Harry Potter discussion forum for movies, books, and more! - The Leaky Lounge: Fan Art Icontest Archive - Harry Potter discussion forum for movies, books, and more! - The Leaky Lounge

This thread is where an archive of all the previous Fan Art Icontests will be located, along with the winners of those past contests!. While voting is up posts will be edited to include links to that voting, with links to the results added in once they are finalized. If you have any questions about the various Icontests please feel free to post them up here

Please note that the results being posted here means that you can feel free to post your avatars here in the Fan Art Avatars thread, or use it as your own personal avatar here at Leaky.

Thank you everyone for your participation!

This post has been edited by KimmyBlair: 16 June 2008 - 01:54 PM

Challenge 1 is a challenge which takes advantage of the great art of our new featured fan artist for the month of May, glockgal. In honor of her nomination as this month's FFA this week's challenge will allow you to use any of the images in her gallery for icons.

[X] You may make up to two icons.
[X] If you make two icons, you may submit them separately or together.
[X] All icons must be 100 x 100 in height and width
[X] Your must use the work of glockgal in your icon
[X] You may use any textures, gradients, brushes that you wish
[X] Animation is not acceptable.
[X] Please e-mail the icon, the URL, and your Leaky Lounge username to icontest@the-leaky-cauldron.org
[X] Please follow all additional rules in the forum announcement
[X] If you have any questions please feel free to visit the Icontest thread in the Contest Corner

All icons are due Monday May 19th by 12 AM EST.

Examples of glockgal's art which can be used in the challenge:


click on the images for full sized images, or for the full album click here

Winners from this challenge are posted below.

This post has been edited by KimmyBlair: 16 June 2008 - 01:54 PM

Fan Art Icontest Challenge 01: Glockgal
First Place by evilpudseybear


Second Place: (Tie)
by KimmyBlair


& by evilpudseybear



Third Place by Alantie_el


Guest Judge Glockgal's Choice (by KimmyBlair):


Winners' sigs will be edited in a bit to have a little something extra added!

Final Voting:
[ 4 ] ** [9.09%]
[ 4 ] ** [9.09%]
[ 6 ] ** [13.64%]
[ 7 ] ** [15.91%]
[ 0 ] ** [0.00%]
[ 4 ] ** [9.09%]
[ 2 ] ** [4.55%]
[ 7 ] ** [15.91%]
[ 8 ] ** [18.18%]
[ 2 ] ** [4.55%]


Thank you very much to everyone who participated! The first Image Galleries Icontest is open here

This post has been edited by Hagiographer13: 01 July 2008 - 10:48 PM

Challenge 2 is a challenge which takes advantage of the great art of our new featured fan artist for the month of June, sulkyskrewt. In honor of her nomination as this month's FFA this week's challenge will allow you to use any of the images in her gallery for icons.

[X] You may make up to two icons.
[X] If you make two icons, you may submit them separately or together.
[X] All icons must be 100 x 100 in height and width
[X] Your must use the work of sulkyskrewt in your icon
[X] You may use any textures, gradients, brushes that you wish
[X] Animation is not acceptable.
[X] Please e-mail the icon, the URL, and your Leaky Lounge username to icontest@the-leaky-cauldron.org
[X] Please follow all additional rules in the forum announcement
[X] If you have any questions please feel free to visit the Icontest thread in the Contest Corner

All icons are due Sunday June 15th by 11:59 PM EST.

Examples of sulkyskrewt's art which can be used in the challenge:




click on the images for full sized images, or for the full album click here

Thiswinners for this challenge can now be found in the post below.

This post has been edited by KimmyBlair: 23 June 2008 - 11:43 AM

Fan Art Icontest Challenge 02: sulkyskrewt
First Place: (tie)
by: Rotae

& by blue4t


Second Place: (Tie)
by Iheartprofessorsnape

& by JeffHpFan


Third Place by yellowpepper2311


Guest Judge sulkyskrewt's Choices (i can't blame her for not being able to pick only one!)
yellowpepper2311 & Rotae for their two icons above.



