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Paragon Design Contest ~ Winners announced!

Postby Thessur » 11/20/2008 6:18 PM

I think I am finally ready to buy myself a paragon.  I have a problem though; I'm not sure what I want!  So, I thought I'd hold a contest to get some help designing a paragon.  I have a few rules and a few preferences for breed and such.

~ Things I like ~

Bright and happy themes, nothing too dark and evil please.

Breeds:
Frost
Lavamancer
Placid
Windgill
Nago


Wings:
Angelic
Ecliptic
Webbed
Spine
Razorwing


Tails:
Feathered
Fur Tail
Tipped
Webbed


Markings:
Ancient
Ivy
Mystwalker
Sambava
Splotched
Spotted
Striped


Rules

1. Your design should be inspired by a dragon from a book.  I'm specifically looking for designs that resemble the dragons in Mercedes Lackey's Dragon Jousters books, but it can be from another book or series of books.  Just be sure to tell me where you got your inspiration for the design from.

2.  Fill out the paragon order form from the main site for your entry.  If you don't do this, I can't count your entry.

3.  If you can include some sort of picture of your design, I'll be more likely to choose it.  I like to be able to see things.  Your artistic talent will NOT be judged.  The only thing that matters is that I can see how the colors and markings work together.

4.  No add-ons please.  Though if there is a really simple add-on you want to suggest, that's ok.  Just be aware that I probably can't include it when I make my order (at least not right away).

5. No more than 5 entries per person.

6.  Have fun!


The prize for the winning design is 150 ks and possibly some artwork of their favorite pets.  I'll probably be adding more to this later (possibly a retired pet or two).  I know this isn't much, but it's all I can promise at the moment.

The contest ends when I have at least ten entries or when I see a design that really knocks my socks off.  

Because I've already fallen in love with a couple of the designs and because I'm dying to get my first paragon, I'm going to close this contest in about 2 weeks.  So, roughly around  the 5th of December.

Ready... set... GO!


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Postby Freezair » 11/20/2008 6:36 PM

Dragon from a book, huh? 83

My design, then, is inspired by Firedrake, the dragon from Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke.

2. Paragon Gender:
Male

3. Order Type/ How Many Are You Buying?: (Custom/Random?)
1 custom

4. Species:
Lavamacer

5. Head Horn, Skull, Fur/Whiskers, or Frill Color (Only if Applicable in Species):
Horns should be #C1CDCD

6. Eye Color:
Eyes should be #3232CD

7. Wing Type/ Wing Color (If Applicable):
Webbed wings, #3B4990

8. Tail Type/ TailColor (If Applicable):
Tipped

9. Main Body Color:
#6183A6

10. First Marking (Top)/ What Color? (Optional):
Ancient, #B4CDCD

11. Second Marking (Middle)/ What Color? (Optional):
Mystwalker, #36648B

12. Third Marking (Bottom)/ What Color? (Optional):
None

13. Anything Additional: (*Requires an Additional Cost)
Nope

14. Background Type (See below)/ If Aura, what color?:
Aura, #62B1F6

(Will edit in specific colors later. :P)

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Postby Toon-Souseiseki » 11/20/2008 7:47 PM

This is the only one i could think on me right now...  Um...  I think it was Oh yeah!  Angel sanctuary, the four Hell Dragons into one!:

Paragon Gender: Female
Species: Windgill
Head Horn, Skull, Fur/Whiskers, or Frill Color (Only if Applicable in Species): D00000
Eye Color: 003483
Wing Type/ Wing Color (If Applicable): RazorWing/000000
Tail Type/ TailColor (If Applicable): Fur Tail/540000
Main Body Color: 2A6323
First Marking (Top)/ What Color? (Optional): Splotched/F1A3A4
Second Marking (Middle)/ What Color? (Optional): Sambava/0EF0A8
Third Marking (Bottom)/ What Color? (Optional):Ivy/18FA00
Background Type (See below)/ If Aura, what color?: Aura: C05E9C

Shall add a picture of the whole Paragon in a minute.
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Postby Celtic » 11/20/2008 8:59 PM

My loverly paragon here shall be based off of character from Dragonhome. Uh~ Can we do more then one?

