Soon it will be el Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

This festival is all about celebrating the dead. With prayers, a nice altar (Google “Altar de los Muertos”) and, most importantly, wildly decorated skulls! These skulls come in many shapes and forms most notably in the form of sugar skulls.

For this quest you're asked to make your own colourfully decorated skull. How exactly you make it I'll leave up to your own imagination, but the more colour the better and edible skulls get bonus points.

Rewards:
First place: A Shade + a WP
Second Place: 15 Silver + an Angien
Third place: 10 Silver + a Tormented Soul
Fourth place: 5 Silver

Furthermore all will get some Candy!

The deadline is midnight ST in the night from November 2 on 3. After that there will be a public vote to decide the best skull for one week. Voting has started, cast your votes [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/13152-colourful-skulls-voting/"]here[/url].


Some examples; some sugar skulls, a drawing and some skull cookies :
[center][img]http://www.joyfulbelly.com/journal/recipe_images/SugarSkulls.jpg[/img] [img]http://tf2sprays.com/wp-content/uploads/image/spray-DiasDeLosMuertos.jpg[/img] [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Tgo3NhsaF5M/Su3DsmcVg-I/AAAAAAAACgc/ClNpKqcJejE/s400/sugar+skull+cookies+1.jpg[/img][/center]

[center][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh2hSyDcYlo[/media][/center]
[center][url="http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giUzNIliJSk"]English version[/url][/center]

Edited November 3, 201213 yr by samon

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1st Place) Shade
2nd Place) 15 Silver
3rd Place) 10 Silver

And as always, i have to up the Ante if we want to have some fun ;D

If this uest gets 10+ applicants (and im sure Samon will keep me posted ^^) then there will be better rewards than the normal Ante.

And id rather not ruin the fun so, come on people, join, participate, and find the darkest treasures with your own eyes ^^

~Cuando los que viven duermen, i los muertos bailan, no hara nada pero felicidad~

Are we limited in the type of skull we can use? Does it have to be human?

http://www.boneroom.com/bone/animalskulls.html


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Are we limited in the type of skull we can use? Does it have to be human?
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Hmmm... Yes, why not, I'll allow animal skulls, but please note that no real skulls are necessary.

Do we get extra points for using real skulls?

Z

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Do we get extra points for using real skulls?

Z
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Probably depends on the person decapitated?

Multiple entries?

you can submit as many entries as you like, though you can only win one place.

As Phantasm said you can make multiple entries.

I can't promise extra points for real skulls, also I won't take any responsibility for, nor do I want to encourage body snitching, grave robbery an/or murder on behave of this quest.

But... I already dug up the grave! :'(

I'll be submitting mine very soon.

Ok, here's my artsy akward skull

It's a skull, yes, well, with some imagination you can see a skull shape innit, ok, believe me...wait, perhaps take this lsd pill. See, now you can see it is a skull right/!

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Edited October 16, 201213 yr by biermann

*takes the pill...*

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Amazing!!!

*pops it*

I... I love it D'x!

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Can...

Can I award people for awesomeness?...

>xD

Please be sure to notice that it says "For this quest you're asked to make your own colourfully decorated skull." You have to be able to prove that it is authentically yours. If you made that yourself great, but otherwise that skull will not be allowed because you did not make it yourself.

How did you make that skull, Dante? Interesting.

I believe in Dante's abilitys as an artist :3

I made it myself
Basically, it is the outline of a skull, tactically filled with the pile of fractal resources I have generated over the years. And yes, I can prove it as well. (heck there's a ton of similar fractal works on [url="http://vagabondvagrant.deviant.art.com"]http://vagabondvagrant.deviant.art.com[/url] )
Fractals, to explain a bit more, are basically the use of maths to generate lines. Like saying 'draw x pixels left, then 2 * x up' and repeat. The only difference with this example is that instead of 2 * the maths consist of sinus function, pi and god knows what all.

Below (more to show how it is done then to have a burning desire to proof I'm not some copycat) is a breakdown of the key components in the skull, as you can see they are quite intricate little works all on their own even. SO next to an lsd trippin' skull, you now also have a lsd suitable jigsaw!

[img]http://markbiermann.nl/md/skul-breakdownl.png[/img]

what a nice Dante*bows*

Umm.. not really an awesome entry.. not an artist >>

*rushes and hides under the bed* please dont laugh ><

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Umm.. not really an awesome entry.. not an artist >>

*rushes and hides under the bed* please dont laugh ><
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*laughs out loud*

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*laughs out loud*
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LOL *laughs out loud* GAGS

[quote name='Nimrodel' timestamp='1350573152' post='124240']
Umm.. not really an awesome entry.. not an artist >>
*rushes and hides under the bed* please dont laugh ><
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*gasps*

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Can I give points for cuteness? ^3^

You took the time and effort, and perhaps the guts to post it here.

Therefor you are by far more awesome then any of the Laughers above whom posted nothing

[size=5][font=georgia]So, just to make things clear the[color=#ff0000] two masks are made by me[/color] and the 4 little Day Of the Dead figurines were NOT made by me but they are something I very recently started to collect, so I thought I would share them with you all and they looked great in the picture. I love the colorful skulls and festive skeletons. It was fun making these two masks tho the black one reminded me more of Mardi Gras- and no not cuz it's black. [/font] Viva[/size][img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-XTpp4jp5iWI/UIDnZLQfdQI/AAAAAAAADfU/SH_JpkQR4KU/s400/Day%2520Of%2520the%2520Dead%2520006.JPG[/img]
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Edited October 19, 201213 yr by ZenTao