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#21
And what rough comp, its hour come round at last, slouches toward the forum to be born...?

Why, it's the third monthly sketch comp! This time out, it's SIDEKICKS

Last month's winner, Dark Jimbo explains:

Quote
Sidekicks! They're the last word in loyalty, but they don't always get as much of the limelight as they deserve. From Wulf and the Gronk to Walter and Maria; from Ro-Jaws to Ukko, Purity Brown to Venus Bluegenes; to Dredd's whole supporting cast of Judges and Dante's Romanov siblings, there should be plenty to choose from! Approach the brief however you want, but let's give a little love to the B-teams!

You've had a week to get your thinking caps on, now you have one week to get your sketches in. The competition will close to entries end-of-day Friday April 9th.

You can render your entries in the medium of your choice, and you can enter as many times as you want, but please don't spend more than 45 minutes on each sketch.*

There will be a GLITTERING PRIZE for the winning entry. As well as getting to choose the theme for Sketch Comp #4, the winner will receive a randomly selected graphic novel from my Terrifyingly Tall Mountain of Comps™, and a signed Nick Percival print of Ol' Stoney Face hisself thanks to the generosity of Colin YNWA.

Get sketching, folks!

*Abandoned attempts don't count, so you can take as many stabs at getting an idea right as you need, and no one is standing over you with a stopwatch, but the 45 minutes starts when pencil/pen/crayons/fingers hit paper on the version you want to submit.
#22
PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR SKETCHES TO THIS THREAD

With Competition #2 out of the way, we roll on inexorably to the next challenge! This time it's been selected by the victorious Dark Jimbo.

Thus spake Dark Jimbo:

QuoteSidekicks! They're the last word in loyalty, but they don't always get as much of the limelight as they deserve. From Wulf and the Gronk to Walter and Maria; from Ro-Jaws to Ukko, Purity Brown to Venus Bluegenes; to Dredd's whole supporting cast of Judges and Dante's Romanov siblings, there should be plenty to choose from! Approach the brief however you want, but let's give a little love to the B-teams!

You have one week to put your thinking caps on, get scribbling if inspiration strikes, but please don't post your entries to this thread.

You can render your entries in the medium of your choice, but please don't spend more than 45 minutes on each sketch.

The thread for posting your masterpieces will be along next Friday, and will stay open for one week (or thereabouts), after which we'll move on to the voting.

There will be not one, but TWO GLITTERING PRIZES for the triumphant Squaxx in this comp. As well as getting to choose the theme for Sketch Comp #4, the winner will receive a randomly selected graphic novel from my Terrifyingly Tall Mountain of Comps™ plus a signed Nick Percival print of Ol' Stoney Face hisself thanks to the generosity of Colin YNWA.

Time to get pondering, and to warm up those pencils/fingers/crayons/styluses!
#23
Right, then. It's what you've all been awaiting with bated breath — the Unofficial 2000AD Forum Sketch Comp #2 RESULTS!

Thanks again to everyone who took the time to vote, and all the participants for their fantastic entries. In a very real sense, you're all winners... except that we have to have some actual winners, and here they are:

With barely the width of a gnat's chuff between third and second place, the bronze goes to...

Tomwe #2



In second place...

Jim_Campbell #1



And the runaway winner...

Dark Jimbo!





Congrats to Jimbo, on his well-deserved win, polling more points and votes than the #2 entry by a ratio of 3:2.

And that's Sketch Comp #2 wrapped. The theme for Comp #3 will be along in due course, and we'll kick off the next comp properly in early April.
#24
It's time for the Unofficial 2000AD Forum Sketch Comp #2 Voting Thread!

Please vote for your three favourites, clearly ranking them 1st, 2nd and 3rd. If you're voting for one of multiple entries, please be clear which one you're voting for. If you want to add an Honorary Mention for anyone's entry, I'll use those in the event of a tie-break situation.

Remember that, in addition to picking the theme for next month's sketch competition, there is now a choice of TWO shiny prizes for the winner.

Choose between either: 1) a randomly selected graphic novel from my Terrifyingly Tall Tower of Comps™ or 2) the original art for either my Chopper or Slaine entries. (There's a fairly major cock-up that I erased digitally, within the time limit, on my first, so you can't have that one!)



The entries, in alphabetical order, are...

Bolt-01


Colin YNWA #1


Colin YNWA #2


Dark Jimbo


Funt Solo


Jayzus B. Christ #1


Jayzus B. Christ #2


Jim_Campbell #1


Jim Campbell #2


Jim Campbell #3


Legendary Shark #1


Legendary Shark #2


Legendary Shark #3


Legendary Shark #4


MIK


Rogue Judge


Tomwe #1


Tomwe #2


Tomwe #3


Woolly #1


Woolly #2
#25
It's time! Show us your arts, fellow Squaxx!