2. Paragon Gender:
Female

3. Order Type/ How Many Are You Buying?: (Custom/Random?)
Uno Custom

4. Species:
Lavamancer

5. Head Horn, Skull, Fur/Whiskers, or Frill Color (Only if Applicable in Species):
0000FF

6. Eye Color:
339900

7. Wing Type/ Wing Color (If Applicable):
Angelic/ 330099

8. Tail Type/ TailColor (If Applicable):
Feathered/FFFF00

9. Main Body Color:
9933FF

10. First Marking (Top)/ What Color? (Optional):
Spotted/ 6633FF

11. Second Marking (Middle)/ What Color? (Optional):
Mystwalker/ FF3300

12. Third Marking (Bottom)/ What Color? (Optional):
Ivy/ 0000CC

13. Anything Additional: (*Requires an Additional Cost)
Nope

14. Background Type (See below)/ If Aura, what color?:
Aura/ 33FF99


I didn't have any colors really to go off of, but her personality is headstrong, protective and leader. Yupp~





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Postby Thessur » 11/20/2008 9:03 PM

Freezair:  Yay Firedrake! :D

Toon:  What book/story inspired your design?

Celtic:  Yup, you can do more than one if you want. :)
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Postby Redd » 11/21/2008 4:34 AM

Weeeelll~ First off, I'mma gonna do one based of Eregon; Glaedr, and one based off Temeraire, and is the Celestial himself.
Don't look too hard at the drawings, as they aren't that great. Just really to give you an idea of colors.
Aand I couldn't help doing a dark colored one ^^; I just couldn't find a description for the other ones. But how many are we exactly allowed to do?

[area] Entry #1


Paragon Gender: Male

Species: Frost

Eye Color: #494032

Wing Type/ Wing Color: Webbed/ #EEC900

Tail Type : Tipped

Main Body Color: #DAA520

First Marking (Top)/ What Color? (Optional): Ancient/ #292421

Second Marking (Middle)/ What Color? (Optional): Spotted/ #EEDC82

Third Marking (Bottom)/ What Color? (Optional): Mystwalker/ #CD950C

Anything Additional: (*Requires an Additional Cost) None

Background Type/ If Aura, what color?: Dark Background/ Aura #FCDD3F
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[area]Entry #2

Paragon Gender: Male

Species: Nago

Head Horn, Skull, Fur/Whiskers, or Frill Color: #01042E

Eye Color: #000785

Wing Type/ Wing Color: Eclipse/ #01042E

Tail Type : Feathered/ #01042E

Main Body Color: #DAA520

First Marking (Top)/ What Color? (Optional): Ancient/ #000217

Second Marking (Middle)/ What Color? (Optional): Striped/ #000000

Third Marking (Bottom)/ What Color? (Optional): Belly/ #212442

Anything Additional: (*Requires an Additional Cost) None

Background Type / If Aura, what color?: Dark background/ #000785
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Postby Shaetani » 11/21/2008 11:29 AM

I just gotta say, I love Mercedes Lackey books, and Joust was no exception. ^_^

I got my inspiration mainly from a mix of Joust, Dragon's Blood (By Jane Yolen, another excellent read) and a tiny bit from the PERN series. Another wonderful dragon book is The Glass Dragon (Dragon Nimbus #1)
by Irene Radford. That plays a little less into my inspiration, as her dragons are more like a mix of unicorns and your typical dragon. That being said, here are my two entries.

1. Your Name/Forum Name: Thessur
2. Paragon Gender: Female
3. Order Type/ How Many Are You Buying?: (Custom)
4. Species: Lavamancer
5. Head Horn, Skull, Fur/Whiskers, or Frill Color (Only if Applicable in species): Silvery gray (#CCCCCC)
6. Eye Color: lawngreen (#7CFC00)
7. Wing Type/ Wing Color (If Applicable): Webbed Deep Red (#DB2828)
8. Tail Type/ TailColor (If Applicable): I really think for this Razortail would work the best, but if you really don't like it furtail would be the next suggestion. Razor or Fur Tail Silver gray (#CCCCCC)
9. Main Body Color: lemon gold (#FFE303)
10. First Marking (Top)/ What Color? (Optional): Spotted White (#FFFFFF)
11. Second Marking (Middle)/ What Color? (Optional): Ivy Brown Gold (#ED8505)
12. Third Marking (Bottom)/ What Color? (Optional): Striped Sienna (#DA4400)
13. Anything Additional: (*Requires an Additional Cost) nope
14. Background Type (See below)/ If Aura, what color?: dark, Aura of medium red (#E50202)
15. Total Cost: 20$
Note: This is just an example more of how the markings would look together, the colors are under the image. all Paragon pics are (c) to Baal. ^_^6
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Postby Thessur » 11/21/2008 11:35 AM

Yay Temeraire! :D

Some darker colors are ok, I just meant I'd prefer things that aren't dark/evil.
Hmm... I think no more than 5 design entries per person sounds fair.
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Postby Ghostlily » 11/21/2008 2:07 PM

~I'm gonna enter this...and I claim Saphira!  xDD Yeah, I'm a nerd. Oh...and can we possibly do dragons based of off video games? -loves Spyro-

