December, 2006: Winter Treehouse

[A.Alvarez]

Ok, time for the December contest...

The theme this month is to design a treehouse in winter... this is of course open ended as far as the type of 'house' and the type of tree, but I got the idea from this book that I recently found:

http://www.amazon.com/Treehouse-Book-Peter-Nelson/dp/0789304112/sr=8-2/qid=1165383231/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-6420476-0939816?ie=UTF8&s=books

Now this can be a single house in a tree, a village in a bunch of trees (treetown), etc.

For those doing 3D, the best resources for building trees as a start point/reference are OnyxTreePro, Vue, Xfrog or Maya Paint Effects... Plus Ethan Summers did a cool paintfx DVD where he shows how to start with a PaintFX tree and then refine it using zbrush.

good luck!

edit:

Ok, so here are the winners!
Really amazing entries this time around, and with the holiday spirit and all, well... we couldn't just narrow it down to four.
Thanks to everyone who participated! We really enjoyed seeing your interpretations of this month's theme.

[/URL][URL="http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/alex_stuff/misc_forum_posts/GW_dec2006_winners.jpg"]http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/alex_stuff/misc_forum_posts/GW_dec2006_winners.jpg (http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/alex_stuff/misc_forum_posts/GW_dec2006_winners.jpg)

The winners will be contacted via the email used to sign up on the forum.
Happy New Year everyone...

-Alex

[Wasker]

Cool, and a bit unpredictable december competition theme, I did a tree house a few days ago. Now I just need to find where I put it :)

[RicardoGarces]

Wasker is right, this is very unpredictable. December should be Christmas theme, but for me it's totally ok.

Alex I would like to ask you a question. I was interested in doing some challenge work non-digital. I was thinking about entering with an image with puppets like in "Stopmotion", and I would submit a still. I have never done it before, so I would like to ask if this is ok has an entry to this competition, or if it has to be 2D or 3D Digital only?
You do have Sculpture DVD's, so... and I was really feeling the urge to try this out.

Best regards to all, and good luck!

Ricardo.

[A.Alvarez]

Any technique is acceptable.

So I tweaked the theme a little... a treehouse in winter. :)
that adds a little more seasonal relevance....

-Alex

[EvoRabbit]

Thx for giving me dis chance. I'll do all the best... ^^ LUCKY ~

[RianChen]

X'mas coming soon, wish all of u have a wonderful 2006, and prepare welcome coming 2007. :)

[MikeCorriero]

Cool book A.Alvarez, the design of the house on the cover is really nice. Looks like something worth picking up when I get some spare change ;)

I don't have anything that fits into this category ;) so that's gonna force me to come up with something specifically for this topic "which is a good thing" since I need more environment and architecture work in my portfolio. Plus, I love nature and trees are a great thing to marvel at.

Whenever I think of trees, Miyazaki comes to mind because of his love for great old oaks and large trees and nature which is evident in most of his animated films. "My Neighbor Totoro"

I don't know what the policy is as far as entering if you've already won once but I'd do it purely for portfolio reasons and motivation either way. I'm looking forward to what everyone produces for this. I guess I should get started on some thumbnails tomorrow.



Mike -

[ogar555]

Wow... I just ... i was... completely stunned when i saw this part of the site... So incredibly cool of you guys to do something like this! :D

[msoutherland]

OK, since I started working on it prior to the addition of winter to the theme, here's my tree house. It's still a WIP, but I thought I'd throw it in the mix right away while I'm at a certain point.

