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Thank you! I'll take a look into it when I get a free moment! I have heard of it but never used it myself.

While what Claine said is true, I feel I must suggest FireAlpaca as an alternative. I used GIMP for a while before discovering FA and let's just say GIMP pales in comparison!

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Just wanted to add

We can do multiple entries, right?

Is this possibly inspired by that white big furry sea creature (most people thought was Apa from the Avatar: The Last Air Bender) that was found in the Philippines?

Nah. Just look at sea slugs. Any sea slugs. Things are weird. And amazing.

So here's a weird question.

I just saw a guy on the train who I want to draw because of how he was dressed and what he was carrying. I know that I won't recall his face or many other details, but the rest was definitely unique enough that if he saw it, he'd probably recognize himself.

If I were to finish it in time, could I submit it as a mascot entry, or would that be unacceptable or generally unethical?

I've also got a question. My digital art skills isnt that great without a drawing tablet so I am using an image I originally drew of one of my characters but I am gonna edit to a completely different person and make a digital version of it by tracing the pose form the image I drew, would that be allowed?

My first entry!



A magic girl!

She represents Japanese Culture (If that's a permissible genre haha)

Link to excessively large Magic Girl

It's allowed since 1) the pose was originally drawn by you and 2) you are still gonna make an original character out of it. Thus, what you're gonna make is basically still yours, so yeah. It's allowed.

EDIT: That's just what I think. Not really sure. For sure the others can clarify.

I think that goes to the Fantasy genre

Actually this would be against the rules. All artwork submitted must be created specifically for this contest only. If you're recycling artwork it wouldn't be originally created for this contest and be unfair to other participants.

Really? I just thought the character design must be original? So therefore, poses (alone) that you have created previously aren't allowed too?

But they're talking about only the pose of their own work being traced, and otherwise making a wholly original character. A recolor would definitely be too much, but just a pose seems like it should be passable, so long as they are clearly different.

Though I suppose that could fuzz up the line about why someone else's work can't be traced...

Just want to be sure this doesn't get lost before I get an answer.

The pose is all I would be using, I have plans for a completelt different character design. I can draw poses on paper but not on a digital work because I lack a drawing tablet to do it properly. The character I make won't look anything like the original I made.

Personally, I'd contact Kim or another actual Mod or Admin or such and ask them, since, answers you are getting here aren't clear enough, nor would they be considered "official" since nobody who has answered for this is a mod.

Though, if this is by chance allowed, I think it would be nice if you somehow took a picture of the original piece of work and showed that as well as a sort of "proof" of it being yours.

I will probably send Kim a message in a moment about this and send her the original image of it and my plans to help show it will be made into something for this contest

What if we want to submit a piece of art for someone else to draw up with no expectation of any kind of reward?

There's only 3 entries so far x.x I hope more come along

From experience we always get 20 entries in the last three days

Don't worry, Kim is never starved for choice.

The due date is also way off from now in June. :9

I've been really busy as of late, and usually am one of the first people to post over the last three years. I have every intention on joining this year, just not while I'm finishing up my competition entry at the moment. ; v ;