Brollies & Bric-a-Brac: An Art Contest!
 

• Follow Menewsha's Rules and the Terms of Service.
• Respect everyone's entries, including your own.
• All entries must be entirely your own work.
• Please do not "recycle" old art for this contest! All submissions must be created specifically for and during this event.
• Use the entry form provided for each category. Any submissions that do not use the form will be ignored!
• You can only submit one entry for each category, and you can only win once.
• Entries must be submitted by 11:00 Midnight PST on June 5th.
• No whining or complaining if you don't win.
• Have fun!

Breaking any of these rules will disqualify you and earn you an official infraction.

In this category, your creativity will be put to the test in redesigning the following umbrella!



Looks a little plain, right? So that's where you come in! The sky is the limit; feel free to change up it's design however you like, as long as I can still recognize ToriKat's base somewhere in there. :lol:

Please use the following form to submit your entry.

In this contest, you must engineer some kind of marvelous machinery! It can be designed to do anything; pour cereal, mop the floor, clean Yumeh's litterbox... use your imagination! This entry can be submitted in two ways.

If your gadget is still in blueprint form, just send me a link to the original art using the form below.

If you have actually crafted a gadget in reality (and it can't fit in a scanner! :lol:) you can either take a photo or video recording of it in action! Just be sure that you include your username and a date stamp somewhere in the image.

To submit your creation to this thread, use the following form for your post.

The prizes for both contests are the same, so if you don't win the item you were drooling for in one category, you still have a chance in the second one! :)

1st Place:

http://images.menewsha.com/items/thu...4f97debbe7.gifhttp://images.menewsha.com/items/thu...e2e96d3476.gif JULY 2009 EI SET

2nd Place:

http://www.menewsha.com/images/items...257f1d353c.gif STEAM PUNK HEAD GEAR (January 2009)

3rd Place:

http://www.menewsha.com/images/items...b33460f800.gif ORCHID PETALS (Phoenix Jubilee 2008)

Oooh I must try to enter this on my day off! <3

Hmm, any chance these will be made into event items? XP Lulz~ xDD;; Just a thought. ^^;;
Anyhows, I shall try and enter this if I find the time. :3 I'm definitely one who loves designing stuff. xDD;; <3<3

I shall try this on wednesday when I don't have to work =D

Sounds good ;)!

Thanks, everyone!
I look forward to seeing your entries. :boogie:

:drool:
Let's see if I can get off my lazy arse.
.... *wiggles and wobbles*

Awesome banner art Hammy~- WOAH, wait. Awesome avatar.
xD

Thank you, Hatake. :'3

I love art contests, but I doubt I'll enter. I am busy with college crap. However, I entered an art contest for lanterns during the Valentine's event. It seemed very unfair. The winners did fine, but lots of other people seemed to put more effort into. Whoever photoshopped theirs to death seemed to win. I always thought art was on a broader spectrum than just photoshop.

It's a staff pick; everyone on the staff votes for their favorites out of the whole batch. The ones with the most votes win. It all comes down to personal taste, really. :)

I'm sorry to hear you can't enter, as I would love to see what you could come up with, but I'm glad you have your priorities straight. College is definitely more important!

Must think of an idea for a gadget... >o>

Aww, that's so cute! Zombie fish! :insane:

Thank you! I'll add it to the first page.

So for the parasol thingy, must it be a colored version?
Or is it okay to submit it in black and white?
If I don't have photoshop, can I use paint?
Or am I allowed to print it out, color/design by hand and then re-scan it?
Should it be just abstract patterns? Vector patterns? Just colors?
Can it have something like a logo of some sort spread across the surface?
Or is it entirely okay to do all of the above?

All of the above is okay! It's all ultimately up to you how the end product looks. :)

That gadget really is cute! x3
I hope I can come up with something as clever. :lol:

Okie dokie.
Thanks for clarifying =D

No problem!

Do you think I'm too vauge in my instructions on the first page? Maybe I should fix them up...

^^ I'm glad you like my fish-reuser. I made my sketch into a flyer for it. ^^