In case you haven't heard, over 27K booster packs sold yesterday! π π π
The @steemmonsters Alpha pre-sale is officially over and with the SM Kickstarter having met it's initial pledge of 50K, we're onto the Beta cards, which are due to be released on October 1st. Not only did the KS campaign CRUSH its initial goal, but at the 150 backers mark, the SM community also defeated the level 1 Boss fight, which unlocked $10 daily SM Tournaments!
One boss down, one to go!
Level 2 Boss Fight - '30 Articles Of SM Themed Clothing' π€ΈββοΈ
This is my entry; a Lightning Dragon themed bikini top!
Will we defeat him in time? I sure hope so!
Materials
Assorted Acrylics & Watercolors
- White (initial dragon outline, wings & underbelly)
- Yellow (horns, hooves & SM logo)
- Navy Blue (main body shadow)
- Purple (tongue)
- Blue (main body & mixed /w/ #1 for wings)
- Burnt Yellow (horns, hooves & SM logo)
- WC Orange (pigment addition for SM logo, mixed /w/ #2 & #10)
- WC Burnt Yellow (pigment addition for horns & hooves, mixed /w/ #2)
- Pearlescent Liquid Acrylic (lightning, mixed /w/ #1 & #5)
- Gold Acrylic (SM logo)
The arrows point to my brushes, of which I used a #4 flat tip & lastly a can of clear acrylic paint sealant to finish the job.
...And one random Bikini top
Now that's out of the way, let's see how I made it!
Step 1 - L. Dragon - Outline π
I started off with a plain black bikini top and used white for the base outline, as it provides the perfect primer for layering colors onto.
Forgot to stop and take a progress picture before I started painting the horns, whoops...π They were done using straight yellow acrylic for the highlights & a mixture of burnt yellows for their cast shadows.
Step 2 - L. Dragon - Color Application π¨
Starting with my darks first (navy blue & purple), I filled out the main body shadows & tongue, before moving to the lighter blue for the highlights.
The wings were done with a mixture of white & light-blue; this mix was also used as the color base for the lightning, with a few drops of the liquid pearlescent for added shimmer.
Step 3 - SM Logo - The Finishing Touch πͺ
Unlike the dragon, the SM logo was primed using straight yellow acrylic. I then mixed WC orange, WC burnt yellow & acrylic gold, to achieve a subtle transition from dark to light whilst again, adding a slight sheen. β¨
And here's the finished product!
What do you guys think?
Let me know in the comments! This will be my official SM & Art posting page, though you can also follow me on my other steemit account @ascendemonkey.
Awesome!!
Thanx homie! :P
Nice Art! Love it!
@clove71 thank you very much! :)
Awesome well played
Thanks! :)
Wow! That's awesome!
I can't believe you just drew the lightning dragon like that... made it look so simple.
If only it were that simple, man I'd be so many different things. XP
I think that steemmonsters selling so many booster packs is a massive achievement first of all. It's great to see any of the projects on the STEEM blockchain doing well as it bodes well for all of us here in the future.
As for your art, i love it. The painting is amazing and the bikini top in total came out very well. If that's for the competition you should definitely move to the next level.
Thanks a lot for your kind words m8, and I totally agree, the success of any project on here is GREAT for the collective as a whole. When @crystalhuman and I started back it March, it was sink or swim for us and being a complete newb to cryptocurrency was hella scary... There was also a lot of negative media going around due to whales powering down and wot-not, so when we found out about steemmonsters (being avid gamers ourselves) we were hooked!
I love the gaming aspect that it has and the main reason I stuck around here originally was one called steemgar. It was sponsored by cryptoctopus at the time and had a great community around it. There is also super8ballclub which I still play a good bit and has a decent payout.
It can take a while to find your place on here but I think that if you can and if you get involved with that community you're hooked. And the more time you spend here the more addicted you become to steemit and crypo in general.
There will always be negatives no matter what you are a part of. When I joined it was the flagging wars that were an issue. But that all stopped. And so will this story too. I just like the site so will be sticking around regardless of any rumours.
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Steemgar is fun as hell! I haven't played in a while, but those upvotes really helped us out in the early days on my @ascendedmonkey account.
I concur, regardless of what you're doing someone, somewhere will probably have something fkt to say about it; might as well do what works for you and block out the rest. With anything, good or bad, if you look hard enough you're sure it. :)
I don't remember your other account and I was there through most of steemgar. It's a pity it stopped. Like you said.....
Absolutly true. If it wasn't for that I might not still be here. Still there are lots of other things developing now to keep us entertained. Some of them are bound to take off.
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Couldn't agree with you more. I was around april/may this year, that we found out about steemgar and we stopped because the payouts started getting smaller and smaller. :( But! Thankfully there were so many other side projects going on (whaleshares, steemmonsters, etc) that I could see budding potential literally everywhere and so here we are today.lol Time will tell, but I'm definitely optimistic about what the future holds for this platform & crypto in general. :)
If only you were there at the very start when the payouts were $2-$4 for each winner. That was the very beginning though and didn't last for very long. Back the there were only about three players who won pretty much all the games but they made a few hundred in those couple of weeks. Not bad for playing a game. It's a pity it's gone, even just for the fun side of it but as you said there are so many other projects that you can get involved in and some that you can earn a bit too.
