It's officially contest time

Yes, a contest. Hosted by me, Adrianna. 

So here are the major details: 

Who: All of you people

What: A contest

When: 10/04/2013 - 11:59:59 11/10/2013 EST (that is a Sunday night on the eastern seaboard) (if this needs to be extended, please let me know. I'm more than willing to compromise on a deadline. Nothing with the deadline is set in stone)

Where: Here. Send me a link when you finish.

Why: Because I am short on time right now and want to see how you all interpret my characters.

That is very simple. It is a contest for the art medium only. Any art medium is accepted: sketches, digital art, paintings, crayon drawings, colored pencils, etc... All you have to draw is the four boys in my TMNT AU - The Science Project (found here: ririmania1335.deviantart.com/a… there are currently 5 chapters posted in which you can find information) You can draw each of them separately in panels or something similar, or you can draw a scene from the story. You do not even have to draw the whole body. If you just want to draw floating heads, that's totally okay. It's up to you entirely. As long as there are four teenage boys, it's accepted. 

Simply comment this journal with the link or note me or post it on my profile...really, just relay the link to me in some way. You will know I've seen it if I favorite it in a collection titled: TMNT AU Contest. Sounds simple enough, right? 

Your work will be judged: 

first, Interpretation. If you have an amazing piece, but you mess up on the details from my story (i.e. giving Mikey black hair and a baseball cap...no he has blonde hair and a beanie) FYI: I know Leo has little overall detail. Don't go searching for too much, but what I have written, I expect to be displayed. 

second, effort. It doesn't matter how well you did, as long as you passed criteria one and look like you put more than five minutes into your piece, you pass round two of judgement. 

third, creativity. Another easy category to pass. As long as your piece doesn't look incredibly similar to someone else's art, you pass this round. I understand that because you are all drawing the same characters, they will all look fairly similar. But I mean no looking at other drawings and imitating them. There is plenty of room for improvisation in this contest. Just have fun.

fourth, poll voting. I will divide the pieces (assuming there are more than just 3) into categories and have you all judge them to make the final decisions. Whichever pieces get the most votes win. 

The moment you have all been waiting for. Haha. There will be three places. First, second, and third. Also there will be a prize for participating. 

Participation Prize: 10 and a llama badge (if I have already given you a llama, I will give you an extra 5 ) 

Third Place: 30 , featured in all the groups I am founder of, and some of the ones I co-found, a line art sketch of whichever TMNT character you like, and a fic (500-1000 words) of a theme of your choice written by me. 

Second Place: 40 , featured in all the groups I am founder of, and some of the ones I co-found, a colored full body of whichever TMNT character you like, and a fic (1000-2000 words) of a theme of your choice written by me. 

First Place: One Month Premium Membership (if you are already premium, we will discuss an alternative prize), 50 , featured in all the groups I am founder of, and some of the ones I co-found, a colored full body of whichever two TMNT characters you like, a fic (2000-3000 words) of a theme of your choice written by me, and the cover art of each chapter of my fic. 

Are you interested? Get to work! You have over a month. I'd love to see as many people as possible enter this contest, and if it runs well, I may do more contest. 

Any questions, comments, concerns? Note me. I'll respond.  

- Adrianna