While at Mexico city my mind opened up and I came up with this:
With Graham's thumbs up of course. I want to pitch an idea; We haven't had another of those "contest" for quite some time, and I think those bring up a lot of people's talent out of their lazy-hands. :-) We have so much talent here, that's a fact. Some of the originality from artist and writers have astonish us all for years. I for one think that a good piece of simpson art does not have to be perfectly on model. Its more of a sublte thing to it to be admirable.
Graham did a woderful job on the last contest, but seriously, we really needed more contestants. For that reason I'm planning to go on a search throughout the web looking for artists " simpson fan artists". You'll be surprised there is more that we can count on.
Another thing I want to do a litle different is to separate the artist and writers into 2 groups: Beginner or Intermediate. How can we decide this? Well, I'm pretty sure you all know where you belong. And don't worry; being begginer or inter doesn't have anything to do with who you are. This is all fan artwork, a chance to express our feelings without going overboard if you all know what I mean. Not sex or gore.
Now, note that this is some idea I came up with, nothing is final yet until I get your feedback, people.
You may wonder what is it in for me? Well, the pleasure for participating sometimes is not enough to motivate, I know and understand, so I came up with an idea. It may sound a little unorthodox, but here it is.
There are going to be two kinds of contests. The writing one might want some book or something regarding what he/she does while the drawing one some kind of anatomy book. It all depends. We are roughly around 50 20 regulars here. How much can each of us cooperate to get some money for the prizes? Because you know, this is for the good of the forum.
So, I don't want to come out with the amount myself, instead, I'd like to know what's your position on this. Then we could go further with the ideas. If this goes to the final stage and gets to work nicely, I won't participate. I'll be focusing on reviewing the art. And I might need help from someone to review the writing, cause I'm not that of an expert on that one. Also, it would be nice if there's two reviewers for each kind of contest. Sheana, it would give me great pleasure if you could help me out with this if this gets to happens. And I know there are more that one pretty good writer in here. :-)
If anyone has a question about this, and would like to ask or give opinions privately, send me a private message. 'Till later!
* On top of that, I'm willing to give some extra prizes on my behalf. A full color calendar done by me for the year 2007. I've been working on it before I even thought about this.
