Fan Art Contest Winners
I apologize for being a few days late with this post. The reasons were manifold. Part of it, as noted earlier, are all the viruses, both computer and human, running rampant in my home. Just as I was getting over the swine flu, I was forced to completely wipe my computer and one of my external drives of all data and install a new operating system in order to destroy an insidious computer virus called mebroot. The virus is still hiding on my other external drive; I am still trying to figure out how to kill it without losing all my data. My writing is secure, but there is a lot of music, pictures, and video on that other drive that I don’t care to lose. In addition to all that, my 16 month old daughter Cassie has just come down with an awful bug of her own, and my wife and I have been up for the last 60 or so hours taking care of her. Cassie has never been sick before, and I have to say, I don’t care for it. She is too young to understand why she feels so awful or to listen to instructions on how to get better, and we’ve been utterly frantic trying to keep her hydrated and her temperature down.
On the other hand, there is also a “good news” reason for the delay. I was waiting on word from Subterranean Press on whether they could spare more advance copies of The Great Bazaar for me to use as prizes. It turns out they could, so I now have FIVE copies instead of just one to give away, which means I will be choosing five winners. I will also be having Lauren Cannon, the artist who designed the wards and painted the book cover, sign the copies, to make them extra-collectible.
Before I announce the winners, I want to thank everyone who participated so very much. I was terrified that no one would enter at all (the dreaded party where no one shows up), and instead there were a flood of amazing entries from fans all over the world. I wish I had enough prizes to send one to everyone, convention be damned. You are all champions.
On to the winners:
- Jess, from France: Jess entered a whopping EIGHT times, and all of them were fantastic. She did a lot of characters outside the “big 3”, like Elona, Cob, Arrick, and Ragen, and you can tell she put a lot of love into each. I love the little wooden talisman in her portrait of young Rojer:
- Elena from Russia: Elena entered 5 times, and each of them was an amazing piece of art. She also chose to some atypical subjects like Mery, Ragen and Elissa, which was really great. My fave:
- Mark from the US: Mark actually permanently tattooed wards up both of his forearms, six tattoos in total. How could he not get a prize for that? It is the most awesome thing ever:
- Dwayne from the UK: With three image entries and two video ones, I would have been remiss to leave Dwayne off the list. His composite movie trailers for The Painted Man and The Desert Spear are awesome:
- Iris from Germany: Last but never least, we have Iris, AKA Rainbow Sword, who not only inspired this contest in the first place, but entered five times, including one comic that made me laugh out loud (click to enlarge):
I will be contacting the winners sometime in the next few days, and will try to get all the entries up on my Fan Art Page soon, but I’m juggling a lot of projects right now, and it might be a couple of weeks before I can do all the coding.
Speaking of fan art, check this out: The Twirling Dragon
The solution to your Virus problem is Linux. Use an operating system that is resistant to Windows viruses, and clean-up the system from there.
One of the easier ways is to download Knoppix. This URL gives instructions on how to do that:
http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2004/06/scanning_for_viruses_with_knop.html
Oh yea! I’m so happy I won a prize in this comp as well, I just hope that Peat doesn’t get tired of me.
If you can remember Peat, a while back I said I would learn any skill needed to win a prize in your competitions and I plan to stick to that.
Cheers,
Dwayne ‘Serpentious’ Rose
Waaaaaaaah! Thank you sooooo much!!! I am soo happy to have won something! It’s so rare.
Congratulations to all the other winners!
and thank you again Peat, you made my day!!!
Hope Cassy will be well soon and you’ll finally find a solution for your computer virus…
Congratulations for all the winners! They’ve made a fantastic job ^^
Peat, I hope all the viruses will get out of your house soon!
Oh my GOD!
I won! Peat you made my day again, specially because I’m ill at the moment. I think all the winners did a great job! I’m just so excited!
And the picture of Arlen at the twirling Dragon is really cool!
I hope the viruses will be gone soon, Peat and thanks again!
this is unbelievable) Peat, thnx for your generosity)
5 books!!!!!!! prize for each winner)) amazing!!!!!!!!!
hope you will deal with all the problems!
Congrats to the winners…but man, that Twirling Dragon portrait of Arlen is great–a nice companion to Lauren C’s hooded Arlen painting.
WOOP WOOP!!!! i came in at number 3 im so pleased! cant wait! he he he, though im from the UK not US 😉 but hey whats a bit of water inbetween we’re all human 😀 THANKS PEAT!! Kims portrait is awsome!….. sorry to hear about Cassie, hope she is fully well again soon :-s
Congratulations to all the winners. Lots of wonderful work here.
Peter, how does it feel to write something that resonates so deeply within people that they feel the need to visually create from your words, your world and it’s characters? It’s obvious from the art, tattoos and vids that your story has connected with many devoted fans, myself included.
I hope your Cassy recovers soon. My world was always a little skewed when any of my kids were sick.
All the best,
KK
[My thanks for the link to my portrait of Arlen. I appreciate everyone’s comments. I just wish he was finished, but I promise to get back to him as soon as it settles down after the holidays.]
Kim, I still have to pinch myself and make sure I’m not dreaming when I see people making art based on my writing. It’s surreal and wonderful and I feel so honored by it.