Prompted by Supersurfer's post on Steven Denton's Art Comp thread, I thought it might be fun to have a place for people to post their art comp entries that they didn't quite get done in time, or thought maybe weren't quite good enough to enter.
Every month, I mean to enter, and every month time defeats me. Usually, I never even get further than thinking about it (I had a cracking idea for Pat Mills month) but to start us off, here's my colour rough for the 'Death of' comp, which never got any further than this...
(http://i.imgur.com/Rv4efxp.jpg)
Cool page design Jim.Here's the original rough for a Rogue Troper comp long ago. Looking at it's probably better than what I submitted! Doh!
(http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg86/ToadyCat/Rogue%20Trooper%20Lets%20get%20it%20right_zpstldnepsp.png) (http://s246.photobucket.com/user/ToadyCat/media/Rogue%20Trooper%20Lets%20get%20it%20right_zpstldnepsp.png.html)
On the rare occasions I get through to a finished piece of artwork, the roughs often have an energy that I manage to completely eliminate somewhere in the process!
There's a lot of energy in that Rogue piece. Thanks for sharing it...
Heh, these are almost better than finished pieces! Keep 'em coming!
Always good to see some of Jim's artistic light sneaking out from under his self-critical bushel.
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 04 August, 2017, 08:12:49 AM
On the rare occasions I get through to a finished piece of artwork, the roughs often have an energy that I manage to completely eliminate somewhere in the process!
There's a lot of energy in that Rogue piece. Thanks for sharing it...
Roughs tend to have wonky/exaggerated anatomy, off perspective and sweeping confident lines, all of which are great ways of getting energy into your work. I find my most energetic work is my least technically fussy.
Following the controversy of my "Chopper" entry I nearly entered this for the subsequent Halo Jones compo, but bottled it. Obviously, it's Halo in her G-Suit on Moab, standing to attention between two grassy rocks.
Some would say I'm compensating for something...
(https://s1.postimg.org/g4yxc4eq7/IMG_0515.jpg)
I remember this one! I don't know what the fuss was about... some people clearly have filthy minds...
Quote from: Pete Wells on 04 August, 2017, 08:49:29 PM
Following the controversy of my "Chopper" entry I nearly entered this for the subsequent Halo Jones compo, but bottled it. Obviously, it's Halo in her G-Suit on Moab, standing to attention between two grassy rocks.
Some would say I'm compensating for something...
(https://s1.postimg.org/g4yxc4eq7/IMG_0515.jpg)
...for the fact that you haven't got a cartoon woman inside your penis?
My kind of thread.
I usually do a quick doodle when an art comp theme is announced. It sits on my desk as a reminder. I get bogged down with work and sideline projects (unpaid!). Comp deadline appears out of nowhere. I get the idea in my head I can do a quickie drawing. I try the paper and pens route, digital route. Neither seems to work. I either manage to enter a very scrappy unfinished/underworked piece (rare) or I fail to enter. Come the next day I look at my attempts and think – they weren't as bad as I thought. Then, at my leisure, post-deadline I work-up my non-contribution and over-work that to heck.
This was my attempt to illustrate Eamonn's story 'Hotdog'. I wish I could say I didn't enter because I wasn't happy with the perspective on handlebars or the dullness of the colours but I was foiled by time. I don't think this captured what I was getting at with my initial doodle. I wanted to show the cadet Judge dwarfed by the Lawmaster and I didn't capture the energy of my sketch.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4UF8uEXAAE3Ab1.jpg)
That's very nice. I particularly love your use of colour their Supersurfer.
Sketch or not, I'd have voted for this I reckon. Very nice, quite Weston-y.
Meant to enter last month's but as usual never got past the initial brainstorming session. Like Jim, I often find an energy and promise in the sketches stage that I rarely - if ever - believe I deliver in the finished piece, though I gather this is SOP for most artists. I take solace in the fact that this feeling disappears forever once you become a proper comic artist.
(https://image.ibb.co/eDtSWa/iseeaship001.jpg)
These are all brilliant. Glad to know it's not just me!
Prof Bear - christ, but thats beautiful. Should have been entered as is.
Please finish it...
Best I can do for this thread is...
A quick sketch of Brother Mills:
(http://i.imgur.com/99puCP3.jpg)
A still unfinished half coloured version of something I entered as an unfinished black & white thing:
(http://i.imgur.com/OMk7qU4.jpg)
and something that was entered into a competition, but then was omitted from the vote due to NO REASON AT ALL, AND WE SHALL NOT DISCUSS IT! ;)
It's Dredd, having a heart attack in the bogs at Pete Wells Block, whilst eating synthi-sausage and a Gregg's Pasty.
(http://i.imgur.com/kBlUhov.jpg)
Allow me:
(http://i.imgur.com/xNDIAv0.jpg)
A variation of the image that got me into 2000AD. The drawing of Dan Dare by Belardinelli that was used to advertise 2000AD in IPC comics.
No time to do roughs. Just got on with it. Unfinished and I would have worked on pose if I had more time, but had fun doing it.
Quote from: Woolly on 13 August, 2017, 04:36:40 PM
Best I can do for this thread is...
and something that was entered into a competition, but then was omitted from the vote due to NO REASON AT ALL, AND WE SHALL NOT DISCUSS IT! ;)
It's Dredd, having a heart attack in the bogs at Pete Wells Block, whilst eating synthi-sausage and a Gregg's Pasty.
