It might seem like there is a long time until Valentine's Day and Mardi Gras, but with the weather like it is it may be awhile until everyone thaws out.
The challenge is to create some kind of Valentine's Day and/or Mardi Gras content, be it a skin, a scope, an FX, artwork, a micro-mod... anything. Decorate your avatar in green, purple, and gold or red and pink. Create your own character with the appropriate theme.
Rules are simple:
Deadlines are February 14th for Valentine's Day, February 28th for Mardi Gras. If you are a little late, we won't care (will we?)
Post pictures of your work here so we can look at it and cheer you on.
Have fun.
To get you started, here are a couple of old subjects: Wade ready for the Lords of Misrule to take over (Might be what he calls his in-laws), and pretty in pink for his Valentine.
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/valentinegras2017_zpsitd7r4jk.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/valentinegras2017_zpsitd7r4jk.jpg.html)
Well, to get into the Spirit, here are my two from last year:
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Cyber_Burn_33/Avatar_2016_Valentines_CB_FFvt3R_zpscfbsia8i.jpg)
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Cyber_Burn_33/Avatar_2016_Mardi_Gras_CB_FFvt3R_V2_zpse7ep8srw.jpg)
(http://s199.photobucket.com/user/Cyber_Burn_33/media/Avatar_2016_Mardi_Gras_CB_FFvt3R_V2_zpse7ep8srw.jpg.html)
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/mardigrasant_zpsin5b1aqi.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/mardigrasant_zpsin5b1aqi.jpg.html)
After several failed attempts to do the face, I decided to use the original. I've wanted to see this since I started issuing these challenges, and haven't yet. So, I decided to do one myself.
Nice! A really appropriate avatar for the Mardi Gras treatment!
Bat Gras...
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/batygras_zpsk6da3j30.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/batygras_zpsk6da3j30.jpg.html)
I've actually seen a pic of The Joker wearing something like this. Man, was it tempting to put a couple of jingle bells on those ears...
Those are nice, how are you getting that shade of Gold?
Dodge and burn on a shade of yellow that I looked for for months. Check you mailbox for a swatch.
Haha, I love all of these! I especially love the Mardi Gras ones!
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/superval_zpsfckzisgk.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/superval_zpsfckzisgk.jpg.html)
Saw this cartoon once where Supergirl convinced Superman that he could wear pink and get away with it.
Ask most guy and they'll tell you: it isn't pink, it's light red.
Never seems like a long time (looks over the bag of VDay candy from Walgreens on the desk). I'm in and I think I've the perfect one lined up.
Probably not the costume Bats should wear if he is going to see Fredirck Whertham...
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/valentinebat_zpschq43mvb.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/valentinebat_zpschq43mvb.jpg.html)
That's great! :lol:
I feel like Hawkeye would fit in with this group.
Quote from: Ouflah on January 22, 2017, 05:23:33 PM
That's great! :lol:
I feel like Hawkeye would fit in with this group.
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/cupids_zpss2oeqbbv.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/cupids_zpss2oeqbbv.jpg.html)
And here is Pinkeye and his buddy Pink Arrow.
Are they both frowning? If so, that's perfect!
Hilarious! :lol:
Yes, they are frowning. I need to fix Ollie; he's more lavender than pink.
Valentine's Day is only two weeks away; Fat Tuesday four weeks. The first parade in this vicinity will be Saturday the 4th on Dauphin Island. We need your cherubs and cupids by Valentine's day, and your mummers and maskers the last day of the month.
Laissez les bons temps rouler.
Ha, great stuff DG! Valentines Hawkeye looks like something that could have shown up in a comic. :D
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/captainmardigras_zpscnwacwjq.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/captainmardigras_zpscnwacwjq.jpg.html)
Protector of Fat Tuesday.
Now that is awesome. :thumbup:
Ha, Mardi Cap! I love it! :thumbup:
Love all of it. Also thank you for doing these challenges, they really add a lot to the community. Any plans for the :ff: anniversary?
Hadn't thought about it. We should.
Neither had I till right before I posted that and then " I wonder when FF's anniversary is? " popped in my thinkpan. Turns out 15 years the end of this March. Gosh 15 years and going strong, isn't that amazing? :)
Starting a new thread...
