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March Art Contest - post your entries here!

PostPosted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 10:40 pm
by inkhana
Please note that the rules for this contest have changed slightly. Please make sure you read and understand them before starting or entering your entry.

Questions? Please PM me rather than posting them here.


This month's theme is - fan wallpapers! Unlike previous contests, you MAY use official artwork as part of your theme. If you choose to use fanart in your composition, please credit the artist either in your post or within the image itself. Wallpapers MUST feature a known anime, manga, or video game character.

The image can be any normal size wallpaper (ie, 800x600 or 1024x768), but please keep it to these standard sizes.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled rules...;)

//Anyone who wishes to participate will post their entry in this thread only! All entries appearing in other threads will not be taken into consideration.

//All entries will, most importantly, comply with the general rules of CAA. Entries with a sexual connotation of any kind (including but not limited to hentai, yaoi and yuri), as well as those with graphic violence or profanity, are instantly disqualified. The judges reserve the right to exclude an entry if they feel that it is fanart based upon an unwholesome anime title. Entries that do not have some relation with the current art contest theme will be disqualified also.

//All entries MUST be received before April 1. At the end of the contest, all entries will be submitted to a judging panel previously chosen by the admins and mods of CAA. NOTE: Judging will be based on only ONE factor - creativity. When a winner is selected, the winning entry will be placed on the front page of CAA and their name will be announced in a new thread.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 1:30 pm
by FATa|_3rR0r
My entry. Me hopes you likes. It is From (as you may have guessed) AzuManga Daioh, A 'clean' anime/manga, But very much KAWAI!!!! i think its kool, the manga is very funny. Please find attached.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:56 pm
by Kenchii
This is a collage I did awhile ago (two months) and I just took a bunch of characters and put them together for my own wallpaper. I touched it up with my primited Photoshop skills, and added the name 'Kenchii' too it. *Note: Bawitback is on there because I am also known as Bawitback.

Anime: Naruto, Trigun, Digimon, Gad-Guard, Dot Hack, Invator Zim, SD Gundam, Evangelion, FLCL, Street Fighter, Fighter-Cat-Thinggie, and important of all.. THE DANCING BANANA!!

:lol: :sweat:

(800x600)

EDIT: Aww geez, I waited about fifteen min.s waiting for it to upload on my 56k, and it was soo large.. :( I tryed compressing it, but it says 940kb. Is there a way I can send it too some one though email? Its normal file size is 1.23MB thanks.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:09 pm
by inkhana
It sounds like you've got it in a BMP format or something comparable, Kenchii. If you make it into a JPEG the board should accept it a lot easier...most other image types break the filesize limit...>.<

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:44 pm
by Kenchii
Alright. Thanks inkhana, I forgot about that!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:38 pm
by Shinja
BWAHHHHAA im not going to take part but im posting it anyway.

inkhana did the work :thumb:

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:53 pm
by Savior_Sora
Here's my entry. This guy is awesome. I just have to put it up. I don't know much about him but his name is Wave. He's from Ansem Report.

EDIT

oops I think I messed up...It's not exactly a wallpaper :p...Lemme get another one and put up here......Okies done!!! The same guy did this one (Wave).....Um it's too big to put up...How can I get it on here w/o putting it IN the post?

EDIT

EDIT2

Ok the background I'm gonna put up is by a different person "Queen Shiva" of Ansem Report. It is just too cool :D!!


EDIT2

PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:23 pm
by inkhana
What you need to do is upload it to your own webspace and use the [img] tags to place it inside your post. Or you can reduce the filesize as I was talking about before to Kenchii...increase the compression on the file itself, make it smaller, or make sure that it's in JPG format, then upload the image as an attachment, as normal. That's most likely your problem. If it keeps giving you fits, let me know and I'll have you email it to me to put up...:)

PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:47 am
by LorentzForce
...

And here's my entry. I usually don't enter competitions, but what the heck for a 5 hour job.

[edit] Oh, forgotten. Ages past, but regardless; the image is from MegaTokyo, the character being Piroko. The art was hand-drawn by Fred, then I just did some 5 hour work on it (pathing it) and tada. Slapped on the background and resized it to a wallpaper.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 5:27 am
by Siren of Lyrics
LorentzForce wrote:...

And here's my entry. I usually don't enter competitions, but what the heck for a 5 hour job.

I don't usually enter because I can't draw
Note I did not draw any of this art.
My theme is final fantasy crystal chronicles

PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 9:55 pm
by Haibane Shadsie
May we use wallpapers we've made not specificially for this contest? I have a really cute Kuroneko wallpaper I made a long time ago that I'd like to show everyone if nothing else.

