Spirit Walks Challenge
Ten groups have come together in a challenge to welcome All Hallow’s Eve/Samhain/Halloween, the beginning of winter, for the southern hemisphere.
The participating groups are Practising the Dark Arts; Blood Red – All things vampiric; Monsters Ink; THE PHANTASMAGORICAL; Short stories – Spherical Scriptings; 1 In The Beginning – Ancient Practices; Fantasy Art; The Art of 3D; Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales and Flash Fiction.
Background and Inspiration
All Hallow’s Eve is the day when the worlds merge, that of Spirit and flesh, where the veils are at their thinnest, and the Ancestors can freely roam between the two membranes of time and existence. We can communicate more clearly with them, communing together in dreams and shadows.
Samhain corresponds to the Wisdom Cycle of life, the Winter Deities, and thus ensures that our communing with the Ancestors is clear and well grounded.
Samhain is when the Wild Hunt emerges from Faerie to roam the winter countryside. Mortals getting in the path of the Hunt could be kidnapped and brought to the land of the dead.
How to be a part of it
Create an image and/or written work that captures the essence of an aspect of the above information.
Add your work to the appropriate group, and paste a link to it in the forum topic in that group, so the host knows it’s an entry! (Allow for different host timezones please, some hosts may still be asleep while other groups have already launched).
The challenge is open to the whole world, not just people in the southern hemisphere :)
How it will work
Enter your work to the challenge as above.
Your hosts will judge a winning image and written work for the group.
The group winners will then be open to a public vote to pick the overall winners across all ten groups!
Entries close midnight (your time) April 28th.
Group winners will be announced April 30th, and public voting will run for a week (voting details will be provided at that time) to decide the overall winning image and written work (and winning group!)
Prizes. There is AUS$20 for the overall image winner, and AUS$20 for the overall writing winner.
Written works up to 1000 words.
This challenge is in the spirit of fun and group interaction, and is not about determining if one group is better than another :)
gypsycaster, 5 months ago
Excellent fun!! It’s spring here now, but I’m SURE I can get into the proper mood!
Damian in reply to gypsycaster’s comment, 5 months ago
LOL gypsycaster! I bet it must feel a bit odd :)
Look forward to seeing what you come up with!
GoofyFoot, 5 months ago
I’m guessing this is where we link to our entries. If so, then…
http://www.redbubble.com/people/goofyfoot/art/315693-7-remorseless-appetite
GoofyFoot, 5 months ago
Whoops….forgot to make it a link
Remorseless Appetite
Damian in reply to GoofyFoot’s comment, 5 months ago
Thanks Goofy ;)
You’ll actually need to add your link into one of the ten group’s challenge forums as well. For this image I see you’ve already got it in 3D art, so you could enter it for that group.
Each of the ten participating groups will pick a group winner (so like the semi-finals), and the group winners will then be the ones voted on for an overall winner.
The 3D art challenge forum is here. So past your link there like above, and you’re in!
You can join any of the groups and add some different pieces of your work too.
Winslow357, 5 months ago
It’s been a long time since I created an image to cause grown men and women to run to mama, now I have a good reason ! Good luck to all the groups!
GoofyFoot, 5 months ago
Thanks for the link Damian! :)
phyll112, 4 months ago
AU20$ hihi wel in the Netherlands i can buy a bag of chips from that value yeah funny but lets be a bit serious do u get an award picture or some for your render.
It good for your portfolio.
Damian in reply to phyll112’s comment, 4 months ago
Sorry phyll112, but this comp closed in April!
There’s a very high probability that many of us group hosts will pull together and run another competition like this.
I know, AUS$20 is not going to be a home deposit anywhere, but these challenges are a lot about the spirit of fun and interaction, and a good push to get people creating :)