Spiral Knights Anniversary Art Contest (Over 190k Ce in Prizes)

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Njthug

Title of event: Spiral Knights Anniversary Art Contest ( Over 190k Ce In Prizes)

Njpaloozart Fair :P

    About this event:

      This will be one of the biggest art contests for Spiral Knights. It will focus on drawings, sculptures, and any other type of art - excluding Fan-fics, poems, and any other textual art. I personally hope many players take advantage of this event and will create a lot of amazing art for Spiral Knights.


    Why?:

      It is simple, I love Spiral Knights art-work. I am not talented in terms of arts. If someone told me to draw a straight line for a 200,000,000 Crystal Energy (lets be honest, life runs on Ce not Dollars, Euros, or the Pound) I would fail.


    When:

      This contest will be starting right now! As in TODAY! The deadline for last submission(s) is April 4th 2013 *11:59 Pm Eastern Standard Time*. Winners will be posted by April 15th at the latest hopefully. =0

    Media:

      All of the artwork submitted will be blogged on Bechamel's Gossip
      (The Official Echo of Silence Blog)
      Link: http://bechamelsgossip.tumblr.com

      Feel free to follow us on tumblr, and like any of the submissions <69.


Prizes:
Each category will have the same prizes awarded:

    1st Place: 4,069 Ce
    2nd Place: 3,069 Ce
    3rd Place: 2,069 Ce

Consolation Prize --- Anyone that enters will receive a barrel belly or 69 Ce!!

Rules:

    1. Do not steal any ones art and submit it as your own.
    2. All art entered must be new art (no resubmitting your past work).
    3. No criticism that will make someone cry and go suicidal. Keep it constructive.
    4. You can enter TWO pieces of work per category.
    5. You are allowed to submit to all categories. Although each category must have its own unique work(s).
    6. Do not annoy me as this will most likely get me annoyed. Keep in mind I am judging <69
    7. You can edit your art, but if it clearly copies someone's idea or is edited after judging it will not be counted. *So edit it before the deadline <69*
    8. Make sure you follow the rules listed for the category you're submitting for.
    9. No porn or rule34 of any kind.


Judges:
As of right now this contest will only have Two Judges: myself (Njthug) and Digicom. Many of you guys may not know Digi. Since I feel it is unfair to well have only myself judge this contest, and many of the other players in this game who I can work well with are sadly in Eos. I had to try out the next best option a great friend who I trust, and can get along with very well. Oh and importantly someone who is destined to be in Echo of Silence one day.

About Digi --- He is a great guy he plays Spiral Knights for fun many of you might have seen him around with very expensive armor sets. He plays more in the Spanish Servers, and is the founder of a guild called Solo Art. He created a very nice guild hall with his own bare hands, and well honestly this guy is as honest as they come.

We are still looking for more judges, and currently the two others we are eyeing are:

    1. Magic 8 Ball
    2. Conch Shell

Certain art pieces might be judged by the community as a whole without you knowing it so in a sense players will be picking a few winners.

How to Submit Your Art:
Post in this thread with the following format:

    Category Name:
    Title of your artwork:
    Link to Artwork:
    In-Game-Name:

Questions you may have:

    Will your guild members be submitting art work?

      Yes, Echo of Silence members can participate in the contest. This contest is open to everyone in Spiral Knights, even Boswick, Ian, Nick, and the famous Cronus can participate. The only player that can not participate is me - Njthug.

    Why are you letting your guild members submit artwork?

      I want this contest to allow everyone to have fun and be competitive as well. I do not know if the members from Eos will be participating, but I do hope they do since we have a lot of talented artists such as Cobalt, Waffle, Yukaberry, and Mustacheman (2manytoname)!

    What type of artwork can I submit?

      Anything! It can be handmade artwork, macaroni drawings, a marble statue, a simple drawing on ms paint, or whatever else floats your boat.
Sat, 04/06/2013 - 12:52 #401
Alternate-Dragon
401st post :3 So did I win

401st post :3

So did I win 1st for Skylark? (Yes my name is what you think it is).

Sat, 04/06/2013 - 13:35 #402
boughtby1
When are awards handed out and where?

Hello,

where are the awards handed out? or when are they handed out? please answer my question!

Sat, 04/06/2013 - 14:15 #403
Alternate-Dragon
^

Yeah I'm curious too!

Sat, 04/06/2013 - 14:51 #404
boughtby1
I'm more curious....

