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The Halloween Costume Contest Is On!
10 years ago
What do you plan on doing with all the rope and that ballgag in you hands?
So it's time to get this ball rolling and kick off the return of my annual Halloween Costume Contest!
Details:
The concept is simple...
Submit a piece of art or a story that features characters dressed up in costumes for Halloween.
Who is featured and what they are dressed up as doesn't really matter, just so long as the costume is clear. In the case of stories, please be sure to give details on the costume. A link to a reference pic in the submission's description helps as well. However, stories will be judged by a different criteria than artwork as art will focus more on the costumes and stories will focus more on...well...story.
Artwork can feature actions, poses, backgrounds, etc. but must focus on the costume the character or characters are wearing. Yes, you may have multiple characters in the pic. Preferably all of or most of them should be wearing costumes, but they don't need to. Just so long as one character in the pic is wearing a costume. In the case of multiple characters in multiple costumes, you may choose one of those characters to be the "contestant" in the contest or if there is a group costume theme, all of those in the theme can be chosen as a group to be the contestant. For example, if you have three characters in the pic and each are dressed as separate characters from separate media (someone dressed as Dracula, someone dressed as Blade, and someone dressed as Edward) you pick one of them to be the costume entered into the contest. But if you have a group theme (the same examples, but grouped together with the theme "vampires") you can enter all of them as one costume entry under that theme, like if a group of characters are dressed as the Avengers as opposed to someone dressed as Captain America and someone dressed as Black Widow.
Make sense? ;)
Content doesn't matter as much, but adding a background, having a a good quality image, having the character(s) engaging in some sort of an activity, having an overall spooky/scary/horror/Halloween theme all will help as there will be other categories other than Best Costume. But your main focus should be on the costume so don't worry too much about other details if you don't want to. Overall content must by no worse than PG-13 in terms of maturity, violence, vulgarity, etc. So things like nudity and sexual content, graphic violence, and heavy vulgarity are not allowed. Art or story. Any of these can be suggested or implied by not shown or described. Sort of like the shower scene in Psycho. You don't see the victim naked or being stabbed, but it's implied she is naked and that she is being murdered with showing her skin on screen just above her chest on up and showing fake blood go down the shower drain. In the case of something like zombies, let's avoid detail like in The Walking Dead (torso crawling on the floor for example) and go closer towards the original Dawn of the Dead or Night of the Libing Dead. If you have any questions and want to ask just how far is too far, feel free to note me. The same applies to stories, try not to get too detailed with the mature stuff. Again, implying and suggesting, but not actually showing or detailing. ;P
Bondage in this case is okay as I can't imagine anyone potentially wanting to draw/write Jessie into their entry without involving bondage. You don't have to, but if you want, it's okay with me. Just so long as we can get a good look at the costume. Now, I say you can have Jessie in your entry, and in truth you can have anyone in costume in your entry. If it involves a character belonging to someone, IE an OC, so long as they are okay with you using their character. You can use any of my characters to be included in your entry. It won't earn you extra votes, or at least it shouldn't. :P
For artwork entries it doesn't have to be drawn by you, but be sure to reference who drew it. It's possible that the artist and the person their art to enter the contest can share the prize won, but that is between you and the artist. It should also be noted that a single artist's artwork can be represented in multiple entries if for example multiple people ask said artist to draw their entry for them. However, if said artist wants to have a share in the prize, should an entry with their art win, they must decide which entry they will do this with before the deadline for entries. For example, "ARTIST A" has drawn 3 pics that are entered into the contest by three separate contestants. Should they decide they want to split the prize with one of those contestants, and only one, they must decide who and inform me before all entries are received. I want to avoid the possibility of an artist trying to increase their odds of winning by having multiple people submit their work and claim a portion of the prize with whomever won. If you and an artist work out a deal to split the prize should your entry win you can do so, but that is up to you and said artist. I would recommend against it. Too many complications. This also applies in the case that an artist submits their own entry while someone has submitted artwork that same artist has drawn. They can only claim a prize from their own entry. This hasn't been an issue in the past, but I want to address it just in case.
