LOOK OUT, ARTISTS! IT'S TIME FOR THE ANNUAL COVER ART THROW DOWN!
ARTISTS!
Dust off your sketchpads! Sharpen your pencils! Flip through your favorite fics because...
IT'S TIME FOR THE ANNUAL COVER ART THROW DOWN!
Contest Details:
Who: Artist-types!
Objective: To design gorgeous cover art for your favorite KakaSaku fanfics!
Contest Location: the LJ Branch of the KakaSaku Community!
Contest Start Date: Today! (April 29!)
Contest End Date: May 31st, midnight EST.
Entries Must Contain:
1: ONE full sized image.
2: Your name
3. The title of the original piece of fanfiction and a link to it
4. The name of the author of the original piece of fanfiction
Prizes: Special Banners proclaiming your Supreme Awesomeness! (Made by the lovely and talented oroburos69.)
Good luck! (Not that any of you will need it, I'm sure!) And I look forward to seeing the fruits of your labor!
FAQ:
Does the fanfic have to be my own? No! However, artists are strongly encouraged to ask the author of the original piece for permission to use their fic. (This shouldn't be a problem since, in my limited experience, authors are generally flattered by those sorts of requests. Also, they tend to pimp the finished art like whoa!)
Can more than one artist claim a single fanfic? No! Once an artist claims a fanfic, it's off the market. Other fics by that same author, however, are still fair game.
Where do I claim my fanfic? Claim it in a response to this post!
Can other people see my unfinished work? Sure! It's fair to ask your friend/roommate/creative sounding board to look over your work. If enough people want, we can have an "artists' clinic" before the due date.
Can I submit more than one Shatteringly Gorgeous Example of my Creativity? Of course! Who am I to stand in your way? Of course, you'll be competing against yourself and, as we all know, that can get awkward...
Where do I post The Glorious Fruits of My Boundless Creativity? Anywhere you like so long as you remember to post a link to your entry on the LJ community. Remember to include the four things listed above in your post.
When I look at the Calendar of Contests, I can't help but notice that this contest was slated for last month. What's up with that? Honestly, I have no clue. All I know is that the Cover Art Challenge was supposed to be last month. No one ever hosted it. This month was supposed to be the LJ community's break. Therefore, it seemed perfectly acceptable to me to declare last month to be the Break Month ex post facto style and this month to be Cover Art Goodness Month. I think that it would be a waste to throw aside everyone's hard work in voting for contests and Nims' herculean efforts to balance out the number of Art, Fic and Both Contests on the community.
Claimed Fics:
Reason - serenitytouched
With Best Intentions - celtic_sakura
Another Wolf - tenshiyaki
Dust off your sketchpads! Sharpen your pencils! Flip through your favorite fics because...
IT'S TIME FOR THE ANNUAL COVER ART THROW DOWN!
Contest Details:
Who: Artist-types!
Objective: To design gorgeous cover art for your favorite KakaSaku fanfics!
Contest Location: the LJ Branch of the KakaSaku Community!
Contest Start Date: Today! (April 29!)
Contest End Date: May 31st, midnight EST.
Entries Must Contain:
1: ONE full sized image.
2: Your name
3. The title of the original piece of fanfiction and a link to it
4. The name of the author of the original piece of fanfiction
Prizes: Special Banners proclaiming your Supreme Awesomeness! (Made by the lovely and talented oroburos69.)
Good luck! (Not that any of you will need it, I'm sure!) And I look forward to seeing the fruits of your labor!
FAQ:
Does the fanfic have to be my own? No! However, artists are strongly encouraged to ask the author of the original piece for permission to use their fic. (This shouldn't be a problem since, in my limited experience, authors are generally flattered by those sorts of requests. Also, they tend to pimp the finished art like whoa!)
Can more than one artist claim a single fanfic? No! Once an artist claims a fanfic, it's off the market. Other fics by that same author, however, are still fair game.
Where do I claim my fanfic? Claim it in a response to this post!
Can other people see my unfinished work? Sure! It's fair to ask your friend/roommate/creative sounding board to look over your work. If enough people want, we can have an "artists' clinic" before the due date.
Can I submit more than one Shatteringly Gorgeous Example of my Creativity? Of course! Who am I to stand in your way? Of course, you'll be competing against yourself and, as we all know, that can get awkward...
Where do I post The Glorious Fruits of My Boundless Creativity? Anywhere you like so long as you remember to post a link to your entry on the LJ community. Remember to include the four things listed above in your post.
When I look at the Calendar of Contests, I can't help but notice that this contest was slated for last month. What's up with that? Honestly, I have no clue. All I know is that the Cover Art Challenge was supposed to be last month. No one ever hosted it. This month was supposed to be the LJ community's break. Therefore, it seemed perfectly acceptable to me to declare last month to be the Break Month ex post facto style and this month to be Cover Art Goodness Month. I think that it would be a waste to throw aside everyone's hard work in voting for contests and Nims' herculean efforts to balance out the number of Art, Fic and Both Contests on the community.
Claimed Fics:
Reason - serenitytouched
With Best Intentions - celtic_sakura
Another Wolf - tenshiyaki