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Awesome: Contract

Summer fun

Usual summer stuff...

Check FREE issues of Contract, currently at WOWIO.

http://www.wowio.com/contract

Contest

Jessie by nunchaku

Yep, it's a showdown between creative desperadoes - who will win?

Prizes:

• 1st place: $200 Yehaww!
• 2nd place: $100 Still worth a woohoo!
• 3rd place: $75 Now that ain't shabby either!
• 4th place: $50 Prize money for a fourth place win!
• 5th place: 12 month DA subscription.

Tons of great benefits with a premium membership!

• 6th place: 3 month DA subscription

3 winners will be picked from this category!
SPECIAL PRIZE: Nebaroth's Favorite entry will get receive a color commission from him.

The Rules:
Easy! Draw/Paint/Sculpt etc. your FAVORITE Character (or Characters) from CONTRACT! The entries will be judged by GaranMad and a few of the awesome artists at DeviantArt.
Nebaroth
Rob Banbury
Nunchaku

What to draw:
That's up to you really let your imagination run wild and have fun with it (i.e. sketch card, pin-up, sequential art, animations, etc). Check the CHARACTER SHEETS folder for their turnaround designs....
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The Deadline:
Monday, May 31st 2010!

Jessie by contestant Antoanela91

Rules Part 2: There are NO RULES... okay, maybe a few... "note" me a link to your image, please keep it PG-13ish, give a link back to this contest page, and only one entry per contestant.

**Clarification: Please note that none of the illustrations you see in my featured gallery are currently included in the contest... all contest entries will have their own folder.

***Collabs are allowed, However, the members of the Collaboration team cannot then submit more work on their own. They would be considered ONE contestant. Should the collaboration team win, they will have to decide (or split) amongst themselves whatever prize they have won.

**** PRIZE DONATION: If anyone would like to Donate ADDITIONAL Prizes please feel free to note me
GOOD LUCK EVERYBODY!

Comics on the web

With the release of the iPad and the continued popularity of the iPhone and its clones, the possibilities for digital comics expands.

The Comixology reader and selection of comics on iTunes, is a wonderful way to catch up on your comic reading.

A large variety of publishers, including Marvel, Image and Boom, list a number of their titles. Reading is straight forward, as the panels are brought up on the iPhone screen for ease of viewing. Better yet, with the size of the iPad, comics can be read at true size.

The future holds further potential, with development of computer-based Readers, allowing comics to be read on your home computer.

First Salvo continues to release the Contract series: Solo Missions, World of Contract and exclusives - keep up-to-date here at Blog Salvo and the Contract Comic site.

Painted Contract

A fair amount of pin-ups for Contract have come as digitally-painted masterpieces. Some stunning stuff. The latest being one of Tsumi.

That's some fine paintin' by Reza ilyasa, a talented Indonesian artist who also produced this stunning piece of ol' Panzer:

And that's not all, his own varied works over at DeviantArt include varied work...

Yup, that's just cool. It's DJ Goh Goh, who also just happens to be in this image:

SketchDump Saturdays will be starting soon, featuring varied work in progress by the TAG team - the First Salvo Partners' work. There will also be varied work on Contract from artists commissioned or volunteering pin-ups, and some of their work as they develop images.

Here's a penciled Jessie Garrett shot, also by the talented Carlos Gomez.

And an example of roughs as will be found in "SketchDump Saturdays"...

Karla Diaz recently painted a jam session of the Stellar Rangers. As you can see, a drawing always goes through a number of stages before completion.

She did an awesome job, ending up with a fun, stylized version of the Contract crew! Jessie and the gang.

Contract Cast

The World of Contract is populated by a cool cast of  mercs. From Panzer to Jessie Garrett. Over the years of Contract's production, a number of artists have contributed to the cast of characters and every so often, a number will be posted here at Blog Salvo.

As always - CLICK EM, they get larger.

Happy Valentine's Day

 

Have a great Valentine's!