first GRAND OPENING contest details

Allright so I was tired of waiting for new member applications so I decided to
start it right now, please mouth-to-ear it to your friends so we can have a load
of entries~

I made this pretty easy so everyone who wants to give a shot at painting can.

Summary:
This is our very first group activity! So I’m looking forward to your
participation. It also is a mean to recruit more mebers so please diffuse the
info.
You will be asked to make a wallpaper of any resolution you want, and provide a
walk-through of your work afterwards.

Theme will be: Japanese Ancient and
Feudal Eras, and you will have to work with vegetation. Why? Because in
the old times there wern’t that many cities, and people had a much closer
relation with nature.
Accepted Japanese periods: [Learn something here if you
are ignorant]
Nara, Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi, Sengoku, Momoyama, Edo, early Meiji – the
reform ( ex. kenshin is in-between edo and meiji)
One of these elements MUST be featured in your
wall:
Plants, Trees, Bushes, Mountains, Leaves, Grass, green stuff!
The “green” element does not have to be the main focus of the wall,
there will be no restrictions on how much space it has to take.
Doujinshis are accepted, as long as they are incorporated into a wallpaper.
Technique:
Important use of the smudge, paintbrush & airbrush tools in Adobe Photoshop,
or use of pro paint programs like PSP, OpenCanvas or Corel painter. Using the clone tool or painty filters only is cheatingg! You will be
scolded
You decide what and how much you paint in your wall. You do not need to paint
everything from scratch. Stock are accepted if painted over, same with vectors
and 3D renders (allthough I doubt you will want to use a 3D render for a feudal
wall D: )
Style:
Up to you. It doesn’t have to be scenic. You also choose how “paint-y”
you want your wall to look. Allthough keep in mind you’ll be juged on that.

NOT accepted types of scans
catgirls in miko outfits, altered costumes like naruto, bleach, inu-yasha, girls
going to a summer festival and modern kimonos. Lolita kimonos, sexy ninjas and
the sort.
Too supernatural is a no-go. A little bit of magic is fine because it fits the
historical legends, but nothing too flashy. Some examples of ambiguous you
wouldn’t want to use:
Shakugan no SHANA 11 by
dcss
Air….kimono festival by
zainab-chan
sana2 by
thinker123
Categories with a classical/feudal era
theme: (those are only to help you) NOT EVERYTHING FROM THOSE CATEGORIES
ARE GOOD, USE DISCERNMENT!
http://browse.minitokyo.net/287/princess-mononoke/
(San doesn’t count)
http://browse.minitokyo.net/349/rurouni-kenshin/

http://browse.minitokyo.net/935/basilisk/
http://browse.minitokyo.net/319/peacemaker-kurogane/
http://browse.minitokyo.net/569/samurai-7/
http://browse.minitokyo.net/359/samurai-champloo/
http://browse.minitokyo.net/360/samurai-deeper-kyo/
http://browse.minitokyo.net/827/samurai-gun/

http://browse.minitokyo.net/642/tactics/
http://browse.minitokyo.net/423/vampire-princess-miyu/
(only Miyu counts)
http://browse.minitokyo.net/1136/jigoku-shoujo/
(only Ai counts, but I’d rather not see you use her)
http://browse.minitokyo.net/858/millenium-actress/

(careful on that lol)
http://browse.minitokyo.net/1276/mushishi/
(Ginko doesn’t count here)
http://browse.minitokyo.net/1282/otogizoushi/
http://browse.minitokyo.net/695/harukanaru-toki-no-naka-de/

Unknown/artist/misc scans: ( I went along
and browsed the unknown and other categories for you. See how easy I’m making it
for you?)
In the Rain by
happianime, Reiko Okano1
by thinker123, kinu and
aki by gembee, In the
Woods by ForbiddenGoddess (im not certain as this looks chinese to me), Tachiyomi by rarirurero, 3 girl by lkjhgfdsa, [miko2] by zeroth ( i dont
like the random miko idea though), wolf girl by yin, Tranquil Days by AWOL, Shrine Girl by
juniperberry, km26 by
lthnadml, Kenshinish dude
by AceGunman, Feudal
Couple by Nuriko, princess in kimono by
snowrabbit, Gokitomo -
Kendo by LeeAnn, Kaze
Hikaru 1 by nolove, Another from Sakuran by
Rhapsody, Twin angel2 by
kaiar, Kaze Hikaru 2 by
nolove, Oiran by
Rhapsody, animenorth 04
art contest winner by candy-chan, Another Sakuran by Rhapsody,
~miyako~ by Majinai, GothicRitual by TLTw804, ym7 by lthnadml, wow hot by DaveTheInsane

(this is probably meiji looking at the architecture, so its limit), yongbi by ryukoudo
Judging:
Done by the group staff (wich is only me for now )
unless you organize a popular revolution for a democratic system. Yeah and
underline that organize word lol. You’ll be judged on;

Respect of theme and restrictions
Painting job/look
Originality, Aesthetics, Balance
(remember I’m a freak of well blended stuff and I like men in kimono :3
)
Prize:

A feature in the group page, a banner made out of your wall to advertise the
group, a forum sig saying you pwn and nekkid pictures of bromithia.
There will also be an award for the most votes wallpaper.
the Aftermath:
When the contest is finished and all the entries are handed over, I would like
for you to go back to your wallpaper psd, and make us a little walk-through of
the techniques you used on your vegetation elements. The walk-through can be a
fully lenghted tutorial (e.g. How to paint trees with PS) or just screenshots
and explanations on how you worked (on the whole wall or the painted part, you
pick). Everything will be added to the group’s page as future reference.
This is to encourage members to share techniques and tutorials on digital
painting. Because we never stop learning, and because I think no one is really
that comfortable with painting in this
group. Great way to learn and help!

Keep this in mind when making the wall, you
might want to take screenshots
All entries must be submitted to
MiniTokyo and posted in the paint-o-rama’s guestbook before December Twentieth. This gives you a little bit
more than a month. Shortly explain how and where you used painting techniques in
your wallpaper description. You need to be a group member to participate.

Waiting for your feedback! Cheers

merged: 10-24-2006 ~ 09:56pm

and here is an example
Heian Jidai by
candy-chan
MiniTokyo thread: here