Recipient: Andrew Luers
Round Name: February A 2002
Title: High Maintenance
Character: Zach
Description: "What can I say, I have a weakness towards long-haired bishounen. The first thing I thought when I saw Zach was that he must spend a lot of time in front of the mirror. I usually don't draw people from the back, but I think it's a lot more detailed than most of the pictures I do."
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Recipient: Emiko_MAX
Round Name: February B 2002
Title: Magical Cheerleader Machiko
Character: Machiko
Description: "The scary thing is, I'll bet there's an anime like this somewhere out there..."
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Recipient: Brianne_MAX
Round Name: March A 2002
Title: On Wings of Hope
Character: Sadira, Sol
Description: "Mostly trying out Painter Classic's Calligraphy and Scratchboard Pen tools to retrace, but my brother thinks I should have just colored the pencil sketch (http://www.dotchan.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=895&mode=search)."
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Recipient: Hawk
Round Name: March B 2002
Title: Bliss
Character: Ben
Description: "Phear the mightiness of pink and lime green! Oh, wait, this thing is on? Um...uh...procrastination is bad. Yeah. Kids, don't do this at home. Or something. I need sleep..."
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Recipient: A Twu
Round Name: April A 2002
Title: Doubly Abstract
Character: Egg
Description: "Spent most of the two weeks agonizing over just what A. Twu meant by 'in an abstract way', and then I finally gave up and decided to be cheap. So here we have SD Egg (super deformed being a semi-abstract style) contemplating 'Egg Descending A Staircase', my pitiful attempt at cubism."
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Recipient: Xalan_MAX
Round Name: April B 2002
Title:
Character: Diana
Description: "I'm sure fanboys everywhere would love to be that rock..."
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Recipient: KMai
Round Name: May A 2002
Title: Old School
Character: Sylph Knight
Description: "The Evil Muse returns! I've always wondered how those characters could walk aroung in those elaborate, flowy costumes without getting them caught on something. Maybe it's the Dramatic Breeze (tm) that always seems to float around them..."
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Recipient: Topaz
Round Name: May B 2002
Title: Pending
Character: Georgie Tismenetski
Description: "Since I spent most of the two weeks poking myself in the finger to make my costume (and otherwise procrastinating), I decided to to a simple portrait/mood piece. My Evil Muse must only work every other exchange or something..."
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Recipient: Stareyes
Round Name: June B 2002
Title: Meddling With Dragons
Character: Arriana
Description: "I was going to do a simple portrait, but I accidentally deleted it off my hard drive, so I decided to start from scratch and abuse as many tools in Painter Classic and Paintshop Pro as I could. The picture is from Arriana's point of view, as she gets up close and personal to the hatchling."
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Recipient: jacethakidd_MAX
Round Name: July A 2002
Title: "Day in the Life"
Character:
Description: "The poor guy was marked for arrest and had his clothes stolen all in a single day! No wonder he's so exhausted. The spiffy-looking armor in the full-sized portrait was mostly inspired from Record of Lodoss War; technically, armor really should be either steel or bronze, but I felt that blue would be a better-looking color. Last time I said I'd draw smaller, but this time I started with a sketch that was 6 times larger than the final version. @.@ The cool-looking chain mail was rendered using Painter Classic's paper texture abilities."
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Recipient: Unoriginality_MAX
Round Name: July B 2002
Title: "Saviors"
Character: Four Gods
Description: References up the wazoo:
Top - Genbu, guardian of the North, reenacting Urashima Tarou's story (the Japanese version of Rip Van Winkle, sort of)
Right - Seiyruu, guardian of the East, in Dragon Ball form
Bottom - Suzaku, guardian of the South, who has taken on the form of a chocobo instead of a pheonix
Left - Byakko, guardian of the West, mimicking the fortune-beckoning cat often seen in Asian businesses.
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Recipient: Esuteru_MAX
Round Name: August A 2002
Title:
Character: Ukemi
Description: "A picture where the person isn't just standing there for once. Please comment on what you think of this coloring style."
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Recipient: Endjoi_MAX
Round Name: August B 2002
Title: Signs
Character: Kaeda
Description: "Wow, I finished really early this time! Colored mostly with the Simple Crayon tool, although there were some touchups here and there with other stuff. While I was coloring, I figured I should follow my own advice about using the characteristics of the media I'm working with to my advantage...and ending up severely cramping my hand from all the fine detail I did. But in the end, it was definitely worth it. Probably could have used more contrast in some areas, but I only have so much patience. ^^;"
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Recipient: Stareyes
Round Name: September A 2002
Title: Wait, Wait Forever...
