AuthorTopic: Secret Santa 2016 (Read 51883 times)

Atnas · **on:** December 25, 2016, 05:33:27 am

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, Pixelation! A wonderful turnout as always. Enjoy our 11th annual Secret Santa.

For 0xDB, from ilkke:

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For 32, from PixelPigeon:

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For Ambivorous, from Prism:

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For API-Beast, from Doppleganger:

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For Arcade Hero, from Veksell:

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For BatElite, from Runensucher:

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For Batzy, from washk:

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For Cakeprediction, from Mandrill:

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For CFKaligula, from Pusty:

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For Conzeit, from darchangel:

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For darchangel, from wzl:

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For Dex, from yaomon17:

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For Dex, from Finlal:

Thank Finlal, because yaomon's images went down! Finlal made this in half an hour. I'll add yaomon's images once he sends me new ones

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For doctorcello, from CFKaligula:

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For Doppleganger, from Rhubarbist:

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For Dracodragon42, from ||||:

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For EdJr, from API-Beast:

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For fanification, from sonicspin:

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For Finlal, from lachrymose:

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For Gecimen, from DracoDragon42:

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For HarveyDentMustDie, from odedrt9:

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For ||||, from Gecimen:

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For ilkke, from Mr_Hk_:

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For Jamie Rollo, from Batzy:

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For jams, from Arcade Hero:

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For jjhaggar, from doctorcello:

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For kullenberg, from jjhaggar:

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For Kwisarts, from skamocore:

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For lachrymose, from Finlal:

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For Lighterthief, from Pizza Tom:

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For LJRadio, from Jamie Rollo:

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For Mandrill, from Dex:

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For Mastak_A, from Mathcong:

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For Mathcong, from lachrymose:

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For Mr_Hk_, from Lighterthief:

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For MysteryMeat, from Kwisarts:

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For odedrt9, from jams:

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For orangemagik, from sonicspin:

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For orangemagik, from MysteryMeat:

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For Pika, from Ambivorous:

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For PixelPigeon, from fanification:

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For Pizza Tom, from Yuushia:

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For Prism, from Conzeit:

Quote from: Conzeit on December 24, 2016, 05:48:50 pm

I am a naughty naughty, slacker.

I am terribly sorry atnas, but I'm going to leave prism/pikpixelart dissapointed =/ perhaps it's best you just forward him this pm? =/

I had a grandiose idea of mixing the styles of 3 separate painters whom match the aesthetic refferences he gave and making a really cool piece that was somewhere inbetween, but I only got as far as color reducing two of their paintings and then a very rough picture that barely tests the color reduced palletes.

peng kang long color reduction

Serge Mashernikov color reduction

and my testing of the peng kang long pallete....

I am terribly sorry, I am commited to the piece and I will send it ASAP but it will not be for pixmas

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For ptoing, from 32:

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For Pusty, from 0xDB:

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For Reo, from orangemagik:

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For Rhubarbist, from Valerian:

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For Ryumaru, from wolfenoctis:

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For skamocore, from BatElite:

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For SolidM, from Cakeprediction:

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For SoloSalsero, from Reo:

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For sonicspin, from xhunterko:

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For Super17, from SolidM:

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For Runensucher, from Mastak_A:

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For tomic, from ptoing:

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For Valerian, from tomic:

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For Vazovski, from kullenberg:

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For Veksell, from Vazovski:

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For washk, from HarveyDentMustDie:

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For wolfenoctis, from Super17:

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For wzl, from SoloSalsero:

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For xhunterko, from LJRadio:

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For yaomon17, from ||||:

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For Yuushia, from Ryumaru:

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Merry Christmas!

lachrymose · **Reply #1 on:** December 25, 2016, 05:57:13 am

Awesome stuff again this year!

Thanks for the gift Finlal, have a Merry Christmas everyone!

Pusty · **Reply #2 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:00:09 am

That's just so much amazing stuff here!
Thanks 0xDB for your great piece, I just love everything about it!

