Another year, another entry into a con mascot contest

AR... kun?!

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I derno why I keep entering into art contests because I never win, orz.
Maybe it's just because art is the only thing I can do? I derno.

Anyways, another year, another con, which means another mascot contest. I usually don't enter into them because I'm intimidated by the fact that this is contest is, possibly, province-wide, and I'm pretty sure there's a really good artist lurking somewhere.

We were given the choice to do either (and I quote):

1.) Cute Pink hair girl
2.) Cute Pink hair boy
3.) Cute Pink hair furry thingy.

And I'm pretty sure I'm gonna win by default at this rate because - unless one got submitted since the last batch of mascots were posted - I have yet to see any male entries. Which is probably why I opted to go with the male mascot because I knew there'd be too many people drawing girls.

Sketch

I'll save you nice people from hearing me go on and on about, for example, how much I hate how the scarf came out and how I half-assed most of it, to talk about the con. Notice how I tentatively named him AR-kun and not AE-kun? Well, if you remember or care from last year, instead of Anime Evolution we had Cos & Effect. I'm still assuming that AE isn't going to happen in 2012 neither, thus comes this new con.

Get ready for Anime Revolution.
I see absolutely no relation to Anime Evolution. Nope, not even one.

When it was first announced, it was met with suspicion, but I think that's now subsided and it's welcomed as our new con for 2012. At least their planning abilities look more sound, as they've already booked a venue at the prestigious Vancouver Convention Center.

Of course, I already sent an application to be in Artist Alley.

On another note, I saw on Facebook that new staff has already been hired for AE so maybe we'll be having double cons this year?

And I know this has absolutely nothing to do with Halloween, but in the case that I never make anything for it, Happy Halloween evvrybody!


Made in openCanvas
Edited in Photoshop

I'd better at least get the backcover

EDIT: Okay, I wrote this before the winners were announced. You do not want to know who won (though all the entries - save like three - were all hilariously bad. I'm not mean enough to display them here, though.

Annually, my school would hold a contest for the next year's agenda cover. Two years ago, I made something, but forgot to hand it in. Instead of getting something relevant to our school and mascots, instead, we got this ugly-ass compilation of someone's portraits of random people, arranged on a blue background, with the school name printed in some cookie-cutter 3D word art I used to make all my titles in as a kid. Not saying that the portraits were bad - no, they were fine - but what do Twilight people have to do with my school (other than asking if they could use the school to film the high school scenes in Breaking Dawn), or Michael Phelps for that matter? Seriously, everyone I showed it to laughed. I vowed to submit my entry next year.
But then next year came, they pulled a dick move and changed the contest regulations that we all knew and loved. So now we're not allowed to use our school mascots or emblems, but instead focus on our motto of the year, "Killarney Cares". Lame. We ended up with a pencil crayon picture of stick people encircling the school. Better than last year, and we actually got to vote for it this time. Second place was a cover consisted of two stick people with our school name underneath it.

Anyways, end of tl;dr. What you needed to take from that is when I didn't submit something, something worse became the cover. No, not this year, dammit! It's a good thing we got use cougars and shamrocks again.

Sketch:

Cover:

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Thank you Google images for all the inspiration. Sure, you'll give me creepy pictures when I image search for "cougar", mainly hunters going "YEAH!" while holding up a dead cougar, and even a box of decapitated human heads, but...
(Maybe I should consider turning on my mature filter again...)

Only took me two days, and a big big improvement from the one I did two years ago. I was so proud of it, too, but now when I compare it:

Yeah. Not as blurry, I can say. Better text, too.


Made in openCanvas.
Edited in Photoshop.

Making our contests a lot more impressive than it should be

By that, I refer to our animu club's Christmas fanart contest. I felt bad for the pitiful amount of entries so out of the goodness of my heart, I made some moar!

An uber crappy looking Miku fanart.

I guess my scanner hated it so much that when I tried to scan it, nothing came up. I drew it on the same sheet as the bottom picture, but that was all that I saw. My scanner does this thing where it'd crop off all the white space. Obviously, the picture's not white - or even remotely close so I conclude that it must look too bad for HQ.
Which is fine because nothing's more befitting of ugly pictures than having them shown to the world via shaky, blurry camera shots.
 
Drawn on printer paper with pencil, coloured with crappy pencil crayons.

It's a **** in a box!

I just like to say that, on my defense, this was a friend's suggestion. I don't really like Naruto.
If you can't guess what Naruto's gift is, I'll give you a hint.

Made with pencil and Sharpie.


But you know what I do like?

100% accurate

THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S GAKUEN HANDSOME! Go check out the opening, and you'll understand why I think the purple hair guy is the best one.
And yes, it's a real game. Obviously, it's not going to be released by a big named company, but I say this is just as good! Check out its lesbian sister: Gakuen Madonna.

And hey, even the dumbest looking things have good fanart.

Made in SAI.
It's such a shame that it doesn't have dodge and burn!


But before I go, I just have to spread the freakin' love. I don't know if anyone's aware of this, but there's been this trend of homemade animes - AKA the mutant love child of ugly, MS Paint art and Movie Maker. I've seen a lot of bad ones, but this one... There's just something about this one which image (or maybe I should say sound) I can't get out of my head:

Nyan~ Sugar Neko Girls

"I'm so arigatou-ful"
- Rakku-chan, not being weeaboo

Yeah, my sister walked in on it during the part where they have the stolen head shots and she was like, "It doesn't look that bad." Then I rewinded it back to the opening and she was like, "Nevermind."