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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 2010" in the body of the message.
The deadline for signing up will be November 12th. 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 FULL LIFE CONSEQUENCES. Anything I can threaten you with is bullshit and if you suck then you won't finish regardless, so don't sign up if you suck and know you won't finish, that's all.
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. Ok that's a threat, I guess.
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):
2009's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=108361
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/
If anybody has an archive of 2005's submissions somewhere for some reason, it would be greatly appreciated to have it re-uploaded.
And for posterity:
Participants [34]
Agent Coleman
bombardier
brokecracker
cakemikz
Chromatomic
CyberMonkeytron3000
Deelock
desperaterobots
earthwormadam
Flay
flowerhoney
Fugitive
Grenn
Grifter
Ikage
Iruka
Jeckal
jpeg
Kochikens
Lyrium
melting_doll
Mes3
NakedZergling
Nibcrom
no_toast
Prospicience
Red Raevyn
slacktron
Spectre-X
Sublimus
Thane
The_Glad_Hatter
the_monarch23
tynic
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 2010" in the body of the message.
The deadline for signing up will be November 12th. 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 FULL LIFE CONSEQUENCES. Anything I can threaten you with is bullshit and if you suck then you won't finish regardless, so don't sign up if you suck and know you won't finish, that's all.
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. Ok that's a threat, I guess.
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):
2009's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=108361
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/
If anybody has an archive of 2005's submissions somewhere for some reason, it would be greatly appreciated to have it re-uploaded.
And for posterity:
Participants [34]
Agent Coleman
bombardier
brokecracker
cakemikz
Chromatomic
CyberMonkeytron3000
Deelock
desperaterobots
earthwormadam
Flay
flowerhoney
Fugitive
Grenn
Grifter
Ikage
Iruka
Jeckal
jpeg
Kochikens
Lyrium
melting_doll
Mes3
NakedZergling
Nibcrom
no_toast
Prospicience
Red Raevyn
slacktron
Spectre-X
Sublimus
Thane
The_Glad_Hatter
the_monarch23
tynic
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Color or Color scheme: I like blues
Character(s): The Monarch, Dr. Venture, Gabe, Anything Nathan Fillion does.
Movies/TV: The venture Brothers, Castle, CLUE (the motion picture), Star Wars, Top Gear
Games: Dungeons and Dragons, Star Wars: The RPG, Call of Duty (any of them)
Animals: Dogs
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: I'm pretty open to almost any art style
||Other||
General interests: The Dark Tower Series (Stephen King), Guitars, Cars, Wakkawa's women
Link Photograph/self portraits: http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w148/ricer23/weddingday.jpg
Link Avatar/persona character:
~Jeremy Clarkson
signed up!
Color or Color scheme: Purples and autumn colours. Wintery ones too.
Character(s): Myself?? Iron man? my original characters too I guess
Movies/TV: TRON, iron man, madmen, startrek, inglourious basterds, so many webcomics, so many movies
Games: sotc, TRON EVOLUTION, katamari
Animals: Meowkitties, goldfishies, snakes, lizards
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: James Jean, comic books
||Other||
General interests: Videogames, cats, goldfish, tron, purple hair
Link Photograph/self portraits: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs217.snc4/39168_419095534382_515369382_4548885_6632509_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs104.ash2/38554_419095384382_515369382_4548882_5272977_n.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v23/Kochikens/kochibyFletcher-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v23/Kochikens/283-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v23/Kochikens/blughhair.jpg (currently purple with a white streak on that side, but who knows I could get bored of the white streak soon!)
Link Avatar/persona character:
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of):
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs18/f/2007/216/b/d/TAXI__Murder_on_the_Dancefloor_by_fayrenpickpocket.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v23/Kochikens/Taxi/taxi.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v23/Kochikens/Taxi/iianbe20-20Taxi20not20Bamako.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v23/Kochikens/character%20refs/WOLFGANG_s2.jpg
http://tojisuzuhara.deviantart.com/art/Wolfgang-and-Miss-Kitty-133063102
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v23/Kochikens/Smiles/SmilesbyYamiNoMalik-1.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v23/Kochikens/Smiles/kochibday.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v23/Kochikens/Smiles/smiles1.jpg
yay this is a fun thing
Oh and fanarts of my Av are a good thing, and my interests can probably be found by poking around my blog.
INSTAGRAM
Do you usually do sign ups this early though? Sheesh
I'll fill the info list stuff later!
