madness

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 them 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
Couples
Disney
Off Topic
Reality TV

Female Celebrities
Ashley Tisdale
Bethany Joy
Demi Lovato
Dianna Agron
Ellen Pompeo
Emily Bett Rickards
Emily Deschanel
Hayden Panettiere
Jennifer Morrison
Lea Michele
Mila Kunis
Nina Dobrev
Selena Gomez
Shiri Appleby
Stana Katic
Vanessa Hudgens

Male Celebrities
Alexander Skarsgård
Chace Crawford
Darren Criss
David Boreanaz
Heath Ledger
Jake Gyllenhaal
Jared Padalecki
Jensen Ackles
Joseph Morgan
Matthew Fox
Misha Collins
Patrick Dempsey
Stephen Amell

Music Artists
Adele
Delta Goodrem
Kelly Clarkson
Maroon 5
One Direction

Tv Shows: Present
Arrow
Beauty and the Beast
Bones
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Chicago PD
Criminal Minds
Girl Meets World
Hannibal
Hart of Dixie
Hawaii Five-0
New Girl
NCIS Franchise
Pretty Little Liars
Reign
Supernatural
The Big Bang Theory

Tv Shows: Past
Beverly Hills 90210
Charmed
Friends
Fringe
Gilmore Girls
How I Met Your Mother
Smash
Summerland
That '70s Show
Third Watch
Veronica Mars
Young Americans

Sci-fi/Fantasy
Agents of Shield
Divergent
Doctor Who
Harry Potter
Legend of the Seeker
Star Trek
X-Men
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 no control.
  
• The deadline for art submission is December 21st, 2014 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, 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.

madness

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, please use the following to code/submit your thumbnail and wallpaper:

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

madness

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...

madness

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.

What's a hickey?

For the dimensions, are the rules talking about width x height or height x width?

room to breathe

The dimensions in the rules are width x height .

madness

Thanks for answering, Rae. I hope that cleared it up. I have added all current boards who are signed up at the moment to the OP.

What's a hickey?

Thank you very much!

Marki

Just letting you know general discussion boards is missing in the list of boards in this op.

madness

I know, I haven't updated this thread with the final list one, thanks for letting me know;

Jessiegabriela

I have a question about the dimensions. So I want to do 400x300, but does it matter if the height is a little smaller? So 400x278.
I stupidly forgot to make sure the background was the right size before I started. Now If I try make the width smaller to get the height the right size, I'd have to move things around and that will mess the whole thing up.

madness

I'm sorry, you are gonna have to change it. We are quite strict about the sizes because if we'd have to approve yours, we'd have to approve everyone's.

Jessiegabriela

Okie Dokie. Thanks for answer

room to breathe

A reminder to everyone; you have until December 21st to submit your arts!

Below are a list of boards which have none or only one submission so far for anyone who is interested in helping them out :

General Discussion
Off Topic - 0
Reality TV - 0

Female Celebrities
Ashley Tisdale - 1
Bethany Joy - 0
Dianna Agron - 1
Ellen Pompeo - 1
Emily Bett Rickards - 1
Hayden Panettiere - 0
Jennifer Morrison - 0
Lea Michele - 1
Nina Dobrev - 1
Selena Gomez - 1
Shiri Appleby - 1
Vanessa Hudgens - 0

Male Celebrities
Alexander Skarsgård - 0
David Boreanaz - 1
Heath Ledger - 0
Jake Gyllenhaal - 1
Jensen Ackles - 0
Joseph Morgan - 0
Matthew Fox - 0
Patrick Dempsey - 0
Stephen Amell - 0

Music Artists
Kelly Clarkson - 1
One Direction - 1

Tv Shows: Present
Arrow - 0
Beauty and the Beast - 1
Brooklyn Nine-Nine - 0
Chicago PD - 0
Criminal Minds - 0
Girl Meets World - 0
Hannibal - 0
Hart of Dixie - 1
Hawaii Five-0 - 0
New Girl - 0
Pretty Little Liars - 0


Tv Shows: Past
Beverly Hills 90210 - 0
Charmed - 1
Friends - 0
Fringe - 1
How I Met Your Mother - 0
Smash - 0
Summerland - 0
That '70s Show - 1
Third Watch - 0
Veronica Mars - 0
Young Americans - 0

Sci-fi/Fantasy
Agents of Shield - 0
Divergent - 1
Doctor Who - 1
Harry Potter - 1
Star Trek - 0
X-Men - 0

meraki

Thanks for the list, Rae. I will try to make some more this weekend.