PJM 2014 – Art Contest

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This post officially closes the Writing Contest. Winners will be announced Sunday 23rd.

And with this post also begins the Art Contest, yay! This one will be held in one round and will be open for everyone. I will put the rules in a Q&A fashion, as that it easier to read and comprehend. On we go.

What is the Art Contest?

The Art Contest is your chance to show of your drawing abilities and to get featured into the first PJM issue! The big winner will also receive a free copy sent to his home.

What do I have to do?

You have to submit a fairly large drawing intended to be fit alone on an A4 sheet of paper. It can be any style, anything you want, as long as it has to do with Pokémon. It should also have zero to little text, as it should be an artpiece and not a comic.

Where do I send it to?

You can email me at ‘magazine at pokejungle.net’ with an at-sign instead of at.

Technical details?

These are important. If you don’t submit it like it is said here, your entrance may be invalid. I’ll mail you back if that is the case however. The picture itself has to be around  2480 x 3508 and must closely maintain the aspect ratio of 1:1.41 (width:height). I’ll only accept uncompressed .png, no jpg, gif or Photoshop formats. Your image is best zipped to a zipfile and attached as an attachment to your mail, in order to avoid compression by mail services. Certainly don’t use an image host to sent it to me, their results are horribly compressed.

How much time do I have?

The contest’s closing date will be announced at a later date, but you have plenty of time.

Can I include my signature?

You not only can but you have to include your artist’s signature so we and everyone else know it is your work. Keep in mind you’ll still be the owner of the artpiece, but you have to give us a free license to allow your work being published in the magazine, in exchange for a copy of the magazine itself.

I’ve got some questions not mentioned here

You can always mail me at the email address given above. Note: I do not give free personal interviews. Contact my agent for that.

Update:

Of course it can (and should) be a digital drawing. Who still uses manual tools when we’ve got a whole range of electronics to aid us. Besides, a direct image is always in higher quality than a scan or picture :).

 

I’ll be sure to write a reminder the coming weeks. Now I have to tackle writing some additional for PJM, work never seems to be done, ugh. Luckily I have two free weekends coming up! 😀 Happy commenting!

P.S. I need sleep. I hate waking up at 6 am in the morning in the weekends.

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  3. Well, someone here can’t take the amazingness of Heartless and Milotic and has to take it out on me. So I’m leaving to play with them on Amie. Some people just don’t understand what true beauty is, it’s definitely not a bird covered in butter.

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  4. This is really weird
    I WT my first Omanyte and received a Honedge which is the Pokemon i traded on gts to get the First Omanyte

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  8. And Mulvone spoke about the Verlis situation. He said he doesnt wanna talk about it, but that the whole thing pissed him off. So, he is another Smogonite, anti Verlisify Poketuber. Why is it that when ONE NIGGA disagress with smogon, MILLIONs of Smogonites try and steal his identity, and make fun of him. I mean, Swagilyph saying he looks like he has down syndrome is practically a meme now. But, I cannot Wait for SHofu to open up about this, even for a second.

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      • Verlisify, a poketuber, disagreed with a smogon strategy and said he disliked and it, and that in his opinion, it sucked. So, the smogon community disagreed and took it offensively and assorted Poketubers, incuding TonyFlygon, SourBawse i think, Swagilyph, Styles
        X2, and now Mulvone 19 all said he’s an idiot, his strategies suck, he looks like he has down syndrome, calling him a furfag because he wears a collar and calls his fans the wolfpack etc. and on twitter people have tried stealing his identity, and the team more downs than verlisify syndrome is almost viral. all because he disagreed with the worst, and most venomous and toxic pokemon community of all time, because he felt something they came up with wasnt godly, and he asked if the fans really wanted this to be the people in control of the community, and everyone is giving him shit for it.

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        • That’s a terrible thing to say. D:
          It’s just an opinion…
          I mean, honestly, how many pokemon players out there actually abide by Smogon’s rules?
          I only visit their site for tips on moveset and such, but never paid much attention to the rules.

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          • A Large part of the community plays by their rule, and if they don’t, someone from smogon tries to get them too. everyone i talk to besides you guys bitches if i dont abide by smogon rules

          • Well, I only follow rules that are REASONABLE. Spamming Sleep Powder or Spore is not Ok.
            But still, people need to learn that the world is a big place, and there bound to be conflict in ideals.
            Haven’t they learn anything from Black and White?

