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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agh! i forgot to post the other icon! sorry about that!

Unfortunately, I'm not currently in a position where I can check back through the 2000+ comments to see if something like this has already been made, so if that's the case, I'm really very sorry! D: Not trying to steal anyone's thunder here. I guess this is kind of a problem with using canon art, someone else may have already made the same thing. :/ In any case, here are some banners for Sollux<>Terezi:

A banner showing the infamous 'pointing the way' picture from [S] Cascade and a quote from Sollux and Terezi's first log, concerning angels

Also, an icon design! I couldn't decide which cropping/arrangement looked best, so I figured I'd just post all of them.

The infamous 'pointing the way' picture from [S] Cascade and a moirallegiance diamond

All art is from the comic, but it's worth noting that the picture on the first banner and also on the icons is by

xamag-homestuck! :)

Hahaha, awesome xD
Thankyu for the banner >7

here's something for my former team, jake<3jane!

feel free to add whatever filters and/or text you like!

and by TAGS: [TAGS] i mean no tags. WHOOPS..............

AHHHHHHDORABLE. Thank you so much! <3

banner for team rose/aradia!

thank you!! i love how you draw them omg v wv

here's a fill for john<3vriska!

some roxyar stuff :D sorry its a bit....unbalanced *sigh*

Awwww thank you!!

I really like the use of the Green Sun in the background! What a great theme. <3

wow thank you all !! u //u

Oh god that banner RIGHT IN THE FEELS

Thank you!! :D

This is for team vriska<3kanaya from team feferi<3equius
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4tfxxsqvt1qgzeb0o1_1280.png

These are so cute. I don't think you have any idea of how much I absolutely love these. I really like all three versions. I don't know which one I want to use first. <3

This is great! Thank you very much! :]

Love these! That look on Vriska's face is priceless. Thank you!

Some icons for team Jake<3Terezi.

Here is an icon for team Eridan <3< Sollux!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4tnb6Eqta1rua1kfo1_100.png

Kileyeh on tumblr has done some great Dave/John art, and has given blanket permission to use their art for icons and such, so I couldn't not.

4 icons for team Dave<3John:

Seriously lookit little bunny!John, it's the best.

A banner for team John <> Vriska! Good luck, guys!! <3
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Banner for team Eridan <3< Sollux!

Here's something for Sollux<>Terezi! I was pretty busy this week and didn't have a lot of drawing time, but I really wanted to make something for this team, since it was my second choice, so here you guys go!