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The Land of a Thousand Smokes in the Land of Geysers.

50 Original Character Challenge

Journal Entry: Thu Jul 9, 2009, 12:31 PM


50 Original Character Challenge


Are you ready for a challenge?

I decided to make up a challenge for people who want to draw more than just fanart or anthros, or want to develope their figure drawing skills, because I felt like out of the various challenges there weren't enough ones dealing with having to make up designs for original characters, rather than fan characters or other such things.

So I made up a list of various possible high fantasy/steampunk/etc characters that might appear in any kind of fantasy world, some of these are very similar to RPG characters.

The characters:

1)Hero/herione
2)Healer
3) Sorcerer
4) Sorceress
5) Ranger
6) Smith
7) Lancer
8) Assassin
9) Adventurer
10) Villan/villaness
11) Samurai
12)Ninja
13)Necromancer
14)Scholar
15)King
16)Queen
17)Prince
18)Princess
19)Mentor
20)Cleric
21)Fairy
22)Goblin
23)Elf
24)Dancer
25)Shaman
26)Thief
27)Weaver
28)Summoner
29)Swordsman/swordswoman
30)Mechanic
31)Knight
32)Pirate
33)Hunter/Hunteress
34)Pilot
35)Gunner
36)Airship Captain
37)Priest/Priestress
38)Merchant
39)Medic
40)Nomad
41)Messanger
42)Shepard
43)Alchemist
44)Tourbadour
45)Rider
46)Barkeep
47)Shopkeep
48)Fencer
49)Emperor
50)Witch

As always there are rules to this challenge:
1) One character per piece, save for animal sidekicks/mascots/mounts. You may add an animal of choice in the same piece, especially when considering summoner, rider, and shepard.
2) You may do this in either traditional or digital art, but no photomanips, photos, costumes, or sculptures. These must be drawn!
3) No fan art of any kind may be submitted, these must be original, non-fandom related characters. This is about original characters, not fan characters. You may not copy and paste characters from other series or other artists into your piece.
4) You may place a frame or background around the character, however, you must place the title of the character's profession and number, i.e. 7. Lancer, somewhere on the piece.
5) All characters must be drawn in full, no "both hands in pockets" or missing feet.
6) With all characters, there must be at least one prop associated with their profession or class, such as a staff or a bottle of healing water with a Healer or a crook with the shepard. Some professions might be harder than others (such as the Shopkeep and Nomad) but all in all, you should have them holding or having something in common with their profession. Props can also apply to pieces of clothing, such as an aphron or a hat.
7) You can place a bio or stats in the description of the character, but not on the actual piece.
8) You can use either original characters from your own selected series or stand alone characters. You may not use characters created for established fandoms such as Bleach, Oban Star Racers, Pirates of the Caribean or any of the like.

Notes:
1) For "rider" the term rider is applied in the same way that rider is applied in the dragonriders of Pern; that is someone who has a bond with a ridable animal or even a machine like a motocycle.
2) Shepard also applies to that same rule, in that the shepard must be someone who herds animals. Basically if the characters exist in a world without sheep, they can always shapard animals like that.
3) There are some characters such as samurai and airship captian that may or may not fit in a single universe, for that, it's okay to mix and match different series or different characters in this challenge. This challenge is about making different sorts of characters.
4) Some characters may be prone to different interpretations. Take for example, the Lancer. In some mediums it's exactly what it says on the tin: a guy with a lance, often a knight. In other situations, such as that in the Star Wars universe, the character of Han Solo is of the character type called a "Lancer" who is basically the back up guy for the hero, or a hero's sidekick, friend, or comrade. He's often consider older than the hero. Due to these differences in interpretations, some characters can be interpreted in certain ways.


So there you have it. I'm just wondering if anyone would be interested in doing this challange. Comment if you are.

  • Mood: Joy
  • Listening to: Final Fantasy 13 Assault Theme
  • Reading: When Darkness Falls by Mercede Lackey
  • Watching: nothing at all
  • Drinking: sweet tea

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: A place called CA
  • Interests: animation, drawing any kind of fantasy, illustation, or anthro... There's more than just that
  • Favourite movie: Star Wars, LOTR, Fern Gully, Princess Mononoke, Escaflowne, The Dark Crystal
  • Favourite band or musician: Daft Punk, AFI, Yes, Cut Copy, Mute Math, Goriallaz, E.S. Posthumus, too many to list
  • Favourite genre of music: Electronica, dance, rock, classic rock, celtic, soundtracks
  • Favourite artist: Picasso, Rene Margitte, CLAMP, Thomas Romain, Draxter Hall, Tetsuya Nomura
  • Favourite poet or writer: J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, Anne MacCaffery, L'Engle, Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Favourite style of art: anime, fantasy, anthro, digital
  • Operating System: Asus
  • MP3 player of choice: iPod nano
  • Shell of choice: seashell
  • Wallpaper of choice: Flowers, Oban Star Racers, anime, LoTR
  • Favourite game: Final Fastasy series, DDR, Guitar Hero, Starfox, Kingdom Hearts
  • Favourite gaming platform: PS2 and Gamecube
  • Favourite cartoon character: Rukia (bleach), Nightscream, Blackarachinia(BM), Zolo (OP), Molly, Aikka, Rick(OSR)
  • Tools of the Trade: pencils, markers, paper, computer, lightbox, watercolors, ink. yarn

