I love the idea of having artist spotlight.

Just a suggestion, why dont you start giving artist spotlight to the members who submitted their fanart to the gallery first, as a gratitude how they support the site? then once the good ones are done then start with other people.
I bet the members would be grateful to see their art in the mainpage, and I must say, there are a lot of good fanart in ranchstory gallery.

here are some more fanarts that I think they deserve more attention from public.
1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6

Yeah, we have a lot of good art here already. But I don't like the stupid watermark and I'm too lazy to go through them all to see if whoever posted a picture has a site or something where I could get the unwatermarked one to post. Which is where people like you come in. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalatounge.gif)

About watermark, I think most artist would have them in their art pieces, I believe so that they can promote their art and as well preventing stolen arts.
But if ranchstory would like the one without watermark then they could ask the artist directly. Moreover if they're a member of this forum, then it should be easy right?

I meant the Ranch Story watermark that's on most of the uploaded pictures.

Ummm....

BTN Girls
And here's a few interesting pictures. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif)

I have a HM picture up on that site. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif)

What with the slew of holidays coming up, namely Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, do people think they can find ones that specifically go along with those? Or at least the Fall/Winter seasons?

(IMG:http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs43/f/2009/152/1/c/Danny_by_Windnstorm.jpg)

That sort of follows through with halloween... like a costume? Its Danny from RF.

Yeah, I've seen some pretty decent cosplays on the ol' DeviantArt that I sorta kinda wondered if they properly counted as "art" in the traditional sense. If I bother to actually think about it (or someone else does and tells me their thoughts) I guess this month would be a good a time as ever.

I found some decent art. But none of it's themed. >.> I'm going to have another search later. But maybe you could use these after Halloween or something?
Someone & Claire
Portait of Joe
Joe & Kurt
Stupid Mai
Kissing >.>
Rick & Jill
Cliff & Claire I like this one. :3
Group shot
Claire, Docter & Elli I like this one too. :3

Those pages don't like me.

Anyway, thinking about the costume thing, I'm thinking I'll just delay the artist spotlight from the 28th to the 31st and post one. I was hoping to be able to post one for each week leading up to it, but I looked and didn't really see a way I could do it since HM costumes aren't plentiful or variety filled enough to do it. =\

It'd be super if someone could find a particularly good one for the Halloween update though. Preferably one with a noticable Autumnal backdrop.

http://www.cosplay.com/gallery/116444/

Is a great Celia cosplay, nice background.

Darth, this site has a few pics of people in costumes. The Harvest Godess one has an Autumn color scheme too. ;)

HM Costumes Made By People

Wee. Both look good. Anyone got more? Maybe?

Naturally regular art is being accepted too.

Can we still make recomendations?!

I went skimming through Fishie's (New Members) work and saw these,

I like the balloon one :]

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You can always make new recommendations. And yeah, I was already gonna make the pumpkin carving one this week's.

hmm one more since its almost Halloween

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It's a shame I decided to do the cosplay thing for the Halloween week update. That's pretty neat. =\

Anyway, dudes got more of that?

Seeking RF art for next week. It's been ages since some has been posted.

http://hanitea.deviantart.com/art/Rune-Fac...ophia-142106750

(IMG:http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs50/f/2009/304/0/9/09929bf80a92486c379a4a936337a16f.png)

Sophia from RF3.

It's beautiful. ;______;

holy frickin crazy pants