MoNoXiDe_XXX vs. majik_6
 

After much behind the scenes talk and deliberation, MoNoXiDe_XXX's great plan has come to fruition!

Basically, we're still setting the finer points of the rules, but unless I get a PM from him, I figure we're doing this using the standard rules of the Versus thread, except with maybe a little more leeway in the amount of time allowed for rebuttals (I work weird hours as a collections agent, and I'm sure that his tattooing has some unusual scheduling requirements as well).

So without further ado, here's the first image in the epic battle of the tattooist and the wanna-be tattooist! :)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...S/jumpoff1.jpg

this is going to be a great battle! :D

Say majik_6, you forgot to tell us what MoNoXiDe_XXX is suppose to prevent your smoke from doing. Does he have to put it out or prevent it from burning everything to the grown? waht? :)

That's a great looking cigarette! :thumbsup:

Just to give some specifics on dobster and my battle, we've agreed to give each person 5 days to respond to an attack. That's longer than Nancy and Dizzet's 4 day period, to accomodate the craziness of the holidays.

In addition, we've got a rule that the loser needs to draw a final portrait at the end incorporating both players. That's a hold over from Nancy and Dizzet's battle, decided beforehand whether the winner or the loser draws the portrait.

We've also only allowed items that begin with the letter L. That was more of whim and because I'm slightly deranged. :D But dobster must be slightly deranged too because he agreed to it. ;) :D

Anyhow, good start, and it looks like it'll be a cool battle as well.

I think we just decided in an all out brawl.. To the DEATH!!

ok goodie but you're still suppose to prevent the previous drawing from doing something :)

ouch
 

Im preventing the previous drawing from exisiting by smoking it .. Muwahahahahaha!!!

HeeHeeHee :lol:

this is goin to be a great battle...

*subscribe*

bring it on fellas........this is gonna be good.

Brilliant idea MoNoXiDe_XXX!

Haha this is starting out really good already.

Asta!!

And the loser has to get the picture as a tatoo on the back :)

this one is definitely gonna be a smokin' hot battle.

*anxiously watches*

That would be kinda cool actually but something tells me that the guys are not up for it.

By the way guys, have you decided which one of you will be doing the loser/winner portrait?

i think that we both should... winner draws loser and vice versa :P

Nice start of a battle!
It has a very distinct tattoo feel to it.. nice to see it so distinct from other battles.

Agreed! That's probably the best idea for the portraits.

Sorry for the delay in responding, but I just had a whirlwind trip through several states culminating in getting a Canadian girlfriend!


And as for the previous suggestion of getting some sort of tattoo to commemorate the battle...well, I'm not sure I'd get the hole image, but I'd consider something. :)

Hey... damn you americans :P Leave the canadians in canada!
Yea, and i would pretty much get anything tattooed

NP. Hey have you guys set a time limit yet?

:eek: are ya really gonna have a tattoo done?!

Hey majik_6,

Why is that paper so yellow and how did you make that cigarette? Did you draw it by hand?

If he did thats impressive. It looks airbrushed. Real cool

Asta!!

Perhaps it's both? :hmm:

It's fully hand drawn, as will be all of my contributions to this thread. :) I may airbrush something (maybe), but it'll all be non-digital. As an homage to the tattoo-style I did it with colored pencils and ink on an 11x14 piece of bristol plate (the standard material for sheets of flash).

As for the yellowish tint, it was too large to scan and the lighting in my house is very yellowish (and I don't have a good photo editor).

Okay, so I've gotten some stuff drawn up, but I'm hesitant to post it because I can t figure out a good way to print out the existing drawings to work on them. I'm computer-dumb, so if someone could explain to me how to print out that image in a big enough size to draw on, I'd be very appreciative. All my attempts are very faint or very blurry.

i save it to whatever and open it in photoshop and print to a full page, and then draw accordingly and scan again to what ever size.

if that makes sense

<--drinkin

Printing out the existing drawing may be a problem unless the image is at 150 to 300 dpi. At 72 dpi, your print out will be pretty small and painful to work on and trying to size up will cause problems.

i just resize it in photoshop

Finally, after much delay, I have my response!

