Stayka's Autumn 2009 SvB Art Contest

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Today is Autumn Equinox, and I decided to use this cool date to announce my fresh new SvB Art Contest.

The theme is Draw my Characters Alycia Blade and Sir Cayvyn (or their alter egos Blackfire and Infinity).

Deadline: Monday, January 18, 2010 at 24:00 GMT

Here are the entries for my contest that I got so far: stayka.deviantart.com/journal/…

Acy and Cay are characters from the SF action-adventure series Stardust vs Blackfire which was created by ShavanaRhea and me.

Acy:    Cay:

Here you can see more reference pictures and read a little about the characters - the descriptions of the pictures should have quite some information about the characters and their personalities.

Interview with the characters: stayka.deviantart.com/journal/…

If you show them as Acy+Cay (that is in their flamboyant colourful outfits), they mostly show up as elegant couple, although they also fight a lot. Sometimes (when Cay is fed up with Acy's behaviour), he actually throws her over the shoulder and carries her away - something Acy doesn't find too amusing at all.

  

If they show up at Blade Manor, the luxurious mansion of Acy's sister Nardia, they can be often found around the buffet (that is, Cay is - Acy is mostly put on diet and is only allowed salad and other boring veggie stuff what she doesn't like at all). You could also show them in the garden of the manor (just imagine a kind of park, a small pond in it, a rose garden and a lot of tidy lawn). The planet Tarishaan where Blade Manor is located, has normal  blue sky, a yellow sun and two moons.

You could also show them on the planet Naravina (light green sky, deep green oceans, golden sun, green vegetation with lots of colourful flowers), where you find mostly medieval style castle-buildings and people who wear somewhat medieval aristocratic style outfits.

If you want to draw them on the Villa Alycia (a space station orbiting the planet Tarishaan), you can check the finished pics of mine as reference - most important rooms in the Villa have huge window sized monitors that show a spectacular view of Tarishaan or the surrounding space.

When Acy and Cay are sure that no one will drop by for a visit, then Acy usually runs around without her wig (thus with white-blonde hair, mostly in a braid or ponytail) and wears comfortable clothing that is often stained with paint or other stuff from her painting or when she works in her engineering lab. Cay mostly wears black or grey coveralls with lots of pockets for his tools and he usually has his copper-red-gold hair in a ponytail so that it doesn't get in the way while he works on his research or modifying his and Acy's spaceships.



As Blackfire and Infinity they mostly wear the silver and black outfits that you can see on the pictures, but sometimes also all-black outfits (mostly coveralls). In that guise, they can be shown on strange planets, in wild fights with both police and criminals, in space ships, laboratories, computer centers and general in science-fiction environments.

  

If you need more info, just ask me - here in a comment, in a note or the SSF chat saintseiyafan.com/Forum/index.… (at the bottom of the page) and I will describe/explain everything you need to know. I just added some of the old artworks with explanations in my scraps folder.

<-- some old art as inspiration

How should your contest entry look like?: I would like the pictures to be in full colour (or if you draw with pencils, then properly shaded in b/w). I don't want mere sketches or pictures that look like you didn't put any work into them. A background would be cool, but it doesn't have to be anything elaborate. You can use both traditional means or graphics programs.

Deadline: Monday, January 18th, 2010 at 24:00 GMT

1. Prize:
- 1 full colour artwork by stayka with up to 3 characters. (Theme can be talked about, just no hentai/yaoi/yuri, anthro/furry/animals, and nothing offensive. Ecchi is okay though.)
- 1 full colour artwork by SuzukaShin with one person; details to be negotiated with SuzukaShin.
- Feature in the journal of Shirei-Shou

2. Prize:
- 1 full colour artwork by stayka with up to 2 characters.  (Theme can be talked about, just no hentai/yaoi/yuri, anthro/furry/animals, and nothing offensive. Ecchi is okay though.)
- 1 chibi artwork by SuzukaShin with one person; details to be negotiated with SuzukaShin.

3. Prize:
- 1 full colour artwork by stayka with 1 character. (Theme can be talked about, just no hentai/yaoi/yuri, anthro/furry/animals, and nothing offensive. Ecchi is okay though.)
- 1 chibi lineart by SuzukaShin with one person; details to be negotiated with SuzukaShin.

4.-6. Prize:
- 1 full colour artwork by stayka with 1 character. (Theme can be talked about, just no hentai/yaoi/yuri, anthro/furry/animals, and nothing offensive. Ecchi is okay though.)
- 1 chibi sketch by SuzukaShin with one person; details to be negotiated with SuzukaShin.

Here you can see the prizes I drew for my last contest winners:


Judging: Judging will be done by a jury which will be announced in the near future. I will try to chose people with different tastes, so that the results are as fair as possible.

Jury:

The artworks will get 1-10 points in each of the categories: 1. technique, 2. creativity, 3. composition, 4. realisation of the characters, and 5. general impression by each of the judges.

This means the artworks will be judged for their merit and not for the popularity of the artist (which usually happens when there are public votes), and both traditional and computer artworks have the same chance to win as the technique category looks at the quality of the technique itself, not which technique was used.

All in all, one judge can give up to 50 points, and the points of all the judges are summed up. The winners will be the artists whose entries get the highest number of points.

I will not post the number of points, only the result in ranks for 1.-3. plus maybe some honourary mentions. If an artist is curious, I will disclose the point break-up of his/her artwork to him/her (only for the work of said artist), but only privately via note, as I don't want to make those people feel bad that might have gotten not so many points.