          • There are a limited amount of moves for that, and why would I want to run Aerial Ace or Dragon Rush when there are much better moves to use..

          • Like what? Dragon Rush doubles in power and accuracy when an opponent uses Minimize, and Aura Sphere is a ver very valid move on a lot of things that can learn it, and besides, Prankster Taunt stops it anyway, and thats pretty common, so i dont see what’s wrong with evasion

          • Eh. I have my reasons for not liking it used against me, or me using it… And I wasn’t dissing Aura Sphere, and I had NO IDEA that Dragon Rush doubles in accuracy.. But, Dragon Rush isn’t super useful to me if the opponent isn’t using Minimize..

          • The 100BP and flinch chance are nice, and it works very well with Coil or Hone Claws. Or even a King’s rock, etc. It’s a good move that people dont use because of a 75% acc, but yet people will use the 70% accuracy on Thunder/Focus Miss etc. Blows my mind.

          • Ah true.. But, Focus Miss is the only wide distributed special Fighting move, so that’s why it’s used, and Thunder was amazing with perma-rain. I guess with Dragon Claw and Outrage having better accuracy and distribution Dragon Rush is often over-looked.

          • I guess more Minimize counters + Roar/Whirlwind never missing and going through subs is Nintendo acknowledging that evasion IS a problem and adding more counters, but isn’t totally eliminating it as a strategy.

          • Yeah, Roar/Whirlwind accuracy is now “–” when it used to be “100” in previous gens. 😀

            Moves I’ve googled that never miss and x2 power vs Minimize: Stomp, Body Slam, Dragon Rush, Flying Press, Steamroller, Phantom Force*

          • I just hate Double Team and Minimize… It just feels so cheap… I tend to refuse battling people who use those moves… Except one person 😛

          • Wait scratch that. he disagreed with smogon’s banning methods, saying that if you ban this, then the next thing comes right up after it and then, before long, everything is banned. He said that there was no reason to ban MEga gengar/lucario/blaziken/kanga and no reason to ban Genesect either, because he could manage them, and i can too, but smogon took that offensively. I agree with him, and think that non of the pokemon that have bee uber-ified should’ve been

          • Weird, I’m pretty sure Mega Mawile is more powerful than Mega Lucario… Maybe it’s the speed…
            But both can be burned…

          • See what i mean. everything besides Mega gengar is stopped by a burn, and special genesect dont appreciate things with focus sashes and fire move, or being paralyzed.

          • This is why I feel Nintendo made a great move by making their official tourney doubles. It’s much easier to counter stuff, even stuff like Dark Void and Mega Gengar’s perish trapping!

            I agree with Mega Gengar being too good in singles, though.
            1. Shuts down all Choice users that aren’t locked into neutral or better vs Ghost/Poison particularly all fighting moves.
            2. Perish Trapping is now possible with a single Pokemon. (Whereas before, it’s done with Gothitelle/Wobba + Perish Song user.)

            As for the KFC chicken:
            1. Talonflame and Azumarill eat Blaziken for breakfast. But that’s kind of the point of Smogon bans, it (theoretically) removes Pokemon that you are forced to use and counter.

            I don’t agree with the Mega Luke and Genesect bans, but just to put it out here, I believe in Smogon and that they’re doing the best to balance singles battles and ensure that all Pokemon can be used in their appropriate tiers.

            Anyway, if people don’t like Smogon rules, there’s always VGC 2014 and X&Y Battle Spot Singles, modes supported by Showdown, that you’ll have to play by Nintendo’s rules instead, though even that has its own drawbacks.

  9. Well that was fun 😉 that showdown was just all Swagold is gonna roooaarrr cotton guard, then Heartless is all I got a shield clank spsshh clack wha the movement was too fast and the power level was over 9000!!!! whoever missed that woo was one powerful show

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  12. I’m so anxious for Sunday to get here for the Writing Contest results…you guys have no idea how much more self-esteem that would give me. But alas, I gave it my best effort, and there can only be two winners. Maybe my Missingno analysis was good enough 😀

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  14. I wonder who those other people are who made it to Round Two- they’re not a part of the Disqus community at least. It only adds to my worry that they either did better or didn’t do it at all XD

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  16. TPP: “The mob manages to teach Psychic to Drowzee and Red goes back to make his way up the Pokemon Tower. A Gastly is captured. Cubones are seen, but Red has no Pokeballs left. Day seven ends and Red begins day eight by getting blacked out twice by Gastlies, sending him back to Saffron City’s Poke Center.”

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