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Meee! Do you know how many people in this guild alone have red-haired hotties?

My contest didn't really get as many entries as I had hoped. So I was a little disheartened by that.

XD *hugs Mek* Lol. If it makes you feel better, when someone mentioned red haired hotties, I think of J a d e d's Hack and your Mek. XD The only other that comes to mind is Sierra's girly.

Lol, but Audley - haha, yeah, I do. A lot. DX I have a bad habit comparing myself to other people.

Like, I always try to make my characters really believeable in personality. And thus, I try not to give them perfect bodies. Like, above-average. The way movies stars are when they're just actors and not models. (Seriously, lol, like Edward Norton isn't particulary sexy but man, he's such a character!) Then again, like, my characters are still undeniably too pretty and thus, not believeable enough for a RL type setting. Then lol, I think he's too much of a stereotype. That he's too emo or such and/or has been through too much childhood trauma.

And then, here on Gaia, I feel they're too plain. Like, Rivek has no trademark costume or anything like most popular anime chars - and these costumes tend to give people better association with chars. He doesn't cross-dress or do extremely, extremely flamboyantly stereotypically gay things either, either. XD And he's no punk, no loli, no catboy or someone who can shoot fireballs from his hands - his magic requires around ten or fifteen minutes worth of explanation. To be honest, the most popular kind og bishounen here is also the long-white-hair kind, or just long hair kind. (*coughanimeinflunce*cough). But, like, I feel he's too not-in-line with the popular stuff that people don't like drawing him.

In trying to make him believable, he doesn't appeal to the anime people who like the sexy and the fantastic. But by trying to make him magical, I can't make him believable enough to be respected in like, mature literature.

I mean, I love my chars, but... argh. DX I feel like I should be doing something ot make them more generally appealing because, right now, he's just one biiiig guilty, self-indulgent, pleaseure XD;.

Shakaasha whee
I actually have wayyyy too many redhead characters. Shak is the only one I really commission art of but there's also...
- Kalahmae (more of an orangey natural red) my Aasimar bard
- Edward my 17 year old pyromaniac goth necromancer with serious inadequacy issues (male)
- Fawn, a figure from Lilith's history, a half drow assassin
- Llael, of course, the flamboyant androgynous pirate/poet/duelist/etc (technically male)

And those are only on NWN sweatdrop There's also...
- Ryiinah Ivel, my BESM character
- Fawn, seperate from the NWN one, this is my generic MMO character name
- Myrrh, a druid character who never got enough playtime
- Talaval, the gay sharessian fire genasi (M)
- Sakryl, a shortly played elf rogue/ranger in a Scarred Lands campaign
- Cyrrn, my CoV character

... and then there's all the art I commission of Kranis because he's hawt.


I liked your contest. My roommate was actually going to enter it as well (he was all squealing over manly Marc Antony) but wee ones spilled juice on his picture.

Lol. I am definetely starting to recognize your Caratids and star-eyed boy. Read a little on who the Caratids are, and I'm very interested in the concept.
Yeah, I do admit, though, Audley, I find myself comparing my chars too much with others'. I don't think, though, that I would ever alter Rivek's appearance too much. He's got enough of a trademark look as it is XD (emo scar, lol... i'm not sure if it bugs me. I figure, that, that's going to be his one sell-out point XD; ).
On the other hand, were you the one that commented on my LJ??
Also, saw the pics GunnerRomantic did for you - gods, they're AMAZING. *idolizes her*

Well, Mek, that doesn't seem too bad a prize pool. But personally, I don't have tht time to enter contests anymore, and if I do, they have to have, like, traditional media or b/w prizes that are greater than what I'd make for a nromal commission. The art contests forum is a lot smaller than R/C, and a lot of big-time artists tend to just hold one auction because it coincides better with their time schedule. DA contests, I feel, sometimes ahve a smaller turnout than Gaia ones because they're harder to advertise. o.O; Me, I'm also scared to enter them because there aren't, like, category prizes... and the competition on DA is MUCH stiffer.


On the other hand, I totally want a red-headed character now. DX ALl my guys and irls have either blonde or black.

What's best about them is they have a lot of misinformation- well, maybe "lack of information" is better than misinformation. I haven't been very forthcoming with much of their actual stories, so bits and pieces of it have appeared in other people's words and most of the speculation is wrong. That, however, is all right (: I'll clarify it all one day, I'm sure.



I'm glad you wouldn't change him too much. I like his trademark looks, and I still haven't seen anyone else around with anything similar to his "emo scar" (;



That was me, yes (;

Ah, yes, I was quite thrilled with those - I thought I was at the end of a long list, but it was only a few days and they did turn out rather fab. I should probably post them here at some point ... well, maybe when work gives me my life back (:



Theoretically (about the much stiffer competition, I mean) - it depends on who enters (; Having said that, the getting-word-out part of the task doesn't daunt me (too much, anyway) - I've decided on what the grand prize is and discussions with my comrades have been conclusive in a it's-good-and-is-not-that-poxy-even-though-there's-always-someone-who-has-an-issue-with-prizes-no-matter-what-they-are sort of way.

I've also decided there will be categories, too, as it's the only way to make the competition as fair as possible and not be a depressing spectacle for less confident/advanced/whatever artists, I think.

Indeed, I'm hoping my reputation won't be too pathetic by the time I hold my contest and people will have faith that I'll award what I sayI will (that, and I'll provide photographic evidence, too - the prize situation is going to be a bit ... different, so hopefully the non-standardness of it all will be a point in favour of believability).

Meanwhile, I do have some commissions from "popular" artists coming up ... but I think most of my advertising will come my trusted signature (assuming my commenting stamina holds). That, or I'll submit a news article here (http://news.deviantart.com/browse/contests/) and cross my fingers it gets accepted - since not all of the contests listed there seem to have very interesting prizes (and really, "interesting prizes" are what I'm putting all of my hopes on here), I think mine won't be too boring to make it up there (; Most of the contests there have to do with photographs or photomanipulation, but still, we live in hope (;

That was an amusing read at 5am this morning, and it's still really funny to me now.

Did you write all that or was it a random chat conversation?

That's what I meant by chat, sorry ^^ It's been awhile since I've RP'd. But yeah, it made me giggle smile