Help me help you help us! Trying to find the perfect cover image, at least 10SBD prize
So it has been a while since I stopped for a minute and breathed in, or just wrote about my thoughts. My dreams have been wild and my stories have been all over the place. Bitcoin is just moving all the time, I have adult responsibilities, the charity is doing well and I am coming up with recipes to present every Monday. In the end I even find some time to play a computer game (or two) in the evening, even though I must admit, I go to sleep very late and wake up later as well, and I do not know how healthy that is!
I have been just dong and doing and I have gotten into the rhythm of steeming and having a life, but my interactions have not been the best, comment writing is a pain in the ass with steemit acting clunky, and I have noticed that I haven't commented that much in the last months overall! Then there is the fact that I want a new cover image that is not just taken from the Internet and stamped on my profile. Do not get me wrong, I love my cover image, but I want something personal, you know?
So that is why I came up with the idea!
Contest!
Would you be interested to help me help you to help both of us? This is a contest and a service, from you, to me, but with your name out there. I take my page very seriously and I would love to work with you to make it better.
We have so many talented steemians here on the platform, and even though steemit is going through some technical issues lately, we are still here.
I would like to make a contest for a cover image made for me, with your name on it, so you have more exposure, an extra added bonus to the prize.
I would love to find people who would be willing and able to create a cover image for me and maybe even others later on. I am not steem rich or money rich in real life at the moment, and I know that artists and other content creators deserve so much more, but at the moment I can only afford to put forth 10 SBD of my own money for the first place and 2SBD for the second one. If this post will have higher SBD payout, you will be rewarded that, but if not, the first place will still have 10SBD and the second place 2SBD.
Rules
Until 08/11/2017 design a personalized cover image for me
This is the part where I benefit you: on the cover image add "created by @yourusername" in a place that would be visible when I use the image, so people can find your art if they like the cover image. Yay! Free publicity! (This is not a requirement if you do not want your name out there)
The images that will be more ''me'' will have the upper hand as I will be the sole judge for the first place, so feel free to contact me on steemit .chat(@lindahas), Discord (@lindahas#2182) or here, in the comments
You can publish your cover image in a post if you feel like it, to get more coin for your work! You deserve it!
Leave a comment on this post, with the link to your cover image post or dm me the picture on the chats specifying if you want me to mention you in a post or it is an anonymous entry!
There can be multiple entries, but there should be at least seven participants in total for me to actually let the contest be called a contest. If there won't be, I will still choose a winner and he will be awarded 10SBD(or the posts SBD payout) if I choose to use the cover image or 8SBD if I don't. Remember, it is nothing personal, everybody has preferences!
I would love if the cover image would be ''me'' and you would talk to me or at least go over my work to get a feel of me, but you can completely disregard my wishes and do your thing, maybe I fall in love! I am a person that loves humanity but sees all the bad at the same time, I deeply care about the world being a better place with more compassion. I love writing fiction/fantasy stories and I want to be a writer one day. I would like to have wings, and at the moment the cover image I have imagined is leaning towards a style of ''Alice in Wonderland'', if you get me. I do not want the characters of the story in my cover image, it is just the feel of the story that I like.
If you will be a winner I can add ''cover image created by @yourusername'' in my account description Settings->About, that will stay there as long as I will use your cover image, and I will use it for at least 3 months.
Prizes
I will specify here one more time, and in case a wonder happens and there is a higher post payout!
Until nr. 3rd down below I will be able to add my own SBD to guarantee that the whole payout of this post will go towards the artists.
1. If the post payout is under 15$:
1st place = 10SBD, 2nd place = 2.5SBD, 3rd place the rest
2. If the post payout is more than 15$:
1st place: 10SBD, 2nd place 2/3 of the rest and 3rd place 1/3 of the rest
3. If the post payout is over 20$:
1st place: 15SBD, 2nd place 2/3 of the rest and 3rd place 1/3 of the rest
4. If the post payout is over 30SBD:
1st place = 20SBD, 2nd place 2/3 of the rest and 3rd place 1/3 of the rest, plus participation prize 1SBD for all serious entries.
Your name featured on my cover, so people can find your account and ask for services or just admire art!
If the payout actually does a miracle and reach higher, I will adapt the prizes and post them here.
My thanks
It has been a while since I have expressed gratitude towards all of you guys out there, you should never forget that I am thankful for each read and encouraging comment, I know that without each other, steemit would not be possible, without the community there would be so many more discouraged creators!
