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Art-Program Contests

These contests are for those wickedly good users of
art-programs! There will be several contests that will
determine the best Program Artists in different categories!

- [Mr.Scoop]

Please note that this is the main page that will link to the contests that will take place. Scroll down to "Contests" to find a link to the current one. Thank you.

Judges:

- [Mr.Scoop]
- [Silverbullet]

Choosing The Winner:

There will be an overall limit of entries set at twenty (20). From those twenty (20), the judges will pick out a top five (5), and the winner will be decided in a final vote with a poll. To be fair, only one (1) entry per person will be allowed in the final vote.

Rules of all contests:

1. ALL ENTRIES MUST BE MADE FROM SCRATCH. No photographs, no drawings, no photomanipulations, everything must be purely created in an art-program (Photoshop, MsPaint, Gimp, Open Canvas, etc.) And just to make it clear, from scratch means that by using ONLY the tools and special effects your program offers you, you start with a blank page, then work your way up to a masterpiece! Click on the following link for an example: Image Example

2. ENTRIES must be relevant with the theme. The entries must also follow the uploading art rules.

3. NO STEALING ART! Images must be created by Elftowners and posted here by the original artist. Which means, no matter how much you might like a particular image on somebody's house, you are not allowed to add it here. This includes random images from the net too. MAKE YOUR OWN DARN IMAGES, DON'T STEAL THEM AND TRY TO CLAIM THEM AS YOUR OWN! If we find out that you have stolen artwork, we WILL report you.
It can happen an artwork has the same title as another one; this is not against the rules as long as the artists' names are clear.

4. ALL ENTRIES MUST BE UPLOADED TO ELFTOWN!. Ask [Sunrose] for wiki-privs if you don't have them already: members who follow the uploading art rules and thus are not troublemakers, will be granted these privs. See advanced help for more information about privs.

5. EACH MEMBER MAY SUBMIT THREE (3) ENTRIES.

6. SUBJECT MATTER: Images that depict graphic violence, pornography or other disturbing actions will not be accepted. Only images that fit the current theme will be allowed.

Contests:

Landscape Contest (2006)

Suggestions:

We are now open to some suggestions for some themes for the next contest. Post them up in the Suggestions wiki. There will then be a vote to decide which theme the next contest will be based on.

2006-01-31 [Zab]: Who will judge? :P

2006-01-31 [Mr.Scoop]: Me, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand other people I have yet to contact :P

2006-02-01 [Silverbullet]: Aye! Me counts! *punts*

2006-02-01 [Mr.Scoop]: Huh? Wanna be a judge?

2006-02-01 [Silverbullet]: sure... do i get dental?

2006-02-01 [Zab]: Write who will judge here then! :P Write those you know..:P

2006-02-01 [Mr.Scoop]: *points at top of page* ^__________^

2006-02-01 [Zab]: :P

2006-02-01 [Mr.Scoop]: There is now an example ^^

2006-02-02 [iippo]: I'll enter though I'm not wickedly good... But at least I'll get some practice.

2006-02-02 [Mr.Scoop]: Yay! One contestant! *joy* ^___^ Just remember that the actual contest page is Landscape Contest ^^

2006-02-02 [iippo]: But what is the agenda on reference? It's ok to use reference, as long as any part of the image used doesn't end up into the end product (i.e. can look at someone's eye to make a proper eye, no paint-overs or shuss like that)?

2006-02-02 [Mr.Scoop]: Yea of course, you can recreate something, as long as everything in the image that you enter was made from a blank page. Cause wether you're looking at an image to reacreate it or recreating an image you have in your mind, it's the same. As long as everything in the image you enter was created from nothing it's good ^^

2006-02-02 [Mr.Scoop]: It's kinda hard to explain but do you understand what I mean?

2006-02-02 [iippo]: I understand. Just making sure, because I always use reference (either my imagination is that bad or I'm a pro :P) and there have been cases where I enter a contest and people tell me "you copied your picture you poohead!" And I blink and say "you mean this one I used as a reference?" And I assume wide interpretations are accepted as well? I.e. Cityscape, seascape etc... *has to do machines...* O_O

2006-02-02 [iippo]: Just out of curiosity (and I'm a curious little mukluk), what other themes are you planning on doing? :)

2006-02-02 [Zab]: This contest could be copied from any official contest! XD Same layout and even dividers..:P But I don't think anythings wrong with that tho..:P

2006-02-02 [iippo]: I'd say it's done on purpose to look the same, which is cool. Gives out a more "serious" air... :)

2006-02-02 [Zab]: It does..:P

2006-02-02 [Mr.Scoop]: Yea I wanted to get the same effect as a real contest ^__^ And to answer both of your questions [iippo], Yes for the first, and for futur contests there's a wiki for people to give suggestions which is in fact called, Suggestion ^^. So if we ever run out of ideas or anything, we just have a look there.

