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We are a group of people who are hoping to change young impressionable talent into skilled artists; through constructive criticism, tutorials, and monthly challenges. We hope to eventually be able to run contests with prizes, but lets get established first.

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1st[link] 7 Votes - won 1 year sub (donated to us)
2nd[link] 5 Votes won 3 month sub
3rd[link] 3 Votes won 1 month Sub

Congrats to our participants. And thank you for your layout sugestion. Hopefully once i get my laptop in working order again I'll be able to set everything up.

This quarters challenges will revolve around gasp backgrounds. I HATE drawing them myself, but lets suck it up and act like men – only without the belching and the crotch scratching bits.

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Featured Artists:
- You actually painted them all O.O Impressive work overall.

- Happy to see your name here again. Hopefully our next set of challeges help you out
- So happy to see your name up here again. Hopefully we’ll see more of you in our next set of challenges

April Critiques:
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Challenges:
So lets start with a little perspective.
This will have two sections the first bit I want you to take a magazine and take a transparent sheet of paper. Find the horizon line – and find out where your pts are. This will help you learn perspective in a visual way. I don’t actually want to see it – I’ll take your word for it.

April Challenge: 1 point perspective
Due Date: April 30th
I want one floating object sheet (cubes, pyramids, whatever) and one background done in 1 point perspective. Keep it simple. Don’t bother coloring it I want to see line work. Don’t be afraid to use a ruler!

Requirements: 1 sheet of floating objects (geometric shapes) using 1pt perspective, 1 background using 1 point perspective. (I’m expecting 2 pieces)



Contests
Theme: Landscape/Cityscape
Prize: 3 month subscription
Deadline: June 30th
I want a sprawling background using whatever perspective your like. Make it visually interesting yet well balanced.
Elements for Judging: Visually Interesting, Perspective, Well Balanced, Line work. Extra points for detail and colour work.

Entries:

Tutorials
If you have a tutorial related to our challenge that you want us to add here send us a note and a link.

We have some samples of each type of perspective in our favorites.

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We will be either placing votes, which I feel is really more of a popularity contest as oppose to skill, OR doing up a score system. In the event of a tie our critics can decide the final winner.

Voting:
The voting process is going to be more of a test of promotional skills more than anything. Sure your viewer may like someone elses work and vote for theirs instead, but more often than not people will not go the extra length to check out the competition. You are to support your own work, and promote your own work. Votes will be done either through a poll system, featured here, so you will have to provide a link to the poll. (when we have one)

Score System
In the event of a score system, I will have each entry place a specific blurb asking viewers to place a score (1-5) on different categories of their piece. The Group will go in and place their opinions, you may have outsiders do the same. If anything this will give you a fair idea as to where you need to improve. At the end of the week, We will go in and gather up your scores and calculate the average. A winner will be decided on the highest score. In the event of a tie – I will open up the voting system between those two.