Painting Contest Rules and Info

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Every contest needs rules and this one is no different! Pay attention please as we don't want any hard feelings or disqualifications due to rule bending/breaking. If you have a question, [b]ASK![/b][/TopTxt]

In order to participate in the contest you must create an account on this website in order to submit an entry and to vote in the polls which will decide the winners of the contest. You are encouraged to enjoy the forums and participate, but it is[b] NOT [/b]required in any fashion in order to enjoy the Wyrd Painting Contest.

The work must be yours alone, no passing off of someone else’s work as your own. You[b] CAN[/b] submit a miniature that someone else has converted or sculpted for you though - just not painted, based... etc.

You are allowed to submit [b]ONE[/b] entry to the contest for each category (three total). Please indicate which category you are submitting each entry for. Each miniature can only be in[b] ONE[/b] category for the competition. We reserve the right to place a miniature in the proper category if it is not stated or is 'misplaced'.

The miniature must be from the Wyrd Miniatures product line. Conversions are allowed and encouraged.

The miniature cannot have been displayed in any form elsewhere on the internet or published mediums such as magazines. All contest entries will be displayed anonymously so as to give no one person an unfair advantage (this isn't a popularity contest) and thus there can be no signatures or watermarks upon them. No announcing on forums, webpages, blogs or any other type of medium about the type of miniature that you will be painting or concept sketches.

When photographing and editing your pictures, please submit them in .JPG (JPEG) format, with a file size of no larger than 300k. Photographs can be no larger than 800 pixels wide. We are not much worried about length as it will allow you to fit in angles of the photograph. If you send a photograph that doesn't fall within the limits prescribed above, we will ask that you fix this as otherwise your entry will not be accepted.

Miniatures can be submitted any time during the contest, though none will be showcased until the day after the final submissions date. Submissions will be accepted up till Midnight, [b]EASTERN U.S.[/b] time, on the closing date of the currently running contest. Submissions after the cutoff date will [b]NOT[/b] be accepted, no exceptions.

When the contest goes live on June the 18th, upload your entry to the Wyrd Gallery, in the correct category. Your entry will not be visable till voting starts. If you need to make a change upload the image again and inform david.hanold via PM to remove the old file.