Character: Shiro
Description:
"Severely screwed up the proportions from the waist down, and I think my mind wasn't exactly paying attention to what I was doing, hence the odd cropping. Instead of redoing the picture, though, I used a cheap "camcorder window" fix. At least I had fun playing with the Airbrush tool..."
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Recipient: Jynx_MAX
Round Name: September B 2002
Title: Fundraising
Character: Colisto
Description: "How Destined Heroes _really_ earn the ridiculous amounts of money required to buy stuff. Inspired by Chapter 2, where Colisto spends a short time working in a restaurant. This month I was experimenting again, and I thought I'd try a cel-style coloring to go with the messy "line-art". And since resizing the picture would ruin the detail, I made the picture into a 800X600 wallpaper. By the way, that's Chaos in the corner checking out Colisto's sexy outfit. :)"
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Recipient: DarkArtist_MAX
Round Name: October A 2002
Title: The End(s)
Character: Lexi
Description: "In the middle of moving my webpage (new URL...not coming any time soon, given how much the universe hates me ;_;), so I did a simple all-Painter portrait this time."
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Recipient: Andrew Luers
Round Name: October B 2002
Title: The Obligatory Subquest
Character: Escad
Description: "Muhahaha! My Evil Muse didn't go on vacation this time! Escad's plaid dress was rendered using Paintshop's Vector tools and fun layer effects, but since I was lazy I didn't bother to make it entirely authentic. Anyway, Happy Halloween and all that! (Hope Escad doesn't kill me. ^_^;)"
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Recipient: Uneide_MAX
Round Name: November A 2002
Title: Tropic of Cancer
Character: Rai
Description: "It does get cold enough in Orlando for me to get nostalgic about summer, and Rai's description said that he prefers food and fun over everything else, so here he is enjoying the Florida sun a bit too much."
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Recipient: Sabrina_MAX
Round Name: November B 2002
Title:
Character: Dia
Description: "Sort of a complementary picture to last month's exchange, here's Dia all warm and snug as the snow falls around her. Of course, given that I don't research enough, I bet that Dia doesn't even live that far north, nor would she wear such muted earth colors... ^^;;"
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Recipient: Stareyes
Round Name: December A 2002
Title: The Secret Files of MAX
Character:
Description: http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Secret_Files_of_MAX/index.php?p=229462
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Recipient: Yukari_MAX
Round Name: December B 2002
Title:
Character: Owari
Description: "Just a blah sketch this exchange. Hopefully, I can get my Evil Muse to stop stuffing my head with story ideas and come up with some better stuff next time. ^^;"
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Recipient: Crystal_MAX
Round Name: January A 2003
Title:
Character: Jazk
Description: "I'm so mean, aren't I? Mettool Kirby was just a sketch I did as a joke."
Is Adoption:
Recipient: L.Buff_MAX
Round Name: February A 2003
Title:
Character: Jaye
Description: Bonus submission
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Recipient: L.Buff_MAX
Round Name: February A 2003
Title:
Character: Jaye
Description: "The bonus sketch came first while I was pondering ideas on what to do. I had aimed for some sort of extreme trauma/horror expression on Jaye's face, when things started getting very, very silly. A few breaks in the Fourth Wall later, Jaye was tied up in a chair dressed somewhat like LOTR's Legolas. I also had an in between page explaining how Jaye found himself my unwilling prisoner (it involved bribing/threatening Nym), but the artwork sucked so I ditched it."
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Recipient: Farah
Round Name: February B 2003
Title:
Character: Kevin
Description: "Guess what my favorite color is. ;p Kevin...um...doesn't really look like his reference picture, but he's supposed to be about 5 in my picture, so I'm guessing I can fudge."
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Recipient: Emiko_MAX
Round Name: March A 2003
Title:
Character: Pinkerton
Description: "Had this lovely picture of him that was lost in a computer glitch, so I whipped up a quickie sketch instead."
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Recipient: NaughtyOtsel
Round Name: March B 2003
Title: Blue Screen of Death
Character: Geli
Description: "Irony of ironies, I chose this topic since Geli ran on Windows, and then my computer went kaput on Friday. Good thing I backed everything up earlier, or it really would have sucked."
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Recipient: Tranquil
Round Name: April A 2003
Title: Blossoming
Character: Evergreen
Description: "This was the mental image that popped into my head when I first read about blossoming, namely, lots of flowers and a sudden increase in bust size. :)"
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Recipient: Xlade_MAX
Round Name: April B 2003
Title: My Mother Wore Boots
Character:
Description: "'Cause everybody has a more relaxed side, and if not, then pretend that this is a weird alternate universe of the character or something."