2006-02-02 [Mr.Scoop]: The currently suggested themes are Fantasy Creatures, Rock Formations and Solar Systems. On the wiki there's a poll to vote for which one you'd like to do. And you can add your own suggestions as well. I check up on it every day to update the poll if new suggestions are made ^^

2006-02-03 [iippo]: As a side-note, do export the page. That way it'll come up easier on searches.

2006-02-03 [Mr.Scoop]: Really? What does it DO exactly to help with the searches?

2006-02-03 [iippo]: Erm, well... people find it..? XD I'm not sure but Hedda makes a big deal out of it. If it is exported, I think it comes up in Google. I'm not sure what's the deal with keywords, but if you want to be found, the best way is to make as much keywords as possible and export the whole shannagang in the end. But yeah, Hedda will poke everyone to export, so do it to please him if nothing else :P

2006-02-03 [Zab]: :P wait a sec..

2006-02-03 [Zab]: "1) People not logged in can see them then. It's very good when people are talking about the contest on other forums, give links to it or for non-logged in people just looking on Elftown Mainstreet to see what Elftown is about. 2) It makes it possible for search engines to find the page, and it will therefore be possible to find the page in a Google-search." There, [Hedda]'s own words..:P

2006-02-03 [Mr.Scoop]: Didn't really get the first one, but second's clear enough ^^

2006-02-03 [Mr.Scoop]: Must we put commas "," between the words or just spaces?

2006-02-03 [Zab]: O__o which words?

2006-02-03 [Mr.Scoop]: The keywords for when I export the page. Like let's say someone types in "Art contest" in google, my page comes up :P

2006-02-03 [Zab]: only spaces I think..:P

2006-02-04 [Mr.Scoop]: K ^^

2006-02-04 [Zab]: :P

2006-02-04 [Mr.Scoop]: Soooo....so far we've got two people who've entered and one that is going to.......WE NEED TO ADVERTISE SOME MORE!!! ^^

2006-02-04 [Zab]: Have you signed up on MC and Art contests? :P

2006-02-04 [Mr.Scoop]: yep ^^

2006-02-04 [Zab]: Then it's just to wait...:P

2006-02-04 [Mr.Scoop]: hehe I guess so :P

2006-02-04 [Zab]: You can tell in the commentbox on art contests too..:P

2006-02-04 [Mr.Scoop]: Yesh well you can help ^^ :P

2006-02-04 [Zab]: XD I'm giving you the places to advertise on! XD

2006-02-04 [Mr.Scoop]: X) Yea but we still need more!! Mwahaha!!

2006-03-19 [Zab]: hehe..:P

2006-04-10 [Kaimee]: So, are 3d renders and such counted as "art program", or do you mean purely "painterly" programs?

2006-04-10 [iippo]: They are accepted, yes. as long as no scanned base sketches are involved.

2006-04-10 [Mr.Scoop]: Exactly ^^

2006-04-11 [Kaimee]: I'm not going to enter anyways, I've only been able to produce one even vaguely landscapey thing and it's more a skyscape... and it isn't exactly my best work xD So I'll wait until further categories come around :3

2006-04-11 [iippo]: Noooooo! You have to! *prods Kaimee* And, meh, I should get around to producing an entry too... >_>

2006-04-11 [Mr.Scoop]: Yes! You both should! We need 20 entries before we can make a vote, then other categories will come out! We need you!! T.T

2006-04-11 [Kaimee]: uhm... xD maybe :P

2006-04-28 [Max11]: hey dudes if i drew something on my oun without a reference could i still join this thingy?

2006-04-28 [Mr.Scoop]: As long as it was made from scratch on your computer.

2007-05-17 [Ice-Evil]: Where do enter this contest?

2007-05-17 [Silverbullet]: Add your submission to the Landscape contest page

2007-06-12 [ally]: If this contest is still active, message me about it or it will be removed from mc.

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