bwchallenge
Black & White Graphics Challenge
LiveJournal.com Profile
Full LiveJournal.com profile, including information such as interests and bio.
application/rss+xml
Welcome to bwchallenge Rules About the Challenges Welcome to our Black and White Challenge community. Your mod is quiddity_. Here at bwchallenge we compete on a weekly basis to make the best black and white icons/graphics. Each week, participants choose three themes to work with and then go about creating their submissions for competition. Voting is held, and at the end of the week the winners are announced and the whole thing starts over again. There are currently four banner makers that rotate each week ( benelie, lauralovesnaley, punishmentally, & stormatdusk). If you would like to become a banner maker, please leave a comment here. To join, click the join community button above. Posting access is not necessary. All entries and votes are made through comments. If you have any questions, suggestions, comments, complaints, or anything you'd like to say to the mod please leave a comment at this post. 1. Read the rules. All of them. 2. You must join the community to submit entries. 3. DO NOT SHOW YOUR SUBMISSIONS ANYWHERE BEFORE RESULTS ARE POSTED. This is not a popularity contest, do not turn this comm into one. 4. Please do not ask for posting access. It is not needed as all submissions and votes are done through comments. 5. Because this is an anonymous challenge community, moderators are permitted to participate. Submitting: 1. At the beginning of each challenge, the mod will make a post where you can reply with your submission(s). Comments will be screened so only you and the moderator(s) can see your entries. 2. ENTIRE SUBMISSION MUST BE BLACK AND WHITE. NO EXCEPTIONS 3. Unless otherwise noted: textures, brushes, text, gradients, etc. are permitted; blending is okay; animation is okay. 3. All icons must adhere to LJ's standards (100x100px; <=40kb; .png, .gif, or .jpg/.jpeg). 4. Please do NOT host your icons in your userpic page (PhotoBucket & ImageShack work wonderfully.) 5. Submit your entries to the appropriate challenge post ONLY. 6. When submitting your entry, please use the following format: IMG: SRC: http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm36/bwlims/bwchal_icon_def.png Theme: TV/MOVIE/STOCK Cap Resource(s): (If applicable) Voting: 1. DO NOT VOTE FOR YOURSELF. 2. Depending on how many icons are entered each challenge, the number of places awarded may change. If more than 5 people enter, three places will be voted on. If under 5 people enter, your top two. And 3 people or under, you'll be voting for only your top one icon. 3. Voting IS weighted. That means (if we have more than 10 icons) for every first place vote, the icon will receive 3 points; every second place vote, 2; and third place, 1. If there is any confusion on the rules, please head on over to this post. Depending on what the participants choose for the next challenge, the following themes will be used: movie, stock images, television, celebrity, fashion theme (be it a model, editorial spread, or something else), music (singer/band, music videos), anime/manga (official work ONLY), technique, lyrical, or a wild card (the mod chooses). General Rules for ALL themes 1. For each theme, you will be supplied three (3) pictures to use. Unless otherwise noted, you are NOT required to use the provided pictures. 2. As long as the submission follows the theme it is entered under, any picture is allowed. 3. You may submit up to two (2) icons per theme. Usually there are three themes per challenge, which would mean that you could submit up to six (6) icons total. 4. You are not required nor expected to enter all the themes. 5. You CANNOT mix themes. Rules for Celebrity theme 1. If you choose to use your own image(s), the celebrity MUST be out of character. (e.g. no icons of Daniel Craig as James Bond) 2. These rules supersede the general rules. Rules for Lyrical theme 1. The submission must have at least three legible consecutive words from the provided lyrics. 2. No other words except those provided may be used on the icon. 3. ANY picture may be used, you do not have to stick to the other themes of the challenge. (If you do choose to combine the lyrics and another theme, PLEASE SPECIFY which theme your entering your submissions under.) 4. Tiny text is acceptable, as long as the first rule has been achieved. 5. These rules supersede the general rules. Rules for Technique theme 1. If any images are provided, you MUST use (at least) one. 2. The technique must be clearly visible. 3. ANY picture may be used, you do not have to stick to the other themes of the challenge. (If you do choose to combine the technique and another theme, PLEASE SPECIFY which theme your entering your submissions under.) 4. These rules supersede the general rules. Resources: A comprehensive list of black and white graphics tutorials on lj at icon_tutorial. The following sites are occasionaly used when caps are provided: Movies/Television: cap_it, CrystalFires, daydreaming, Denying-Insanity, dj_capslock, hires_tvmovie, leavemethewhite, OutNow.CH, paper-faces, Shootastic, SweetandTalented.com Stock: Getty Images, stock.xchng, Veer Fashion: foto_decadent, hires_models, ht_photography, pictorialize If you have any suggestions or questions about resources, head over to this post Schedule: SUNDAY: Challenge posted. WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY: Reminder posted. FRIDAY: Voting posted. SUNDAY: Winners announced. Rinse and repeat. Credits Header: quiddity_ CSS: toyhouse Affiliates animationstills, bana_lims, beauty_lims, beauty_still, billie_lims, brit_chllg, bsg_abcicons, bwcolor_stills, createandshine, costumelims, eowyn_icontest, francostills, kate_stills, keira_lims, legolasicontest, mcadamsstills, metal_lims, metal_stillness, models_stills, notoriouscolor, pb_stillness, pine_lims, sandra_stills, scandi_chllg, scarlett_lims, startrek_lims, stock_lims, text_rumble, various_contest, wentworthstills, wordaffiliation, xtina_lims, you_choose_ic Cohort in Crime bwlims Please leave a comment here to request affiliation.
