Challenge 1: Vampires

New vampire sketch - wearing clothing referenced from Burberry's 2009 catalogue. 

Hey everyone! This is my first post andI'm pretty excited about getting in on this blog. I need the motivation to draw a little more than I do. Unfortunately my house is in the midst of a renovation and I can't find my photoshop software anywhere amongst the mess. Hopefully my little sketches will do for now (though I'm not very good at colouring anyhow hehe). Anyways I just wanted to say that I've enjoyed looking through the past posts that you guys have done - there are some really impressive pieces! For the"Anything" challenge I decided just to do a little sketch of myself saying hello to y'all as well one of a vampire (meets 28 days later???).

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Almost 22 hours left! Well here's my post, finally. It's not that it took me a long time to do, (as you can see from the sketch) but I'm just a horrible procrastinator.

So Mr. Underbite-Vamps just wanted to make a lasagna. But now he faces his unavoidable fate of being turned to stone. Poor him. Oh well, the other vampires didn't even like him anyways because of his reverse biting techniques. Unfortunately, he was actually in the process of making a revenge lasagna to teach those vampires a lesson.

Moral of the story: Revenge can be bitter sweet...or just garlic-ky.

Challenge 1: Vampires

Hi I'm Sonny! I just joined in and did a quick sketch! Woot!

Challenge 1: Vampires

Was meaning to just draw a cute vampire in vector but ended up drawing out this entire band from Konami's (Bemani) Pop'n Music..! Not such a popular game here but it's huge in Japan... very similar to the play style of Guitar Hero except you have up to 9 buttons to watch for instead of 5.

From the left: Smile (mummy on guitar), Yuli (vampire vocals), Ash (werewolf on drums). Click their names to see the original artwork from the game :)

So... not really just a vampire submission... but there's at least one in there.. that counts, right? (*so sorry if it doesn't!)

I'll try to avoid doing any more fanart pieces in the next round >

Challenge 1: Vampires

Ilmegrath -- Eldest Magium of the Nagrathey Clan

This will probably be my last submission for this topic as I have some other obligations to attend to this week and then the new topic will be posted on Monday. I wanted to add more items to help with the scale in this image because the Shaman is supposed to be really imposing in person, but I couldn't get them to work. I've tried a few other backgrounds and some character elements but they always fight with his silhoette, which I wanted to maintain. Hopefully you still get the sense that this is someone that you don't want to tangle with. If I met a dude in the forest who was floating off the ground a few inches I'd be heading in the opposite direct...

I'd like to take this opportunity to remind all current members to please remember to submit your topic suggestions, as at the moment I only have ones that I have come up with and a few submitted by Madd_Sketch, AKA Aaron. It would be great to have a bigger, more varied pool to draw from for the next topic, so try to get some in a.s.a.p! Thanks!

If you have friends who would like to join The Order keep in mind that it's best if we have people that will post regularly since this should be a place where you can go to a few times a week to be inspired by something new and cool! Send their email addresses to topicsofcreation@gmail.com or send me a message on MSN.

I'm really excited and impressed by all the work that has been posted for the inagural challenge of The Order of the League of Creation! and I hope that so far everyone else is being inspired and feeling more and more like they want to create! Let's keep the momentum going!

I hope everyone had a Spooky Samhain and a Horrible All-Hallows-Eve!

Update: Turns out I wasn't a fan of the initial background after all, so I went and did something totally differnt. I'm going to take another stab at the first version and try to figure out how to do a sick black and white background :D The new BG elements are from a tutorial site called Photoshop Hero...check 'em out!

Challenge 1: Vampires

Little did princess Abagale realise her slender long neck made her perfect vampire bait.

Soon they will have oh so much in common.

I'm doing my part to make give this blog more female vampires. Notice the bed in the corner! Sexy!

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Voilà! My vampire! So I got lazy and didn't really colour it...drawn with inky pens. He loves his bat parrot. <3

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There's also the ladies...  the succubus, or succubi (plural). Made popular by Capcom's very busty Darkstalkers character, Morrigan Aenslead.

This line art = very ancient. Toning = not as ancient.

What's with the huge hand? at the time I thought it was cool, haha

Challenge 1: Vampires #2

I was at the bus and i was just sketching and this came out. I'm still warming up, so I might just wait for the next challenge lol.

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A little undead pixel art. I guess his name can be vampy

Challenge 1: Vampires - # 3

Here's a little story/background I came up with for this piece:

The Nagrathey (pronounced "Nag-rrrath-eh") are a clan of vampire that live in the borreal forests of North America and Eastern Europe. They hunt in packs, worship caribo, moose, and Elk (hence the antlers on his noggin') and are lead by a 7000 year old shaman. This happy fellow is a low-level hunter/scout who has spotted something tasty.

This is after a piece by Joe Mirabello that features an undead creature and it's unfortunate victim. It reminded me of the illustrations in the Vampire: The Masquarde books, which I've never had the nuts to attempt until today!

C&C are welcome on this as I would like to improve my ability to render light and shadow correctly in 2-Dimensions.

Peace Out!

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okay i didn't spend long enough to fix his face but i'll just do a better one. Next time i wanna try more dynamic pose.

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Vampire study, anatomy study, or tonal excercise?

Another attempt at a vampyre! This one is more of a nosferatu version. I'm finding that I tend to tighten up a lot quicker when drawing digitally, so he isn't as exaggerated and weird as I had originally intended. I'll have another crack at it soon :D

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LEAGUE
noun, verb, leagued, lea⋅guing. –noun

1. a covenant or compact made between persons, parties, states, etc., for the promotion or maintenance of common interests or for mutual assistance or service.

2. in league, working together, often secretly or for a harmful purpose; united.

The goal of The Order of the League of Creation! is to inspire and motivate it's members through monthly and bi-weekly art challenges. All members are welcome and encouraged to submit topics at any time to topicsofcreation@gmail.com, where they will then randomly be chosen for future challenges. The League would ask that all members attempt to submit at least 5-10 topics around the same time as their first or second post, and continue to submit topics regularly.

Members interpretations of the topics will not be limited in any way. You are free to submit finished pieces or sketches as you like. Volume is very much welcomed, so post as often as you like! Members should also note that they are not bound by the current topic and may post any artwork that they are proud of or which they believe will inspire fellow members.

Over the coming weeks and months this ultra secretive location (or "web-log") will undergo changes and additions for the benefit of all within the order. If you have a suggestion for improvement, simply contact an adminstrative member of The Order of The League of Creation!.

PLEASE LABEL ALL OF YOUR POSTS WITH THE CHALLENGE NAME!

With that said, let the first challenge be known!

Challenge #1:
As a newly installed initiate of The Order of the League of Creation!, your first challenge is to bring into the light the most nefarious, dastardly, cunningly devious creature the night has ever seen: THE VAMPIRE!

Expect challenge #2 to be posted on November 28th!