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AC Secret Santas 2014! [24/24 POSTED]
Secret Santa
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@Arden Canelo
@bombardier
@ChicoBlue
@CyberMonkeytron3000
@Esiotrot
@Flay
@Fugitive
@Grifter
@Iruka
@lyrium
@m3nace
@melting_doll
@mully
@NakedZergling
@NibCrom
@no_toast
@Prospicience
@SeveredHead
@Sublimus
@Tam
@tapeslinger
@the_monarch23
@The_Rat
@tynic
Yes, it is that time of year again. This is the 12th annual AC Secret Santa exchange! Lurkers, old-timers, newbies, EVERYBODY: sign the fuck up! Draw some cool shit for someone else, and get something awesome in return! Nobody cares if you suck at drawing, but everybody cares if they get stiffed, so don't be a holiday jerk!
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 2014" 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?
Anybody! If you're a forumer, and you can draw, then you should be signing up for this! Lurkers are encouraged to participate as well, as long as you have some kind of tangible post history that extends more than a few months. Previous deadbeats are banned from participating.
Submitting Complete Work and Submission Deadline
All 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. I'm not sure if DMAC will personally end anyone who does not comply, as previous year's posts have stipulated, but I do guarantee he can furrow a mean brow.
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):
2013's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/184392/ac-secret-santa-2013-submissions-posted-100/p1
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 [24]:
@bombardier
@mully
@NakedZergling
@Fugitive
@tapeslinger
@m3nace
@Grifter
@Esiotrot
@The_Rat
@Iruka
@Prospicience
@ChicoBlue
@tynic
@melting_doll
@Arden Canelo
@lyrium
@Flay
@Tam
@CyberMonkeytron3000
@no_toast
@the_monarch23
@Sublimus
@NibCrom
@SeveredHead
@Arden Canelo
@bombardier
@ChicoBlue
@CyberMonkeytron3000
@Esiotrot
@Flay
@Fugitive
@Grifter
@Iruka
@lyrium
@m3nace
@melting_doll
@mully
@NakedZergling
@NibCrom
@no_toast
@Prospicience
@SeveredHead
@Sublimus
@Tam
@tapeslinger
@the_monarch23
@The_Rat
@tynic
Yes, it is that time of year again. This is the 12th annual AC Secret Santa exchange! Lurkers, old-timers, newbies, EVERYBODY: sign the fuck up! Draw some cool shit for someone else, and get something awesome in return! Nobody cares if you suck at drawing, but everybody cares if they get stiffed, so don't be a holiday jerk!
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 2014" 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?
Anybody! If you're a forumer, and you can draw, then you should be signing up for this! Lurkers are encouraged to participate as well, as long as you have some kind of tangible post history that extends more than a few months. Previous deadbeats are banned from participating.
Submitting Complete Work and Submission Deadline
All 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. I'm not sure if DMAC will personally end anyone who does not comply, as previous year's posts have stipulated, but I do guarantee he can furrow a mean brow.
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):
2013's thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/184392/ac-secret-santa-2013-submissions-posted-100/p1
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 [24]:
@bombardier
@mully
@NakedZergling
@Fugitive
@tapeslinger
@m3nace
@Grifter
@Esiotrot
@The_Rat
@Iruka
@Prospicience
@ChicoBlue
@tynic
@melting_doll
@Arden Canelo
@lyrium
@Flay
@Tam
@CyberMonkeytron3000
@no_toast
@the_monarch23
@Sublimus
@NibCrom
@SeveredHead
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Posts
Character(s): Killer pink fluffies, zombies, Chew, wolverine, hulk, invincible, omniman
Games:
Animals: tiger, tazmanian devil, ferret, tiger bears
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: joe ledbetter, mucha, humberto ramos, joe mad, low brow art, street art,
Link Avatar/persona character: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v702/rabidwombat/KPFfinalLOGO_zps7adb5251.jpg
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Oranges and blacks/purples and greens (Halloween/EVA Unit 01 colors, basically)
Character(s): Samus
Movies/TV: Pacific Rim, Over the Garden Wall, Archer, Star Wars
Games: Half-Life, Portal, XCOM, Mass Effect, TF2
Animals: Mantises, snakes, squids, lizards
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: J.C. Leyendecker, Yoh Yoshinari, Zdzisław Beksiński
||Other||
General interests: Indoor climbing, sci-fi and science in general, spookyshit like SCP, spookyshit in general, I just really like Halloween
Link Avatar/persona character: I'm pretty much just a dude. Here are some pictures from the past few years to get a general idea of my pale nasty face [1][2][3]
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): I've been doodling around with this guy for a bit [1][2][3]
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
Color or Color scheme: I like green quite a bit
Character(s):Green Lantern, Grifter, Felix the Cat, Rocket Raccoon
Movies/TV: Farscape, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, Adventure Time, Horns, What If, Guardians of the Universe
Games: Bioshock Infinite, Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty
Animals: Dogs (I own a brown Labrador Retriever), unicorns, red pandas, praying mantis
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Neal Adams, Michael Turner, Jim Lee, Vincent Van Gogh, Lora Zombie, Bruce Stuart, Jonah Jones, Adam Hughes,Geof Darrow
||Other||
General interests: bicycles, comic books, board games, computers
Link Photograph/self portraits: http://www.nonsuchhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Grif_Photo.jpg
Link Avatar/persona character: http://www.nonsuchhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Grif_S_O.jpg
||Favorites||
Movies/TV: The 400 Blows (and French New Wave cinema in general), bad 80s sci fi (Life Force, Black Hole, David Lynch's Dune)
Art genre: painted comics, grand paintings of kings and emperors
Artists: Syd Mead, Kilian Eng
||Other||
General interests: sci fi, cinema, comics
Link Photograph/self portraits:
Link Avatar/persona character: the pilot frog in my AV
||Favorites||
Character(s): (in parentheses )
Movies/TV: Venture Brothers (the Monarch & Dr Mrs), Battlestar Galactica (Starbuck!), Firefly, pretty much everything Marvel, and recently fell back in love with the original trilogy Star Wars movies, it's p ridic. (Han & Leia)
Games: Don't Starve (Wilson) Sword & #Sworcery; TF2 (pyro)
Books/comics: SAGA!! Sandman! Transmetropolitan, Hellboy, and, uh, Elfquest.
