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falingard · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:37 am Post subject: Flaky Pastry Fan Contest!

Flaky Pastry Fan Contest! Croissant!

What?
That's right, I'm holding a contest for Flaky Pastry fans! Some have asked for it - or rather, voted for that option over nine others when polled. So, here we go! Anyone can enter, with basically any kind of fan work. Drawings, paintings, cosplay, fanfics, poems, 3D models, flash animations, songs, stained glass, bronze sculpture, land art, etc. etc. The theme is anything related to Flaky Pastry (as in the webcomic).

You can submit your work in one of the following ways:

By e-mail, to: contest (at) runningwithpencils.com
On this forum, just post a link to it in this thread
On the Sage Comics forum, in the thread there: (link)
Through my deviantart account; either reply to the journal post or send me a note.

Rules:

The deadline for the contest is October 16th 2009, at midnight. That gives you two months!
What you enter must be your own work, obviously.
You can enter more than once, as long as you enter another kind of fan work (a drawing, a fanfic, and a puppet show, for exemple) - you're still only eligible to win once. Yeah, the only reason for this is to encourage diversity!
PG-13, please!

Prizes:
After the deadline, I will pick winners! The criteria for attribution of prizes will be "Most awesome". Yes, that is a bit subjective. There is also a strong possibility of honourable mentions. And definitely all the entries will be listed in the Art page of the comic site. The winners will get prizes, which they will choose from this list:

A full colour commission from me
Three pencil commissions from me
A cameo (almost certainly non-speaking) of the character of your choice in Flaky Pastry
A 25$ gift certificate from the online vendor of your choice (as long as it does offer gift certificates)

The first place winner gets to pick two (2) choices from this list.
The second place winner gets to pick one (1).
The same option may be picked more than once, by either winner.

But wait! There's more! If the contest ends up being really popular, I might kick things up a notch.

If there is a total of 100 entrants or more in the contest, then I will be really surprised. But also:
The first place winner gets to pick three (3) choices from the list.
The second place winner gets to pick two (2).
The third place winner gets to pick one (1).

So get cookin'! Twirling

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falingard · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:09 pm Post subject:

First place!

by Nau

Second place!
by Lomebririon

Honourable mentions!
Purifier Over Zazabul by Chris Challice
by WingsOfWrath
by MonkeyDomi
by Aja
by Kashim

All the other awesome entries!
by Starchasm
by Kevin
by Maiko
by Invader Scurk
by limpet666
by Aphius
by Safeer-4
by Jessica Gunn
by My Ryou Kitty
by Farthingale
by AngelOfTragedy
by SatsugaiKaze
by PipoChan
by Chrilith
by Dexter Morgan
by Missy
by Legacy
by Black-Tsundere
by Lorien077
by Piksl
Lady from Another World by Atari800
by Jai
by Katay-Chan

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Kevin · Transcendant Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 511

Feel free to delete my post, FG, but I'm just wondering if maybe it should be:

MOST VENOM

instead of most awesome Twisted Evil

Or is it automatically assumed that nothing can be as venom as your artwork - which is an assumption I am prepared to support Wink

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falingard · Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:15 am Post subject:

Sorry if there was a misunderstanding

You're totally allowed to post in this thread as much as you like! it's just the second post that I was reserving to summarize all the entries so far Very Happy

"Most Venom" might have been in keeping with the theme, but I think "most awesome" will be clearer, since we're using the dictionary definition of the word, which would not be the case with venom Laughing

Heck, I could make the criteria "Most überdandy" if we were in the future Du du dududu du du!

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Kashim · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject:

Well i had the day off work and wanted to make some fan-art but i'm not artistic. Anyway attached is what i came up with. Its a post-skeleton-fight neighbour.
( http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=44 )

http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss146/Aqueous_photo/LastMag.jpg

Any questions, feel free to ask.

falingard · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 5:39 pm Post subject:

Very cool, Kashim! Very Happy

Congratulations on being the first entrant in the contest, btw Cool

I have to wonder, though! Where is that photo from? Is that you or a friend of yours under the manip?

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Kashim · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:12 pm Post subject:

The photo was taken in a burned out mill house, a few decades ago it burned down and just the lower stone level remained, a roof was built on it and its used as storage now. The pistol is just one of my pistols (Springfield xd in .45 ACP) and the rifle is airsoft. All the bullet casings I just picked up at the shooting range last week. The vest i made with some black canvas, an old jacket zipper and some stuff i had laying around.

Under the very poor photoshop work is me, shot with a cheap digital camera on a time release.

Kevin · Transcendant Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 511

Your picture is 100% awesome Very Happy

I'm not sure I should do mine now I have no chance.
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MerchManDan · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:14 pm Post subject:

Since I lack confidence in my own creativity (or creatativity, for that matter), I may have to sit this contest out. Which would suck, 'cause those are some nifty prizes. So I have to enter, just to try to win. Argh. Neutral

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Keljan · Journeyman Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Posts: 27

I was thinking about entering the contest just for fun (not even thinking of the prizes here, I entirely skipped that secion on the first (and second) readthroughs).

My artwork sucks, but I might give it a shot.
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falingard · Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:25 pm Post subject:

That's nifty and cool, Kashim! Pie!

I love how you got to this result just with stuff you had readily accessible to you... then again, I don't have guns or burnt-down windmills available to me, so yeah

Anyway, great job!

You other guys: Pffffff! Just because someone else already entered the contest isn't a good reason to not enter! Twirling

There's at least two winners, for one thing Wink

Not to mention honourable mentions (mentioning mentions?) Haha, it's up to you of course, but I hope you all do enter! Smile

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Kevin · Transcendant Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 511

ok ^_^ I will try ^_^

(try not, do, or do not, there is no try)

yes Yoda, I know, I kno.

^_^
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Keljan · Journeyman Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Posts: 27

Kevin · Transcendant Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 511

I dunno... you know, same old thing, want to kill people, lots of people, all people I don't like.

Twisted Evil

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MerchManDan · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject:

"Adventure" - hmph! "Excitement" - heh! A Jedi craves not these things!
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