[Scythe]

FanForum Holiday Board Art Competition
Get into the holiday spirit! Work together, and show us what your board can do!
Create a holiday themed piece of artwork on the topic of the board to submit to the competition.

Participation:
Anyone can participate! Whether it be creating a fan art or supporting your fellow board members. Visit any of the participating boards and post your submissions. If you are browsing FF and notice that someone's fanart is good and you like their style, I encourage you to send em a PM! Ask them if they know about the holiday competition You'd be surprised how many people I've come across that love making fanarts but have not heard about the competition Together, we can make this a really fun and a successful holiday competition

Please read all of the rules before submitting an art.

Participating boards:
(Deadline due to being down for the last few days is extended to 19th)

• 90210
• Alias
• Angel
• Autumn Reeser
• Battlestar Galactica
• Bethany Joy
• Beverly Hills 90210
• Big Brother
• Bones
• Brothers & Sisters
• Buffy
• Carrie Underwood
• Chad Michael Murray
• Chuck
• Couples
• CSI
• David Boreanaz
• Degrassi
• Dexter
• Doctor Who
• Ed Westwick
• Emily Deschanel
• Emma Watson
• Evangeline Lilly
• Female Celebrities
• Friday Night Lights
• Friends
• Gilmore Girls
• Grey's Anatomy
• Harry Potter
• Hayden Panettiere
• Heath Ledger
• Heroes
• High School Musical
• House
• How I Met Your Mother
• Hugh Laurie
• Instant Star
• Jake Gyllenhaal
• James Lafferty
• James Marsters
• James Van Der Beek
• Jared Padalecki
• Jason Dohring
• Jennifer Aniston
• Jensen Ackles
• Joan of Arcadia
• Jonas Brothers
• Josh Holloway
• Kate Voegele
• Kelly Clarkson
• Kristen Bell
• Kristen Stewart
• Lauren Graham
• Leighton Meester
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Life on Mars
• Lost
• Male Celebrities
• Matt Czuchry
• Movies
• Music
• Nikki Blondsky
• October Road
• One Tree Hill
• Original Artwork
• Orlando Bloom
• Patrick Dempsey
• Private Practice
• Pushing Daisies
• Queer as Folk
• Rachel Bilson
• Random
• Robert Pattinson
• Role Playing
• Sarah Wayne Callies
• Scrubs
• Shiri Appleby
• Smallville
• Snow Patrol
• Sophia Bush
• Star Trek
• Supernatural
• Television
• That '70s Show
• The 80's
• The OC
• The Office
• The Secret Life of the American Teenager
• Third Watch
• True Blood
• Twilight
• Vanessa Anne Hudgens
• Veronica Mars
• Without A Trace
• Young Americans
• Zac Efron

To insure that every type of art from every poster has a place in the competition, the following two categories of art will be accepted:

• Original Artwork - Drawings, photographs and anything that is your own material.
• Random - Any topic/subject that does not pertain to an of the participating boards and does not fall under Movies, TV or a Male/Female Celebrities. For example, christmas trees, santa clause etc...

Arts for both of these categories can be submitted at the main competition thread on the FanArt board here. Please just specify which you are submitting it for.

Rules

• Each participating board will have a thread dedicated to the competition and it will be the place to discuss and post your arts. It's also a great place for suggestions. Each thread is linked above here in this post.
• The art must be holiday themed and have the board name clear anywhere on the artwork. You are free to use any technique (brushes, textures etc...). For help and tutorials, the FanArt board is a great place to find it.
• The artwork you submit must be exactly one of the following 3 sizes in pixels and in JPEG format; 400x300, 800x600 or 1024x768.
• Final submissions should be a separate post in the thread marked with the words "to submit it for the competition" in red. This way, we will know that it is the final version of the art you would like to submit. It will be linked on the beginning post of the thread, updated frequently. If you do not see your art on that post a few days after you post it, please PM me.
• Art should include your username on the bottom left of all artwork in Times New Roman, font size 12 (72 pixels per inch). Also be sure to include a separate 200x150px thumbnail in JPEG format along with your art to be used in the voting. Please do not add a border to the thumbnail.
• The deadline for art submission is December 20th, 2008 5pm EST. You must have your artwork posted by that time to be considered. No exceptions. Please make sure that your upload site is reliable.
• You may submit no more than 1 art per board. You may most certainly make more than one for each board and post it on the thread for people to see, however you may only submit one for the competition per board. There is no limit to how many boards you can submit an art for.
• There are a couples of special notes. With regards to the TV, Male Celebrities, Female Celebrities and Music board, you may only submit an art on a topic that does not include one in which there is a separate board participating. For example:
  
