@belruel
@bombardier
@chromatomic
@cybermonkeytron3000
@earthwormadam
@esiotrot
@fugitive
@iruka *WIP
@jeckalhyde
@lyrium
@miscellaneousinsanity
@m2tm
@m3nace
@melting_doll
@mully
@nakedzergling
@prospicience
@siegfried
@skyturtle
@sublimus
@tam
@tapeslinger
@the_monarch23
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 [ [email protected] ] with your forum username in the subject line and "Artist's Corner Secret Santa 2013" in the body of the message.The deadline for signing up will be November 15th. 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 DeadlineAll drawings must be emailed to [ [email protected] ] by December 23rd. 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 :^:
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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):
2012's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/169178/ac-secret-santa-2012-revealed-26-29-submitted-deadline-extended-3-days/p1
2011's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/151957/ac-secret-santa-discussion-2011-posted-22-24/p1
2010's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/133584/ac-secret-santa-2010-reveal-3434/p1
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:
Iruka
Fugitive
Esiotrot
Cybermonkeytron3000
nakedzergling
m3nace
M2tM
tapeslinger
mully
skyturtle
melting_doll
Lyrium
earthwormadam
the_monarch23
Chromatomic
Sublimus
Siegfried
bombardier
Avraham
Prospicience
Belruel
Tam
miscellaneousinsanity
JeckalHyde
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Color or Color scheme: Warm Colors
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Lautrec, Egon Schiele. Into lots of webcomics lately, Ant comic and Vattu especially.
||Other||
Link Photograph/self portraits: I guess here's my face.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): DRAWINGS OF ME Anything on my tumblr or website are perfectly up for grabs or reinterpreting.
And more links to my avatar face:
http://iruka.iseenothing.com/doodlesiruka.jpg
http://iruka.iseenothing.com/irukafloatshappy.jpg
http://iruka.iseenothing.com/irukacutestandcolor.jpg
Color or Color scheme: Neon stuff- blues and pinks
Movies/TV: 80-90's cartoons, Starship Troopers, Dredd, Robocop, Avengers, Breaking Bad, giant things punching other giant things in their face
Games: Halo, Darksiders
A cybernetic monkey?
Just go cray cray!!!
I enjoy cooler color schemes.
Im into Zombies, Comics (invincible, chew, wolverine, hulk, walking dead) Starcraft, Street Fighter, Hellboy,
Artists: Mucha, Ryan Ottley, Joe Mad, Joe Ledbetter, rob guillory, Humberto Ramos, Francisco Herrera, Skottie Young....
My guilty Pleasure is seeing other people draw My Killer Pink Fluffies!
I also love designer toy stuff...Kid Robot
maybe for this year I will finish off all the art gifts I still owe people.
For real though, this year I'm committing myself!
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Color or Color scheme: trippy shit
Movies/TV: Wes Anderson
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Schiele, Leyendecker, Alexandre "Zedig" Diboine, Guy Davis
||Other||
General interests: comics, aviation, retro futurism
Original Characters (of whom I wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): my frog avatar, this stuff
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Color or Color scheme: Blue and Black
Character(s): Dragons!
Movies/TV: Meh
Games: League of Legends
Animals: Dragons!
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Your favorite art style is fine.
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General interests: Dragons!
Link Photograph/self portraits:
Link Avatar/persona character:
(the blue guy) http://m2tm.net/art/walk_color_text_web.jpg
(by another artist) http://d.facdn.net/art/soulscape/1363322139.soulscape_dervacorweb.jpg
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of):
This random dude:
http://d.facdn.net/art/dervacor/1383299200.dervacor_3_4_batdragon_wip.jpg
Drawing a picture of my dragon is a surefire way into my heart forever. I'm pretty easy to please.
Also, holy shit, hi everyone! Iruka, it took looking at your avatar to remember you crazy dino costume lady.
Fugitive, Tynic. *high fives*
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Color or Color scheme: I don't have an absolute favorite... I like pretty things! every color has the potential to be pretty in context.
Character(s): pretty much anyone from any of the stuff I like, I don't usually have absolutes.
