Contest--Draw a Character!

THEME:

The super easy theme for our very first contest is: Draw any character (an OC, yourself, a character from an anime/movie/video game, etc.) in your own, unique style using traditional and/or digital art!

Please be sure to submit your contest entry into the Character Contest folder here: rising-artists.deviantart.com/…. The folder will be open from now until the deadline, which is Wednesday, August 1.

After that, my admins and I will pick three semi-finalists from all of the submitted entries, which will (hopefully) only take one or two days. Then all of the members will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite artwork, and we will have a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner!

Please follow all of the rules below, otherwise, your artwork may be disqualified.


RULES:

1. Each member can only submit one contest entry. There's no need to sign up for this contest--anyone who is a member of this group can participate!

2. You may use any style of traditional and/or digital art, so get creative!

3. Contest entries should be completely your own work. Please do not use someone else's line art, bases, etc. We want to see your work. Collabs are also not allowed.

4. Your character must be human or mostly human. Things like anthros are perfectly acceptable, but no completely animal characters please.

5. Your contest entry must include most or all of your character's body. If just a small part of the body is missing, that is fine just as long as almost all of the body is there.You can also only have one character in your artwork.

6. You may draw someone else's character from an anime/movie/video game/etc, but be sure to use your own style of art. While you may use someone else's character idea and designs, you may not copy their style of drawing.

7. Artwork must be recent. Although I would prefer if your contest entry was drawn after this contest was announced, I will accept artworks that are up to 1 week old (from Sunday the 8th). So if you have just recently submitted something to this group that fits all of the criteria for this contest (I know this applies for a lot of you), then don't worry because you can submit that to the contest as well.

8. No mature content please. There may be a lot of young artists in this group, so for their sake, let's keep everything kid-friendly.


PRIZES:

And now--the prizes! I wanted to thank all of the wonderful members who donated to this contest. We've got some seriously awesome prizes, so I hope you all participate!


  First Place:
Gets the 1st place ribbon as well as the fabulous trophy from Antebus88.
Contest entry will be displayed in the Featured folder.
Gets llamas from each admin.
50% of the prizes from the list below.
Digital drawing with shading, color, and background OR a basic animation from TheBugcatcher.
Half-sized ink portrait and feature from SprinkleSprankles.


Second Place
Gets the 2nd place ribbon.
Contest entry will be displayed in the Featured folder.
Gets llamas from each admin.
30% of the prizes from the list below.
Digital drawing with colors and shading from TheBugcatcher.
Feature from SprinkleSprankles


Third Place
Gets the 3rd place ribbon.
Contest entry will be displayed in the Featured folder.
Gets llamas from each admin.
20% of the prizes from the list below.
Digital sketch (flat colors optional) from TheBugcatcher.
Feature from SprinkleSprankles.



The List of Prizes:

Free commission
Art request
Art request
Art request
Art request (no animals or anthros)
Art request: Digital character
Art request: Digital chibi
Art request: Digital or traditional (markers or colored pencil) chibi
Art request: Traditional from thighs or hips up
Art request: Traditional headshot
Pixel art request
Pixel art request: small job or avatars
MMD art request
Will ink a drawing
3D pic of a digimon/pokemon and background
3D pic of a digimon/pokemon and background

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Art request for personal favorite

I also have about 40 that I will donate to this contest. If we have a lot of participants, I will hand out between 5-10 points to my personal favorites, the runner ups, or maybe random participants, who knows?


If I have forgotten anyone on this list, or if you would like to donate a prize, please let me know!


I hope you guys participate--it's a great way to share and promote your art, and maybe you'll win a little something for yourself! I'm very excited to see all of your contest entries!  

Don't forget, the deadline for this contest is August 1st!