I'm more curious....

Sat, 04/06/2013 - 15:23 #405
JesterGTR
Fortune Smiles upon the Greedy.

"Winners will be posted by April 15th at the latest hopefully."
Lehh.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 03:06 #406
Snowdusk

Patience is the key to virtue.

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 11:28 #407
AmayaWolf
Spiral Spy in my opinion isn't cheating

Spiral Spy is actually more difficult to use than photoshop and requires more effort and patience than drawing (in my opinion). Happyapathy you have a great amount of respect from me for using a program that require so much time and effort while at the same time making amazing art!

Sun, 04/07/2013 - 17:04 #408
ArkAlpha
If you want to make decent

If you want to make decent artwork, it takes years of practice.

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 01:23 #410
JesterGTR
Apples to Oranges

Stop comparing Spiral Spy to stuff it isn't like. Both require the same amount of patience if you wanna get the same quality results from them, but require different skills. Drawing is a matter of putting what's on your mind on paper, SpiralSpy is using what's already there and molding it into what you want. Same result, different process.

NEH STAHP.

Mon, 04/08/2013 - 21:35 #411
Njthug
=0

All info will be posted before or on April 15 like we stated guys we have over 150+ art entries might be in the 200's we should be done most likely before Friday this week, but it takes time.

Tue, 04/09/2013 - 05:15 #413
Snowdusk
@Njthug

Take your time! The number 200 shouldn't be underestimated... xD

Wed, 04/10/2013 - 14:31 #415
Alternate-Dragon
How's the progress on

How's the progress on Judging?

Wed, 04/10/2013 - 17:48 #417
Njthug
=0

Results will be posted 2morro =0 sometime! We just sat down and...well 5 to 7 hours later we are finished..........Bangs head on wall with Digi!

Wed, 04/10/2013 - 20:11 #418
Littlemiabot
:o

woah good job to Njay and Digi! <3 You both deserve a cookie and a cat nap :3

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 03:36 #420
Midavionics
yay :D Thank you Nj and Digi

yay :D
Thank you Nj and Digi for working hard to judge all of the art! XD

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 07:13 #421
Alternate-Dragon
Yeah! Ican't wait.

Yeah! Ican't wait.

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 10:25 #422
Sciger
:D

Once again, GL to all entries, let's hope for the best!

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 11:50 #423
Retequizzle
Can't wait to see the

Can't wait to see the results! Digi and Nj have both put a ton of effort into making this happen, but this contest wouldn't have happened without all of you also supporting them, so a big kudos to everyone involved.

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 16:12 #424
Njthug
Start with straight shots then pop bottles pour it on the models

First Digicom and myself wish to say thank you for everyone who entered in this contest we had about 70+ players enter and well over 225 entries which is amazing. Our goal with this contest was to create one of the biggest art contests for Spiral Knights which will create a lot of Sk related art work. The both of us truly like Spiral Knights the game has its flaws, but our friends and the overall challenges we come across while playing Spiral Knights truly keeps us coming back.

Thank you for making this art contest one to forever remember in Sk history guys all the art work was pretty amazing all of you guys should pat yourselves on the back since what you all accomplished together is something most games strive to do create is a player base that appreciates the art work created by their game artists.

I am certain that Ian and Boswick are looking at all these entries and may have even printed a few of them out and well hung them up around the Three Rings office.

Some-Side-Notes:

  1. You will receive your prizes in 1 to 3 days max. (We have to mail out 70+ mails)
  2. Certain categories sadly only have 2 winners due to lack of art in the categories, but this allowed us to expand other categories with a few more winners than listed.
  3. A few players will be receiving small prizes since honestly their art work was epic, but sadly the other entries out-weighed them in the category they submitted their art in, but we overall loved their entry.
  4. All the winners listed are final we are not re-judging or re-counting the "votes" (Sadly this is a dictatorship)

    5. Winners of the Spiral Knights Anniversary Art Contest:

    Category 1 Favorite Spiral Knight Monster:

    1st Place: Coolbluex
    http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c376/coolbluex/pics/KAT_zps495249f3.j…
    2nd Place: Cobalt
    http://mamamisho.deviantart.com/art/Spiral-Knights-Eyes-of-Everfrost-35…
    3rd Place: Saranii
    http://saranuu.deviantart.com/art/Nature-356743893

    Category 2 Fun in the Clockworks:

