CLASSICAL ELEMENTS is our topic for the Object Head Zine 2022 edition! Move oceans and mountains, conquer flame and wind, and bend the elements to your whim! ALL submissions will be accepted so long as they follow the guidelines below. Each person has a limit of up to 3 submissions. This will be a DIGITAL ZINE ONLY and will be available free upon completion (donation optional). The guidelines are as follow:
Illustration-quality works in either digital or traditional mediums. Both colour and b/w acceptable; background required. *BG can be as simple as a pattern or colour block! Avoid utilizing a camera to submit your images, please use a scanner.
The default size will be 6″x9″, 300 dpi (1800px x 2700px) but feel free to go larger or smaller, so long as it follows those proportions, within reason. Please work in a vertical format.
For consistency’s sake, keep faces to a minimum (You can have eye(s) or you can have mouth(s) but don’t have both in a humanoid arrangement.
Please go for original characters (or fanart of your friend’s characters) and not so much established classical elemental object heads.
If you want to include humans, that’s fine as well but keep the ratio of people to object heads 1:1. Same goes for non-elemental object heads. If you want to include both non-elemental and humans in your image, make sure the majority goes to elemental object heads!
You’re free to pick an element that doesn’t adhere to the “Grecian” notion of classical elements: metal, aether, void, lightning, etc. However, try to stick to the alchemical idea of the elements and not so much the periodic table of elements. You may have periodic table elements so long as you have classical elements as well (see note above).
Containers for said elements are allowed (pitcher of water, torch for a flame, etc), provided that the element is the main focus (pitcher should show majority water, the torch must be aflame). Please have the containers make sense for the context, (A TV head with plants growing in it does NOT count.)
Content should be at most PG-13: Romance is fine but after hours business should not be implied, Blood is fine but no gore. In the end, use your common sense.
Feel free to draw a comic or just an illustration! A comic counts as one submission.
Note that if a submission does not meet the above guidelines, I will either reject your submission or suggest improvements that would help your piece fulfill them. Please email me at objectheadzine(@)hotmail(.)com if you have any further questions and I’ll do my best to reply promptly. If you do not receive a message from me within a few days, please send it again. We’re also available on twitter. Join us as well on the official Object Head Zine discord chat! Click here to be invited into the chat.
Final pieces submitted should be either in PNG or a one layer PSD file format. Also send in your email/website/name you’d like to be credited as. (Feel free to omit emails if that is more comfortable). When you’ve finished your piece(s), you are allowed to post them to your blogs as long as you link back to the zine blog!
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THE DUE DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS OCTOBER 9TH.
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