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AC Secret Santas 2009! [34/ 50 Completed] Due When It's No Longer December 20th!
Secret Santa
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What is it?
Everyone who signs up will be randomly assigned another participant and will be tasked with making a piece of gift/fan art for that person! It can be related to their interests, forum persona/avatar, or just whatever you like. The art will be sent digitally, unless you really would like to send an original drawing, but that is entirely up to you and is not required.
How do I sign up?
Just send an email to [ acsecretsanta@gmail.com ] with your forum username in the subject line and "Artist's Corner Secret Santa" in the body of the message.
The deadline for signing up will be November 14th. You will be sent a private message shortly after with the username of whom you will be drawing a gift for.
Who can sign up?
To keep things fair, only those with a join date earlier than May 1st and more than a handful of posts will be allowed to participate for obvious reasons. If you would like to participate and don't fall under these requirements then you will just have to wait until next year! The final say of who can join this activity will be entirely up to the AC mods so there may be exceptions, but do not count on it. This goes for those who may be disincluded as well. Previous deadbeats are banned from participating.
Submitting Complete Work and Submission Deadline
All drawings must be emailed to [ acsecretsanta@gmail.com ] by December 20th. Failure to submit your drawing after agreeing to sign up (shame on you, you awful human being) will result in a nice long vacation away from the forums. No fooling this year I MEAN IT YOU JUST WAIT AND SEE.
Is that all?
This is simply all the information you should need. This is not something to sign up for to get free art, it is about making something for another member. Remember that it could be you getting stiffed out of a drawing so do not sign up unless you are committed to finishing your end of the deal. DMAC will personally end anyone who does not comply.
Please don't sign up if you know you won't be able to deliver a finished product. Getting a really half assed gift sucks when you spent hours on getting yours in on time.
Feel free to use this thread to discuss and ask questions or post some of your interests to help out your Santa. If you say 'in' or 'I'm so doing this' in here and don't send me a proper email, do not expect to be participating.
Here's a handy template for giving a bit of information about yourself which will help your Santa with some ideas! Thanks to Iruka for the template :^:
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme:
Character(s):
Movies/TV:
Games:
Animals:
Painting, Artist, or Art genre:
||Other||
General interests:
Link Photograph/self portraits:
Link Avatar/persona character:
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of):
2008's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=78214
2007's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=44966
2006's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=10065
2004: http://iseenothing.com/artchive/secret%20santas%202004/
2003: http://iseenothing.com/artchive/secret%20santas%202003/
And for posterity:
Participants [50]
Agentflit
Asamof the Horrible
bombardier
brokecracker
Buckwolfe
cakemikz
CyberMonkeytron3000
DeeLock
desperaterobots
DMAC
earthwormadam
Faded_Sneakers
Flay
Fletcher
Fugitive
Grenn
Ikage
Iruka
jpeg
Loomdun
lyrium
ManonvonSuperock
Mayday
melting_doll
mensch-o-matic
Mes3
Metalbourne
misosoup
mully
Mustang
NakedZergling
nakirush
NibCrom
NightDragon
no_toast
Orikaeshigitae
Projeck
Prospicience
robotsintheskies
Scosglen
sharky t
Spectre-x
Sublimus
Tam
Thane
the_monarch23
.Tripwire.
tynic
Veritas
worstcase
What is it?
Everyone who signs up will be randomly assigned another participant and will be tasked with making a piece of gift/fan art for that person! It can be related to their interests, forum persona/avatar, or just whatever you like. The art will be sent digitally, unless you really would like to send an original drawing, but that is entirely up to you and is not required.
How do I sign up?
Just send an email to [ acsecretsanta@gmail.com ] with your forum username in the subject line and "Artist's Corner Secret Santa" in the body of the message.
The deadline for signing up will be November 14th. You will be sent a private message shortly after with the username of whom you will be drawing a gift for.
Who can sign up?
