Last Man Standing 3 - ROUND 1 / Matches 49-72

**D.Labruyere** · January 22nd, 2008, 06:53 PM

Beautifull work all!!!

congratz on your pieces aspenboy and spraynation! They look great

**Mark Bot** · January 22nd, 2008, 06:58 PM

head = kersplode

this goes for all 3 threads: Amazing stuff guys. seriously

**yAdam** · January 22nd, 2008, 07:02 PM

just amazing. Quality stuff from the Uk as well, and i'm including you in the uk too christian 'cause yours is so good

A lot of this round is probably a close call, so I can't imagine what judging next round's gonna be like! cheers cody!

**xia** · January 22nd, 2008, 07:03 PM

RoboGabo & Mr. Blonde... Damn! those are supreb...beautiful work.

Great work everyone!!!

**strych9ine** · January 22nd, 2008, 07:32 PM

Chaosrocks, Rustikof, Stephen, thanks for handing my ass to me! Wish I was more of a fight.

Didn't really have a chance to say this yet, but I couldn't have been more impressed with the hard work and sheer kickassery of everyone's entries. It's obvious that this time around we're going to have us a pretty spectacular LMS.

**ceberae** · January 22nd, 2008, 07:41 PM

Wow. For all 3 threads. Just... awesome. The sheer variety of styles, ideas and presentations is mind boggling.

Thanks Cody for putting all this together. And thanks to all who participated. Especially match 56, so glad to see we all made it here

**Saturns Gate** · January 22nd, 2008, 07:46 PM

Puck's artwork made me drop my jaw. Fuckin awesome! Rendering is perfect! You da man!

**cotta** · January 22nd, 2008, 07:51 PM

This is so cool. Im definatly gonna participate in the next TD. So much great artwork here. Great work guys.

**zephyri** · January 22nd, 2008, 07:56 PM

First pass, these are what stand out: Form, lovely idea. Dave Palumbo, I knew yours was going to rock, but that's a fabulous take on the theme! Wassermelone, something about that image really takes me, not sure whether its colour or emotion, or the combination of both. Shelly Wan, I've adored your work since I first saw it last LMS, no exception here, beautiful as ever! Grendel Grack is that traditional or digital? Either way it's some of the most beautiful colours I've seen! Carotello, amazingly rendered piece, as ever, and a great idea.

Great work all round though, congrats to all who finished.

**Farvus** · January 22nd, 2008, 08:09 PM

Cool entries everyone!
Dave Palumbo work made me smile. It fits perfectly into the theme

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**Jason Rainville** · January 22nd, 2008, 08:15 PM

Does this mean we can post our entries wherever the hell we want now?

**davi** · January 22nd, 2008, 08:36 PM

yAdam nicolas Cicinimo Oblio prostate sunrise Kirtz carotello mr.blonde spraynation thom Shelly Wan Rudeone love your work this round

**Texahol** · January 22nd, 2008, 08:40 PM

*twitch* this makes my long day at work tooooooooootally worth it!

you're all awesome!

huge thanks to cody for spending his time on us!!!!!!!!!!!!

**Grendel Grack** · January 22nd, 2008, 09:34 PM

adam: you rocked the shit. This is a real breakthrough for you, and you have given Billy a bar to reach. Although, he's really lazy so the bar will probably just hang there untouched. Kudos!

zephyri: It's watercolor and colored pencil. Glad you like it

All: I'm very impressed with the stellar quality of work from everyone. It is an honor to compete with such talented artists.

**Kirtz** · January 22nd, 2008, 09:43 PM

Grats to everyone that didn't puss out and painted a piece.

My favorites:

nicolas- great textures and love the coin portraits. interesting that you didn't go as designy as usual, but it looks great.

M.C.Barrett- great perspective, like the concept

EAD- nice image, looks final fantasy-ish

Dave Palumbo- great way to solve the subject matter and nice rendering. I think you just wanted to render a bunch of naked ladies, hehe

prostate sunrise- sweet image, love the pack horse

docrob- nice story. dig the king crawling away, and the throne in the bg

Jens- like the story here too

Idiot apathy- I like the piece. I think it would draw the attention to the girl more if you took out some of those bright highlights to her right, and maybe toned down the one on the ground too. The eye gets confused as to where it should rest. You've got a nice swirling composition that would be helped by this too.

thom- cool concept, I like the figures in the foreground

robogabo- nice rendering, man.

Shelly Wan- as always, a nice image

Now that I'm done with the

I'll say good luck to everyone in the judging.

