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 subject matter. 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.  Trak Nar  Ramble on 03:45, September 14, 2010 (UTC)

LET THE NOMINATIONS BEGIN!

You are free to nominate your images starting Friday, November 12th through Friday, December 3rd. After which time, no more nominations will be accepted and voting will begin.

Rules
And for the part you all dread... the rules. Don't worry, they're relatively painless.


 * 1) All submitted artwork, unless otherwise noted (Photoshops, for example), 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.
 * 3) As always, images MUST adhere to our Image Policy. Please make sure when uploading that you use the appropriate Information template, source your work, supply a licensing template and categorize your image.
 * 4) There should be a minimum of three nominations per sub-category. Otherwise, the underpopulated category will be merged with another category.

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, it can be nominated here as long as the linework was traditional media.

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) 3D renders belong in this category as well. If you've made something in Maya, Lightwave, Poser, Blender, etc., it gets nominated here.
 * 3) Digital artwork MUST be user-generated. Photoshops belong in the Photoshop category.
 * 4) 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.

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.

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;Link to user's userpage

For example: Administrator Verloff&mdash;Pencil on paper, colored in Photoshop&mdash;Trak Nar

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...

Digital

 * Digital Lightsaber&mdash;Computer, through Autodesk Inventor,&mdash;Chosen One

Traditional

 * Gruu Funkistann&mdash;Pencil and ink on paper&mdash;Dubya Scott

Traditional

 * Mila - Pencil on paper, colored in Photoshop - nightmare975
 * Xenia&mdash;Pencil and ink on paper, colored in Paint Shop Pro&mdash;Dubya Scott

Best Miscellaneous Artwork
This can be anything from scenery (planets, landscapes, buildings, etc.), to weapons, to droids. If a large amount of any type of images are nominated (for example, three or more of droids), then that group will be categorized on its own.

Digital

 * Digital Lightsaber&mdash;Computer, through Autodesk Inventor,&mdash;Chosen One

Digital

 * Judicial Forces logo&mdash;created via Inkscape&mdash;Fiolli
 * Taanab Militia logo&mdash;created via Inkscape&mdash;Fiolli

Best Book Cover

 * Glorior&mdash;created via Photoshop&mdash;Darth Wylind
 * Hidden Truths&mdash;created via Inkscape&mdash;Fiolli