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News Credits: 767 · Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:54 am

Please submit your entries to the art challenge here. No posting links to other sites, please use eater the [img] tags or upload it as an attachment.

All entries must be submitted by the 16th of September.

Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:52 am

hi my name is Nicola Perugini and i'm from Italy. I want to send you may drowing for art of transtopia but i don't understand how! Please help me in sending you my art!!!

News Credits: 767 · Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:06 am

nperugini wrote:hi my name is Nicola Perugini and i'm from Italy. I want to send you may drowing for art of transtopia but i don't understand how! Please help me in sending you my art!!!

You can ether use an image hosting site like
http://photobucket.com/
Or use the upload attachment option in the blue box under the "Submit" button while you make a post.

Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:15 am

i follow your suggest and send my work as an attachment. I hope you enjoy it.

Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:57 pm

Hey guys, here it is. I hope you like it but please let me know if you want a higher res pic because this thing lost a lot of detail getting crunched to 256k for the upload. Just post here or email me, or something because this thing looks great when it is viewed at a larger size. I had some trouble putting the word bubbles on so I just went 'old school' and used Windows Paint. Artist: Batt, Inker: Chris Gilmore. Anyways, this is from the G1 Marvel Comics series, Issue 27, page 19.

Here is a Photobucket link to a larger scan of the artwork, looks a bit better.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f135/Samurai-Jack/1DinoX.jpg

News Credits: 2 · Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:25 pm

sorry, I posted this in the wrong thread... though when I posted it was still the 16th so please let me in :grin:

here's my entry... hope we get more... I don't wanna win by default

and here's the photobucket link: http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk27 ... anel-1.png

this is from page 3 of the first issue of the Marvel comics Transformers, and the page where they receive their name. Though, no known characters were featured, I like to think the red Autobot is a young Ironhide

News Credits: 767 · Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:00 am

Storm Shadow ROC wrote:Hey guys, here it is. I hope you like it but please let me know if you want a higher res pic because this thing lost a lot of detail getting crunched to 256k for the upload. Just post here or email me, or something because this thing looks great when it is viewed at a larger size. I had some trouble putting the word bubbles on so I just went 'old school' and used Windows Paint. Artist: Batt, Inker: Chris Gilmore. Anyways, this is from the G1 Marvel Comics series, Issue 27, page 19.

yea that in a higher res would be grate, upload it to photobucket and repost it.

OK that's it, no more entries.
Cliffjumper Prime could you please post the original panel too?

News Credits: 2 · Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:53 pm

Dead Metal wrote:Cliffjumper Prime could you please post the original panel too?

sure thing:

the text may be a little small in this pic but it is copied exactly in case you're wondering. Thanks for accepting my entry!

News Credits: 767 · Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:06 pm

Cliffjumper Prime wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:Cliffjumper Prime could you please post the original panel too?

sure thing:

the text may be a little small in this pic but it is copied exactly in case you're wondering. Thanks for accepting my entry!

Thanks, but no it's not accepted, I just wanted to see the original panel, you're also blocked from entering any contests we have in the future.

Nah only joking.

Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:21 pm

Hey there, just thought I would help out and post the pages for comparison for the other guys in the contest.

News Credits: 2 · Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:16 pm

Dead Metal wrote:Thanks, but no it's not accepted, I just wanted to see the original panel, you're also blocked from entering any contests we have in the future.

Nah only joking.

OH NO!

lol nah I'm kidding thanks for accepting it :grin:

Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:17 am

How many enteries were submitted?
Are we going to be able to look at the other enteries?

Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:19 am

Hi guys let me share this piece, I was planning on submitting for the transtopia art challenge. Unfortunately I wasn't able to finish in time. I used the artwork in the new masterpiece grimlock box (MP 08-x) as my inspiration. Hope you guys like it.

Here is the original link to my deviantart page.

http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/ ... heart7.jpg

Thanks!

News Credits: 2 · Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:53 am

vagrantheart7 wrote:Hi guys let me share this piece, I was planning on submitting for the transtopia art challenge. Unfortunately I wasn't able to finish in time. I used the artwork in the new masterpiece grimlock box (MP 08-x) as my inspiration. Hope you guys like it.

