Warding Contest Closed
Okay, so. As of midnight last night, I am no longer accepting entries for the Warding Contest. Well, at least not for the judging. If you missed the deadline but are still working on something, I’ll be happy to feature it on the blog.
While I was off on vacation I received 57 new photo entries from more than 15 Warders worldwide, including many of the strongest entries to date. Several times over the course of the last week, I would download an entry and say to myself, “Holy shit. This HAS to be a winner. Nothing will beat this,” only to have another entry show up in my inbox a couple of hours later that did indeed beat it.
There is nothing more amazing than witnessing the creativity of others, and apparently my readers have a vast reservoir of creativity. This contest has gone in directions I never would have expected, and people have really done some incredible things, spending hours upon hours creating beautiful works of art. I quickly realized I needed to add more prizes. Five signed poster prints weren’t going to cut it. So I will be throwing in some signed books for runners up, and all entrants will get signed bookplates thanking them for their work. Lauren Cannon and I will be getting together this coming week to debate the winners, and prizes should mail out in short order after I announce the winners.
In the meantime, I need to post the remaining entries. In the order they were received, here are the first five submissions that came this last week. I will post the rest as soon as I finish re-sizing all the images. If you want to just scroll through everything, you can check out the photo gallery I posted to facebook.
Hi Peat!
This is my only entry to the Warding contest; it was something that kept me occupied when I should have been revising for my exams, lol. My entry is Leesha’s herb gathering basket, I used some small jam jars, (wanted to use different shaped ones, but nobody wanted to eat the gooseberry jam). I warded along the top rim of the jar and along the bottom, the basket contains a little hog root, stink weed, sky flower, demon fire, and tamp weed.
Nanaki
UK
Dear Peat,
I hope you’re having a wonderful time relaxing with the family on holiday.
This is my entry to the warding contest. I recently attended Alt.Fiction for the first time and had an amazing time. However, I went out for supper towards the end of the day and horror-of-horrors, I realised that the sun was beginning to set and no one had warded the building which we were in. I dashed off to the hardware store and grabbed paint, brushes and a ladder. Thankfully I was all done in time to keep everybody safe for the evening. Picture included is of the finished result.
All the best,
Vick
UK
This is from the PS3 game ModNation Racers. Surely when Arlen’s not killing demons he’s out racing go-karts. I did my best to recreate the wards in the grimoire but I had limited resources in game. You may be able to recognize the mind ward on the forehead, rock and flame wards on the chest, water and wood wards on the stomach, and he’s got bludgeon wards on his hands and knees. I took to the liberty of creating some of my own and used the cover art for The Warded Man and The Great Bizarre for inspiration. Hope you enjoy.
Patrick, Brooklyn
We decided to add our entry into the contest by warding me. The wards were painted by hand with a facepaint. So me and my friend used perhaps one and a half hours painting the wards. It proved to be challenging to sit completely still without laughing. Once that was done we headed out in the middle of the night, literally, to take some pictures. We took some props with us to help set the mood. I was ready to stab the damned abominations!
It took some effort but we sure had a lot of fun doing this!
So, here is a pair of pictures we picked.
Friendly regards.
Jonna & Nina
Finland
Hello Peat,
I was on my way to Cutter’s Hollow to deliver a message, when I found this warded bottle just laying in the grass! I had heard a rumor that the Cutters were fighting against the Corelings, and were using some substance called “liquid demonfire” to fight them off; I wonder if they dropped this bottle whilst fighting?
I would just like to say that I am LOVING the world you’ve created in the Painted Man series, and I cannot wait to get my eyes on The Daylight War.
Thanks Peat
James, UK
