Ethnique 2010 - Legend of a Woman / Contest

  - is an eternal theme for all kinds of art. Every year artists from all over the world post lots of images portraying the fair, and there seems no way to stop this flow.
          The idea of this challenge is quite simple - to create a series of artworks united by one theme – female beauty as national legend.
          Woman’s beauty has many faces – you can find it in Aztec goddess or Scandinavian Valkyrie, Chinese princess or English duchess. There is nothing better than their historical background and their ethnic environment to emphasize their characters, to frame their beauty. That's the first reason why we've chosen such an "academic" theme. And the second - we just find it pretty interesting and useful for every artist to turn to historical roots for inspiration.
          Every participant can choose for artistic presentation any dramatic female character of any culture from all over the world.
          Best pieces of art will be chosen for an art book , publication that we intend to do.

          Creation an iconic images of famous female legends in their ethnic and historical environment. The only restriction is that the character should have a historical, mythical or legendary background and suitable ethnic environment.

           The final image must be a self-sufficient artwork appropriate to the challenge theme and clear in its idea and background. The image can be 2d illustration or 3d render as much as any of the traditional art materials. It can be even a sculpt or a doll – if it is presented dramatically and interesting on the photo. Photo art itself is excluded because the subject of the image must be handmade.

After the end of challenge all final images should be sent to admin@arttalk.ru during 5 days.

The form of message:
Author:
Email Address:
Website: http://
WIP theme (Work-In-Progress): http://
Image Title:
Copyrights Owner:
Software Used in Creation of Image:
Brief Description of Image: Tell us about the image – background info, inspiration – the more, the better!

Challengers, whose artworks deserve to be printed in the art book but lack completeness, can finalize them after the deadline during the two weeks-long additional time. In this case they won’t be allowed to participate in the challenge results.

           Below are presented some examples for the styles of artworks. You can use them as guidelines or create something in your own style.

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Results  (тема будет открыта 18.07.2010)