Stories must be written by you. In the case of a collaboration between yourself and another person, note me with the details I will decide if it is legal. Ultimately, it will simply mean that you and your collaborator will share the prize. Like with artists however, one person can only collaborate with one other person. Person A cannot collaborate with Person B on one entry and then collaborate with Person C on another entry. If you work with someone on a story you cannot work with anyone else on another.
As with both Art and Story, you can only have or be a part of one entry.
This also includes having both a story and art. You can only enter one, so decide whether it will be the art or the story. You can work on both and decide which one you'll enter, but I will only accept one or the other.
Another thing to note about entries, they must be unique to this contest. In other words, you cannot submit art or a story that was done prior to this contest, IE the 1st of October of 2015. It must be new. No exceptions. If you have a question or complaint about this feel free to note me.
The 1st of October will be the start of the contest and will be the time you all can start submitting your entries. All entries must be submitted by Friday night, October 25 at 11:59/midnight PST. If you're close to completing you entry by this point and wish for an extension, note me and I may grant you one. If extensions are granted, the deadline for those will be Sunday night, October 27 at 11:59/midnight PST. Once the deadline is past voting will be held, Anyone can vote even contestants, however contestants can not vote for their own entry. The must vote for someone else's. This is to avoid the super rare case of a mass tie where every contestant only voted for themselves and they are the only ones who voted. Voters will not me their vote for the following criteria:
ART: Best Costume (which costume do you like the most or you think is the best designed)
Best Picture (which picture do to you think best represents Halloween or in the case we don't have many entries that represent this, is simply the best looking)
STORY: Best Story (which story do you think best represents the spirit of Halloween or is simply the best told story)
The best 3 costumes will each win a prize in increasing value based on who's entry had the most votes, the 2nd most votes, and 3rd most votes.
The best picture will win a separate prize and it's possible that a single entry can place in best costume and win best picture.
Best story will win a separate prize.
The prizes are:
BEST COSTUME:
-1st Place: $50 towards a commission from the artist of your choice
-2nd Place: $30 towards a commission from the artist of your choice
-3rd Place: $20 towards a commission from the artist of your choice
BEST PICTURE:
-$50 towards a commission from the artist of your choice
BEST STORY:
-$50 towards a commission from the artist of your choice
Each of these prizes has an incentive to increase in value by as much an additional $10-15 should you want to include one of my characters in the commission.
In the event that one entry places for BEST COSTUME and also wins BEST PICTURE, the prizes can be combined towards a single commission or can be kept separate for two different commissions. You commission can exceed the amount you win, but that simply means that I am paying that much towards the commission and you will have to cover the remainder.
If you win anyone of these prizes, but don't want money towards a commission, we can discuss another form of payment for the prize, like if you want to donate the money or you want it towards your account with Steam or Amazon or something else in that regard, we can discuss the particulars when the contest if over. I have the right to reject any ideas though, like if you want it going towards me going out on a date with you or something silly like that. ;P
As for advertising and trying to rally the troops for votes, you may post journals and messages to promote this contest and ask people to participate in it or just in the voting process, but please do not rally people just to vote for you. Please just encourage them to vote and vote on the entry they like best. If that happens to be you, then that's how it goes, but I would prefer things be honest and fair here. Don't just vote on the entry because you like the person who submitted it. If you like the entry itself, then okay, but please let's try to keep bias out of this when it comes to the contestants. K? ^.~
Also worth noting, this contest will be held on my DA account and my FA account. So for those who have accounts on both sites, please be honest and fair and do not use separate accounts to submit additional entries and cast multiple votes. PLEASE!
And I must also note that when you submit your entry, I will need to be able to download a copy so that I may submit it on my accounts for voters to see. You can post your entry on your own account as well and note me with a link to it or simply email it to me at:
jessie_all_tied_up[at]hotmail.com
If you have any questions about anything regarding this contest, comment here or note me.
I hope to have a very fun contest this year, so try to have fun with it and be creative. :D
For some ideas feel free to take a look at entries for the previous Contests:
2012: http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....ontest-Entries
2011: http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....ontest-Entries
2010: http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....ontest-Entries
Details:
The concept is simple...
