GISHWHES 54 Elmo!

Elmo gone wrong. What would a Tickle-me-Elmo look like if he had a serious crystal meth problem?

( Don't try this at home, kids! )

If you google "the face of meth" you get a lot of 'before and after' pics, so I decided to go that route. I asked quite a few people if they had an Elmo doll I could borrow, and nobody did (or they did, but they couldn't find it), so I took a trip to the Salvation Army and picked one up for $6. Muuuch better than the $35 they were asking at Walmart!

I mostly used Crayola Model Magic on him, plus some water colour paints for the sores. ;) I'm glad he wasn't borrowed, because even after hubby removed the majority of the clay, he still looks ... worse for wear. We were going to donate him back to the Sally-Anne, but now it looks sort of like he has an acne problem. The kids are calling him "Teen Elmo" :D

As an aside, I've never seen the show Supernatural (where the kingpin of the scavenger hunt is the star) but when I googled 'mug shot' I saw one of the other actors holding the same intake sheet I gave Elmo. I guess they were undercover in a prison in one episode?? Anyhoo, I thought it would be a nice touch to put some Supernatural in my entry.

Reeeeallly bad art

So ... I'm part of a fest that is posting right now. There is both fic and art, but I've seen TWO pieces of 'art' that are ... beyond horrible. I didn't check, but I assume they were done by the same person. WTF?

I'm not even talking skill level here, I am talking time/care taken. They look completely slapped together. Minimal colouring, and it's blotchy and not even in the lines! Geez, my kids can do at least that!

If that art were fic, it would look something like this:

TWO GUYS MET. THEY LUVED EACH UTHER. HAD SEX. THE END.

Again, I can generally tell when someone who is a 'new' artist has tried hard and when someone just doesn't give a shit.

I would be beyond shocked if this person took more than 10 minutes to make either one. (or both?)

Thoughts? Honestly, if I am 'gifted' this person's art in this fest it will be very hard to not say something nasty.