Some of you may remember the Art Skills Competition(ASC) that died some time ago, and there has been no succesful drawing art competition since it died. It died because there was no judge and other reasons, but I joined in the last 2 rounds of that competition and I have to say that I miss it.
So, I decided to have go at making another arty competition of that kind. And every succesful contest must have a set of rules.
1. You must not use artwork that belongs to any other person other than yourself
2. The artwork must be visual, not literary or audible. It can be a photo manipulation or drawing or other.
3. The deadline is 2 weeks from the setting of a new theme
4. You can submit more than one artwork, but must say which is your final
5. You must follow the theme
6. Anyone who fails to follow the first rule will be first warned, if repeated, then suspended for a round and then 2, and then banned until further notice.
7. The will be up to 5 awards each round which may vary, except for the 1st place award and Scenery award(background).
For anyone that would like to enter here's the Programs you could use alongside many others:
In my "crits" I say what I think. This contest is meant to be judged from an average person point of view.
In that case it's worth prefacing such statements with an "I think", "I feel" or "IMHO" or something. It doesn't change how you feel when making any of those statements but it conveys something important.
When I was judging this contest years ago, I'd actually write a paragraph introducing the new topic hinting at what aspects I would be particularly looking at. When judging I'd write a preface to the judging with an overall impression that expanded on this, thus if people had complaints I could point to my documented notes on the thread saying "well this is just how I did it this round". Of course eventually I had to quit because it became too much effort lol.
Light and casual's the way to go with these things, it's actually an effort to keep it that way!
Did you read anything Strop/Zoph/Cen/Everyone with a concious (bloody hell I wish I could spell) said?
By the way, if I draw something for something else (ie not the contest) and it fits the theme can I enter, or does it have to be specifically a contest entry?
You've only gone on about it for several pages. Looks to me like someone was looking for an easy route out.
Yeah Pazx, I think it's time to give this one a bit of a rest, I'm pretty sure what needed saying, only needed saying once!
My advice was a bit more subtle than that: I think it's fine to crit but only if you make it very clear what level you're at and therefore how seriously you should be taken. Zophia's advice, not to crit for something like this, is safer and probably more appropriate for this kinda endeavour.
I personally think the level of realism for Drejen's changes with the horizon.
Same with my sort-of entry.
By the way, if I draw something for something else (ie not the contest) and it fits the theme can I enter, or does it have to be specifically a contest entry?
