Bad Illustrating Contest

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Sat May 05, 2012 5:14 pm

I'm so confused. Is it Linden with the bouffant??!

Post by **Shuram Gudatetris** » Sat May 05, 2012 5:50 pm

It's just Marie Antoinette and Quasimodo playing a video game which features a Rhino-Man and a Bird-Man fighting each other. Pure nonsense

Post by **Frostheart Grueburn** » Mon May 07, 2012 5:53 pm

Haha, I guess it's Linden and Covenant contesting for the right to wield white gold. Works for me.

What with having panthers and dragons in Russian/Czech Covenant covers, a video game wouldn't be far-fetched at all.

Thanks everyone for participating (loving all the entries!) and Null for the extra alms. I'll put up a poll tomorrow and spice up the prizes, leaving a small amount aside for the third place. The winner doesn't need to follow this pattern.

Yesyes still must doodle the crown. Bear with me, I was for a week away from the country.

Ananda wrote:
deer of the dawn wrote:Let's not make being judge too much work!
What?? I thought she should have to come over too the city of all entrants and sweep the floor. That sounds reasonable to me. Our hustomte is expecting her already an will be angry if she doesn't come.

Remember I'm a zombie and thus have bound alliances with the sinister inhabitants of Helheim. My kalmanväki/illvættir will rise forth from the ground and eat your hustomte, should he get too bossy. To prevent such calamity, he ought to be content serving his own mistress.

Besides, you wouldn't want random ectoplasm trails on your floors.

Deer: hustomte means 'house-elf', not exactly as in Harry Potter, yet Rowling's sources lie in Nordic mythology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomte

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Mon May 07, 2012 6:49 pm

Love your fan art, Zorm!!

Post by **Frostheart Grueburn** » Tue May 08, 2012 7:10 am

Alrighty, the voting thread's lurking here: kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=884768#884768
Please vote since it's impossible for me to judge the winner(s) alone.

New up-scaled prizes added to the first post.

Thanks, deer!

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue May 08, 2012 7:56 pm

has voted.

Post by **Frostheart Grueburn** » Tue May 22, 2012 6:42 pm

Sorry I'm late with this; RL's kept me busy and quite exhausted lately.

Results: #1 Wayfriend, #2 Deer, #3 shared by Ananda and Shuram. Thanks everyone for participating and congrats!

The scepter of the contest leader shall now be consigned to Wayfriend. I'll be tossing sacks of gold to everyone briefly. Aye, everyone, since I'll split the third place glories.

Here's a banner (unfortunately can't see if there's pixelation after downsizing; used a very low compression factor however):

If it looks ok enough, I'll hand over the codes. I'd rather post it to the album than my own webspace; does anyone know if one can hotlink images from there?

Post by **deer of the dawn** » Wed May 23, 2012 12:37 am

Congrats to WF!!

The banner looks great! Can you put it on Photobucket?

Post by **Ananda** » Wed May 23, 2012 12:59 am

Congrats, Wayfriend! Fear the power of the monkey!

Wed May 23, 2012 11:59 am

Tested Album hotlinking and couldn't get it to work. So it's in imageshack now (don't have a photobucket account).

Put this code into your signature to vaunt your glorious achievement:

Code: Select all

[url=http://kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22188][IMG]http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/1884/bickruunu.jpg[/IMG][/url]

Also adding this to the 1st post for future reference.

Post by **wayfriend** » Wed May 23, 2012 1:52 pm

Hi everyone. Was out of town yesterday, came back to see the winner was announced.

Thanks, Zorm. Thanks, fellow contestants, for a great game. And thank you all you voters!

I've always felt that bad illustrating doesn't just reflect on the artist, but it also reflects on Art. All bad art should have Art in it, somewhere. And when we have Art in our bad art, we are all winners.

The monkey's name is Art, by the way. Did I mention that?

Post by **Ananda** » Fri May 25, 2012 2:15 am

What is the new contest, Wayfriend?

Post by **wayfriend** » Fri May 25, 2012 1:52 pm

Good question, Ananda!

Do I understand this correctly? I have to pose a new idea for a Bad Illustrating Contest, judge the entries, and award prizes to the winners? Give away the money I just won...

And give up my crown?!?!?!

Well, okay. Let me think upon it.

Post by **ussusimiel** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:02 pm

wayfriend wrote:And give up my crown?!?!?!

That would be no 'bad' thing. These competitions are so warped that their effect ripples out to affect many parts of the Watch. Since wayfriend won his crown and added it to his sig every thread that he posts on has been widened off the screen. People (well I do, anyway) have to scroll over and back to read the posts. (As if the 'Tank wasn't annoying enough, it's effect is worst there.) Have you people no mercy!

I lurk on these 'bad' threads and sometimes vote on the entries. I voted for wayfriend's entry here (I loved the happy Covenant (and Art, of course

)) so I feel partially responsible for the ripple effect across the Watch. Sometimes good deed cause bad results

u.

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:58 pm

unforeseen consequences? - alas!

Lurking? Then, that would make you... the monkey?

In a way, are we then, all lurkers in the story worlds we visit?
Or are we there by the authors' invitations? ...makes ya think, I tell you.

Ya know, you could just go the confrontational route, and ask wayfriend if he would please organize the parts of his sig in a diff way so they don't widen the threads so much.

(not that I don't fall far short of a standard of 'being usefully confrontational' repeatedly in more important situations than this myself)

Post by **ussusimiel** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:39 pm

Linna Heartlistener wrote:Then, that would make you... the monkey?

Are you trying to say,'Thou Art!'.

Linna Heartlistener wrote:Ya know, you could just go the confrontational route, and ask wayfriend if he would please organize the parts of his sig in a diff way so they don't widen the threads so much.

Nah! wayfriend gets more than his fair share of the 'confrontational route' in the 'Tank

I just thought I'd spur ye all along and in doing so the problem would work itself out. Unless of couse the next person to add it to their sig caused some similar (or worse!) problem. At that point I might review my tactics, enter and win the competition and then abscond with the offending banner

u.

Post by **Frostheart Grueburn** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:04 pm

I'm glad people speak so fondly of my crown!

If I ever get the role of the contest host back, I could place this abomination into my sig for all the earth to groan over:

And even a bigger version still exists! MUAHAHAHAHAAAAH!!!!!1

Now that I've had my Lord Foul moment, perchance I could also ask for a new topic?

For instance, I would've rather submitted this dreadful mess to one than to a Gendisc thread.

Post by **wayfriend** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:38 pm

Okay, I've added a <br/> to my sig. Now it's tall instead of wide. Excepting wherever a thread is already wide due to giant bad art crown pictures.

But seriously, why not something like this, eh?

Simple ... elegant ... understated ...

(Yes, I owe a contest... thinking about it ... )

Post by **ussusimiel** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:44 pm

Thanks, wayfriend, much appreciated

wayfriend wrote:But seriously, why not something like this, eh?

Simple ... elegant ... understated ...

Too minimalist for this lot, I'd say

u.

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:08 am

i donated 500+ tokens for the prize purse. sent them to wayfriend.

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