Welcome one and all to the next contest. Sharpen your pencils, grab some markers, or fire up your tablet. This contest is a run on the last contest centering around "man's best friend". We want to extend this contest to any kind of pet. Keep in mind that I am not limiting this to any type of literal pet or common pet. Let your imagination be the limit to what you can come up with and then break those limits. I want to see your imagination flowing outside the paper.
Entries can be rough as a sketch or final, colorized works ready to be framed and hung. Just play around with the subject matter and see what road your imagination takes you down and then challenge it.
Contest deadline: August 22nd, 2011 at midnight.
(For this contest there will be prizes awarded for community favorite and runner up of two gift cards to Dick Blick: Art Materials. They will be small cards as I'm a grad student but I like the idea of adding incentives for you to put forth your best effort. I will have details later detailing the community decision-making process we will use.)
Good luck everyone!
Monday, August 8, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
Dinosaur Hunt
Well, I guess I misread their deadline by one day. Oh well. You fellow reader will get to enjoy the entry that I put a lot of time into. If you do not know what I am talking about let me explain. There is a cool website that features information, tutorials, workshops, etc. all centered around illustration. They had a contest that was due (I thought tomorrow) last night at midnight. I spent a lot of time (a few hours a week ago and a whole day off) working on an idea for the contest. When I logged on I realized I was too late.
The contest centered around a few quotes and I chose one that said something to the effect of "Don't play what's there, play what isn't there." I had a fun idea of a girl and dad that are doing exactly that, playing that they're on a hunt for dinosaurs. I'm really bummed that I wasn't able to enter my illustration, not that I would have won but because I worked for a long time on this piece. Well, hopefully you can enjoy my misfortune in the form of enjoying my entry.
Vote for our fellow contributor Scott Wiser's illustrations: (by clicking 'like' he gets votes and the winner of the contest is based on how 'like'd or how many votes you get)
http://www.paperwingspodcast.com/2011/07/think-pink-ink-by-scott-wiser/
http://www.paperwingspodcast.com/2011/07/gone-gong-by-scott-wiser/
I'll have a new contest up on the blog within a couple of days for you all to participate in. You're the best!
I've included below the initial sketch if you're interested in seeing where I first started from.
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