For September, we were tasked with creating a banner for the Altered Art Contest. The winner's creation will be displayed monthly along with a credit to them, much like the banner for this contest.
We had six entries. Please vote for your favorite, and feel free to discuss them here.
I've got some additional requests for whomever wins this poll.
1.) Please, don't have my name on it. If I ever step down, it would be good for the next person to have a banner ready to go.
2.) I made a slight flub - the name should be "Altered Card Contest". So whomever, wins, would you make that alteration as well for me? In most cases, that should be as easy as changing the word if you still have the PSD. Sorry!
Hello, came across this and thought I'd add a vote, because why not?
I kept opening these spoilers and thinking, "Wow, that's the winner right there, should I even open the next?" All of these were really great, my top three are lifeinsepia's (stong, simple design aesthetic), Skithiryx (colorful, nice on the eye, and iconic), and Lizard2033 (techically very well done and hilarious to boot).
I think in the end I'm going to vote for Lizard2033. The rest of you didn't make it easy on me though.
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For me it was a tough call between numotflame96 und yakusoku, as both capture the air very well that surrounds altering mtg cards for me. In the end, numotflame's version seemed a tad more appealing to me.
I like Lizard's Banner because it's funny, but the alterations it is showing look more like the quick things mtg artists do on conventions etc. Still would be my third choice.
I also wish this poll would get more attention. There are so many people that make card alterations or take part in the altered art contest, but not many of them seem to have noticed this poll...
A bit of a debate over this one. yakusoku's use of alters that can be found in the very thread this contest comes from is a fantastic idea, but as some have mentioned the text could be better. Lizard's freewheeling Sharpie-on-card background definitely got a laugh out of me, and I love the colours in Skithiryx's.
Eventually, NumotFlame won out for me as well. It, well, it just clicks for me. Though I do have to say the blue (?) around the edges of the letters seems a bit bright to my eyes, but that might just be me ><
my vote went to piet. its nice, clean, readable and captures altering a card(happens to be what my original idea was)
my next would have been lizard's, but there were a bunch or tiny things that i wish would have been cleaned up a bit. for some reason they always draw my eyes to them like the letter jutting out from behind the word "art" and theres this random line on either side of sarkhan's hat.(also i just do think that the quicky sharpie alters are what the contest is really about)
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Voted for Numot, text styles were nice,. wasn't too cluttered, etc. Easily read and stuff.
I would vote for Lizard's, but the actual altered text looks really quickly done.
I voted for Piet's I like it a lot, the only thing I would change is the title to make it a little more readable.
Two funny things regarding comments on mine though:
Numot: The letter jutting out from behind the word "art" is supposed to be there, it's the old "contest title" that was altered over.
Skithiryx: The text is actually a font so it's funny that you'd say it looks really quickly done. Notice how both A's are exactly the same.
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Well, as I see it, I can run another poll for like a week just between those two.
Or, I can just "unofficially" cast my vote that I never used.
Or, maybe I can randomly choose using a calculator? Or by rolling some forum dice?
Thoughts?
A random dice roll sucks, imho.
How about posting a link to this poll in the altered art thread and extending the deadline for a few days? This contest is about the altered art contest, but I bet that many users interested in that didn't even notice this contest because it's titel simply says "November Photoshop Contest".
How about posting a link to this poll in the altered art thread and extending the deadline for a few days? This contest is about the altered art contest, but I bet that many users interested in that didn't even notice this contest because it's titel simply says "November Photoshop Contest".
Well, first, I can't extend the deadline. This would be a good idea if I could, but I can't. As in, the forum software doesn't give me that option.
I didn't mention in the regular altered art thread because so many users from there aren't participating in the contests. I did mention it in the altered card contest threads.
I'm not generally active in this part of the forum (or really any part of it), but I second Trancebam's idea. A second thread with just those two options would be tons better than a dice roll or another fair, but random way to decide.
I forget which banner it is butover in the avatar and sig shops, there's one where there was a tie for a contest for a thread banner and rather than New poll, different aspects of both banners by a third artist and used that, giving credit to all three artists. If Everybody else would be open to this I think that might work.