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Recipient: Topaz
Round Name: May A 2003
Title: The Secret Files of MAX
Character:
Description: http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Secret_Files_of_MAX/index.php?p=229489
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Artist: Brianne_MAX
Round Name: February A 2002
Title:
Character: Irene
Description: "I decided to do a more realistic style portrait of Dot's character Irene and I think it turned out very well (thanks to lots of hard work). It was my second picture however, the first was going to be a picture of Irene in two different styles - mine and Akira Toriyama's (since Dot is a Dragonball Z fan)."
Is Adoption:
Artist: Brianne_MAX
Round Name: February A 2002
Title:
Character: Irene
Description:
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Artist: A Twu
Round Name: February B 2002
Title:
Character: Irene
Description: "Not a lot of reference or information was available at the time of illustration, so I drew Irene in a costume like one drawn by Dot, with her reading a Dot comic book."
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Artist: Hawk
Round Name: March A 2002
Title:
Character: Samui
Description: "I wish I knew more about Dot's cool gun-wielding gal. Here I tried out Painter, a program I'm still learning about. Sorry about the lack of a better background."
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Artist: Emiko_MAX
Round Name: March B 2002
Title:
Character: Forseti
Description: "I wanted to do Forseti, I guess maybe because he reminds me of Sarren from Lovaria.com. The only picture I saw of him was head-up, so sorry for not drawing a costume. Drawn in ballpoint pen, cleaned up a tad and colored in Photoshop."
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Artist: Topaz
Round Name: April A 2002
Title:
Character: Falora
Description: "I haven't attempted to draw cutesy characters for quite a while, but decided to give it a go once more. This is a rather clumsy young goddess from the imagination of Dot Warner. I was trying to make it look like you are looking down at her from a forward angle, but someone told me I hadn't pulled it off. Thanks for putting a sharp pin to my confidence... *mutters under my breath* "
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Artist: Xalan_MAX
Round Name: April B 2002
Title:
Character: Samui
Description: "Here's Samui, Dot's ultra cool green haired gal:) I'm such a sucker for green hair, and Samui being a tough, gun wilding chick only makes it better! I played around with her outfit a little, I thought it might be a little bit warmer to wear at night than those short shorts:)"
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Artist: Andrew Luers
Round Name: May A 2002
Title:
Character: Falora
Description: "Yo, I picked Falora because I loved the way the character looked. I tried to do the drawing sortof in the style of Kosuke Fujishima, but it only kindof worked. Dot requested some new clothes for Falora, but I couldn't think of anything, so I dressed her up like one of my characters...Hope it's ok.. it was fun to draw ^_____^"
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Artist: KMai
Round Name: May B 2002
Title:
Character: Nakaruru
Description: "Dot's character Nakaruru hasn't been getting the publicity she well deserves. Nakaruru is a great character and I loved drawing her, she's got awesome hair, and she looks like one of those chicks who don't just stand around and let people push her around. She'll push back and then beat the snot out of them too! Overall, awesome character Dot."
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Artist: jacethakidd_MAX
Round Name: June B 2002
Title:
Character: Falora
Description: "I chose to draw Hawk's characters Lane and Brooke because I like their designs and personality. I decide to keep a majority of the background white in order to emphasize the earth tones in the clothing."
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Artist: NaughtyOtsel
Round Name: July A 2002
Title:
Character: Sailor Minerva and Alzena
Description: "I couldn't make up my mind this time so I did Sailor Minerva in her henshined and human form, along with Azelena (sic) in the background. I hope you like it. Didn't get to spend as much time on it as I wanted because of vacation and all, but it did turn out more or less recon'nizable, ne?"
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Artist: Stareyes
Round Name: July B 2002
Title:
Character: Irene
Description: "I drew Irene in sort of a style mimicing that of the anime Slayers, which I was trying to learn anyways. I love the starry background -- it looks like an astrophoto, but it's just Photoshop filters. I chose that kind of background because Irene is a time mage, and they are often associated with space as well (with spells like Meteor and Comet)."
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Artist: Uncreativity
Round Name: August A 2002
Title:
Character: Adam
Description: "The character of Adam Anderson intrigued me right off, and I wanted to try to put him in a sort of dark, angry atmosphere. A bar seemed perfect... I'm not sure if it actually looks like a bar or not, since I made it kinda vague in hopes of not attracting attention away from the figure. And the chibi was fun to draw. ^_^"
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Artist: L.Buff_MAX
Round Name: August B 2002
Title:
Character: Forseti
Description: "Forseti struck me as being totally cool. I like a change from drawing a pretty-boy now and then, and since there was no picture of him in the character list, I thought you might be able to use one! I hope I got close to how he's pictured in your mind. This is just how he was pictured in mine."
