AC Secret Santas - 31/35 Completed [Due: December 23rd]

bombardier

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 7th. 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 September 15th 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.


Submitting Complete Work and Submission Deadline
All drawings must be emailed to [ acsecretsanta@gmail.com ] by December 23rd. Failure to submit your drawing after agreeing to sign up (shame on you, SHAME) will result in a nice long vacation away from the forums.


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.

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):


Participants
bombardier
mully
Orikaeshigitae
Belruel
Marshmallow
Tonkka
Ravenshadow
Fantasyrogue
Buckwolfe
CyberMonkeytron3000
Iruka
Greatnation
NibCrom
NakedZergling
ManonvonSuperock
earthwormadam
The_Rat
Projeck
Campion
Rolo
no_toast
NotACrook
NeoRedXIII
meloncollie
Koshian
Asamof the Horrible
Mayday
Lewis Rice
Spectre-X
DMAC
beavotron
srsizzy
misosoup
Berk
ph00l

Sheri

After the fiasco about photographers last year, I think I'll have to pass on this one. Unless attitudes have changed, I guess.

mully

Totally in, totally sending the email.

bombardier

Sheri wrote: »

After the fiasco about photographers last year, I think I'll have to pass on this one. Unless attitudes have changed, I guess.

I don't remember last year but I think we'll just stick to drawings.

Fantasyrogue

I think I might join again this year (I'll think about it some today), although my forum participation in the last year has been abysmally low. I need to get over this hesitation about commenting in other people's threads thing.

Grifter

bombardier wrote: »

Sheri wrote: »

After the fiasco about photographers last year, I think I'll have to pass on this one. Unless attitudes have changed, I guess.

I don't remember last year but I think we'll just stick to drawings.

Yeah, let's just not go there this year.

Forbe!

What about jewelry :X

Kuribo's Shoe

I dunno how relevant this is to you art folk but I'll make sure you know anyways

ATTENTION ALL NON-CANADIANS WHO GOT (OR WILL GET) A CANADIAN

It seems that, due to the puny American dollar, a lot of Canadians are ordering shit online from America. This stuff all has to go through customs, so there's a pretty big buildup there. The upshot of all this is basically, if you want your shit to get to your person on time, it would be best to send it ASAP.

Your friend,

Kuribo's Shoe
Grandmaster Santa X

Ravenshadow

I'm in again

Tonkka

E-mail sent.

WOOHOO!

mully

okay shoe i will make sure that my email has plenty of time to go through customs from america

Kuribo's Shoe

mully wrote: »

okay shoe i will make sure that my email has plenty of time to go through customs from america

well I thought addresses might be involved for someone who wants to send a fancy gift

you shut up I'm trying to help

mully

we love you shoe for all of your efforts
thank you sincerely,

the faculty

Orikaeshigitae

alright i think i can manage a drawing in a month

i'm in

bombsy, do i really have to email you because i'm really lazy right now

mully

wooooooo orik
i'll email him for you
hows that

edit: its done, i did it

Orikaeshigitae

thanks mulster

i'm toying with actually making a painting and sending it out, but i'm probably doing that for a SE person already

so people better like PNGs, because that's what they're getting

flyingmonkey

I'll throw an email at bombs, but I dunno if I'm qualified. God, it almost feels like I'm applying for credit (come on pre-approval).

Orikaeshigitae

not if you keep forgetting brackets. denied.

Marshmallow

Despite some nervousness, I'd like to sign up.

I'mma do my best!

flyingmonkey

Who forgot a bracket where?

Belruel

i signed up, i am excited.

's at mully for telling me this was here

Buckwolfe

Well I've just signed up for it. Hopefully whatever I produce will be better than what I did for Lexxy last year. I still don't feel like I was worthy enough to do hers.

Iruka

Email sent. Once we get going we should sent up the wishlist/interests thread for guide lines. That always helped me immensely. It'd be nice if we set that up early so that all the folks in it have time to get their interests up.

bombardier

We can use this thread for that, if you'd like.

Scosglen

Did anyone ever make a compendium of last year's SS pictures?

earthwormadam

This just in: photos are not the arts!!!