Merry christmas to everyone

tomic · **Reply #3 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:02:31 am

Wow. Thank you Ptoing for this eye-popping piece of art. Love it!

Merry Xmas everyone!

Prism · **Reply #4 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:07:20 am

Even in its early stage, there's a lot interesting going on in your gift, Conz. The color ramps and circular compositions are really interesting, so thank you lots for the work you did

All in all, it's abstracted pretty interestingly, and in a way I don't see done often, even in its simplicity. Merry Christmas to you, to Ambi, to all.

And really Conz, don't worry about missing Christmas day - I think you tackled an ambitious, cool concept that probably would need the greater time, regardless. The PM attached to the piece is thoughtful, and I understand. If you end up fleshing it out, I bet it'll be wonderful.

Vazovski · **Reply #5 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:08:45 am

Wow! So many great works! Everybody have done good job, specially kullenberg. Thanks for the new cool avatar! I have already put it in my profile on duke4 forums.

I'll definitely take part in the next santa, this is really awesome!

Merry Christmas everybody!

Ryumaru · **Reply #6 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:10:08 am

DUUUUUDEEE, wOLF, she's perfecttt! So much so that I had to make an emote we didn't have to express my feelings:

Thanks so much man! Perfect amount of colors and going with such a huge canvas! The subtlety in her lips..., just...

you rock, dude <3

Also, thanks to atnas for being an awesome santa as always! Merry X-mas ya'll

Arcade Hero · **Reply #7 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:17:47 am

Thanks, Veksell!

Cool stuff, guys!

Merry Christmas to everyone c:

skamocore · **Reply #8 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:17:54 am

Yay, thanks BatElite for the endlessly swimming dolphin

Great stuff this year - I particularly love Ptoing's, 0xDB's, and Mr_HK_'s gifts

|||| · **Reply #9 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:26:02 am

This is a most glorious Christmas!

Every present.. every pixel

Thank you for the creepy tree Gecimen. It could definitely fall into the #darkfaerie tag.

yaomon17 · **Reply #10 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:32:32 am

Wow, what a spectacular pixel experience! Wonderfully done!

Also I fixed my links. Soz. :|

odedrt9 · **Reply #11 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:45:26 am

LOL Jams you really made my morning!
That's an awesome gift to receive for my first Christmas

Atnas · **Reply #12 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:51:17 am

Quote from: odedrt9 on December 25, 2016, 06:45:26 am

That's an awesome gift to receive for my first Christmas

MysteryMeat · **Reply #13 on:** December 25, 2016, 07:10:15 am

Haha, oh man! Rad stuff kwisarts! Wasn't expecting the hellbeast-in-a-box there, great stuff!

wolfenoctis · **Reply #14 on:** December 25, 2016, 07:21:53 am

Thanks Super17 for my fantastic gift, very well pixelled indeed

Man what a great end to the year! So many awesome pixel pieces, notably: ilkke, Mr_Hk, Dex and orangemagik. Excellent work guys

@Ryumaru: Youre very welcome my dude

Merry Christmas everyone

SolidM · **Reply #15 on:** December 25, 2016, 07:38:55 am

thanks for the awesome gift Cakeprediction!

0xDB · **Reply #16 on:** December 25, 2016, 07:48:58 am

Loving it ilkke! I hope I'm not missing anything from interpreting it in terms of the eight virtues:

I think I clearly see "Sacrifice is Courage to give oneself in name of Love" in the form of the little hatch opening in the armor and the arrow striking the heart. Then I think there is also "Compassion is Love of others" since the bird is allowed to rest on the hilt of the sword. The overall posture appears to stand for "Valor, Pure Courage, standing up against risks" (also supported by the risk to get shot in the heart again, making the hatch serve another purpose).

Oh and the colors... haha, ok, should have looked at them first, they seem all tailored to support the symbolism for each virtue being depicted and the palette appears to be composed entirely of colors from that virtue system. For example the main chunk of white(the color for Spirituality) in the center and some smaller chunks of it elsewhere, fits perfect for "Spirituality is to seek Truth, Love and Courage from one's own self and the world around" and yellow being the color for Compassion supports the observation about the bird, orange the Sacrifice.

