Theme: B l a c k  M a g i c
Info: www.spellsofmagic.com/black_ma… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_ma…
You may interpret it as you want, useful, evil, dark, satanic, pagan ... but no mocking allowed, this is srs bsns

You can make everything you want, its open to all mediums: digital art, traditional art, photography, cosplay, artisan crafts, design, photomanip, film, poem, story, essay... & even write a black magic ritual!


Duration of contest: 21.06.2012. - 22.09.2012. ~ 0° Cancer - 0° Libra
Entries accepted from: 21.06.2012. to: 7.09.2012. ~ 0° Cancer - 15° Virgo
Deadline: 7.09.2012. ~ 15° Virgo , ~ 7. September 2012.
Winners will be announced on: 22.09.2012. ~ 0° Libra


Folder for submitting your entries here: dark-balkans.deviantart.com/fa…
-> Best entries will be submitted to our Gallery!

EVERYONE WHO ENTERS: will receive 1 journal feature & 1 llama donated from our Dark-Balkans staff.
So you get a feature & llama just for entering!
(entries unlimited but: 1 person = 1 feature/ llama)

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P r i z e s .:.

☆ 1st Place -->
- 100 from Dark-Balkans
- Tarot reading, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
- calculating your Demon Guardian according to your natal chart, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
- calculating a gem you have to wear according to your natal chart for a desired area of your life, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
- calculating the most important planet in your natal chart, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
- horse photo manipulation from IlluminatiEquine
- simple digital drawing from MrsPurdy-Laufeyson
- story request from pizzadone
- interview  from Dark-Balkans
- 10 journal features from SVEM
- one month Huge Thumbnail feature on our group Dark-Balkans front page
- displaying the contest winners by We-share-contests
- 4 comments from Frabato11
- 1 banner with your favorite quotation from vladdelucius
- llama badges from Dark-Balkans staff dark-balkans.deviantart.com/ab… & Tite-Nelfe , Eledhwen-Arts , Eledhwen-Stock ,  unicornomics

☆ 2nd Place -->
- 50 from Dark-Balkans
- Tarot reading, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
- calculating your Demon Guardian according to your natal chart, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
- calculating the most important planet in your natal chart, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
- simple digital drawing from MrsPurdy-Laufeyson
- free sketch form Silverlute
- 7 journal features from SVEM
- 3 weeks Huge Thumbnail feature on our group Dark-Balkans front page
- displaying the contest winners by We-share-contests
- 3 comments from Frabato11
- llama badges from Dark-Balkans staff dark-balkans.deviantart.com/ab… & Tite-Nelfe , Eledhwen-Arts , Eledhwen-Stock , unicornomics

☆ 3rd Place -->
- 25 from Dark-Balkans
- calculating your Demon Guardian according to your natal chart, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
- calculating the most important planet in your natal chart, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
- calculating your moon sign according to your natal chart, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
- simple digital drawing from MrsPurdy-Laufeyson
- traditional sketch of a single character with no color or background from dragonblood925
- 5 journal features from SVEM
- 2 weeks Huge Thumbnail feature on our group Dark-Balkans front page
- displaying the contest winners by We-share-contests
- 2 comments from Frabato11
- llama badges from Dark-Balkans staff dark-balkans.deviantart.com/ab… & Tite-Nelfe , Eledhwen-Arts , Eledhwen-Stock , unicornomics


☆ Honorable mentions -->
- 2 journal features
- 1 comment from Frabato11
- llama badges from Dark-Balkans staff dark-balkans.deviantart.com/ab…
- more prizes may be added =]
- points if available

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Additional notes & opportunities about literature works!
We want to make this contest possible to enter for everyone, that why we decided to add additional opportunity!!
If your literature deviations are stories, poems, black magic ritual they will count as regular deviations, but if you write a essay there are: additional special prizes just for essays about Black Magic!

