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Bluelight weekly 2-D Design contest Round 12: Flowers

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2-D Art - Flowers

RULES

Lets try and keep this fresh. The idea here is the physical manipulation of mediums in real life.

1. Any work of art or variation thereof which has been previously submitted for one of the contest rounds cannot be used in subsequent rounds of the contest.

2. Works must be your original work and ones that have never been copyrighted or, if copyrighted, that you are the sole copyright owner of.
2a. No submitting works for other people, for friends, etc. Your OWN work, very simple.

3. Only one work may be entered per contest.

4. All entries must be free of watermarks, signatures and borders

5. Entries must be no wider than 700 and no higher than 700.

6. Photoshop use is allowed , however,
6a. No complete photographs; i.e. pieces of photos/images may be used as long as the manipulation is obvious; there will be a suitable thread for your 100% manipulated/photoshopped photographs (in the near future).

7. Please include the original dimensions of your work, the mediums used, and any other info you feel is relevant. (your piece's pertinence to the theme is optional)


8. Deadline for entries is 12am eastern on the posted deadline date.

9. Voting ends at 12am eastern on the posted end date.

10. Post your entries in the appropriate thread in the form of an image, not a link to click on.

11. Don't be a dummy and vote for your own work, try and make it fun.

If you have a problem with another contestant's entry adhering to the contest guidelines, please PM the forum moderators. Do not try to begin a debate about the issue within the contest submission or poll thread! There will be zero tolerance towards any attempts to devolve a contest thread into a bash-fest or witch hunt.

We will pick the next theme and post it the night a contest ends for the next round so people have a full 14 days to produce something and submit it. After all the entries have been posted, a poll will be added on the last night, so people can vote. Voting will take place from midnight to midnight over the following 3 days (12am Sunday - 12am Wednesday).

Those who wish to participate in sharing larger images of their works (for desktop wallpaper use, for instance) may do so by providing a link only to the full sized version in the same post as their entry.

Thank you and have fun!
 
Apologies for the delay.

Please submit your entries in this thread and a mod will re-post them when voting starts in a separate voting thread.

Submissions: October 22 - November 04
Voting: November 05 - 06

Accepting suggestions for future themes.
 
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done a year ago, when i was playing guitar and smokin weed most of my free time
 
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next week we should do animals.

and there is a plethora of emotions that could serve as themes that i dont recal seeing yet, such as happiness, anger, love, fear, hate, indifference, etc...
 
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Very nice guys! What mediums are they?

I think maybe limiting medium would be another route we could try out for some 'themes'. We could limit it to charcoal, pencil/graphite, paint (we could get specific here but just 'paint' would probably allow more participation), crayon, marker, colored pencil, digital manipulation, etc. and leave the acutal subject matter open. Thoughts?

*Edit: also, would you guys like to have a halloween theme?:)
 
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Ok, so the story with this, we had a school assignment where we had to take a published piece of art and recreate it. The original picture of this is by a photographer local to where I live, and this is the painted version of it, so the original idea is not my own, but the painting is.

Edit: Oh by the way, I obviously got a hold of the picture I was refering to in the post above. :)

Edit Edit: No the picture is not upside down, thats the way the original artist intended it to be so I feel that I should keep it as such.
 
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QuestionEverything said:
Very nice guys! What mediums are they?

I think maybe limiting medium would be another route we could try out for some 'themes'. We could limit it to charcoal, pencil/graphite, paint (we could get specific here but just 'paint' would probably allow more participation), crayon, marker, colored pencil, digital manipulation, etc. and leave the acutal subject matter open. Thoughts?

*Edit: also, would you guys like to have a halloween theme?:)
i think thatd be better suited to a different contest-- as i dont paint at all, but other mediums i love. i dont see how LIMITING the mediums would get more participation, if anything it would limit it... isnt that just logical?

and having a specific subject is kinda the driving force behind these contests...

i tried having a different thread where the subject matter was open, but the medium was specified, and that got closed immediately.....
 
wesmdow said:
i think thatd be better suited to a different contest-- as i dont paint at all, but other mediums i love. i dont see how LIMITING the mediums would get more participation, if anything it would limit it... isnt that just logical?

and having a specific subject is kinda the driving force behind these contests...
I didn't say it would get more participation - I think you misread what I said there. My comment regarding participation was in regards to paint only, as in, we wouldn't want to go as far as limiting it to 'oils', 'acrylics', 'watercolor', etc. but keep it open to any type of paint.

As far as it limiting participation, I don't necessarily think it would. I mean, you might not paint, but this is a reason for you to try it. The same as I would never choose flowers as a subject for my own artwork, but for fun, for the contest I'm going to give it a go.:)

I am sort of looking at this like the photography contest. Macro was a great round, and the subject matter was left open, but the style/technique was limited. I definitely don't think it needs to be a separate contest. I'd prefer to build upon what we already have. It's not like it would be an ongoing thing anyway, just another idea for themes to try out in between other ones like we've been doing.
 
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