CLICK FOR LARGER VIEW
http://www.creativespot.org/post/data/500/medium/treehouse_wip3.jpg (http://www.creativespot.org/post/data/500/treehouse_wip3.jpg)

[Leland]

I was very excited to get to work on this theme. I was hoping the December theme would be unexpected and it was. I really enjoyed doing this painting and I can't wait to see all the other submissions. Every month I'm blown away by the level of talent I see on this forum, it is truly inspirational. I wish everybody luck in the contest and have a great holiday.:D

painting done in PS

http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m194/affinity2k2/LelandScaliwintertreevillagefinal.jpg

[ZUPZUP]

http://www.zupzup.com/Art/Treehouse.jpg

For this image I did a bunch of initial sketches with black and white charcoal on green painter's masking paper, which allows me to lay down a lot ideas quickly and establish my values. Also sketching out with charcoal, hopefully helps to give the image a bit more organic feel. After that I scanned it and painted it in PS CS.

[JZA]

Cool theme! I'll be sure to participate.

Is the deadline for this contest december the 31st?

Thanks,
Jesse

[jOuey]

hi everyone, this is my contribution for this month ;]
only photoshop cs2

http://www.waart.net/cfsl/gw_dec06.jpg

jOuey
(allez la france :p)

[ximahmoud]

jOuey jOuey jOuey...awsome concept.... i just love it, well done

[JL. Alfaro]

could probably do better if I had some of those DVD's...hint hint:p

[mikeorion22]

this is real differnt from how i usually work, but i wanted to try something new

[kaber]

Alrighty then. I'm new here but I have been lurking for awhile and of course there was this link posted by another member at imaginefx and well.....Wow, a monthly contest and a chance to win those awsome DVD's. It's worth a shot.
Good luck everyone and thanx to Gnomon for this chance.

Hope you guys like it.
I figured I would throw in something that still has that "Magic of Christmass" feel to it. Excellent challange. Loved doing this one if even just for the fun of it.

http://digitalflux.fcpages.com/images/TreeHousePost2.jpg

[Tec]

Hi there,

i am new to this forum. previousy i just stopped by from time to time to take a look around, but as soon as i noticed the noble awarded contests i just had to join ^^ ... (75 DVDs in total? that's kinda insane ;) )

school kept me busy the last few days, but today i decided participate in the contest and started to paint right away....i hope to post the final image soon....depends on how much time i have to spend on school & christmas :(

there are some really nice contributions so far.....i hope to see even more stuff till end of december...it's always nice to see a dozen of different interpretations of the same topic

[Jeff MD]

here is my entry! (photoshop)

Happy Holidays!

http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/jeff_mds_portfolio/images/8072/original.aspx

here is a link if it doesnt appear

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p159/jeffmd4i/treehaus.jpg?t=1166804712

and i've attached it just to be sure.

thanks!

happy holidays!

[Wasker]

Tricky challenge indeed.. and good because it's more specific than the previous challenges. Most artists have a couple of enviromentals (ie. the november landscape challenge) lying around in the dusty corners of their hard drives but I doubt many have examples of snowy tree houses. Which leads to many works of the works submitted now are probably created exclusively for this competition.
As it should be in my humble opinion :)

http://www.wasker.com/fly3.png

http://www.wasker.com/distant.png

http://www.wasker.com/treehouse_final.jpg

[tomstools]

Here is my entry produced in Photoshop with a Wacom. I designed this as a hi-tech lookout tower or den, emulating the features of a natural tree. I thought it was a nice departure from taking the brief very literally. Enjoy, and Merry Christmas guys


http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r23/tomstools/final_tree-1.jpg

[jOuey]

jOuey jOuey jOuey...awsome concept.... i just love it, well done

thx man ;]

Merry Christmas all \o/

[Tec]

ok, i think i'm done .....here is my contribution. i thought it could be interesting to draw some treehouses which were built out of scrap metal. i liked the idea that somebody uses old hi-tech parts to build primitive structures on top of trees....

http://www.designsketch.de/projects/tectree.jpg

[hikster]

a great idea. This is the first time i will be entering a gnomon challenge. I am a bit intimidated because of all the great talent in here. I know i can't possibly measure up to a quarter of the beauty in all of the images but i would like to try because of the great topic.