To keep things fair, only those with a join date earlier than May 1st and more than a handful of posts will be allowed to participate for obvious reasons. If you would like to participate and don't fall under these requirements then you will just have to wait until next year! The final say of who can join this activity will be entirely up to the AC mods so there may be exceptions, but do not count on it. This goes for those who may be disincluded as well. Previous deadbeats are banned from participating.
Submitting Complete Work and Submission Deadline
All drawings must be emailed to [ acsecretsanta@gmail.com ] by December 20th. Failure to submit your drawing after agreeing to sign up (shame on you, you awful human being) will result in a nice long vacation away from the forums. No fooling this year I MEAN IT YOU JUST WAIT AND SEE.
Is that all?
This is simply all the information you should need. This is not something to sign up for to get free art, it is about making something for another member. Remember that it could be you getting stiffed out of a drawing so do not sign up unless you are committed to finishing your end of the deal. DMAC will personally end anyone who does not comply.
Please don't sign up if you know you won't be able to deliver a finished product. Getting a really half assed gift sucks when you spent hours on getting yours in on time.
Feel free to use this thread to discuss and ask questions or post some of your interests to help out your Santa. If you say 'in' or 'I'm so doing this' in here and don't send me a proper email, do not expect to be participating.
Here's a handy template for giving a bit of information about yourself which will help your Santa with some ideas! Thanks to Iruka for the template :^:
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme:
Character(s):
Movies/TV:
Games:
Animals:
Painting, Artist, or Art genre:
||Other||
General interests:
Link Photograph/self portraits:
Link Avatar/persona character:
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of):
2008's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=78214
2007's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=44966
2006's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=10065
2004: http://iseenothing.com/artchive/secret%20santas%202004/
2003: http://iseenothing.com/artchive/secret%20santas%202003/
And for posterity:
Participants [50]
Agentflit
Asamof the Horrible
bombardier
brokecracker
Buckwolfe
cakemikz
CyberMonkeytron3000
DeeLock
desperaterobots
DMAC
earthwormadam
Faded_Sneakers
Flay
Fletcher
Fugitive
Grenn
Ikage
Iruka
jpeg
Loomdun
lyrium
ManonvonSuperock
Mayday
melting_doll
mensch-o-matic
Mes3
Metalbourne
misosoup
mully
Mustang
NakedZergling
nakirush
NibCrom
NightDragon
no_toast
Orikaeshigitae
Projeck
Prospicience
robotsintheskies
Scosglen
sharky t
Spectre-x
Sublimus
Tam
Thane
the_monarch23
.Tripwire.
tynic
Veritas
worstcase
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Steam handle: Buckwolfe
[edit] fuck it, I am DOING THIS. *fist in air*
edit: wait am I supposed to list stuff I like, because there is virtually nothing that I know of that i like
Color or Color scheme:my favrite color is blue
Character(s): michael jones, from desolation jones
Movies/TV: blade runner
Games: borderlands, grim fandango, left 4 dead, monkey island, full throttle
Animals: dogs, cats, squirrels
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: currently really into art deco illustration and professional illustrators from the 30s like jc leyendecker & various anonymous pulp fiction cover illustrators. also brassai's photos and cindy sherman's 'untitled film stills'
||Other||
General interests:
used to be a mustachioed body builder, now i think it might be this guy
quoth and i created this guy, trey edison, a robot private detective
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: my favorite color is brown, I don't really have a favorite color scheme per se though.
Character(s): Fry of Futurama, anyone from FLCL (Naota in particular)
Movies/TV: Futurama, Venture Bros. in terms of TV. For movies, I am a fan of basically any 90s Tarantino film (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, also Kill Bill 1/2 with those), also the movie Waking Life is the shit. Blade Runner, also.
Games: TF2, L4D, Jet Grind Radio, Shadow of the Colossus
Animals: Birds are sweet.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Bouguereau and Mucha.