Color or Color scheme:anything works, but i guess dark reds/browns
Character(s):
Movies/TV:community, metalocalypse, ugly americans, bored to death
Games:Mega Man X(original), monkey island
Animals:Red Pandas/Otters
Painting, Artist, or Art genre:Jeff Smith, i guess frank cho?
||Other||
General interests:comics, music(small obsession with josh homme lately),
Link Photograph/self portraits:
Link Avatar/persona character: Smug Red panda to your left
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of):smug red panda to your left?
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: I have no particular favorite
Character(s): calvin and hobbes or spymaster
Movies/TV: Anything Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson
Games: Fallout 3/NV, Mass Effect 1/2, Anything Half-Life, Bioshock
Animals: Anything in a top hat.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Modernism, Minimalist, Print Graphics
||Other||
General interests: Graphic Design, Cooking, Gaming
Link Photograph/self portraits: My face shouldn't be near this project but facebook if it's deemed necessary.
Link Avatar/persona character: Avatar is krtek the mole
I am not ready.
Perhaps next year.
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Don't really have a favorite, it's all about context!
Character(s): Nibcrom, Hot Rod, Luke Skywalker, Optimus Prime, Nibcrom, Robocop
Movies/TV: Star Wars, Robocop, MST3K, Seinfeld, Law & Order, GI Joe, 300
Games: Resident Evil 4, Super Mario Bros., Jackal, Perfect Dark, Advance Wars
Animals: Grossly overweight black and white cats, raccoons
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: The Ninja Turtle artists, Katsuhiro Otomo, Hildebrandt Brothers, Kilian Plunkett
||Other||
General interests: Graphic design, watching movies, Blu-ray, movies that are so bad they're good
Link Photograph/self portraits: Please don't draw me. I'm hideous.
Link Avatar/persona character: Nibcrom: http://www.nibcrom.com
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Nibcrom
Honestly, just make a picture of Nibcrom and I'll be happy.
||Favorites||
Character(s): Scott Pilgrim, Aang from Avatar, Dexter (the serial killer)
Movies/TV: Dexter, Avatar, Amadeus, Bladerunner, Up
Games: Mass Effect 1 and 2, Half Life 2, Fallout 3, Legend of Zelda
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Sargent, Sorolla, Gurney, Mullins, Brachna, Rembrandt, old masters, etc.
Dinosaurs, Mechs and Swords (combination of all three is highly encouraged)
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: browns, reds, fall colors.
Character(s): fry from futurama? I dunno
Movies/TV: futurama, harvey birdman, adventure time, waking life, pulp fiction
Games: jet grind radio/jet set radio future, chrono cross, cs:s/tf2/l4d
Animals: mice, birds?
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: alphonse mucha, william bouguereau, joaquin sorolla, andy helms, tom scholes, jens claessens. I like traditional old school realism a lot, as well as art nouveau and basically anything else, ever
||Other||
General interests: aside from art, I play guitar, drums, and bass, and I also play a lot of frisbee golf.
Link Photograph/self portraits: I'll get back on this one
Link Avatar/persona character: odie from garfield in a wind tunnel
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): this serious dude:
Color or Color scheme: Bright colors!
Character(s): Poison Ivy/Harley Quinn (but they have to be together)
Movies/TV: The Muppet show, Powerpuff girls, Courage the cowardly dog
Games: Wind Waker, Katamari, Metroid
Animals: Cute baby animals
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Kukula, pop-art, bold colors
I love Kinuko too, and Mecha-fetus in general http://visublog.mechafetus.com/archives/author/kinuko
||Other||
General interests: Cute things (also comics, cartoons, and anime)
Link Avatar/persona character:
I never watched lucky star, but I watched all Lucky Channel! Akiraaaa
Color or Color scheme: purple/cool colors
Character(s): zombies, invincible, omni man
Movies/TV: always sunny, office, lost,
Games: street fighter, halo
Animals:
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: MUCHA, JOE LEDBETTER, HUMBERTO RAMOS,
||Other||
General interests: zombies, invincible, art, movies
Link Photograph/self portraits: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/johnjayogden
Link Avatar/persona character:
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): pink fluffies!!!
I like old cars, spaceships, giant dogs named Franklin, and art. Recently I have been on a whimsy kick, huge fan of artists like Jean Baptiste Monge, Paul Bonner, Justin Gerard, Larry McDougal and so forth.