(http://i.imgur.com/kBlUhov.jpg)
S'niff! S' beautiful. Thanks Woolly!
The bleakest entry I could think of for the advent calendar...
The Dark Judges running Santa's grotto with a pile of tiny rotten/burnt/scared to death corpses next to them while the excited young 'uns queue up outside.
Possibly for the best.
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 28 August, 2017, 02:24:17 AM
No time to do roughs. Just got on with it...
:o Blimey! Good stuff there, surprised it wasn't entered as is!
I had a crack at the Dare competition, wanted to do a Dan Dare/Ace Rimmer mash-up, but it just didn't happen...
(http://i.imgur.com/gkRsRwI.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/fBlDCF6.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/jp2Ptca.jpg)
Quote from: Pete Wells on 28 August, 2017, 08:32:44 AM
S'niff! S' beautiful. Thanks Woolly!
T'was my pleasure, sir ;)
Fisrt attempt with imgur after those robbing bastards at Photobucket mutter grumble....
The comp was 2000ad versions of famous artworks - I abandoned this Picasso Dante halfway through in favour of Nighthawks at the Diner re imagined as a Shapiro's hottie house.
(https://i.imgur.com/x2FQvZh.jpg)
Great failing, everyone. Don't keep it up.
Quote from: Woolly on 28 August, 2017, 09:52:19 AM
Quote from: SuperSurfer on 28 August, 2017, 02:24:17 AM
No time to do roughs. Just got on with it...
:o Blimey! Good stuff there, surprised it wasn't entered as is!
Thanks, but as the clock struck twelve Dan Dare was black and white with one blue glove and one yellow arm. I carried on colouring after the deadline passed.
Found a couple more, from the 'Redraw a Panel' competition...
(https://i.imgur.com/JLuqJWg.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/yY8vscc.jpg)
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lXvdryPUqPI/Wc1VfEZDfQI/AAAAAAAADMM/dTeEFCZ2HtEVEcBGijIMl9ClQWa_uoc4QCLcBGAs/s1600/01.jpg) this was to be my Dantay entry a few months back but never got past the sketch.
I was too late with this for the Sláine month; drawing from Fabry's version was a nightmare, though I quite like it now, I should perhaps have kept it more Kirby-style:
(http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae48/adrianbamforth/18275169_10154283742245216_8345332335987876198_n_zpscvwsndsq.jpg)
Quote from: Adrian Bamforth on 03 October, 2017, 02:06:44 PM
I was too late with this for the Sláine month; drawing from Fabry's version was a nightmare, though I quite like it now, I should perhaps have kept it more Kirby-style:
(http://i956.photobucket.com/albums/ae48/adrianbamforth/18275169_10154283742245216_8345332335987876198_n_zpscvwsndsq.jpg)
Alas, the evil of Photobucket strikes again...
This might work better:
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18275169_10154283742245216_8345332335987876198_n.jpg?oh=6033b7d7cb7e8a961ea4e1b197de9b9e&oe=5A7C4296)
Ha! Excellent!
Superb! :thumbsup:
Possibly my last aborted entry, don't remember the subject.
'So, Nemesis will be cool. If I do it all painty it'll be great!'
Hm - nah.
(https://i.imgur.com/qcBTi0y.jpg)
I actually find that rather beautiful, Fungus.
The odd flashes of red really bring the skin tones out, and the overall composition works really well.
Good stuff.
Quote from: Woolly on 17 October, 2017, 10:11:42 AM
I actually find that rather beautiful, Fungus.
The odd flashes of red really bring the skin tones out, and the overall composition works really well.
Good stuff.
Cheers Woolly! With a lot of work it might have went somewhere... :-*
Quote from: Fungus on 17 October, 2017, 11:47:48 AM
Quote from: Woolly on 17 October, 2017, 10:11:42 AM
I actually find that rather beautiful, Fungus.
The odd flashes of red really bring the skin tones out, and the overall composition works really well.
Good stuff.
Cheers Woolly! With a lot of work it might have went somewhere... :-*
It's already somewhere... just would have ended up somewhere else.
I kinda like it's lack of detail, I can still make out what it is - Nemesis, sticking a knife in the world.
Maybe it's the beer, I dunno, I just think the good use of muted colours really works on the eye.
I stick by my original assessment: good stuff! :thumbsup:
*edit* A knife?!? What am I thinking - it's the Sword Sinister of course!
Quote from: Fungus on 17 October, 2017, 12:14:46 AM
Possibly my last aborted entry, don't remember the subject.
'So, Nemesis will be cool. If I do it all painty it'll be great!'
Hm - nah.
(https://i.imgur.com/qcBTi0y.jpg)
I'm with Wooly, this has a dream like classical art feel as it is! you should have called it done and entered it... (maybe we need an 'It this done yet thread?)
Quote from: Steven Denton on 18 October, 2017, 10:26:56 AM
I'm with Wooly, this has a dream like classical art feel as it is! you should have called it done and entered it...
Agreed- really like this Fungus.
He looks like he's just newly hatched and his exo-skeleton hasn't hardened yet. Like an unripened conker.
Sorry to keep going on about this piece, but...
...I also love how the straight lines used in the cape work as a framing device.
There. Done gushing now.
Well that's all nice to hear! It makes an arch deviant very happy.