My baby at the moment is the engagement and curation league. It charts accounts over a variety of engagement categories and has a weekly league for it. There are some prizes for the best participants and you tend to earn a bit while competing too. I've noticed the difference since i joined it and have seen my account grow a lot more rapidly than it ever had before.
Great job, definitely a cool piece of art!
I like the dragon! Well drawn.
Thanks homie, I did my best. :)
so cool
ty ty :)
WOW, Just WOW !
Great art !
I'm glad ye' loike eet matey! :3
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Glad to see that you are doing well, nice art, you are very talented!
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Thanks a lot @friendly-fenix!! We wouldn't be here today without all you guys' help in our early days. *HUGGGGSSS****
Thats good to hear!!! Best wishes @munkiioh, looks like you are doing great! Nice to see!!! =)
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Nice!! Seriously, that is some damn good artwork :) Very cool entry. Am I reading above correctly when it says today is the deadline?
Indeedily-do, unfortunately the last I heard we were still a good ways off the target #, but I do hope that we get another crack at it. I've got a few more SM themed design ideas up my sleeve and even more articles of clothing to try them on! :P
But considering this one took me 2 days to complete, I'd definitely need more time to make a few. :/
Definitely a tight timeline, I look forward to seeing future SM design items from you though :P
Thanks matey, I'm definitely looking forward to doing more! :P
I'll try to catch one sometime. I'm pretty bad with remembering to do stuff here on time though, so it might not ever happen. Looking forward to seeing more of your work, however!
I know what you mean. I've been following the steemmonsters art contests since they started and this was the first one that I've managed to enter on time. XP
Though to be fair, it was also the first one I really felt confident about entering, since I have a fair amount of experience with customizing things (been doodling on school bags & shoes since high-school)
There's supposed to be a digital art contest coming up as well though, so I'm gonna start prepping from now.lol Can't promise anything though.... #artistproblems
Heh! That looks really cool @munkiioh ! What an awesome talent you have, I love it ! Looks like a winner to me!!! Good luck, upped and resteemed for you!β€πβππ
Psssst: The Dragons Are My Favorite!!ππ²ππ²π
Oooooo! Thank yous! And hell yeah we won the boss fight, which unlocked $23/day Steemmonster Tournaments for the community, so I'm pretty excited!XP
I think that statement probably speaks for about 95% of the SM community.... myself included!XD
Hahaha yes for sure The Dragons are pretty awesome!!πβππ
amazing
very creative paintings
Thanks! I really had to take my time with them. :)
Great! The monster colors are fantastic.
I'm glad you approve! I was a little concerned at first but I'm really happy with the way it turned out. :)
I love it, really very very beautiful
Tank yewz~! :)
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Dear @munkiioh
Hope you don't mind this comment (a bit off-topic).
I know that you delegated some SP to dstors. I'm not sure if you're aware that they seem to shut down their project lately. Just check out their profile and read latest post.
Guys from dstors didn't even bother to contact people who supported them. Such a shame. This project looked very promissing.
ps.
I was wondering if you would consider supporting my efforts in building a crypto community here on Steemit..
Since HF20 took place, myself, along with a few other active "Steemians" decided to put in extra effort into making our little community stronger. And community build mostly on mutual engagement and support instead of financial rewards.
I recently delegated over 3500 SP to a group of 80 active steemians who struggled with low RC levels (resource credit). And the results has been great so far. One of my latest posts reached over 800 comments, which I found insane
Those results are only proving that our efforts are worth something. The only thing is that I can only do "that much" with my current resources.
Perhaps you could consider supporting our efforts with some delegation? I would seriously appreciate your help.Please let me know what do you think. I will appreciate every feedback, regardless of your decision.
Yours
Piotr
Good morning @munkiioh
Sorry for this comment, which is a little bit off-topic. But Ive noticed that you supported dstors with delegation and you may not know it, but it seem that dstors shut down their project lately.
Those guys didn't even bother to contact people who supported them. Such a shame. This project looked very promissing.
ps.
I was wondering if you would consider supporting my efforts in building a crypto community here on Steemit..
Since HF20 took place, myself, along with a few other active "Steemians" decided to put in extra effort into making our little community stronger. And community build mostly on mutual engagement and support instead of financial rewards.
I recently delegated over 3500 SP to a group of 80 active steemians who struggled with low RC levels (resource credit). And the results has been great so far. One of my latest posts reached over 800 comments, which I found insane
Those results are only proving that our efforts are worth something. The only thing is that I can only do "that much" with my current resources.
Perhaps you could consider supporting our efforts with some delegation? I would seriously appreciate your help.Please let me know what do you think. I will appreciate every feedback, regardless of your decision.
Yours
Piotr
Your level lowered and you are now a Red Fish!