Submit a piece of art or a story that features characters dressed up in costumes for Halloween.
Who is featured and what they are dressed up as doesn't really matter, just so long as the costume is clear. In the case of stories, please be sure to give details on the costume. A link to a reference pic in the submission's description helps as well. However, stories will be judged by a different criteria than artwork as art will focus more on the costumes and stories will focus more on...well...story.
Artwork can feature actions, poses, backgrounds, etc. but must focus on the costume the character or characters are wearing. Yes, you may have multiple characters in the pic. Preferably all of or most of them should be wearing costumes, but they don't need to. Just so long as one character in the pic is wearing a costume. In the case of multiple characters in multiple costumes, you may choose one of those characters to be the "contestant" in the contest or if there is a group costume theme, all of those in the theme can be chosen as a group to be the contestant. For example, if you have three characters in the pic and each are dressed as separate characters from separate media (someone dressed as Dracula, someone dressed as Blade, and someone dressed as Edward) you pick one of them to be the costume entered into the contest. But if you have a group theme (the same examples, but grouped together with the theme "vampires") you can enter all of them as one costume entry under that theme, like if a group of characters are dressed as the Avengers as opposed to someone dressed as Captain America and someone dressed as Black Widow.
Make sense? ;)
Content doesn't matter as much, but adding a background, having a a good quality image, having the character(s) engaging in some sort of an activity, having an overall spooky/scary/horror/Halloween theme all will help as there will be other categories other than Best Costume. But your main focus should be on the costume so don't worry too much about other details if you don't want to. Overall content must by no worse than PG-13 in terms of maturity, violence, vulgarity, etc. So things like nudity and sexual content, graphic violence, and heavy vulgarity are not allowed. Art or story. Any of these can be suggested or implied by not shown or described. Sort of like the shower scene in Psycho. You don't see the victim naked or being stabbed, but it's implied she is naked and that she is being murdered with showing her skin on screen just above her chest on up and showing fake blood go down the shower drain. In the case of something like zombies, let's avoid detail like in The Walking Dead (torso crawling on the floor for example) and go closer towards the original Dawn of the Dead or Night of the Libing Dead. If you have any questions and want to ask just how far is too far, feel free to note me. The same applies to stories, try not to get too detailed with the mature stuff. Again, implying and suggesting, but not actually showing or detailing. ;P
Bondage in this case is okay as I can't imagine anyone potentially wanting to draw/write Jessie into their entry without involving bondage. You don't have to, but if you want, it's okay with me. Just so long as we can get a good look at the costume. Now, I say you can have Jessie in your entry, and in truth you can have anyone in costume in your entry. If it involves a character belonging to someone, IE an OC, so long as they are okay with you using their character. You can use any of my characters to be included in your entry. It won't earn you extra votes, or at least it shouldn't. :P
For artwork entries it doesn't have to be drawn by you, but be sure to reference who drew it. It's possible that the artist and the person their art to enter the contest can share the prize won, but that is between you and the artist. It should also be noted that a single artist's artwork can be represented in multiple entries if for example multiple people ask said artist to draw their entry for them. However, if said artist wants to have a share in the prize, should an entry with their art win, they must decide which entry they will do this with before the deadline for entries. For example, "ARTIST A" has drawn 3 pics that are entered into the contest by three separate contestants. Should they decide they want to split the prize with one of those contestants, and only one, they must decide who and inform me before all entries are received. I want to avoid the possibility of an artist trying to increase their odds of winning by having multiple people submit their work and claim a portion of the prize with whomever won. If you and an artist work out a deal to split the prize should your entry win you can do so, but that is up to you and said artist. I would recommend against it. Too many complications. This also applies in the case that an artist submits their own entry while someone has submitted artwork that same artist has drawn. They can only claim a prize from their own entry. This hasn't been an issue in the past, but I want to address it just in case.
