Artitude! Your Favourite Animal(s)!

[Gilbert]

Since the last Artitude had been through more than a half year already, I decide to resurrect it once again.

What is Artitude? Well, it's a general art creating activity which any member can participate. Each time we have a topic and members can make their own pieces of art according to the topic. Note that, unlike Sprite Jam, Background Blitz, etc. this is not a competition, so there'll be no winner. The sole purpose is to motivate members to make something creative.

This time, I choose a theme without approval from any secret elite AGSers, and it is (as written on the subject line), your favourite animal(s).

You can draw your favourite animal(s) in whatever resolution, colour depth, and style, be it your pet(s), a dinosaur, yourself, an imaginary cyber monster or whatever come up in your mind which can be related to the topic, members can even join forces and cooperate in one piece of art. One more thing, is that I'll try to loosen the rules, so you can submit other stuffs other than drawings, as long as it's art created by you, so you can created things like music, songs or essays inspired by the topic. However, after some 3-second-well-thought-about, I'll exclude photos here, as I don't want to make this thread another 'post your pets' photo' thread (I'd like to see them though, maybe somewhere else).

Since you're not competing with anyone, you can also make as many pieces of arts and enter as many times as you want.

To encourage more people to participate, I'll extend the time limit to two weeks, with deadline set on Monday, 1st May, 2005.

Sex and violence encouraged restricted, as we would love not want to see you with some animals in such situations. Humour and moody art particularly encouraged. Go art!

[Gilbert]

Alright, let me start as an example.

[Babar]

heh...considering the cuteness of the cat, the writing must be something along the lines of "Go f**k yourself"

[Evil]

Oh man, I love these. I may wip something up.

[Domino]

My favorite animal is the Cat.  I am the proud owner of a cat named Fluffy which i've had for 12 years (got him as a kitten).  I drew him back in his younger days.



I used NeoPaint with a Wacom tablet and a mouse.. which of course Fluffy is chasing now. he he

Not the best i can do, but i think this drawing has a certain charm which i like.

Shawn

[Helm]

photoshop

[Gilbert]

Heh now the deadline had past, probably due to people's interest in the topic and the the statue of the forums it has to go.

But since it's just a general activity that encourage people to create I'll just unstick this thread and leave it open.

[Kinoko]

Gil, that's SO cute! Fantastic picture ^_^

I'm not too hot at Chinese, but the first character is cat, right? (Is that an older style character?) The second one is similar but I don't know it... The characters on the right (again, I'm going from my Japanese knowledge so I'm not sure how much is the same) but is the first part the "Year of the..." ? The rest is the 12th of March, I know that much.

Hmm, Year of the Cock/Rooster? In Japanese, those first two characters are indicative of the 2nd sign of the chinese zidiac and the tenth sign of the chinese zodiac so I dunno...

[Gilbert]

Actually that first character was the authentic character for cat. For simplified Chinese or Japanese, they changed the left radical into another simpler one for ease of writing.
The second character is just a character normally used for the sound "meow".
Yes, it's the year thing, it's how we write this year's name for the lunar calendar (which the Japanese for some reasons, don't want to mess with that and sorta dumped that and put the date of traditional events according to the "solar" calendar now), we used combinations of these 2 sets of the zodiac characters to make 60 different names for the years.
And that date was not actually 12th March, as I wrote the date according to the lunar calendar, it would be safer to say it's the 12th of the third month.

[Gregjazz]

Actually that first character was the authentic character for cat. For simplified Chinese or Japanese, they changed the left radical into another simpler one for ease of writing.

I noticed that!

Great job! You have my vote.

[Kinoko]

Yeah, when I was studying Mandarin I learnt the simplified characters (which don't look as good but they're quicker to write so I don't mind)

[2ma2]

Another cat? Well ofcourse, because cats rules. Especially kittens, older cats are more noble sages that mutter when the little ones rule.

[Kinoko]

Equally adorable ^_^ All you cat people rule.

[Eggie]

I compromised...

[Gilbert]

Hehe thread unsticken but it's getting more entries than before, and it's probably better to rename this thread Catitude.

[Al_Ninio]

Pfffft, "catitude"!



It's my sister's Pekingese dog!

(Couldn't be arsed to finish it... Fur is impossible!)

[Haddas]

[skw]

Damn, I'm late. Anyway...

[Domino]

She doesn't look like an animal, but i'm guessing she's an ANIMAL in the bedroom.  Am i right? 

