V&A Student Illustrator Awards - December

Another great free competition, allowing pretty much any autonomous work to be submitted. Information presented is from last years 'Call for Entries', but i have updated the dates as what you may have to work with.

Entry into the Awards is free

Student Illustrator of the Year entries are encouraged from anyone who has attended an illustration course at any time during 2009 or 2010. The brief is open. Students may submit material set as coursework by their tutors or they may define their own brief.

The Prize

The Student Illustrator of the Year will receive £2,000 and a trophy. The runner up will receive £1,000.

How to enter

Entry into the Student Illustrator category of the Awards is via the online entry form. Entrants may submit up to three images of their work. One animation per entrant may also be submitted.

ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY!

every friday on this site: illustrationfriday.com, there is a competion brief, where the winner will feature on their blog. No grand prize, but a fun and straight forward way of making some interesting work with modest exposure.

ABOUT

Illustration Friday is a weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation.

Topics are picked each week from a list of suggestion that have been emailed by participants. Think of a good topic? Submit it here.

Graphic Short Story Prize

Can't find any detailed info & dates as of yet. . . But I'll link to the official stuff I've found so far.

2009 winners thing; http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/graphicnovels/competition.htm

Despite the problems caused by the Royal Mail postal strike we ended up receiving an
absolutely record breaking number of entries this year. Quantity was without
a doubt matched by quality and the judges – Simone Lia (graphic artist), Dan Franklin
(Publisher, Jonathan Cape) Suzanne Dean (Creative Director, Random House) Paul Gravett
(COMICA) and Rachel Cooke (The Observer) - had an extremely hard task on their
hands picking just two winners. The increase from two to four pages of the Observer
Magazine allowed for the development of some fantastic narratives and ambitious artwork.

Among the many fantastic submissions the judges adored the beautiful drawings
and charming story of James Stewart’s “The Musing of Mow”. They were also intrigued
and impressed by Charlotte Nourse’s stunning “Road Project” and were haunted by Laurie J. Proud’s “Aubrey”. The talking cats of Jim Medway’s “Paul Crystal, Graphic Designer”
provoked much laughter and stole many hearts around the judging table and the
originality of William Goldsmith’s drawings for “Like a Wagon” impressed everyone.

But after much heated debate two winners were finally chosen.
The judges were unanimous in their appreciation of Joff Winterhart’s hilarious
and achingly realistic portrait of a mother and teenage son in
“Days of the Bagnold Summer”. Joff was awarded the runner-up prize
and he will receive a stack of graphic novels and a check for £250.

The first prize went to the vividly captured and tender story “Paint”
by Vivien McDermid, which they thought was a touching portrayal of mother
with a small toddler. Vivien will receive a cheque for £1000 at the ceremony
at the ICA at 2.30pm on Sunday 8th November.

Nobrow - Feburary 15th

This is a great little open submissions by Nobrow, who produce some great publications.

Text taken from Nobrow Flickr page:

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS FEB 15TH, ALL SHOULD CONFORM TO BELOW SPECIFICATIONS, MANY THANKS!

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU PROVIDE US WITH JUST THE TWO IMAGES THAT YOU WISH TO SUBMIT

Hi All,

To avoid any misunderstanding, can we ask all those wishing to take part in the 'People I've Never Met...' book competition to write 'submission for nobrow' in the comments section of the images you wish to put forward for consideration; and to follow the submission guidelines detailed below.

Many thanks,

A.S.