Movies/TV: Venture Brothers, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, pretty much everything Marvel, and ... Fringe!
Games: Don't Starve-- I play the most as Wilson; Sword & #Sworcery; TF2 (pyro...)
Books/comics: Sandman! Transmetropolitan, Hellboy, Batman and, uh, Elfquest.
Animals: the virginia opossum is my favorite animal! you have to admit, they are badass.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: I am really into pretty much any form of comics, and I generally like most vintage/retro art-isms of the 20th century from Art Nouveau forward.
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General interests: knitting, writing, sculpting, boardgames-- we play a ton of Arkham Horror and I love Lovecraftian things.
Link Photograph/self portraits/Avatar/persona character: right now my avatar is me dressed up as Death from Sandman. I use this image on most of my "public" accounts so that they're uniform and "linked"! if you do anything with that your artwork might be my twitter/fb/etc avatar for a while.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): if you read any of my writing over in the Writer's Block and one of my characters inspires you to draw, go nuts!
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
Color or Color scheme: purple, green, i also really like yellowy-lime-green lately for some reason. oh, and yellow.
Character(s): RON SWANSON.
Movies/TV: flcl, breaking bad, game of thrones, walking dead, nichijou, parks & rec
Games: fallout 3 & nv are pretty much my favourite anythings ever.
Animals: bunnies
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: thomas scholes, patrick brown, noah bradley
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General interests: @bombardier, resume writing, helping folks with jobs, excel .. uhhhh.
Link Photograph/self portraits: my avatar should suffice, though my hair is short in the back now. so basically just get rid of the bun in the back and make it flippy instead.
Link Avatar/persona character: purple hair, reservoir dogs suit. thaz me. pale as heck, blue eyed, big hips.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): chelsea "dave" davis: 26 y/o 5'7" 170ish, bleached out hair with faded cyan dye - short, with bangs, pulled into scruffy pigtails. tye-dye tank top under a maroon zip-up hoodie with pants that are tight in the thigh and loose in the leg, scuffed up / worn out. green chucks. she smokes, always looks tired, has messy eyeliner. probably has a small owl around her somewhere.
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Color or Color scheme: monochromatic schemes, cool or desaturated colors
Character(s): Lord Scourge, Bioshock Big Daddy and Big Sister, Deadpool
Movies/TV: Star Wars, Star Trek, Pacific Rim, Incredibles, Spirited Away
Games: Star Wars: the Old Republic (MMO not kotor), Bioshock (all of them), World of Warcraft
Animals: Dogs, Turtles
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Claire Hummel, Brian Kesinger, Luke Mancini, Nei Ruffino
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General interests: AI Programming, Legos, Arduino, Origami
I like surprises for X-mas! If I must give hints, I always like art of my PA persona, earthwormadam. Which isnt my current avatar, but I guess Pelicans are pretty cool creatures as well. I also would love fanart of my project that I'm working on in the NaCoWrMo thread!! (I'll try to post some art in there soon that isn't chicken scratch, so that people may have some idea of what the fuck it is about.
Cheers buccaneers
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Color or Color scheme: I am a fan of all the blues.
Character(s): I love all the characters from The Venture Brothers, The Mario Bros, the Legend of Zelda, basically all of Nintendo's lineup
Movies/TV: Nightmare Before Christmas, Pacific Rim
Games: All things Nintendo, GTAV
Animals: My dog, Duke: http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w148/ricer23/179911_593362916067_1478116125_n.jpg
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Mike Krahulik, JC Leyendecker, Scott Kurtz... like 99% of the people on theis forum!
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General interests: Muscle cars, Four-Door Imports, guitars, art
Link Photograph/self portraits: http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w148/ricer23/156638_526244646617_4285992_n.jpg
Link Avatar/persona character: http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w148/ricer23/531479_627648607267_2105646555_n.jpg
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Nope
Can't wait to see this year's stuff!
~Jeremy Clarkson
Use whatever you want for inspiration but go ahead and surprise me.
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Character(s): Calvin & Hobbes, TF2 Engineer, Ron Swanson (Mully, there can only be one!)