Here is the original link to my deviantart page.

http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/ ... heart7.jpg

Thanks!

Wow, wonderful artwork!

You immediately get bonus points for excellent linework and honestly, it's great to see some nice variation of line weight in Transformers art! Mechanical forms greatly benefit from it. I really like the panel lines in the shadow of the wings/dinosaur shell kibble, the shadows on the left side of Grimlock's torso, as well as on Grimlock's thighs and knees. They really give some depth to the forms. Especially the thighs, wow, they're super thin. Very nicely done!

Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:46 am

What Transformers issue and page number is this suppose to be from so we can see a comparison?

vagrantheart7 wrote:Hi guys let me share this piece, I was planning on submitting for the transtopia art challenge. Unfortunately I wasn't able to finish in time. I used the artwork in the new masterpiece grimlock box (MP 08-x) as my inspiration. Hope you guys like it.

Here is the original link to my deviantart page.

http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs50/i/2009/ ... heart7.jpg

Thanks!

Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:08 pm

Hey, on the Grimlock. How much did you photo shop? I mean, you can obviously tell that you cleaned it up digitally, but did you digitally ink it also? I've thought about trying it myself, and it makes the artwork look good, but does it take much time? The only problem that I've seen with it at times is it seems to wash out some detail or lighten it, which is what it looks like could have happened on the background clouds, or the detail is incredibley thin. Also is hatching hard to do when you ink it that way? I'm sure that it's very time consuming.
Either way the artwork looks really clean.
Good Job. :APPLAUSE:

Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:29 pm

Hey, could you somehow post the original artwork that was the insperation that you talked about? I haven't seen it before.
Thanks

Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:59 am

@Everyone
Hi guys, thanks for all your comments. Here is a link of the image I was talking about. Regarding the issue and page(or cover)for the comics it was published, I honestly don't have any idea.

Sorry wasn't able to find any bigger image:

@Sgt.Prime: I did this artwork entirely in photoshop. So it was easy for me by just zooming in on a area to control the thickness of the lines. A little tedious and took a lot of my time though. Been a long time since I drew last.

Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:37 am

Storm Shadow ROC,
Hey, your artwork looks amazing, and extremely clean. The inker did a great job also. I was wondering if it was all done all by hand? IF so, then you are very talented. Have you ever done professionnal work, because I think that I have seen your name before, and also has the inker ever done work professionally. If you guys aren't getting paid to do artwork, then maybe you ought to look into it.
Great work guys!! :APPLAUSE:

Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:16 am

Hey there,
The artwork was drawn by me and inked with micron pens and quill & ink. all the work was done a standard size Blueline comic board (11 x 17). The only time it was touched on a computer was when the word bubbles were added.

Sgt. Prime wrote:Storm Shadow ROC,
Hey, your artwork looks amazing, and extremely clean. The inker did a great job also. I was wondering if it was all done all by hand? IF so, then you are very talented. Have you ever done professionnal work, because I think that I have seen your name before, and also has the inker ever done work professionally. If you guys aren't getting paid to do artwork, then maybe you ought to look into it.
Great work guys!!

News Credits: 767 · Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:23 am

I want to thank you once again for taking part in the challenge, the sigs I'm sorry but it seams the GIMP hates me, you know the banners I have up in the results article? Those where meant to be the sigs just that all the white in them was going to be your artwork, I somehow managed to f**k it al up and well the white cannot be made transparent or erased away

Don't worry I'll get something new done by tomorrow evening was a bit of a hard week for me.

And I have to say I find all entries absolutely stunning, and I can't wait for next month's challenge in which I hope I'll manage to compete in too.
Choose an awesome topic Storm Shadow ROC.

Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:26 am

Storm Shadow,
How long have you and the inker/tracer been doing artwork? :-?

Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:43 pm

Sgt. Prime wrote:Storm Shadow,
How long have you and the inker/tracer been doing artwork?

Well, while I am not that willing to give up too much info about myself, I have been drawing all my life but if you are looking for a more indepth answer, all I can say is that I have done professional work for the big 2. As for the inker, he is a noob I felt sorry or so I gave him a chance. Just kidding, I have know the inker for awhile and have been working with him but he does have a some things to work on but he is getting better. I may use him for the next challenge. I hope this answers your questions.