drawing contest

😂 Hmmm...never tried THAT approach...damn, I lost my digital camera so I can't even use that to photograph my drawings! 🙁

It should be interesting to see what everyone comes up with, I think we should have ages to, to see where people are at, students or whatever else. Only problem is getting to a scanner 😕

Well, Im working on the rules as we speak 🙂

There is going to be a theme of some kind, so any suggestions are welcome.

For now we have only one medium for the competition, and thats traditional art, however we might have another category, again suggestions more than welcome.

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Theme? Dragons! pleeeeeaaassseee!?!? *puppy eyes*

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awh theme?..in the first contest? *sobs*
at least make it a general one.....a bigger one..so that a greater variety can fit in it 🙂

Yeah, absolutely.

Dragons are too specific, maybe a fantasy theme?

Fantasy is good.

Originally posted by RobPowell
It should be interesting to see what everyone comes up with, I think we should have ages to, to see where people are at, students or whatever else. Only problem is getting to a scanner 😕

if you take your finished work to a print shop or a Kinko's which we have here in the states or even to an art store that can do printwork...for a small fee they can scan your work onto disc...which i've done quite a lot before i got my scanner...

if you do do it this way...just be sure they output scan between 300 or 600 dpi so that you get all the detail, then when you lower it to post you won't lose the quality...you can ask them to save it as tiff file not jpeg...

and depending on the medium...make sure you spray a fix on your work so it doesn't smudge on the scanner...

and...question...consider the drwaings altered in a imaging softwere, after scanning.
think about whether that should be allowed or not

NO! I think everything in a contest should be done by your own hand, none of that image altering crap after you've already finished.

thought the results can be pretty amazing

Ok, so can we agree, that possible theme for this contest will be 'fantasy'?

I was also thinking along the lines of 'abstract' theme and maybe ''war and peace'' but that might get a little contravertial.

Anyway...any other suggestions about the rules or the contest itself?

We could have separate categories for computer edited/unedited things... I probably wouldn't do something modified on a computer, but it might be interesting...

Also I think you should make the theme "fantasy/science fiction", might get more entrants that way.

fantasy is good spring board as it'll draw the most participants...

i also like the abstract part also as i am a big fan of it...war and peace would be good too, we could dictate that it not be too graphic yet not too watered down as it will take away the emotion and the feeling of what war does...but for the start we should do fantasy...

for now we could have the participants go traditional, e.g. hand drawn then rendered using whatever material is available to them: paint, chalk, colored pencils and paint...

but on the b-side, i'm sure i'll get some agreement on this, while i can draw pretty well i cannot for the life of me use traditional paint or any other mechanical medium, hence my love for PhotoShop...maybe we could start at a later date a new category for those digital artists unless it is the consensus to allow them also...

Alright, we are getting the rules ready...the theme will be fantasy, and i think we will allow 3 weeks for the contest to take place.

Judges are Fëanor and myself.

Originally posted by Fëanor
...maybe we could start at a later date a new category for those digital artists

Sounds great 😄

Whoa... Serif, you have a really cool sig ✅

Also, Id like to announce that the winner of the contest will be allowed, as a prise, to make their own gallery of their work in Art Forum.

🙂..what does that mean

Well, all the drawn work by anyone goes into one thread, the Exhibition thread....everyone's work goes there.

The winner as a prise will be allowed a thread of his own with his own artwork only. 🙂