Veksell · **Reply #17 on:** December 25, 2016, 08:41:39 am

Thank you, Vazovski!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

washk · **Reply #18 on:** December 25, 2016, 08:51:13 am

I think glorious is a well chosen term for this year Secret Santa. There are a lot of insane stuff, and beautiful ... and very creative Pixel Art.

Merry Christmas to you all.

HarveyDentMustDie, I love it, love the palette, that's my kind of girl

It's been an first awesome year of being part of this community, with great insight of many of you. This kind of challenge makes me strive for moar and moar progress. And I definitely enjoy the process of doing so with you guys. Love you all !

Mandrill · **Reply #19 on:** December 25, 2016, 09:39:12 am

Holy fucking shit, DEX!!! Unbelievable!

Thank you so, so, so much. This is just utterly amazing. It has already one a special place in my heart and soon will get a spot on one of my walls. It captures so many great things I love about fantasy art and illustrations in general. I wish you amazing holidays!

Really great stuff all around this year.

Merry christmas to you all.

API-Beast · **Reply #20 on:** December 25, 2016, 09:59:36 am

Doppleganger: Nice interpretation dude

Healthy appetite.
That's how you know your wife won't starve while you are out plundering.

32 · **Reply #21 on:** December 25, 2016, 10:13:11 am

Thanks PixelPigeon! Awesome scene, never knew I wanted a personalised postage stamp until today, love it

Great pieces from everyone this year. Super17 your piece is sick.

Special thanks to Saint Atnas for putting it together again

Rhubarbist · **Reply #22 on:** December 25, 2016, 10:51:56 am

Thank you Valerian, it looks awesome! A lot of really great pixel art this year, thanks Atnas for organising it, Merry Christmas everyone!

Lighterthief · **Reply #23 on:** December 25, 2016, 11:02:33 am

Thanks Pizza Tom, for your lovely piece!

Great stuff all around, happy holidays

Elk · **Reply #24 on:** December 25, 2016, 11:50:29 am

very awesome stuffs guys!

merry christmas to everyone

kullenberg · **Reply #25 on:** December 25, 2016, 12:09:06 pm

Fucking sweet man, ninjas for christmas what more can you ask for. Revenge of Shinobi was one of my favorites on the Genesis growing up so that was perfect
Thanks jjhaggar!

kullenberg · **Reply #26 on:** December 25, 2016, 12:15:47 pm

Quote from: Vazovski on December 25, 2016, 06:08:45 am

Wow! So many great works! Everybody have done good job, specially kullenberg. Thanks for the new cool avatar! I have already put it in my profile on duke4 forums.

I'll definitely take part in the next santa, this is really awesome!

Merry Christmas everybody!

Glad ya like it and hail to the king, baby.

ptoing · **Reply #27 on:** December 25, 2016, 12:16:27 pm

Really weird and disturbing pic, 32. I really like it.

Tomic: Glad you like it, I will probably tweak it a bit more in the coming weeks before it goes up on PJ as well as finalise the video with the final version steps and add some music.

Great work everyone. Merry Christmas and all that jazz

Valerian · **Reply #28 on:** December 25, 2016, 12:36:44 pm

Quote from: Rhubarbist on December 25, 2016, 10:51:56 am

Thank you Valerian, it looks awesome! A lot of really great pixel art this year, thanks Atnas for organising it, Merry Christmas everyone!

I'm glad you like it

yours is really cool too!

Valerian · **Reply #29 on:** December 25, 2016, 12:38:25 pm

Thank you tomic, it's super awesome

Great to see al these awesome art pieces, Merry Christmas

Crow · **Reply #30 on:** December 25, 2016, 01:26:59 pm

So many great pieces once again

Damn wolfenoctis :L Happy holidays everyone!

