Tev's Great Big Contest is over, but she'd love your feedback! Snubear! I finally finished your picture!

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Wed, 08/01/2012 - 04:53

Tevokkia

Hello everyone!

Welcome to my art and writing contest event, where you don't necessarily have to be skilled to win something; just interesting. If you're not an artist or a writer, stick around, because there's stuff for you to do here too.

The contest will run from 12:01 am EST (GMT -5) on September 1, 2012, to 11:59 pm EST (GMT -5) on November 30, 2012.

And Now, the Winners!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the ceremony!

*Awards - Artwork: Knights
1st - Twelvepm (3k CE)
2nd - Incoherrant (Artwork)
3rd - Chicoy (Golden Laurels)

Most Detailed Reimagining - Rogueperson (650 CE)
Best Portrait - Trydeth (Artwork)
Best Traditional Color - Artistbma (Tri-Heart Pendant)
Cutest - Ipalindrome (Cool Long Feather)
Best Experiment - Ariasky (5 Enamorocks)
Best Speed Picture - Krowtis (5 Enamorocks)

*Awards - Artwork: Gremlins
1st - Arkalpha (Artwork)
2nd - Lemonadium (1800 CE)
3rd - Burq (Shogun Helm)

Cutest - Chicoy (Shockburst Brandish)
Best Color Remiagining - Latisan-Sklay (Tri-Heart Pendant)
Best Redesign - Rogueperson (Surge Cuirass)

*Awards - Artwork:Everything Else
1st - Za-Ck (Solstice Prize Box)
2nd - Raspberry (Sniped Stranger Hat)
3rd - Don-Atropine (50k cr)

Funniest - Lemonadium (Artwork)
Most unconventional - Oatmonster (Dusky Canteen)
Best design - Nottheanswer (Mohawk)

*Raffle and/or game
*Awards - Artwork: Spiral Spy Scenes
1st - Azkellion (Heavy Dragon Wings)

Most Romantic - Myqpalzm (200 CE)
Most Impressive First Time Using Spiral Spy - Dreathuxy (200 CE)
Best Use of Touchups - Uruk-Hai (Iceburst Brandish)

*Awards - Artwork: Spiral Spy Models
1st - Xplad (250k cr)

*Awards - Other Visual Arts
Animation - Lizzi (Fancy Valkyrie Wings)
Handcrafted - Jluna (250k cr)

*Awards - Fiction: Mini Fiction
1st - Snubear (Artwork)
2nd - Hexlash (1800 CE)
3rd - The-Knightwalker (Imperial Tricorne)

Best Imagined History - Artistbma (Toasty Stranger Hat)

*Awards - Fiction: Short Fiction and Novellas
1st - Sergeantwrench (Toasty Valkyrie Wings)
2nd - Xairathan (Cool Cat Tail)
3rd - Hexlash (650 CE)

Best "Non-Fiction" - Latisan-Sklay (Volcanic Stranger Hat)
Best Origin Story - Acidvenom (Weapon Slot)
Most Outrageous Concept - Topoyozada (Mechtennas)
Best Mood Piece - Xplad (200 CE)
Best Ending that's Actually a Beginning - Lord-Hood (Faust Recipe)
Best Imagery - Shadownox (Cool Canteen)
Most Interesting Departure - Luguiru (Shockburst Brandish)
Most Epic - Abyssal-Flamberge (Dusker Coat)

*Awards - Poetry: Rhming Poetry and Free Verse
1st - Xairathan (Regal Valkyrie Wings)
2nd - Remiliaoftheeart (Shadow Key)
3rd - Lordofnecromancers (650 CE)

Most Likely to be Sung by an 80's Hair Band - Myqpalzm (50 CE)
Most Likely to be Sung by a Punk Band - Benightz (5000 cr)
Most Descriptive - Kimahsonite (Jack 'O Bombhead Mask)
Most Interesting Rhymes - Toxicblade (Iron Lockbox)

