Chinese Year of the Rat Competition

Starting 18th February and running for one month ending 18th March the PixelArt Gallery and Doll Gallery will be holding a competition for each Gallery.

The subject is a rat or rats in some form or other be it a scene, a character, animated or still. It does not need to relate to the Chinese New Year.

Work already created for the Chinese New Year of the Rat may be submitted, provided it meets with the Competition Rules. No work submitted before the Chinese New Year will be eligible. More than one piece may be submitted into either Gallery or the same Gallery.

Rules for the PixelArt Gallery

The objective is to create a piece of pixel art displaying the subject of a rat or rats, using a limited colour palette of no more than 25 colours on a canvas size of 150x150pixels. Either GIF or PNG files are acceptable.

There needs to be a demonstrated hand laying of pixels and no computer generated effects are acceptable, this includes text, gradients, shading tools, reduced opacity, reduced colour photomanips or any other effect unacceptable under the guidelines for PixelArt. [link]

Prizes

First Prize will be $dA100 deviant dollars

Second Prize will be $dA50 deviant dollars

Third Prize will be $dA25 deviant dollars


Rules for the Doll Gallery

The objective is to create a Doll be it Pixelart, Tooled or Miscellaneous, which features a rat or rats in some way. All work is to be saved as a PNG. If you wish to avoid a black background at thumb level, a light grey background matching the grey in your gallery is suggested.

Prizes

First Prize will be $dA100 deviant dollars

Second Prize will be $dA50 deviant dollars

Third Prize will be $dA25 deviant dollars



IMPORTANT Please add a link to your artist's notes to this Journal/Newsletter. Please link me in a Private Note to your entry or else you won't be in the running for a prize.

*Judges for both Galleries' Competitions will be a selected panel of non contributors to be announced.




Doll Week

Thank you very much to all those who took so much time and trouble to suggest DD features for Doll Week. Where there was more than one person who suggested the same piece of work I took the first person to suggest it. After that I selected from those who had not been listed as a suggester.


There are many lovely Dolls which were not given a DD feature but I will keep these suggestions and add many of them as future features. I will also do a Journal shortly showing the Dolls which had been suggested. Please feel free to suggest a Doll at any time, either from your own gallery or someone else's. Keep an eye on when they had their last deviation feature. Please keep it over three months since the last feature.


Doll Base Artists

Most Dollers use each others bases on a regular basis and often create really special pieces using the base as an inspiration. There are some really gifted base artists displaying their work here and many times their bases are featured as a DD on other peoples' work.

Let's celebrate the base artists by having a week every so often just featuring their work used by others as DD features.

To kick this idea off let's start with *bunnystick I would like your suggestions of work created on *bunnystick bases be it your own work or someone elses, then we could have a "Bunnystick Base Week" and display Dolls using *bunnystick bases for a week, just as we have with Doll Week.

I would welcome suggestions of other Base makers on dA to feature....even if you think I know them, tell me anyway!


Dolls featured during Doll Week at dA.