bi-weekly art challenge thread

[Strangelove]

outline:
every two weeks, we'll post a prompt for a piece of art and anyone who wants to take part will have that time to post something based on that brief.

it's not a competition, or about having the best technical skill. the main thing is to encourage people to make something no matter what skill level they're at, and to practice art (drawing, painting, traditional or digital, whatever you like) and design. you can post multiple entries, post sketches or finished drawings, post pieces based on old prompts you might have missed. it's not going to be a strict thing.


past prompts:
#001 - design a new summon for the remake of final fantasy vii
#002 - design an airship

 

[Strangelove]

#001 - 18th ~ 31st may 2019:

design a new summon for the remake of final fantasy vii

it can be based on a mythological creature, a summon from another final fantasy game that didn't appear in the original ffvii, or something completely unique and original, whatever you like

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Could it be a summons that looks like an orange? Because I could draw that.

 

[fancy]

go for it please cuz i legitimately want to see it now

 

[Strangelove]

when you get a summon that's a woman, they're always sexy ladies and i thought, where's all the old crones. so i did baba yaga, who does earth damage and a bunch of status ailments and lives in a little house that walks on giant chicken legs (in my mind she is fused with the little house but my hands haven't found a way to portray that yet)

did ffvii have earth damage? well it does now

edited to also add a little storyboard for a summon sequence

 

[Ghost X]

This is Atomos. FFVII doesn't have a gravity summon, iirc, so hence my selection (besides not being interesting in drawing a Diabolos). I figured I'd go with a cosmic entity theme, inspired by Jenova, and thought of the cosmology of the FFVII universe in doing so (eg: "What's Atomos's role in this universe?" etc).

The summoning animation would have it form out of the environment around it (in this case, under Junon, where Mr Dolphin resides), before lightning strikes its mast thing, which causes its mouth to pull everything into infinity. After that, it disintegrates/obliterates.

The inside of its gob was influenced by this surreal image, which I thought looked pretty cool. The skull on its mast thing was inspired by this version.

 

[a_apple]

The next one was about airships, right? :p
So this is supossed to be some shabby cheap one. I kinda imagined a scenario where this would be the first airship you get in the game. But it couldn't get you over mountains and the ocean (like the tiny bronco) since it's such a piece of junk

 

[Ite]

One of the bogus “leaks” for FF7R described a new wolf summon. So I made this. It’s not Fenrir. It does non-elemental damage and casts haste on the party.

 

[Ghost X]

For the airship challenge, I decided to place myself in the FFIX world, because I think the airships are the best in that game. I wanted to centre my design around a fish, so I referenced about three fish in it. I guess its function is a rapid transport ship, as there doesn't appear to be much space for cargo and I didn't really draw any thing militaristic on it .

The idea being that the tan air balloons of the body inflate around a jet engine, which sucks in air through the front and blasts it out the back for propulsion . Got little wings and a rudder to control direction. The red air balloon with the shiny bits I'm sure has another function, yet to be determined, but the idea was for it to have the appearance of legitimacy (ie: there for a reason) . The flag designs are taken straight from the game, found on some airship I referenced.

 

[Strangelove]

#002 - 1st ~ 14th june 2019:

design an airship

i see some of you getting in early on a topic not formally selected yet but that's fine because we're very mellow over here and this saves me from making the choice. also i'm late because the internet on my laptop keeps acting up

this time, the challange is to design an airship. it can be in any style you want, magical fantasy one or a hi-tech futuristic one. anything your mind can imagine

 

[SeaDragon]

Look how many artist with great and peculiar artistic styles! this is already my fav thread and I hope to post something before the weekend.

 

[Interslicery]

I feel sad this dropped off, and that I never participated...

 

[CrashOuch]

@Interslicery draw something for it now then!

 

[Interslicery]

Maybe..

 

[Ghost X]

@Strangelove More prompts plz .

 

[Strangelove]

pretend this was a planned hiatus and i wasn’t just being a slacker

for a while my internet connection would only work for a short period of the day (by which time i had a bunch of stuff i wanted or needed to do online and some just slipped my mind) and i didn’t want to be formatting posts on my phone. which would have been better than nothing but oh well.

the next prompt is ‘pick a new prompt for me’ (stuff previously mentioned in the threads or a new original idea)

plus anyone can do any prompt they want whenever. it’s anarchy in here.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

Dress FFVII characters in the style of FFXII.
(I just don't get why you'd wear a skin tight leather (?) booty-shorts body suit and enormous metal boots when you live in a desert).

 

[Strangelove]

someone please draw cloud in hot pink booty shorts, you will automatically win this non-existent contest

 

[Strangelove]

btw we are doing the ffvii character in ffxii style one, just to make it formal. i should write a proper post but just as a heads up, it's on.

 

[Mage]

I've had Clip Studio for a week and still no clue how to use it. I'm working on it, lol. Cloud in pink hotpants sounds as good a challenge as any.

 

[Ghost X]

I worked with Reks as a base for about half the clothing, borrowing also from Vaan, Ewen, Luso, Vossler, and Drace. So not just FFXII, but the broader games set on Ivalice.

About half way through I wondered what kind of character Cloud would be in the time of FFXII, wearing whatever SOLDIER's equivalent is in FFXII (a Judge perhaps?), and pumped up like Vayne infused with manufactured nethicite. I'd draw him like that if I were to redo it. Might draw other characters later.

 

[a_apple]

btw we are doing the ffvii character in ffxii style one, just to make it formal. i should write a proper post but just as a heads up, it's on.

Loved this challenge

 

[Strangelove]

oh lord it’s almost a week later and i still didn’t write that post

i have failed you, my thread

 

[a_apple]

another doodle since I like the idea of sky pirate Cloud and his wacky adventures