The Full Results:
Please vote for your favorite icon
[ 8 ] ** [17.78%]
[ 1 ] ** [2.22%]
[ 0 ] ** [0.00%]
[ 1 ] ** [2.22%]
[ 1 ] ** [2.22%]
[ 5 ] ** [11.11%]
[ 0 ] ** [0.00%]
[ 2 ] ** [4.44%]
[ 4 ] ** [8.89%]
[ 1 ] ** [2.22%]
[ 2 ] ** [4.44%]
[ 2 ] ** [4.44%]
[ 3 ] ** [6.67%]
[ 5 ] ** [11.11%]
[ 0 ] ** [0.00%]
[ 1 ] ** [2.22%]
[ 1 ] ** [2.22%]
[ 8 ] ** [17.78%]

This post has been edited by KimmyBlair: 23 June 2008 - 11:31 AM

Challenge 3 is a challenge which takes advantage of the great art of our new featured fan artist for the month of July, lillywmw. In honor of her nomination as this month's FFA this week's challenge will allow you to use any of the images in her gallery for icons.

[X] You may make up to two icons.
[X] If you make two icons, you may submit them separately or together.
[X] All icons must be 100 x 100 in height and width
[X] Your must use the work of lillywmw in your icon
[X] You may use any textures, gradients, brushes that you wish
[X] Animation is not acceptable.
[X] Please e-mail the icon, the URL, and your Leaky Lounge username to icontest@the-leaky-cauldron.org
[X] Please follow all additional rules in the forum announcement
[X] If you have any questions please feel free to visit the Icontest thread in the Contest Corner

All icons are due Sunday July 13th by 11:59 PM EST.

Examples of lillywmw's art which can be used in the challenge:



click on the images for full sized images, or for the full album click here

Voting can currently be found here

This post has been edited by KimmyBlair: 14 July 2008 - 04:58 PM

Fan Artist Icon Challenge 03: lillywmw

First Place by Pfotalaya


Second Place (tie)
by Hagiographer13


by JeffHpFan


Third Place (tie)
by Ravenclaw1028

by JeffHpFan


Guest Judge lillywmw's choice is this icon by Hagiographer13 (Unfortunately I can't post it because there is a limit of 5 images per post!)

The Full Results:
[ 5 ] ** [9.80%]
[ 2 ] ** [3.92%]
[ 5 ] ** [9.80%]
[ 4 ] ** [7.84%]
[ 2 ] ** [3.92%]
[ 0 ] ** [0.00%]
[ 4 ] ** [7.84%]
[ 10 ] ** [19.61%]
[ 1 ] ** [1.96%]
[ 3 ] ** [5.88%]
[ 4 ] ** [7.84%]
[ 3 ] ** [5.88%]
[ 2 ] ** [3.92%]
[ 3 ] ** [5.88%]
[ 3 ] ** [5.88%]

The next challenge is an Image Gallery Challenge using some of the new images from HBP. Feel free to view the rules here

And that is this one --

ETA: Feel free to discuss the Icontest avatars here.

This post has been edited by Hagiographer13: 23 July 2008 - 02:58 PM

FanArt Icontest Challenge #4 features the great art of former Featured FanArtist for November 2007, slytherinfiend.
You may use any of her art for this Icontest --

• You may make up to two icons.
• If you make two icons, you may submit them separately or together.
• All icons must be 100 x 100 in height and width
• Your must use the work of slytherinfiend in your icon
• You may use any textures, gradients, brushes that you wish
• Animation is not acceptable.
• Please e-mail the icon, the URL, and your Leaky Lounge username to icontest@the-leaky-cauldron.org
• Please follow all additional rules in the forum announcement
• If you have any questions please feel free to visit the Icontest thread in the Contest Corner

All icons are due by Sunday August 17th by 11:59 PM EST.

Examples of slytherinfiend's art which can be used in the challenge:




Click on the pix for full sized images. Her FanArt Gallery album is here.

Good luck!

Voting for this contest is now up here

This post has been edited by KimmyBlair: 18 August 2008 - 09:29 AM

Here are the results of the FanArtist IContest #04 featuring the art of slytherinfiend --

First Place (tie)

by kendra.dumbledore


and Hagiographer13

Second Place (tie)

by JeffHpFan


and

Guest Judge slytherinfiend's "Artist's Choice" is the first one by kendra.dumbledore. Congratulations!

The final results were:

[ 4 ] ** [12.50%]
[ 9 ] ** [28.13%]
[ 3 ] ** [9.38%]
[ 9 ] ** [28.13%]
[ 3 ] ** [9.38%]
[ 4 ] ** [12.50%]

Feel free to discuss the results here.

The next Icontest is an Image Gallery Challenge using the teaser trailer screencaps from HBP. More on that here and to view the rules please go here.