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AC Secret Santas 2015! [18 / 20 Complete]
Secret Santa
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@acadia
@Agentflit
@Angel_of_Bacon
@beckerskulls
@CyberMonkeytron3000
@Enc
@Elaro
@Esiotrot
@Iruka
@lyrium
@melting_doll
@m3nace
@NakedZergling
@Projeck
@Prospicience
@Red Raevyn
@tapeslinger
@Thane
Yes, it is that time of year again. This is the 13th 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 [ acsecretsanta@gmail.com ] with your forum username in the subject line and "Artist's Corner Secret Santa 2015" in the body of the message.
The deadline for signing up will be December 1st. 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 [ acsecretsanta@gmail.com ] 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):
2014's thread: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/194231/ac-secret-santas-2014-24-24-posted/p1
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!
@beckerskulls
@Agentflit
@lyrium
@Red Raevyn
@m3nace
@Thane
@tapeslinger
@Iruka
@no_toast
@acadia
@CyberMonkeytron3000
@Projeck
@Prospicience
@Esiotrot
@Angel_of_Bacon
@Elaro
@Enc
@Flay
@NakedZergling
@melting_doll
@acadia
@Agentflit
@Angel_of_Bacon
@beckerskulls
@CyberMonkeytron3000
@Enc
@Elaro
@Esiotrot
@Iruka
@lyrium
@melting_doll
@m3nace
@NakedZergling
@Projeck
@Prospicience
@Red Raevyn
@tapeslinger
@Thane
Yes, it is that time of year again. This is the 13th 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 [ acsecretsanta@gmail.com ] with your forum username in the subject line and "Artist's Corner Secret Santa 2015" in the body of the message.
The deadline for signing up will be December 1st. 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 [ acsecretsanta@gmail.com ] 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):
2014's thread: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/194231/ac-secret-santas-2014-24-24-posted/p1
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!
@beckerskulls
@Agentflit
@lyrium
@Red Raevyn
@m3nace
@Thane
@tapeslinger
@Iruka
@no_toast
@acadia
@CyberMonkeytron3000
@Projeck
@Prospicience
@Esiotrot
@Angel_of_Bacon
@Elaro
@Enc
@Flay
@NakedZergling
@melting_doll
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m3nace:
||Favorites||
Character(s): any of the characters from my comics
Movies/TV: Rick and Morty, Bob's Burgers, Bojack Horseman
Animals: my AV is a frog
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: pulp covers, royal portraits
||Other||
General interests: pulp literature, comics, robots, ninjas
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): *see "Characters"
||Favorites||
Character(s): Don Draper,
Movies/TV: Mad Men, Princess Mononoke
Animals: Red Pandas, Frogs
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: queens of the stone age(i'm going with music)
||Other||
General interests: the desert and most things in it
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): follow this link! :http://orig01.deviantart.net/28c2/f/2011/018/1/4/dudes_by_thanekats-d37h67v.jpg ( they're a bunch of animals who have adventures in the desert)
Can't wait, this is my favorite thing to come out of this forum.
||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 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 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.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): if you read any of my writing over in twb and one of my characters inspires you to draw, go nuts!
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: If you have a way you do colors, please, do you. But lately I have been diggin this pair: https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1242/869646343_d3e184e20e_b.jpg
Character(s): Jim Woodring's Frank/pupshaw
Movies/TV: The Fall
Animals: beetles, tapirs, foxes, anything funny looking, basically can't go wrong with animals!
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Shaun Tan still holds my heart right now. Also digging the old timey field illustration look lately.
||Other||
General interests: biology/animals/anatomy/jazz/hip hop
Link Photograph/self portraits/Avatar/persona character: this one's a twofer, since I've been backpacking my hair is a lot shaggier and my face a lot more freckly than last year. I recently took this picture because I have been wearing a necklace of a little stone face with its tongue out almost every day since I was 18, and draw weird cartoons with their tongues out a lot, so I guess if I have an avatar persona it's a weird thing with its tongue out. Don't know how that happened but here we are: http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f399/lyrium/tongue.jpg
But most of all, please have fun, Santa!
facebook.com/LauraCatherwoodArt
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Love me some reds, oranges, and blues. Desert colors.
Character(s): The man with no name, batman, geralt of rivia
Movies/TV: Rick and Morty, rick and morty 100 times, rick and morty forever.com, Star Wars.
Games: Fallout, The Witcher, Star Wars Battlefront right now and for the foreseeable future!
Animals: Anything weird (however you define that)
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Leyendecker, right now, love that 20th century shit
||Other||
General interests: Music (playing a lot of ukulele lately), movies (also watching a lot of movies always)
Link Photograph/self portraits:
Link Avatar/persona character: It's me. There are a few pictures you can use for ref in my thread.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): check my thread for journal comics (character: me), or maybe take a spin with my ill-defined cowboy protagonist that you see in sketch form in there!
Hey guys! Im in as always!
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: cool colors and or PINK!
Character(s): KILLER PINK FLUFFIES (original character) zombies, Omni-man, jim raynor, judge dredd,
Games: StarCraft, street fighter,
Animals: turtles,Tiger, panda, bears
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Oh man! Joe Ledbetter, Mucha, Joe Mad, Humberto Ramos,
||Other||
General interests:
Link Photograph/self portraits:
Link Avatar/persona character:
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): Well I always love people doing their take on my Killer Pink Fluffies!
ill finish the rest of this at home!
Color or Color scheme: Blues, Greens, Purples, Reds, Teal, Silver.
Character(s): Indiana Jones, Edward and Evie (Assassin's Creed), Kemper, James Bond, Nathan Drake, Stitch, 10th Doctor, Rose
Movies/TV:Raiders of the Lost Ark, Alien/s, Empire Strikes Back, Legend of Korra & Avatar: TLA, Dr Who, Harry Potter, Disney
Games: Uncharted, Zelda, Final Fantasy (8-bit)
Animals: Cats, Dolphins, Dragons
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Picasso, Botticelli, pretty much any renaissance painter, sculptor.
||Other||
General interests: video games, comic books, reading, snow, coffee
Link Photograph/self portraits:
1. https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/11066069_10202954099807664_9124960082693186444_n.jpg?oh=cda5e9f2ee00896ea73d9db775b2fd6e&oe=56F6D24C
2. https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/1899927_10200998811406676_32123861_n.jpg?oh=21551b013837df3e95b2d84fb4051d62&oe=56E64983
3. https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/v/t1.0-9/1920371_10201010019646875_1284507209_n.jpg?oh=c816f15335aa604cadaa45f3a1b7f57a&oe=56E936E4
Color or Color scheme: Neon stuff- blues and pinks
Movies/TV: 80-90's cartoons, Starship Troopers, Dredd, Robocop, Avengers, giant things punching other giant things in their face
Games: Halo, Darksiders
As with every year though, I'm down with anything you wanna do.
Hey AC!
||Favorites||
Character(s): judge holden, charlie brown, DOOM (he is playing a character, right? )
Movies/TV: kurosawa, kubrick, p.t. anderson, Roseanne, steven universe
Games: dota
Animals: human
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: vasquez, kc green, kazuo shiraga ( gutai ) , ingres
||Other||
General interests: hip hop, comics, philosophy
Link Photograph/self portraits:
or this doom
facebook.com/LauraCatherwoodArt
Also I'm in, will post my stuff latros.
My Portfolio Site
||Favorites||
Character(s)/Games: Been playing League of Legends the last year (Jax, Vi, Tristana), and Smite (Kukulkan)
Art uhhh comics I follow: Jake Wyatt, Clay Rodery, Anthony Holden, Bouletcorp, The Last Halloween, Hark! A Vagrant
||Other||
General interests: Pilot, motorcyclist, birdwatcher
Link self portrait
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Dark colours because Goth, normally no colours at all because Goth
Animals: Ravens, Jaguars, Ocelots, Trolls, Demon's from the vortex between realities, Space Serpents who can see through time and space, snakes.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Leyendecker, Bacon, Beardsley, JW Waterhouse, Phil Hale, Doré
||Other||
General interests: reading about the occult and witchcraft and the like, stories about demons and sorcerers and the sort of things that probably live in spooky trees.
Also,
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Orange+red+pale blue on midnight blue
Movies/TV: the Matrix, Star Wars, Blade Runner
Games: Warhammer 40 000
Animals: Wolf, Human
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Romanticism, "Used Future"
||Other||
General interests: Computer Science, Science Fiction, robots
Character(s):
Movies/TV: Avatar: The Last Airbender, One Punch Man, The Winter Solider, Sergio Leone westerns, Pacific Rim
Games: Monkey Island, Doom 2, Metal Gead Solid 1-3, the Tex Murphy games.
