Large Art competition!

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:51 pm

Well, I think to practice your photoshop 'skills' to the max, you should make more then 'just' signatures. So I thought we could have a Large Art competition! But first I think we need to set up some rules.
What do you guys think the rules of the competition should be?

If you got more that should be discussed; Please, do post!

skulldiver · Post by **skulldiver** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:52 pm

isn't that like..sigwars?

rek · Post by **rek** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:00 pm

So its like LPwars?

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:04 pm

Yeah, more like LP wars.. larger art then the sigs

rek · Post by **rek** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:06 pm

Sounds good. If enuff people are into it i'll sticky it.

Rizla · Post by **Rizla** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:26 pm

Ill play

I think 800x600 is a good res.

Elikapeka · Post by **Elikapeka** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:34 pm

Rizla wrote:Ill play

I think 800x600 is a good res.

+1, any bigger and I personally would spaz out from having to zoom and scroll about. >,>

a week is fine, maybe start it so LP Wars' voting is on Thursday, and Sig Wars voting stays on Friday.

and first subject. hmph. childhood? be it cute kiddies stomping about on swing sets or something from your own childhood you remember and still have a hidden obsession with. rainbow brite, meep!

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:38 pm

Elikapeka wrote:
Rizla wrote:Ill play

I think 800x600 is a good res.

+1, any bigger and I personally would spaz out from having to zoom and scroll about. >,>

a week is fine, maybe start it so LP Wars' voting is on Thursday, and Sig Wars voting stays on Friday.

and first subject. hmph. childhood? be it cute kiddies stomping about on swing sets or something from your own childhood you remember and still have a hidden obsession with. rainbow brite, meep!

ctrl+ +/- ftw?

Rizla · Post by **Rizla** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:39 pm

yeah and the space bar for your hand tool, never have to zoom out.

but anyway, I think this should be a monthly thing, not a weekly thing

800x600 >> 350x100.

rek · Post by **rek** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:41 pm

A month is a long time. Mayb fortnightly.

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:43 pm

reK wrote:A month is a long time. Mayb fortnightly.

wha? o.o'

Elikapeka · Post by **Elikapeka** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:44 pm

Snudge wrote:ctrl+ +/- ftw?

*gasp* I sure feel smhart. :oops:

Rizla · Post by **Rizla** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:47 pm

reK wrote:A month is a long time. Mayb fortnightly.

it takes a long time to do a good piece at 800x600 when you're holding down clients/school

either way whatever is decided, I would compete when I could. I also think they shouldn't have categories for this. If somebodies putting that much time in it should be something they personally want to do.

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:49 pm

Rizla wrote:
reK wrote:A month is a long time. Mayb fortnightly.

it takes a long time to do a good piece at 800x600 when you're holding down clients/school

either way whatever is decided, I would compete when I could. I also think they shouldn't have categories for this. If somebodies putting that much time in it should be something they personally want to do.

Making someone able to pick his own subject makes it harder to vote. Voteing will go more by personal tastes then objectivity due to several styles that will be used.

rek · Post by **rek** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 5:50 pm

Ok then, monthly. :wink:

Rizla · Post by **Rizla** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:29 pm

Snudge wrote:
Rizla wrote:
reK wrote:A month is a long time. Mayb fortnightly.

it takes a long time to do a good piece at 800x600 when you're holding down clients/school

either way whatever is decided, I would compete when I could. I also think they shouldn't have categories for this. If somebodies putting that much time in it should be something they personally want to do.

Making someone able to pick his own subject makes it harder to vote. Voteing will go more by personal tastes then objectivity due to several styles that will be used.

Id rather deal with biased votes than have a large piece of work I care nothing for.

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:33 pm

Rizla wrote:
Snudge wrote:
Rizla wrote:
reK wrote:A month is a long time. Mayb fortnightly.

it takes a long time to do a good piece at 800x600 when you're holding down clients/school

either way whatever is decided, I would compete when I could. I also think they shouldn't have categories for this. If somebodies putting that much time in it should be something they personally want to do.

