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FurArtXchange is a competitive, but friendly, community where every fortnight one person's character is put up "for the draw". We then vote on the pictures to select the next Chosen. Both 2d and 3d art is accepted.


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May. 16th, 2008 @ 10:00 pm My entry for this round
And it turns out the hardest part of working with flash is getting the damn thing to save. )
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DF tramp
[info]wyatt1048:
May. 6th, 2008 @ 12:15 am My entry for this round. :)
i said i'd be the first one in and darnit if i wasn't right! Get on it people!


larger version under here )
Enjoy!
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devil in all of us
[info]blith:
Apr. 29th, 2008 @ 06:29 pm Faolin Rudah
Current Mood: happy
Welcome to the first round of FAX!

This rounds chosen one is:

Faolin Rudah!

Faolin Rudah is a pirate. Her mother was a tavern wench coyote and her father was a dire wolf pirate. While it may not have been love in at first sight, nine months later, little Faolin was born.

Faolin is an adventurous soul, and one that is at home on the sea. She is fiercely defensive of her few friends, her ship, and more importantly, her freedom. Strong and intelligent, probably her greatest flaw is that she is a wrathful individual.

In coloration, she is mostly coyote colored, but more red. Her eyes are emerald green, and her hair is a bit redder than the rest of her fur. Her canines are long, and show even when her muzzle is closed. She wears standard pirate gear, including a tricorn hat, long frock coat, and thigh high boots. She is rarely seen without a brace of pistols, and often has a small gun blade with her, or a blunderbuss.

Though you do not have to draw her with anyone else, these are the other important figures in her life:

Commodore Bastian Rimerez. He is a leopard, and (obviously) high ranking within the queen's navy. Though he has been sent to track down Faolin and bring her to justice, his deepest secret is that he is in love with Faolin. They have...ah...crossed paths a time or two...and he is pretty sure she returns his feelings.

The Wolfshead: Her ship.

Reference images!
An actual coyote with Faolins color: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/ravynwolf/refrence%20photos/coyote.jpg
Faolin: http://dragoninthemist.deviantart.com/art/Faolin-68444266
Again: http://dragoninthemist.deviantart.com/art/Card-Art-Faolin-68439914
One last one: http://dragoninthemist.deviantart.com/art/Captain-Faolin-68439468

Themes:
Good inspiration would be Pirates of the Caribbean.
However, feel free to take your own interpretation of her, mecha pirate, sky pirate, Stardust, Iron Kingdoms, just have fun!

Feel free to ask me any questions about her.

This round will run until the 17th.
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Tauren Dance
[info]ravynwolf:
Apr. 29th, 2008 @ 02:21 pm A New Round! A New Begning!
Round will begin tonight as soon as I'm home from class.

As soon as I can, I will update the min page with this info.

Please remember when naming your file follow this example:

monthyear_ljname.whatever

So if I were to participate I would name my entry: april2008_ravynwolf

Also, if you could save me a little time, with your entry, please also post a thumbnail 150 pixels wide by 200 pixels tall, for the voting.:)

Get those art supplies ready. :D
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Tauren Dance
[info]ravynwolf:
Jan. 18th, 2008 @ 01:26 pm *taps Microphone*
Ah-hem.
Is anyone still here?

It was brought to my attention that people might be interested in starting FAX up again...

So, anyone interested? I used to run this community with Lemurkat, and I think I can handle picking up the reigns again, that is, if anyone is interested...

Drop me a line, if there enough intrest, I'll prepare to reanimate the community in Feb.
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Tauren Dance
[info]ravynwolf:
Mar. 11th, 2007 @ 06:33 pm art project continuing...
Hey all... Just an update on that art project I posted on 2/19. I have just 3 animals left... Pig, Rat, and Monkey. If anyone is interested, please write me back!

Thanks!! :)

Tek.
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[info]tekuryuu:
Feb. 19th, 2007 @ 07:37 pm project request. 12 artists needed.
Greets all. I have a project that I'd like to get help on. I thought a little bit of an "exchange" format would be somewhat interesting.

I went to Panda Express for dinner tonight and noticed they have come up with a very cool looking, heavily stylized logo for the Chinese new year of the Boar. And it got me to thinking...

I make vinyl stickers, signs, magnets, and such... And it would be really neat to have a full set of the Chinese Zodiac.

However, since I can't draw for crud, and have thus never had an active role in any of these 'exchange' groups, I thought this might be a chance to get involved.

So I would like to find 12 artists (1 for each of the zodiac animals) who would be willing to draw a design for their chosen animal, and in exchange, once I have all 12 logos done, I will mail a full set of them, about 6" in size, to each of the artists who participate.


Guidelines:

1. Please visit pandaexpress.com to see the one they designed. That'll give you a general idea of what I'm looking for.

2. Please mail me directly to confirm the animal of your choice has not been chosen by someone else. My email is Aaron@whitedragonvinyl.com

3. Designs submitted should be one solid color (color of your choice) in order to facilitate ease of cutting into vinyl sheets of solid color. Eventually I will be able to print full color deisgns, but for now, it's gotta be a solid color. If you look at the one @ PE, it has some words around the circle, color background, and such. Please submit your design in a simple one color design on white or no background, without words, or with words in a seperate layer. I'm planning to cut the design so that you can see thru it, rather than a solid panel.

4. Designs should be sumbitted in a "vectored" format. AI, EPS, directly drawn in Corel Draw (up to X3), Photoshop (Up to CS2), or other formats as such. Tracing flat formats like .jpg takes something out of it, you know?