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Depends on what the subject matter is. Go nuts!
Character(s): The Homestuck cast.
Movies/TV: Pans Labyrinth, Donnie Darko, Being John Malkovich, Memento, Firefly, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Futurama, Adventure Time.
Games: Beyond Good and Evil, pretty much everything by Valve, Minecraft, Dragon Age.
Music: Muder by Death, Daft Punk, The Ocean, Muse, Foo Fighters.
Animals: Otter, whale, fox, raccoon, deer - animals and nature in general is really cool.
Artists: Shaun Tan, James Jean, James Gurney, Daniel Dociu, Jeffrey Smart, Andy Goldsworthy, to name a few.
||Other||
General interests: Art/design (duh), games (duh), music, film, literature, nature, adventurin', things that are good or strange or interesting.
Link Photograph/self portraits: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3
Avatar: Avatar is a raccoon who fills one or more of the following criteria: ghost, detective, explorer.
Massive kudos to Campion, Fletcher, Ikage, Iruka, Tam, M3nace, Nanaki for drawing these.
There are these things too.
I'll probably edit in some favorites later...
[EDIT] Now is later...
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: CMYK (emphasis on C). But in terms of illustration, whatever works for the piece.
Character(s): Ninja turtles are an old standby...
Movies/TV: BSG! Back to the future. Venture Bros...uhh my gf is making me watch dexter (don't draw dexter)
Games: Fallout 3/New Vegas, and old retro nintendo, love that shit.
Animals: Horns and tusks.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Anything that is kind of dark fantasy or sci-fi. Just make it cool (and not lame [duh]).
||Other||
General interests: intergalactic travel...slaying dragons and/or other beasts
Link Photograph/self portraits: Link Link
Link Avatar/persona character: Link
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): uhhh. I'll do this later.
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Definately green, on the bold bright scale.
Character(s): Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Ellis from L4D2, Musician types.
Movies/TV: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, I'm Not There(bob dylan thing) / Any music related movie, Vampires of the non sparkly type movies, and Lost.
Games: Fable3, Rock band series, GH series and Singstar series.
Animals: any.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: I try to paint realistically, but i like anything really.
Bands im listening to: Muse, 30 seconds to mars, The Killers/Brandon Flowers, and Paramore
||Other||
General interests:
Link Photograph/self portraits: Try looking in my facebook. theres a while bunch there.
Link Avatar/persona character: dont have one, unless someone comes up with one. of a jeckal hyde type, i mean i've tried but it does come out right.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Man this ones hard. If you look at my profile and click the xbox link theres all the games i play, so anything from there. Any rock musician.
DeviantArt Old Homepage
Just draw me any of these guys.
Or a hot monster girl, either way I'm happy.
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Blue, Brown
Character(s): Wall-E
Movies/TV: Sons of Anarchy, Weeds, The Office, True Blood, Entourage, The Walking Dead.
Games: Resident Evil, Gears Of War, Sonic
Animals: Dogs, Koalas
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Michelangelo. I'm really into tattoo art and good looking girls (brunettes).
||Other||
General interests: I've played guitar and bass for a really long time.
I remember when I did things?
I'll do a thing!
Edit for details...
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Color or Color scheme: Electric blue/ green/ red
Character(s): Master chief (Halo), Any 80's /early 90's cartoon cartoons (Transformers, Thundercats, Masters of the Universe etc)
Movies/TV: 50/ 60's sci fi
Games: Halos, Mass Effects, Batmans
Animals: Dinosaurs (no feathers on my T-Rex please)
Anything really would make me happy!
Excellent. I knew you wouldn't disappoint. Was going to message you on XBL but apparently I need to subscribe again in order to do that!
Current Games I Own: http://sirchrissypoo.tadalist.com/lists/1763135/public
Things I'm Interested In: http://sirchrissypoo.tadalist.com/lists/1763272/public
Movies/TV: Adventure Time, Venture Brothers, Most GAINAX productions, Soul Eater, Batman the Animated Series, The Super Mario Brothers Movie.
Games: Team Fortress 2, Minecraft,
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Toshiaki "Shinikiro" Mori, anything with bold line work, striking colors, or good use of simple forms, art nouveau.
||Other||
Link Avatar/persona character: Here
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart): I guess either this, this, or this?
