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We are multi-fandom! This community is for a variety of icontests and challenges, both personal and competitive. Challenge themes will be open to interpretation, so all fandoms are welcome, unless otherwise specified for the specific challenge.

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Pick My Best


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"Pick My Best" was a community on LiveJournal which has since fallen inactive. A short description of this type of challenge: "The icontest where iconmakers compete against themselves."

• Your icons for this challenge can be new or old - it's up to you.

• You should post your icons in an entry to this community.

• You can post a batch of 25 or 50 icons that you have made, the preferred coding for these tables is below!

• After you post, you'll have one week to gather votes and then an admin will count the votes and comment on your entry with your winning icons (try to remember to save awards and upload them on your own server).

• Voters are to choose three icons and place them first, second and third. They can also leave comments of encouragement or constructive criticism if they'd like (or if you'd like). Here is a sample code to put at the bottom of your entry for voters:

<textarea>
<b>1ST:</b>
<b>2ND:</b>
<b>3RD:</b>
<b>NOTES:</b>
</textarea>

• An example of an entry, voting and awards can be found here: Pick My Best Sample.

• You can post sample icons at the top of your entry - no more than three! :D

• Please label your entry's subject "Pick My Best", and tag it similarly.

25 ICONS


50 ICONS

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Pick My Best Gallery


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Pick My Best 1st Place Gallery )

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10 Variations


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"10 Variations" was a community on LiveJournal which has since fallen inactive. A short description of this type of challenge: "The icontest to create a set of ten different icons from the same (1) image."

• Your icons for this challenge should be new.

• Your entry should be posted to this community and it should be complete at the time you post it.

• You can do whatever you'd like with your images before or after you've posted them here. They're yours. :D

• Your icon of choice will be added to our "10 Variations" gallery, and your batch will be linked to. Your self-chosen top icon will be uploaded to a Photobucket for the community and will not take bandwidth from you.

• An example of an entry can be found here: 10 Variations Sample.

• You should post your original image (or a thumbnail & link) above your 10 variations in your entry.

• Please label your entry's subject "10 Variations", and tag it similarly.

Rule Set #1 )
Rule Set #2 )

10 Variations Coding: Rule Set #1


10 Variations Coding: Rule Set #2

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10 Variations Favorites Gallery


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10 Variations Favorites Gallery )

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Weekly Challenge Information


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The Weekly Challenge is loosely based on my community on LiveJournal which has since fallen inactive (still_epics). Challenges will consist of weekly themes and sometimes focus on specific fandoms, but will mostly be open to interpretation.

OUR ROTATION
MONDAYS (after 12:01am)
new challenges will be posted.

MONDAYS (after 12:01am)
voting begins on challenges (those that were posted the previous Monday).

TUESDAYS (after 11:59pm)
voting ends.

WEDNESDAYS (after 12:01am)
winners are announced.

THURSDAYS (after 12:01am)
mid-week reminder is issued.

FRIDAYS
by this day, awards should be posted, or soon afterwards.

• Reply to each challenge in a comment with your submissions (see below for coding/instructions). Do not make an entry to the community for your weekly icontest entries. The contest is anonymous (except to admins) until voting ends and winners are announced.

• Do not submit icons that you have previously created for some other purpose.

• Don't share your icons until voting has ended.

• You may submit up to four (4) icons per challenge (4 for the regular, 4 for the theme, should there be one).

• If you are entering both the theme and regular challenges, please make note of which entries are for which, even if it is obvious. You can enter them in different comments, or all together (up to 8) but with 'regular' and 'theme' typed above each group.

• Do not vote for your own icons.

• Please display your entries with some combination of the images and the text URLs of the icons.


• Weekly Challenge comments will always be screened.

• You can do whatever you'd like with your images after you've posted them here and voting has ended. They're yours. :D

• If your icon wins first place, it will be added to our "Weekly Challenge Winners" gallery, and that challenge will be linked to. Your icon will be uploaded to a Photobucket for the community and will not take bandwidth from you.

• When creating icons, please only use a cropped section of 100x100 once. In other words, please be diverse with your four icons entered. Unless the challenge is based on using only one image (even so, you can use different crops of it) there's really no need to use the same piece more than once. If you'd like to do something similar to that, considering entering our 10 Variations challenge. Here's an example of (although varied) a set of icons that would be rejected due to each being so similar:


• An example of a weekly challenge can be found here: Weekly Challenge.

How To Submit Icons


EXAMPLE

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Weekly Challenge 1st Place Winners


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Weekly Challenge 1st Place Gallery )

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100 Icon Challenge


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"100 Icon Challenge" is for individual iconmakers. Fifty of your icons are pre-chosen themes, and fifty are your choice.

• This challenge does not get posted to the community. Since it is ongoing, it will be posted to the journal of your choosing and updated over time.

• You have one month to finish your claim.

• As always - please keep your icons within IJ/LJ standards (no more than 100x100 and 40kb).

• Reply here with a comment using the coding below to make a claim. You will be added to the list below of current 100 icon challengers.

• When you complete your 100 icons, reply to your claim comment with a ("reminder") link to your completed set, the URL of your favorite icon from the set, and you will be added to the "Hall of Fame" and given an award. :D

• An example of an entry can be found here: 100 Icon Challenge Sample.

• You're welcomed to post sample icons at the top of your entry.

CURRENT 100 ICON CHALLENGERS
MAKER
SUBJECT
LINK
START DATE
DUE DATE
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Tim Burton Films
HERE
08-24-2013
09-24-2013
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Doctor Who Companions
HERE
10-30-2013
11-30-2013
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HERE
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CLAIM CODING


100 ICON CHALLENGE TABLE(S)

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100 Icon Challenge Hall of Fame


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100 Icon Challenge Hall of Fame )

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Weekly Challenge - Starting Soon!


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This community is officially open!

The first weekly challenge will be posted on Monday, August 26th! It will be general and open to all fandoms.

Members are more than welcome to begin with other challenges before then! Respond here or at the FAQ if you have any questions, ideas or would like to help out! :D

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10 Variations


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Subject Matter: Andrew Garfield / Amazing Spider-Man poster.
Fandom: Spider-Man / Marvel.
Rule Set: 2.
Fave Icon: Pop Art.



10 Variations )