My previously submitted jackolantern of a big daddy from bioshock choking some random splicer. I made the writing more legible and lit it up with 2 candles this time

again I recognize skybolt's beautiful painting, for there are few more suitable references for this project than his.

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Thanks for viewing and good luck to all partaking in the contest!

Also, any and all input welcome.

Done with black and white Snazaroo face paints, acrylic paints and black and purple eye shadows for shading

Whirled is broke'd. D: [link]

a.k.a. Pareia: artist, pirate, longtime lover of all things Three Rings. I've been on Whirled for a good year and half now. You cannot even comprehend how loud I squealed when I saw this contest.

99% of content made by me. Exceptions are the Ghosthunters game and sadiekate's self-baking cookies.
<3 for coding the butterfly and blinking eyes.
Tool of choice: Illustrator CS3

Room SPOILERS Below! EXPLORE first before reading on!
<sub>There are a total of 5 rooms. In a "Choose Your Own Adventure"-esque style, there are two different ways the story can be told. Both has it's rewards. Yes. There are cookies.

-Little Red's Forest: The Centerpiece. The Oomph. The Wow. The "holy peas, I can't believe I spent two weekends making that". It's a trek from light to dark with two paths. You can visit your grandma via the path through the hedge or take the erm... "shortcut". Hey Mononoke fans, there are Kodamas!
Other rooms:
If you take the path through the hedge...
-A Clearing in the Forest
-Grandma's Cottage
If you take the path through the forest and manage not to get eaten by wolves...
-A Brightly Lit Glade
-Grandma's House

Of course, you can always revisit the room to take another path

Textures from [link]
Swirl stock from [link]
Swirl Brushes from [link]

11/26 ZOMG. I WON. AHHHHHH! Now I can tell my mom not to buy me a new laptop :3 Thanks to everyone ^__^ especially the judges, even though they did not accept my bribe of cookies.</sub>

4 photos I stitched together, I was using a macro lens adapter so every time I moved my camera I had to refocus.

Collaboration with Long Vo (aka Vostalgic)

Meagan's Anya Stroud cosplay took her 6 months to make. Long used her photos and the contest assets to create this gritty scene.

We hope you like it!

I determined to design him to be a legendary warrior. This charactor is some kind a very important and special secret charactor in the game.
He is not a juvenile warrior but has experience and genius middle-age man.

So, he is still alive..... Yup i'm still alive Finding it hard to get inspiration lately and got a lot on my hands. So art suffers from that. But... then a journal came along and spoke of unknown moons and a contest. That gave me enough inspiration to do at least one piece. It may not be my best work but i did have a lot of fun doing this.

So it's basicly built around a TG2 render of the moon wich took about 10 hours to complete. Then with photoshop i added some cracks in the surface, a little impact and some small other things. The nebula is pure photoshop with a little bit of brushwork.

I asked several people about their opinions and i want to thank them for their support!!

Altho i could probably add more stuff or change some things i think it's pretty good balanced and at a certain stage i just did more harm then good to it. So i decided to give it a rest and i'm actually quite happy with it.

So here it is, my entry for the Unknown Moons contest. Enjoy!!

EDIT: a DD and so many wonderfull reactions. I want to thank you all for this. It is really appreciated!!

I was really exited about this contest from the moment I got the notification because it's the first huge "photomanipulation-contest" I've seen since I'm active on dA.
My old Wacom Bamboo is almost dying, so I could really use a new one. I definitely don't expect to win anything, seeing how the digipaintings dominate the popular contest entries already frustrates me a little, though.

Anyway, I'm quite happy how this image turned out. I had a feeling I only produced crap recently, but this period seems to be over now and I'm glad

Hope you like it!


<sub>stocks from the asset pack:

you can find the strawberries (several times) in the bushes in the foreground
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© Erik Schumacher
This is no stock image, so don't use, copy or manipulate the original artwork without my written permission.
Visit my website: www.xkire.de

For the contest

This colossus is on the plane of Fire. Is the Knight of the flames.
This picture was made in Photoshop cs5.
His tall is 14 meters,the left arm are Free, while the right arm is a big sword that expelled from the base fire.He Can expel fire on his left hand.