JAN - FEB Challenge - Theme?

[RMDC]

Why did I read Gender swap????

I have no idea, but it sounds like it could be interesting

It seems like portraits are winning now, but I definitely vote this for the next challenge!

[Miss Clawful]

Got some ideas for some portrait ones I can do. One in particular, one that my mom has been wanting me to stitch for her. By "traditional" means upper body: shoulders, neck and head? Also, does it matter what way the character is facing: front, angle, direct side view? And can it be two characters' faces in same portrait?

[blackmageheart]

By "traditional" means upper body: shoulders, neck and head? Also, does it matter what way the character is facing: front, angle, direct side view? And can it be two characters' faces in same portrait?

Yes, no and yes

[Miss Clawful]

Alright! Then if it happens to be portraits we do for this challenge, I got me pick. Guess there was a reason I didn't feel like doing it this month.

[LucyInTheSky]

I really like the gender swap idea.

For Phoenix Comicon, my friends and I are doing gender swapped Batman. The guys are Poison Ivan, Harvey Quinn... girls are Ms. Freeze, I'm girl Riddler (who needs a better name)

[MeiTow]

I'm girl Riddler (who needs a better name)

Ms. Terry?

[Jatz22]

I'm girl Riddler (who needs a better name)

Ms. Terry?

haha i first thought u were tlkin bout me as mi last names terry haha. except mines miss lol

[Jatz22]

i also like the game portrait idea. Just one question though. Does it matter what game new or old? sry this is like mi second challenge i might be in. just thnkinof some ideas if it is the portrait one xD

[Miss Clawful]

Don't know if any of these have been done, nor whether there'd be enough interest, but have some ideas on possible challenges later.

Dragons (if it hasn't been done already I'm surprised, dragons are awesome and so abundant in video games)

Statues (there are all kinds of beautiful, awesome statues in games from gargoyles to angels to fountain kinds, humans, dragons and gods, sure its a lot of grey most of the time, but I'm sure even with drab colors because of the variety of shapes statues can take it could be interesting)

Someone doing something ordinary and natural (a game character, probably better one that is a typical human looking like he/she is doing something we'd see someone doing in our everyday lives, such as eating, jogging, shopping, sitting in a park, talking with another character, trying on a piece of jewelry [this is the one that suddenly gave me this idea], whatever, or maybe even an animal acting out an everyday habit)

What's your sign - Zodiac signs (pick any one you want, or hell, maybe all of them: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces - I'm not into the whole zodiac thing, but one day looking for possible cross-stitching project ideas for the upcoming year this is one idea that came to me with the game Solomon's Key, could be interesting and fun trying to find game characters to fit each of these signs)

Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto - yep, robots (don't have to be just man-like in form, just like dragons, plenty of robots of all types in games, and these even more varied than dragons in size and shape and function)

Knight in shining armor (not the typical rescue the damsel in distress kind or slaying the dragon or fending off a horde of orcs, no, I'm thinking something more real, down to earth, the kind that doesn't get as much appreciation in video games, the normal everyday hero like the kind we have in real life, plenty here for the imagination from your average joe helping someone up from falling, to coming to the aid of another being picked on by bullies, to simply calling for help when help is required for another in danger, to those within a profession that requires deeds of heroics such as firefighters putting out a fire)

Give a gift (a game character giving an actual physical gift such as an item to another, or a gift in the form of a kind deed of courtesy or such)

Bling - Ooh, shiny!! (make something that shines, gleams, glitters, any item from a game such as coins, jewelry, a crystal, even the gleam on the blade of a sword; doesn't have to actually be shiny physically, just be a representation of something that would be, though if able you can use whatever material you can to bring out the shine of that object for all to see here in the real world, such as using metallic floss for cross-stitching instead of just plain floss)

Toybox (toys from within video games, they are in there, some being ordinary playthings, others being enemies that look like toys [Mecha-Koopas], some few may actually be allies [looking at F7], this could be fun to play with)

[stitchandpaddle]

I'm afraid I'll have to sit this one out. I've managed to commit myself to a couple of big projects over the coming year. My mum just got engaged, and being that she and her fiance are in their late 40's they don't need any traditional wedding gifts. So I got the bright idea to give them a cross stitch of Van Gogh's Starry Night. And the one I picked is 240X300 stitches. Further, my brother is having his first child in the summer and I'll be making baby things.

The portraits sound like a great idea. I'd have ended up doing Cave Johnson. I also like Miss Clawful's ideas for dragons and for statues. And shiny things.