Also: I'm in.

bombardier

Here's Celestial's post with last years' submissions: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=10065

mully

can not wait

Iruka

bombardier wrote: »

We can use this thread for that, if you'd like.

sounds good. I can make a form again, if youd like.

Edit: Man. Frank never did make a doodle for me, either. That emo jerk.

bombardier

:^:

I'll add it to the OP.

NakedZergling

when do we get the name of our secret person?

ManonvonSuperock

man last year's looks fucking great. now, i'm psyched.

The_Rat

In like flynn. All these years and I've never done one, figure it's time. Especially cause I'm on an art stint.

Iruka

Sweet. More things to procrastinate with. I'll dig up the one from last time.

Okay, Heres the form. Remember, this is a list of general interests and references to give your secret santa something to go on. You don't have to follow this form or fill it out completely, just think of a general pool that would make it easy for anyone to draw something for you.

||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):

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Heres mine, for example:
||Favorites||
Color scheme: Warm Colors
Character(s):troll and tiger (from WoW)
Movies/Tv: ATHF, Akira,
Games: Zelda, Bioshock, Metriod, Katamari,
Animals: Tigers, Wolves, Dragons

||Other||
General interests: Games, cartoons, awesome stuff
Link Photograph/self portraits: link link
Link Avatar/persona character: Link Lnk link
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): puppet girl and spider bunnies

Orikaeshigitae

earthwormadam wrote: »

This just in: photos are not the arts!!!

Also: I'm in.

but it's really easy to just snap some silly shit and hand it to the 1-hour-photo booth

i think because it's so much easier to be lazy with photos than it is with illustration or painting, that's why it's been excluded

CyberMonkeytron3000

Dear Santa,

All I want is dinosaurs or something to do with 80's cartoons.

Love CyberMonkeytron3000.

Orikaeshigitae

games: grim fandango, monkey island, full throttle, sam and max

painting: nighthawks by edward hopper
artist: brassai, max beckman, otto dix, gustav klimt, (more)

avatar: a french muscleman with a gigantic dong (usually not shown)

animals: i hate every animal that isn't a robot

Projeck

I would really like anything made for me

Though especially so if it included my character Mr. Pillow.

bombardier

NakedZergling wrote: »

when do we get the name of our secret person?

Sometime on the 7th or 8th, depending on how quickly I get to the randomizing.

mully

||Favourites||
Colour or Colour scheme: i like really dusty, gray muted colours
Character(s): marcus fenix (gears of war), altair (assassins creed).. hmm.
Movies/TV: moulin rouge, se7en
Games: gears of war, assassins creed (dont care that its not out yet), shadow of the colossus, viva pinata
Animals: zebra, rabbits, squirrels, badgers, beavers
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: satougaki(devart), lastscionz(devart), robert bateman

||Other||
Link Avatar/persona character/self portraits: nsfw link link

all i can really say is that if there's a mully and an arsenic in it, i'm happy. (arsenic is the skull, there.)
also remember that i'm the one who typically has the purple pony tail and the reservoir dogs get up!

The_Rat

||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: I like desaturation for drama and gritty realism, but whatever your artistic strong point is is fine.
Character(s): Solid Snake, Altair, Batou
Movies/TV: Deadwood, Rome, Clone High, The Office, Battlestar (new), Ghost in the Shell, Akira, any kung-fu
Games: Killzone (for the art), Half-life, Toribash, Metal Gear, Ace Combat
Animals: Hamster, cat, sugar glider, chinchilla, shiba inu
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Rembrandt, Avant Garde, digital painting, concept art. Dark and realistic, fanciful and wild, so long as it's solid.

||Other||
General interests: Art, making movies, Kung-fu, rock and roll, my hamster Dr. Science: http://photos-651.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v99/102/96/25913651/n25913651_32123064_3793.jpg
Link Photograph/self portraits:http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v133/113/69/25908743/n25908743_32421654_7724.jpg <-- I'm on the right.
Link Avatar/persona character: None really.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Maybe I'll cook something up in the next few days, but it won't have any heart.

That should be enough. Try not to portray me as a rat; I don't really use one as an avatar. It's just a name.