[Contest] Coloring of a Phantasm!

[♛ Apher-Forte]

Hey people, this will be my first time hosting a competition of sorts, and I want to assure that there are people willing to join before all else.

What I am going to do is to host a coloring competition.

YES

With this being the case, recently I have done a selection of three fine girls which I drew, before and after. What I want to YOU to do is to color them.

But not just color, even if ZUN was capable of making some really cute colors on girls (including Zombie Reimu) ; so SHOULD YOU be able to interpret a color for the characters.

I have three girls.

These are your charges!
Color them well.

Suwako Moriya (slightly colored, feel free to change everything)

Sakuya (slightly filtered) and unfiltered --->

Futo - PNG edition because I can.

work on them!


In which the best of three will be colored ACCORDING TO YOUR OWN DESIGN will be judged hopefully by a handful of selected individuals
To make things easy, I am gonna try my level best to cut them out, and give you a PNG file to work with, failing which you can always upload as a JPG

The best combination of colors I would suggest would be like those you see in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody player colors, combine, create, mutilate your own.

The three girls who come out best (preferably not flat colors) in whichever program, media, traditional tools you use and uploaded (preferably in full size) will win:


1 x DVD of an anime,

 currently I have:

Strike Witches Season 1 and 2 box edition (and if I feel like it, you can have my yet LIMITED unused Major Sakamoto huggable dakimakura cover!) ; Mahou Shoujo Madoka + 1 LIMITED special booklet from Megami Magazine featurette ; and Arakawa Under The Bridge Season 1 and 2 Megabox edition DVD with Music CD containing OP/ED of two seasons.

YES, the prize is luxurious, each is worth about $60 - 70 in Amerikkan dollarz. and I am giving it away.

ALL you need to TO DO is to interpret a color of a character in Touhou that I drew in YOUR OWN WAY.
There are no rules, other than NOT copy each other or being a shithead. (or stealing it from DevArt)


Are you game? :ohdear:


Updates"
1. as of now, I decided there shall be 1 winner in each category.
2. the prizes are first come first serve basis, so if you have any complaints please feel free to spit at the nearest capitalism economy.
3. no plagiarism, have fun, and certainly be creative!

[pineyappled]

Count me in.

[Aoshi-shi]

Sounds pretty cool. I'll join as well. o/

[Berzul]

hmm I would be in, for the sake of doing stuff I do not aim for prizes that is...

[DX7.EP]

I may join if boredom strikes.

BTW what is the DVD region?

[Grimarg]

I'm intrigued, count me in

[♛ Apher-Forte]

I may join if boredom strikes.

BTW what is the DVD region?

it is available in 4 languages as far as I know, Thai included.
there should be no problem in terms of subtitles.

[DX7.EP]

it is available in 4 languages as far as I know, Thai included.
there should be no problem in terms of subtitles.

Well, DVDs have region coding to prevent piracy (yeah that worked out well :V).
This, along with the NTSC/PAL divide, are quite annoying to deal with outside that particular locale.

[♛ Apher-Forte]

I dunno man, plays fine here, pretty sure it will be okay elsewhere.

[Drake]

I might try something interesting. Maybe not. But we'll see.

[Dr.Strafe]

Post the pictures up, and I'll give it a shot. I need to get back into my graphics work anyway. 

[Kerigis]

Sounds pretty cool! I'd like to give it a shot.
Although I hope my PS skills are up to the job. (hardly?)

[Grimarg]

PS? what's that? :V

I'll just use my brother's pencils

[KrackoCloud]

Is the color design more important than the quality of our coloring?
Because although this sounds fun, I'm terrible at coloring :U

[bennelsey]

Post the pictures up, and I'll give it a shot. I need to get back into my graphics work anyway. 

that and i like prizes

[♛ Apher-Forte]

I will work on that bit once I cleared my head a little more.

The way I see it, the quality and the design works well = win.
so if you can do both, your chances surely are higher.
of course, imo, if there is a really good coloring/ good combi of colors, said entry should win should there be no other 'more appealing' entries so to be said.

[Formless God]

Madoka

Signed

[J.O.B]

Can I half sign?
As in, don't expect an entry, but if I do one, then count it.
Also if I win (chances aren't that good) the prizes would be passed to second as I don't really like those.

[Vyrien]

Madoka Magica DVD? Hell yes! Although I have lots of stuff on so don't expect an entry from me particularly.

Although now Formless has joined no-one has a hope in hell any more :V

[♛ Apher-Forte]

Updates"
1. as of now, I decided there shall be 1 winner in each category.
2. the prizes are first come first serve basis, so if you have any complaints please feel free to spit at the nearest capitalism economy.
3. no plagiarism, have fun, and certainly be creative!



Suwako Moriya (slightly colored, feel free to change everything)

Sakuya (slightly filtered) and unfiltered --->

Futo - PNG edition because I can.

work on them!

[Aoshi-shi]

Oh, just wondering; when is the deadline for submitting stuff? <:

[Dr.Strafe]

Established Touhou characters? Huh. I thought we were going to be coloring your original characters. Nevertheless, it should be fun.

So, just to clarify, we're creating our own color schemes for the characters like the alternate color palettes from SWR? And yeah, we'll need a deadline.

[♛ Apher-Forte]

Yes, you are creating your own color scheme as a contest theme.

I could make it so that you can choose to color MY characters or established Touhou characters, let's have a vote on that if you all would. PM me if you wish for this matter or post here.

and the deadline? how's 1 and half months? surely that is enough, personally I prefer it to be 1 month.
that is 31 days from today, which is September 13th, hence the deadline would be October 14th. (my time)

[Dr.Strafe]

That's up to you, whether you prefer the contest feature Touhou characters or your own. I just thought that you were going to use some original characters, since they offer more flexibility on color schemes. But we're good with the current selection. :3

[HakureiSM]

Holy shit A-Ffle, how did I not notice this before

I'm so game

[Wolfsbane706]

What a place to introducce myself.  Anyways, I'd like to consider myself signed.  Downloading, printing, and coloring should be easy.  It's scanning and uploading that'll be a bit tough.

[Formless God]

Can I add patterns on top of the coloring ? Something like her design :V

P.S. what's with those odd ~glitches~ in futo.png

[Kerigis]

Can we take part on all three girls?

[Dr.Strafe]

Can we take part on all three girls?

I believe so.

[Wolfsbane706]

I ended up having to put the picture I'd chosen on DeviantArt, due to the fact that as large as it was, it wouldn't print properly, so I ended up shrinking it in GIMP, where it still wouldn't print.  End result was posting it on DA and crediting it to the original artist best I could.  I hope you don't mind.  It was the only method I could come up with of actually printing it on a single sheet.