You may have noticed that the TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY of Ananka's Diary is quickly approaching! I've been trying to come up with an exciting contest to celebrate. Just when I thought my brain had turned to mush, it finally came to me!
Every week, I receive at least one note containing the same question: Why isn't there a picture of Iris on the website? It was a tragic oversight, I'm afraid, and now that she's officially an Irregular, it's time to commission a portrait.
Which is where you guys come in! Whoever creates the best portrait of Iris McLeod will be named winner of the TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY CONTEST!
Don't think you're out of the running if you can't draw. The portrait can be an illustration, collage, photograph, paper mache sculpture, or anything else you can come up with. Photograph it or scan it and send it to kikistrike@gmail.com by MARCH 4, 2008. (I'll also post a physical address for those of you who don't have a scanner.)
Three finalists will be selected, and the winner will be chosen by the readers of this blog.
So enter now! FABULOUS PRIZES await you!
(Painting by Mark Ryden)
i'm gonna start working on a picture right away... but i have one little problem. i lent my book to my freind and i don't remamber how iris looks like.
ReplyDeleteNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I totally can't draw. I love collages, but I don't know...... it just doesn't sound easy. BUT, you never said it would be easy, did you? LOL. =)
ReplyDeletei already made the picture!!!!!
ReplyDeleteand i'm scanning it ontu the computer right now!!!!!!!!
i'm ahead of everybody... especially my best freind who can draw justas well as me (joking,FN)
actually, she dosn't regularly check the comments or the blog so... i wonder if she'll be able to send a picture...
but i already made the picture...
(FN's world domination laugh "MWA HA HA HA HA!!!!!)
never mind, don't try to understand all this nonsense i'm writing as a coment!
I'll try my best! And I love that picture/painting!
ReplyDeleteI have already started my picture and am so excited about the 2nd aniversary. I have 1 question... Do you want a full body drawing or just the head or does it not matter???
ReplyDeleteI've already TRIED to draw Kiki, Luz, Ananka, and Oona. I'm not saying that they are GOOD.
ReplyDeleteBut this sounds fun!
Um...does it have to be a full-body portrait?
ReplyDeleteEveryone: It doesn't need to be a full-body portrait.
ReplyDeleteI am AWFUL AT DRAWING PEOPLE!
ReplyDeleteBut i will try anyways.
I have a scanner but i am not totally sure how to scan somthing on the computer.
~Kad
Yes!!!!! I have a great idea!! (The only problem is I can't draw, and the other choices look hard. But I'll figure something out)
ReplyDeleteYEAH! I'v always wanted Iris to be up there!
May i ask what you mean by Collages?
ReplyDeleteOh shoot, I want to do this but I'm terrible at drawing things for contests. what's the prize?
ReplyDeleteOoh ooh ooh we left our scanner in the US I cannot wait to see the physical address.
ReplyDeleteCount me in!! :D (love drawing) Happy Chinese New Years Eve!
ReplyDeleteim so happy
ReplyDeleteYES!!! i shall send it to you straightaway!
ReplyDeleteI still...don't know...who that is...
ReplyDeleteI'm sad now, because that means I'm behind. T_T
*sigh* I missed the last writing contest, and now this. I'm sorry everyone. This anonymous is out of the running. I might try something, but.... I'm just not sure. I can't draw AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI am so entering, just have to dig up the book and refresh my memory of what she looks like.
ReplyDeleteEr, is there an age limit? 'Cause I'm kinda' old.
Cool, I can't draw (or paint, or sculpture, or really do anything artistic...) but my sister is really good at artsy stuff! Maybe I can convince her to try!
ReplyDeleteYES! YES! YES! I'd love to do it!! ^^
ReplyDeleteBut I don't have a scanner...
Can I do it anime-style? ^^ Iris would look really cute (sorry for using that word, Iris) with Clamp eyes. (:
ReplyDeleteHmm... I guess it would help if I was madly in love with Iris. xD
YAY I actually drew something! haha.
ReplyDeleteDid you say we'd get to vote on them?
Oh darn...I just realized that if you posted your address I wouldn't be able to try and find you myself, rofl!
I was wondering that too(if you could do manga/anime style)
ReplyDeleteYou've read/watched stuff by Clamp? I have too! I like RG Veda and Tsubasa.
Sweetness! I so have to find time to draw her! SQUEE!! Great idea ananka! I do love Iris, she's pretty awesome!
ReplyDeleteAlthough styles are cool, you must use experience and other animes to plant yourself into, but you'll need your own style to grow.
ReplyDeletethis si foofoo, please look at my blog!!
ReplyDeleteme and FN are dieng to know what the prize is!
ReplyDelete+ can everyody check out my blog. just click my name!!!
lol, ralph, I doing the manga style too. Except I'm doing it kinda like Yuriko Suda/Michiyo Kikuta/Koge-Donbo/CLAMP(Clamp's Chibi's) style. XD
ReplyDeleteAnd ookamishinzui, YOU LIKE CLAMP TO? I LOVE TSUBASA AND CODE GEASS AND CARDCAPTOR SAKURA AND SWEET VALERIAN AND.... (goes on babbling)
Cupcake Doll: We are not ageist at Ananka's Diary! ;)
ReplyDeleteRaph: Anime style would be great!
Kad: By collage, I mean you could cut out pictures, etc. from magazines and make a completely new images.
Everyone: The FABULOUS prize will be announced next week!
ookamishinzui and kitty: I've watched some Clamp. I used to watch Cardcaptors, but stopped a while back - sometimes I watch Angelic Layer and Tsubasa Chronicles, though. :)
ReplyDeleteI like lots of anime. xD I think my favourite at the moment is Negima. It's so funny and clever. I just entered a competition to try win the box set. *covets*
I miss it, now that they took it off YouTube. ):
Another favourite is MoonPhase. I'm collecting the DVDs. ^^ It's about vampires, but it's really complicated and also involves cat ears. xD
And so many more!!
I have a question Ananka, can I draw a comic?
ReplyDeleteWhen do we get the physical address?
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid my scanner will do wonky things with the colors...lol.
Im in! I just need to know how to scan it here.
ReplyDeleteI'll try my best! But I can't really draw, or sculpt, or anything artistic for that matter. But I'm gonna try!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYay, Im so exited. I will for sure enter this one.
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