The Joy of Designing: Round Five - Designs
Ends 7/1



This a closed contest to those who made it through the application process. A big congratulations to all the applicants that made it into the competition! I can't wait to see what exciting things you come up with. (:

General Contest Information

The Fifth round will kick off today (6/19). You will have until the Sunday after next (7/1) at 11:59pm to submit designs for the round once it is posted. The week after will be just for voting. But! I will release the prompt or theme for the next round at the start of the voting thread so you have around two weeks to work on your designs. It will alternate design/voting/design/voting... However, this means there is potential for you to work on these designs early, but be eliminated via the voting round.

Voting - please do not reveal your designs to anyone until voting is over! Revealing your designs or getting your friends to vote for your design set will result in an automatic elimination. This means don't submit these designs in other contest and please don't submit them publicly on the generator! Everyone will receive 3 votes. You may vote for three different designs/design sets. You may not put all three votes on one set, but you may elect to vote for less than 3. All applicants are allowed to vote, but! You may not vote for your own design. I will know who's design belongs to who - so no sneaky stuff. :P YOU MAY NOT CHANGE YOUR VOTE IF YOU'VE ALREADY VOTED - there will be no edits allowed. Please let me know if you'd like to be pinged for the voting threads!

Workshops - I will be hosting a workshop during each voting week. These workshops are designed to help you learn some fun tips and tricks about designing as well as give back to the community some as well. People in the contest and out of the contest are welcome to participate in these workshops! Those from our contest who participate will be awarded an extra vote for the next round. I will specify which round it applies to in the workshop description to eliminate confusion. The second workshop will be released today after this thread goes live.

Questions - If you have any questions please send me a private message and do not post them in this thread. Please put The Joy of Designing: Round Five - Questions in the subject line. This is because I don't want any questions relevant to the designs created to affect the blind vote.

Round Themes - I will detail around 3 designs that fall into a theme for each week. It will be less writing intensive than the application though - perhaps a couple sentences here and there.

Submission Information

Official Submissions - Upon completing your designs, I ask you DO NOT save them to the generator publicly! This is very important as it ruins the blind vote. Send them to me via a PM with the subject line The Joy of Designing: Round Five - Designs. Please submit the image links with a size of 250. Please don't submit them to your moderator as the moderators were only being used in the application process.

Late Submissions - I understand life happens and things get in the way! What I have decided to do is allow submissions past the deadline through the voting week, but! The voting thread will be up within 24 hours of the submission deadline. If you submit past that time, you risk losing out on votes because the voting thread will still be going up on time. I.E. If you submit late - the voting still goes up, but your submissions will be added to it later. Thus, some people may have already voted.

Early submissions - meaning you submit up to 24 hours before the deadline - I will happily give you feedback on and allow you a resubmission as long as it is still in before the deadline. You may not ask for advice and then submit the revised designs past the deadline. Your original set will be used.

Round Five Theme - Art



This round is Art focused! I encourage you to choose different eras for each design - although it is not required. This round will push you to think about different elements of a design: texture, structure, and color.

Design Set 1 - For this design set, I ask you create a design pair based on a single sculpture from any era. The Sylsetis do not have to be the same. For instance, you may use two Sylestis to create the whole sculpture or do two different interpretations of the sculpture with two different Sylestis. I encourage you to carefully consider how you use traits to create texture in these designs.

Design Set 2 - For this design set, I ask you create an design pair based on architecture from any era. The Sylsetis do not have to be the same. For instance, you may use two Sylestis to create the whole structure or do two different interpretations of the structure with two different Sylestis. I encourage you to carefully consider how you use traits to create structure in these designs.

Design Set 3 - For this design set, I ask you create an identical design pair based on a famous painting from any era. Use this design to focus on color and gradients used in your design pair.


I can't wait to see what you all come up with! You will have nearly two weeks to complete this round. (:

Brief Announcements

Due to popular request - the deadline for this portion of the contest has been moved to Wednesday at 2pm Sylestia time. Do keep in mind that is the 4th! I will give feedback on any mails sent in by tonight - I believe there are two of you that I am still working on design critiques for!

That being said - I am currently finishing up the final steps of the workshop. They will be posted today and due in by 2pm on the 4th as well. (:

The last round is also going to work differently than the ones we have previously held - because it will be a little more design intensive. Once voting on this round concludes on Sunday, the final round will be officially posted instead of a week early. However, from there you will have two full weeks to complete your designs. There will be no workshops associated with the final round and unfortunately I am not going to be providing contestants with advice as it is an opportunity for you to determine how far you have come independently! I am wishing you all the best of luck!

everything ok?

I am still missing final entries from three contestants which puts things in kind of a pickle. We will have to edit voting week a bit because missing such a large amount is going to complicate things. Thank you to those who have sent me a mail in regards to it. If you haven't gotten your entries in yet, please send me a mail with an estimated time that you will be done! I'll be able to reorganize and set a voting date and post the final round.

Unfortunately, I still have yet to hear back from a contestant but we are going to go ahead with the voting thread anyway as I'd like to continue on with the contest. It will be posted tonight and I can't wait to see our top 5! (: Voting will conclude on Monday the 16th. The final prompt will be released when the voting concludes. Best of luck to all of you guys!