I ended up having to recruit a techie friend to help me get it printed in a clear manner, but here it is. Let's see you finish that cigarette after a full syringe of HORSE TRANQUILIZER!!! HAHA!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...okey_thumb.jpg
click for full image

Wow, mad skillz. :thumbsup:

this is a MOST impressive battle ... I may even get some tattoo ideas from it :)

boo yeah
 

My little demon may have something to say about that!!

yay finally we get some action! Great moves you two :thumbsup:

Did the demon NEED to be anatomically correct? Funny though.

yes.... i mean, he wouldnt be very scary with out !

Ahaha shit I didn't even notice that until I read what you posted.

Asta!!

nice fellas........keep it up

Nicely done...but it will be no match for what I've got cooking. Mwahahahaha!

*sits on edge of seat*

nice going so far, guys!

hooray! i cant wait, majik!

Yes that and it will keep Nancy entertained! ;)

Nice, can't wait to see the response to that one.

<---the tech friend majik mentioned.

i'm liking the devil, hehe.

not sure what m's got planned for a defense, but i'm sure it'll be cool.

True, true :p

We'll see how powerful your well-hung demon is after a bout with a pus-dripping, evil, glowing HERPES SORE!!!!! (I had another idea, but I'm saving it for a later reply)


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...otS/smokin.jpg


If the file's too small for you to work with, I have MUCH larger versions in .jpg and .tiff formats, just e-mail me (oddlots at gmail.com --obviously take out the spaces and replace "at" with @) or message me on BME or Yahoo and I'll be glad to send you a higher quality copy.

Heh heh, high quality work guys!

This thread is shaping up to be fantastic...

Brilliant........
 

I love it!!!! :D
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/attachm...tid=9271&stc=1

woh :) uber cool.. love em hand drawn and ol school :):)

Lovin the characters coming out of this already! Phatness!

Majik_6, try image shack, as they won't resize your pictures like photobucket. They'll be bigger and easier to see :thumbsup:

Just watch, MoNoXiDe's gonna bust out the ointment of doom, I tells ya.

I actually resized that one with photobucket simply because I forgot to resize it on my computer. :) I've got the Adobe Creative Suite which I usually use when I need to resize stuff, but I had left it entirely too huge, so I just clicked the re-size option and sent MoNoXiDe the full version to work off of.

I'm quite excited to see how he responds.

I love this. Yer both tattoo artists right? Love the grimeyness of the drawings. And how they're all rich in color.

Asta!!

K-Wise: MoNoXiDe does tattoos, but I'm actually still trying to get an apprenticeship with a tattooist. So hopefully soon I'll be joining the sacred ranks. Until then, I'm just gonna sit at my boring, regular job and get jealous of his ability to sling ink. :)

There has to be someone somewhere with a herpe biting fetish.

p.s. i wish i could fins away to keep the quiality from lowering.

Ewww that fuckin rocks

Asta!!

what res. are you printing in?

additionally, before you print it out, try burning it one or two passes in photoshop...that'll keep some of the detail when it's scanned back in. it looks like your printer's either dropping a lot of detail and color, or your scanner's not picking any up.

:thumbsup:

Thanks neonscreamer.

not a problem.

that's one of the issues that majik_6 ran into, hence my invitation to the board...had to print the first response out for him, and then scan it back in.

:thumbsup:

HaHaHa...

keep up the good work guy...

i'm loving this!!!

So is this battle dead now or something? Should Majik6 start drawing a victory picture for Monoxide?

Asta!!

i was just wondering the same, Havent heard much from Majik. But i know he has a pretty hectic time. I believe we have an exteneded time limit on pictures.

You never did tell us the time limit you agreed on which you should have.

Sorry to hear that majik is so busy coz I was so enjoying this battle :|

Oh well. I never liked putting a time limit on creativity anyway :cool:

Asta!!

This is a great battle... please don't leave it unfinished

Well for starters that's one of the rules of this game. And secondly it puts one's creativity to the test when one has to come up with something quickly.

Agreed. A time limit is just another constraint that artists need to contend with. No different from awkward canvas sizes and picky clients.

All of the above, and we just want to see more cool shit :D

Okay you guys win *grumble* :cool:

Asta!!