b&w
black
black & white
black & white icons
black and white
black and white films
black and white icons
black&white
black/white
concepts
contest
creativity
dvds
fandom
fandoms
graphics
gray
grey
icon challenge
icon challenges
icon contest
icon contests
icon making
iconcontest
iconmaking
icons
icontest
icontests
images
livejournal icons
lj icons
monochromatic
monochrome
movies
photographs
pictures
places
stock images
stock photos
television
text
themes
tv shows
white
xrocktheshow
ROCK THE SHOW.
veeteenese
veetee
veeteeneese
see_youagain
jam_min
i lost myself in a familiar song
juliet42
Alex
Alex- Blogathon 2009
emmyrose224
Nani
rolypoly_laurie
Laurie
Be your own Hero
lauralovesnaley
Laura
Perfectly Imperfect
merihn
Dismantle. Repair
capelle
Red Panda
arlene_rosalie
Arlene-Rosalie
I came to buy a smile today.
remusthewolf
Remus
ginxy
Pixie Rant
eluminat
Maniac
последний герой
astral_angel
astral-angel
[astral-angel]
my_innersanctum
My Inner Sanctum
I Must Not Fear
afeastforme
Lex Deletia
starlight & crime scenes
maiisaki
your carefully coreographed charm.
visual fixation
cerberusk
Kimberly
i wake up in a cold sweat...
benelie
Parodie de Paradis
A fangirl from Paris
lady_kingsley
Lady_Kingsley
ohlimey
and the world spins madly on
heracles
fought the law.
eryslash
Ariel aka Ery
in the moonlight, you'll dance till you fall
persilchen
Everything unrelated to elephants
hpnarnia
Deniz
Dark Secret Revealed. . .
nocturnelles
Who said nights were for sleep?
frootloopkicker
Lisa
klinche
empty spaces
goodbye_anymore
bella_svetlana
call me a dreamer...
lady_iz
Izzie
The Land of Iz
jaejunggim
but only one star is shining so handsomely. I can only see that star.♡
linatetizz
persephone
After Twilight comes the NIGHT
aquapuras
Amethystine Aquamarine
Learning to Breathe
ani_baby
squint your eyes and look closer..
driveshaft108
the shape of things to come
greystreehill
GreysTreeHill
Hayleys Art
itsarift_thing
Publish and be damned
It's a Rift Thing
ningloreth
words and pictures
_mytruth_
Jen
In between the lines there's a lot of obscurity
divas
OMG! it's Maggie!
I know I can be a diva sometimes, but I have to be in control.
sundaymorning13
Sunday
Happening Level: It's.
rock_rabbit
pix✦L
~Runaway
love7mrh
vivalascuzz
»§çüZz¥«
things are shaping up to be pretty odd
lalita000
Lalita
what goes up must come down but don't let me fall.
faeriesfolly
Morgan
Pretty is as pretty does
_virsaviya_
virsaviya
История души человеческой...
rubber_dick
rubberdick
ehsdancer22
What I Did For Love Graphics
immortalje
je pierson
JE's Ramblings
gerryswenchie
DickiesBint
LD ART
yrprocks66
Monica
So we burst into colors, colors and carousels,
quiddity_
Becca
kwɪdɪti
andfauna
Shannon Leigh
&fauna
flawinmyarmor
Steph
poco a poco
russian_hotness
Nastya
Не такая как все
atlanticise
your second-hand smoke
and we are here as on a darkling plain;
azurewhite
pedoface ❤
if i were a bird
americangrl69
Heather
Heather's Journal
greymateria
( f r o s t s )
rina_nexum
Рина
On the way to Wonderland
punishmentally
the damage done
kala_way
its only the wind
searchingstars
Looking to the future
setentpet
keidiarji
「 kimui 」
「 In the axis of Inspiration 」
allllure
Janine.
you'll say the word and i'll disappear.
arcadianmaggie
Arcadian Maggie on Live Journal
happy_harper13
Harper
it's all in the game, yo. all in the game.
evolretsalp
Southbound train.
kazzy_cee
Karen
The word
smtgbeautiful
kaeleighjustice
Jennifer's Icon Creations
hervoicelingers
Her voice lingers...
coldprey