Entering a scholarship poster competition - Need ideas!
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The theme is "Life is better with art in it".
It's due in 3 days and I need some ideas to get my brain going.
Draw Damien Hirst laughing while pissing on poor people.
:sigh:
Show some random famous artist smiling widely whilst swimming in money in a pool made of gold. Have lots of paintings hanging on the wall, all with the word "SOLD" slapped over them and the million high amounts listed below them.
Hah that's pretty badass... They usually only pick entries with the "deep meaning" nonsense.
Draw a city street composed of grays and square buildings with an artist walking down the street followed by a wave of colour and joy. Judges eat that shit up.
Gray-scale city or boring environment slowly turning into a colorful natural or exciting environment?
[QUOTE=Dolton;27803316]Draw a city street composed of grays and square buildings with an artist walking down the street followed by a wave of colour and joy. Judges eat that shit up.[/QUOTE]
Artistic ninjas.
[QUOTE=Dolton;27803316]Draw a city street composed of grays and square buildings with an artist walking down the street followed by a wave of colour and joy. Judges eat that shit up.[/QUOTE]
I just had a similar idea for something completely different the other day. I wanna please the judges without sacrificing my dignity to conformity :P
[QUOTE=Matix;27803345]I just had a similar idea for something completely different the other day. I wanna please the judges without sacrificing my dignity to conformity :P[/QUOTE]
Earth surrounded by random colorful designs with other planets in gray-scale?
I'll run with color emphasis... gah :psyduck:
[editline]2nd February 2011[/editline]
I'm gonna get one of my female friends to let me take pictures of her. She's really pretty so it should make for a good shoot. Then I'll figure out what I'm gonna do with the pictures as far as the poster goes.
Those are lovely ideas, but they're also very predictable ones. You need something to make yours unique, or your painting of a man filling the world with color won't stand out next to all the other paintings of a person filling the world with color. I've never entered a visual art competition, but I have entered a few writing competitions, including one for a scholarship, and I'll tell you that the best way to get noticed is to do the exact opposite of what the judges expect you to do.
For my scholarship I had to write a several page essay on why I deserved to be an exchange student. Instead of writing why I deserved to go live in Germany on their buck more than anybody else, I argued that there was nothing special about me in relation to the rest of the contestants, that there was no reason why I should go and somebody else should not. The other contestants wrote about pursuing knowledge and art and culture and how they all wanted to better themselves. I simply wrote that I wanted to experience something new, to see something other than what I grew up with. Judges devoured it.
I'll try and brainstorm a few ideas for you, and if I come up with any I'll post them here, but whatever you finally roll with, make sure it's something the judges aren't expecting, something that highlights your individuality. That's how you stand out, and that's how you impress people.
Here's one idea: a man with his back to an art store. In the display window is a painting of a flower. Instead of admiring the painting, however, he's stooped over a small, ugly flower growing from a crack in the sidewalk. "Art is unexpected, undefined, and personal."
That's the kind of image which, if properly done, could be unique and special, and one which might turn the heads of those judges.
Woah I actually made an art piece (kinda) about this last year
Maybe it can get some creative juices flowing?
[img_thumb]http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/162/0/4/Art_is_the_Only_Escape_by_Element_Spirits.png[/img_thumb]
Good luck!
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