5. Plan your design to look good at a 6" size. I'd like to have them all fit a loose format for consistancy, so please design it around or within a geometric shape. As in the inspirational design, some protrusion from the shape is desirable.

6. Design must be original. (or something of your own design anyway) I would also ask for the copyright to produce the set of designs in a commercial environment.



Thanks all! :) Hope to hear from a bunch of folks!

Tek.
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[info]tekuryuu:
Jan. 10th, 2007 @ 08:17 am Trading Post 2 is up!
Just as a reminder to everone, the winner of last week's Trading Post, Vizon, is now the new subject of this week's post! Take a look, toss up a piece, anything from a sketch to a finished piece, and get a chance to become the subject of the next TP! Only three more days to enter.

http://www.artspots.com/forum/topic/186
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[info]toulousecheetah:
Dec. 22nd, 2006 @ 09:41 am The Trading Post opens once more
Hello one and all! I hope I am not intruding, but as luck would have it (or perhaps not) I find this group after our first Trading Post got started. Some of you may, or maybe not, have heard of the nifty little art game, fun and friendly competition. It existed on Yerf for awhile for those that remember, and I am happy to say it is being reinstated on ArtSpots!

For those that haven't heard of a Trading Post before, it works very similar to how this community does:

Every week, a character is the center of attention--a character of the previous week's winning artist. A brief description and a reference image or two is given, and then there is a whole week, give or take, to come up with an work of art that fits the character and their personality. When all is said and done, a poll is created where everyone (participants and spectators alike) get to vote on their favorite pieces. The winner goes on to have one of their characters featured in the next week's Trading Post! Rinse and repeat.

Sound fun? It is! Anyone can participate, from beginner to expert, because ultimately the votes rest upon all the site's guests, for whom humor and personality go a long way!

Still interested? Check out the Trading Post forum group at ArtSpots, the first TP topic having a much more in-depth description of the game as well as the first character to get things going.


As an aside, for general updates including announcements of new games as we come up with them, there's the [info]artspots LJ community.

Here's looking forward to a great, fun, art-filled year ahead!


[Cross-posted to many places, so just ignore if you see it more than once or thrice!]
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[info]toulousecheetah:
May. 25th, 2006 @ 11:57 pm So...I feel stupid...
I was part of one of the exchanges and someone drew a picture of my char Alopex, a foxy mechanic, and then they did a few pictures of Kya, my bearded collie char.

Anyway, I can't remember which exchange it was in and I've gone through and looked at some of the other pictures and can't seem to find them. I saved them and now I can't seem to find them at all on my computer.

So I was curious if the artist who did the wonderful pictures still had them, or had uploaded them to another site. :)

Any information is very much appreciated and this is X posted to some of the exchange groups I've been lurking in.

Thanks :)
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[info]imerald:
Apr. 15th, 2006 @ 11:02 pm a friendly hello
Current Location: my room
Current Mood: excited
Current Music: darude - ecstasy
hello i just arrived yesterday and when i get a scanner i will definitely be into this 100% and if you want to you can also get a hold of me on my furry thread at gaia online

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6561592

or my other thread

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6387782

none of these are my originals but if you want to see my non furry stuff just ask and i'll send what i have scaned
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shadow vr.2
[info]true_templar:
Jan. 9th, 2006 @ 10:02 pm (no subject)
Late late late... sad but true. Irregardless, here is the picture I drew of the chosen way back around haloween:
http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Anne/Requests%2C%20Trades%20and%20Commissions/ParrotPirate.jpg
I hope everyone understands the joke with the little person...
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Uh-huhsure
[info]yatenstarsart:
Dec. 25th, 2005 @ 03:16 pm (no subject)
Hey all,

Just inquiring... A while ago i came across a website that had tons and tons of pictures on it of refrence's of animal's open mouths. Anyone have a link to this?
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AuraIcon
[info]kappyjeanne:
Oct. 23rd, 2005 @ 11:04 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: Cheers!
Current Music: The Pillows- Beautiful Morning With You
I think this deserves a few words.

First off, I'd like to thank Lemurkat for running this show :) She did a wonderfull job, was almost always on time, and best of all she cared. I personally owe this exchange and Kit Ither my ability to draw. I first saw this exchange in...Okay here's where I make an ass out of myself, really neat character, wolf with a skull head? Had this awsome pic of it singing along to Rob Zombie? I dont know, but either way I was really excited and I knew I wanted to compete in this even though in my mind I sucked hard. Let's not debate that last statement ;3 Here I shall divulge what my art ability was back then- but beware! This site is anceint and contains PURE HORROR!! *le gasp!* It contains my first ever FAX entry :0 http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/art/h/a/hathaway/hathaway.html

..Long story short, my list of goals was to win one round here, get an modpick on Elfwood, and get into college. I only ever accomplished one of those goals, but simply being here and *drawing competitively*, with a *deadline* did more for me than four years in the pitiful highschool art program we have here in hicksville :) I've even reccomended this community in specific to developing artists for this reason.

Anyway..I agree with the closing of the community for a few reasons, but I'm glad I got to participate in the rounds I did :) It was a lot of fun, especially when I got to meet some of you chosen ones *cough* Aura!*cough* at Anthrocon, and I'll probably remember working my fingers off trying to get good enough to 'beat' some of you people till my dying day!

*raises glass* So three cheers for Fax- may it rest in good memory
(And as a last hurrah, those of you who still have 'em, post a link to your first FAX entries, and to your latest work if you want ^_^)
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missmonster
[info]dustwing: