Star Wars Fanon:Image Contest

Welcome to the first annual Star Wars Fanon Image Contest! This community-wide event is to (hopefully) garner some more interest in SWFanon and bring out the artists. So, if you can draw, paint, model, sculpt, or Photoshop and wanna prove your mettle, feel free to enter your work. It doesn't need to be a whole new drawing just for the contest, if you wish to use an existing piece you've uploaded, by all means do so.

Artwork will be categorized and voted on by the community, with myself and Wylind officiating. Artwork will be judged on basis of composition, technique, detail, and style, rather than the user that made the image. Art will be judged with other pieces in their own category, for example, traditional drawings will be judged with traditional drawings. When the voting period arrives, please take your votes seriously and consider what goes into the artwork before voting. This is not a popularity contest. Vote on the art, not the user or subject matter. Votes will be tallied at the end of the designated voting period. Categories and entries with tied votes will be judged by the masters of ceremonies to approach a final decision.

Rules
And now... the rules. Don't worry, they're relatively painless.


 * 1) All submitted artwork, unless otherwise noted, MUST be user-generated! Please do not pass off someone else's hard work as your own!  Us artists have access to all sorts of sharp implements, it would be unwise to upset us.
 * 2) Only in designated categories may Photoshopped artwork be submitted.

Category rules
Traditional


 * 1) Only artwork done entirely with traditional mediums may be nominated in this category. Traditional mediums include pencils, pens, markers, paints, colored pencils, crayons, pastels, etc.
 * 2) If you sculpt in clay or Super Sculpey, these are traditional mediums and photos of the sculptures may be nominated in this category.
 * 3) If you had drawn an image, scanned it, and colored it in Photoshop, nominate it in the Digital category.

Digital


 * 1) Only artwork drawn and colored digitally may be nominated in this category. If you drew your image in Photoshop, Corel Painter, the GIMP, etc., it goes here.
 * 2) Artwork that was scanned and colored digitally belongs in this category, regardless of the medium used for the linework.
 * 3) Digital artwork MUST be user-generated. Photoshops belong in the Photoshop category.

Photoshop


 * 1) Artwork nominated in this category may use existing images for cover composition.
 * 2) Photomanipulation MUST consist of more than a recolor, a cut-and-paste, or a simple application of the Burn tool. Put some major work into it.  The end result must be markedly different from the source material.
 * 3) The user must source and supply links to images used in their composition.

3D


 * 1) Models must be user-generated, including bipeds.

OR


 * 1) If using a program-generated biped (such as in Daz Studio), the texture map MUST be user-generated.
 * 2) Supply the texture map, if possible.

Game mod


 * 1) Mod MUST be user-generated.
 * 2) ALL textures must be user-generated.
 * 3) If using existing character bipeds, screenshots should focus on user-generated content, with the biped hidden or as far off screen as possible.

Categories
Now, the part you've been waiting for... The nominations! Please nominate your image as follows: Title or image name&mdash;Mediums used&mdash;User's name

For example: Jailhouse Vengeance&mdash;Pen and colored pencil on paper&mdash; Trak Nar  Ramble on 03:27, September 14, 2010 (UTC)

If submitting a Photoshopped image, the source material MUST be listed on the file's page! And please do not post thumbnails. Depending on the amount of entries nominated, waiting for a large batch of images to load would be aggravating. Now, onto the categories...

Discussion
As always, keep it civil and clean, folks!  Trak Nar  Ramble on 03:27, September 14, 2010 (UTC)