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Yus! Spyro is miiiine! x3

Saphira-based Paragon:

Saphira2. Paragon Gender: Female

4. Species: Lavamancer

5. Head Horn, Skull, Fur/Whiskers, or Frill Color (Only if Applicable in Species):E6E8FA

6. Eye Color: 00004b

7. Wing Type/ Wing Color (If Applicable): Webbed--191970

8. Tail Type/ TailColor (If Applicable): Razortail--E6E8FA

9. Main Body Color: 00009C

10. First Marking (Top)/ What Color? (Optional):

Skulls--d5ce19


11. Second Marking (Middle)/ What Color? (Optional):

Ancient--f0f0f0


12. Third Marking (Bottom)/ What Color? (Optional):

Mystwalker--6161ff


13. Anything Additional: (*Requires an Additional Cost)

Nope.

14. Background Type (See below)/ If Aura, what color?:

White


Example: ~Saphira Paragon!




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Postby Thessur » 11/21/2008 2:40 PM

Weeeeeell... As long as you enter at least one design from a book, I'll let you do Spyro (since I like Spyro too :D ).
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Postby Azura Rayume » 11/21/2008 3:00 PM

-nabs last Eragon dragon-

2. Paragon Gender: Male
3. Order Type/ How Many Are You Buying?: (Custom/Random?) Custom/1
4. Species: Lavamancer
5. Head Horn, Skull, Fur/Whiskers, or Frill Color (Only if Applicable in Species): #830202
6. Eye Color: #EEE44E
7. Wing Type/ Wing Color (If Applicable): Webbed/#E40000
8. Tail Type/ TailColor (If Applicable): N/A
9. Main Body Color:
10. First Marking (Top)/ What Color? (Optional): Mystwalker/#7E0000
11. Second Marking (Middle)/ What Color? (Optional): Sambava/#E04747
12. Third Marking (Bottom)/ What Color? (Optional): Spotted/#A50000
13. Anything Additional: (*Requires an Additional Cost): Nope
14. Background Type (See below)/ If Aura, what color?: White



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Postby Thessur » 11/23/2008 9:03 PM

Did you mean to leave out the main body color Azura?

Update: I've moved up the ending date to around December 5th. I might end it a bit sooner since there are a couple of designs I've already fallen in love with.

Update (again):  If there is anyone esle intrested in entering who hasn't posted yet, please post by tomorrow night to let me know you're intrested.

Because I'm an impatient little person, if no one posts by then I'll go ahead and announce the winning design.

*Is dying to get her first paragon*
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Postby Tsukiya » 11/24/2008 4:45 PM

2. Paragon Gender: Female
3. Order Type/ How Many Are You Buying?: (Custom/Random?) Custom/1
4. Species: Lavamancer
5. Head Horn, Skull, Fur/Whiskers, or Frill Color (Only if Applicable in Species): rosemadder #E33638
6. Eye Color: lavenderblush(SVG) #FFF0F5
7. Wing Type/ Wing Color (If Applicable): Razorwing/bubble gum #FF92BB
8. Tail Type/ TailColor (If Applicable): Feathered/pink shell #F6CCDA
9. Main Body Color: bunny eye #A5435C
10. First Marking (Top)/ What Color? (Optional): Ivy/hotpink1 #FF6EB4
11. Second Marking (Middle)/ What Color? (Optional):  Mystwalker/violetred2 #EE3A8C
12. Third Marking (Bottom)/ What Color? (Optional):  Sambava/pink jeep #E0427F
13. Anything Additional: (*Requires an Additional Cost): Nope
14. Background Type (See below)/ If Aura, what color?: White


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Postby Thessur » 11/24/2008 8:52 PM

I really like a lot of the entries, you all did a nice job.  There were 2 designs though, that really knocked my socks off.  This was partly because I love the characters they were inspired by, and partly because the designs were well thought out and very cool.  I couldn't decide between the two, so I decided to declare both as the winners.  

The winners are:

Freezair for the Firedrake inspired design
I really loved the blues you used for this.  I think your design really fits the character.


Krypto for the Temeraire inspired design
OMG I love Temeraire!  I'd completely spaced out on those books when I was trying to come up with a design.  I really like the fact that you included colored pictures so I could get a look at the design.


As a prize (since there are 2 winners) I'll send each of you 75ks, and you can each get one free inked drawing of one of your pets from me and (if you want it) a free custom dragonet adoptable (no add-ons though, as I really haven't got time to do them right now).  Sorry the prize isn't bigger, you both deserve something nice.

Since I liked both of your designs so much, I combined the two (with a few twists of my own) for the design I finally settled on.  I've already sent in my order and hope to be showing off my new boy soon.

Thanks a bunch to everyone who entered!


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