The Category Challenge

[link] Mine! will be kept in this journal.


Welcome to the Category Challenge, a challenge I started around... oh... a month ago in my own gallery and journals. That said, yes, this gallery has permission to repost my stamps and hype images.

Welcome to the Category Challenge. Since that month, it has slowly begun to pick up in speed, a few Deviants displaying its tag in their journals and also playing along. With that in mind, this gallery has been created.

This gallery will be host to all the information and hype images, as well as serve for favoriting all the Category Challenge responses--though I will do that on my own as well. Consider this the club. I will post people's challenge responses on here and deal with the Challenge on here as best I can.

That said.

This is the Category Challenge: at least one image in each base catagory on DeviantArt. Preferably images in the subcategories. What are these categories?

Traditional, Digital, Photography, Literature, Artisan Crafts, Customization, Flash, Film (not necessary), Designs and interfaces, Manga/Anime, Cartoons and Comics, Anthro, Fan Art, DeviantART related, Resources, Community Projects, Scraps.

The real challenge is, how much can you deviate from your art style? What can you REALLY do with your art?

Here is the long list--it goes further, believe me, just go check out the categories you can submit to... or check out this journal, the original type out for categories for the challenge--back on March 6th. [link]

Use the list you prefer, or make your own. Put this list in a Notepad or a Word file and keep links to your submissions--keep it in your journal if you'd like.

a) Traditional
-Animations
-Drawings
-Street Art
-Body Art
-Paintings
-Mixed Media
-Typography
-Sculpture
-Printing
-Collage
-Miscellaneous

b) Digital
-Drawings
-Vexel
-Mixed Media
-Mescellaneous
-Photomanipulation
-3D Art
-Paintings and Airbrushing
-Pixel Art
-Text Art
-Vector
-Fractal Art

c) Photography
-Abstract and Surreal
-Animals, plants and nature
-Architecture
-Darkroom
-People and Portraits
-Still Life
-Urban and Rural
-Macro
-Photojournalism
-Commercial Photography
-Conceptual
-Misc
-Street
-Transportation
-Humourous
-Horror and Macabre

d) Literature
-Poetry

(NOTE: types of poems)
-Ballad
-Fixed
-Haiku and eastern
-Limerick
-Open
-Sestina
-Song
-Sonnet
-Spoken Word
-Villanelle

(Note: Catagories/genres of poems)
Children's
Erotic
Experimental
--Cyber Poetry
--Other
--Surrealism
--Typographical
Family Life
General Poetry
Horror and Macabre
Human Nature
Humor
Narrative
Nature
Philosphical
Romantic
Satire
Scoiopolitical
Sprititual
Transgressive
Urban
Visual Poetry

-Prose
--Fiction
Children's
Erotic
Fan-Fiction
Fantasy
General Fiction
Historical
Horror
Humor
Life Stories
Mystery
Occult
Perspectives
Philosophical
Romantic
Satire
Science Fiction
Sociopolitical
Spiritual
Theatre and Scripts
Transgressive

--Nonfiction
-Biographies
-Editorial
-Essays
-General Non-fiction
-Historical
-Journalism
-Philosphoical
-Reviews
-Satire

e) Artisan Crafts
-Culinary Arts
-Sculpture and Glass
-Textiles
-Architectural design
-Knottings and weavings
-Custom dolls
-Jewelry
-Leatherwork
-Metal work
-Miscellaneous
-Folding and papercraft
-Woodworking

f) Customization
-Dolls
-Wallpaper
-Skins and themes
-Icons
-Visualization Presets
-Modules and plugins
-Desktop screenshots
-Handhelds
-Cell Phone art

g) Flash
-Animations
-Humor
-Movies
-Games
-Interactive
-Interfaces
-Intros
-Utilities

h) Film

i) Designs and interfaces
-Fashion
-Packaging
-Editorial Design
-Vehicular Graphics
-Misc
-Theatre Design
-Mascots
-Web Interfaces
-Tattoo Design
-Advertising
-Application Interfaces
-Buttons
-CD Covers
-Corperate
-DVD covers
-Logos and Logotypes
-Signage

j) Anime/Manga
-Digital media
Manga (comics)
Oekaki
Paintings
3D
Vector
Drawings

-Traditional media
Manga (comics)
Drawings
Paintings
Mixed Media

k) Cartoons and Comics
-Digital
Cartoons
Comics

-Traditional
Cartoons
Comics

l) Anthro
-Digital
-Traditional

m) Fan Art
-Anthro
-Cartoons/comics
-Digital art
-Manga/anime
-Traditional art
-Vector
-Wallpaper
-Skins
-Fanfiction

n) DeviantART related

o) Resources
-Textures
-Application Resources
-Tutorials
-Fonts
-Stock Images
-Film resources
-Fractal resources
-Literature Resources
-Clipart
-3D Models
-Miscellaneous
-Vector Resources

p) Community projects
-Contests
-Events

q) Scraps

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And you have NO EXCUSE.

List of resources THAT ARE FREE:

ArtRage. (painty program)
Paint.net. (more painty)
Daz3D. (3D people)
The GIMP. (Photoshop-esque)
Inkscape. (Vectors)
Terragen. (3D landscapes)
Blender. (3D modeling)
Google Sketchup (more 3D stuff)
And you can get OpenCanvas 1.1 for free, it's just hard to find--they upgraded to a way better program, but if you can find their first one, it's a freeware program.


Unfortunately I have not yet found a free version of Flash to solve that category. Windows Movie Maker exists for film but it's doubtful you could produce something good enough... unless you're hand animating and making gifs or something.