Quick Contest: Create simple poster

**aarinfantasy** · 02-20-2013, 02:30 AM

This is a contest to create a promotional or teaser poster for a BL con event in my country, it is called Sawachi Nijikai 2013. Here are the rules and criteria:

Rules:
- All members in the forum can participate, including staff members.
- One person can only submit ONE entry.
- AF reserves the rights to use the submitted image at any time.
- Post your entry in this thread, with the image shown and also a valid link to the image. You can also choose to post it under the 'spoiler' tag if you know how to use that.
- You are allowed to change your entry before the due date.

DUE DATE: 26th February 2013

Picture criteria:
- Dimensions must be either: (500pixels x 800 pixels) OR (400pixels x 600 pixels). Can be horizontal or vertical.
- Must CLEARLY contain the words "Sawachi Nijikai 2013" "Coming soon this May". These words must be the primary image of the picture. NO other text or words.
- Must have at least some sort of BL or yaoi picture in it. The picture must NOT be fanart or from doujins, and only official and commercial pictures are allowed.
- Must be saved in JPEG or PNG format only.
- Must not have any watermark on it. AF will be putting small watermark with your name on it, if necessary.

Rewards and prizes:
- If your entry has been picked, it may be shown on The Official AarinFantasy Page on Facebook or to be used as teaser poster for Sawachi Nijikai 2013. Your name will be credited and mentioned in our forum's Hall Of Fame.
- All submissions will be given 100000 points.
- Winning entry will be given 2000000 points and a choice of any ONE event card from the list here.
- Non-serious entry such as a picture with only the required text with no creativity or thoughts put into it will not be accepted, as it clearly is only a submission for getting easy points.

Special Note:
- The winning entry can be more than one entry (depends I am not sure yet), so that means it is possible to have multiple winners!
- Judging will be done by me and a secret person.
- Make sure the required text stated in the picture criteria is clearly seen.
- This is optional: Can be pretty (colorful, vibrant, flowers etc) or powerful images (such as something that pops or adsorbs/attracts the viewer). But please do not do optical illusions or anything that can make someone dizzy.
- It can be simple or complicated.

You can post here in this thread if you have any questions.

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**kerlyness** · 02-20-2013, 09:13 AM

Is this the same event that's happening in March? And does it have a connection with "rainbow" (the color and/or the words)? Are game screen-caps (or any sort of screen-caps) a good source for images, or would you prefer artbooks and such?

**aarinfantasy** · 02-21-2013, 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by kerlyness

Is this the same event that's happening in March? And does it have a connection with "rainbow" (the color and/or the words)? Are game screen-caps (or any sort of screen-caps) a good source for images, or would you prefer artbooks and such?

Hi, what is happening in March? O_o;;; This event is gonna happen in May.

No, no connection with rainbow... any color will do.

Game screen caps are fine too... but I think I will prefer artbooks, drawn... rather than CGs.

**kerlyness** · 02-21-2013, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by aarinfantasy

Hi, what is happening in March? O_o;;; This event is gonna happen in May.

No, no connection with rainbow... any color will do.

Here is one of the links I found with a quick Google search:
Sawachi Nijikai (Official event page) : Wherevent.com
And it has the same name, is happening in March, and mentions that "niji in japanese is rainbow". Wikipedia also confirms this meaning - so maybe I will use those colors, or not - who knows?

Game screen caps are fine too... but I think I will prefer artbooks, drawn... rather than CGs.

Great - They do tend to be higher quality. I will do my best to have an entry in soon! Thank you for answering my questions.

**aarinfantasy** · 02-22-2013, 06:15 AM

Originally Posted by kerlyness

Here is one of the links I found with a quick Google search:
Sawachi Nijikai (Official event page) : Wherevent.com
And it has the same name, is happening in March, and mentions that "niji in japanese is rainbow". Wikipedia also confirms this meaning - so maybe I will use those colors, or not - who knows?

Great - They do tend to be higher quality. I will do my best to have an entry in soon! Thank you for answering my questions.

Ahh... please take note that the March or link you got there was from LAST year in 2012. This current contest is for THIS year's (2013)

This year will be in May instead of March... it's back due to high request for it.
The organizer is gathering volunteers and help now~ So making this quick poster is a start.

**kerlyness** · 02-22-2013, 04:11 PM

Totally missed that "2012"; my bad.

Here is my entry; I deliberately wanted an "almost kissing" image because I wanted to create a sense of anticipation. I kept the rainbow idea because of the word's meaning, and also because I like rainbows. I hope you like it! I always save my PSDs and will try to make any changes you would like.