HarveyDentMustDie · **Reply #31 on:** December 25, 2016, 02:31:02 pm

Thanks odedrt9 for a nice gift, it's good idea to combine characters. Thank you Atnas for his effort to organize this.

Great job guys, I really like atmosphere in tomic and Mr_Hk gifts.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone.

Mr_Hk_ · **Reply #32 on:** December 25, 2016, 02:41:50 pm

This is quite a badass pinup Leela, Thanks a lot Lighterthief for this glorious gift.

Many awesomely pixelate gift, congrats everyone and best of Xmas to you and the one you loves.

Mathcong · **Reply #33 on:** December 25, 2016, 02:52:27 pm

Thx lachrymose,

Happy holidays everyone (:

darchangel · **Reply #34 on:** December 25, 2016, 02:58:05 pm

Holy Smokes!! Awesome stuff like always everyone. I love waking up and opening everybody's presents...where else are you allowed to do that?

Thank you wzl, I love it.

Thank you Atnas, for making all this possible again.

Happy Holidays everyone!!!

Atnas · **Reply #35 on:** December 25, 2016, 03:45:49 pm

Doppleganger updated his present!

Riva · **Reply #36 on:** December 25, 2016, 05:40:16 pm

I'm late to the party again, but I'm in a rare xmas mood to do some pixelart.
Are there any gift-less people left, so I can make a surrogate gift for them ?

@MysteryMeat - Checking the presents, I'm glad I'm not the only one thru the years who likes bad things to happen to St.Nicolas ;]

Atnas · **Reply #37 on:** December 25, 2016, 05:59:00 pm

Sure! Everyone has a gift, but feel free to go through and see if maybe someone got a smaller present you want to add to, or just check out the signup thread in the archived activity forum, and find someone's list of likes that appeals to you.

orangemagik · **Reply #38 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:07:46 pm

Thank you sonicspin for such cuteness!
Thank you MysteryMeat for such brutality!
And Happy Holidays everyone! That was fun!

Kwisarts · **Reply #39 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:17:18 pm

Glad you like it MysteryMeat!

I'm not so good at doing "weird horror stuff", so I tried to fool around with Santa's expectations

Thanks a lot for the gift skamocore!

Love the cute ribbon!

Really nice to see all these for Christmas! Will surely participate next year too

Merry Christmas everbody!

SoloSalsero · **Reply #40 on:** December 25, 2016, 06:37:31 pm

Thank you Reo, great MARVELous gift, thank you so much

wzl · **Reply #41 on:** December 25, 2016, 08:08:17 pm

Amazing mood piece solo! It fits the vague'ness of the 2 liner perfectly

excellent interpretation.

Overall really impressive stuff going on, everyone! have a nice holiday!

Yuushia · **Reply #42 on:** December 25, 2016, 08:57:27 pm

Aaaaw thank you Ryumaru, with such a piece, my crazy love for cats is fulfilled (^・ω・^ )
Nice GB palette, hehe

Merry Xmas to everyone !
Also, bravo for all these wonderful pieces of pixels

Runensucher · **Reply #43 on:** December 25, 2016, 10:06:00 pm

This is absolutly crazy. I don't want to miss any Secret Santa from now on.

Thanks a lot Mastak_A. I really love my present. But that's no wonder, how to not love a polka dancing christmas whale? (Or is it a sleeping cap?) I'm going to use it as my avatar since I didn't have one.

Thank you everyone for all this great art. Please don't stop being amazing.

Super17 · **Reply #44 on:** December 26, 2016, 12:22:09 am

Thanks SolidM for the beautiful Mountain, really dig the colors

To Wolfenoctis: I'm glad you like it, wasn't sure about the gorgo theme. The piece itself was intended to be bigger, maybe I will continue working on it.
To 32: Much appreciated!

Really nice pixels all and Merry Christmas everyone!

xhunterko · **Reply #45 on:** December 26, 2016, 02:25:13 am

Thank you LJRadio! So much detail in one small package!

ilkke · **Reply #46 on:** December 26, 2016, 03:46:19 am

Thanks for the amazing present, Mr_Hk_ !

