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RobertoOrtiz

09-01-2006, 02:10 PM

"Draw YOUR animal from The Chinese Zodiac!"

Dont know what is your animal?
Go here:
http://www.mandarintools.com/calendar.html

You can:

Draw the animal
Draw YOURSELF with the animal
Draw YOURSELF AS the animal

These are the rules:

You have NO TIME LIMIT to do your sketch. IF you go beyond the assigned time limit , you have to post WHATEVER you have done after the time has expired, along with the FINAL drawing.
Post only your FINAL piece on this thread, based on the topic on the thread.
Only final pieces can be posted on the thread. They must have been done AFTER the topic has been announced.
RESOLUTION : The image can have any aspect ratio up to 800 x 600
They can be done on any medium.
If you wish, you can add a brief text description about your piece.
Only original compositions. No "tributes" or plagiarizing, unless is it an integral part of the challenge.
You can post an entry at anytime for the topic presented on this thead BEFORE the voting thread for THE WEEK has been posted.
The artist also has to post total length of time it took and program used.
Any piece caught breaking the rules will be taken off the thread.
The topics will be picked at random from the list on the TOPICS thread >>LINK<< (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php/?t=145003)
(The author will be given credit). So guys keep them coming.
You can add multiple entries, but please dont post WIP (Unless you intend to update them).
Good luck

-R

JTD

09-01-2006, 02:29 PM

Great idea but needs another title fix. I like this one and may have to come up with something. I am a boar/pig. Now I just need to find out what Chinese Zodiac animal I am.

Overchord

09-01-2006, 04:21 PM

For people feeling lazy, here's a direct link to a table of dates where you get the zodiac animal and element associated:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Zodiac#Table_of_the_lunar_calendar_and_zodiac

Apparently I'm a wood tiger, so perhaps i should sketch a Trojan tiger :D

mylest

09-01-2006, 07:30 PM

I wish I had more time today.. I scribbled this out in Painter with the tinting brush in 10 minutes. Thanks for the link Overchord (http://forums.cgsociety.org/member.php?u=86019).

http://www.mylest.com/daily/T%E9k%E9_004.jpg

Silken Shadow

09-01-2006, 08:17 PM

Thanks for the link Overcord! I am a Wood Ox so I decided to try the second option and draw myself with the Ox. I felt alot more confident using my tabet today then I did yesterday and I think it shows and even though I should be used to like self portrait excercies drawing with the mirror today felt mega akward.

1hour 37 mins in photoshop with a wacom tablet

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m186/silken_shadow_miss_megan/chinesezodiac.jpg

TheDagger

09-01-2006, 11:50 PM

Beware of the mighty pirate rooster! :D

Painter, 2 hours 30 minutes

http://www.winterkeep.com/dsg/818.jpg

Robertt

09-02-2006, 01:06 AM

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/3503/cgtalkdsg818bwebbyrjt2006ht0.jpg

Painter / 70 minutes / tablet

RobertT

BrittanyRichardson

09-02-2006, 01:08 AM

For the longest time, I was under the impression that I was born in the Year of the Tiger (because it was always listed: 1986 = Tiger)... however, after doing some research for this sketch - turns out I was actually born in the Year of the Ox right at the transition between the two years (like the Chinese New Years Eve).

So, I decided to sketch both animals. Plus, tigers are one of my favorite animals and I was not going to pass up the opportunity to draw one just because I ws born a day too early.

Painter ix, wacom, 1 hour 20 min

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/2350/chinesezodiacsv3.jpg

Talaria

09-02-2006, 03:46 AM

I'm a dragon, A water dragon (though this doesnt look much like a water dragon anyway...)

30 min in Photoshop CS
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g182/plunder_bunny/dragondaily.png

mylest

09-02-2006, 03:53 AM

BrittanyRichardson!! Wonderful submission!

TheDagger, I'll never look at a rooster the same way... Great job!

Heozart

09-02-2006, 08:36 AM

Cool topic and great entries.
I did a metal monkey for a friend. I am a water dog, and water was too intimidating to try. I spent almost 5 hours(way too slow, I know) and I am not very happy with the result. Searched Google for Rodin's Thinker and monkey for references.

5 hours / photoshop / wacom
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m119/Heozart/818-Metal_Monkey.jpg

InKraBid

09-02-2006, 08:38 AM

Wow! I'm a dragon in the chinese zodiac, the dragon Birgun (Bergen) in the next conversion, and where do I live? BERGEN, Norway! This is TOO freaky :D

GrantMan

09-02-2006, 09:54 AM

At first I wasn't too thrilled about the idea of a sheep being my sign... So my sheep's not as excited about his year as most.

Great work! The Dagger: I love it!

Photoshop. 3 hrs.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g73/gsmithdesigns/Sheep.jpg

Heozart

09-02-2006, 06:04 PM

Here's my poor attempt on water dog.

1 hour 45 minutes / photoshop / wacom
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m119/Heozart/818-Water_Dog.jpg

Silken Shadow

09-02-2006, 06:26 PM

You and your sheep man not be too excited GrantMan but I am. That is wonderful work! I absolutly love it! The sheep's expression is priceless, also nice detail on the fleece.

GrantMan

09-02-2006, 08:37 PM

Why thank you SilkenShadow! I was going for the BaAaAa Hum Bug look... :D

By the way, since you're using Photobucket, once you upload your pic, copy the URL info under the thumbnail. Then, create a post here and click the http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g73/gsmithdesigns/ImageIcon.jpg and paste it in... Then we can see your images without having to click on a link. Cheers! :beer:

TobyArt

09-02-2006, 08:39 PM

didn't even know I had an element, but here it is Metal Rooster

http://www.tobyart.com/dsg/metalrooster.jpg

Went boring with pencil, may color later 1 ~hour

May-lea

09-02-2006, 11:33 PM

http://www.triskell-productions.com/CGtalk/Rooster.jpgHere's my try at it.

Probably around 20 minutes, fooling around in illustrator (+tablet)

Rooster, of course :)

danielh68

09-03-2006, 02:20 AM

A couple of hours

"Earth Monkey"

http://www.danielhelzer.com/sketches/sketch233.jpgs

JimiPhoenix

09-03-2006, 09:32 AM

The Dagger, GrantMan, DanielH - all awesome stuff :)

Almost 1 hour exactly, Photoshop. October, 1987 makes me a:

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7572/jimidsgchzodiacrabbitbp9.jpg

Silken Shadow

09-03-2006, 10:32 PM

Epskampie

09-04-2006, 07:24 PM

I have recently started digital painting, and love the idea of this 'daily sketch' forum. Hope I will do better tomorrow ;)
http://splasherver.student.utwente.nl/ftp/anon/ox.png

JTD

09-06-2006, 01:33 PM

Yes, the characters are swiped from the internet but do you think I'd leave something this important to my own hand? If I make the wrong squiggly I could insult generations of Chinese.

PS7/ Intuous3/ 1 hr
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e359/jtdv/ChineseZodiac.jpg

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