*Awards - Poetry: Short Poetry
1st - Snubear (3k CE)
2nd - Vifig (Sniped Stranger Hat)
3rd - Oatmonster (Surge Tailed Helm)

Best Non-Rhyming Poem - Rougeperson (Trinket Slot)
Best Limerick - Lord-Hood (Knight-Vision Goggles)
Best Single Haiku - Hexlash (Pumpkin Bomb Bandolier)

*Awards - Special Categories
Twelvepm - (250k cr)
Engravement - (250k cr)
Pballs - (Military Cat Tail)
Vifig - Art

*Awards - Community Choice
Artwork: Knights - Lizzi (Shifty Eyes)
Artwork: Knights - Don-Atropine (Silver Key)
Artwork: Knights - Miat (Toasty Glasses)
Artwork: Gremlins - Awesomesock (Swiftstrike Module)
Artwork: Gremlins - Klear (Silver Key)
Artwork: Everything Else - Chicoy (Toasty Party Blowout)
Artwork: Everything Else - Awesomesock (Fractured Mask of Seerus)
Artwork: SpiralSpy - The-Ark (650 CE)
Artwork: SpiralSpy - Fallenhope (650 CE)
Artwork: Other - Incoherrant (Artwork or Military Party Hat)
Artwork: Other - The-Knightwalker (Artwork)
Artwork: Other - Fallenhope (650 CE)
Fiction: Mini - Mawashimono (Artwork)
Fiction: Mini - Phantomhamachi (Twisted Targe)
Fiction: Short - Yttriu (650 CE)
Fiction: Short - Remiliaoftheearth (Dusky Glasses)
Fiction: Short - Mawashimono (Artwork or Antigua)
Poetry: Long - Xxpapaya (Fancy Party Hat)
Poetry: Long - Yttriu (50k cr)
Poetry: Short - Cluelessdude (650 CE)
Poetry: Short - Incoherrant (Silver Key)

*Awards - Thread Drawings and Games
Grand Poster Raffle: Kaijuhunter (200 CE)
Poster Raffle Runners-up - Kimahsonite, Gigarre, Lemonadium, Kellnox, Marazo (50 CE each)
Voters Raffle - Ipalindrome (100 CE)
Voters Raffle Runners-up - Za-Ck and Yttriu (50 CE each)
For getting post 1111 and entry number 50 - Fallenhope (100 CE and Iron Lockbox)
For getting entry number 100 - The-Knightwalker (100 CE)
For more riddles than I could use - Pballs (500 CE and a Tri-Heart Pendant)
For getting post 1234, advertising, 10 extra excellent riddles, and writing me a program to deal with all of the anagrams - Latisan-Sklay (Shadow Key)

Participation:
Zenmaiser - 2500 cr
Blueknighter - 2500 cr
Tantarian - 30CE
Shadowknifer - 3 Enamorocks
Grittle - 3 Enamorocks

Schedule of Events

August 1 - Thread is posted to give interested parties a full month to ask questions and think about their entries.
12:01 am EST, September 1 - Contest begins and entries may be posted. No entries posted anywhere on the internet before this time will be judged.
11:59 pm EST, November 30 - Contest ends. Entries posted after this time will not be judged.
December 1 - Ballots posted for Community Choice and Artist Choice categories and voting begins
December 1-3 - Judging
December 7 - Ballots closed for Community Choice and Artist Choice categories
December 8 - Final prize list posted after selling off those prizes people are disinterested in to fund more popular options. Entrants should make any final edits to prize requests after this time
11:59 pm EST, December 12 - Editing prize requests closed so I can determine distribution prior to awards ceremony
9:00 pm EST, December 15 - Awards Ceremony in Lionheart Guild Hall
11:59 pm EST, December 15 - Last prizes should have been awarded to those who were unable to attend the ceremony by this time

* * * * *
Artists' Choice and Community Choice Ballots
I will be doing a drawing with a CE prize from among all of the people who voted.

