To celebrate deviantART's eighth birthday the Resources and Stock GDs are holding a pirate themed contest, aptly named Pieces of Eight.

There's two parts to this contest. One is to create pirate themed artwork using the resources and stock photos within the Resources gallery, and the other is to create pirate themed resources or stock photos.

Think of it as two separate contests - you can choose to enter only one, or both if you're feeling frisky.

Pirate ARRR'T

In creating your artwork you don't have to use eight different resources, but it would be an interesting challenge don't you think?

Make sure to link to the deviations you use in your artwork. If you do not list your sources your entry will be ineligible to win.

The resources you choose to use are entirely up to you, but don't forget how easy it is to search for pirate themed resources:

• A simple search for 'pirate' under Stock Images turns up countless buccaneers.
• A search for 'paper' within textures turns up many textures that could be used for treasure maps

Pirate RESOURCES

Any of the categories within Resources are open to this contest, so if you make Stock Images, lets see your buccaneers! If you make textures, lets see your treasure maps, barnacles, and decks that need swabbin'. Maybe you'll create a tutorial on how to talk and walk like a bona fide pirate, or how to tie a mean pirate knot. Perhaps you'll create a set of brushes that Blackbeard himself would use, if'n of course they had Photoshop in them thar days.

You can submit as many resources as you like, but you can only win once of course - and individual quality will trump sheer quantity.

DETAILS

All submissions, ART and RESOURCES, must be submitted to:
Contests & Projects > Contests > 2008 > deviantART 8th Birthday > Pieces of Eight

The prizes are:

1st place - $30 devcash, and a Jolly Rodger keychain.
2nd place - $20 devcash
3rd place - $10 devcash

That's both for art and resources, in other words, there are six winners.

The contest ends on October 4th, have yerr submissions in by then or yar be walkin' the PLANK!

The contest will be judged by ^bleedsopretty, ^LawrenceDeDark, ^znow-white, ^Hanratty-Stock, ^lyastri,`thespook