Movies/TV: Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, American Horror Story, Breaking Bad
Games: Mass Effect, Bioshock Infinite, Borderlands, Last of Us,
Animals: The Mole (See figure 1. avatar)
||Other||
General interests: Photography, Dry Humor, Design, Bacon
Link Avatar/persona character: Krtek the Mole
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Color or Color scheme: Whatever works for the piece, really. Moody is good. But bright works too. idk
Character(s): demons monsters Daniel dey lewis?
Movies/TV: the watchmen, tmnt, back to the future, lotr
Games: zelda
Animals: mtn goats are friggn sweet. especiall the ibex.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: concept art stuff. but cartoon adventure time stuff is cool too.
||Other||
General interests: hockey (caps fan) my biycle robots?
Link Photograph/self portraits: uuh jeeze, I don't think I have one ill find one
Link Avatar/persona character: don't really have one. but take a look at what people have made my in the last threads, and merge them haha
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): anything on my site (in my sig)
sorry for this shitty post, just draw something christmas haha
Movies/TV: Frasier, Game of Thrones
Animals: DUCKS
General interests: Comics, Games, Music (Punk, Hip-hop)
I'll probably edit it with more when I can think of more stuff.
Movies/TV: Star Wars, Harry Potter
Games: Mario, Zelda
Animals: Cats
General interests: Webcomics
Photograph/self portraits: image image
Original Characters: image
*fist bamp*
Good to see Bombsy too!
Holy shit! Long time no see!
My Portfolio Site
Color or Color scheme: dark gothy misery
Character(s): none specific, Alia Atreides is pretty cool, I find demonology interesting if you can call those characters.
Movies/TV: David Lynch, lots of comedy,
Games: I just play MMOs these days, dulls the mind sufficiently.
Animals: Crows, I fucking love crows, all of the Corvus family is cool with me, Rooks, Jackdaws, Ravens. Love 'em
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Dulac, Klimt, Waterhouse, Hale, love the pre-raphaelite drama with a negative and bleak edge to it.
||Other||
General interests: Music, a lot of Doom/Sludge metal, Batcave/trad goth oh and Radiohead, Radiohead are my most beloved of all the musics. Also pretty much anything on 4AD during the 80s-90s.
Link Photograph/self portraits: me playing in my punk band 'Hate Fuck' me being totally 'gangster'
Link Avatar/persona character: I have none
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): I have none
Color or Color scheme: Purple, Blue, Teal, Pink
Character(s): Link, Thor, Kid Loki, Garrus Vakarian
Movies/TV: Gravity Falls, Sherlock, PowerPuff Girls, Avatar: TLA, any Studio Ghibli
Games: All of the Zelda games and Mass Effect.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Mary Blair, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Craig McCracken
||Other||
General interests: I like roller derby, vikings, and comics.
Link Photograph/self portraits/Avatar/persona character: Ummm I have long-ish dark brown hair and glasses and I really like vikings.
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Color or Color scheme:
Character(s): Granny Weatherwax, Sam Vimes, Rincewind, Iago (from Othello), Tiffany Aching, Monkey D. Luffy, Hashirama Senju, Kiki (of Kiki's Delivery Service) and actually, pretty much any Ghibli character
Movies/TV: Ghost in the Shell, FLCL, Gravity Falls, Hey Arnold, Gravity, anything Ghibli
Games: Skyrim, Morrowind
Animals: Pangolin
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Zdzisław Beksiński, Leyendecker, Theo Prins, Van Gogh, Rodin
||Other||
General interests: most things, science, music
Link Photograph/self portraits: http://i39.tinypic.com/aze3o4.jpg
Link Avatar/persona character: Pocoyo
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): a giant crab with a mushroom house on it
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Color or Color scheme: Black, White and Metallics
Character(s): Dr Jeckal And Mr Hyde
Movies/TV:
Games:
Animals: Cats small and big
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Geometric abstractions
||Other||
General interests: Hand-drawn type, Illusions
Link Photograph/self portraits:
Link Avatar/persona character:
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of):
In lieu I'll volunteer to draw for anyone who gets snuffed by their santa.
Everyone should have their Names! If you haven't gotten a name, please notify me!
