[WAR] ●Drawn Art●

[XaiakuX]

Username: Velocity!
WAR Team: Awesome!
Link to Art: Up From the Ashes.
Art Submission:

Spoiler:

There's a lot of life-and-death-related imagery surrounding birds, and I feel like the phoenix is the cumulation of that, symbolizing both sides of the coin in one. The phoenix dies in order to bring forth new life - not unlike trees after a forest fire. The fire has the potential to destroy, but sometimes it comes as a purge, clearing away the old in order to bring the new forward. That's what this phoenix is doing - using its power to bring life back to the ruined forest. Life and Death is a complicated subject, and so I decided to condense it into something closer to rebirth.

TL;DR, Life and Death is really complex, the concept of rebirth and purification by fire is very interesting to me, and I love to draw birds and glowy bits.

Get out of here with that awesome thing. D:

[Dragon Master Mike]

Username: Velocity!
WAR Team: Awesome!
Link to Art: Up From the Ashes.
Art Submission:

Spoiler:

There's a lot of life-and-death-related imagery surrounding birds, and I feel like the phoenix is the cumulation of that, symbolizing both sides of the coin in one. The phoenix dies in order to bring forth new life - not unlike trees after a forest fire. The fire has the potential to destroy, but sometimes it comes as a purge, clearing away the old in order to bring the new forward. That's what this phoenix is doing - using its power to bring life back to the ruined forest. Life and Death is a complicated subject, and so I decided to condense it into something closer to rebirth.

TL;DR, Life and Death is really complex, the concept of rebirth and purification by fire is very interesting to me, and I love to draw birds and glowy bits.

Oh my god. This is just. Literally incredible. This is like, amazing! Are you like, a professional Digital artist or something?

[VeloJello]

@XaiakuX, @Dragon Master Mike - cease and desist immediately because y'all are going to make me blush.

Mike, I'm not a professional, although I do hope to be someday once I'm out of college and such. What skill I have I have because I've been drawing digitally for several years; I practice nearly every single day, and I study a lot of other digital artists' work too. So while I'm not yet making money off of it, it's something I've been doing and have been dedicated to for quite a long time.

But seriously, thanks a lot for the nice words. It means a lot. :O

[Neo Emolga]

Yeah... Velocity is quite frankly the main reason why I decided not to bother with Drawn Art this year...

If there was like an "Art Newbies" competition, maybe I'd be more at home with that. :P

[Shiny Totodile]

Looks like Velocity did win!

[Coru]

The results and the new theme is up. Only one week left!
It has been a great War, and it has been amazing judging it and getting to see all of the great work entered here. I am amazed at the quality of work that some people post. It is a wonder that some of you aren't working as professional graphic or traditional artists.

I hope the final theme is clear and I hope you enjoy it. I didn't know what to do so I just thought that I should combine the idea of war and pokemon together and as there is a pokemon war theory floating around it would be relevant. It was also a bit of an acknowledgement of the 100th year anniversary of World War I which was yesterday.

I think I am going to do a section when I have judged the final week. It will be at the bottom of the first post and it will be a sort of 'notable mentions' where I will look throughout everyone who has entered and I will mention some for things they have achieved, such as becoming 1st/2nd/3rd a certain amount of times or for entering every week or popular work etc. Therefore it will give acknowledgement to everyone and it will show that they have still achieved something even if they did not win any points in the competitions. What do you think?

Good Luck everyone!

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

I think I am going to do a section when I have judged the final week. It will be at the bottom of the first post and it will be a sort of 'notable mentions' where I will look throughout everyone who has entered and I will mention some for things they have achieved, such as becoming 1st/2nd/3rd a certain amount of times or for entering every week or popular work etc. Therefore it will give acknowledgement to everyone and it will show that they have still achieved something even if they did not win any points in the competitions. What do you think?

Good Luck everyone!

I think that's a nice idea, Coru! Everyone should really be congratulated on their entries. It's been really cool to see them each week! :D

Congrats to the winners for this week. It was pretty close!

[Steel Lunpara]

Yeah... Velocity is quite frankly the main reason why I decided not to bother with Drawn Art this year...

If there was like an "Art Newbies" competition, maybe I'd be more at home with that. :P

Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what's happening in sprite art right now. Speed-X has won literally all of the weeks so far, then it's Pokemon Trainer Sarah is doing really well, and god forbid what would happen if Graceful Suicune weren't the judge for the category.

[Brettles]

Username: Brettles
WAR Team: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Link to Art: this file
Art Submission: "The eternal war", "Standoff"

[VeloJello]

Username: Velocity!
Team: Awesome!
Link to Art: Trespasser, Trespasser.
(Warning: bright colors, mild blood)
Art Submission:

Spoiler:

Y'know how crows mob raptors that come too close to their nests? I figure that this would be sort of similar, albeit on a larger and deadlier scale.

I'm not sure what possessed me to set this scene underneath a rock arch, because I have very little experience drawing rocks, but oh well, live and learn. The amount of experimentation that went on here is pretty high; not sure how successful I was, haha.