Welcome to the Art Skills Competition 2014/2015, or "ASC" for short. It is a contest to gather willing artists from the forums to compete in a friendly test of their skills and reward the best of their work each round.
Rounds will take place each month, the last day of the month will be the final cutoff for any entries. The judging will take place the first week of the following month.
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Competition Guidelines :
1. The entry must be 100% original material.
2. Each round lasts for a month; closing date is at the end of that month.
3. Submissions should be relevant to the current month's theme. (See thread's title)
4. Keep posts resolutions within reason and if you must have a larger resolution, link it to the entry.
5. Entries can be created in any medium, please note that it will be appreciated if hand drawn entries are cropped to contain only the intended work.
6. Winners will be announced by the judge of the competition at the end of each round; the results are final and non-debatable.
7. The winner of a round will have the right to choose the next theme; if this takes too long, the judge will choose one instead.
8. All participants of each round will receive a Merit for their hard work; the winner of each round will receive the Armor Games "Artist Quest"!
Round 1: Knight
This months theme will be dedicated to creating a knight representing that of Armor Games, it is a non official character to try and stir the imaginations of artists and viewers. The artist should endeavor to embody Armor Games in a Knightly character.
@Hectichermit Yeah I'll take at least the next one. Gonna give it about a month as has been the trend, but let's see if we can't have a slightly firmer deadline/on time judging.
(ps: sadface that no comment on the stereoscopic drawing)
Anyway. The new theme (selected by Cenere) is: Self Portrait The new deadline is: August 8th.
Disclaimer: I am in no way implying that I actually look like this. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious, any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental, and all that good stuff.
Edit- WOW that picture was bigger than I was expecting.
....now to talk a hundred selfies and decided which one to trace/paint over :P
Interesting and vaguely relevant comment:
There's currently running an exhibition near me about selfies. Both in the common sense of the word of someone posing and taking pictures with their phone in the mirror, but also in the sense of self portraits and how artists choose to show themselves in the camera.
It's pretty nifty and focuses both on the negatives and positives of the selfie culture.
Neither interesting nor vaguely relevant comment:
I have about twenty different ideas, and I can't pick.
Do a portrait that would test your imagination, "What would I look like in this photo in 40 years" :P that is make yourself age or even go the opposite and do a child version. Idk just an idea, take a reference and see if you can twist it with some challenge...how about what if humans were descendant of reptiles instead of primates and make a portrait of yourself :P