Oh yeah, thank you Cody for putting this shindig together! This is the first time I've done personal work in a long long time and it was really fun.

**Joeslucher** · January 22nd, 2008, 10:06 PM

Idiot Apathy- It was great to see you doing a character and I really enjoyed it Tom.

**Burtzum** · January 22nd, 2008, 10:57 PM

some good stuff in here. Favorites are Cicinimo, M.C.Barrett, Form, and Prostate Sunrise

Dave's is fun too.

**Form** · January 22nd, 2008, 11:10 PM

guys, fucking awesome. i dont even know where to begin...

yAdam - constantly impressed with your leaps and bounds. Thanks for bringing it mate!

RObogabo - your studies have paid off in VOLUMES... you are the pinnacle of the hard working art devotee

Pan - fantastic smooth render

Fuck man, i have so much to learn! You guys are feverishly good! Back to the drawling board! Thanks again cody for emceeing such a bomb event.

**Android** · January 22nd, 2008, 11:24 PM

saskia.......w o w.

**Splittingadams** · January 22nd, 2008, 11:56 PM

good job everyone. this was very stimulating. i hope to make it to the next round to keep going with some of these great people.

of note to me:

Grendel grack - good to see you do something with your life, your excellence amazes me. dont get too cocky you still have to deal with Jay.

Shamagim - bunnies always a good call.

nicolas - well done, the red and composition are pleasing

prostate sunrise - wicked idea, good colors.

stephen - very james jean of you, means i like it.

Pan - awe stuck.

Antti - liking it a lot.

to everyone else. Rock'n try. you all did great, but sometimes its the diamonds in the rough that i like.

and to Jason Rainville, good show, but we think to much alike and i am a bit creeped out. are you in my head or am i in yours?

loving it!

**DSillustration** · January 22nd, 2008, 11:56 PM

I am amazed!
All three threads are killer.

Everyone here has outdone themselves.
Especially you Cody.

Good luck to everyone!

**ArtByZak** · January 23rd, 2008, 12:13 AM

Wow. This is only round 1. I think people who move on to round 2 are going to kick it up even more, seeing what the competition is doing this year.

There's no room for weakness. This is a hard round to judge, but the next few rounds are going to be exponentially more difficult.

I'm glad everyone in my round had the drive to get something in. No puss-outs there.

Everyone who participated can say they were a part of the LEGENDARY LMS 3, as it will come to be known in the months to come...

Congrats, all. I bet the puss-outs are feeling pretty bad right about now... "If only I had a professional mindset and approach to my work..."

Better luck...next...time...oh, wait, you're not allowed on the battle ground any more.

**Ragnar X** · January 23rd, 2008, 04:10 AM

dang- the arena kids brought it - nice work boys- except for jaime... thats just crap!

**Antti** · January 23rd, 2008, 04:24 AM

So many amazing pieces. wow. And thanks for kicking my ass match 70 guys

**ikuru** · January 23rd, 2008, 04:28 AM

Its Insane! Im still trying to take it all in... But one things for sure.. I never seen so much talent in one place and not only that, most has really outdone themselves on this... f---mindblowing it is..

**zweiDee** · January 23rd, 2008, 05:09 AM

wow, so many great entrys. I have to many favorites,
Jens is any of them (what a pitty)

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all the best
zD

**Saturns Gate** · January 23rd, 2008, 05:16 AM

Well I saved 68 to my Last Man Standing Folder, Obviously as said many times before there were so many awesome entry's and Cody, you da man!

If I had to choose one artist out of the lot (which could never be fair considering how good everyones was), I would probably go for Chans, theres just something about the way he paints with such a soft brush that brings his work to life for me. *studys his work*

Its been fun people! Looking forward to seeing the entry's for round 2!
Peace!

Sean

Edit : originally wrote 'Cody you do man' by accident, which isnt very nice! So changed it. Good thing I noticed that!

**hurricane** · January 23rd, 2008, 05:17 AM

davepalumbo, enbe, kpetrasko, rudeone, thom, aspenboy (you made me laugh out loud at the office, thanks!

) kirtz, tom (IA), mr. blonde, watmough, invertedchalupa, cody, jens, robogabo (

)

awesome entries ALL of you!!!!

**Summer Pudding** · January 23rd, 2008, 06:09 AM

nicolas, M.C Barrett, Cicinimo, EAD, Palumbo, ilikejuice, InvertedChalupa, wassermelone, mr.blonde and thom leapt off the page.

three cheers for Mons. Tilson for arranging it all

Pete