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.
||Other||
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
My Portfolio Site
will post later with stuff and nonsense
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: I love every colour. From ultramarine to cerulean to cyan and everything in between.
Character(s): Arya Stark, Launcelot Gobbo, Tynic, Discworld Death, Martin Silenus
Games: Planescape Torment, Tetris, Harvest Moon
Animals: Fennec Foxes, Red Foxes, Arctic Foxes, and Kochikens.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Dave McKean, Mike Mignola, Brittney Lee, Leyendecker, Sergey Kolesov
||Other||
General interests: Cyberpunk, Asimov, cheesecake, Neil Gaiman, long walks, Pringles
Link Photograph/self portraits: There are a handful of little pictures of me by me and on my tumblr that is NSFW http://blueberrytouches.tumblr.com/page/5
Color or Color scheme: Black, dark gothy misery.
Movies/TV: Nightmare Castle - I enjoy the aesthetics of this film
Games: I just play MMOs like a big stupid nerd these days, but I love Planescape, Ico, Koudelka, Silent Hill (1+2), Amnesia, Baldur's gate,
Animals: Crows, mother fucking crows, of all kinds, Rooks, Jackdaws, whatever, bloody loves em, oh and snakes too, I do enjoy a good snake, I also really love Panthers/Black Jaguars
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Phil Hale, James Jean, J.W Waterhouse, João Ruas, Brom, Palencar, Norman Rockwell, Bosch, Millais (the whole of the PRB really)
||Other||
General interests: Sludge Metal, Trad Goth, Crows, Pagan Ritualism, Symbolism, Strange Traditions, Exploring Crypts, Taxidermy, Crows, Witchcraft, forgotten religions, anything arcane, and oh yeah, Crows.
Link Photograph/self portraits: no-one wants to see that
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Blue and Red and Black and Grey
Character(s): Smash Brothers, Blues Brothers (there is only one movie),
Movies/TV: Blues Brothers (again) JB KG
Games: Cave Story, Spelunky, Dungeons of Dredmor, Animal Crossing
Animals: Generally cute, I ain't picky.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Mucha. Mignola. I'll have you know I failed art history, twice.
||Other||
General interests: Video Games, Dragons, Hellboy, the occult
Link Photograph/self portraits: Nope.
Link Avatar/persona character: It is cat face. It is always cat face.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Maybe that dragon arm girl I've drawn sometimes? Just an attractive woman with a dragon's neck and head for one of her arms would be cool to see done by someone else.
||Favorites||
Books and Comics: Neuromancer, House of Leaves, Catch 22, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Saga
Movies/TV: Adventure Time, Black Mirror, Pan's Labyrinth
Games: Journey, Dark Souls, Beyond Good and Evil
Animals: Chameleon, Whale, Elephant, Octopus, Racoons
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Leyendecker, Shaun Tan, James Gurney, Olly Moss
||Other||
General Interests: Cyberpunk and the future, animation, graphic design, science, history
Original Characters: The half-ghost raccoon detective in my avatar. Here are some old images.
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Any? All? I trust ya. I do tend to lean towards muted colors, but I'm good with whatevs.
Character(s): The Raven King
Movies/TV: Adventure time, Always Sunny, Walking Dead,
Games: transistor, Wolf Among Us, DOTA,
Animals: Ravens and Bats, but all animals are cool man.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Jeremy Fish, Oliver Jeffers, Kate Baylay, Enki Bilal
||Other||
General interests: Photography, typography, hiking, sculpting, hip hop
Link Photograph/self portraits: Not me but here's my flickr, there's some photos of me somewhere in there. Might also show the kinda stuff I like.
