An exciting new Fan Art Contest is sweeping across the SnitchSeeker community!!
We’ve decided to create an
SS Calendar to be available for purchase and made up of artwork and graphics by our members. We need twelve images for the calendar so, we’re calling all artists and graphics makers, from the inexperienced first-timers to aspiring professionals and everyone in between. All the details for the contest can be found here and in the official
SnitchSeeker 2007 Calendar FanArt Contest.
Unfortunately, we don’t have the funds to award all the winners with calendars so, the prize for the winning entries will be publishing of their work on the calendar as well as a siggy, avatar and/or title.
There are twelve different categories to which you can submit your scanned or computer artwork. Each artist is encouraged to submit one entry per category for a total of twelve possible entries per artist. The winners from each category will be the images used for the twelve months of the calendar which will be available for members to purchase.
Winners will be chosen via anonymous vote by the membership. All members are encouraged to submit their work and vote (site staff and unsorted members, included). Please don’t think you need to be Monet to submit a graphic or two, or three, or twelve. No names will be used for the voting so that everyone will be on equal footing and we would love to see entries from people of all abilities (or inabilities, as the case may be
). Now, down to the nitty gritty:
Calendar Fan Art Contest Entry Rules & Guidelines
1.
You must be a full member of SnitchSeeker.com to enter. You can sign up
here and make sure to get your 10 posts in the Newbie Hut so that you will be able to post your entries.
2.
One entry per category per artist for a total of 12 possible entries per artist. Please specify which category you are submitting each graphic for when you submit your entries or we will not be able to accept it.
The Categories:
1. Winter
2. Valentine's Day/ Drawing of a couple
3. Quidditch
4. Portrait of a character
5. Spring/Outdoor Hogwarts' scene
6. Summer/ Diagon Alley scene
7. Fall/ Hogwarts Express scene
8. Halloween
9. Classroom scene
10. Holiday scene
11. Beginner/non-artist entry
12. Entry for Member Under 15 years old
3.
All entries must conform to the image guidelines set forth by Café Press for calendars. Those guidelines are as follows: Image size should be 11 x 8.5 inches (bleed to 11.5 x 9 inches for those images with backgrounds- the pages will be trimmed to 11 x 8.5). Please use a resolution of at least 200 dpi.
4.
Entries must be your own, entirely original, work. The use of movie, book, and any other photographic or promotional images for digital graphics is prohibited. We cannot publish anything that uses copyrighted images, logos, or names and we will not tolerate plagiarism. If you have any questions concerning this, please
PM Biochemkris or ask
here.
5.
Please include your username and age (optional) with your entries. We will be publishing the username and age of the winners in a news article and will include them on the graphic in the calendar. We will not be using real names and if you would prefer to not give your age, that is fine so long as you don’t submit for the under 15 category.
6.
By entering you give SnitchSeeker the right to publish your artwork in a calendar to be sold and distributed on cafepress.com. Also note that any profit made from the sale of the calendars will be used for site maintenance and development of SnitchSeeker.com; winners will not receive any money from such sales.
7.
Entries must be received no later than Monday, October 23rd at 11:59pm GMT
( October 23rd at 6:59pm EST) to be considered for voting.
8.
Submit your entries by posting a new thread here. All threads in the forum are moderated so only the contest official will see your work. You do not have to submit multiple threads for multiple categories. Just include all your images in one post, making sure each is labelled with the category you are submitting it to. Please also make sure you followed all the rules and guidelines for submissions.
9.
Please PM Biochemkris if you have any questions regarding any of these rules or guidelines. Scoring
In order to create a well-rounded calendar with work from different members, we are restricting the number of categories an artist can win depending upon the number of entries we receive. If an artist wins in more than determined number of categories, we will determine which categories for which they received the most votes and those will be the categories they win. The runner(s)-up will be announced as the winners of the other categories.
For example: Based on the number of entries we receive we determine that an artist can win in a maximum of two categories. Bob wins in categories A, B, C, and D. In category A he gets 5 votes, B he gets 12 votes, C he gets 7 votes, and D he gets 10 votes. So, his artwork in categories B and D will win and the runners-up in A and C will move up to first place.
In the event we do not receive any entries for a given category, we will choose from amongst the runners-up of the other categories in order to bring the total number of graphics to twelve.
SnitchSeeker Calendar Fan Art Contest 2007! 
I agree!!! I'm going to sumbit something for fun! oh better get drawing! lol! Aya, this for you and those amazing drawings!!
This was a wonderful idea. Great thinking Kris. 
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i may actually hafta try to draw something.... my home computer with photoshop has a virus and i can't do a thing online, and the school computer has blocked PB so i can't upload anything even if i do it at home and flash drive it to school.... 
