Doom Wad Station will begin hosting contests from time to time starting with this one.
Note that all entries will be considered for a place in the "This Week in Doom" article each week. Our goal is to have one featured each week for as long as we can keep it up.
Contest 1: Doom Funnies
Submit drawings of your own work that is Doom-related and funny. Entries can be anything from a sketch to a portrait, one panel to a strip. Computer-art is okay. Can have captions drawn into the picture.
The Rules
- Submissions must be of your own work! Submitting anything found to not be your own will disqualify you from any future tournaments we hold. The one exception is if you submit something for another and explicitly state that it is that person's work, in which case the prize would be theirs to claim.
- All submissions made are under the expressed agreement that they can be featured in an article at my discretion. Credit will of course be given. For this reason, we ask that you obtain an author's permission to post their work here before doing so.
- Limit of two (2) entries per person, though you can feel free to post others in this thread if you are okay with them possibly being featured in an article, once again at my discretion.
- The theme for this is Doom; drawings must relate to it, though the drawings can involve other things.
- Submissions should be drawn, though I will accept other forms of art.
- Submissions can be new or old pieces of work; age is no issue..
- Submissions can have a small caption drawn into the picture.
- Submissions will be graded in multiple categories, which will be weighted and averaged together to form a final score. The scoring system is as follows: 50% comedy (how funny it is), 20% art (the quality of the art), 15% simplicity (how easily it gets the point across using the least amount of panels/text/etc. Detail will not be punished, being instead rewarded in the "art" category), and 15% how much it relates to Doom.
- Winners will be chosen through two means: Bob/myself and votes. The results of these two categories will be meshed together to give us our winners.
- The authors of the top two ranking entries will receive prizes: (US dollars) $50 value for 1st and $50 for 2nd.
- Prizes will be an online commodity agreed upon by the winner and myself.
- Contest will run from May 14 12:00 AM to May 28 11:59 PM (US Eastern Time)
Prizes will be given in the form of Steam/GOG/iTunes/etc. gifts, a donation to your favorite charity, or a commission for a free MIDI from Jimmy*! Forming a special partnership with Jimmy, I will be offering an increased prize value if the winner goes with Jimmy's services, totaling $60 instead of $50. *Note that this covers only up to that point; if you order an $80 MIDI you will be expected to pay the remaining $20. The winner will be PM'd and will choose how he/she wants to receive his/her prize. If the winner is in the US, a universal gift card is also an option.
Thanks in advance to everyone and Good Luck!