I want to thank my trooper, @alexpmorris, who is always there and always helping me, no matter the fact that I am all over the place, you will be one person that I will always remember as an amazing person on Steemit that encouraged me by leaving upvotes on each of my posts since the beginning of my steemit days. And you are still here and still helping out, still there to talk to if needed, even though I think we are both busy.
Thanks to @curie curators and the project itself. The help is very much appreciated as I know now that somebody else sees worth in what I create, no matter how crazy my fiction gets! You are amazing, guys!
Thanks to MAP community, @rycharde, @macchiata, @MarianneWest, @MarillaAnne, everybody else! I know it has been kind of quiet, seems everybody is into their own world lately.
@Azizbd, you are the nicest, most generous person, and I love how you are working to make the lives of the next generation better, never give up!
Thank you @nepd for every vote on my every post, it is much appreciated! @mehdibca, who seems to be in the real world lately, I do not know if the steemit journey has become only and ocassional journey for you, but I am so thankful that you also are always there to support me. Thanks @petruska13 and @catwomanteresa occasionally dropping encouraging comments.
Thanks, all of you, you are great and you are exactly what a person needs, someone who cares and works for the betterment of each other, and the community.
Why so emotional?
I had a walk two days ago and I got to be alone for a minute, in the nature. You realize that all the little things matter, life matters, people matter, compassion matters. Even though we are fighting each other, we need each other, and even though I feel angry and helpless sometimes about the direction world is going, in the end of the day there is so much to do, to actually make the world work, for itself and us. I hope you understand, maybe not, each mind works in a different way, either way, take a part of me and I will take a little of you, walking a mile in somebody else's shoes goes a long way!
So if you only came for the contest, but stuck with me until the end, you may know more about me now and there might be an idea in your mind for a cover image to create. If not, here are some different links, that might give you more of something to work with:
My very first post on steemit, an introduction
Fiction, a window into suspicious business
But most of all I love my fantasy stories, dragons and unicorns, books and winning, powerful and good people.
Thank you all for everything and I hope this will catch you into engagement! Not the ring on the finger kind, but the other one :D
Hope this will wake up the artists,
Have a good day, week and life,
Linda
thanks @lindahas for the great shoutout, I'm flattered!
but truth be told, you also have many great posts, and are always involved in many terrific initiatives. Always a pleasure to throw my support your way as I can! And horses are awesome too! :D
Also look forward to seeing all the cool cover images people come up with!
Thank you so much and I will probably mention you until you get tired of it, I remember people who have helped and inspired me, and you are one of them!
I hope there will be entries, there are so many contests that they get buried under one another!
hi XD,
new post, take a look at what my new idea looks like.
https://steemit.com/art/@edxserverus/new-design-for-the-cover-of-lindahas-some-variations-listing-of-the-ones-i-have-made-so-far-contest
OMg, so many of them! I can't even imagine how much work you put into them!
My entry, i hope you like it.
Click here to see my post
Thanks, the Pegasus are amazing, and it has two sides, like light and darkness, joining together. I think I like the middle part the best, the two opposite horses look splendid!
Fantastic, but I think the subconscious betrayed you and actually wanted to make you one with pegasus instead of unicorns, but I'm still here to please your tastes and you'll have one with beautiful pegasus then XD
Oh, I saw the wings on the second horses and somehow my brain is calling them all Pegasus now! :D But I actually like the unicorns most! Even though I called them Pegasus :D The middle is my favorite part, I think it is very, very beautiful!
Then we will work from there to make some variations on each side leaving the unicorns, anyway there is a pegasus that I think you will love, I see that you like landscapes so I will work on that, but as you want a magic touch that creatures will Would you like to observe there?
I kind of like simple, but magic things, that look real. Not too overstuffed, and it does not has to have my name on it, it can be a clean image :)
Maybe fairies? :D I don't know, really, I am into mystical human creatures, but that might be too much or too hard
XD,
Now tell me, of these two what it is ok and what it is wrong, I still have 10 days left
I like the first one, but could you put the second ones blue part in it? The one that does not has my face on it? :D I think that would be something I could really get into!
Here is my contribution :
https://steemit.com/photography/@pixelfan/cover-image-for-lindahas
Hi, what do you think of this? a little dark more like something that I would use XD
Uhh, I do not know about this one for me :D
It is a little too much for some reason, I do not even know why. The horses? The death evident in the pictures? I am quite grim in some thoughts as I see a lot of issues with the world, but I try to bring out the lighter things.
Actually I expected you to say that, since you expect good things , i bring you colors not necessarily detailed just beautiful.
Omg, I love the style! Maybe it is a little much, but the style is amazing! I love how flowy the figures are.