Asumming he's open to it I would nominate Spiderboy4 for the 3rd artist
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I forget which banner it is butover in the avatar and sig shops, there's one where there was a tie for a contest for a thread banner and rather than New poll, different aspects of both banners by a third artist and used that, giving credit to all three artists. If Everybody else would be open to this I think that might work.
Asumming he's open to it I would nominate Spiderboy4 for the 3rd artist
I had that thought as well. It could work. Use Numot's layout but make the altered cards look more like the "joke" alters in Lizard's.
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Banner by ChrisXIV
For September, we were tasked with creating a banner for the Altered Art Contest. The winner's creation will be displayed monthly along with a credit to them, much like the banner for this contest.
We had six entries. Please vote for your favorite, and feel free to discuss them here.
Here are the entrants:
This poll will close December 19th!
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1.) Please, don't have my name on it. If I ever step down, it would be good for the next person to have a banner ready to go.
2.) I made a slight flub - the name should be "Altered Card Contest". So whomever, wins, would you make that alteration as well for me? In most cases, that should be as easy as changing the word if you still have the PSD. Sorry!
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I kept opening these spoilers and thinking, "Wow, that's the winner right there, should I even open the next?" All of these were really great, my top three are lifeinsepia's (stong, simple design aesthetic), Skithiryx (colorful, nice on the eye, and iconic), and Lizard2033 (techically very well done and hilarious to boot).
I think in the end I'm going to vote for Lizard2033. The rest of you didn't make it easy on me though.
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I like Lizard's Banner because it's funny, but the alterations it is showing look more like the quick things mtg artists do on conventions etc. Still would be my third choice.
I also wish this poll would get more attention. There are so many people that make card alterations or take part in the altered art contest, but not many of them seem to have noticed this poll...
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Eventually, NumotFlame won out for me as well. It, well, it just clicks for me. Though I do have to say the blue (?) around the edges of the letters seems a bit bright to my eyes, but that might just be me ><
my next would have been lizard's, but there were a bunch or tiny things that i wish would have been cleaned up a bit. for some reason they always draw my eyes to them like the letter jutting out from behind the word "art" and theres this random line on either side of sarkhan's hat.(also i just do think that the quicky sharpie alters are what the contest is really about)
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I would vote for Lizard's, but the actual altered text looks really quickly done.
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Two funny things regarding comments on mine though:
Numot: The letter jutting out from behind the word "art" is supposed to be there, it's the old "contest title" that was altered over.
Skithiryx: The text is actually a font so it's funny that you'd say it looks really quickly done. Notice how both A's are exactly the same.
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um...what do we do?
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Or, I can just "unofficially" cast my vote that I never used.
Or, maybe I can randomly choose using a calculator? Or by rolling some forum dice?
Thoughts?
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A random dice roll sucks, imho.
How about posting a link to this poll in the altered art thread and extending the deadline for a few days? This contest is about the altered art contest, but I bet that many users interested in that didn't even notice this contest because it's titel simply says "November Photoshop Contest".
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I understand - it's not my favorite way to decide either. But, it would quickly take care of the question.
Well, first, I can't extend the deadline. This would be a good idea if I could, but I can't. As in, the forum software doesn't give me that option.
I didn't mention in the regular altered art thread because so many users from there aren't participating in the contests. I did mention it in the altered card contest threads.
Further thoughts from anyone?
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Ah, I see. Well, it was worth a thought, I guess.
Seems like it's your burden to decide what to do with it
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Asumming he's open to it I would nominate Spiderboy4 for the 3rd artist
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Do you mean, the third artist kind of merges the top two entries to get a new one? Hmm... could be intersting...
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I had that thought as well. It could work. Use Numot's layout but make the altered cards look more like the "joke" alters in Lizard's.
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Claims:
The kicker variant in WWK will be "Kicker without a kicked effect." - proven wrong Jan 2010 : 2 wrongs
Decks:
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:symu::symb::symw: Sharuum the Hegemon - EDH
:symw::symu::symb: Zur the Enchanter - EDH
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