Contest Entries!!

Hello everyone!
I'm sorry I didn't posted this before, but this are the entries we got for the contest :D

Fanart Category(They are in order they were summited)

By Okumis

By Kathryn

 By Merula O

By Pandora

By Mink

By  Carassaurat

Fanfic Category(They are in order they were summited)

Untitled by Meli

In the Queen's Council by Niz

A new Beggining by Jasmine Joy

The Bread of the Traitor by Camille

As I said before the judging will take a week(Probably less but a week is fine for you all to apreciate the entries) After that, we will announce the winners of each category.

Good luck to everyone and thank you so so much for participating!! :A:

Quick entry!

I'm sorry for the lack of updates! Have a quick entry of my current progress on the projects I'm involved!

All Basiliska art is completely done ;D! Wow It's been a while, I really hope you guys enjoy both the story and characters that Carrogath wrote and also my art hehe

I worked also on the GUI, it's my first time working completely on an interface for a game(That it's not mine of course!)

As you know, Kaleidofish is back, so I will be working on the remaining art for The Girl in Red.

All sprite art for TGIR is already done, so the GUI and the CG scenes needs to be done.

I did the logo, what do you think about it?

As always my own projects are on hiatus, there is a silly thing on my downloads tray if you haven't noticed :u(Was done in 3 days lol)

Hopefully I will be back doing AJ sprite art too :_:

Don't forget the knife of the traitor contest ends on May 29th!!

A small teaser!

So yeah, for the ones that doesn't know about my tumblr, I've been posting small teasers of  TKOT prizes!

This is basically all but the stickers and prints, I will go defenitely this week for them! But I'm glad I have everything else done! :A:

 A little comparsion of the things with my local currency(Peruvian sol) also from Japan and Paraguay(Lol I swear I had us currency and also canadian I guess I lost it!)

 Annd This are the stickers! The packing actually. I said there would be 6 stickers but I changed my mind so I made an sticker sack containing 24 small ones

Hope you guys have fun if you join! I'm doing my best to make a rewarding prize for both categories :D

Neewwsss..!

Yes, this post again. Follow me meanwhile I eat this giant bowl of chocolate corn flakes and soy milk(YUCK)

About my games/projects:

+I wish I could, but I'm not entering nanoreno this year. Mostly because two reasons:
-I'm already full with other projects I'm helping + commisions + freelance work. I'm afraid doing nano will eliminate myself of the planet.
-Even if I might not enter, I already had an idea! And because I was impatient...I already started writting about it(see the following point of games/projects)

-I've been thinking for a long time about making a game about cannibals. Nano was the perfect excuse to make it reality! But as I said above, I might not enter this year...Anyway, I started a few weeks ago to write it.I don't want to make the same mistake as Eyes of Wilderness...To start writting and doing art in pararel, For me that's a great mistake...I would rather finish writting all of it and then doing the art-

So Le filet mignon was born(as my sister translated me, it means "the cute fillet" )
Have some concept art...This is all I will have until I finish the whole script. Wish me luck :D
What is about? Well, it's something very light...In the same lightness of TKOT(but this would not be comedy!) Might not spoil anything yet...All I can say that the heroines are all cannibals. But our protag can't be eaten that easily(You see him blue? Well, that's for a reason)

Ange, your protag-chan. (20 years old)

Ange and his brother Bryce(24)

Priestess Arianne (20) Totally not Annaise lol.

 Priestess Leonor(23)

Priestess Rayne(21)

I'm staying late some days to write more about it. So I guess more than 10k for arround May is not impossible? lol. Oh yeah. This is a BxG game or whatever. You can go through 4 heroines routes(3 shown in the concept art, one secret)And you can have 3 ends with each of them(love?, friendly and well, yeah, eaten or even worse than eaten haha)

+I've been thinking to throw an Eyes of wilderness demo. Would you like that? It's still quite incomplete.Lacks of various cgs and some insert stories...

+Don't forget there is an ongoing contest for The Knife of the Traitor!

About projects I'm helping with!:

Basiliska: I'm on the CGs now! One is almost done yay! After all cg, GUI is what needs to be done.

American Jurassic: Yesssss sprite art on the way.(Will not say anything else)

Background tutorial? Part 1

MONTHS ago I was asked to make a tutorial about backgrounds...Personally I think I might be a good advisor on those but I can give some tips of what I really know about coloring.
(And...I'm going to give my best trying to explain the best I can, I'm sorry Miruki, this is for you!)

So...Where to start? I don't even know!

This is my method, do not take this as an absolute truth(Becase it isn't there will never be)
You can  catch whatever you find useful of this and use it .