I was thinking of doing a my own fanart wallpaper anyway... I have this idea about Reki from Haibane Renmei... but I need to get unlazy and draw her as I want her for the wallpaper. If I do that this month, if it turns out well, I'll make that my official entry...

But, I still want to show of my Kuroenko paper. I used a scan of real kitty litter for it.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:12 pm
by inkhana
Yes, you may do so, Haibane. Just as long as the wallpaper is your original creation, there are no probs.

There is also no problem with the *cough* PM button *cough*.

heres sora!

PostPosted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:47 pm
by HikariChan
mines not working so i had to edit this post!! sorry!!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:10 pm
by glitch1501
this is my entry, working on and off for a few days, i had alot of fun making it,
its the extra 1 from argento soma
hope you like it

PostPosted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 9:25 am
by ThaKladd
Here is my entry to this wallpaper contest.

Hope you like it :)

I'm entered!

PostPosted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 2:25 pm
by Alexandra-chan
Heres the pic for the contest. This is not that great of a pic. I usually do 100% better with other things. I probabally won't win but its worth a try. Sowwy for the lack of artistic look to this pic :( . Ja ne!

PostPosted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:54 pm
by CobaltAngel
Okay, this is a kinda old bg... but anyway! ^_^;; I used about 5 differant layers, and 3 differant programs to make this. The 3 bottom layers were created from scratch all with PhotoShop Elements. And all the digimon imgs used are offical, not copyrighted to me... no-no! LOL!

Its crap, but my best bg I've made. ^^;; Enjoy.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 7:33 pm
by Negotiatrix
Here's my shot at wallpaper. Wow I love those filters! The Spike image is from animealliance's gallery. I'm not sure what you mean in the rules by "offical" art so I don't know if it's okay that I used it...?

The whole of Psalm 88 I think goes really well with Spike's character.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 11:35 am
by Haibane Shadsie
Sorry about that... I think when I first read this topic, I skimmed over the posts and didn't catch that thing about PMing.

Anyway, I don't know when I'm going to get working on that Reki wallpaper - and I happen to have my Kuroneko wallpaper up on my desktop again and I realize how much I like it, so, I'll enter it (though I made it quite a while ago).

I put real kitty litter on my scanner for this. Fresh, unused, of course, right from the bag. Any other way would just be disgusting. I put a clear plastic sheet over my scanner before I put the litter on - for any of you out there like me who are inclined to scan weird things for their computer artwork.

The board wouldn't let me attatch it, so here's a link to it.

http://devotion.rhlem.net/fanart/nekopaper.jpg

Nyao.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:01 am
by inkhana
Reminder bump...hehe

Are there any more entries?

PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 5:35 pm
by Retten
Bump! Ok yeah I got an entry :) -Kenshin Of The Forest-
http://atlas.walagata.com/w/whiteblaze/keshinwall.jpg
Well this one was fun to make I got to experiment with 3 different medians of art Photo, Drawing, and Digital :thumb: I kind of went with the style "less is more" it just wanted to get a good *at a loss for words* mood and atmosphere from it. Enjoy!

PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:39 pm
by MyrrhLynn
inkhana wrote:Reminder bump...hehe

Are there any more entries?


:Edit: Ok then here is my entry. It's sort of ... different from most wallpapers I make because it says in the rules for this contest that the judging will be based on creativity. So I did my best to do something creative. Since my sister has become obsessed with scrapbooking lately I decided to do a wallpaper that made it look like someone was going to make a scrapbook of DNAngel.

Since some of you may not be familar with scrapbooking I'll go around the wallpaer explaining it. First is the scissors. Uh... hope I don't have to explain those. To the lower left of the scissors are photo holders which some people use to hold the photos on the page of the scrapbook. On the top is a gluestick, again I hope I don't have to explain that. ;) In the upper right are some small pics of the DNAngel characters. They're like those little punch paper things (like palm trees or planes, or whatever) that are used to decorate the scrapbook page. Underneath them is some glitter and some more photo holders, and then some scrapbook paper. I had to make those myself and I tried to pick typical patterns for scrapbook paper.

:Edit: Oh poo! I just thought of something. If you aren't familar with DNAngel you might look at some of the pics in the wallpaper and think it is a yaoi show. Well it isn't, they are just good friends. Actually it is technically impossible for there to be yaoi between those two but explaining why would be a spoiler. :sweat:

PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 9:45 pm
by Angelchick
lol yeah he did do a great one here's mine it's my first one!

PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 1:00 pm
by Zeth.exe
Here's my background hope you like it

PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:42 am
by inkhana
Time's up! *wince* Yeah, I should have locked this at midnight last night, but...well, I didn't do it, anyhow. Anyway, I'm off to get the judges!

Must...resist urge...to play April Fool's Day joke...>.<