Instructions:

Look through each of the groupings of entries and determine your favorites
Copy and paste the Ballot below into your post. If you have an entry in the contest, use "Artist Choice" as your subject line. If you do not have an entry, type "Community Choice."
Fill in the form with the letter designation of the pieces you wish to vote for in each category. Do not use the titles of the pieces or the entrant who submitted it. If there are seven or more pieces in a category, you may vote for up to three different pieces in the category. If there are six or fewer in a category, you may vote for two of them.

Notes:

If you wish your votes to remain completely anonymous, you may send them to my email, in-game mail, etc, just as you would a game entry.

If you do not see your entry among the pieces up for vote, it is because each piece can only win one prize and you are already slated for one.

If you do see your entry among the pieces up for vote, it is not because I don't have another prize above participation intended for you, only that I don't intend to assign any of them until after the votes for this in.

The entries are listed in no particular order, so please don't read anything into it. I opened up each entry in a category in a window, then clicked on them randomly until I had saved them all.

Ballot form:

SUBJECT: (Either "Artist Choice" or "Community Choice")

Art: Knights - (Choose up to 3)
Art: Gremlins - (Choose up to 2)
Art: Everything - (Choose up to 3)
Art: SpiralSpy - (Choose up to 3)
Art: Other - (Choose up to 2)
Fiction: Mini - (Choose up to 2)
Fiction: Short - (Choose up to 3)
Poetry: Long - (Choose up to 3)
Poetry: Short - (Choose up to 3)

The Entries:

Art: Knights - Entry A, Entry B, Entry C, Entry D, Entry E, Entry F, Entry G, Entry H, Entry I, Entry J, Entry K, Entry L, Entry M, Entry N, Entry O, Entry P, Entry Q

Art: Gremlins - Entry A, Entry B, Entry C, Entry D, Entry E, Entry F

Art: Everything - Entry A, Entry B, Entry C, Entry D, Entry E, Entry F, Entry G, Entry J, Entry I

Art: SpiralSpy - Entry A, Entry B, Entry C, Entry D, Entry E, Entry F, Entry G, Entry H, Entry I, Entry J

Art: Other - Entry A, Entry B, Entry C, Entry D, Entry E

Fiction: Mini - Entry A, Entry B, Entry C, Entry D, Entry E

Fiction: Short - Entry A, Entry B, Entry C, Entry D, Entry E, Entry F, Entry G, Entry H, Entry I, Entry J, Entry K, Entry L, Entry M

Poetry: Long - Entry A, Entry B, Entry C, Entry D, Entry E, Entry F, Entry G

Poetry: Short - Entry A, Entry B, Entry C, Entry D, Entry E, Entry F, Entry G, Entry H

* * * * *

How to Win

Enter the contest!: Your entry can be a piece of art, a story, a poem, an animation, or a SpiralSpy piece, depending on the category you enter. There are several categories to choose from, several prizes in each category, and prizes just for participating.
Be awesome to each other: I'll be giving out citizenship awards to those who show exemplary support and encouragement to the entrants, or who are generally helpful within the thread (i.e. politely providing answers to questions I have already answered but the person may have missed, making good suggestions, etc.)
Just show up!: All non-spam posters will get an entry into a weekly raffle. There will be an additional raffle at the end of the contest for all posters.
Attend the awards ceremony!: There will be door prizes and possibly games during the event.
Play games!: Each week, there will be a different game happening in the thread.

Rules
Rule-breakers will get no more than a single warning before being disqualified, either from the contest or the weekly raffles, depending on whether or not you are an entrant. For large infractions, such as mass-spamming, flaming, or obvious TOS breakage, I will not warn you before making a report.

All posts and entries, as usual, need to follow the Spiral Knights TOS
No spamming. A bit of chatter is fine, but I like my topics to stay on topic.
No criticism of the entries. If an entrant specifically asks for critique of their work, only constructive criticism is allowed.
All rules here also apply to any threads linked from here. Misbehavior in my Stone Field Borough thread, or any threads containing entries will be treated as though it were misbehavior here.
Do not enter anything that you yourself did not create; this will result in not only immediate disqualification, but you will be barred from any future contests I may hold.
You may enter no more than three times, in different categories.