The theme this month is REGENED.

As last month's winner, Colin YNWA explains:

QuoteRegened - its been all the buzz of 2000ad social media. We love it. We hate it. Now we create it. Regene your favourite character by reimagining them as they would be created in a new all ages comic. Regene your favourite cover, regene ... something completely new that would fit into the Regene issues... which isn't regening is it, its just gening... but you get the idea. Do something, do anything, that would look in place in the current regened issues.

Remember, you don't have to just do a younger version of an existing character — you can come up with something entirely new, or an all-ages/YA spin on your favourite strip. Manga Nemesis? Hookjaw in the style of Bone? Durham Red as a Powerpuff Girl?

You've had a week to get your thinking caps on, now you have one week to get your sketches in.

You can render your entries in the medium of your choice, and you can enter as many times as you want, but please don't spend more than 45 minutes on each sketch.*

There will be a GLITTERING PRIZE for the winning entry. As well as getting to choose the theme for Sketch Comp #3, the winner will receive a randomly selected graphic novel from my Terrifyingly Tall Mountain of Comps™.

Have at it, folks!

*Abandoned attempts don't count, so you can take as many stabs at getting an idea right as you need, and no one is standing over you with a stopwatch, but the 45 minutes starts when pencil/pen/crayons/fingers hit paper on the version you want to submit.
#26
PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR SKETCHES TO THIS THREAD

Well, folks, with the inaugural sketch comp wrapped up, it's time to move on to the next challenge, selected by our worthy winner, Colin YNWA.

Quoth Colin:

QuoteRegened - its been all the buzz of 2000ad social media. We love it. We hate it. Now we create it. Regene your favourite character by reimagining them as they would be created in a new all ages comic. Regene your favourite cover, regene ... something completely new that would fit into the Regene issues... which isn't regening is it, its just gening... but you get the idea. Do something, do anything, that would look in place in the current regened issues.

You have one week to put your thinking caps on, get scribbling if inspiration strikes, but please don't post your entries to this thread.

You can render your entries in the medium of your choice, but please don't spend more than 45 minutes on each sketch.

The thread for posting your masterpieces will be along next Saturday, and will stay open for one week, after which we'll move on to the voting.

Once again, there will be a GLITTERING PRIZE for the winning entry. As well as getting to choose the theme for Sketch Comp #3, the winner will receive a randomly selected graphic novel* from my Terrifyingly Tall Mountain of Comps™.

*Only random in as much as I need to be able to extract it fom the TTMoC™ without triggering a life-threatening landslide of comics, and the book will either be Vol 1, or a standalone, so you won't have to buy preceding volumes before you can enjoy your prize.
#27
General / 2000AD Forum Sketch Comp #1: RESULTS THREAD
26 February, 2021, 11:15:38 AM
A huge thank you to everyone who entered the competition, and to all of you who voted. The votes have been tallied, back-handers have been pocketed, people against whom I harbour arbitrary and utterly unfair grudges have been excluded, and so we come to the results...!

In third place...

Legendary Shark



In second place...

Me



And THE WINNER!

Colin YNWA



The theme for our second sketch competition will be along in due course, so warm those pencils/biros/oh-so-tasty wax crayons up and get ready...
#28
News / BUMPS!
18 February, 2021, 11:11:27 PM
Happy 44th birthday, 2000AD!

Actually, the precise day/date is a slightly confused issue because the date on Prog #1 was the off-sale date, and the prog's early tag line — "in orbit every every Monday — has literally never been true...!
#29
So... it's the Unofficial 2000AD Forum Sketch Comp #1 Voting Thread!

Please vote for your three favourites, clearly ranking them 1st, 2nd and 3rd. If you want to add an Honorary Mention for anyone's entry, I'll use those in the event of a tie-break situation.

Voting will close end of day Sunday 21st February.

Remember that, in addition to picking the theme for next month's sketch competition, there is a shiny prize on offer — a copy of the 'Here's Johnny' DVD, courtesy of the incredibly generous Woolly!

The entries, in alphabetical order, are...

Bolt-01


Colin YNWA #1


Colin YNWA #2


Jayzus B. Christ


Jim Campbell


Legendary Shark #1


Legendary Shark #2


Legendary Shark #3


Legendary Shark #4


Norton Canes


Rogue Judge


Tomwe


Woolly #1


Wooly #2


A huge thank you to everyone who found the time to enter. Now... let the voting commence!
#30
Let's get down to business. It's the inaugural 2000AD Forum Sketch Competition Entries Thread!

