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Welcome to the first ever themed version of the monthly Shift Art Challenge: Winter!
You’ll notice that this challenge has no human models, and thus no entries can have a human subject! I am providing a variety of animal images, keeping with the winter theme. I can’t wait to see what you all come up with!
Below you will find the rules as well as the images to be used in your composition. Entries will be judged by Andrei Tallent, Caroline Julia Moore, and Gail Edwards!
Winning entry will be featured on the front page of Shift Art!
The winner of this challenge will have their artwork featured on the front page of Shift Art! Also, the winning piece will be used for the header image of our private Facebook group!
The winner will receive a $30.00 gift certificate to use at the RawExchange Image Manipulation Store Visit Shift Art Shop for stock images!
Runners Up Prizes:
Runners up will receive a texture pack of their choice from Caroline Julia Moore Fine Art Textures & Elements (if you have recently purchased the Complete CJM Bundle, then you will receive the next Collection to be released soon)! Caroline has provided two textures and two gradients, all available in the download below. The elements provided by Caroline are from her Ice Shards Collection.
Caroline’s collections are amazing, so please consider her store next time you need a cool texture!
Sponsor:
RawExchange has provided four images for this challenge. Using them in your piece is optional.
RawExchange is an online store that offers a tremendous range of cool assets for digital artists. There are amazing backgrounds, overlays, models and other goodies. If you haven’t checked them out yet:
RawExchange (the challenge will still be here when you get back :-))
Images provided by
RawExchange in this challenge are from their Snow and Glass bundles.
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Bonus Giveaway!
The winner will receive a $97 gift certificate to use at the RawExchange Image Manipulation Store Visit Shift Art Shop for stock images!
Challenge Rules:
- All entrants must be Shift Art members. Join for free here.
- Entries must be received by midnight on December 15, 2017 U.S. Pacific Time (UTM-8).
- You must use a minimum of three (3) of the images provided.
- One of the images you use (from the images provided) must be the main subject of your work. – Note: this is the most frequently overlooked rule – please follow it to enter the challenge.
- Special rule: You must incorporate at least one of the textures from the CJM Fine Art Textures & Elements texture pack (included in the download packet).
- New rule: In the interest of fairness, previous featured artists are now excluded from participating in the member challenge.
- You may use any of your own assets/images as long as they are under public domain, or if you have full commercial rights to them. This includes textures and overlays. See our article on finding images for ideas of where to find images.
- Only one entry per person per challenge.
All images included on this page, and in the zip file for this challenge, were found Pixabay and are dedicated to the public domain:
You must be logged in to download the image zip file and texture pack.