Making someone able to pick his own subject makes it harder to vote. Voteing will go more by personal tastes then objectivity due to several styles that will be used.

Id rather deal with biased votes than have a large piece of work I care nothing for.

You have a point there ^^;

Sol · Post by **Sol** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:12 pm

cool idea. i'm up for it.

lay down the rules and set a date

deep.in · Post by **deep.in** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:34 pm

Yep...sig's aren't ALL art...i'm in

And this some of my pics. Eh, very old, maded 2-3 years ago

http://img65.imageshack.us/my.php?image=enzouy8.jpg

My logo maded for forum ^^

And, i lost all my digital paintings

Anyway, nice idea, i'm in for sure

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:26 pm

I think every 2 weeks is fine, but we do need a theme. If you don't like the theme don't participate.

Rizla · Post by **Rizla** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:31 pm

TwelveEleven wrote:I think every 2 weeks is fine, but we do need a theme. If you don't like the theme don't participate.

I see why you believe a theme is needed, but did you also know that freestyle IS considered a theme?

Also, with the scale of these projects, you are going to have less participation than sigwars, and if you cut that participation down even more with themes you may not be including enough people, or the people who do participate arent going to be giving it there all. An LP should be something YOU want to do, they require a larger investment in time, etc. If every theme isnt something everyone wants to do, participation is going to take a serious hit.

Themes could be incorporated, but they would have to be very loose themes, or if y'all cant live without them, why not make every other competition themed, and every other comp freestyle? Just some thoughts.

Dugu · Post by **Dugu** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:36 pm

Less frequent means better pictures and more 'hype'. I also agree with Rizla on the theme topic, if there are strict themes and someone misses a deadline, however if this person still wants to enter said work but the theme restricts it, it would be very unfair as 800x600 takes much more time than 300x150.

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:23 am

Rizla wrote:
TwelveEleven wrote:I think every 2 weeks is fine, but we do need a theme. If you don't like the theme don't participate.

I see why you believe a theme is needed, but did you also know that freestyle IS considered a theme?

Also, with the scale of these projects, you are going to have less participation than sigwars, and if you cut that participation down even more with themes you may not be including enough people, or the people who do participate arent going to be giving it there all. An LP should be something YOU want to do, they require a larger investment in time, etc. If every theme isnt something everyone wants to do, participation is going to take a serious hit.

Themes could be incorporated, but they would have to be very loose themes, or if y'all cant live without them, why not make every other competition themed, and every other comp freestyle? Just some thoughts.

I was thinking more in the way of very broad theme's like outer space, planets. Stars.. Lakes, oceans.. Etc..

Post by **dom** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:28 am

When I was more into the graphics community, they never had "sig wars". It was always art competitions: one per week, you get 3 stock photos and must use on, on any standard wallpaper size (800x600, 1280x1024, 1600x1200, etc)

aazumak · Post by **aazumak** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:40 am

well, can we submit now, this is an old piece of mine, im assuming that its freestyle

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs11/i/2006/ ... azumak.jpg

thats mine, i dont know what u guys wanna do bout scalling

Rizla · Post by **Rizla** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:27 am

save your submission for now aazumak, nothing has been officially established yet.

we need to hold an informal "meeting" where a post will be made that allows interested parties to voice their opinion about which issues are most important to them. If conflicting points of view are presented, a voting post will be made covering all issues in debate, and from there an official protocol and schedule will be formed.

that would be my proposal.

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 8:51 am

Ok, I've read through the comments and liked some of the stuff I saw.

Deadlines:

Size:

could

Themes:

Ok, this is what I came up with for now! If you don't like some of the stuff I put up, once again, do say so!

aazumak · Post by **aazumak** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:44 pm

i think that sizes will always be a prob, so we should have teh links for them on the page

second, the 1st one should be freestyle to work us into and then we can think of nice broader themes after that.