In case you missed the earlier post announcing the theme, this month it's: Postcards from Nu Earth.

Give us a snapshot of Nu Earth. Imagine you're a war artist, or a photographer, or a random bystander, or a participant, and give us an image of the future war hellscape that is Nu Earth.

The only wrinkle is: no Rogue Trooper. He can't be in it. Anything else. Chem-mists over the biowire, aliens haggling in the Gasbah, meds at work on the front line, Norts digging latrine pits... whatever! Something from Nu Earth that doesn't have Rogue in it.

It doesn't have to be something we've specifically seen in the strips, as long as it feels like it belongs on (or above, or underneath) Nu Earth.

PLEASE POST YOUR ENTRIES TO THIS THREAD!

This is a sketch competition — you can use whatever medium takes your fancy, digital, traditional, mashed potato sculpture,* but please don't spend more than 45 minutes on any individual entry.

You can submit as many sketches as you like to the entries thread, but you'll have to nominate one (of your own!) to go forward to the voting thread.

If you have any problems at all getting your image onto the forum (especially since there's a size limit on attachments to forum posts) then send me a PM via the forum, and I'll give you my email address so you can send me the image and I'll host it on my Imgur account and post the entry on your behalf.

This thread will be open for one week only and will close on Friday 12th Feb, after which a voting thread will be open for one week from Saturday 13th Feb.

Get scribbling, Earthlets!  :D

*No straight photo manipulation though, please.
#31
(Just realised that I posted this to the Creative Common section, which doesn't get as much attention as the General section, where the old art comps were posted, so apologies for the duplicate post.)

So... it's the first forum Sketch Competition. We may end up tweaking the format/rules to make it work better but, for now, here's how it works:

The theme for this one is: Postcards from Nu Earth.

We frequently talk about what a rich and fertile environment for the imagination Nu Earth is, so give us a snapshot. Imagine you're a war artist, or a photographer, or a random bystander, or a participant, and give us an image of the future war hellscape that is Nu Earth.

The only wrinkle is: no Rogue Trooper. He can't be in it. Anything else. Chem-mists over the biowire, aliens haggling in the Gasbah, meds at work on the front line, Norts digging latrine pits... whatever! Something from Nu Earth that doesn't have Rogue in it.

It doesn't have to be something we've specifically seen in the strips, as long as it feels like it belongs on (or above, or underneath) Nu Earth.



DON'T POST ENTRIES TO THIS THREAD!

You have a week to think it over and get sketching if the inspiration takes you. There'll be a new thread along on Saturday (6th Feb) for entries. That thread will be open for one week only.

You can submit as many sketches as you like to the entries thread, but you'll have to nominate one (of your own!) to go forward to the voting thread.

This is a sketch competition, so you can use whatever medium takes your fancy — digital, traditional, mashed potato sculpture,* but please don't spend more than 45 minutes on any individual entry.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good — spontaneity is what we're after here. No one's standing over you with a stopwatch, but please try not to run over. Similarly, we want as many entries as possible — if you can only find fifteen minutes, don't let that stop you. If all you've got time for is something in biro on a Post-It, great! Get it up on the thread!

When we get to submitting entries, if you have any problems at all getting your image onto the forum (especially since there's a size limit on attachments to forum posts) then send me a PM via the forum, and I'll give you my email address so you can send me the image and I'll host it on my Imgur account and post the entry on your behalf.

Get scribbling, thrill-fans! If you have any questions, post 'em below, or PM me.

*I think I'm going to draw the line at straight photo-manipulation, for now, at least. That seems a little contrary to the idea of a sketch comp, but it's something we can revisit if people think that's too restrictive.
#32
So... it's the first forum Sketch Competition. We may end up tweaking the format/rules to make it work better but, for now, here's how it works:

The theme for this one is: Postcards from Nu Earth.

We frequently talk about what a rich and fertile environment for the imagination Nu Earth is, so give us a snapshot. Imagine you're a war artist, or a photographer, or a random bystander, or a participant, and give us an image of the future war hellscape that is Nu Earth.

The only wrinkle is: no Rogue Trooper. He can't be in it. Anything else. Chem-mists over the biowire, aliens haggling in the Gasbah, meds at work on the front line, Norts digging latrine pits... whatever! Something from Nu Earth that doesn't have Rogue in it.

It doesn't have to be something we've specifically seen in the strips, as long as it feels like it belongs on (or above, or underneath) Nu Earth.