    1st Place: Miabot
    http://i.imgur.com/ZOkoBzB.jpg
    2nd Place: Cobalt
    http://mamamisho.deviantart.com/art/Spiral-Knights-The-Sleeping-Monumen…
    3rd Place: Prêtzelninja
    http://pretzelninja.deviantart.com/art/Graveyard-Fun-363368508

    Category 3: Player Versus PlayerFun:

    1st Place: Fighting-polygon
    http://fightingpolygon.deviantart.com/art/Trapped-360331681
    2nd Place: Kingcrocofudji
    http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=290042kingcrocofudjiparticipat…
    3rd Place: None

    Category 4: Create Your Own Monster:

    1st Place: Cobalt
    http://mamamisho.deviantart.com/art/Swarmed-Devilite-359959533
    2nd Place: Fsteak
    http://s17.postimg.org/8dp1g1h4f/Diggur.jpg
    3rd Place: Fighting-Polygon
    http://fightingpolygon.deviantart.com/art/Arcane-Salamander-361422672?g…

    Category 5: Create the Alpha Squad:

    1st Place: Typhoid-Mary
    http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4960/skalphasquad.png
    2nd Place: Zopyros
    http://pixelhat.tumblr.com/image/46309327912
    3rd Place: Fighting-polygon
    http://fightingpolygon.deviantart.com/art/Lost-360675848?ga_submit_new=…

    Category 6: Spiral Knights Logo:

    1st Place: Pretzelninja
    http://pretzelninja.deviantart.com/art/Spiral-Knights-Logo-V2-363381579
    2nd Place: Tokti
    http://tokti.tumblr.com/image/46585437883
    3rd Place: None

    Category 7: Create Your Own Weapon:

    1st Place: Urrick
    http://blindpulse.deviantart.com/art/Tomahawk-Design-for-Spiral-Knights…
    http://blindpulse.deviantart.com/art/Animations-for-Tomahawk-Spiral-Kni…
    2nd Place: Urrick
    http://blindpulse.deviantart.com/art/Spiral-Knights-Concept-Art-Dart-Gu…
    3rd Place: Cobalt
    http://mamamisho.deviantart.com/art/Fangs-of-Snarbolax-362770313

    Category 8: Create Your Own Armor Set:

    1st Place; Jester-Gtr
    http://improb-pinea.deviantart.com/art/SK-Sentinel-Armor-Set-358460138
    2nd Place: Typhoid-Mary
    http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/329/skcowgirl.png
    3rd Place: Cobalt
    http://mamamisho.deviantart.com/art/Spiral-Knights-Vermillion-Set-35633…

    Category 9: Create A Comic:

    1st Place: Tokti
    http://tokti.tumblr.com/image/47005726166
    2nd Place: Miabot
    http://i.imgur.com/C63UOTA.jpg
    3rd Place: Cobalt
    http://mamamisho.deviantart.com/art/Haven-Fried-Snipes-359034424
    4th Place: Xplad
    http://i.imgur.com/sMOEOPz.png

    Category 10: How Cuteeeeee are you?:

    1st Place: Coolbluex
    http://coolbluex.deviantart.com/art/Friend-of-Nature-359595782
    2nd Place: Tokti
    http://tokti.tumblr.com/post/46586703509/nya-w-click-click-poke-poke-cl…
    3rd Place: Miabot
    http://i.imgur.com/MmBizOG.jpg

    Category 11: Free-For-All:

    1st Place: Fighting-Polygon --- (1k Ce Added to prize!)
    http://fightingpolygon.deviantart.com/art/The-King-of-Ashes-359944721
    2nd Place: Guywithaplan
    http://whiteoxygen.deviantart.com/art/Raiding-firestorm-citadel-3626911…
    3rd Place: Coolbluex
    http://coolbluex.deviantart.com/art/Devilite-BBQ-360470743
    4th Place: Shuichi
    http://shuie.deviantart.com/art/Handmade-Vitakit-Accessory-356792235
    5th Place: Miabot
    http://i.imgur.com/L9H2PXV.jpg

    Category 12: Create Some Accessories:

    1st Place: Shuichi
    http://shuie.deviantart.com/art/Musical-358467787
    2nd Place: Shuichi:
    http://shuie.deviantart.com/art/Spring-Flowers-359133787
    3rd Place: Midavionics
    http://i.imgur.com/BJ7CECu.jpg

    Category 13: Spiral Knights Merchandize:

