Icontest

Do you like to use the art and images in Leaky's galleries to make icons and such? Then we have good news for you! Leaky's Galleries staff, as well as Leaky's Contest staff, would like to announce a new contest here at The Leaky Cauldron beginning May 12th. This contest will be in the form of an icon contest (or icontest) with weeks also devoted to wallpaper and banner competitions, using the great images found in both our Image Galleries and Fan Art Galleries.

Each week we will be posting up a challenge featuring images found in either our Image or Fan Art Galleries here at Leaky. First up will be the wonderful art of our Featured Fan Artist, Glockgal. Our second week will be a challenge featuring some of our newest images in our image galleries. (They are so new we don't even have them in yet!) Challenges will run two weeks, with the first week being for submissions, and the second week made up of voting. First, Second, and Third place will be determined by your votes, with weekly guest judges picking their favorites! Winners will receive various prizes such as having their entries up in the galleries or a special signature banner.

• May 12 - Phase one: Make an icon featuring the art of our Feature Artist, Glockgal.
• May 19 - Submissions due for Phase One, and voting starts
• May 26 - Phase Two: Make an icon from newly added Images to our Image Gallery.
• June 2 - Submissions due for Phase One, and voting starts


All submissions should be emailed to our Leaky Gallery staff at icontest@the-leaky-cauldron.org!

Want more information?
Check out the Image Gallery and Fan Art Gallery forums as well as Leaky's Contest Page. This is where you can find all the rules and regulations that apply to these contests, such as the fact that you must be over 13 to enter any of Leaky's contests. We look forward to viewing and voting on all your wonderful submissions.

The first FanArt Icontest entries are now posted in the FanArt Gallery Forum, here. Be sure to come on over and pick your favourite!

The next Icontest will feature images from the Image Gallery and go up May 26th.

Thanks to every one who has entered so far!

For the new LeakyCon Icontest, do the images we use need to be from the galleries?
I want to make sure.

No they do not need to be from the galleries. Anything that you think is related to LeakyCon or Boston would be fine!

This contest is the LeakyCon contest and not the Phase 2 contest listed in the first post?

The Phase 2 contest above was an example of some of the Image Gallery contests that we will be having. Originally we were hoping for new HBP images to be in our galleries at this time that we could use for our contest, however WB has yet to release them, so we figured with no new official images, and one year till LeakyCon, this would be a great opportunity to have a Icontest for LeakyCon.

I have another question
We are supposed to send the image in the email, but how do I do that? I don't know if the email uses BB coding or html or what, and am a bit confused if my message will show the image or not. Help would be appreciated.

We ask that you attach the image, and send the HTML link to the image

for example:

with the image attached, and your LL screen name would work perfectly!

That is all the information we need... Feel free to keep asking questions!

I want to make sure I do it correctly:
You just want the image attached, the url to the image, and my user name?

Yes please!

The Galleries second Icontest featuring the fabulous FanArt of Sulky Skrewt is up here, just waiting for your vote!

The contest closes Sunday, June 22.

The second Image Galleries Icontest featuring David Tennant as Dr. Who is available for voting here.

Voting closes at midnight on Sunday, July 6.

The third Galleries FanArt Icontest is now open here -- this time featuring the marvelous fan art of the amazing lillywmw.

The voting for this contest is now up here, and will close at midnight EDT on Sunday, July 20.

The fourth Galleries FanArt Icontest is now open, here. This time round we feature the amazing art of slytherinfiend.

It will be open for submissions through Sunday, August 17th.