Sure, I'll give the realistic Ivan a try some time. The Poseidon picture is pretty much done. I'll have a picture up soon.

Here are new sketches done in a new style I'm pursuing for Ivan.  I'll be refining it more and post a new character design sheet sometime after the next week is over.

Haa....where do I start...

Well I was introduced to this site by my cousin (SailorLonestar) long ago, way before she even submitted her character into this site.  She was very taken by the idea of the comic battle site and wanted to show it to me.  I thought the idea was cool too and entertained thoughts putting a character in, but never did because life was going a different direction unrelated to art and so I forgot about it.

Fast forward a few years, I'm in the middle of college working in a major I really didn't have my heart in.  My cousin finally starts to submit her character, asking me for opinions/critiques.  She sends it in and it becomes official and I watch her do her first battles.  I liked how much fun she was having and promised I'd put one in.  I kept putting it off/forgetting.

Each year she would remind me to work on the character.

Fast forward some more, I've switched to graphic design and finally doing something I liked.  While I had some free time during the summer in the midpoint of working on my degree, I decided, "hey I'll work on a character".  I drew one up and submitted it into the Incubator.  Got lots of feedback on it.  There were quite a few things not quite working with the character.  I realized I didn't really have much drive for the character and needed to rethink it.  Family problems came up and the poor thing laid forgotten in my sketchbook.

Fast forward again to 2010, Pi (a mutual friend of SailorLonestar) told me about the Invitational Tournament and said I should give it a try.  I wasn't sure about it because it had been a long time since I had given much thought about the character and I hadn't redrawn him much at all since I last touched the design.  After some encouragement from both Pi and SailorLonestar, I decided to touch up what I had and give it a try.

And now I'm here.  I'm glad I actually took that step forward because I never would have known how fun this was.

I'm still here because this site is fun for me and I'm learning a lot.  I like the challenge in here as well.  I don't think I would have done as much as I had if I had come in regularly.  The one week deadlines really pushed me to my limits, not just in speed, but in creativity as well.  It's much different to have random opponents thrown at you than it is to pick and choose one.  It's allowed me to think on my feet in a way and test how i can creatively weave characters into a story.  I know that I will be here for a long time because of this. : D

Alrighty I want to make Reinhardt Circus into an actual gang in Void.

Current members are Ivan Reinhardt, Lorelei, and String Puller.

We accept any and all who want to contribute to the entertainment of Void's citizens or if they just had the burning desire/dream to run away and join the circus, that's fine as well.  To join, just contact me and we'll arrange a battle or something.

message has been sent on the main site. : )

@ Mishi:  That's too bad, but I understand that things in life come up and all.  Good luck with managing everything.  I'm looking forward to seeing the BB.


@ Orange:  Jeezus, I can't believe you finished 16 pages. @_@X;;  I can't wait to see it. : D  Must be pure epicness!



I had trouble uploading as well, not the fault of void, though more of a case of unreliable internet at my apartment.  I honestly don't know why I'm paying for it if it sucks so bad. >: (  I have to talk to my landlord.  This isn't the first time I've had problems.    I had to jet down to a starbucks at breakneck speed.  Kinda good that I did, got the comic uploaded and something to eat/drink, been living off of cereal the whole day.

here's a little bit of fan art from me of Eve, Turtle, and Boek.  Just rough sketchies...

I applaud all the participants in the tourney for kicking off the tournament to a great start.

Fuwah...all the arts are so good.  I wanna do some too, but that will have to wait until all my hw and shits are done. D:

Everyone's that submitted should now be approved, with the sole exception of Ivan.  He'll be fixed and in tomorrow, because I don't have what I need on this computer.

If my math is to be trusted, there's 47 new characters about to get thrown together to kick start this thing.

Thank you Kevin, your hard work is greatly appreciated.  : )

Now I can rest easy and finish off the other stuff I need to take care of.

I've been trying to submit my character for the Invitational at the main Entervoid site. My icon is 50x50 pixels, all of my images are Jpegs, I filled out all the fields, hit agree then submit and every time I get this message:

"ERROR - There was a problem saving your entry into the database. Click here to report the error, and we'll get back to you as soon as the problem has been resolved."

I've tried this on Firefox, IE, and Chrome with the same results. It is 12 minutes into July 25th in my time zone and were it not for this error my character would have already been submitted at the main Void. I already submitted the character here on the invitational forum, so I'm just one step away from completion. Any help would be greatly appreciated..

Having the same problems, followed all the steps.  But strangely mine is having a different reaction.  It doesn't give me an error warning.  Instead it treats it as if I'd never hit the submit button at all and sends me back to the Create a Character page with an empty form.  In any case, I've already e-mailed Toast, told Pi about the problem yesterday so all I can really do is wait. :/

Still trying to submit and stuff right now too.

Hello!

Just call me Sho or Shojin, of course it's not my real name, I prefer not to put it down here.  Been drawing ever since I can remember but didn't really pursue it as a career until 3 years ago.  I'm a graphic design student aspiring to be an illustrator.

I was pulled into this site by my cousin, SailorLoneStar, and have been lurking on the site ever since (which was 2-4 years ago? I forget).  But after such a long time lurking and being prodded into joining by my cousin, I've decided to try my hand at this.  I've already got a character ready, but still working on sequentials.

Hopefully I'll do decently ^^X;;  and I look forward to interacting with all of you and perhaps a battle sometime in the future. ^^X  Nice to meet you all.