[gkjeane]

I decided in a different direction with my tree house and made my piece where the tree is an actual house. This is my christmas tree house. You have the nutcrackers, the icycle bow for the door knob, the christmas tree mats, frosted windows, and yes, even diamonds and pebbles for the ladies. This all started from a basic drawing from nowhere and turned into this using photoshop 7.0 for the rest. I did the drawing about the third of the month and finally did the rest today. Merry Christmas everybody. I hope everyone enjoys.

[AlexKaiser]

Hello,

Here is my winter tree house! Hope you like, it's sort of christmas in the trees!

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r293/alexkaiser/Winter-Treehouse.jpg

-Alex

[msoutherland]

Here's an update to my original post. An enormous tree with a bonfire to keep the current inhabitants warm.
http://www.creativespot.org/post/data/500/snowy_treehouse.jpg

[Dmitry Sh]

>AlexKaiser

Hey man, its cool image !!! ;)

[soneone]

Greeings, im new here.

firstoff let me thank you for this awesome opportunity.

great entries so far. heres my humble one... hope you like it.

http://forums.thegnomonworkshop.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=311&d=1167259588

cheers

[hhssuu]

Hi :) hope everyones' having a nice holiday.
It's very near the end of December now, so here's my entry.
Haven't done any real 2d attempts on computer, so i had a go with this challenge.
With all the Christmas warmth going on i decided to do the opposite: more cold and lonely image, it's called "abandoned memories - winter treehouse" ...painted in Photoshop. Hope you like it, Ta :)

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/4051/abandonedmemoriesah4.jpg

[tsukirei]

Ok. Well I feel really out classed here, but what better way to improve than to make yourself practice right? So here goes nothing.

Oh, Hi Everyone on Gnomon! I'm new here, just recently heard about these dvds! (Bought one for Christmas ^_^)

[Acrylico]

Hello to Everybody this is my entry ,
Showing two different steps , starting using Ink on Paper,
then finalized using Photoshop!
I wish to Gnomon and to everybody here a wonderful 2007!!

http://www.paoloacri.com/images/illu_color28.jpg

http://www.paoloacri.com/images/illu_color27.jpg

[kaber]

Wow, some great images here. So, as I understand it we are allowed to submit two pieces of work. If that is the case then I submit my second entry in hopes that I at least can maintain a running.

Deep in the forests, high in the mountains, a fog lifts over the snow ladened fortress of Rhee Freh' lhin. Here the elves of Shard mountain make their home.

http://digitalflux.fcpages.com/images/ElvenWoodWinter%20copy%203.jpg

[Chuck,Mate.]

Winter Tree House, "first snow".
Final:

http://img01.picoodle.com/img/img01/6/12/28/f_treehousi_77cdm_0b19b2a6.jpg
some process shots:
http://www.uploadhouse.com/uploads/55233treehouse_stepssss.jpg

[messyhousedesign]

This was such a great challenge. Some many great concepts and paintings.

My idea of a winter treehouse is a nice warm pub on a cold winter night for all the little creatures of the forest.

Happy holidays to Everybody!!!!!!!

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o213/designer78/wintertreehouse.jpg

[Petri.J]

Damn, this would've been interesting subject, but unfortunetly I missed it.
Oh well, i'll check back on january contest. Happy new year everyone!

[RicardoGarces]

Uff! I thought I wouldn't make it on time!

My first idea was to make a real wooden model for this challenge. But due to the lack of funding at the time I could only buy a small Bonsai tree, that was meant to be the base for the modeling.

Therefore I decided to change direction, and here is the outcome. I hope everyone enjoy it! It was very entertaining to do it. Best regards to everyone, and Happy New Year!

http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/226106/226106_1167362447_medium.jpg

Larger version:

http://www.strategic-initiatives.net/treehouselarge.jpg

[GorfMode]

Good Luck to all!


