Iron Avatarist: E, I, E, I, O

**The Vorpal Tribble** · 2009-09-01, 04:06 AM (ISO 8601)

Welcome to a new era of...
Iron Avatarist

The judges in this Iron Avatarist contest...

(Oblivion/Serpentine/Dr. Bath)
(Final lineup subject to change - If any of you want to draw instead just let me know!)

Our theme this month is...
E, I, E, I, O
It's good ole down on the farm fun this month! What would life on a fantasy farm be like? Dire Chickens and animated tractors? Split-rail fence golems and forcecoops? Or on the other side how would the Order of the Stick do if they hung up their lutes and swords to raise some maize? SOOOO-WEE! Y'all have fun!

Remember: All artwork must be your own. Do not take, alter, or use any of the The Giant's art. Thanks.

Categories
There will be a First through Third place award for each of the following, with trophies by Oblivion:

Best Avatar (any avatar-sized submission)
Best OOTS Avatar (any avatar sized Order of the Stick based submission)
Best Rural Scene (anything larger than the above)
Best Rookie Entry (if this is your first contest all your entries automatically fall under this category, along with the main category)
And, as always, the Best Overall award.

I'll also voice my opinion on which entry is the most kick-awesome in the form of a VT's Choice Award, which may be anything that tickles my fancy or was shamelessly tailored to my tastes (I approve of shamelessessness).

Rules
1. Every entry must include a bolded introduction as to what category you are trying to enter in.

2. Every entry must include a bolded introduction as to what your entry is.

For example:
Best Avatar
Curly Cowgirl by Serpentine

3. Only the avatarist who created the avatar may submit it.
However, you may submit old creations as long as they have never been entered into an Iron Avatar Thread before. It does not have to be something made specifically for this thread.

4. All entries must be posted by September 30th at Noon Eastern Standard Time.

Good luck!

**Elder Tsofu** · 2009-09-01, 05:20 AM (ISO 8601)

I'm always surprised when I see this competitions theme.

**Rowsen** · 2009-09-01, 06:45 AM (ISO 8601)

Best Rural Scene
OotS Gothic

Based off Grant Woods' "American Gothic"

**The Vorpal Tribble** · 2009-09-01, 07:14 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Elder Tsofu

I'm always surprised when I see this competitions theme.

One of my (Ex) abilities is resistance against divination

(just wait til you see next month's...)

**Ninja Chocobo** · 2009-09-01, 08:17 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Rowsen

Best Rural Scene
OotS Gothic

Didn't you enter that into the Fine Arts contest?

Originally Posted by Happy Days Falgorn

I think I'll try this madness.

That doesn't look very farm-like!

**Falgorn** · 2009-09-01, 08:22 AM (ISO 8601)

Damn!

Messed up on that one.

**Rowsen** · 2009-09-01, 08:23 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Ninja Chocobo

Didn't you enter that into the Fine Arts contest?

Nope. The only contests I've been in were KaBOOM and Future Psychics. I don't think I was a member of GitP before that contest. When was it?

**The Vorpal Tribble** · 2009-09-01, 08:29 AM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Ninja Chocobo

Didn't you enter that into the Fine Arts contest?

That was Qwernt back in 2008

Iron Avatarist: Fine Arts

**Skeppio** · 2009-09-02, 07:49 AM (ISO 8601)

Best Rural Scene
Old MacDevil Had A Farm. A-B-Y-S-S!

Best Avatar
Old MacDevil
Avatar-Size

Full-Size

**V'icternus** · 2009-09-02, 12:56 PM (ISO 8601)

Best Rural Scene
Best Rookie Entry
Wisdom: A farmers best friend. - V'icternus

**Raging Gene Ray** · 2009-09-02, 02:51 PM (ISO 8601)

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the Gleaner NPC class.

**Rutskarn** · 2009-09-02, 03:00 PM (ISO 8601)

Da fuh? Farms?

We're straight up doing a farm Iron Avatarist.

...oh-kay, I'm gonna need to think about this one.

**petersohn** · 2009-09-02, 03:10 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Raging Gene Ray

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the Gleaner NPC class.