Also thanks to Atnas for hosting this yet again, and for waiting on my belated picture (yet again)

Happy holidays, all! \o/

jams · **Reply #47 on:** December 26, 2016, 05:01:31 am

stellar work, everyone! you folks are amazing

glad you enjoyed the gift, oded

it was a blast to make. happy hannukhristmas!

thank you anyway arcade hero - i will have the cookies now. merry christmas

see you nerds next year! <3

Cakeprediction · **Reply #48 on:** December 26, 2016, 09:41:56 am

thank you mandrill, it looks amazing <3

jjhaggar · **Reply #49 on:** December 26, 2016, 10:17:27 pm

Thank you very much doctorcello! I don't know her (is an OC maybe?) but I sure liked her, especially her fire fist! :D

Quote from: kullenberg on December 25, 2016, 12:09:06 pm

Fucking sweet man, ninjas for christmas what more can you ask for. Revenge of Shinobi was one of my favorites on the Genesis growing up so that was perfect
Thanks jjhaggar!

Glad you liked it kullenberg! :D Joe Musashi is the best! ;D

Also great job everyone, and thank you for organizing this Atnas, it was really fun and I hope to repeat next year! ^_^

Happy holidays to you all, people! :D :D

Doppleganger · **Reply #50 on:** December 26, 2016, 11:31:07 pm

Thx for the awesome present Rhubarbist. Love the overall aesthetic and matching box. Hopefully sometime this year I end up some place as magical as the one you pixeled. Thanks again!

Atnas · **Reply #51 on:** December 27, 2016, 05:59:32 am

thank nowvab for the banner!

doctorcello · **Reply #52 on:** December 27, 2016, 05:22:21 pm

Quote from: jjhaggar on December 26, 2016, 10:17:27 pm

Thank you very much doctorcello! I don't know her (is an OC maybe?) but I sure liked her, especially her fire fist!

You're welcome, glad you like it! Yeah, she's an OC I made up on the spot. I tried to incorporate elements of Battle Angel Alita, Darkstalkers and fire haha.

And thank you so much CFKaligula! It's pretty much everything I could hope for, from the witch to the cute capybara/rabbit hybrid! I would play that game

Dex · **Reply #53 on:** December 28, 2016, 02:22:37 pm

Wow, great stuff this year guys. Always a pleasure to participate in such an inspiring activity.

Yaomon, thank you so much! It's awesome. Love the mood and the dark, somber aesthetic. And Finlal, thanks for the gift too! It's great as well-- love the setting!

Mandrill, I'm glad you enjoyed my gift! I want to spruce it up a little more before I call it completely finished if that's alright with you! I would love to see it printed out!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

Ambivorous · **Reply #54 on:** December 28, 2016, 04:57:58 pm

Aaaah, Prism that dragon is awesome!

and such amazingly realistic clouds and fire effect, nice job. Thanks so much and Merry Christmas to you as well~ ^^

Sorry I didn't finish your piece, Pika! *lame ass excuses about time, but really i'm just bad at time management* I will finish it at some point though, don't you worry! I love working on it and eventually I'll do it justice.

As always thanks to the awesome, Atnas, for organising this, and big up to everyone who took part. ^^

Gecimen · **Reply #55 on:** December 30, 2016, 11:16:56 pm

Dracodragon42; thank you matey!!!

@llll, I tried to draw a proper fairy but I really suck at drawing females, hence the tree

glad you liked it.

EdJr · **Reply #56 on:** December 31, 2016, 04:38:18 am

So, I'm a bit late to the party....

Well, I don't expect to be forgiven by SantAtnas, but Mathcong, I hope you like it! Sorry for the delay

(In case you're wondering/screaming in horror, I took inspiration from the Suriname toad :p)

Thanks, API-Beast!

Happy holidays, everyone!

Atnas · **Reply #57 on:** December 31, 2016, 06:01:44 pm

That's fine EdJr, you just won't be able to participate next year. I'll put your gift under the tree later on. Now we're just waiting on Pika.