    1st Place: Magmanotar
    http://srw1417.deviantart.com/art/Spiral-Knights-Gran-Faust-357096403
    2nd Place: Tokti
    http://tokti.tumblr.com/image/46315630176
    3rd Place: Shuichi
    http://shuie.deviantart.com/art/Mini-Shu-362132018

    Category 14: Forum Avatars:

    1st Place: Tokti
    http://tokti.tumblr.com/image/46403701441
    2nd Place: Miabot
    http://i.imgur.com/GuWrmsq.jpg

    Category 15: Favorite NPC:

    1st Place: Coolbluex
    http://s31.photobucket.com/user/coolbluex/media/pics/desna-copy_zps2c7c…
    2nd Place: Stoli
    http://stolidly.tumblr.com/post/43721260634
    3rd Place: Fighting-polygon
    http://fightingpolygon.deviantart.com/art/Armero-the-Hunter-361102731?g…

    Category 16: Create a GH Utopia:

    1st Place. Miabot
    http://25.media.tumblr.com/dcd7085051ee24488afc245b7f7aecf7/tumblr_mko6…
    2nd Place. Pballs
    http://pball11.deviantart.com/art/Gone-Fishing-363598206?q=gallery%3Apb…

    Category 17: The Skylark:

    1st Place: Zezarpivot
    http://sta.sh/0t7d6wbzw6c
    2nd Place: Zopyros
    http://pixelhat.tumblr.com/post/46544508938/the-skylark-one-of-the-spir…
    3rd Place: Dragonuity
    http://i.imgur.com/v2WqAxM.jpg

    Category 18: What do monsters do when we aren't around?:

    1st Place: Miabot
    http://24.media.tumblr.com/b15888f0133132a52bef4a3a5bdfaeb1/tumblr_mknp…
    2nd Place: Fsteak
    http://postimg.org/image/j9hfp7ox7/full/
    3rd Place: Coolbluex
    http://coolbluex.deviantart.com/art/Turkish-Delights-359755548

    Category 19: Draw Njthug or Digicom

    1st Place: Shuichi
    http://shuie.deviantart.com/art/Best-of-Buds-355919034
    2nd Place: Miabot
    http://25.media.tumblr.com/9acd2e96c3ff92ae03f43316eca0a7ea/tumblr_mkat…
    3rd Place: Jester-Gtr
    http://improb-pinea.deviantart.com/art/SK-NJthug-and-Dijicom-360504837

    Category 20: Spiral Knights Crossover:

    1st Place: Tokti
    http://tokti.tumblr.com/image/47157069934
    2nd Place: Typhoid-Marry
    http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/877/skmuramasafnl.png
    3rd Place: XxPapaya
    http://xxpapaya.deviantart.com/art/Limbo-Meets-SK-362827824?q=gallery%3…
    4th Place: Miabot
    http://littlemiabot.tumblr.com/post/46660603706/spiral-knights-x-animal…
    5th Place: Zopyros
    http://pixelhat.tumblr.com/post/46399190726/i-may-have-created-the-most…

    Special Thanks to Digicom for overall being an amazing judge and well working with my craziness through all of this (I have to admit this guy is crazier than me!!) I hope to run more contests with Digicom for sure so keep your eyes peels boys n girls Digi and I are not done!

    P.S:

    Another art contest going on currently is by Tdlob he has 10k Ce or more in prizes guys I hope to see some of you sexy artists create something lovely!

    http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/74390

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 14:51 #425
Spiral-Wwyvern
i posted a logo entry

i posted a logo entry and ther e was no 3rd place so wouldnt i get 3rd place?

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 15:35 #426
Fsteak89
Huzzah!

Wow you guys posted the results up pretty fast for the amount there was x) Good job Njthug and Digicom though I don't know you both really and thanks for having this contest to begin with. It was very entertaining :D and cool to see everyone's different artworks congrats to everyone all around!

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 15:50 #427
Sciger
:3

Congrats to all the winners! Rather disappointed I didn't place but that's alright. c:

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 16:04 #428
Amphy-Kun
I'm so SAD TT.TT

I think most of the winners are digital art and I thought the consolation prize was 69 ce or a barrel belly for each entry XD

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 16:36 #429
Korakc
Great job, everyone. I had

Great job, everyone. I had fun looking at the entries ;D
Awesome contest, Enjay =]

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 17:34 #430
boughtby1
/clap

CONGRATS to everyone. everyone did a great job :D

ahh who cares if i didn't place i at least had some FUN!!