Entries by Contestant
In the order that they were entered.

Entries by Category

Artwork: Knights
Phantomhamachi, Ipalindrome, Uruk-Hai, Rogueperson, Don-Atropine, Xxpapaya, Ariasky, Miat, Xairathan, Chicoy, Pballs, Vifig, Blueknighter, Trydeth, Twelvepm, Lizzi, Artistbma, Lemonadium, Incoherrant, Zenmaiser, Krowtis

Artwork: Gremlins
Rougeperson, Awesomesock, Latisan-Sklay, Chicoy, Klear, Lizzi, Lemonadium, Burq, Arkalpha

Artwork: Everything Else
Grittle, Oatmonster, Raspberry, Nottheanswer, Awesomesock, Chicoy, Don-Atropine, Dreathuxy, Za-Ck, The-Knightwalker, Lemonadium, Engravement and Twelvepm

Artwork: Spiral Spy Scenes
The-Ark, Myqpalzm, Remiliaofthearth, Uruk-Hai, Oatmonster, Dreathuxy, Azkaellion, Fallenhope, Xxpapaya

Artwork: Spiral Spy Models
Oatmonster, Xplad, Blueknighter

Artwork Special Category: Stone Field Borough
Pballs

Artwork Special Category: Tev and Friends
Twelvepm, Engravement

Other Visual Arts: Animation and Video
Tantarian, Lizzi

Other Visual Arts: Handcrafted Works
Latisan-Sklay, Jluna, The-Knightwalker, Fallenhope, Incoherrant

Fan Fiction: Mini Fiction
Artistbma, Myqpalzm, The-Knightwalker, Mawashimono, Hexlash, Klear, Snubear

Fan Fiction:Short Fiction
Phantomhamachi, Dreathuxy, Luguiru, Xairathan, Mawashimono, Xplad, Acidvenom, Remiliaoftheearth, Latisan-Sklay, Shadowknifer, Topoyozada, Lord-Hood, Shadownox, , Hexlash, Yttriu

Fan Fiction: Novella
Abyssal-Flamberge, Rushenka, Sergeantwrench

Fan Fiction Special Category: Stone Field Borough
Vifig

Poetry: Rhyming Poetry and Free Verse
Artistbma,Xxpapaya, Myqpalzm, Yttriu, Benightz, Kimahsonite, Toxicblade, Nechrome, Xairathan, Remiliaoftheearth, Abyssal-Flamberge

Poetry: Short Poems
Vifig, Grittle, Oatmonster, Snubear, Rougeperson, Hexlash, Benightz, Abyssal-Flamberge, Cluelessdude, Lord-Hood, Incoherrant

Sat, 01/12/2013 - 17:17 #1601

fallen_h0pe

Congratz on the Purple Spiral, Tev

I wonder what it does.

Sat, 01/12/2013 - 18:03 #1602

Tevokkia

@Fallenhope

It's an artifact, so just like the recon modules or whispering stones, they just chill in your inventory so you can look at them.

Mon, 01/14/2013 - 04:11 #1603

ycxia

The papaya frowns

@Tevokkia
Congratulations on earning the Purple Spiral ^^
Personally, I think it should be a Yellow Spiral ^^ Yellow is such a wonderful color ^^ Or maybe a Green Spiral? Red Spiral? Blue Spiral?
Multi-Colored-Rainbow Spiral? :3

@Latisan-Sklay
Quick question Latisan, how do you know? :3

@Fallen-Hope
Hmmmm, according to (I forgot which GM) on the Arsenal Podcast thread (that Latisan-Sklay made). The developers are THINKING about making the Purple Spiral a costume/accessory or something..................

Mon, 01/14/2013 - 04:46 #1604

Snowdusk

@Xxpapaya

The artifact is called "Purple Spiral" most probably because the GMs also use the purple colour as their personal colour. This indicates that the one who is granted with this award is appreciated by the GMs themselves. And why do they pick purple as their personal colour? I have no idea xD

Mon, 01/14/2013 - 07:24 #1605

Tevokkia

@Papaya: Thanks so much! (But

@Papaya: Thanks so much! (But I don't much like yellow!)