Music: I like music so much. SO MUCH. I play a white MIM Tele like this one here http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/7660/mz59906049.jpg , I also am bad at the drums. Genre wise, I listen to most things but I am an indie nerd at heart (favorites include Andrew Bird, The Shins, Grandaddy, etc)
||Other||
General interests: I play guitar, drums, and disc golf a lot.
Link Photograph/self portraits: I did a self portrait a day for 50 days from august to october this year. Please ignore the douche hair, I KNOW. http://kkrull.email.googlepages.com/sp.html
Link Avatar/persona character: I don't really have one.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): I don't really have any.
Color or Color scheme: I am a bit partial to warm or cool color schemes, but most anything works.
Character(s): His Grace, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes; Death; Granny Weatherwax; Rorschach; Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth; Ford Prefect; Zaphod Beeblebrox
Movies/TV: FUTURAMA, Venture Brothers, Ghost in the Shell, Spirited Away and everything Miyazaki, Pixar movies (except Cars), Seven Samurai, Blade Runner
Games: Psychonauts, Ratchet and Clank series, Commander Keen, Psychonauts, Psychonauts, Psychonauts.
Animals: Hive creatures (bees and ants), marine mammals (especially whales), and primates.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Anthony Scott Waters (fyreant.deviantart.com), Wassermelone, Adam Rex, Bill Watterson, or anything that isn't schmaltzy, really.
||Other||
General interests: SCIENCE, music
Link Photograph/self portraits: ha!
Link Avatar/persona character: Pocoyo- the eponymous character of the Spanish children's show.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Lilith Prattlefoot III and Gordon (girl in the middle and her giant sapient hat-and-sash)
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: I like blueee but I like all the colors to except that one color
Character(s): I'm a loomdun
Movies/TV: uhhhh
Games: starcraft 2 omg
Animals: chinchillass and rabbitss and squirrels, and dogs and cats
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: uhhhh I like my teachers
||Other||
General interests: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhh I draw a lot
Link Photograph/self portraits: no
Link Avatar/persona character: uhghghgh
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): I dont know
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Analogous color schemes! The blue-violet/yellow-green/red-orange kinda triad! More monochromatic stuff! Doesn't matter, as long as it's not neon/super-bright! As long as it looks good, that's good.
Character(s): nada
Movies/TV/Books (I'll just add that in): Spirited Away, Lord of the Rings, Pixarstuffs, the freakin' Discovery Channel, House, Elizabeth, Pan's Labyrinth, Indiana Jones (not that skull one, obviously), The Golden Compass, Walden
Games: SIMS, Pokeymans, Rollercoaster Tycoon...if we want to get into ancient games: Commander Keen, Raptor, Hocus Pocus...
Animals: cute things, and badass things. Phoenixes? Dogs.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Norman Rockwell, Chuck Close, Alphonse Mucha, Aubrey Beardsley, Harry Clarke......Audrey Kawasaki, Joy Ang, Craig Mullins, Ruan Jia....any of those cool old-school artists that did rad oil paintings of people 'n' landscapes 'n' stuff.
||Other||
General interests: art, animation, concept art, humorous things, music, languages, old things and ancient things, sleeping, nature, travel, thunderstorms, hiking, archeology, science...
Link Photograph/self portraits: http://www.fireflights.com/Random/Me.jpg
Link Avatar/persona character: None!
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): None.
Color or Color scheme: Blues and light reds....
Character(s): uhhhhh.....uhhhhh....don't really have one
Movies/TV: always sunny in philadelphia, donnie darko, blues brothers
Games: I love me some silent hill, especially the room
Animals: owls! and foxes. and cats.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Probably more surreal, but i also enjoy a kc greenish style. I love Esao andrews.
||Other||
General interests: soccer, cross country, arttts
Link Photograph/self portraits:Too much work
Link Avatar/persona character: Like mine now? Because that would be Captain Kirk.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Maybe bird hat chick? Its in my thread ill link later.