Conzeit · **Reply #58 on:** January 03, 2017, 04:32:11 am

welp, I thought since the season is over and all I should post some progress

I feel like it's going somewhere now :p still work to be done

no real idea what any of it is aside from the woman XD. I may speficy it later, I want it to be conceptually intriguing. dont expect the rendering of my references though, they were just sources of inspiration for composition and general color/atmosphere

if any of it looks like anything and you like that, or FEELS like it should be about something, please tell me, might help me nail down the concept :p it's weird how long I'm taking with this (can almost feel Ptoing disapproving :p) but I hadnt been this ambitious with a landscape ever so I guess it was to be expected.

I had held from posting because I felt bad about my WIP, but thank you darchangel! heh, fun little spin on what I asked :p santa looks like he doesnt really approve of what he's reading...maybe twas too much a night for him? :p

oh and everyone's stuff is really awesome this time around

these guys specially appealed to my specific taste tho
http://pixelation.org/upload/ss16/from_tomic_to_Valerian_00.gif
http://pixelation.org/upload/ss16/from_Doppleganger_to_API-Beast_xx.gif
http://pixelation.org/upload/ss16/from_Prism_to_Ambivorous_xx.png
http://pixelation.org/upload/ss16/from_Mr-Hk_to_ilkke_B5.gif
http://pixelation.org/upload/ss16/from_SoloSalsero_to_wzl_00.png
http://pixelation.org/upload/ss16/from_yaomon17_to_Dex_00.gif
I just love how I dont even know what yao's is. I guess I inherently love the unknowable. would it be insufferably cagey to just put "the unknowable" as my likes next year? XD

Prism · **Reply #59 on:** January 04, 2017, 03:00:34 am

Whatever the wait happens to be, the sheer quality of this gift makes it totally worth it! Conz, you are the man. Conceptually, that piece is really shaping up, and I'd say the tone is perfect. Now I see where you were going in the first place, aha.

SoloSalsero · **Reply #60 on:** January 04, 2017, 05:51:18 pm

Quote from: wzl on December 25, 2016, 08:08:17 pm

Amazing mood piece solo! It fits the vague'ness of the 2 liner perfectly
excellent interpretation.

Overall really impressive stuff going on, everyone! have a nice holiday!

Yes, you did not make it easy

. Happy that you like it

Conzeit · **Reply #61 on:** January 12, 2017, 05:05:05 am

Quote from: Prism on January 04, 2017, 03:00:34 am

Whatever the wait happens to be, the sheer quality of this gift makes it totally worth it! Conz, you are the man. Conceptually, that piece is really shaping up, and I'd say the tone is perfect. Now I see where you were going in the first place, aha.

Thank you! so glad you're enjoying it

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https://conzeit.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/pikpikpixmas05-0.png
I agree that I'm getting somewhere on the tone, but I'm ambivalent about this purposedfully not polished style I'm going for...I'm kind of stuck on the concept part, specially as to wtf is going on in the bottom part....so I cut it. That, compounded with the fact that I'm starting to have obligations which are taking me away from the piece, means I'm going to post this as the final piece. if I get an eureka moment about what to do with the bottom part, some kind of satisfying story, I'll come back to it, but for now here is where I stop.
https://conzeit.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/pikpikpixmas04.png in the interest of full disclosure this is the full thing.

each separate part is the proportions of a landscape screen, so you might wallpaper it if you want =) (though doing that make me irk at my unfinished "style" :p)
https://conzeit.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/pikpikpixmas05-01.png woman
https://conzeit.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/pikpikpixmas05-02.png clouds
https://conzeit.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/pikpikpixmas05-03.png blue underworld.
hope you enjoy it as it is, and I hope I get some eureka :p

PS: Solo, whatever struggled you had was worth it, you kicked ass!

PS2: Worked on it again

I guess I might work on it from time to time cuz I remain interested in it, despite still not having a good enough idea for the concept

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