@Snow: 'Cause in most of the Western world, purple is considered the color of royalty, which translates to leadership. Or at least that's what I'd guess. XD

Mon, 01/14/2013 - 17:13 #1606

Snubear

I'm pretty sure it's named

I'm pretty sure it's named after the Purple Heart, guys :P

A hearty congratulations to you, Tev, you deserve it!

Mon, 01/14/2013 - 17:22 #1607

Psychodestroyer

"The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those who have been wounded or killed while serving on or after April 5, 1917 with the U.S. military."

...

Tev DIED!?!?

[Psychodestroyer cries pitifully]

Mon, 01/14/2013 - 17:29 #1608

Snowdusk

@Snubear

@Snubear
Ah, that does make sense... But we can be sure that the Purple Spiral has nothing to do with military excallence xP

@Psychodestroyer
It could be inspired by the name, not the meaning behind it... :P

Mon, 01/14/2013 - 20:08 #1609

Tevokkia

Well, it was stressful, but not so painful I'd consider myself wounded. My wallet, maybe. And thank you, Snubear!

Wed, 01/16/2013 - 01:40 #1610

ycxia

The papaya laughs

@Psychodestroyer
Funnily enough, I thought purple was always directly related to chaos and madness (I guess red could work too) The Impostocube is kinda purple (or you could say, an extra extra extra light pink) so maybe that's why they chose the color(^.^)

@Snubear
Eek, purple hearts >.> People in this world choose weird names..............

Wed, 01/16/2013 - 12:14 #1611

Tevokkia

There's a link to Ark's finished picture in the OP. Started Snubear's already, and Vifig is up after that. Waiting on a reference pic from Try, and for Inco and Lemonadium to tell me what they want me to draw.

Wed, 01/16/2013 - 14:33 #1612

Korakc

Woah, this happened right

Woah, this happened right when I temp. left SK 0= I missed it ;(

Wed, 01/16/2013 - 15:53 #1613

Tevokkia

Don't worry!

Tev's Great Big Contest Ver. 2.0 will be held over the summer! ^.^

Thu, 01/17/2013 - 10:08 #1614

Latisan-Sklay

New!

GBC 2.0, now with new categories, no long drawn out novellas, and weekly video updates! :O
Will be fun... anyone care to help me write the lyrics to a theme song for the contest? Some 20 second ditty?

Otherwise, nice work with Ark's picture. Lazy snow is still lazy. xP

Thu, 01/17/2013 - 15:51 #1615

Tevokkia

Has anyone heard from Raspberry or The-Ark? The prizes I sent them via in-game mail came back to me. It's a bit worrying, especially knowing that Raspberry was really sick in the hospital during the latter parts of the contest.

Thu, 01/17/2013 - 15:55 #1616

artistbma

The-Ark is someone's alt, but

The-Ark is someone's alt, but their other name has slipped my mind...

Thu, 01/17/2013 - 16:08 #1617

Tevokkia

Okay, I found out the proper name is Gingermace, but realize that it could be either Gingermace or Fallenhope that didn't get their award, as they both picked the same prize for the same award in the same category and my note had just said "Congratulations on winning a Community Choice award in the SpiralSpy category."

Stupid in-game mail. Guess I'll send notes to both of them and see who responds that they got theirs.

Thu, 01/17/2013 - 17:59 #1618

Tevokkia

Too lazy to do anything fancy tonight: http://www.livestream.com/tevokkia

Fri, 01/18/2013 - 01:12 #1619

ycxia

The papaya screams

@Everyone
Omg, is Raspberry ok? What happened?!

Fri, 01/18/2013 - 05:30 #1620

Tevokkia

@Papaya

We don't know ... she didn't got into much detail. She had said she was on the mend a bit, but we haven't heard from her in awhile.

Fri, 01/18/2013 - 18:10 #1621

Fallenhope

@Tevokkia

I got mine, so don't worry about me.

