Also people have been not realizing, there is a theme for this contest. ALL ENTRIES no matter what category, should use the theme. The theme again is "Cyska's First Birthday"
Yes, I am a few days late lol, this should have been posted on July 3rd, the birthday of Cyska. Hard to believe it's been a whole year gone by. I'm so happy I've gotten to be a part of such a wonderful community of folks who open their hearts and are so giving and sweet to one another.
I have some rare items in my inventory, and it's been awhile since I had a contest.
So I would like to do a Cyska Birthday Art and Writing Contest.
I have 4 categories for ya'll.
1st category - Sketching
2nd Category - Vector Art
3rd Category - Story or Poem
4th Category - Scene Contest
Here is how this will work:
Rules:
- You may only enter from one account. So if you have a previously approved side, please either post from your main OR your side, but not both
- One entry per person PER CATEGORY - This means that you can enter something for each category if you wish to, but you may only have one entry for each category
- Sketching is going to be drawing something offline and either scanning it and uploading it or taking a picture of it and uploading that picture. It can be pencil, ink, paint, whatever you want to use. Go nuts! Please only use your own work. Anything that is not solely your own sketch will be disqualified.
- Vector Art is drawing something with a program such a Photoshop or GIMP or something else. It doesn't matter which program you use as long as it is all your own work. I know some people don't know how to do stuff like this which is why I made the sketching category separate. Please only use your own work. Anything that is not solely your own work will be disqualified. This means that you cannot just go and Google a background and start layering things together. I know this makes it more difficult for some, but it's better than finding out something you used had a copyright.
- Poem or Story is just how it sounds. You can write a poem or a short story for this category. Please keep stories to 3 - 4 paragraphs or less. I can only read so much lol.
Please only use your own work. Anything that is not solely your own writing will be disqualified. - Scene Contest again is just what it sounds like. Using items from the Shop, make a scene that is relevant to the contest subject matter.
- The subject of all of the categories is "Cyska's First Birthday".
- Make sure all material is appropriate for a 13 and up site. I am asking for no swearing in the writing, no inappropriate pictures. Please use common sense, if there is something you're unsure about, it's probably not okay. If you are really unsure, you can ask me.
- Please send all entries at one time. So if you plan to do something for each of the 4 categories, please be sure that you send all at once. Please send these to my email addy which is Azkani.Karma@yahoo.com. Any entries not sent to my email will not be accepted. If there is some reason you can't email me, we may be able to work out something else, but please ask.
- For Scene entries, please send the link to the scene.
- All Drawing entries, please try to keep your art to 440px wide by 440 px tall. It can be a little above or a little below, but please not huge. I'd like for nothing to go off the forum page so people can easily see your work. If you need to size a picture down, I know that most sites like Photobucket have a place you can edit it. If the dimensions are small, just try to make sure that we can easily see the details of your work.
- Each category will have one winner. Each winner will receive a Rare Shop item worth 100CD. In the event that there is only one entry in a category, the person who enters will automatically win. I would like to have different winners for each category so everyone gets a chance. In the event of a tie, if one of the two have won in another category, the second person will be chosen.
So how do we decide who wins? I would like for the whole site to get in on this one. So I will be posting each category as it's own thread, and when the contest ends, each entry will be posted on the appropriate thread. I will have everyone vote for their favorites, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd so that if there are people who are overlapping in categories, everyone gets a better chance at winning something.
In order to give people plenty of time to work on their submissions, the contest will begin today, July 7th, and it will end on August 3rd at 11:59PM EST. Any submissions that are given after that date and time will not be accepted. The threads and voting will start on August 4th which is a Sunday. I can't give a specific time for the threads, but they will all be up that day. I will leave voting open until August 7th which is a Wednesday. Hopefully we'll get lots of people entering and lots of people voting on this one. If we don't get enough people voting, I'll end up having to pick winners myself, and I'd prefer it to be based on a consensus instead of just my opinion.
Good luck!
ETA: Big duh! Make sure when you send your email that your username is in the subject line please! Otherwise silly Az might end up deleting it accidentally or something. :)