Nemlins Tree Village
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r60/GorfMode2/NemlinsTreeHouse.jpg

Uncle Ned's Cliff Retreat
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r60/GorfMode2/UnclesNedsCiffRetreat.jpg

Mammothians Cheif Tree
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r60/GorfMode2/TheMammothiansCheifTree.jpg

[hhssuu]

Nice entries so far, it's great seeing ideas come together :)
RicardoGarces: I like your idea :) cos I'm asian i was originally thinking of making a chinese brush painting type image at the start too, nice approach with the little bonsai tree :) i like it.

[Grabbel]

Hello,

here is my last post for this year :). I thougt about a treehouse and came to this one. A gigantic wood/ treearms in wich man can live.

Hope yoe enjoy it and a happy new year!

Christian



http://www.christiangrajewski.de/resources/Matte-23.jpg

[fifty3dragons]

Here's my entry for the December contest. In keeping with the "any house" part of the instructions, I thought of a shuttle crashlanded at the edge of a huge forest on a cold, desolate world. It's been there for some time. Not every one made it through the crash or the years of harsh weather. In fact, there might be only one survivor left.

So maybe not such an upbeat Christmas theme, but it was a fun painting neverthless :)

Done in Painter.

http://riverhold.homeip.net/upload/Winter%20Treehouse_005.jpg

[fifty3dragons]

Hmmm. My entry above seems to be clipped, and I can't reach the edit button to change it. It's no larger than some of the other entries, so I'm not sure why that's happening. The whole thing is there if I save it or follow the link back to the original. Any suggestions?

*****

Edit: Well, it shows up in Firefox all right, so I guess I'm okay. Odd, as for some reason in my Explorer window it clips off about the right quarter of the image. Strange :)

[DavidSmit]

Great work everybody here?s my entry :)

http://www.davidsmit.com/treehouse1.jpg

[Mr-Joe]

Hello everyone, these are some amazing tree houses,

Here is my entry: (most likely finished)

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5572/wintertreehousefinaleq7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


Some Closeup shots if anyones interested:

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/3844/treehousecloseupgv6.jpg

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/7933/treehousecloseup2qw7.jpg

Thank you for the very fun topic.

[RHStillwell]

Hello all, there are some really great pieces here. I just found this site a few days ago so hopefully I can squeek my entry in. You can view the full image at http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45571816/

[RicardoGarces]

Nice entries so far, it's great seeing ideas come together :)
RicardoGarces: I like your idea :) cos I'm asian i was originally thinking of making a chinese brush painting type image at the start too, nice approach with the little bonsai tree :) i like it.

Thanks HHSSUU! I love the Asian Culture, from Tibet, China and Japan. Very different and exotic. I think I will try more stuff in the line of this one.

Take care!

Best regards,

Ricardo.

[Stirzy]

Nice work everyone! Here's my contrib, hope I'm not too late.

http://www.stirzy.com/images/WinterTreeHouse.jpg

[filip]

It's really inspiring to see so many great contributions in so many different styles.
I went with a somewhat different approach (not alone on this one though as can be seen by Acrylicos post) and did a house inside a tree rather than outside one...
Mine's done as a mattepainting (in style with the horribly boring snow-less winter here in Sweden this year):

http://www.clint.se/mattepainting/treehouse-final.jpg

Here's the sketch that I based it on. I deviated quite a bit from it. It was drawn without reference and as a sketch it worked (kinda) but when I tried to finalize it it didn't look right at all.

http://www.clint.se/mattepainting/treehouse-sketch.jpg

Original photo of the main tree with the nice roots is by winterdove (Carmen Cordelia) from stock.xchng http://www.sxc.hu/photo/645392

Thanks and good luck to everyone!

[HFix]

Happy New Years everyone and good luck to all!! ;)

[Neon Nose Hair]

http://home.earthlink.net/~snowpuppy/HellHoleFinalVHalfAA01.jpg (http://home.earthlink.net/~snowpuppy/HellHoleFinalV1.jpg)

Here an elf, banished from the kingdom for biting the reindeer, finds himself in a cheap, one room tree house somewhere in the middle of the polar wasteland.