◈ all 3 places for essays about Black Magic receive the following:

- calculating your Demon Guardian according to your natal chart, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
- calculating the most important planet in your natal chart, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
- 2 weeks Huge Thumbnail feature on our group Dark-Balkans front page
- displaying the contest winners by We-share-contests
- 5 journal features from SVEM
- displaying 3 of your deviations at the front page for 2 months donated by SVEM
- 2 comments from Frabato11
- llama badges from Dark-Balkans staff dark-balkans.deviantart.com/ab… & Tite-Nelfe , Eledhwen-Arts , Eledhwen-Stock , unicornomics
- 1 banner with your favorite quotation from vladdelucius


-> If your essays about Black Magic are really great, they will be published & submitted to LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net


+ 1st place
- 50 from Dark-Balkans
- Tarot reading, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
- calculating a gem you have to wear according to your natal chart for a desired area of your life, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net

+ 2nd place
- 25 from Dark-Balkans
- calculating a gem you have to wear according to your natal chart for a desired area of your life, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net

+ 3rd place
- 10 from Dark-Balkans
- calculating your moon sign according to your natal chart, donated from LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net

& more prizes may be added!

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If available more prices will be added!


R u l e s & G u i d e l i n e s .:.

You have to be a member of the group (Balkan artist) !
Check our rules dark-balkans.deviantart.com/jo… to see if you can join.
Countries counted as Balkan ones are:
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Greece and Turkey.
Unlimited entries per person, but you can win just once (except essays about Black Magic).
All mediums accepted!
All manipulations must be properly credited!
In your essays about Black Magic, you must have references about the used literature.
By entering your essays about Black Magic you give the portal crniplamen.net permission to publish your work as a portal content.
Also by entering the contest you give the portal crniplamen.net permission to feature winning deviations.
All your essays about Black Magic must be translated to English language, except if they are written in serbo-croatian language.
  You have to submit your entry in proper folder: dark-balkans.deviantart.com/fa… by 7.09.2012.  ~ 15° Virgo
If your entry doesn't follow the group rules, your submission wont be accepted to show in this folder.
 All entries must comply with the group & contest rules!
If not, your work/entry will be disqualified.
Only works/entries that meet our simple contest rules are accepted to submission folder dark-balkans.deviantart.com/fa… & have the right to compete.
 You must say in your artist note's that your work is for this contest with the group icon, contest name & a link to this contest blog fav.me/d54fz8o .
The name of deviation for this contest must contain "Black Magic"  in the title.
 All deviations don't have to be a new creation for this contest, but must comply to the contest rules! (for example: artist note's, name of the deviation, etc. )
 All written work must be over 50 words, except for essays that have to be at least around 1000 words & more.
Mature content is allowed, so long as it follows guidelines and is appropriately tagged as mature.
Have the Darkest, Blackest, Infernal Fun!!



Entries folder: dark-balkans.deviantart.com/fa…


✔ Accepted entries so far, who have followed the contest rules .:.

1. by 6v4MP1r36
2. Black MagicI am a human, my gender is female.
My hair is bluish-black and skin is pale.
I can say I am alive, but only physically.
Feelings are dead, there is no sympathy.
Over the times battle scars got deeper.
Becoming tired inside,
my soul is crippled.
All good I touch becomes filth.
Conscience goes blank without guilt.
With pain of  my bleeding heart,
I suffered constantly, I suffered to much.
No way to describe it unless you share same fate.
Imagining better world on the end of the rails.
Someone will notice and give you a hand.
You persuade yourself there is still some hope,
but future tailored paths of past again,
covered with mystic fog.
Everyone's gone!
''Hey my dear all mighty God!
 Where are you now?
 Saving some hungry children
 or sharing a peace and justice?
 I can't hear you,
 do you even care?
 You left me too,
 I am very scared.''
Sitting defeated in the big dark room,
holding my favorite black pen,
on clean sheet of paper,
I'm scrabbling d by AKira1189
3. :thumb312797697: by kit7en
4. by TheDarkness86
5. by XDimov
6. by jewelryandstuff
7. :thumb325526403: by AnteJaa
8. by AncaMitroi
9. by AncaMitroi
10. by AncaMitroi


There are more works/entry, but sadly don't meet our rules... (so they are not displayed in the contest folder).
Deviants & entries that don't respect our rules (all have received a note/comment about it):
AKira1189 fav.me/d5bx2bl
GlamVoodoo fav.me/d4t15o4
ziggy-q fav.me/d2thowu
TheDarkness86 fav.me/d4tq8zv
Artemisophile fav.me/d4xuv60 fav.me/d4vlrka fav.me/d4vlk8t

For this contest to be fair, everyone must follow our contest submission rules, so please respect the contest rules, other group members & resubmit your work/entry until the deadline ends.
Thank you for your understanding.