Stories must be written by you. In the case of a collaboration between yourself and another person, note me with the details I will decide if it is legal. Ultimately, it will simply mean that you and your collaborator will share the prize. Like with artists however, one person can only collaborate with one other person. Person A cannot collaborate with Person B on one entry and then collaborate with Person C on another entry. If you work with someone on a story you cannot work with anyone else on another.
As with both Art and Story, you can only have or be a part of one entry.
This also includes having both a story and art. You can only enter one, so decide whether it will be the art or the story. You can work on both and decide which one you'll enter, but I will only accept one or the other.
Another thing to note about entries, they must be unique to this contest. In other words, you cannot submit art or a story that was done prior to this contest, IE the 1st of October of 2015. It must be new. No exceptions. If you have a question or complaint about this feel free to note me.
The 1st of October will be the start of the contest and will be the time you all can start submitting your entries. All entries must be submitted by Friday night, October 25 at 11:59/midnight PST. If you're close to completing you entry by this point and wish for an extension, note me and I may grant you one. If extensions are granted, the deadline for those will be Sunday night, October 27 at 11:59/midnight PST. Once the deadline is past voting will be held, Anyone can vote even contestants, however contestants can not vote for their own entry. The must vote for someone else's. This is to avoid the super rare case of a mass tie where every contestant only voted for themselves and they are the only ones who voted. Voters will not me their vote for the following criteria:
ART: Best Costume (which costume do you like the most or you think is the best designed)
Best Picture (which picture do to you think best represents Halloween or in the case we don't have many entries that represent this, is simply the best looking)
STORY: Best Story (which story do you think best represents the spirit of Halloween or is simply the best told story)
The best 3 costumes will each win a prize in increasing value based on who's entry had the most votes, the 2nd most votes, and 3rd most votes.
The best picture will win a separate prize and it's possible that a single entry can place in best costume and win best picture.
Best story will win a separate prize.
The prizes are:
BEST COSTUME:
-1st Place: $50 towards a commission from the artist of your choice
-2nd Place: $30 towards a commission from the artist of your choice
-3rd Place: $20 towards a commission from the artist of your choice
BEST PICTURE:
-$50 towards a commission from the artist of your choice
BEST STORY:
-$50 towards a commission from the artist of your choice
Each of these prizes has an incentive to increase in value by as much an additional $10-15 should you want to include one of my characters in the commission.
In the event that one entry places for BEST COSTUME and also wins BEST PICTURE, the prizes can be combined towards a single commission or can be kept separate for two different commissions. You commission can exceed the amount you win, but that simply means that I am paying that much towards the commission and you will have to cover the remainder.
If you win anyone of these prizes, but don't want money towards a commission, we can discuss another form of payment for the prize, like if you want to donate the money or you want it towards your account with Steam or Amazon or something else in that regard, we can discuss the particulars when the contest if over. I have the right to reject any ideas though, like if you want it going towards me going out on a date with you or something silly like that. ;P
As for advertising and trying to rally the troops for votes, you may post journals and messages to promote this contest and ask people to participate in it or just in the voting process, but please do not rally people just to vote for you. Please just encourage them to vote and vote on the entry they like best. If that happens to be you, then that's how it goes, but I would prefer things be honest and fair here. Don't just vote on the entry because you like the person who submitted it. If you like the entry itself, then okay, but please let's try to keep bias out of this when it comes to the contestants. K? ^.~
Also worth noting, this contest will be held on my DA account and my FA account. So for those who have accounts on both sites, please be honest and fair and do not use separate accounts to submit additional entries and cast multiple votes. PLEASE!
And I must also note that when you submit your entry, I will need to be able to download a copy so that I may submit it on my accounts for voters to see. You can post your entry on your own account as well and note me with a link to it or simply email it to me at:
jessie_all_tied_up[at]hotmail.com
If you have any questions about anything regarding this contest, comment here or note me.
I hope to have a very fun contest this year, so try to have fun with it and be creative. :D
For some ideas feel free to take a look at entries for the previous Contests:
2012: http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....ontest-Entries
2011: http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....ontest-Entries
2010: http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....ontest-Entries
