Calling all illustrators! The Booooooom Illustration Awards have returned, and this 12 months we’re going larger than ever—submissions are formally open! There are 5 award classes to undergo: “Private”, “Product & Packaging”, “Promoting & Promotional”, “Editorial”, “Scholar”. Now we have money prizes up for grabs, goodies from a few of our pals (tablets, consoles, free web sites, digital instruments), an elite panel of judges, editorial and social protection, and the chance to be revealed in a particular printed publication.
Our inaugural awards have been an enormous success (see all of the winners here), because of all of you. We are able to’t wait to see what you all submit this 12 months! Massive because of our pals at Format for serving to us carry this to life once more! With their continued assist, we’re capable of maintain constructing alternatives for our artistic group and shining a light-weight on a lot unbelievable expertise.
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Everyone seems to be welcome to submit one picture to those awards for FREE. Members take pleasure in limitless submissions and limitless photos for all award classes. If you wish to submit a couple of picture or compete in a number of classes, think about turning into a member here!
It is a golden alternative to your work to achieve new eyes—and never simply any eyes! For the primary time ever we’re welcoming a panel of distinguished visitor judges together with: James Jean (artist), Akiko Stehrenberger (artist/artwork director), Phil Chang (founding father of C47), and Evan Pricco (founding father of The Unibrow, former editor in chief at Juxtapoz).
All 5 winners—and 20 shortlisted illustrators—will likely be featured in our particular Awards print publication, created completely to showcase your work. This zine received’t be on the market; as an alternative, we are going to ship it on to individuals we admire (editors, artwork administrators, tastemakers, you get the thought). Winners and runners-up will every obtain a duplicate in addition to editorial protection on Booooooom and promotion throughout our social channels. We may also have a longlist of 100+ illustrators who will likely be promoted throughout our social channels.
For prizing this 12 months, we’ve lined up some implausible product sponsors. TourBox is becoming a member of us and offering their Elite Plus—the final word artistic console for illustrators who need sooner, smoother workflow management. Huion is contributing a few of their most spectacular tablets, together with the Kamvas Pro 24 (4K). And True Grit Texture Supply is again once more, offering 5 Everything Bundles (each product they provide, for the app of your alternative) full of brushes, actions, results kits, textures, and extra.
Along with this, we’ve doubled the money prize pool to $5000 USD and C47 Creative is including a further $2500 USD (for a complete money prize pool of $7500 USD!).
Format can be generously offering 3 “Lifetime Subscriptions” web sites. To enter, full a submission of any type and opt-in to their e-newsletter.