Hey all,
The reason for Majik's lateness is due to the fact that he works two jobs, goes to school full-time and is about to move...Thanx for the support, though, he appreciates it!

aye, majik informed me yesterday that he has his reply finished, just needs to scan it. unfortunately with his schedule, that's not as easy as it sounds. he's been using my scanner, and we can hardly make time to set anything solid up in the way of bringing the monstrousity that is this piece of art in.

it'll get there :)

Sorry for the delay, everyone, but as my wonderful SO and next door neighbor have mentioned, things have been pretty crazy around here. As for the style of the piece, it's traditional tattoo black and gray realism, since it had to be drawn at work (in pencil) and later added to the picture in PhotoshopCS.

So, after much anticipation, I must ask you Sir MoNoXiDe, how frisky might your herpes-biter be after an over-zealous bris from a shaky-handed mohel?! :hmm:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...gdifferent.jpg


I look forward to your reply!

And it's back on!!

CHEAH!

Asta!! :thumbsup:

oww and a dull razor it is too
the previous picture of the guy looks like he sees the rabbi coming and is covering himself hah

YAY!!!

and the battle continues...

wonderful use of...um...uhh...razors...and mohels.

however, using a mohel has opened up numerous extremely frightening paths for monoxide to take...i wonder which one it'll be!

*sits and stares*

Can anyone tell that majik's dating a jew?

we can now ;)

hiya c-bob *waves*

I'm so transparent!

Here
 

Here we go, another quickie befor real work starts... if you wanna call it real work.

The rabbi seemed to have left his menorah a rockin and everyone knows that razor blades have a nasty coke habit

Nice one! I'm in the graphic design lab right now, but I'm going to be sure to start a new reply as soon as I get home from class. :)

And it's gettin good!

Asta!!

I've had my reply ready for a while, and as soon as I can get some problems with my scanner figured out (or can track down neonscreamer to use his), I'll have a reply up here. :)

:thumbsup: That is great!!

NOTE: i am 20 days, almost, late.

heh, M, if you need to use the scanner, just lemme know, i can stop by the station when you're there and get you hooked up.

so...

what happened here???

Hey,
I'm Majik's fiancee, and he moved to a new town a few months ago, and not only does he not have the time lately (working two jobs and being a full-time student), but he's missing the cables to his scanner.

o...

i guess that means MoNoXiDe_XXX wins???

as he was the last to post a pic...

Nope, because when they began the battle, they declared no time limit, and neither one of them has done what it takes to win; which is either run out of room on the paper, or to draw an image which the competitor can't beat.

fair enough then...

GAME ON!!!

LOL.

the drawings are awesome you guys! :D

hey ophelia (get back down here and hang!)...tell E to get ahold of me sometime...he can totally use my scanner if needed.

and tell him i said "don't be emo" just for good measure.

This is high-end battle - and the behind the scenes diplomacy, logistics issues and equipment issues gives it a real edge.

Who, or what, will fall like an avalanche of demons out of a bubble of evil? The world waits.

FINALLY!


After a looong period of fuckin' with my scanner and installing over a gig of ram, I've got my computer fixed to a point where I can share my contribution!

As promised, this image is handdrawn, though I did have to employ a bit of photoshop to clean up the previous drawings and put it all together (the printout was too small and blurry to make a decent drawing.

So MoNoXiDe, how mighty could your flames and drugs be after facing the billowing, icy breath of Old Man Winter?!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...tle-royale.jpg

P.S-MoNoXiDe, I have a much higher quality .psd version of this. Just IM me on here, IAM, or gmail me and I can get it to you.

YAY!

i'm glad this battle is continuing!!!

So am I....
Baby, your Old Man Winter's awesome!

Thanks, ophelia!

I'm excited to see what MoNoXiDe comes up with!

I wonder where MoNoXiDe is....

An epic battle, surely..

i just spent 1/2 an hour going through all the posts.

AWESOME battle! bravo to you both!

Thanks, chelsea_9!

I'm sure MoNoXiDe is pretty busy this week, what with a birthday coming up and all, but I'm super psyched to see what he comes up with! (Happy early birthday, man!) :)

I just found this thread because I'm rarely in this forum...but these pictures are all fantastic. Good work, and I'll keep checking back for the continuing battle!