What to do first?
Open your prefered program(I use Photoshop cs3) and input the size of your canvas(Be sure to
work on a bigger canvas than the final product, at least the double of size. For example if your canvas is going to be
1366 x 768, work it at least on 2732 x 1536, then when you finnish it, resize it to it's original size )

Now that we have or canvas, let's think about what are we going to do, and get a bunch of references ready(I usually
don't do this...orz But you totally should! )

For this example I'm going to paint a dusk landscape, something like this one
Examine which colors are the predominant on the picture, cold colors right?(blues, purples..etc) but also got warms(not as much as the colder ones)

Start with your canvas, and paint it with the predominant color of your bg(Why? We want to make sure this color affects the whole setting)

Now, let's sketch our background.(This is where you apply all your knowledge about drawing, perspective and proportions...I know this very vague so I won't corrupt your head with filthy lies)

I tend to do everything in one layer(You can work faster on that way buy it's hell if you want to edit haha, If I want to edit what I do is paint over everything...But probably that's the worst way to work a bg)But this time I'm using layers. See? Create one layer and start sketching. Use your favorite brush there...I use that one marked on the screencap to sketch because it's sharp.

Now that we have our sketch done(Think it's something worth to continue) What I do is..Color.
Other more polished artist(I suggest using this instead of my "me avoiding lineart") after sketching, they go for  a cleaner sketch or much better a lineart. Choose which one will favor your final result.
Before I start coloring I have pictured in my head which parts of the background are near and which ones are farther. The nearest ones will have a more sharp coloring and the elements which are farther will be more blurry. It helps a lot thinking of your bg as a layered picture(like the one bellow, 3 parts)
Also remember that farther elements will have a washed out color.(Specially on daylight)

Coloring will come in part two! I'm following this post with news!

TKOT_Character Poll

This is something I did a while ago but never posted it...orz
I made a TKOT character poll last year, and the winner was Corvus!
This is a little interview with some facts of him: (Spoilers ahead.)

The Knife of the Traitor-CONTEST!

There is 8 days left guys! Please don't miss the deadline! Good luck everyone ;D
UPDATE ON FANFIC CATEGORY 22/05:
There is no wordcount limit! Please, just be sure it's an auto-conclusive story.

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Celebrating the game is now one year older(On April!) I've decided to host a little contest in gratitude of all the plays the game had!(Thank you so much guys!)

.WHAT TO DO?.
-There will be two categories(Fanart and Fanfiction) Choose which one you like most.
-Draw two or more characters of the game(keep it safe for work)in an alternate universe!(But keep their clothes essence and color scheme the same)eg: Os got bones and eyes all over her, Vosges has mushrooms etc.
-Write about two or more characters on an alternate universe!(But keep their personality, relations and roles the same, eg: Os is a queen, SPOILER: Corvus is an slaved prince, Vosges is a peasant/magician, Gervase is an animal and Lilja is a god.)Safe for work also. (Wordcount between 1000 to 3000) Just spoke with Anarchy, she says there's no need for wordcount limit. So be free to extend your fic if you need it!(Just make sure it's auto-conclusive)


.RULES.
-The contest ends on May 29th.(Peru Time)
-You can only participate in one category.
-You can't show your entry on any public internet site until the contest ends!
-Submit your entries to i_polty@yahoo.es with the subjet "TKOT contest_Fanart category" or  "TKOT contest_Fanfic category"  (Please be sure to do it so!)

.JUDGING.
-The fanart judge will be me(lol) And fanfic judge will be Anarchy.
-The most creative and well worked entries will have the best chance to win.
-There will be no changes on which ones we will choose as winners.
-Around June 1st or 2nd we will post all the entries for you all to see, and a week later, we will post which ones are the winners.

.PRIZES.
-There is one prize for each category's winner, and it's the following:
Decided to add more prizes for second and third place:

FIRST PLACE(For both categories)

-A pencil pouch/cosmetic bag feauturing the characters of the game.(There are two colors, purple and green. I will send them at random)
-A little brooch of Lady Os.
-Two bones hairclips.
-Two eyeballs hairclips.
-Two A5 prints of the game. A mini artbook (probably just 4 pages long) featuring the events after the tower...(Yeah, not pictured there, I need to work on the ilustrations!)
-Cute Traitor sticker sack(24 sticker flakes in total)

SECOND PLACE(For both categories)

-A cellphone charm set of Gakuen Traitor(Contains 5 charms)

-Cute Traitor sticker sack(24 sticker flakes in total)

THIRD PLACE(For both categories)

-A dressup game just like this one

I will sent this prizes worldwide! So have in mind that I will require your home address to do so.

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Updated this with the prize photos, sorry if they are blurry if you want any zoom to any of the prizes let me know! So far you can see all of my teasers here
I've haven't recived entries yet :_: