The Alternative auction___________________________ab'd:9000k

[Edouard Manet]

France,1863, the prestigious Paris Salon has just rejected over 3000 works of art.

Among the rejects are artists such as Manet and Whistler.
But wait! There is hope. Napoleon III has decreed that the rejected artists will be able to display their works in an extra exhibition, separate from the Salon.

In this "exhibition of rejects", you find yourself in a gallery filled with artists displaying their new, different, and excellent impressionistic artwork.

This is a joint auction of more alternative art.

start : febuary 16
end : march 15 at 11:59pm EST

contents
i. intro
ii. bid info
iii. rules
iv. clare
v. ciache
vi. freiheit
vii. clucking almightybandaid
viii. neurose
ix. votre
x. freebies
xi. links
xii. reserved

[Edouard Manet]

bid info

starting bid: 10k
auto buy: 9000k
minimum inc.: 10k

bid history

Kestrel Hengist

I have nice news for you. I'm going to autobuy this or however it is called. Nine million, correct?

xKillerXracoonx

*I hope I win* 550k biggrin

srha

let's move this on up!!!

500k pure bid. rofl 4laugh

Deceptiprune

Omgawsh, yay!
-mustbidmustbid-

250k please. <3

BP-chan

Liek woah 8D 200k on the auction please heart

pluto_san

100k!
very nice styles
:3

iRainbow Zombie

I'll bid 5ok.

I'll subscribe.
[Just in case someone outbids me. Which will happen....]

SkorchedUtopia

Wooo! First bump!
And offer the first bid. Paltry, but a decent start. 20k.

Meow.
~The Notorious Miss Amanda

[Edouard Manet]

rules

-be excellent to eachother

-no retracting bids

-value items at lowest tektek

-don't bid a ton of crap items (ie flowers, bugs, starter sets)

-no critiquing of art unless it is asked for

-don't bid snipe! it's really annoying and unfair to other bidders
(bid sniping is when you bid in the last minute or so of the
auction, that way you win the auction without having to pay
much higher than the previous hber)

-don't bid if you plan on leaving gaia (i've had this happen)

-allow the artists time to finish their pieces. it's really irritating
to artists when people push them to do art quickly. Things also
get a little hairy when there are multiple artists involved because
some artists are slower while some are quicker. You should allow
about 2 months for everyone to finish, because we do have real
life obligations that take priority over gaia.

small note: we're not anti-anime, we're just going with a more
alternative theme, no disrespect to anime styles C:

[Edouard Manet]

Likes: real life characters, caricatures, cool lighting,
good references, weird skin tones, anything I don't dislike.

Dislikes: mechas, some anthros, most masks and some
hats, glasses, clutter, anything against ToS.

HB: half-body with a simple to moderate background
AB: full-body with a complex background.

[Edouard Manet]

latest commission

want: girlies, realistic things, original
characters, celebrities and real life people
do not want: mecha armor, clutter, lots
of items, large masks, black, pr0n
I'll try to do anything, but basically the more
likely your character's apperance is to happen
in reality, the more likely my my piece for you
will be good. Don't blame me if the piece i do of
your 57 accessory anthro character kind of sucks.
Also, I always start with a reference photo, so
you can supply your own or I'll find one for you.
Either way works.

HB: Realistic watercolor headshot with
color background + spiffy watercolor effects
AB: Realistic watercolor waist-up with
multi-color background + effects

[Edouard Manet]

-Other samples and IRL commissions here-




Will do: anything that's not in the ''won't do'',
I love details, adding piercing or tattoos,
so tell me if I can't or what you'd like
Won't do: cluthered/ugly avatars, some
anthro and mecha. Realism like in the third sample.





HB: bust
AB: halfties and up

[Edouard Manet]

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2201/cluckingka5.jpg

http://i32.tinypic.com/mjlgth.jpghttp://i26.tinypic.com/2e4j7o4.jpghttp://i31.tinypic.com/239miq.jpg

DA

Will do: Most things. That includes nudity and
challenging things like anthro and mecha.


Won't do: Anything against the ToS... >_>;


HB: Bust w/ modest background

AB Waist-up w/ optional background

[Edouard Manet]

FLICKR& DA.

YES: animals, avatars, mmorpg chars, OCs,
fanart (depending on what it is)
NO: cluttered avatars, furries, mechas

HB: Colored bust with simple background
AB: Colored halfbody with simple background

[Edouard Manet]

[WIP 1]

The style will be the latter two, unless of course you prefer otherwise. smile

will do: Anything inside of the ToS. Or, more
specifically, avatars, OCs, fanart, RL people, randomness,
guy/girl, guy/guy, girl/girl, funky clothing, whatever.
won't do: Um. Porn?

HB: Half-body with simple background
AB: Full-body with a simple-to-moderately complicated background

[Edouard Manet]

freebies

Clare will periodically do sketches for
awesome people. She will also do a freebie
for the highest bumper at the end.

Ciache will do small sketched headshots
for people who stick around and bump a lot.

Freiheit will give out freebies at random.

neurose will give freebies to random
bumpers and nice chaps.

clucking almightybandaid will probably do
some freebies.

votre might be able to do freebies.

[Edouard Manet]

links

In

http://tinyurl.com/2kfw8e

[url=http://tinyurl.com/2j56ut][img]http://tinyurl.com/2kfw8e[/img][/url]

http://tinyurl.com/3da89g

[url=tinyurl.com/2j56ut][img]http://tinyurl.com/3da89g[/img][/url]

Out
just post it and we'll trade. smile


http://tinyurl.com/2em9fd

http://urlcut.com/kmd

http://www.luvluv.net/gaia/swallowtail-action.jpg



http://tinyurl.com/3bokdc

http://tinyurl.com/2h4jo5

http://i28.tinypic.com/r0td83.png

http://tinyurl.com/2nj22n

http://tinyurl.com/2tfdln

[Edouard Manet]

reserved

[SkorchedUtopia]

Wooo! First bump!

And cheers to this auction. Again, Ciache, I appreciate the invitation but I really didn't have the energy to participate. Therefore, I can lounge around amidst bench time.

And offer the first bid. Paltry, but a decent start. 20k.

Meow.
~The Notorious Miss Amanda

[Ciache]

SkorchedUtopia

Wooo! First bump!

And cheers to this auction. Again, Ciache, I appreciate the invitation but I really didn't have the energy to participate. Therefore, I can lounge around amidst bench time.

And offer the first bid. Paltry, but a decent start. 20k.

Meow.
~The Notorious Miss Amanda

hey man its cool B)
thanks for the bid! i'll add it once you know... people do their posts lol

[Edouard Manet]

heart