I didn't think of that one specifically, but something similar.

**kpenguin** · 2009-09-02, 08:49 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Rutskarn

Da fuh? Farms?

We're straight up doing a farm Iron Avatarist.

...oh-kay, I'm gonna need to think about this one.

Is this any more weird than having an entire contest devoted to Explosions or Inanimate Objects?

**Rutskarn** · 2009-09-02, 08:58 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by kpenguin

Is this any more weird than having an entire contest devoted to Explosions or Inanimate Objects?

Yyyyes.

It's okay, I'm just gonna go ahead and run with it.

**kpenguin** · 2009-09-02, 09:01 PM (ISO 8601)

Well, then its on.

Like Donkey Kong.

Playing Pong.

Wearing a Thong.

Doing something else that ends with "ong".

Yeah.

**The Vorpal Tribble** · 2009-09-02, 11:16 PM (ISO 8601)

Is there something inherently odd with an on the farm theme?

**Icewalker** · 2009-09-02, 11:26 PM (ISO 8601)

I believe it could be seen as rather...mundane, compared to most themes? I expect quite the opposite of mundane from the entries though.

**V'icternus** · 2009-09-04, 01:46 AM (ISO 8601)

It's the most normal ones that turn out the weirdest, they always say.

**petersohn** · 2009-09-04, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)

Best Rural Scene
Leeky retired

Best OOTS Avatar
Leeky the farmer

**Kurien** · 2009-09-04, 02:30 PM (ISO 8601)

That's really good petersohn. I've wondered how magic could be applied to agriculture.

**petersohn** · 2009-09-04, 02:52 PM (ISO 8601)

Thanks. I looked up the druid spell list to see what I can do. I like when someone uses spells creatively. And it happens a sometimes in OOTS.

**Silverraptor** · 2009-09-04, 03:49 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by petersohn

Best Rural Scene
Leeky retired

I love this.

**The Vorpal Tribble** · 2009-09-04, 08:09 PM (ISO 8601)

Now lookee here, some of the best stuff is coming out of mundania

**Elder Tsofu** · 2009-09-05, 01:53 PM (ISO 8601)

Best Rural Scene
Reaper Man

Well duh, I had to do something with my favourite character from one of my favourite books.

**Dashwood** · 2009-09-05, 08:20 PM (ISO 8601)

As I join the battle for superiority in this tough world, I present these two entries. This is my first time in Iron Avatar (And actually just the beginning of my presence here in the forums), so both of these entries are Rookie Entries!

Best Rural Scene (Rookie Entry)
Belkar Wrangling

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Best OOTS Avatar (Rookie Entry)
Belkar Farmer

My artwork is in early stages compared to most posts so far, but I hope to improve through friendly (or not so friendly as it may turn out to be) competition.

EDIT: Lines look a little thin, but I can correct that in art-to-come.

**Elder Tsofu** · 2009-09-06, 02:13 AM (ISO 8601)

People around here seem to be friendly, and it is always nice to see people improve.

**Serpentine** · 2009-09-07, 07:47 AM (ISO 8601)

For the record, I thought this was a great theme idea

Remember folks, avoid using spoilers (especially if they're really not necessary), and avoid quoting images!

So far, most excellent

**The Vorpal Tribble** · 2009-09-07, 01:05 PM (ISO 8601)

Originally Posted by Serpentine

For the record, I thought this was a great theme idea

See, when Serpentine and I agree on the theme it can't be wrong

Btw, we need some poultry-based entries here folks (and maybe more cowbell). Strange Tribble Trivia but I used to be an exotic chicken raiser. I literally can name over a hundred breeds of fowl and recognize them on sight.

For those that don't believe me, some examples...

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Buff-laced Polish

Transylvanian Frizzled Naked Neck

White-Faced Spanish

**petersohn** · 2009-09-07, 03:55 PM (ISO 8601)

You know what, VT? I take on the challenge.

Best OOTS Avatar
Chicken types of OOTSverse

I put it in the avatars category, because it is actually a group of avatar-sized pictures. And it wouldn't look good for the theme of "rural scene".

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