Color or Color scheme: orange
Character(s): Space Captains
Movies/TV/Books (I'll just add that in): Song of Ice and Fire
Games: Forza
Animals: Newfoundland
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Rockwell, Leyendecker, Sargent, Adam Rex, Gregory Manchess, Donato Giancola
||Other||
General interests: art, food, space
Link Photograph/self portraits: I am on the left.
edit: wait that doesn't actually matter
Color or Color scheme: oh man I don't care.
Movies/TV: Mirrormask, Pan's Labyrinth, anything by Terry Gilliam
Animals: dogs, bears, dragonflies
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Mervyn Peake, Tove Jansson, Kazu Kibuishi, Joao Ruas, art deco, surrealism, post-impressionism
Avatar: Used to be an armadillo, but when I changed my hosting I couldn't be bothered moving my avatars across and now I'm using a befuddled bear.
Original characters: Um, maybe Timmy or Hippo.
THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
Movies:300, Pan's Labyrinth, District 9, Children of Men, The Shawshank Redemption, Kill Bill, Jurassic Park, Unbreakable, The Fifth Element, Lord of the Rings
Games: Final Fantasy Tactics, Diablo, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Mass Effect, Warhammer things, Castlevania
Animals: Pangolin, Tiger, Hawk, Wolf, Bear, Crow, Owl
Artistic keywords: Fantasy, Scifi, Tribal, Realistic, Illustrative
My doodle FTP to peruse to get a sense of my aesthetics: http://scosglen.iseenothing.com/Sketches/
Use these to get a sense of my tastes, but I would rather not see like direct L4D fanart just because I like that particular game or something.
Signed up! Hopefully I didn't deadbeat at some point and forgot about it.
Exhaustive breakdown:
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Red and black, black and yellow, anything that looks pretty, I'm not picky.
Character(s): Naota from FLCL, Ender from Ender's Game, Hans Landa from Inglourious Basterds
Movies/TV/Comics: Pink Floyd's "The Wall", The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, The Venture Brothers, The Watchmen, MSPaint Adventures, Dr Mcninja, Octopus Pie, Nedroid
Music: The Protomen
Games: TF2, No More Heroes, Left 4 Dead, Half-Life 2
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Mucha, Sam, Dead Bear, Andy Helms
||Other||
General interests: Drawing, music, occasionally a videogame, skulls
Link Photograph/self portraits: Me, exhausted, which is a fairly natural state
Link Avatar/persona character: Pre-haircut, Post-haircut, Other
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of)
Any of these would be nice. Otherwise, anything I've posted here that isn't fan art is good by my book.
This girl: 1 2
This guy: 1 2
This thing: 1
This guy and this thing: 1 2
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Warm colors
TV: Venture Bros, Shin chan, Superjail, Chowder, Flapjack
Games: Katamari, Zelda, Fable, Fallout
Animals: Wolves, akitas, Dragons, Tigers
Artist: Toulouse Lautrec, Egon Schiele
||Other||
General interests: Games, computers, Organic forms.
Link Avatar/persona character: link
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Anything on my deviant art page that isn't a commission is open for reinterpreting.
edit: oh wait, thats not how it works
Color or Color scheme: I like all the colors! Go crazy wild with it!
Character(s): Only the cool ones
Movies/TV: There are a lot I'll come back to this
Games: I like candy land, that's a good one
Animals: Puppies and other adorable things
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Oh jeez, I like a lot of things. You'll probably fine if it isn't mad into the anime thing. Or too abstract
||Other||
General interests: Drawing! Internet! Walking! Fun Things! Music! Being Cool!
Link Photograph/self portraits: mmm, nope
Link Avatar/persona character: 1 2 3
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): See the above :]
facebook.com/LauraCatherwoodArt
Edit:
I really didn't remember that I entered first time in 2004 only a few months after registering to the forums. 6th time!
Color or Color scheme: Anything; all colours are great as long as they're used thoughtfully.