Just as he finishes scaling the malformed trunk, and makes himself comfortable, a fleet of Prefabricated Parasitic Armored Acorn Attack Units from Outer Space start an invasion, claiming Earth as their own.

The elf, having lost his hat on a branch, and lacking any sort of hand to giant metal claw combat knowledge, bends over to holler down the the crude, cast-iron water closet pipe for the menace to please go away.



Spent most of the Holiday working on this, a few hours every day, jumping between zBrush, Lightwave, Photoshop, and Painter. Since its a mixture of 2d, 2.5d and 3D, all elements are frozen on a static canvas, and I cannot attach bones to animate anything, or rerender at HDTV rez, I'll categorize this as a 2D image.

For the full resolution (1474 X 2098), please click the image.


Phew.


Nice work in the contest again this month, in both 2d and 3d. Hope everyone goes goofy on New Year's, and has a safe and successful 2007. And paints lots of new contest pictures. :D

[gnskt]

Hi,

Here's my entry for December 2006: Winter Treehouse.

Enjoy the rest of your holiday!

http://www.stillgrey.com/conceptart/art_large/gnskt_treehouse_s.jpg

http://www.stillgrey.com/conceptart/art_large/gnskt_treehouse.jpg

[Trybal]

Here's my entry for the December contest. It depicts the first snowy day at the new home of an elf couple. Click on it to go to a larger version.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/thebitterpill/FirstSnowAtTheElvesHomeSmall.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/thebitterpill/FirstSnowAtTheElvesHomeLarge.jpg)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v518/thebitterpill/FirstSnowAtTheElvesHomeCloseUp.jpg

[jawnlim]

Hi Everyone at Gnomon,

The Geometrized Treehouse sits atop the mountains overlooking the mushy plains of the wintery dusk. Bracing itself amidst the cumulonimbus clouds and moving lights in the sky. The architecture is the tree. :rolleyes:

Jawn

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7804/1846/1600/126978/2006-12-30_Gnomon_Winter-Treehouse_Jawn.jpg

[avann]

o_O, maybe if i had found this page a week ago, i could came with something decent U_U, maybe the next year...
sorry for posting in the other topic, didnt knew that there was a topic for month XD
my english sucks

[kriegfish]

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p122/kriegfish/wintertreehousesm.jpg?t=1167569458

I'm having difficulty posting my image. How do you guys post your images so big? I always get an error message saying that the remote file is to large. What images hosts do you use and what size do you you post your images pixels and dpi. Any help is appreciated, thanks. If anyone would like to see this larger just follow the link above.

[gnskt]

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p122/kriegfish/wintertreehousesm.jpg?t=1167569458

I'm having difficulty posting my image. How do you guys post your images so big? I always get an error message saying that the remote file is to large. What images hosts do you use and what size do you you post your images pixels and dpi. Any help is appreciated, thanks. If anyone would like to see this larger just follow the link above.

Ah, that's exactly what I was having as a problem.
There are little icons above where you type your message. Click on one of the icons which looks like a mountain and yellow sky. that will let you have a good picture size you prefer. :)

[Jason Embury]

whew....didn't think I'd get this finished in time. Here's my entry for the December contest, this was a LOT of fun. An outpost of the Faery deep within a magical forest at winter. Can't wait to see what next month's contest is. A larger version can be seen here, Winter Faery Tree (http://www.jasonembury.net/images/WT_1206_web.jpg)

http://www.jasonembury.net/images/WT_1206_gnomon_je.jpg

[sirhcnait]

http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/140244/140244_1167605063_large.jpg

[sirhcnait]

This is for anyone who wants to know how to display a decent sized image in their contest posts instead of posting a link (which until recently included myself.)
Go to cgsociety and set up a free portfolio. In their instructions they explain how to optomize your pic for the web and maintain its quality.
Upload your optomized image to your cgsociety portfolio.
Then, in your contest post, click the 'insert image' button (same row as Bold, Italic and Underline controls.... 5th button from the right.)
Copy/Paste the url from your cgsociety portfolio full size image link and you're good to go.