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Doesn't really matter
Character(s): Green Lantern, Sandman (Morpheus), Captain Marvel (Marvel), Grifter (Wildstorm)
Movies/TV: Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, Psych, Lost, Dexter, Metalocalypse, Venture Brothers,
Games: Mafia 2, Modern Warfare 2, Bayonetta, Red Dead Redemption, Guitar Hero
Animals: cat, dolphin, ringtail lemur
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Alex Ross, Alexander Perkins, Michael Turner, Jok, Alex Toth
||Other||
General interests: Sailing, Squash, computers, graphic design
Link Photograph/self portraits:
Link Avatar/persona character:
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of):
I'll try to update with more information when I have a chance.
I love this time of year!
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Muted colors, pastels, black and white
Character(s): Zelda, Link, Ness and or Jeff (Earthbound), Scott Pilgrim
Movies/TV:blah whatever...
Games: Zelda LTTP, Earthbound, Metroid
Animals:My Dogs (Lhasapoo, Yorkie)
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Cartoons, Pixel art, illustration
||Other||
General interests: reading (Bukowski, Vonnegut, Chabon), vidja games, cartoons/comics, Tom Waits
A lot of stuff can be found on my webcomic blog, just click the sig on the right hand side. I would not mind a re-imagining of my characters if that is your thing, but go crazy, have fun and I hope you don't hate me and my choices.
I sent an email, but i skipped the part about the correct msg subject, so i'll resend it when i'm back home. I hope i have enough posts and such to join.
In the meantime:
||Favorites||
Character(s):
Comics: Scott Pilgrim, Cul de Sac, Calvin & Hobbes,
Books: Sherlock Holmes, Discworld
Music: Eels, The Beatles, Bob Dylan
Games: Monkey Island,
Animals: The Common Kingfisher is my scouting totem.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Modigilani, Singer Sargent, Jugendstil,
||Other||
General interests: Board games, D&D Dark Sun, Drawing
Link Photograph/self portraits: i'll upload one soon.
Link Avatar/persona character: i was gonna redesign my avatar soon.
i'll edit and tweak it a bit more before the deadline.
DeviantArt Old Homepage
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Purples and Greens! Preferably soft colors
Character(s): Thor! Black Cat! All the Scott Pilgrim characters!
Movies/TV: Venture Bros., Rugrats, PowerPuff Girls
Games: Team Fortress 2 (the Engineer and the Heavy are my faavorite!), the Fable series
Aminals: Crocodiles! Pretty birds!
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Mary Blair, Lou Romano, Stephen Silver, Scott Campbell... and Disney or Pixar (or both) movies
||Other||
General interests: Rice, food, cookies, delicious things, vikings
Link Photograph/self portraits: kekeke
Link Avatar/persona character: pretty much the same
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): these little things!
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Blue, White, Green...Nature colours I suppose
Character(s): Something original maybe?
Movies/TV: Action Movies / Cartoons / Adventure
Games: Sports / Action
Animals: Any and All (But if I HAVE to choose: Bison, Eagles, Wolverines, Moose, Wolves, Sasquatch (Basically Woodland/Prairie but again I'd be happy with anything))
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Honestly, whatever for this one. Whoever does this, I want it to be from them, not them trying to do someone else.
||Other||
General interests: Drawing, Working, Writing, Beer Drinking, Chicken Wing and Nacho Eating, Capital Letters Apparently
Link Photograph/self portraits: Newest of the new.
Link Avatar/persona character: It's better if I include the story to it as well.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Anyone from my comics I guess? Maybe the Snowmen I've been doing recently?
PSH TOO VAGUE
(;
Make whatever you want if you get me, but I'll provide the below because it's easier to ignore it than conjure it from thin air.
||Favorites||
Games: racing simulators, WoW, old Final Fantasy, Global Agenda
Animals: are great
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Boxer Hockey, Abominable Charles Christopher, Shanshui painting
||Other||
General interests: Motorcycles, Bicycles (wheelie time!), Sailing, Mandarin Chinese
Link Very Serious Photograph/self portraits: 1 2 3
Here is a stuffs wot I like:
Cats, Cheese, Ghosts, Kooky monsters, 8-bit retro-Nintendo, HP Lovecraft, Hellboy, Graphic Design, Snow scenes, Landscapes, Cityscapes, D&D, Sports, Wool, Angry Birds, Castles, High School Massacres, Magic, and Anthropomorphic Foodstuffs.
My Portfolio Site