650 CE x 2

Fri, 01/18/2013 - 18:17 #1622

Tevokkia

@Fallenhope

Okay, thanks for reminding me, hon! Guess it belongs to Gingermace, then ....

Fri, 01/18/2013 - 21:32 #1623

Myqpalzm

Just want to post something here....

Thanks to this song, my poem won something.

Mon, 01/21/2013 - 18:04 #1624

Tevokkia

Right here as usual: http://www.livestream.com/tevokkia

Mon, 01/21/2013 - 21:18 #1625

Tevokkia

SNUBEAR!!!

Ummm ... I got as far as finalizing the sketches and starting some details when I realized you didn't specify whether you wanted lines or a painting. XD Let me know!

Tue, 01/22/2013 - 04:12 #1626

Snubear

Oh, sorry! Didn't know I had

Oh, sorry! Didn't know I had an option xP Hmm, I can't really visualise either at the moment, but I think a painting's softness would be more suitable? I'll go with that. At the end of the day though, I'm going for cute, so if you think another style effects that better, I defer to your artistic excellence :P saw some of the process on your stream, by the way, it looks great so far!

Fri, 02/01/2013 - 07:23 #1627

Latisan-Sklay

^o^

Hi everybody!

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 20:43 #1628

Tevokkia

Snuuuuuuuuuuuubeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaar!

I'm so sorry this took so long!

That knocks out all of the really big pieces, except for Lemonadium, who I haven't heard from in ages. Next is Vi, followed by Inco. Whether Inco #2 or Trydeth goes after that will depend on who gets me their idea/ref first.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 20:58 #1629

Yttriu

Wow...

That is incredibly adorable.

Great job, Tev! I'm sure Snubear will love it.

Wed, 02/20/2013 - 04:18 #1630

fallen_h0pe

Fried snipes.

Whoever wakes up first gets them.

Wed, 02/20/2013 - 04:26 #1631

Snubear

Tevvvvvvvvvvvv

1) That is absolutely incredible. I hadn't even imagined it to be that good. I've always loved your art, but wow. Yttriu is right, words cannot express my love.
2) Going by your livestream you spent like twelve years on that painting. Can I just thank you for the humongous effort you put into this. I should be paying you overtime or something :P
3) Sorry for holding everyone else up! Don't worry, I'm sure you're in for a real treat~

oh and I was wondering if you had it in a higher resolution. Perfectly fine if you don't, just wanted to know for the sake of beautifying my desktop ^^

Wed, 02/20/2013 - 06:17 #1632

Tevokkia

Snubear!

I'm so glad you're happy with it!

Here's a hi res version of it; I have to put it in Dropbox 'cause Photobucket is a jerk and shrinks your pictures. XD

Wed, 02/20/2013 - 07:14 #1633

Snubear

Fab

I'm cool with Dropbox x) thanks so much, even better than what I'd hoped for!

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 18:19 #1634

Cobalterian

Lol

Just posted a question, came back here to check and....... IT'S GONE! WTF???? Then I realized I posted it on another thread :P

So..... Can anyone kindly tell me is Tev's Competition going to go again and if so when???

Thu, 02/21/2013 - 19:58 #1635

Tevokkia

Bwahaha, I'd be curious to know where you posted the other one. XD

Anyway ... yes, there will be a Tev's Great Big Contest Ver. 2.0. I plan on kicking off the thread in May to give everyone a chance to mull over the theme and ask questions, then starting the actual contest in June. It should be wrapping up at the end of August, giving me September for judging, running award ceremony events, getting everyone their prizes, and trying to get art prizes done in a more timely manner than this year (the December end time killed me, as I hand-make all of my Christmas presents. XD)

Fri, 02/22/2013 - 04:05 #1636

fallen_h0pe

Septeeeeemmmbeeerr!

September 20th is my birthday.
Keeping my fingers crossed.

Fri, 02/22/2013 - 05:05 #1637

Mayaura

wowowowow

That snubear picture has such a warm feel to it, so so nice. Great job, Tev.