We`ve finally arrived at the first contest ever held at this website.
We’re pretty stoked around here about the impending release of Optimum Wound Volume One in early September. It hits the Previews catalog on June 24th.
So we’re celebrating by holding contests all month.
This will be the first of four held in June. Every Friday we`ll be offering up prizes of escalating coolness. This week features a 11″ by 12″ pen and ink drawing. You can win this artwork by following the rules below.
It’s a drawing of my main character Starkweather from Battles Without Living Witnesses. It’s 12 inches tall and 11 inches wide (30cm x 27.5cm), India ink on acid-free paper. AND IT”S YOURS TO WIN.
As an added bonus I’ll throw in a copy of Danijel Zezelj’s Rex in the package.
THE RULES
Just answer this question in the comments section.
What have you accomplished so far in 2009 that you’re most proud of?
1. Just leave a comment on this blog, that’s it.
2. You’re only allowed to post once. I read every comment so I’ll know.
3. Private messages or emails don’t count, it has to be posted on this blog.
4. You have to leave a comment before 11.59pm PST on Monday, June 8th, 2009 to be eligible. I’ll add up the number of comments and use a random number generator to select the winner. Then I’ll contact the winner by email and announce them publicly next Friday, June 12th on the Contest #2 blog.
5. This contest is open to ANYONE in the world. If I have to pay shipping to South Africa or New Zealand, that’s MY problem.
Good luck everyone.
-Jay
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I don’t know, man. I’m 22 years sober and I don’t have a job but I did some traveling and that was pretty nice.
I love that high contrast look you have on your pieces. I would love to win any of your drawings! *crosses fingers*
Me and my wife are expecting our first child by the end of 2009. Hey! that was 5 minutes of hard work! More than I’ve done at the drawing table lately…haha
does it come signed?
I had lines from an interview swiped by CNN, that was kinda neat.
But bigger I think, was finding myself in a position to give back to friends who had been holding me up the last year, that was just awesome/beautiful.
Missed the question, can you delete my last comment? I am most proud of our new baby girl, Ella. She was born in March and is a sweety. She giggled for the first time today. My wife and I also finished a feature script recently…a very distant second, but very cool.
staying alive!!!!
hook it up buddy! i’d love to have both of those things
Wow I love to have that
let the children boogie~~~
I joined a writing workshop and I’m now 10,000 words into getting my long-planned superhero/pulp novel written. Yeah!
I would like to win a piece of your awesome art.
I’m always up for some free art. The fact it’s fantastic just makes it that much better to win.
Managed to stay employed. Completed two comic stories one print and one online. Celebrated 6th wedding anniversary. Great work, would love to see it framed on my studio wall.
Love the art.
Accomplishments? Hmmm… Got some debt cleaned up and feel that I FINALLY have control over my life. Guess that’s something…
Good luck to everyone else entering!
That drawing is awesome!
… did some awesome paintings, made new good friends and i´m ready to change my life to the positiv again
… and winning your piece of art would be awesome too
greetings from france!
Ive started an art/business club at my college and people love it im helping artists find work that was a big accomplishment.
Peace,
Alex
I think the thing that I am most proud of for this year so far, is that not only did I forge my way past an abusive husband’s words and go back to school, but I made the Dean’s List, got offered a job with the University’s writing center and a tutoring position for my English professor’s class. It helped me feel as though I proved him wrong. :}
I came to the realization that I really want to be a concept artist, more than anything, and so I’m trying to work hard and build a portfolio and dream big, hopefully I’ll get my chance somewhere along the way!
hey man, i see your drawing and its really cool. I hope i win it. But i dont have a reason why i deserve it anymore than the next person. It would just make my summer and i pray that i get it but im sure you can make the best choice whoever gets it is lucky because its a really tibular drawing. Good Job.
My greatest accomplishments this year is getting published, getting a new job, and getting some of my shows aired on TV. I really dig your work.
i freakin graduated this year… that’s what i’m most proud of!
I signed up for the Cancer Prevention Study to help learn more about how to stop cancer….it’s at least a 20 year commitment
I wrote my first ever short story, finished a comic for Comic-Con, and found out that a company that hired me was committing fraud so I turned down the job even though I really needed it. You have to have principles.
I love your work, by the way. Great use of negative space. Cheers!
For 2009, I have accomplished the continuing deed of helping the needy.
Other than that, I changed my way of eating.
Have a great weekend.
I still have a job! Right now, that is pretty awesome.
Well the years just started and anything can happen.. but so far ive been budgeting my munies well enough to go to Comic-con this year and then Hawaii for a week for a friends Wedding… im excited for both!!
I love that pic…the expression on his face is enough to love it!
Proud of my re-dedication to art
mmm i learned how to play the unforgiven on my cello :]
I have five pages inked of my 20 page issue of my second comic series. I won an Excellence in Drawing award at college and the Presidential Arts Scholarship this week also at college. Just finished my one week crash course in Typography. I’m having a pretty good art year so far. Relationships, work, and other things need attention now.
Thank you, for holding such a wonderful giveaway, I truly appreciate it! I am a 3 time cancer survivor (age 10, brain tumor[Menegeoma], age 21 Uterine Cancer [discovered when I was 6 months pregnant], age 36 skin cancer), as well as a 30% Service Connected Disabled Veteran (US Army 6 years). I am adopting my Husbands Boys that have been living with my Husband and I for 11 years, after my Husbands X stabbed him the in the stomach, in front of the boys. One needs a heart transplant (his heart is functioning at 30%, One is Bipolar, and one has post traumatic stress and Oppositional defiant disorder. I have tried to teach my kids, that nothing is so bad, that you can not over come it. Laughter goes a long way to making yourself, and those around you feel better. I refuse to go to bed angry, and I refuse to wake up angry. I try and make the most out of every day (including taking time to stop and smell the roses). I just turned 46, and have done so much…I lived in Europe, I sang in a band, I play Cello and Bass, I love my kids, I have a great Husband…and you know, I don’t think I would have done so much if I had not had cancer. My personal philosophy about life reflects the Tim McGraw song “Live like you’re dying” P.S. The thing I am most proud of in 2009, is my son (the one with bipolar) getting a job, and doing a great job in School (top 5% of his class, he graduates next year) and of his understanding that the Lithium he takes is making a HUGE difference in how he handles life!
I got a girlfriend!!!
I made a nice song, trough discipline.
Congrats Margo, you are this week’s winner. You get the art and the book. As mentioned in the rules I used a random number generator to pick the winner. And it sounds like you are well on your way to achieving your goals.
-Jay
I’ve accomplished finishing up my comic finally. Getting ready for print. It’s been a long road… yeesh. but im sure you guys know what im talking about lol. Great artwork by the way!
I released my first official art print, featured on this site in the “Top 5 reasons to use ink”. It was a financial success, and is leading me to belive the whole starving artist thing is a myth (for hard working artists at least) and also showed the number of people who supported me and care about detailed and creative work.
Oh my gosh, it’s so nice to find another pen and ink artist! I’m always afraid they have all died off and I’m wandering around the college art world alone until I graduate and then I’ll be like the last unicorn alive/last pen and ink artist who can still hold a pen. Anyway, great work!