[skw]

She doesn't look like an animal, but i'm guessing she's an ANIMAL in the bedroom.Ã,  Am i right?Ã, 

[Gilbert]

You can draw your favourite animal(s) in whatever resolution, colour depth, and style, be it your pet(s), a dinosaur, yourself, an imaginary cyber monster or whatever come up in your mind which can be related to the topic...

[YotamElal]

Here are some of my animals (1mp3, 1avi & 2jpg):

0.5mb
http://www.internet-p.com/shop/userfiles100/54%20-%20Yotam%20Elal%20-%20Animals%20-%20Sheep%20&%20Goats.mp3

10mb
http://www.internet-p.com/shop/userfiles100/Yotam%20Elal%20-%20The%20Turtle%20Tree%20-%20Part1.avi

[=The=Brat=]

they are.....er different 

[skw]

they are.....er differentÃ, 

Different strokes for different folks...

[scotch]

Heh, I like them.  The koala one is my desktop.

[Phemar]

It's a ... worm. Took me roughly 3 hours, made in photoshop. Contains 17 layers, and a wide variety of brushes and textures.

[Bartimaeus]

Zor, entries like that don't count unless you make a new thread for them entitled, "Is this as cool as I think?"

Hehe. 

[Andail]

Zor, OMG, can you make a tutorial!?2

[Ubel]

Hehee, this is so crappy! Took me about 15 minutes to make.

[Haddas]

I have a new favourite animal now. http://haddas.deviantart.com/

[Phemar]

Zor, OMG, can you make a tutorial!?2

Of course ... I'll see if I can fit into my busy schedule of being outrageously stupid.

[madgooseparade]

I like turtles... 

[Oliver]

I hope Zor wins. His is the best at the moment, and all that hard work must be paid back to him.

[Al_Ninio]

Artitude isn't a competition, silly.
But... ._. How about a new theme?

[Gilbert]

Well, according to traditions we won't make such kind of activities frequently (it's been > 6 months between two last Artitudes), it's just some "once-a-while" fun, as it's certainly not easy to attract member to join if it's held too frequently (and this thread is not that sucessful either).
Moreover, this thread is still thriving slowly and is still open to entries I'll suggest we can wait at least until it disappears from the first page to start another one.

[Ubel]

Zor's entry isn't that awesome. I can make a better worm:

O====

There. It's a worm. Really, it is.

[DragonRose]

Dragons are animals! They're just mythical ones.



I like dragons. Can you tell?

[Phemar]

It's hard to tell, Rose. I'm still in my decision phase.

[skw]

Zor's entry isn't that awesome. I can make a better worm:

O====

There. It's a worm. Really, it is.

Nah... it looks like an "O" followed by 4 "=" signs , not any worm. *This* is a worm:

~

And one more time:

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Gotcha?

[Mr_Frisby]

This is the family dog. He threw up today.

[Stefano]

Behold the mighty Gryphon! My favourite animal (animals, as he is a bit of a Frankenstein).

[Phemar]

http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Favanimal.GIF

This is the family dog. He threw up today.

Looks like he's doing a bit more than throwing up there ... Perhaps he's throwing down?2

[Mr_Frisby]

Nope - he's suckin' that poop in.

[Ubel]

Zor's entry isn't that awesome. I can make a better worm:

O====

There. It's a worm. Really, it is.

Nah... it looks like an "O" followed by 4 "=" signs , not any worm. *This* is a worm:

~

And one more time:

~

Gotcha?

Well, duh... :

[skw]

Well, duh... :

Yah, I know.. it's stupid...

[Vince Twelve]

Is it sad that the thing that I miss most from America is my little Fiona?  She had the cutest face and these adorable white spots on her nose, tail, ears, and feet.  She would always roll up into a ball and sleep cuddled up between my shoulder and neck.  I'd love to sleep with her again...

[Pelican]

Awww... thats soooo cute!

Aside: Mum!!! I want a puppy...

[SpacePirateCaine]

My black cat, Nickodemus

Got bored in my phonetics class and started doodling (Hence the phonetic spelling of 'cat' in the image). If I'd had anything for reference, it would've turned out better, perhaps, but I still like the way it turned out. Also a chance to work on my pencil-shading technique. Sorry about the faint writing in the background, it was doodled on the back of a print-out.

[Krysis]

I have too much spare time. Aint my favorite but still...

[Andail]

This is lacking activity, so I'm closing it to put more focus on the currently running competitions. Feel free to start a new one if you've got a good theme.