Link Avatar/persona character: See avatar - raven
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): …see above ravens.
My Portfolio Site
That's chump talk.
It doesn't feel like Xmas without doing this!
||Favorites||
Character(s): Wolverine, Judge Dredd, anything drawn by Joe Mad
Movies/TV: Starship Troopers, Robocop, WWE(F), any animation from the 80's, MST3000
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): I am a Cybernetic Monkey- do with it as you wish
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Orange, Teal, Pastel
Character(s): Iron man, X-men, Tuukka-nalle
Movies/TV: Arrow, Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, stupid food shows, too much youtube
Animals: Ducks, Squirrels, Foxes
||Other||
General interests: eating and drinking delicious things, gymming those delicious things and art stuff too (Link!)
Link Avatar/persona character: see avatar
Alright, here we go.
Don't draw something overly holiday themed. Draw something original (not a big fan of fanart). I'm into skulls and demons and stuff. Think Dungeons and Dragons, or Magic. Robutts are cool too. I don't really have a character, but Fug and Iruka drew a version of me which I think is pretty good. Here and Here.
Don't stress. Have fun!
Color or Color scheme: Blue
Character(s): Paranatural: Max, Boss Leader, Ed, Isabel, Johnny
Movies/TV: Archer, Bob's Burgers
Games: pff dorknerds (Skyrim)
Animals: Pangolin, Fossa
||Other||
Listen motherfucker, just like, do a thing
make a thing that makes you happy to make it
then give me it
give me your happiness
~Jeremy Clarkson
Burke: That's the plan. You have my word on it.
Ripley: All right, I'm in.
Color or Color scheme: Purple, blue, green
Character(s): Toon Link, Scout (TF2), Mabel Pines, Thor
Games: Legend of Zelda, Team Fortress 2
Animals: DOGS (particularly shepherds/border collies), bears
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: I really love bold line work. Jen Wang, Coleman Engle, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Maris Wicks, Cliff Chiang, and Brianne Drouhard are some of my favorite artists.
||Other||
General interests: Vikings, roller derby, comics
I'm lazy and just filled out the stuff I wanted to fill out. DEALWITHIT
Color or Color scheme: I'm Blue, Daba-Dee Daba-Die
Character(s): Sherlock (Cumberbatch), The Monarch, Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, Anyone from Adventure Time
Movies/TV: Interstellar, Venture Bros., Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor, Iron Man, yada-yada.
Games: GTAV, Minecraft, Borderlands, Forza (all of them)
Animals: Dogs
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: J.C. Leyendecker, Mike Krahulik... there are too many more to list.
||Other||
General interests: Classic Cars (Mine), Vidya Games and Fine/Graphic/Comic/Concept Art
Link Photograph/self portraits: No one wants to see that.
Link Avatar/persona character: Surprise me.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): none currently
~Jeremy Clarkson
Color or Color scheme: The red, white, and blue of the Norwegian flag
Character(s): Optimus Prime, Hot Rod, Luke Skywalker, Alex Murphy
Movies/TV: Star Wars, Blade Runner, GI Joe, TMNT, Buckaroo Banzai
Games: Resident Evil 4, Super Mario Bros, Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance 2
Animals: Grossly overweight cats, raccoons
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Katsuhiro Otomo, Killian Plinkett, Geoff Darrow
||Other||
General interests: Cars
Link Photograph/self portraits: I kinda look like Tom Green except I'm bald
Link Avatar/persona character: Nibcrom
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Nibcrom
Also, if you haven't filled in interests or background info then please take a minute to do so to help out your secret santa!
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
@bombardier
@mully
@NakedZergling
@Fugitive
@The_Rat
@tynic
@lyrium
To fill out your interests if you you'd like to give your santa some help.
I can squeeze you in. I gave somebody the same person as last year so I can slide you in between them and everything will work out!
Character(s): Ocelot, Gruncle (Stan) Pines, Rigby, Lumpy Space Princess, Amethyst
Movies/TV: Pixar, HTTYD, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, Regular Show, Adventure Time, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Parks and Recreation, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, The Walking Dead, Arrested Development, Cosmos, Interstellar
Games: Battlefield, TF2, Dark Souls, Natural Selection, Metal Gear, Super Smash Bros
Animals: Green cheeked yellow sided conure
||Other||
General interests: Computers, outdoors, aviation, science, nerd stuff, drumming, @mully
Color or Color scheme: subdued colors, i like when colors are used minimally
Character(s): Rorschach, gandalf, dwight schrute
Movies/TV: samurai champloo, rome(hbo series), ww2 stuff, documentaries about guns and combat,
Games: morrowind, metal gear solid, starcraft, mobas
Animals: big cats are fascinating
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Keith Parkinson, Brom, blizzard stuff
||Other||
General interests: i like the whole e-sports thing quite a lot.
I was in the army last year and couldn't take part and this year my brain just stalled