[Entries] SOTM#28 - December 2014

[Pinkylicious]

We are now officially opening the forum's "Signature of the Month Contest Round #28".

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Special Rules for SOTM:
* Images in signature for this round must be within 500px in width and 300px in height.
* You are not allowed to put specific usernames on the signature.
* Images should be either in .png, .jpeg or .gif format.
* Have fun creating the signature. ;)

These texts are required on your SOTM entry:
* SOTM
* anime-sharing.com

NOTE: * You may include your own tag line to promote SOTM. *

General Rules for SOTM:
Signature of the Month, also known as SOTM, is a GFX competition held monthly.
* No nudity allowed. Your signature can be ecchi, but not too explicit.
* No profanity allowed.
* No offensive materials (racial slurs, etc...) allowed.
ALL ENTRIES MUST BE YOUR OWN DESIGN. You may add captions as you please.

SOTM Challenge Theme:
♪ ~All I want for Christmas is YOU.~ ♪
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You may ask questions in the discussion board. Feel free to insert your creativity. ;]
Each participant is allowed to submit maximum of ONE signature entry. I will be indicating your official entry number later on. You are only allowed to have ONE POST in this thread. You may edit your post as needed. Submissions could be changed till the deadline. :] Entry number is first come first serve basis. ;] SO SUBMIT ASAP.^^

Also, we are not responsible for the entries which don't show up during the poll time, each participant should be responsible for his/her entry, so check your entry post once in a while. Voters may choose to wait for it to be viewable again or just pick from the entries which are showing up properly. ;)

DEADLINE: December 23. I will be the one to personally pick the winner. :3 (Actually not just me, but I will be asking the opinion of admins and other mods too.♥)

Winner shall receive an award from the forum's competition award system. :]
(So yeah, you also have to get the bragging rights. )

Spoiler: Look at that shiny trophy...

:beautifu2:Competition Awards

This thread is for ENTRIES ONLY.
[Please turn off your signature when submitting your entry for better appreciation of your gfxwork.^^]

For talks, questions, discussions, etc - please go HERE.


CHECK THE HALL OF FAME FOR UPDATES. ^^.
GOODLUCK.
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NOTE: Please, don't enter your entry number by yourself. Mods will be the one to officially indicate it. THANK YOU. :) Confirmed entries will be mentioned here.^^

 

[Pinkylicious]

Official Entry # List:
#001 - Entry of nanashi1
#002 - Entry of Malicent
#003 - Entry of unownHGSS

 

[nanashi1]

Hello Pinky, here is my first entry for Dec. - Have a lot fun with this^_^!!!:

#001 - Entry of nanashi1
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[Malicent]

My first try doing smudge, really hard D:
Here's my entry:

#002 - Entry of Malicent
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[unownHGSS]

Here's my Entry for this SOTM~

#003 - Entry of unownHGSS
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[Pinkylicious]

Christmas SOTM, now closed! :)
Please wait for further announcements regarding the winner.^^

 

[Ignis]

　　　　

Congratulations to unownHGSS!
For winning SOTM #28 with a theme of All I Want for Christmas Is YOU.

The season has changed, the snow has melted, the air has gotten warmer. At least here in the Northern Hemisphere. Anyway, late though it might be, I proudly announce unownHGSS as the winner of SOTM #27. This wasn't like the usual SOTM in that there was no public poll as Pinkylicious had intended to have admins and moderators take a look at the entries and pick a winner. Unfortunately, due to the aforementioned being busy, we were late to notice that she had this kind of plan. Among the staff members I've asked, the majority went with unown's entry.

Let's take a look at the theme and the entries. The theme, as Pinky wrote it, was "All I want for Christmas is YOU". Uh-huh. Anyone who doesn't immediately think of girls in scantily-clad Santa outfits upon hearing the previous sentence, raise your hand.

Yeah. I thought so.

Now let's take a look at the entries, shall we? The other two entrants, nanashi1 and Malicent, each had a submission depicting a girl (in a Santa outfit, of course) offering/handing over/giving a present to whomever that present is meant for. No, definitely not you, because you weren't being a good kid last year. On the other hand, unown's entry depicts a girl offering... herself. With a box of present―that she presumably is supposed to give―put next to her. A side item.

Yeahhh, I know I read into things too much at times, but I think unown's entry reflects the theme in a nice twist: instead of "All I want for Christmas is YOU", he made it "All YOU want for Christmas is ME". She's like, "oh hey, I got you a present, but it's pretty meh. You know what, have me instead." Meanwhile, the girls in nanashi's and Malicent's signatures offer you a present when you tell them, "All I want for Christmas is YOU." They're like saying, "sowwwwwwy, I can't, have a box of present instead!"

Can you say "consolation prize"?

Again, congratulations to unownHGSS!

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