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Aug 28, 201515 min read

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Published: Aug 28, 2015

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"The Fantastical Firsts" Contest

Presented by

We are excited to see all the entries!

Dates

Contest Begins Bullet; Green

September 5, 2015 CLOSED

Contest Ends September 26, 2015 at 12pm CLOSED

Judging Bullet; Orange

September 26, 2015 at 1pm through September 30, 2015 at 12pm CLOSED

All times are (CDST/5-GMT) Bullet; White

Polls are closed.

All members of BlackArtSociety may vote!

Members Choice Poll #2

*Judging method explanation below*

Theme

Our first contest, "The Fantastical Firsts", is the winning theme chosen by our members!

Your submission will portray an image of people in a fantastical setting of your choice

Genres may include: fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk, weird, post-apoc, myths, legends, folklore, faerie tales, etc

"Fantastic art is a broad and loosely defined art genre. It is not restricted to a specific school of artists, geographical location or historical period. It can be characterized by subject matter – which portrays non-realistic, mystical, mythical or folkloric subjects or events – and style, which is representational and naturalistic, rather than abstract - or in the case of magazine illustrations and similar, in the style of manga.
Fantastic art explores fantasy, "space fantasy" (a subgenre which incorporates subjects of alien mythology and/or alien religion), imagination, the dream state, the grotesque, visions and the uncanny."

- via Wiki:Fantastic Art

Contest Rules

Any BAS member may participate, with the exception of judges
Acceptable entry formats: photomanipulation, digital art, mixed media, traditional, sculpture, original pixel art created without templates/bases
Submit your entry (1) to our

Contest Submissions Folder

Submission should be your own best work that is representative of the chosen theme, ethnic diversity, and black art
Submission must be new as of the beginning of the contest date and created for this contest
Your artist description must include: proper stock credit where stock is used, a link to contest journal entry, and a link to BlackArtSociety
Any submission not following the contest, group and DeviantArt rules will be disqualified (helpful links below)

Judging and Prizes

Judging guidelines: All appropriately submitted pieces will be judged on creativity, aesthetics, effort and thematic relevance
Judges: TheNaughtyPirate, corpor8chic, Djake, Poses17
The judges will choose from all submissions for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place and an honorable mention
In addition, there will be a poll for all BlackArtSociety members to vote to choose a Members Choice Winner and a Members Choice Honorable Mention
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Judging Method: Judging the winners will be a combination of the judge's choices and the member's choices by poll. During the time period that the polls are open, the judges will also be considering, discussing and voting for their choices. The polls do not necessarily indicate winners, as there may be submissions chosen simultaneously by both Judges and Members for the top prize positions. In that event, the submissions will be granted their prize position interchangeably between the judge's and member's votes. At the end of the voting period, the votes of both will be seen and only then will the winners be announced.

Participants may only win once.
Donations are not required but are greatly appreciated! All

donations go to BASdonations (please include what it is for in your donation comment!). If you wish to offer features, llamas or any non-point donation, feel free to comment below including a tag for TheNaughtyPirate Djake or corpor8chic
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All winners and honorable mentions submissions will be included in a special BlackArtSociety

feature

Judges Choice Prizes:

1st place

185

and a Feature from BlackArtSociety
75

a Feature and a Llama from TheNaughtyPirate
10

and a Llama from kittimitti
A Feature and a 1st place Commission*see below from Djake
A Llama from RespicePostTe
A Llama from Poses17
A Llama from UszatyArbuz

2nd place

100

and a Feature from BlackArtSociety
50

a Feature and a Llama from TheNaughtyPirate
A Feature and a 2nd place Commission*see below from Djake
A Llama from RespicePostTe

A Llama from Poses17
A Llama from kittimitti

A Llama from UszatyArbuz

3rd Place

50

and a Feature from BlackArtSociety
25

a Feature and a Llama from TheNaughtyPirate
A Feature and a 3rd place Commission*see below from Djake
A Llama from RespicePostTe
A Llama from Poses17
A Llama from kittimitti
A Llama from UszatyArbuz

Judges Honorable Mention

A Feature from BlackArtSociety

A Feature and a Llama from TheNaughtyPirate

A Feature from Djake

A Llama from RespicePostTe

A Llama from Poses17

A Llama from kittimitti

A Llama from UszatyArbuz

Members Choice Prizes:

1st place

185

and a Feature from BlackArtSociety

a Feature and a Llama from TheNaughtyPirate

and a Llama from kittimitti

A Feature and a 1st place Commission*see below from Djake

A Llama from RespicePostTe

A Llama from Poses17

A Llama from UszatyArbuz

Honorable Mention

A Feature from BlackArtSociety

A Feature and a Llama from TheNaughtyPirate

A Feature from Djake

A Llama from RespicePostTe

A Llama from Poses17

A Llama from kittimitti

A Llama from UszatyArbuz

*First Place Commission by Djake  - Full-body character drawing with background, or similarly detailed work. If you don't have any original characters or popular characters (celebrities, fictional characters and so on) that you would like depicted, Djake can also do family portraits, animals, fantasy subjects and so on.
*Second Place Commission by Djake  - Coloured character bust in context, fully detailed full-body drawing without background or similar.
*Third Place Commission by Djake  - Character sketch or similar drawing