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 20:29 #431
Aoria
Darn.

Oh no, it's done already. My baby devilite is missed. =(

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 21:19 #432
Tokti
IMPLOSION OF HOLY WOW

OMG. OMG. OH. MY GOD.
Literally /SCREAMING/ right now with excite and happiness. 8'D I think I'm going to implode. EEEEEEEEEEE.
This was so unexpected, thank you so much for hosting such an amazing contest and thank you for getting the judging done so fast. This totally made my day. xDD And congratulations to everyone who entered! FWEEEEEEEE, I hope to see you amazing artists more in more contests. X3 Perhaps even do art trades together. 8D

Again, thank you Njthug and Digicom for this contest. QUQ Cheers to you guys~ 8D

Thu, 04/11/2013 - 21:33 #433
Engravement
Kudos to all!

Heh, guess I didn't place at all. That's a bit of a bummer, but alas...
Congrats to those who won, and good spirits to all that entered! :'>

Fri, 04/12/2013 - 04:16 #434
Zezarpivot
OMG i'm so exiteeeeeeeeeed

OMG i'm so exiteeeeeeeeeed >.< really thanks all, Njthug,Digicom and the other judjes !!! i needed right 4k ce for the full 5* set :3 .... thx all ^^

Fri, 04/12/2013 - 04:42 #435
Saranii
Wowee!

Thank you guys for hosting this super cool contest!
Gratz to all the winners! *U*

Fri, 04/12/2013 - 05:33 #436
aurasphere
WHY?!?!?

Why did i only read this thread AFTER it ended?!?!?!? WHY?!?!?!?

Fri, 04/12/2013 - 05:39 #437
coolbluex
First of all, thanks NJ and

First of all, thanks NJ and Digicom for taking the time to organise and create this art contest!
I'm sure it must have taken a lot of effort to come out with such creative categories, to judge, keep track of all the entries and come out with all the prizes
kudoes to you both 8)

and...OMG! i didn't expect any of these results! I'm glad that you like my entries and decided to choose them as the top few entries ^ u^
Also, congrats to all who placed and to all who gave their best for the contest!
If there will be another contest next year, i will definitely be looking forward to it!

happy SK anniversary everyone!

Fri, 04/12/2013 - 12:24 #438
77battlestar
Handrawn work is ruled out by

Handrawn work is ruled out by digitally created images (with the exception of Miabot who won like 10k ce) unfortunately I'm not good with technology and I don't know how to upload it correctly onto the internet. But some of the digitally created stuff was Amazing!

Fri, 04/12/2013 - 17:15 #439
Sentinel-Zx
So many good art

I really wanted to participate in the contest, but I do not have a place to post any art because, well I am an artist but I barely make art so what's the point of making an account if I'm barely going to use it.

Maybe someday I'll create a Deviant art account.

Anyway, I liked a lot of people's works. Good job everyone.

I hope next year there will be another Anniversary art contest. I look forward to seeing more impressive art work.

Sat, 04/13/2013 - 02:49 #440
Jes-Turr
Congrats, everyone! :B

Congrats, everyone! :B Thanks, NJ and Digi, for the awesome contest!

Sat, 04/13/2013 - 08:20 #441
Njthug
I take your breath away and set you free so much pressure =0

@Everyone ---- Thank you all for participating honestly Digi and I were very amazed with all the art work

So people were asking me who won the most ce etc. So this is from our calculations for the top 5 winners:

1. Tokti --- 26,656k Ce
2. Miabot ---- 22,483k Ce
3. Cobalt ---- 18, 483k Ce
4. Coolbluex --- 16,345k Ce
5. Fighting-Polygon --- 15,345k Ce

Sat, 04/13/2013 - 09:15 #442
Sentinel-Zx
Wow

That's a lot of ce for these people. Congratulations to Tokti for getting the most.

Sat, 04/13/2013 - 11:42 #443
ycxia
The papaya gives thanks and grats

Thanks NJ (and Digi ^^) for hosting this lovely contest ^^ And thanks, everyone else for participating ^^

Fri, 04/19/2013 - 23:54 #444
Xtweeterx
I would SO run to the

I would SO run to the Wal-Mart across my street or that 7/11 down the block and be all like "SHADDAP AND TAKE MY MONEY" if gummy jelly cubes (or impostocubes) were real.