Suprise! Let's have a fanart vote!
If you're an old timer around these here Patreon parts you'll remember these - I got burned out on them after spending multiple years struggling and mostly failing to keep up with a backlog of winners that grew faster than I could draw them, but now I'm suffering from the opposite problem... I don't really know what/who to draw! :p
I mean, obviously there's always gonna be plenty of Wossy and Aeria, but some variety is nice too. Alas, as you may have gleaned from my fanart pics over the past few months, I'm kind of a fuddy duddy, with all my favourite anime/videogame ladies being classics from my 90s-00s childhood - Ms Mari, Rogue, Garnet, Sheena... I love 'em, but it's also true that the years of Fanart Votes helped push me towards lots of characters that I'd otherwise probably not have even heard of, let alone drawn! It was also good exercise for my art muscles, forcing me to adapt and grow to tackle new scenarios, outfits, hairstyles etc.
So, I won't commit to doing these monthly or anything - it's not currently one of the promised perks of pledging, this is just a "hey, why not?" improv round. But right here, right now, let's make the most of it: show me who ya' got!
Please post a comment here or in the #fanart-vote-submissions room of the Discord server, or send me a direct message here or through Discord if you would prefer your submission be private, with the format of:
[Character] from [Franchise]
[A link to a PRIMARY reference image that will be used for the voting sheet]
[Any other extra references - other views, outfits, etc]
[Brief descriptions of any fun scenarios that you think would be fitting for the character, and anything else useful/important that I should know about them]
For example:
"Princess Sparklebutt from Super Princess Sparklebutt Adventures
(Dropbox link to a plain image of Princess Sparklebutt)
Princess Sparklebutt often gets targeted by her nemesis, Totally Evil Demonchick. There was even a scene in season 3 episode 7 where TED caught PS, but it was really underwhelming! It'd be great to "fix" that scene. FYI she has super strength (has lifted a car overhead before), so the restraints would need to be appropriately heavy-duty. That, or give her one of the power nullification collars that showed up in the season 2 finale.
(Dropbox link to a screenshot of the collar from the episode)
P.S. When you look for refs, she might be wearing an eyepatch in some of them - that was only in season 4 when she had a demon living in her head, but that's no longer an issue so please ignore that appearance."
You can use shift+enter to go down a line in a comment, or just separate those [parts] with some punctuation if it's all in one line.
For the reference image, you can use Deviantart's Stash, Dropbox, Google Drive, Onedrive, Imgur, etc. Whatever works. It's better that the image has been reuploaded to a file hosting site like those, rather than going directly from some random fan website where the image link could break at any point since you don't control it. Also, I would strongly prefer that the Primary character reference image be quite plain. Think 'model sheets' or a screenshot of them in as neutral a pose/expression as you can get. It's kinda cheap to fish for extra votes by using a super-sexy bondage picture as your reference image! ;p
Regarding scenarios, these are not commission instructions - should your character win the vote, there is no promise that I will draw anything even close to your suggestion. It's just helpful for me as a starting point so I can go digging for inspiration in that direction, even if the final idea might end up being totally different.
Characters should be at least at or preferably above 'average shonen protagonist' age, I will let you know if I'm uncomfortable with a submission and we can discuss aging up or selecting someone else entirely.
Given the month, I'd prefer to draw the winner in some kind of festive outfit/scene, so if your character has a canonical Xmas costume (or even someone else's fanart design) that'd be great. If not, that's fine too, I might make them one myself, or go in another direction. We'll figure it out!
Submissions will be open for five-and-a-bit days, from Sat 7th 20:15 GMT (England timezone) until Fri 13th 01:00 GMT. At that point I will comment "submissions are now closed" on this post and will not accept anything submitted after that. Then I'll whip up an image containing all the characters and open voting to $10 InsidAers and $7 InvestAers for approx 5 days too, so we should have our winner by around Wednesday 18th. By the way, please note that my SubStar will also have a vote going, so please don't get too caught up in vote wars here, as there may be surprise upsets - the character who wins the vote on this site might still lose once I tally all the votes from both sites. I know that'd suck, but it might happen!
Phew! Big essay, but since this is the first time in a long time, it's good to lay it all out on the table. Let's goooo!
P.S. speaking of commissions... well, let's get 2024 out of the way first. ;)
Wossa
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