Thanks goes to 'msoutherland' for replying to my own call for help with this matter.

[five]

Hi,

..my entry for december

happy holidays and good luck to everyone!





http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/7716/wintertreehousewa9.jpg

[JZA]

Awesome work everybody!

Here's my entry.

Edit: I noticed on some browsers the full length isn't displayed, see hires version here (http://members.chello.nl/j.vandijk52/wintertr_hires.jpg).

http://members.chello.nl/j.vandijk52/wintertr.jpg

[gilberteaz]

I designed my tree house on a alien planet. The trees are aquatic and float on the ocean. They have their own air bags filled with gas. During the winter they balloon themselves enough with gas to float in the sky. And use there large leaves to sail with. The wind they catch flies them all over the planet. While in the air they drop large seed that are attached to there roots. The large seeds fall from such a height that when they hit the ground they plant themselves several feet. The local people use the trees to carry there harvest and animals to other areas of there planet to sell there goods. They steer the trees by controlling the trees leaves like a sail. When spring comes they sail back home on there boats which they carried on the trees. In mid December I was thinking about what to paint, and this whole story or theme evolved while standing in long lines at the stores while christmas shopping.

[gilberteaz]

I designed a mobile tree house. That travels through the trees like a inch worm, and can travel on the ground. I have two versions one with snow and one without.

[gilberteaz]

Without snow!

[haydn104]

I used stock photos and photoshop to create my redwood skyscraper.

[fabianlacey]

Here's the works!

http://home.pacbell.net/animekid/lacey_treehouse.jpg

[beelow]

Here is my entry. Really hot entries guys great job all and good luck!:)

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f55/Beelow3/revisedsnowcoverdtreehousefinal.jpg

[Rafael Rivera]

Great job JZA

[DColonna]

Happy New Year to everyone, and great work on the other entries. Here is my entry, I hope that it is not too late. This is my first attempt at a "Matte Painting" style of using Photoshop with collaging various photo and painted effects. I would love to hear feed back on ways to improve my technique. The entire image was done in Photoshop CS2.
More pictures can be found at...
http://homepage.mac.com/dcolonna/PhotoAlbum7.html
Thanks,

Dan

[studiojg]

still a work in progress, but wanted to add mine to the list.

great work everyone!

jg

[Cloudmover.net]

These are some great entries! Good luck everyone!!:D

[kaber]

Definatly some awsome entries. I was delighted and astonished at the variety of interpretations. Great work, everybody! and Good Luck!

[A.Alvarez]

Happy New Year everyone!

We will be looking over the entries this week and should have the winners posted by Friday. Thanks again for particpating, as once again the entries are really really great... :) So many cool interpretations of the theme! Oi... this is going to be a hard one to narrow down to four. So far I'm down to 29. heh.

-Alex

[artahmed]

Hi all,

Happy New Year !!!

this is my firstr image on this site, I hope you like it !!
thank you Rafael Rivera and Preilly.



http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q215/a3bashir/Orient-1.jpg

[DavidSmit]

so who won? and what's the new topic? :D

[Tec]

so who won? and what's the new topic? :D

We will be looking over the entries this week and should have the winners posted by Friday.


... :o

[DavidSmit]

I know, I was just waking up the topic again ;)

[beelow]

Damn 4 out of the 29 hehe! Good luck everyone! There were some surprisingly great entries! I am curious to see who wins out of this one.

[A.Alvarez]

Ok, so here are the winners!
Really amazing entries this time around, and with the holiday spirit and all, well... we couldn't just narrow it down to four.
Thanks to everyone who participated! We really enjoyed seeing your interpretations of this month's theme.

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/alex_stuff/misc_forum_posts/GW_dec2006_winners.jpg

The winners will be contacted via the email used to sign up on the forum.
Happy New Year everyone...