DON'T POST ENTRIES TO THIS THREAD!

You have a week to think it over and get sketching if the inspiration takes you. There'll be a new thread along a week today for entries. That thread will be open for one week only.

You can submit as many sketches as you like to the entries thread, but you'll have to nominate one (of your own!) to go forward to the voting thread.

This is a sketch competition, so you can use whatever medium takes your fancy — digital, traditional, mashed potato sculpture,* but please don't spend more than 45 minutes on any individual entry.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good — spontaneity is what we're after here. No one's standing over you with a stopwatch, but please try not to run over. Similarly, we want as many entries as possible — if you can only find fifteen minutes, don't let that stop you. If all you've got time for is something in biro on a Post-It, great! Get it up on the thread!

When we get to submitting entries, if you have any problems at all getting your image onto the forum (especially since there's a size limit on attachments to forum posts) then send me a PM via the forum, and I'll give you my email address so you can send me the image and I'll host the image on my Imgur account and post the entry on your behalf.

Get scribbling, thrill-fans! If you have any questions, post 'em below, or PM me.

*I think I'm going to draw the line at straight photo-manipulation, for now, at least. That seems a little contrary to the idea of a sketch comp, but it's something we can revisit if people think that's too restrictive.
#33
Creative Common / Possible Forum Sketch Comp…?
26 January, 2021, 09:53:13 AM
Per my inappropriate musings over on the film thread, here's an actual thread to test the water on a new art comp for the forum.

To reiterate my reasoning for a 'Sketch Competition' from the original post, for those who missed it:

QuoteTwo reasons for the "Sketch" thing — 1) I don't want to steal any of the official comp's thunder, and 2) with the old forum comps, the long deadline ended up with perfect being the enemy of, well, finishing anything for a lot of people... so I wondered if there'd be any interest in an informal competition with a short deadline and a time limit on the actual work so people (well, me, for a start) wouldn't perpetually blow the deadline.

My thoughts so far are: maybe do one a month, based around a theme or character as always — people have a week to post their entries, followed by a week of voting, but the entries have to be completed within a time limit. Multiple entries are allowed, if you warm to the theme, but you can only spend X amount of time on each drawing.

So the first big question is: how long would be a good maximum time limit? You don't have to spend the full amount of time on it, and there will be a certain amount of good faith required from the participants — I'm going back and forth between 30min and an hour, but I have a little voice in the back of my head that says "No — make it fifteen minutes!"

If we can't come to a consensus, I'll probably split the difference at 30min, but if a clear preference emerges then we'll do that instead. There'll probably be a few odd details to thrash out on top of that, but this will give us a good starting point.

The floor is yours!
#34
Just a timely reminder that today only is Comicraft's New Year's Day Sale — all fonts $20.21 each until the end of the day.
#35
Film & TV / Doom Patrol… Season Three
12 September, 2020, 07:23:19 PM
Season Three confirmed.

This is fantastic news, especially since S2 ends rather abruptly, due to shooting of Ep10 (the finale) having to be abandoned because of Covid.
#36
Links / Dredd: Animated (unofficial test)
16 June, 2020, 09:45:31 AM
Rather nifty little proof-of-concept animated Dredd, with a more than whiff of Akira about it.

BLIMEY.

Thanks to Steve Green for turning up the link on Facebook.
#37
The wife of an old friend of mine has contacted me and asked for help ID-ing a much-loved t-shirt so that she can replace it for his birthday. It's probably a band t-shirt, but I haven't a clue which band, a reverse image search on Google was no help and I thought that the fine members of this board, with their varied/eclectic/obscure tastes in music might be able to provide an answer...

Thanks in advance for any help!

#38
So, to save time, the best is Moore and Redondo's 'The Time Machine'.

But, with that out of the way, what's the second best? I have thoughts, but I want to hear yours. :-)


*For the purposes of keeping the thread title manageable, please take "Future Shock" as a place-holder for Shocks, Time Twisters, Terror Tales, and any other single-issue stories under a shared series banner, even —shudder — Vector 13
#39
Creative Common / Zound Effects & More!
10 February, 2020, 07:32:12 PM
A bit of a process post over on my blog about lettering Zaucer of Zilk for the Mighty One.

(Probably not terribly interesting to anyone who isn't a letterer, so you have been warned!)
#40
New blog post! I've been putting Affinity Designer through its paces as an alternative to Illustrator for lettering. Short version: all the big stuff is there, but some of the smaller stuff that's missing may well be a deal-breaker for many.

Long version at my blog, here.