@miscellaneousinsanity
@bombardier
@Belruel
@Prospicience
Don't forget to give your santee a list of interests so that they can give you excellent gifts!
Animals: I love animals! Bugs (especially beetles), underwater creatures, funny mammals, neat birds, weird looking imaginary creatures, all delight me very much
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General interests: I'm a biology nerd, so I like anatomy and all manner of organisms. But I also love really crazy imaginative things with made up beasts and monsters and weird stuff, or dreamy things or what have you.
Link Photograph/self portraits: boom http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f399/lyrium/LauraCatherwoodPhoto.jpg
Link Avatar/persona character: Thane drew this avatar, and it is a corgi drinking wine while driving a giant mechanical beetle, and it is perfect.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Not really; I mostly draw naked people and barfing monsters
Please make something that you will enjoy making, first and foremost!
facebook.com/LauraCatherwoodArt
I'll volunteer as a replacement Santa too!
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Color or Color scheme: Earthly
Character(s): Big Boss, Rigby, Lumpy Space Princess, Ron Swanson, Iroh, Toph
Movies/TV: Avatar (Korra/TLA), Parks and Recreation, Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Regular Show, Adventure Time
Games: Battlefield, SimCity, Last of Us, The Stanley Parable
Animals: birds!
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: sketchbook pages, pen and ink, digital illustration
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General interests: Flying! Moderating! Computers! Outdoors! Mully!
Link Avatar/persona character: Moustachioed Pilot Guy
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Color or Color scheme: Dark/forest green is my favorite color, I like gem-tones, deep colors both warm and cool
Character(s): Belruel (from the PA comic), Fenris (from Dragon Age 2), Severus Snape, Spock
Movies/TV: Pacific Rim, Avengers, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Star Trek
Games: mass effect, dragon age 1&2, Fallout 3 & new vegas
Animals: Cats, otters
Painting, Artist, or Art genre:
Marko Djurdjevic, Nicolas Bouvier, Thomas Scholes. I like comic 'style' art, cartoonish styles, speed-painty scenes, a lot of things really. Draw what feels good.
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General interests: I read a lot, tabletop gaming, I like big fighting robots, and women in non-sexualized badass armor/clothing being awesome
Link Photograph/self portraits: 1, 2 and ChicoBlue drew me once. I am pale with long brown hair that is currently down to about my hips. Greenish/hazel eyes, 5'11.
Link Avatar/persona character: My avatar/forum persona is just a bee. Can be a genderless bee person, a lady bee person, a standard bee, whichever.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): There's my pathfinder rogue, Beln. (real/birth name Jicorah Grey)
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Color or Color scheme: Any? All? I trust ya.
Character(s): The Raven King
Movies/TV: Walking Dead, Adventure time
Games: Kentucky Route 0, Bastion, DOTA
Animals: Ravens and Bats, but all animals are cool man.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Oliver Jeffers, Kate Baylay,
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General interests: Photography, typography, hiking, sculpting
Link Photograph/self portraits: google.com/+LeeStonehouse
Link Avatar/persona character: See avatar - raven
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): …see above ravens.
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Color or Color scheme: blue's my favorite color but art however you want
Character(s): pretty much anyone from Metal Gear Solid or Mobile Suit Gundam (the UC ones)
Movies/TV: Miyazaki movies, Pacific Rim, Elementary, Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Games: Metal Gear Solid, The Last of Us, Persona, Gitaroo Man, Journey, Shadow of the Colossus/Ico, Katamari Damacy
Animals: sharks, dogs, birds, bears
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Sachin Teng, Kali Ciesemier, Sam Bosma, Kim Jung Gi, Leyendecker, N.C. Wyeth, Giorgio de Chirico, Odilon Redon
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General interests: comics, science fiction/technology, music, tattoos, geography/travel, history, mythology, Haruki Murakami books
Link Photograph/self portraits: see here, here, here (current hair)
Link Avatar/persona character: my persona character avatar is aigis! but my forum persona is basically just me, but doodlier. as long as you include glasses and anime hair if you draw me, you're good
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): i have some characters in a comic i guess
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