Be A Guiding Light: Tutorial Contest! 2 days left!

Aug 1, 201619 min read

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Published: Aug 1, 2016

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Contest Time!

Dear deviants,

projecteducate is launching a brand new contest for the month of August. The theme of this contest is tutorials.

Why tutorials?

A big part of our mission here at projecteducate is to help educate the DA community both with regards to art mediums and DeviantArt in general. Many of you have written incredible tutorials for us in the past. Tutorials are how most of us learn more about art nowadays. Tutorials help us improve ourselves, make our lives easier by finding shortcuts or little tricks, they help us refine our art and become the best artists we can be. Here on DeviantArt we also have an amazing Stock and Resources gallery, of which one of the sub-galleries is tutorials. Our stock CVs, Cassy-Blue and mercurycode do a fabulous job of highlighting some of the incredible tutorials available to you onsite. It truly is an art to create such resources for fellow artists! A very essential art.

What kind of tutorial?

Your tutorial should be related to an art medium. For this specific contest we will not accept tutorials related to DeviantArt. We really want to hone in on your artistic abilities and knowledge here and help the community of artists here on DA learn more about the variety of art mediums they might be interested in. We also want you to try and focus on topics that have not necessarily been prominently discussed before. For example, in the world of photography there are already tons of tutorials on topics such as how to use selective coloring or how to change someone's hair color or lipstick or how to make a background blurred, etc. However, there aren't as many tutorials on how to save an image for the web to avoid reduced quality upon upload, or how to airbrush skin without losing too much texture, or how to match skin-tones. So try to think outside the box, take a look around DA or the internet in general, see what tutorials you can find, and think of what you feel is lacking. Maybe you have a specific style, or you have learned something really cool. What is unique about you and what you do? Think about it, and then try to teach us!

How do I make a tutorial?

There are many ways to make a tutorial. Our CV Cassy-Blue took the time to put together a guide for you all with some tips, please do read it: Tutorial Tips. Seriously, READ IT.

Here are some great tutorial examples for you to use as inspiration for your own!

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As you may have noticed there aren't many tutorials listed here that were made via journal on DA. You are allowed to submit tutorials you wrote via journal here onsite, but we would recommend going through the same process as the tutorials included above, as it makes for a cleaner and clearer result that is easier to read and more appealing to the eye.

Rules:

Your tutorial must be newly created for the purpose of this contest, we will check the submission of your deviation.
Your tutorial must be related to an art medium, as mentioned above, therefore no tutorials on how to use DA will be allowed.
Your tutorial should be of your own creation, do not simply copy-paste or regurgitate the information you found in someone else's tutorial. Only create a tutorial based on your own knowledge and expertise.
Your tutorial must be educational, helpful, readable, understandable. It must either be in English, OR in another language with a complete English translation included, in both cases the English must be grammatically correct, so you might want to have an English speaker proofread it.
Your tutorial should be submitted to the Resources & Stock Images > Tutorials gallery here on DA, categorized within the appropriate art medium covered by your tutorial. If you need help, please leave a comment on this journal and you will be advised on how to submit your tutorial.
Please include a link to your tutorial in the comment section of this journal, as your entry to this contest.