deviantHEART is pleased to announce that we will be holding our 2nd Annual Kindness Quilt Contest!
What is a Kindness Quilt?
Kindness Quilts are photo collages that are made up of custom Quilt Squares. They are positive and often tell a story of some kind. The templates come in two sizes, 3x3 and 4x4.
Here is a sample quilt for reference
The Theme
"My Inspiration" In the spirit of kindness and community togetherness, we decided to pick a theme that will let participants be creative and will also benefit others! For this theme, you will create a kindness quilt as a tribute to a fellow deviant who has helped and inspired you throughout your DA experience!Note: If you don't know someone on DA well enough to make a quilt for them and you would rather choose a family member, friend or any other person who inspires you, feel free to do so!
The Contest Specifics
Start date: June 22nd
End date: August 30th
Gallery: Kindness Quilts (submit entries here)
Voting begins: September 1st
Voting ends: September 15th
Winners announced: by September 20th
Resources: Quilt Pack and Quilt Square
Submission Requirements: Must be in the form of a quilt! Quilts accepted in sizes 3x3 and 4x4 (3x3 demo quilt - if you are adventurous enough to do a 5x5, we will accept those too). Quilts must be positive, must not use anything against dA rules, must credit all resources properly and may not be a group collaboration. Any visual medium can be used to create the quilt squares (photography, digital, craft, traditional, manipulations, etc). Fanart IS accepted. Bases ARE NOT accepted unless you can link to the original base showing it is not against dA rules (many traced bases are - judges will be picky when it comes to use of resources). Since this is a project that benefits others, you may submit as many quilts as you like for as many deviants as you like, but ONLY ONE WILL BE CHOSEN.
Participants need not be a member of deviantHEART!
Judges and Judging
Judges
Judges will be judging on creativity, establishment of mood and artistic improvement of the chosen visual medium. While entries must display some artistic knowledge, artistic style and ability will not be pitted against other artists. Instead, for the purposes of artistic improvement, each participants art will be judged against the most recent art in their gallery that is the same type as their quilt. So if an artist uses photographs to create their quilt, judges will look at the most recently submitted photographs in their gallery to see if they tried to improve upon their technique for this contest.
Prizes
1st place♥ An in-depth interview and special feature with deviantHEART and The-Feature-Showcase
♥ Features from: DMD-CT, Wesley-Souza, A-Wakefield, Mandies-Stock, inknalcohol, Clu-art, ShadowKittyZerolilly, MrKapre, Astralseed, CommunityStockNews, monstash, Stygma, Malintra-Shadowmoon and TheWayofLoveandLight
♥ 500 points from Tigles1Artistry
♥ 300 points from Stygma
♥ 1 Year PM from TheGalleryOfEve
2nd place♥ Features from: DMD-CT, Wesley-Souza, A-Wakefield, Mandies-Stock, inknalcohol, Clu-art, ShadowKittyZerolilly, MrKapre, Astralseed, CommunityStockNews, monstash, Stygma, Malintra-Shadowmoon and TheWayofLoveandLight
♥ 3 month PM courtesy of deviantHEART
♥ a pixel icon and a customized pixel character head bullet from ShadowKittyZerolilly
3rd place
3rd place♥ Features from: DMD-CT, Wesley-Souza, A-Wakefield, Mandies-Stock, inknalcohol, Clu-art, ShadowKittyZerolilly, MrKapre, Astralseed, CommunityStockNews, monstash, Stygma, Malintra-Shadowmoon and TheWayofLoveandLight
♥ 200 points from A-Wakefield
♥ 100 points from Stygma
♥ Exclusive stock package from Mandies-Stock
♥ 200 points from A-Wakefield
♥ 100 points from Stygma
♥ Exclusive stock package from Mandies-Stock
If you would like to donate prizes or if you would like to be a guest judge please send a note to deviantHEART and we will add you to the list!
In other news, we are very excited to announce that deviantHEART will be adding a brand new feature to our group beginning July 1st! It will be called Heart to Heart an interview series with our Featured Heartists! So if you have ever been featured by our group, expect to be contacted by our admin jenifferlee!
