15 + 31 points
Player Portrait by Bet Monty
August 21st, 2010 11:41 AM
I spent of time worried about how best to approach this task. Oh sure, it seems simple enough, but out here in the wild hinterlands the Lo0 team calls home, we have a saying, "If it's simple enough, you're doing it wrong." So, in true LO0 fashion, I set out to make this difficult.
You see, I'm the new FNG, and beyond my player photo this was to be my first task, so I didn't want to just half-ass it and take a random player's photo and paint a portrait from it. I want a real portrait, from a player I'd met in person. Which lead to my first dilemma. I mean, the task says "we'd really prefer that you use their player photo as your model..." right? So I was already wandering off task with my desires. Or... was I?
It didn't specifically say it had to be the SF0 player photo, right? I mean, any photo the player possessed would be that player's photo, right? So really, to stay true to the task, I just had to use a photo that belongs to the player I was painting, right?
Thus began the caper! I invited my LO0 teammates to the lair for an evening of games and entertainments. I figured I would cloud their minds with confusing riddles, outrageous claims and lots -- I mean seriously copious amounts -- of alcohol.
Once they were good and pickled, I'd start taking pictures...
It worked really well, but damn that Bun Bun. She has this weird anti-photo field around her that makes it impossible to take a picture that actually shows you anything about her! I mean look for yourself:
Oh well; next time you won't be so lucky, Bun Bun! At least the photo I took of Ombwah was better, so I decided that'd be the one I used.
Next I had to actually make the photo his. So, I decided that later I'd give him the picture back. At that point, the photos I was working with would be his and my ethics would be assuaged. The task could start!
That step of my plan out of the way, it was time to hit the art-o-tron and get to work. I'm actually pretty happy with the result. Especially when I consider that my typical artistic acumen is slightly worse than that of a 3 year old child in the middle of a Ritalin drug trial.
In fact, why don't you judge? I now present my portrait of Ombwah:
You see, I'm the new FNG, and beyond my player photo this was to be my first task, so I didn't want to just half-ass it and take a random player's photo and paint a portrait from it. I want a real portrait, from a player I'd met in person. Which lead to my first dilemma. I mean, the task says "we'd really prefer that you use their player photo as your model..." right? So I was already wandering off task with my desires. Or... was I?
It didn't specifically say it had to be the SF0 player photo, right? I mean, any photo the player possessed would be that player's photo, right? So really, to stay true to the task, I just had to use a photo that belongs to the player I was painting, right?
Thus began the caper! I invited my LO0 teammates to the lair for an evening of games and entertainments. I figured I would cloud their minds with confusing riddles, outrageous claims and lots -- I mean seriously copious amounts -- of alcohol.
Once they were good and pickled, I'd start taking pictures...
It worked really well, but damn that Bun Bun. She has this weird anti-photo field around her that makes it impossible to take a picture that actually shows you anything about her! I mean look for yourself:
Oh well; next time you won't be so lucky, Bun Bun! At least the photo I took of Ombwah was better, so I decided that'd be the one I used.
Next I had to actually make the photo his. So, I decided that later I'd give him the picture back. At that point, the photos I was working with would be his and my ethics would be assuaged. The task could start!
That step of my plan out of the way, it was time to hit the art-o-tron and get to work. I'm actually pretty happy with the result. Especially when I consider that my typical artistic acumen is slightly worse than that of a 3 year old child in the middle of a Ritalin drug trial.
In fact, why don't you judge? I now present my portrait of Ombwah:
besides I like my flaming hair