hs_olympics | Bonus Round 0

Hey shippers!
The HSO is starting in two weeks, and just like last year, we’re doing a swap meet as a warm-up before things really get going.

Rules

Create a set of 2-6 icons or 1-3 banners (or both!) for one team that is NOT YOUR OWN.

Icons/banners can feature canon art, fanart (ONLY fanart that you have permission to use!), quotes, lyrics, gifs, basically whatever you think is awesome! Remember that these are presents and not black solicitations. We're trusting you to put some degree of heart and soul into them!

Upload them somewhere (cl.ly works pretty well!) and post/link them here with the appropriate title format (see below).

If/when your team receives a gift (and feel free to request icons/banners if you are in need!) it would be nice to thank the gifter, even if you don't end up using any of the graphics! You are of course not obligated to use them or thank people or anything. But it would be cool of you to acknowledge people's hard work!

This challenge will run until 11:59PM EDT on June 1. After that time, even if it's just by a minute according to the timestamp, no submissions will be accepted for points.

Title Format

[YOUR USERNAME] should be self-explanatory!

Replace [YOUR SHIP] with the name of the team that YOU belong to and to whom the points will go. Please use the characters and quadrant in the following format:

KANAYA<>KARKAT

Replace [TAGS] with any applicable tags (see the list). This section is optional!

Posts not using this format in the title will be understood to be unofficial discussion posts, no matter what they contain. They, like all comments on the comm, are subject to the Wank Policy.

Sample title:

FILL: MIMICRE (TEAM JADE<3KANAYA) - TAGS: DROWNING, DEPRESSION

Scoring
The first five entries from each team for this challenge will be worth 10 points each, and the next five will be worth 5 points each. While your team can absolutely submit more than ten entries, the eleventh entry onwards will not be for points; it will just be for fun!
This is not how most bonus round entries will be scored. This is more of a bonus bonus round! For info on the normal scoring system, see here.

All scored content must be created new for this round.

Resources

GNU Image Manipulation Program - Unfortunate name aside, GIMP is actually one of the better open-source image editing programs out there. If you don’t have any software like photoshop, this is the place to start! (Plus, it’s free.)
Lost and Taken - An excellent site for high-resolution textures.
Font Squirrel, Lost Type Foundry, and League of Moveable Type - Free font resources! And the best part is that they're all hand-picked or created by professional graphic designers, so you won’t have to slog through a million lower-quality fonts.
Icon-Extras - A pretty good resource for icon tutorials and the like. Also features textures, brushes, bases etc. that are particularly good for icons (rather than the all-purpose textures at Lost and Taken).

Note that DW icons are 100x100px.
Banners can range quite a bit in size depending on layout but are generally around 150-400px tall and 400-800px wide. This is pretty flexible, though.

We would prefer that any questions about this challenge or anything else in the HSO be emailed to homestuck.shipping@gmail.com, as we cannot guarantee that we will see and be able to respond to your comment in a timely fashion.

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so cuteee. ;;w;; thank you! <3

oh wow this is really great!! Thanks so much! If you don't mind I'm going to stick it in our community info :'D

Team Dave<3Terezi, please enjoy this banner of new art created for this occasion. ♥

i dont mind at all! go ahead and use it~

Dave♠Karkat♥Terezi♥Dave. You guys have one hell of a ship. Or a sitcom. One of the two.

So many lovely pairings...! These are really cute!

Ahh these are so cute!!

The second one is my favorite. *_*

aaah cuuuute! Thank you <333

A bunch of silly icons for Aradia <> Dave. And a banner. Because why not? I was having fun :) Whoot paleships! Not too many differences, since it's the same basic image in a variety of poses. But backgrounds are always fun. And Dave's face is made of special.

[Image: One 150 px x 400 px banner. 'TIMELESS MOIRALLEGIANCE' is written in the lower left corner in a shadowy teal. Aradia and Dave stand next to each other with their hands making a diamond. Aradia's smile is big, while Dave's smile is very slight and smirky in Dave quality. The Time Cog is in the background.]
[Image: Five 100 px x 100 px icons. Various crops on the banner image.
1. Aradia alone, with the Time Cog on the upper left, and her hand reaching out to form her half of the diamond.
2. Dave alone, with the Time Cog on the upper right, and his hand reaching out to form his half of the diamond
3. Aradia and Dave together, Dave flipped on his head because weird buggy time stuff can get you coming and going. The Time Cog is in the center of their diamond, which is in the center of the icon.
4. Aradia and Dave together, the Time Cog rising underneath the central diamond of their hands.
5. Aradia and Dave together, Aradia flipped on her head because time makes calls on us all, and some of those calls are quite strange. The Time Cog is in the center of their diamond, which is in the center of the icon.]