  - If you make a Kelly Clarkson art you would submit it to the Kelly Clarkson and not the Music board because Kelly Clarkson is participating in the competition.
  - If you make a Dido art, the proper place to submit it would be the Music board because even though she has a board here at , it is not on the list of participating boards.
  
  With regards to the Couples board, you may not submit an art with a movie or TV couple that is from one of the shows participating in the competition unless it features a variety of couples from different boards. For example:
  
  - If you make a Ron and Hermione art, it must be submitted to the Harry Potter board because it is participating.
  - If you make a Rose and The Doctor art, it must be submitted to the Doctor Who board because it is participating.
  - If you make a Ron and Hermione art that also includes Rose and The Doctor, you should submit that to the Couples board.
  - If you make a Jack and Rose Titanic art, that can be submitted to either the Movies or Couples board.
• Please make sure to keep your artwork PG-13 while sticking to the Forum rules.

Voting
The voting will be as follows:

1. Favorite for each participating board: This will take place within a few days after the submission deadline in the form of polls, topped in each participating board. If you want to vote for a particular board, please visit that board and vote.The last day to cast your vote will be December 25th and the winners will be announced the next day.

2. Favorite Overall per Category: This will be held on the fanart board starting after the first round winners are revealed and will be open for voting until January 1st. Everyone is encouraged to vote.

Winner of the overall competition will be announced very soon after.

Questions
Please post your general competition questions on the board thread or the main competition thread on the Fanart board.

If you get confused about any deadline times and don't know how to convert to EST time, check out this link for what time it is currently on the east coast of the USA. This competition was made possible by members of the Graphics Team, Administrators and the FanArt board. More importantly, the participants! We hope that you have a fun and safe holiday season!

Please ask any questions you have here. For inspiration, here are the results of last years competition:



Current Submissions:

[Astra]

Thanks so much for running this contest! Can't wait to see what our Tracers come up with

[NikNak]

Me too! It's gonna be some pretty stuff.

[4N6 DNA]

The art-making portion of the competition is over and the voting is next!

Here is your hub, your magic link to all the poll updates and information about voting. Please visit the link and vote in all the boards that have polls.

Poll Master List

Happy voting! And Happy Holidays!

Mods - would you mind keeping this thread open so I can post updates when necessary? Thanks so much!

[NikNak]

Sure. No problem.

Thanks for the updates.

[NikNak]

Update from Jessie:

Sorry for the hold up on the announcement of the winners! The polls have determined which arts have won in the 7 categories, but as per thoughts and suggestions from the feedback thread, we are going to have other category winners as well. It's too late to open the polls for all of fanforum to vote though so I am asking for your patience while the GT and FA mods and Admins nominate and vote on those other categories. Please let me know if you have any questions. All the winners should be up within a few days. Thanks for your cooperation and patience!

[Scythe]

Hey everyone
Thanks for your patience while we were sorting out the winners. Please visit the following link to see the winners of all the original categories plus 5 new ones:

Competition Winners and Banners

Thanks so much for everyone who participated in this competition, it was a lot of fun!

Mods, if you have not already done so, please feel free to de-top the poll thread as well as the original art thread, but please leave them open if you can. Thanks!

[NikNak]

No problem. Thanks again!

[Astra]

Thanks for all your (and your teams) hard work with this contest