Q2 starts in April, so for the first banner change we're going to have a little competition for all you artists and manga recolour enthusiasts to design a banner yourself or collaborate together.
If you'd like to design a banner for the board, here's what you have to do!
1. Pick one* of the following themes:
- Battles that resulted in the character's death - eg Akatora vs Akakabuto, Benizakura vs Mosa, Yukimura vs Shogun etc
- Characters that are the same breed (eg German Shepherd)
- Best friends (eg GB and Sasuke, Sirus and Monsoon)
- Special attacks (battougas [wolves permitted!], ningatou etc)
2. Design your banner at 1,800px wide by 394px tall at 72dpi.
- If you have photoshop/GIMP, you can download a template here.
- If you use any other program click here to download a mock greyscale version of the board logo to help you with your banner layout.
- The logo does not have to be centered, it can go anywhere in the space as long as the size stays the same.
- You can use images from the Free Image Gallery/scans of your own or draw the characters yourself. If you draw it yourself, you may include your artist signature in the corner, but otherwise please design the banner free of any text. Winning banners will be archived in a topic with full credits and links to your art gallery should you require it.
3. Submit your banner design by uploading it to a hosting site like imgur and posting it in a reply in this topic, or in the Art & Graphics forum in the Fan Board for everyone to see!
Make sure you save as a high res JPEG or a PNG.
Submission deadline is the 25th March. As long as we get more than 2 submissions, a poll will be created so the board can vote on their favourite design during the last week of the month. The winning banner will be used on Ginga Board from April until the end of June.
If you have any questions or something isn't clear, please ask!