Welcome to the Signature Competion No.1
Here are the details for the competion:


The application form:



Information

Please prepare your signature and send via pm to MrThomas.
Entries must be in before 12PM on 4/10/09.
Please do not reply to this thread, this is for information only.
If you have questions, PM me.
For general signature competion discussion, Look here.

Good luck!

Welcome to the Voting & Discussion thread for the first signature contest.
Here you may discuss the theme, And may vote here when the deadline passes.
For entries, Please look here.
Entries are now closed.
To vote please fill in and PM this form:

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Your name:
Which signature are you voting for? 1, 2, 3 e.t.c
Your reason for voting for this signature:

This form is to stop random people signing up and voting for their freinds e.t.c Please supply a valid reason for voting for that signature otherwise the vote will not be counted.
You may not vote for yourself.
Signatures will have a number added next to them, put this number onto the form.

Votes are due in by 3rd October before 5PM.
I will be putting up the new contest soon.



Please also keep all discussion about this contest to [b]THIS THREAD ONLY
Good luck to all!

Entries so far: (In order of entry)

#1

#2

#3

#4

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

#10

#11

If you know whos signatures they are, Please don't tell others. I appreicate that one or more are very easy to guess
If you have submitted your art and it is not here please wait 24 hours then PM me.
Remember I am in the UK, so will not be on at like 7PM american times.

Freestyle should be a good way to start ... I'm working on my sig right now :)

I wish you good luck, Have recieved quite a few signatures. Some of the being fairly good

Edit: Sigs added as I recieve them.

Time to get to work then on my signature

The naruto one is my favourite, but the quality is a bit messed up with the render :(

Oh wow, haha. This is really anonymous, considering people have their name on the signatures

hmmmm i like the naruto one best for some reason but i kinda think if jagex puts it on there sence its copyrighted they might get sued =(

Don't worry, these forums aren't run by Jagex, and I doubt that the maker of the signature is going to be sued. It's just a little picture. I think the maker of the render would applaud the maker of the signature, not bring him to court. Think of it as fan-art

I think that in the future, signatures entered which have the contestant's name or watermark on it shouldn't be allowed to enter. It will just turn into a popularity contest.

lol @ ppl with names in the sigs

Maybe the winner should choose the next SOTW's theme?
And they wouldn't be allowed to enter it because they won the last one?

At the moment we will be choosing the themes ourselves. Soon we will be allowing users to pick though.
Can I ask that all SOTW suggestions go here.

Please keep this thread to discussion about this week's entries and themes only, thanks.

Kay, sorry about that :(
Unin... Is that a signature?

I don't really care if people put their names in their sigs, text ruins a sig anyways.

Hell yeah! its just.. over....la....uhm..big.

Unin's is large art ... It would be too big to be considered a sig.

The maker of this told me i should enter, so i did >.>

Allowing signatures with creators' names and over the size limit shows a lack of foresight.

There was not a rule about text or size limit.

You're correct. The conditions under which the contest was created was intended to prevent it becoming a popularity contest rather than a measure of (subjective) skill, allowing signatures with their artists' names to be included is counter-intuitive to this. Size is less of an issue, but there are currently no guidelines as to what should be considered a suitable size, under the current rules I could create and enter a 1000*1000 image.

Right now this is a freestyle theme so I'm going to relax the rules. Next time they will be inforced so signatures will be smaller and not text will be allowed.

He's right.

Also, showing everyone the current entries is silly even if there isn't a name on them. It totally deters people from entering because as soon as a really good sig is put up, everyone else will go "Well now I've seen that, there is no point in entering because this person will win anyway."

I guess we learn from our mistakes.

Thanks for pointing this out John.
I apolgoise to everybody for mistakes e.t.c, But this is a W.I.P project and is not perfect.
In future please discuss problems/ideas for the SOTW contest in the Signature Contest info sticky in this forum.

NP, Thomas. It's great that your taking initiative and starting up these forum events. Keep up the good work ;)

Thanks, Nice to know it's appreciated
Anyways, I will stop being a hypocrite and going off topic :tonge:

Come on, keep the entries coming!
Remember the deadline has been reduced to this Sunday.