Projects

The 50 Characters Challenge:
1)Hero/herione
2)Healer 10% done
3) Sorcerer 5% done
4) Sorceress 10% done
5) Ranger
6) Smith
7) Lancer
8) Assassin
9) Adventurer
10) Villan/villaness
11) Samurai
12)Ninja
13)Necromancer
14)Scholar
15)King
16)Queen
17)Prince
18)Princess
19)Mentor
20)Cleric 5% done
21)Fairy
22)Goblin
23)Elf
24)Dancer
25)Shaman
26)Thief
27)Weaver
28)Summoner
29) Swordsman/woman
30)Mechanic
31)Knight
32)Pirate
33)Hunter/Hunteress
34)Pilot
35)Gunner
36)Airship Captain
37)Priest/Priestress
38)Merchant
39)Medic
40)Nomad
41)Messanger
42)Shepard
43)Alchemist
44)Tourbadour
45)Rider
46)Barkeep
47)Shopkeep
48)Fencer
49)Emperor
50)Witch

Non-challenge Anthros:
1) Bat-eared fox FINISHED
2) Grey Fox
3) Amami Rabbit
4) Nyala
5) Ringtailed lemur
6) Monk Parakeet FINISHED
7) Gryfalcon FINISHED
8) Carolina Parakeet FINISHED
9) Red Kangaroo *Braenunn's suggestion
10) Ethiopian Wolf 30% done
11) Passenger Pigeon
12) Quagga
13) Orange and black Poison frog
14) Maned Wolf
15) Guinea Pig
16) Arctic Tern
17) Goldfinch
18) Green Jay
19) Giant Sable Antelope
20) Harp Seal


7 Pleistocene/Prehistoric Anthros: Note no mammoths, mastodons, smilodons, or ground sloths
1) Dinofelis
2) Stag-Moose
3) Hagerman horse
4) Candiavercus *Uri's suggestion
5) Scitimar Cat

Other pending anthro list
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2)
3)
4)
5)

30 Anthros to be done this year
15 FINISHED
15 UNFINISHED

20 Character Designs to be done this year
0 FINISHED
20 UNFINISHED

Non-challenge/non-anthro Animals (no domestic or mythical animals):
1) Arctic Fox (grey coat)
2) Baird's Tapir
3) white tern
4) Blue Posion Frog
5)Mediterrian Dolphfin

Portfolio related background work:
1) Desertview Watchtower FINISHED
2) San Fransico Mountains FINISHED
3) Cliff edge FINISHED
4) Sunset Crater 001
5) Sunset Crater 002
6) The Fay Forest 10%
7) Hills and Towers 10% done
8) Hillside tower 10% done
9)
10)


100 Themes challenge *still pending*

Ferne
Land of Geysers FINISHED
Wind Shrine Entrance 15% done
Nights of Winter Snow

Fanart
Liang 50% done
Perdita Davis, MD with bio FINISHED
Music Sounds Better (OSR)


Prints
Unnamed Raptor anthro FINISHED
Raptor Guy (print) Profile



Tutorials/Guides
Fantasy/Sci-Fi culture/world Building FINISHED
Avoiding Common Overused Tropes 70% done
Watercolor and Techniques Tutorial 15% done

Knits
White and grey scarf 60%
Pink and lavender scarf
Black multi-colored scarf

Week Events?
Oban Realted week (possibly Mokka)????
7 Colors Week ????
Element Week (this has nothing to do with Atla)

Shoutbox

*Redmagesalyre:iconRedmagesalyre:
You have a snowman!
Wed Apr 1, 2009, 10:57 PM
=White-winter-fox:iconWhite-winter-fox:
:XD:
Thu Mar 12, 2009, 5:58 AM
*Redmagesalyre:iconRedmagesalyre:
It's already 2009 and there are still comments from 2007? That's just weird.
Wed Feb 11, 2009, 11:36 PM
=drumgirl:icondrumgirl:
It's been a while! :wave: Happy Holidays! :santa:
Wed Dec 17, 2008, 7:30 PM
*Redmagesalyre:iconRedmagesalyre:
Aww, thanks!
Sat Aug 30, 2008, 5:04 PM
~ZeroBaneStaris:iconZeroBaneStaris:
Yay for your new Tablet!!! :D
Sun Aug 24, 2008, 3:26 PM
~SilSolo:iconSilSolo:
*hugs redmage*
Tue Jun 10, 2008, 6:01 PM
~SakisRouvas:iconSakisRouvas:
I guess you have a lot!
Sun Mar 16, 2008, 12:39 AM
*Redmagesalyre:iconRedmagesalyre:
Oh hi everyone. I see I have new posts.
Thu Mar 13, 2008, 8:35 PM
~Yuriko-chan24:iconYuriko-chan24:
anyone else just here to occupie their time? or are just bored out of their minds?
Fri Mar 7, 2008, 9:40 PM

New Anthro Related list?

73%
8 deviants said Mythical animals
27%
3 deviants said Dinosaur
0%
No deviants said Other?

Comments


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Feccagar: "we really need to stop meeting like this..."
Fendreth: "you mean in your study, at night?"
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RULES:
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2- You -MUST- hug 6 other people, at least!
3- You should hug them in public! Paste it on their user page!
4- Random hugs are perfectly okay! (and sweet)
5- You should most definitely get started hugging right away!

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"The banjo becomes angry at midnight... What the hell are you talking about!!!"
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Even when all I'm doing is figuring out how to turn my senior project into a fundraiser for charity.
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Molly/Eva x Aikka FOREVER!

"The banjo becomes angry at midnight... What the hell are you talking about!!!"
-Crow, MST3k "The Sword and the Dragon"

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