You are bringing me so many options!
I love graphics competitions, but more than that, that people like. Why do you think it's too much? We still have 8 days, maybe you end up with one for each week, I feel like I'm a spammer filling out your comments post.
No, no, as long as you are doing this because you have time for it and it is fun, it is all good. I was just imagining you working on my cover image all the time and not having any free time, I do not want to enslave you! :D
As for a cover for each week, I would love using different covers, but I can only afford so many first place prizes :D
XD, do not worry about that. If you really like them, once this contest ends regardless of the result, although I'm making an effort to win, I just want you to like it. I'm going to make you one every 2 months for free, but it's just for you to feel comfortable with your blog. As I said, since this is a contest I am willing to win because I am excited to compete but if you had asked me I would have done it for free. What bothers me is that not many people have taken the task of making designs with different visions to mine so that you really have the one you really want.
I had to modify the edges a bit because the page cuts them out, so if one of the previous is the one that you will use, I'll have to adjust it
Haha, I kind of was expecting there not to be a lot of competition, there is so much competitions going on that most get buried fast. From the choices I have been given I can already see some that I would love to use, so it is all good! As long as I and the artists leave happy, I am okay with everything I got :)
What a great contest and as always, you touch hearts with your writing. And thank you so much for the shout out. I wish I were an artist, but have a couple of people in mind to get on this :)
You have been a great supporter, I love the comments you drop as it is one thing I struggle with writing myself! Thank you for sticking around :)
I would be happy for more participants, even though I already feel like I will have tough time choosing, the options I have been given are quite amazing!
That is great to hear!! You can always choose a few and change every month :)
I am thinking of that, I will be only able to afford two though, because I will reward the cover image creators if I choose to use their cover images. And at the moment 20SBD is the highest I can spare :D That is why I wanted the cover images to be created without my name or face on them, so they could potentially be used by others as well! :)
That is nice of you. But some people might like to gift it to you or like the exposure - something to think about. The grace of receiving :) You do give a lot, you know. People might want to give back to you.
Yeah, I know, I have a problem of receiving sometimes :D I want to reward people who actually do, because I realize it is sometimes hard and recognition, at least some kind, helps. I want people to be proud of originality and even though I can not reward everybody quite yet, I want to do something. I believe that people are going to be to me like I am to them and I only want good things going around even though I know that is not the reality at the moment.
Im not gonna enter because I suck bigtime in creativity but just wanted to say you have the spirit in the right place. People matter, kindness matters, passing it forward matters!
Aww, that is so sweet! I think we should help each other here on steemit, so it would be amazing if writers used artists cover photos as those would bring some exposure to both parties in a way!
Exactly. Perfect platform Id say to find them right! Good luck on your hunt!! Ill be following you to see what happens heheh
Thank you! I hope to find some creative people out there!
You had me cracking here hahaha
And cool contest you got there .. I'm not much of a designer myself, hopefully someone would be able to create something amazing !
Nice gesture giving back to the community too :)
I already have some amazing covers here created, can't wait to use one when the time comes!
It is a giving away that benefits all sides, I get a cover and people get rewarded for their job, exposure is the best thing in steemit. I may not be a big account, but maybe I will be able to help somebody catch some new fans! :)
you definitely are :) keep it up !
I'd love to be able to help you, I'm not a professional but I work hard, I've done some for my colleagues
Sure! Feel free to enter the contest :)
If you have any questions, shoot away, I will be happy to answer.
I love creativity, so go crazy with it!
fantastic, I have seen some of your tastes but I would like to know if you want any particular element, also if the cover you use in the frame of your blog or in your publications, you know for reasons of size
I want it to be magical in a sense, and I think I want the area where my bio is to be readable, so, maybe one color there.
I will not be using it in the publications, at least I had not thought about it, maybe I could, but that is not the main purpose. I am looking for a frame specifically for the reason that I think it is the first thing a person sees, when he/she visits my account. First impressions and all :)
That is why it is so hard to find a cover image, it has to be big resolution thing not to be grainy.
I have it thanks, I will be showing you my ideas until the competition date
Great! Can't wait! :)
Lovely, I will try to make an entry to participate in this contest:-)
Amazing, I love your photography, so I am eager to see what you will come up with!
Well then here is my entry... I can crop it if it does not fit. https://steemit.com/contest/@kerlund74/a-cover-image-for-lindahas
Beautiful, I love the water, as I said before, it makes me calm, relaxed! And the forest is one of my favorite places to be at as well. Reminds me of Finland, when I was there 8 years ago to rock climb, but instead of rocks, you gave me building!