Is Adoption:
Artist: atomicbunny
Round Name: September A 2002
Title:
Character: Elaine
Description:
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Artist: Hinode_MAX
Round Name: September B 2002
Title:
Character: Falora
Description: "Falora brandishes her Frying Pan of Heaven--as soon as I read that she had a frying pan as a weapon, I just _had_ to draw Falora."
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Artist: Yukari_MAX
Round Name: October A 2002
Title:
Character: Irene and Elaine
Description: "I wanted to draw Samui, because she is so cool (no pun intended ^_~.) but I had a better idea for these two. Irene's hair might be a bit off, as I couldn't get back into the specific character pages toward the end, but we can pretend she fixed it differently this morning if it's not right ^_^. Anyway, I hope you like it, Dot."
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Artist: Unoriginality_MAX
Round Name: October B 2002
Title:
Character: Irene
Description: "I wanted to do a nicer picture to make up for my last two, so I had to make sure I chose my character carefully. I'm an ex Filia/Xellos (the parents of this character) shipper, so I could appreciate the sort of trouble a child of those two would be. I of course immediately thought of the tarot High Priestess, the keeper of secrets that stand between light and darkness. So, here she is, Irene Ul Copt Metallium as the High Priestess of the tarot. ^_^"
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Artist: Xlade_MAX
Round Name: November A 2002
Title:
Character: Ace of Hearts (Falora)
Description: "Did two pictures this time. The first one,the colored one, is my main entry. I couldn't tell is the character (Ace of Hearts) was a boy or a girl, but I figured that since Dot Warner mention getting ispiration from valkyries (sp?) it was probably female. I tried to keep things on a heart type theme, I hope she likes it. The second picture i did just to see if I could. It's the same as the first one, but I tried to use some of Dot's style here. I think it turned out ok."
Is Adoption:
Artist: Xlade_MAX
Round Name: November A 2002
Title:
Character: Ace of Hearts (Falora)
Description: Bonus submission
Is Adoption:
Artist: Topaz
Round Name: November B 2002
Title: The Secret Files of MAX
Character:
Description: http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Secret_Files_of_MAX/index.php?p=229459
Is Adoption:
Artist: DarkArtist_MAX
Round Name: December A 2002
Title:
Character: Celeste
Description: "I love to draw animals and I don't often get a chance to do so since my comic and so many others seem to not have animals in them. So I chose Celeste. The request I had was to give one of Dot's characters a new outfit but cats don't seem to approve of clothing so I gave her a nice pettable coat of long Persian type fur instead. Same old color pencil on bristle drawn in between the pre-Christmas rushings."
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Artist: Crystal_MAX
Round Name: December B 2002
Title:
Character: Samui
Description: "Well here's my link for Dot Warner's Character, Namida Samui. A character with lime green hair just needs to be drawn."
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Artist: Jynx_MAX
Round Name: January A 2003
Title:
Character: Falora
Description: "Falora the Miko was the character of Dot's that really stood out to me. I really loved the design, so I chose to draw her. I had trouble with the reguest to change the outfit, I couldn't come up with a completly different outfit, so I just made alterations and added jewels. Even though I messed up her tattoos on her face, I am really happy with the way it came out and I enjoyed drawing it. ^_^"
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Artist: Endjoi_MAX
Round Name: February A 2003
Title:
Character: Falora
Description:
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Artist: Apocrypha-Requiem
Round Name: February A 2003
Title: Into Battle
Character: Mikazuki
Description: I actually had this partially completed from a while, but because I tend to get really OCD with using colour pencil, I dropped it because i was getting frustrated. I finally finished it up today, although I really couldn't think of a background to accent that.
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Artist: Xalan_MAX
Round Name: February B 2003
Title:
Character: Samui
Description: "Wow...a picture I'm proud of of. ^_^ I tried out a new style, and ended up really liking it, and having a ton of fun on this picture. Samui's a cool character (Green hair! Yay!) and I love desgining new clothes for characters, so I had fun. Hope you like Dot! ^_^"
Is Adoption:
Artist: KMai
Round Name: March A 2003
Title:
Character: Lucille
Description:
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Artist: Chaypeta
Round Name: March B 2003
Title:
Character: dotchan
Description: "I was going to draw one of you female characters, Dot, but then I remembered something being said about bare chested bishies! ; ) I’ve used a different style of colouring as I wanted to achieve a painted acrylic look. I don’t know when Adam started looking like Kevin Sorba to me… hehe… shouldn’t watch ‘Andromeda’ while I’m sketching."
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Artist: NaughtyOtsel
Round Name: April A 2003
Title:
Character: Calculator
Description: "Well here's Dot-chan's Calculator. I tried to draw her with my TI-83 plus but...aheh...it could be just any scientific calc actually...hope you like it"
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