August 2018: Desert Warriors

Spiridon Giannakis 9 months ago

With all the great entries in our last contest we are curious what you will come up with this time. The topic is "Desert Warriors" and this can be either on this planet or another, in the past or the future. There is no limit. And no, we talk about sand, not cake. This time the prizes are:

• 1 license for 3D-Coat
  
• 1 license for Clip Studio Paint
  
• 1 copy of Selah by Faraz Shanyar
  
• Firestarter Magazine #3 and #4
  
• Social media features
  
• Please post your entry in this thread directly and make sure you send it until 30th of August at 12am (Berlin time).
  

Each participant can only send one piece and it must be a new one.

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  Costis Pap 9 months ago

  Here is my entry. I would call it "The Summoning".

  
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  Bazsó Lossonczy 8 months ago

  This is my entry: - desert warrior from game Salt Lands -
  
  

  
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  MYart 8 months ago

  Ok, here is my entry. Tried to do my best in the little time i had. "The desert raider"

  
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  Dylan Safford 8 months ago

  Ah man, this one sounds fun! Sadly I can't partake this time; got 4 other paintings to finish by the end of the month. :X

  
  

  Good luck to everyone!

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  Boti Harko 8 months ago

  
  

  "The sound of the wind sanding against leather, steel and bone was their constant companion as their journey brought them to the final strech. As irony would have it, the dead beasts were more afraid of what lie ahead than their masters..."

  
  

  Hey peeps! I submit this as my entry - the subject just rang of Frazetta for me (might have been the turpentine tho) so went down this route.

  Hope you like it :)

  Cheers!

  
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  Eljudni 8 months ago

  "Running With Hyenas"

  

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  Mardal 8 months ago

  
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  1amirlevi 8 months ago

  
  

  
  "And on the seventh day, just as promised, the necromancer used his ancient magic
   to raise the warriors of battles past and their beasts , to free the desert's sacred 
   grounds from the foreighners , who were seeking its burried treasures..."
  
  cool entries everyone, this is it for me on it, been fun :)

  
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  aumesRonoy 8 months ago

  My entry for the Art Challenge; "Desert Warriors from Mars"

  Thanks for the opportunity

  aumesRonoy

  
  
  

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  Jacob Mobley 8 months ago

  Lol. He outgrew his baby cactus pot and wages war on the other house plants.
  

  
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  Absint 8 months ago

  
  

  
  
  

  "They scouted the land of the desert planet many times before...bear all the scars on their skin...yet still they find the will to hunt for their mirage...and a renewed thirst for being careful...for what lies in the sand truly is unpredictable!" 

  
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  Damjan Gjorgievski 8 months ago

  Тhe Azure Medjay and the Shadowless Priestess

  Really sad I didn't get to spend more time on this one. But it was really fun, pushed me towards developing a story and trying out a new approach to speed painting. If anyone is interested in the story it can be found in the Contest WIP section. And of course, any opinions are very welcome.

  
  

  
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  Viridai 8 months ago

  Hi everyone, here is my desert knight :">

  

• This post was deleted at Aug 31, 2018.

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  BjornHurri 8 months ago

  Hello everyone!

  So my decision is as follows:

  The winner: Bota Harko
  
  Very nice colors and palette, very Frazetta in it's delivery
  
  Runner ups (in no particular order) :
  Aumes Ronoy - I really liked the feel and character design in your piece but there was some odd compositional choices and anatomy occurring which nudged it back a tad.
  
  MYart - very nice character design but for me the upper body was too noisy to snatch first place.
  

  Absint - lovely composition but some of the rendering and light was not strong enough but a great effort
  
  
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  Spiridon Giannakis 8 months ago

  Congratulations Boti!