I guess you are right
But I don't just enter to win, I like making siggies. If I win, awesome. If I don't, thats cool with me baby
Agh Matt's been banned
Does he get disqualified? His siggy was really cool :(

Matt banned? Why, When, Who? Did the vampires get him? Poor matt
Guess the sig will have to go...

Laura was just abussing her powers! :P
I also got banned, But am back now

Yay :)
The show may now go on >:D
Any more entries guys?

I'm working on a signature atm, as soon as I get onto the computer with photoshop on it, i'll be able to upload it
Nice entries so far!

Me being banned 'twas a joke D:
Anyways my work isn't up yet... or is it? Maybe?

I'm pretty sure it is. Considering you said something about how text ruins a siggy somewhere and there is no text in the only entry that has no text.
Ooh two new entries :D
Now I'm not sure

I'm liking the bottom one, the Starfox one and the one that has Unin at the bottom.

Did you read the first post? Don't mention peoples names. Please edit that out...

If we were going on skill, the one of the girl is really the only one that effectively uses Photoshop. Quite a lot have poor cropping and look like a cut and paste job :S

At the moment, my favorites are #2 and #5. If I change my mind, I'll change this post.

All of them are cool, though. I just kind of like those the most

I might be entering my crummy excuse for a signature, but you won't have a clue it's mine...
Then again I might not, but how the heck will you know???

I submitted, although I'm sure I'll come somewhere near last xD

Everybody's artwork is amazing! I love #2 and #7 .

Also, aren't signatures supposed to be, um, signature-sized?

Your work has been added.
I'm relaxing the rules for the first contest, but for the coming ones signatures will have to be within MSW signature rules.

Okay. Good.

Wow you're so much more obedient than Lukes.

Please note I will be closing aplications early at 5PM GMT on saturday not sunday. I apologise for any problems but this is a better day for me and the staff to get voting up e.t.c
So you have about 25Hours.

Since mine is dead obvious, i want to apology for adding text but i didn't know it was not allowed, i actually didn't want to add text but though that you needed to. toke me lots of time trying to get a good text which in the end didn't work so used simple :).

i know this should be in the discusions thread but i think that sigs should not have names but can have text if it's related to the sig and that sigs are not show until it's voting time as like jonh said people will be put off and ideas might get stolen which would cause big rackets.

"You stole my idea"
"NO! i made it first"
"liar"
"NO! your liar!"
admins: SHH!

There's no "no text" rule. There is a "no names" rule.

EDIT: Disregard that, I have the reading comprehension of an orange.

How do you make a signature?

I've always been a fan of signituremaker's signatures.


All you need to make a signature is picture editing software and some artistic talent. The type of picture editing software depends on what kind of signature you want to make. You can use Microsoft paint if you're interested in pixeling, but if you're interested in making signatures like the ones that were entered in this contest, Photoshop, Paint.net, and The Gimp are good choices.

Do they have to be entirly ours?

Like pics? do they haaave to be ours?

Or we can take a picture and edit it?

WAIT! 4 hours left?!!??

Guess ill have to quickly find a picture and edit it my best.

You can take a render and make a background and put it together and experiment with it and you get a basic signature. Try not to just slap on a render- Basically what I did for my entry here, and I don't really like it.
So is it voting time?

Entries are now closed. To vote please fill out the following form and PM it to me:



This form is to stop random people signing up and voting for their freinds e.t.c Please supply a valid reason for voting for that signature otherwise the vote will not be counted.
You may not vote for yourself.
Signatures will have a number added next to them, put this number onto the form.

Votes are due in by 3rd October before 5PM.
I will be putting up the new contest soon.

Is there any rule on submitting old works? I personally think you should have to make a new one per topic as I find it kind of silly that some people just submitted their current signatures which are quite old.

Perhaps something else to consider in the future... :)

EDIT: I personally think a Poll would be the best way to vote. Is there a way to make the poll results invisible to all except the topic poster even after you've voted? That'd work well.

The calender says there will be a new competition started today. Is this how its going to work, or are we going to finish voting first then start a new competition?

I discussed with the other SOTW managers and we agreeded the PM system will be the best. Simply because we know who is voting and who for..



Voting and entries will be taking place at the same time.
I'll get the new competion up in just a sec.