Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-30307603-20170130024022



Hello, everyone! Hope your day has been going well.

You've read that title right! We're bringing back the wiki's art contest (hopefully). That being said, welcome to the Gumball Wiki Drawing Marathon - February 2017!

The Goal
Now, of course, with this being slightly out-of-the-blue, allow me to explain why this is happening. Now, this wiki has been going through a "revival stage" of sorts in the past month, and one of my proposals to help revive the place was to bring this back.

It was cast back for awhile, but now that idea has been brought back to the limelight.

Now, what do I hope to accomplish by doing this? My goal is to make this a monthly thing (and even revive the writing competition alongside with it, but that's for another date). However, in order to do that, we need participants, and and not people who say they're going to do something but end up not doing it.

This competition right now: it's a test. A test on whether or not people are still interested by the idea. If enough people participate, then this contest will become a regular thing on this wiki. If people come out and don't do anything, then we'll scarp the idea. Please, if you have any artistic talent, and a fan of Gumball, send in your art.

Overview
Now, what does the winner receive? Whoever wins this competition will have his/her artwork displayed on the front page for everyone to admire.

It's not much, but to have your artwork admired by all these fans is something to take pride in.

What's fair game for this competition? Although the title is "drawing", anythig is perfectly acceptable as long as it's presented in the form of a still image and is related and focused on The Amazing World of Gumball ideas and concepts. Examples include:


 * Drawings (Hand drawn or computer generated)
 * 3D Art
 * Photography
 * Clay figures

Again, as long as it's in the form of a still image, it's perfectly acceptable. It's up to you to make a judgement call on whether your art is applicable.

The theme? Because this is a "test-run", there is no real "theme", so create to your heart's desire as long as it fits the rules and regulations.

How Do I Submit My Work?
It's simple! All you have to do to submit your work is a leave a comment with your artwork uploaded to this wiki. If you plan to participate, although it's not required, a heads up will be great.

If you need more information on how to attach art to your comment, please go here:

http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Uploading_files

http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Photos

Rules
Alright, let's go over some rules:


 * No nudity or NSFW content. Self-explanatory. Failure to follow this rule results in an automatic disqualification and a ban on your account.
 * Work must be your own, original content. Plagiarizing of any sorts will not be tolerated. If somebody catches you in the act, you will receive an automatic disqualification.
 * You are allotted one submission. If you submit more than one, only your most recent submission will be accepted.
 * Deadline for submissions is February 26th, 2017 at 6:00 P.M. eastern standard time (this website can help you determine what the time is for your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html). Unless something goes wrong, this is a hard deadline. Under normal circumstances, the thread will be closed, and no more submissions will be accepted, so don't procrastinate.
 * Again, only still images will be accepted. Failure to so will result in a disqualification.
 * Again, it must Gumball-related. Original characters do count as Gumball-related. If your artwork contains nothing originating from the series, your artwork will be disqualified.

Also, this is not a rule per-say, but a lot of the users here are highly biased against original characters. Although we will accept your artwork that includes original characters provided that there are actual Gumball characters in it as well, I would highly advise against including them.

Voting and Scoring
Once the deadline passes, a new thread will be made containing all the submitted, eligible art. All users will be allowed to vote for a piece of artwork between February 26th and March 5th. This is where the winning artwork will be announced.

More details to be revealed later.

Prize
As the winner said, the winning art piece will have their work displayed on the front page until the next contest.

Conclusion
Hopefully, this should be fun! I hope artists decide to participate in this. If you have any questions regarding the event, you can contact the following users on their boards:

Message Wall:Gameuser10

Message Wall:Csillagfény

You can also contact me if you want, but I'm probably the least qualified since I'm not anyone of special power.

Please don't pull a 5th anniversary and claim you're going to do something but you don't do it. 