Things I like: Zelda games, Proffessor Layton games, anything Lovecraft-ian/Cthulhu-ian, Horror/Monster stuff, animals (especially cats), Beartato, old 8bit computer games/characters, punk-rock, weird monsters, stuff, landscapes, I am a bit of a fantasy sucker sometimes (particularly LotR), anything that looks distressed or printed by hand. Pirates are good too. But not that good. They're OK.
I am a fan of design rather than typical 'fan art' but, honestly, I don't mind anything as long as it looks like the artist has at least taken a stab at something vauguely to do with my interests.
More than anything, though, I am just happy to give. 8-)
-Favorites-
Color: Green
Character(s): Richard from LFG, Batman, Impulse (Kid Flash), Domo
Movies/TV: Star Wars, Heroes, Glee.
Games: WoW, Left 4 Dead, TF2.
Animals: Dog.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Jason Chan, concept art
-Other-
General interests: Martial arts, music, film
Link Photograph: http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v644/146/95/637028970/n637028970_1176220_3135.jpg
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Whateva
Character(s): Whateva
Movies/TV: Hmm don't really watch much anymore
Games: I play them
Fanarts of my Av are always good, but don't feel restricted to it if you don't wanna
I'd be more descriptive, but it probably doesn't take too much searching to see what I'm into.
INSTAGRAM
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Cohesive ones? Silly question IMO
Character(s): Rorschach, anything TMNT, street sharks, Marty McFly/Doc Brown, Bill the butcher, Daniel Plainview.
Movies/TV: any batman movie, 300, super troopers, beerfest, back to the future, departed, there will be blood
Games: Zelda, mostly. Most old vintage games too.
Animals: mountain goats, pokemon
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Will post these with links later...
||Other||
General interests: Bicicles, soccer, computers/internet, art/drawing (duh).... science?
Link Photograph/self portraits: (from facebook)
Me wearing a hat.
Me lighting up the dance floor. (Trust me, the ladies love my serpentine moves.)
Me being a little confused.
Me proving I'm a bad person.
Link Avatar/persona character: I don't think I really have one.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of):Anything in my thread, I guess. (I went through it, but didn't really find anything that would merit a redesign.)
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Muted colors, monochromatic and not too neon or saturated
Character(s): Scott Pilgrim, Aang from Avatar, Dexter (the serial killer)
Movies/TV: Dexter, Avatar, The Office, Amadeus
Games: Fallout 3
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Sargent, Sorolla, Mullins, Brachna, Rembrandt, old masters, etc.
||Other||
General interests: Arts and arts related things
Link Photograph/self portraits: It'sa me!
EDIT: Fuck it, I'll give it a shot. (Details in a moment).
EDITx2:
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Not really fussed.
Character(s): The Endless (Sandman), Malcolm Reynolds, Rorschach, V (V for Vendetta), MS Paint Adventures cast. I've just realised several of these are graphic novel characters, but I don't actually read too many of them.
Movies: Donnie Darko, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, V for Vendetta, Spirited Away.
Music: Muse, System of a Down, Foo Fighters, Rise Against, Chopin, Nobuo Uematsu.
Books: Neverwhere, American Gods, The Gentemen Bastards Sequence, Perdido Street Station, Silence of the Lambs, Dracula.
Games: Beyond Good and Evil, pretty much anything by Valve, FFVIII.
Animals: Otter, deer, bear, whale, cat.
Artists: James Jean, Shaun Tan, James Gurney, Jeffrey Smart, James Gleeson, Andy Goldsworthy.
||Other||
General interests: Art/design, fantasy/sci-fi/horror, animals and nature, zombies, ancient history.
Link Photograph/self portraits: Grr, or alternatively, cringe.
Link Avatar/persona character: Just my avatar.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Don't have one. At least, none on paper.
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Any colour as long as it's applied, with love
Character(s): Anything 80's
Movies/TV: Sci fi, 50's/ 60 horror movies
Games: Halo, Mass Effect, JRPG's
I'm pretty sure this is more or less the same list I post every year. WHY DON'T I LIKE NEW THINGS!!!
how's it going you wonderful electric simian you