Grand Championship - January- Mythology

[McNiel]

The topic the month was Mythology and here are our entrants.

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/014/5/e/Crap__Where__s_that_shield__by_mattPLOG.jpg
PLOG

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x82/mcniel_2007/Raijin.jpg
McNiel

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/kae_ae/COTT.jpg
kae_ae

[McNiel]

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll311/smaroon69/Bellerophon.jpg
scmarooney

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/5673/89148770.jpg
k0b13

http://img641.yfrog.com/img641/3773/persephone3.jpg
T minus zero

[McNiel]

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/1053/ledaswan.jpg
Ridge


Good luck to all.

[NickRocks]

ridges makes me wanna say AFLAC!

[rockergirl]

i like Ridge
something about the female body is just so beautiful

[NickRocks]

something about the female body is just so beautiful

uhm....everything? lol

[kae_ae]

what the? the deadline was up? crap! i was supposed to redraw that :(

[Furmanjon]

kae_ae, I think what you submitted is fantastic...really beautiful, classic illustration look to it. It gives the kind of feeling that I must have been deep in a library somewhere and had seen that in a mythology tome. Bravo.

I'm sure Plog's going to get a lot of votes here--the polish is shiny, but I can't get past the big perspective and anatomy problems.

[kae_ae]

for the last time jon, i told you, youre not getting in my pants.

[Furmanjon]

Dammit. Can I have my vote back?

[T minus zero]

Plog, Ridge, tough call.........

[Teratophile]

Plog had me at medusa.

[PLOG]

she's a cold hearted snake. cold cold cold hearted.....snaaake.

that's right, i went there....

I really liked Ridge's, reminds me of the painting of Aphrodite in the clamshell. Very classical, grabbing the gooseneck....well, that's just all the symbology i need!:P I think Kae_ae's got some nice energy to it, would have liked to see it as the artist envisioned in it's "finished" state. Scarammooney's arrangement and rendering reminds me of a Japanese style blind illustration.

nice works all

mattPLOG

[kae_ae]

next to yours plog i like ridges too. but the rendering of the grass really bugged me and the fact that he was rendering the female form i'd like to have seen a better study of anatomy/musculature, which i thought was poor in relation to the overall effort.

nice palette overall tho.

hope to muster the enthusiasm to properly finish mine tho regardless of this poll. i dont often draw monsters and stuff.

[scmarooney]

Nice job everyone! Here's my brief thoughts on everyone's entries:
PLOG: Superlative work! Your version of Medusa is really unique and the composition is great.
McNeil: Interesting illustration! I like that you went outside of the Greek-mythology paradigm that everyone else went with!
Kae_Ae: cool drawing! Lots of energy.
kob13: cool centaur, dynamic pose!
T minus zero: nice colors!
Ridge: very nice! Anybody who draws a naked woman grabbing a swan's neck like that gets my vote!

[Fallenangel]

Nice work everyone! voted PLOG just liked the colors and the scene composition.


Alex.

[McNiel]

PLOG- for the win. Great storytelling with your pic.
kae_ae- second place. I have to agree with Furmanjon- it has a great classical feel to it.
scmarooney- Excellent piece. That chimera would make a great tattoo.
k0b13- the yellow line really distracts from the rest of the picture and I would make his face more visible.
T minus zero- Nice to see you back in the game. Practice, practice, practice if you are going to overtake your big brother.
Ridge- my number three pick. Adding a little class to the competition with the digital oils. Bob Ross would be jealous.

[golgotha]

what is feb topic?