-Alex

[jOuey]

Yeah, congratulation everyone and thx GW for this challenge, really inspiring :]

next challenge come soon \o/

[Stirzy]

Well done everyone and congratulations!

[tomstools]

What a great start to 07! Thank you to Gnomon for the challenge threads, its a good motivator. Also congrats to the other guys with their cool entries.
Cheers

[filip]

Whohooo! I just checked the forums and couldn't believe my eyes! To receive the third place among such fantastic competition is really more than I could have hoped for. I couldn't think of a better start to 2007 than this!
Thank you Gnomon Workhshop and big congrats to all the other winners!

[Wasker]

Good pick, Alvarez

When will the winners be contacted?

[Jason Embury]

wow.... I'm NEAR speechless. Congrats to all the other winners! Alex Kaiser's entry was my personal favorite as well. I love the crazy detail in his brush strokes and his palette. Some really outstanding other entries as well, I'm absolutely FLOORED to have taken 2nd place. This is a great end to a busy week as well. Thanks to Alex, everyone at Gnomon!

[msoutherland]

Awesome. I considered my entry a lost cause this time around, but thanks for the honorable mention by placing me among the winners! I don't think much makes a Friday morning brighter than a good cup of coffee, something else, and finding out you get to pick out more Gnomon DVD's.

:D :D :D
Congrats again to all!
Mark Southerland

[kriegfish]

Thanks a lot Alex. These dvds are an amazing resource of knowledge. It is a tremendous honor to have placed in this contest forum. Congratulations to everyone who not only placed but to everyone who met the deadline and finished a piece in an effort to make themselves better.
-Keith

[RicardoGarces]

Wow cool! Great idea having 10x 5th prizes. Gnomon DVDs are a really great help, and you guys keep making more interesting lectures all the time.

I bet that Wendy Froud's DVD is amazing, I love her work.

Thank you Alex, and congratulations to all participants!

Kind regards,

Ricardo.

[kaber]

Congratulations to all the winners. You guys did some awsome work.

For those of you who didn't make it, there was some really great pieces and there were alot of entries, I think some of you should have made it but we'll do better next challange. See ya there!:D

[ZUPZUP]

Fantastic entries everybody. Thanks Gnomon!

[fifty3dragons]

Congratulations to everyone! This theme was a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed seeing all the different interpretations for it. Looking forward to January :)

[hhssuu]

Congrats to all entries, especially the winning ones!! Nice theme this time, great to see a good variety of stuff. Look forward to the next one.

[AlexKaiser]

Hello,

Thank you very much, I'm absolutely gobsmacked! I was really not expecting this! Many Thanks to Alex Alvarez and Gnomon, and all the other competitors, there are really amazing paintings in this thread!

Thanks again,

-A very grateful and speechless Alex Kaiser

[Mr-Joe]

Hey congratulations to all you guys, I had much fun working on this topic. Thank you Gnomon Workshop for giving everyone this opportunity every month.


Joe.

[hikster]

Hi all,

A happy new year to everyone. Well, i am sorry i really wanted to enter this challenge but i didn't know the last date for submitting entries so i overshot the deadline. I find this topic to be really great and did a work pertaining to it.
Though; i know it will get me nothing i would like to submit it nevertheless. Hope you all don't mind.

thankyou very much.

http://xs411.xs.to/xs411/07021/hereinyourarms.jpg

c&c's welcome

[jOuey]

The winners will be contacted via the email used to sign up on the forum.


When ? :o

[RicardoGarces]

In my experience, they don't take too long. Give it another week and you will certainly be contacted.

Meanwhile, choose the dvd's you like, and prepare the product code.

Take care!

Ricardo.

[jOuey]

i've received my 2 dvds :] Great !

What a pity that these dvd are only in english, i understand all the same 50% of the speech :D
When DVD multilanguage for european people ? :D

thx gw ;]
bye

jOuey

[yann.moalic]

Sweet theme,lets get painting!!