Tina

NEW THREAD

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:

General Discussion:

Celebrities
Couples
Disney
Movies
Television
The 90s

Female Celebrities:

Alexis Bledel
Ashley Tisdale
Emily Deschanel
Emma Stone
Candice Accola
Dianna Agron
Lea Michele
Hilarie Burton
Selena Gomez
Vanessa Anne Hudgens

Male Celebrities:

Chace Crawford
Heath Ledger
Jensen Ackles
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Morgan
Leonardo DiCaprio
Matthew Fox
Orlando Bloom
Paul Wesley

Music Artists:

Kris Allen
David Cook
One Direction
Taylor Swift

TV Shows: Present:

90210
American Idol
Arrow
Bones
Criminal Minds
CSI
Glee
Grey's Anatomy
Hart of Dixie
How I Met Your Mother
New Girl
NCIS
Sherlock
Supernatural
Teen Wolf
The Big Bang Theory
The Lying Game
The Simpsons
True Blood

TV Shows: Past:

Beverly Hills, 90210
Charmed
ER
Friends
Gilmore Girls
Summerland
That '70s Show
Third Watch
Young Americans

Sci-Fi/Fantasy:

Merlin
Star Trek

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 Fan Art 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.
  
• Art should include your username on the bottom left of all artwork in Verdana, font size 12 (72 pixels per inch).
  
• You will have 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. Please see below on how to create a thumbnail.
  
• 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 Tina.
  
• The deadline for art submission is December 21st, 2012 6pm 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.
  
• Special notes:
  
  For TV, Male Celebrities, Female Celebrities and Music, 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 Kris Allen art you would submit it to the Kris Allen board and not the thread for Music on Fan Art because Kris Allen is participating in the competition.
  - If you make a Kelly Clarkson art, the proper place to submit it would be the Music thread on the Fan Art board because even though she has a board here at , it is not on the list of participating boards.
  
  With regards to Couples submissions, 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 Luke and Lorelai art, it must be submitted to the Gilmore Girls 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 Luke and Lorelai 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 in either the Movies or Couples categories on the Fan Art board.
  
  
• Please make sure to keep your artwork PG-13 and stick 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 winners will be announced the next day.

2. Favorite Overall per Category: This will be held on the Fan Art board starting after the first round winners are revealed and will be open for voting. Everyone is encouraged to vote. Winner of the overall competition will be announced very soon after.

3. Favorite Among the GT: The Graphics Team will vote on a set of categories. We will hand pick what we feel best fit the categories. In case you are wondering, here are the categories:

Best use of text
Most Festive
Best composition
Best use of textures/brushes
Most Creative
Best Use Of Color
Best Use of Black and White

The Graphics Team will also make the final winners and special category Graphics.

This competition is made possible by members of the Graphics Team, Administrators and the Fan Art board Moderators. More importantly, the participants! We hope that you have a fun and safe holiday season!

If you have any questions, please ask here. And please keep looking back at this thread since it will be updated with new boards.

Tina

Here is how to create a thumbnail:

Make sure your wallpaper is already saved onto your desktop/computer, and in jpeg format.

In your graphics program, open up your saved wallpaper, go to where you resize your images; in PS CS 6, it's Image >> Image Size.



Thumbnail size is 200x150 pixels. Make sure you have "Constrain Proportions" checked. Once you've done this, you can tell that the wallpaper is now small; this is a thumbnail.



Please save your thumbnail on your desktop along with your original size wallpaper. Normally, all programs when you go to use the Save As function, it's under the File tab. In PS CS 6, go to File >> Save As. Make sure your thumbnail is in jpeg.



Once you have uploaded your images (wallpaper and thumbnail) to a reliable source, I prefer everyone use imageshack. Please use the following to code/submit your thumbnail and wallpaper:

[url=URL of Wallpaper][img]Thumbnail URL[/img][/url]

Tina

To make sure that everyone meets the deadline in a timely manner, I put up a time zone map for your convenience.

*Official Deadline* 6 PM EST on December 21st.

If 6 PM EST (New York) is the deadline, your deadline would be...

Tina

Every year, when it came to voting, the Management Team and I had a hard time distinguishing one coding from another when all of the coding was bunch up into one string of text.

We would appreciate if you could help us this year with a readily accessible list of entries. We'd like to have the submissions one entry per line, like this:



And not in a horizontal row like the "X" provides.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Chris

Thanks for getting this started Tina. Also for adding the tutorials. Especially the last one. Having the entries posted in a horizontal row caused me some headaches getting polls set up one year.

Tina

You're welcome, Chris. I'm glad you find it helpful.

-Fated to Love-

Can the art itself have a border, or should it be border free?

Tina

Yes, the art can have a border.

-Fated to Love-

Ok, thanx Tina

Tina

You're welcome.

If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask. That goes for everyone.

miss-rebel86

When will final list of participating boards be up? Do you have any deadline?

Tina

November 30th is the deadline for boards to sign up.

nikkilover!

So if a male celebrity board isn't participating would I post my submission in the Celebrities board since that is participating?

Tina

That's correct.

|Sweet Disposition|

I was gonna ask that same question! I had made an art of Zac Efron but the board isn't participating so now I know where to post it