As the newspost title says, the Newgrounds Art Forum's Xmas worm has started, and peeps are making pics.
So check it out in the thread.

If you're interested in joining, pop your name in the sign-up thread and I'll see if I can put your in Group B or C.

Hello,

This year, I'll be hosting a Christmas time art worm collab.

(Yay thinking about Xmas in November!)

The idea is for all the pics to be linked to the neighbouring ones, just like the previous art worm.
Except they are all festive!

For more details, questions, or if you're interested
post something in the thread in the art forum.

xxx

Hello.

Long story short, please click here to read my tutorial for creating isometric pixel images!

Short story long, my mate has started up a web design blog providing tutorials and freebies, and I offered some help to get it started with a tutorial.

I'm no pixel pro, since I only dabble with pixel stuff occasionally. Most of the stuff in the blog should help out a relative beginner, such as drawing pixelise lines and curves, and handling anti-aliasing and dithering. Hopefully it will encourage you to attempt your own creation, big or small.

And if you're an expert, you can sneer at the other tips and techniques that I like to follow, such as how I handle brainstorming ideas, how I choose colour palettes, and the lazy ways I pixelise shapes and text.

If I've forgotten anything fundamental, or if I poorly explain something, please leave a comment. And if I help you, leave a comment about that, too!

... oh, and PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ MY TUTORIAL FOR CREATING ISOMETRIC PIXEL IMAGES!

The art crit stream (in Test-Object's newspost) is LIVE!

Check it out in PatBest's stream here. We're also in TinyChat if you don't fancy registering to twitch, although the twitch stream is being recorded.

If you have some pics you want some feedback on, get them uploaded to the art portal or NG dumping ground and post a link in one of the chats.

EDIT: Finished for now, but it looks like one will be planned for next week :)

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Hello.

A friend of mine is wanting to give away her tablet, so I thought I'd give it a plug on front page.
Check out the thread here.

If you've been wanting to try out a tablet for animations or drawing, give this contest a shot.
It's open to Europeans only since it costs loads to post it off.

So there.

Hewwo.

Just letting you know there are 4 spots available in the Christmas Advent Calendar Art Collab!
In a nutshell, you draw a Christmassy pic, and it'll be the image behind one of the doors on a particular day.
For more info, check out the thread.
But only sign up if you've got the time to create and submit a pic, preferably before the 30th of November.

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Also
- Nae's running some bone tool challenge (with $25 store cred prize!)
- ForNoReason's running an animated Holiday collab, if you fancy doing some animating, and
- LuLu's got an Xmas card exchange where you could give a random NGer an Xmas card full of anthrax.

Huzzazles

If you were about last year, you may remember the Holiday Flood Collab.
It went really well.
So we've decided to have another go.

This collab will be based around an advent calendar, where a new door will open up on each day with a different Christmas related image behind each. For the Flash, each submission will be allotted a day in the calendar (1-24), which can only be opened up once that day has arrive/passed.

For more info, check out the art forum thread.
If you want to join, reply to the thread with the Christmas related theme you'd like to have for your pic.

BOSH!

Here's the BBS thread for this project! Click me!
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If you were about last year, you may remember the Holiday Flood Collab:
It went really well.
So we've decided to have another go.

This collab will be based around an advent calendar, where a new door will open up on each day with a different image behind each.

For this Flash, each submission will be allotted a day in the calendar (1-24), which can only be opened up once that day has arrive/passed.

These submissions should be Holidays related, but I'd like people to give a rough idea on what the pic might be, just so that the calendar doesn't need to be filled with Santas. Anyways, you'll come up with a better submission if you spend a few more minutes coming up with an original idea.

Collaborative submissions are allowed! Two artists are free to work on a single submission.

Since this is a time dependent project, there will be some strict deadlines! If people don't meet these, they'd better have a good reason, or be booted to allow spots for more deserving users.
These will be:
- 18th of November, and
- 30th of November.
If you're not sure whether you'll deliver, don't join!

The idea for the final day (25th) is to make a collaborative piece, where all the artists in the project have produce a full-body caricature of themselves, to form a Holiday Greetings image.

The calendar will run from the 1st of December, up to the 25th. It may also be possible to let users gain medals if they open up the advent door on the matching day, and only that day! Just like the staff profiles on Hallowe'en.

All of this is still in the working stages, so if anyone has any ideas or anything ... spit 'em out!

Otherwise if you want to join, reply with what theme you'd like to have for your pic.

NAME / THEME / FIRST CP / SECOND CP
Absinthe / Overworked elves / Rough wip
Adam-Beilgard / / COMPLETE
Aigis / Christmas beach / zilch
Artist-Lost / Fairy / COMPLETE
Creepyboy / / COMPLETE
EJR / Nutcrackers / COMPLETE
Escalus / Jack Frost / COMPLETE
EthanAlways / Idunno, something Christmassy
Flowers10 / Three kings / WIP (nearly complete)
Hyptosis / Capitalist Santa / COMPLETE
Knocturne / Snow Queen / WIP
JackDGreatest / Krampus / COMPLETE
Lucasv / Mistletoe / WIP
Ludic / Undead Santa / COMPLETE
Luwano / The Grinch / WIP
Nacco / / COMPLETE
ReNaeNae / Box of chocolates / zilch
Saminat / Abominable snowman / COMPLETE
Test-Object / Idunno, something crappy / COMPLETE
TehSlapHappy / / COMPLETE
Tomsan / Winter globe / COMPLETE
Zane Zansorrow/ Christmas orphan / COMPLETE
Zombie-Monkey / Monster Christmas oooohhhh / COMPLETE

JamSession / / COMPLETE
VaguelyWonderful / / COMPLETE

Zanroth as a back-up/collaborative artist.

Aigis
johnnyutah
M1as

Ornery

AlvinHew
Jagondudo
ThDark
Xaltotun
Vonschlippe

tlishman