I was going to post my Valentine's entry, but Photobucket locked me out. :banghead:
I've been thinking about giving up Photoucket for Lent. They keep trying to hijack me to another web site, or offer me (important vital, required, necessary, etc.) updates on programs that I don't need updated, or not update my page for 5-10 minutes.
Yes, one week 'til Valentine's Day, and three 'til Mardi Gras Day.
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Cyber_Burn_33/Cyber%20Cupid%202017_zpsapa0g2mq.jpg) (http://s199.photobucket.com/user/Cyber_Burn_33/media/Cyber%20Cupid%202017_zpsapa0g2mq.jpg.html)
Haha, I love that, CB, very nice!
Yeah, that Cupid says "You're gonna fall in love... OR ELSE!"
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/Dr_Man_Bot_Valentines_zpsdvfapayn.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/Dr_Man_Bot_Valentines_zpsdvfapayn.jpg.html)
And here, thanks to Cyber Burn for the pic, is Dr. Manbot, The Doctor of LUUUuuuvvv.
Haven't had the time to finish the Skope, and the wings are from the standard Mesh, but I wanted to make sure I had this posted before V-Day.
Ha! Ohh...I keep saying the same thing, but it keeps being apropos: I love it!
That Manbot makes me smile.
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/valentine%20eve_zpsrzld3bbn.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/valentine%20eve_zpsrzld3bbn.jpg.html)
Another Cupid.
:wub:
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/ve2_zps70ogdm8a.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/ve2_zps70ogdm8a.jpg.html)
V2.0
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/lovenardor_zpsrfuw8fwe.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/lovenardor_zpsrfuw8fwe.jpg.html)
...we have Love and Ardor.
Ohh, very nice, very medieval. :)
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/mardigras%20man_zpsl7e8qvpj.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/mardigras%20man_zpsl7e8qvpj.jpg.html)
The first Mobile parade starts tonight at 6:30 on Route A, and it's the Conde Cavalier's 40th anniversary. To celebrate this, we have a kind of cavalier-looking version of Minute Man.
Ha, these are all so perfect, DG. They've all got really great designs, something that could easily show up in a 'what if' type comic or something.
I quite like Mardi-Man!
Great stuff :thumbup:
Love and ardor are my favs.
Love all these. Happy Valentines everyone. I'm not going to make it sorry, I did a Harley Quinn but wasn't happy with the results and scrapped it. It'll be added to a release instead later this year.
But... if you have something almost finished, please do so and post for our enjoyment, and take heart: it's two weeks 'til Ash Wednesday, still plenty of time to get something done for Mardi Gras...
... until Fat Tuesday, the end of the Mardi Gras season. C'mon and whip something up, join in the festivities, make a fool of yourself (or someone else). :) :(
I'm afraid I've got nothing for this one, but I hope we'll see some more fun Mardi Gras stuff! :D
The Mardi Gras weekend has officially started, and the city has shut down for the duration.
The bon temps are a-roulez-ing...
And this is what the well-dressed undead booze hound is wearing this season:
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/Untitled-1_zpsgvidihcn.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/Untitled-1_zpsgvidihcn.jpg.html)
Booze hound??? I thought he was an old goat?
Either way, this is really fantastic.
I really think I should use that on his Museum page. :lol: :lol:
Ohhh very nice.
It's over tomorrow, cuz it's Fat Tuesday.
However, if you have something almost finished, post it anyway... We may need something to smile about come Ash Wednesday.
So...purple.....and where is my booze?!?!?!
(Great work, Glob)
You gotta get your own booze, but the way things are here, you just walk along Dauphin or St. Louis, or hang around Bienville Square (stay away from the Bandstand), and you'll find enough booze to keep you going.
Man, DG, that is just plain beautiful! What an amazing skin and skope!
Oh no, I'm not that good, this is Sioux City Dynamo's scope.
(http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb287/lonespaceranger/misrule_zpshuaekiaw.jpg) (http://s210.photobucket.com/user/lonespaceranger/media/misrule_zpshuaekiaw.jpg.html)
And here is King Felix's right hand man, the Lord of Misrule.
... but the hangovers are just beginning. Shhhhhh...
Didn't finish my King Felix and his Royal Court; only got The Lord of Misrule done. The idea was to take The Royal Flush Gang and decorate them in Mardi Gras colors... ah well, maybe next year.
On to the Anniversary Challenge...