[contest] December Contest

[MistressPookyChan]

Big contests deserve more time, so here it is! This contest has been considered one of the largest of the year. I hope that it is even larger this year!

Contest Theme: white december

Your goal:
1) make a wallpaper celebrating the season. There are tons of holidays. But there is no need to limit yourself to holidays! Celebrate the snow, winter sports... the list goes on!
2) make a light wallpaper. The wallpaper must be light. Think snow. Think clouds. Think angelic. In other words, light blue or light grey hue and white. Does that mean it has to be minimalistic? of course not! It just means that everything has to be light. See the examples below.

Contest ends: December 31, 2004

There will be *one* people's choice winner and *one* pooky's choice winner. As always, a banner will be awarded but there is also another secret prize. woo!


wallpaper diamentions: any wallpaper diamentions
colors: white and other light colors

Good luck!

[acamori]

just for clarification pooky, what exactly do you mean by "under 300" for the wall size?

[wizz-o-matic]

just for clarification pooky, what exactly do you mean by "under 300" for the wall size?

I believe that it means 300kB of size ^_^

[Essex]

That's... ehm... one big pixel... almost o_o

[shi_amai]

I would love to enter mine, but the size is 370 KB. ;_;

[gadgetgirl16]

one question? why 300k? dose it have to be verry small?

[wizz-o-matic]

Mah, a 1024x768 be can be easily saved under 300kB without any loss of quality, though, higher resolution wp (as 1280x1024 or 1600x1200) would be quite bad -_-

[Zingo]

I always make 1280x1024 ;_;

Is it possible to make a dark wallpaper with many colors and snow?

[shi_amai]

Mah, a 1024x768 be can be easily saved under 300kB without any loss of quality, though, higher resolution wp (as 1280x1024 or 1600x1200) would be quite bad -_-

Well, then could you please tell me how so I can do so?

[Essex]

Well, then could you please tell me how so I can do so?

Yes... please share ^_^

[acamori]

just turn down the quality a little, in photoshop 12 is the best, i saved this at 10 and i don't think i lost much quality. anyways, i may as well be the first to enter, hope it's good enough. happy holidays..yeah..whatever.

*edit* replaced image with a nice light one (i refuse to have no color, so there's still just a tiny bit in there, just to help focus on the girls) i honestly like the original better, but i also want to be part of this contest for once. anyways enjoy.

[shi_amai]

Deleted it.

[MistressPookyChan]

ok, any res is fine. just remember that if you want it on AW.com (and I would like to make a holiday section...) it cant be over 300 or I cant upload it. but for this contest, go ahead.

Also, I dont think ya'll get the "white" part of "white december". It has to ALL BE LIGHT. I mean... liiiiiiight. Did you see the examples I posted? Like I said. Think snow, think clouds. so far I'm seeing a lot of white, but also dark browns and blacks, and reds. i didnt say white background i said white, light wallpaper. see? challenge! my inspiration was this recent wallpaper: http://animeforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1460. See? except for the character, it's all in white, light greys, and light blues.

you can make any sort of wintery wallpaper and in whatever colors you want, but for this contest it must be liiiiiight. People will be disqualified in this contest because, well, it's big, there are non-banner prizes involved. AND you have a long time to work on the walls.

[Xian Pu]

ok, any res is fine. just remember that if you want it on AW.com (and I would like to make a holiday section...) it cant be over 300 or I cant upload it. but for this contest, go ahead.

Also, I dont think ya'll get the "white" part of "white december". It has to ALL BE LIGHT. I mean... liiiiiiight. Did you see the examples I posted? Like I said. Think snow, think clouds. so far I'm seeing a lot of white, but also dark browns and blacks, and reds. i didnt say white background i said white, light wallpaper. see? challenge! my inspiration was this recent wallpaper: http://animeforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1460. See? except for the character, it's all in white, light greys, and light blues.

you can make any sort of wintery wallpaper and in whatever colors you want, but for this contest it must be liiiiiight. People will be disqualified in this contest because, well, it's big, there are non-banner prizes involved. AND you have a long time to work on the walls.

No offense Pook, but light BG's look like you're snow blind. *shrug* However, these people around here are talented enough to pull it off. ^_^ Yep, that last contest was my last contest to enter. Anyway, I think it's a smiiiiidge unreasonable, but hey! Like I said people are talented enough to pull it off succesfully. Good luck guys.

[shi_amai]

ok, any res is fine. just remember that if you want it on AW.com (and I would like to make a holiday section...) it cant be over 300 or I cant upload it. but for this contest, go ahead.

Also, I dont think ya'll get the "white" part of "white december". It has to ALL BE LIGHT. I mean... liiiiiiight. Did you see the examples I posted? Like I said. Think snow, think clouds. so far I'm seeing a lot of white, but also dark browns and blacks, and reds. i didnt say white background i said white, light wallpaper. see? challenge! my inspiration was this recent wallpaper: http://animeforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1460. See? except for the character, it's all in white, light greys, and light blues.

you can make any sort of wintery wallpaper and in whatever colors you want, but for this contest it must be liiiiiight. People will be disqualified in this contest because, well, it's big, there are non-banner prizes involved. AND you have a long time to work on the walls.

Do I need to make my girl lighter? Or is she fine?

[acamori]

*removed by me, because i can't delete it*

[Raven]

Unless I missed something, I didn't find the rules too hard to follow. So here's mine ^_^



3rd and final edit. this time super light. (That is, if I can get the image to uplaod...)

[MistressPookyChan]

shi amai: in the examples I posted, do you see any other colors than light greys and whites? no. Therefore, your character is too dark.

Raven: still a little dark.

Acamori: fabulous. Just a little bit of color, but it will pass. any more color than that will be disqualification. I cant make this contest TOO easy!

[MistressPookyChan]

*bump* and an example. See how it's... well... the color of snow? This is kind of what I was aiming for. Light.

The purpose of this contest, in case you were wondering, was to get people to get away from colors and focus on design elements. see? there is always a reason to the madness.

[Essex]

Well... here's mine... very, very simple... to simple

Edit: E-mail

[shi_amai]

Deleted it.

[MistressPookyChan]

Shi Amai: yep, you got the right idea now! think snow!

[akachan]

So Pooky..the main idea is to make a white wall with a total blue hue? with brushes etc?

[Suzuna]

Changed my entry entirely. Will make another post to bring attention to this and see if it's light enough. Art, as almost always, by Carnelian. I thought this was very appropriate.

[Fabala]

This is my first time entering one of these contests... (Almost did last month, but forgot to add finishing touches and submit. Alas.) Anyway, after looking through the entries and rules, I think this will be okay. There's color, but not much.

Anyway, 'tis the lovely Oscar before her Versailles. Let me know if there's too much color left to her (it didn't look right without it). Thank you ^^

Fabulous entries thus far, I think..

Edit: Added two of the images I used to show someone ^^;