Technicalities, Questions & Disclaimer:

How do deviantArt points work?
Check out the FAQ page: FAQ #234: What are Points?

How to add icons in your artist comments? How to add DA icons & username codes?
Check out the FAQ page: FAQ #81: How can I create links to other deviants, deviations, or websites?
For example if you want to add our group DA icon you write:
: icondark-balkans :
(but you have to remove spaces !!!)
Also check this dA GUIDE: dA GUIDE: HTML, TEXT, EMBED
Legend:
Codes with this green symbol can be used to: comments, deviation description, journal, user page widgets, dA forum.
Codes with this yellow symbol can be used to: deviation description, journal, user page widgets.
Bold Text:
<b> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz </b>
<strong> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz </strong>
Italic Text:
<i> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz </i>
<em> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz </em>
Underlined Text:
<u> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz </u>
Strikethrough Text:
<s> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz </s>
<strike> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz </strike>
<del> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz </del>
Small Text:
<small> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz </small>
* This code doesn't work in   fav.me/d4hesst

A minimum of five entries from different deviants are required for the contest to be finalized.  The deadline may be extended by a month if there are less than five entries at that time.
Essays won't be needed for contest to end.
August update: we have met this requirement ^^ & there will be no prolongation of the contest end.

65% of judging will be most be based upon how well have you interpreted & depicted our theme (vision, originality, impact).
You can write in your artist comments how have you understood Black Magic & why you made such a deviation.
The other 35% will go for technique & quality.

Our present & past Dark-Balkans staff dark-balkans.deviantart.com/ab… are not allowed to compete in the contest.
The present staff of the group will act as jury.

Winners will be announcing on 22.09.2012. ~ 0° Libra
Winners will have 1 month after announcing winners on 22.09.2012. ~ 0° Libra, to claim their prizes.
After this time, any unclaimed prizes will be forfeited.

If you have any questions Note us !

For natal chart calculations you have to provide exact date of birth, exact birth time (with correct GMT time of your birth) & exact birth location ( latitude & longitude desired) !
All answers will be simple, for example for your demon/planet/gem you will get just a name.
Every calculation & reading are worth around 30 e & more, so we are very thankful for the donation from crniplamen.net ! Slava!


Please all feel free to donate more prizes (features, points, llamas, drawings ...) !!

Giving points is said to be an act of good karma!  Donate here! joscreative.deviantart.com/


♡ Contest donators, so far .:.
~LHP Portal.:.Crni Plamen crniplamen.net/ crniplamen.net
~Deviants: vladdelucius believergarry MikoroSpirus Silverlute Frabato11 SVEM IlluminatiEquine JOScreative MrsPurdy-Laufeyson pizzadone britzyXgirlX09 dragonblood925 Tite-Nelfe Eledhwen-Arts Eledhwen-Stock unicornomics Shades-Of-Lethe BrunovicArt
~Groups: We-share-contests
And our Dark-Balkans staff dark-balkans.deviantart.com/ab…

⚝ Contest promoters, so far .:.
Aeirmid -> fav.me/d56ld9d  ;
Eledhwen-Stock -> fav.me/d56bfe8
Our kind affiliates -> dark-balkans.deviantart.com/ab…
communityrelations -> fav.me/d56ly4e & fav.me/d57fmnv
The-Sacred-Space  -> fav.me/d56ld9d
AnotherContestGroup -> fav.me/d4l5rn6
DevNews -> fav.me/d55svyh
nikkidoodlesx3 & PhotoManipulatorsx3 -> fav.me/d56umau
Melanie-Howle-H & MagicManipulations -> fav.me/d53c3j7
WHATS-THE-PIONT -> fav.me/d541gzz
Forest-World -> fav.me/d564fhl
Chamanics-Pathways -> chamanics-pathways.deviantart.…
kaleecee & MarvelousManips -> fav.me/d57a2qc
BlackMetalIstKrieg -> fav.me/d55vunh


۞ Examples & inspiration for the contest .:.




Another Black Magic contest held in 2009, info: liam-stock.deviantart.com/favo… & entries: liam-stock.deviantart.com/favo…



  

Contest is suported by Portal.:.Crni Plamen aka Black Flame, crniplamen.net !  
crniplamen.net/ ; &  www.facebook.com/pages/Crni-Pl…

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