the Hexwing Art Contest ends. We have some very nice entries, and of course I?m looking forward to those of you who are still working, or even those of you who decide to take a stab at ol? Hexwing this week.

As of this post, we have 3 entries, and several others that people have PMed me that they are working on. There may even be a few surprise entries. For those of you that are just interested in seeing the cool skills of these people, you might consider commissioning them to draw your own characters, ideas, or comic books. If you like what they do with Hexwing, think about what they can do visualizing your dream characters, or animating your stories. Links to their art sites can found on the Hexwing Art Contest Page before each of their entries.

Current tally of artworks:

The Allspark Forums ? 1
Devils Due Publishing Forums ? 1
Don Murphy Message Board ? 1 (cross posted with TFW 2005)
IDW Publishing Forums - 0
TFans Message Board - 0
TFW 2005 Message Board ? 1 (cross posted with Don Murphy Message Board)
Transtopia Message Board - 0

Once again, good luck to those competing as you draw life into this bad deadly rose. Arise, Hexwing?.

Hello All!

It is now approximately 1 day to the completion of the Hexwing Art Contest. The entries I?ve seen so far are very impressive. In addition to those, I have no doubt that we?ll be seeing several more submissions before the contest?s close (based on public, and private messages). This has been a great contest with great artists competing. I sincerely hope that the several people out there that were wanting more exposure, get it. Also, there are those of you that simply like Hexwing (THANKS!).

As a reminder, the contest ends tomorrow June 01, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. U.S. Central time (20:00 U.S. Central time, for those on 24 hour clocks). No entries will be accepted after this. The judging will then commence. It will probably take 2 to 3 days. Once the final decisions have been made, the winners will be posted on each participating message board, and the Hexwing Art Contest viewing page. Prizes will be awarded shortly afterwards.

Once again, thanks for bringing Hexwing to life, and good luck to all!


Current tally of artworks:

The Allspark Forums ? 3
Devils Due Publishing Forums ? 1
Don Murphy Message Board ? 3 (1 cross post with TFW 2005)
IDW Publishing Forums - 0
TFans Message Board - 1
TFW 2005 Message Board ? 1 (1 cross post with Don Murphy Message Board)
Transtopia Message Board - 0

Ok, here's my submission. I am much more proud of my pencil version than the colored, ran out of time, but I think there is some decent work here. Riped the colors from the gallery photos so they should be about dead on. I also have a version of it without the background colorfade, makes the colors on the bot look more true, and if picked it would make it easier to put it on a package.

entry by Jimsloth (Dan Jacko)
Posted: Transtopia

Yo Jimsloth. You are hereby entered, and posted. I'm beginning to wonder if several other people that I've talked to are going to make it. There's about an hour left.... (tic,tic,tic).

Howdy All!

This closes the Hexwing Art Contest to new entries. Thanks to all participants! There are some really outstanding pieces here. It will be hard to put them in places, but I anticipate to conclude the judging in about 2 to 3 days. You guys rock, and keep up the great works!

I just noticed when I uploaded my entry onto photobucket it screwed with the image a bit color wize. (stupid photobucket, soo many errors) Anyways, I think I have it fixed now. Shouldn't look quite as pastelly anymore.

To see the results of the Hexwing contest, please click the following link, and THANK YOU to all for participating (both artists, and viewers). I will be getting in contact with the winners shortly for their well deserved prizes. I?ve placed comments on all entries. It was hard to pick between them.

Hexwing Art Contest Results