Animals: Dogs, Ferrets
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Mignola, Leyendecker, Marko Djurdjevic, Steve Purcell, Gigi D.G.
||Other||
General interests: Hiking?, watching/making fun of/listening to others make fun of bad movies (ala MST3k/The Flop House Podcast)
Link Photograph/self portraits:
http://bacon.iseenothing.com/tomfoolery/rococo.gif
http://bacon.iseenothing.com/tomfoolery/DBZ_scouterexp.gif
http://bacon.iseenothing.com/tomfoolery/haircuts.jpg
http://bacon.iseenothing.com/tomfoolery/vicoly.gif
http://bacon.iseenothing.com/tomfoolery/sweetredbeard.gif
Twitter
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: Under the Skin, The Zero Theorem, Adventure time, Always Sunny, ex machina, mosty any sci fi shiz
Games: transistor, fall out, dota, downwell
Animals: Ravens and Bats, but all animals are cool man.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Jeremy Fish, Dan Lish, Oliver Jeffers, Kate Baylay, Enki Bilal
||Other||
General interests: Photography, typography, hiking, sculpting, hip hop, painting, birds
Link Photograph/self portraits: Not me but \my flickr is in my sig, 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 - ex.ravens
My Portfolio Site
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: Orange
Character(s): Robert Downey Jr
Movies/TV: Marvel movies/tv series, Wes Anderson movies
Animals: Ducks, squirrels, dogs
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Academic art, art nouveau
||Other||
General interests: Croquis, Rock climbing, Bass guitar, Cooking
Link Avatar/persona character: <-see the duck avatar
Character(s): Anyone from the Hobbit (Huge fan of the book! Movies, not so much)
Movies/TV: Secret of Kells, The Book of Life, The Iron Giant, Castle in the Sky, Howl's Moving Castle, Adventure Time, Samurai Jack
Animals: sloths, ducks & all the woodland critters
||Other||
General interests: reading, ukulele, steampunk, nerds
Nerd skull avatar is always a good option. Also, here's my face: here, here, here, and here
Or redraw this guy: Badger
Just so you know, I've been pretty good this year. Thanks, Santa!
i didn't get an email, and don't see my name on the list...
Not sure what happened and was not deliberate, but I tripdrouple-checked my (acsecretsanta@gmail.com) email and didn't find anything from you. I also didn't think to check the thread for people saying they wanted in and adding those as well, so my bad on that. I would have added you but I missed your post.
facebook.com/LauraCatherwoodArt
||Favorites||
Color or Color scheme: COLORS FUCK YES
Character(s): Exit mouse from earthbound is neat. I also like Quimby Mouse! I also like Grickle!
Movies/TV: I've seen UHF like 30 times. Primer is good. Song of the Sea is a recent one I love.
Games: I'm wasting my life playing Rocket League, please send help
Animals: Oh! I love dogs!
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: I read a lot of artsy fartsy comics among others. Random selection from my bookshelf: Skyscrapers of the Midwest, A Drifting Life, Asterios Polyp, The Maxx, The Realist, every harvey pekar book, Wizzywig, MOME, Louis Riel, Jimmy Corrigan, etc.
||Other||
General interests: I play jazz piano.
Link Photograph/self portraits: Average white american male. Brown hair, green eyes.
Link Avatar/persona character: Probably the exit mouse.
Original Characters (of whom you wouldn't mind redesigns or fanart of): I have "muscle guy" as well as "flattop man". Yeah, real original, right??
Thank you! I love you!
Color or Color scheme: Burgundy
Character(s): Atrus from Myst, Leorio from Hunter x Hunter
Movies/TV: Lord of the Rings, The Librarians,
Animals: Cats
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: I like most everything.
||Other||
General interests:
Link Avatar/persona character: Previous avatars:
http://media.animevice.com/uploads/1/12218/499919-556px_leorio.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/65/e7/15/65e715a948677444504252c54ce0e322.jpg
Current: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e9/07/cd/e907cd1ed072075c6142deacdb1c51dc.jpg
Ummm I play roller derby(one of my team's colors are red&black and the other's are navy/white). I'm short with long curly dark brown hair and eyes and I'm curvy, also I have a small grey kitten with green eyes named Beans. I like colorful stuff and happy cute things like fluffy bears and I wear lots of skirts and long socks.
For specific interests I really like Legend of Zelda, mostly Wind Waker or Twilight Princess. I also love Garrus from Mass Effect, and the Scout from Team Fortress 2. I work at a comic shop and love the Saga series the most. I also really love Vikings and am half Korean so am pretty into their culture too.
I hope that's enough info (:
Movies/TV: Adventure Time, Pan's Labyrinth, Eraserhead, Black Mirror
Games: Journey, Dark Souls, Beyond Good and Evil
Animals: Chameleons and Whales. And raccoons of course.
Painting, Artist, or Art genre: Leyendecker, Shaun Tan, James Gurney, James Jean, Olly Moss
||Other||
General Interests: Cyberpunk, electronic music, animation, graphic design, science, history, long walks on the beach
Avatar: 1 2 3 4 5 6.
Also, just fyi I haven't forgotten to do mine, it's just that I won't get near a scanner for a while so hang in there secret santee!