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Apr 2024

(Deadline: May 31st)

I'm doing a DTIYS art challenge for "Damsel in the Red Dress" to celebrate 100 subs!

The rules are simple:

  1. Draw either Kattar OR Alicia in your style. You can submit as many times as you want, and you can draw either or both of them.

  2. Share your DITYS on the Tapas forum or on your Instagram, tagging me ("leyellethecreator") and using the #damselinthereddressdtiys

  3. No AI art allowed and all the drawings should be safe for work. If your entry isn't safe for work I can't and won't include it.

  4. Please keep in mind the character's ethnicities and descriptions when drawing them (I.e. Please do not change their features/hair textures or remove their melanin) but have fun with the hairstyles and outfits. They don't have to match the ones they've used before in the novel. (And with Alicia's wacky fashion sense, you could pretty much make her wear anything, but Kattar wants you to know he will not appreciate it if you put him in plaid.)

  5. Two winners will be selected. One for a drawing of Kattar, and one for a drawing of Alicia.

And now for the incentives (one of which has to be weird, because, you know me.)

  1. All entries will be shared on my IG and at the end of a bonus episode of the story, tagging/mentioning the creator.

And the quirky one (because I have to be weird.)

  1. The two winners will actually be written INTO the bonus episode. Yes, I'm going to make you into characters that interact with Kattar and/or Alicia, and will be relevant to a chapter. I think it'll be fun, so I'm really looking forward to the challenge lol. Don't worry, I won't make you evil (unless you want to be.)

So if that sounds fun to you, you can submit using any of the methods listed above.

I hope we get a lot of entries, and I'm really looking forward to the challenge of writing the readers into the story, (and no longer having the right to say "any resemblance these characters bear to people living or dead are completely coincidental.")

Character Descriptions:

Alicia is 4'9, with dark brown, curly (but not kinky) hair. It's closer to loose ringlets (something like large curls in the 3A-3B texture (Using Cosmopolitan as the point of reference, since nobody seems to be able to agree on anything) And her hair reaches nearly to her knees. She has a cinnamon brown complexion, and is rather hourglass shaped, with the exception that her waist is a bit on the thicker side, so it doesn't taper a lot.

She also has pretty thick and dark eyebrows, very thick eyelashes, and rather large dark ambery brown eyes.
(She considers herself to look like a curvy American Girl doll, so that probably gives you a pretty clear impression lol) She also has pretty full lips, and a round nose.

Post accident, she has a scar on the back of one shoulder that spreads toward the middle of her back, and a few scars on the back of her legs as well. (It's your choice whether you draw her pre or post-accident.)

Kattar is 5'9 standing upright, but because of his paralysis, he can't stand all the way upright easily, so he usually doesn't. (Again, your choice whether you draw him pre-or post accident.) His natural build is on the thinner side, even with muscle, with fairly long legs for his height, and his face is on the rounder side as well. Alicia regularly refers to him as being pretty or beautiful, and while he doesn't look like a girl, he is very pretty for a boy.

Pre-accident, he had his hair dyed chestnut brown, and it was long but not quite shoulder length. Post accident, his hair has grown out in it's original color (black) and reaches past his shoulder blades. He has very slanted black eyes and a monolid, thick eyebrows, and the complexion of peanut butter frosting, which tends to have a slightly golden-y tint to it when he's been getting sunshine (which he hasn't in ages.) His hair texture has just the slightest amount of waves (2A texture.) He has a pretty sharp nose as well.

If you have any other questions on design details just let me know. I'm happy to answer them XD.

Edit: for what it's worth, Kattar is super "hot"/"sexy" however that can be defined lol. I also forgot to mention that while he's pretty thin, pre-accident he had a fair amount of muscle. He wasn't jacked or shredded by any means, but he had pretty well defined arms and a broad back because he hit the gym. A good portion of that muscle he's lost now tho.

Alicia is also pretty hot/sexy too (hot hot mess is her representative aesthetic) XD. She's on the softer side, but not touching chubby yet. She doesn't really have any visible muscle, and no part of her frame is really firm.

I love this, unforunately my drawing skills are terrible, especially people. I might have to pick drawing back up again though, because I know these guys would be fun to draw

P.S: I didn't notice an end date for submission listed here. You might have listed it somewhere else but I didn't see it yet

I just edited it, thanks, I realized I left the date out too XD.

And thanks. I thought I'd try something different as a prize, since I can't draw digitally to do the usual OC swap prize atm. And it's okay if your drawings aren't great, it's just for fun lol, i'd love to see your take on the leads

My art skills for people are actually atrocious. :sweat_smile: I literally haven't taken an art class since I was in elementary school so it's been a while. I picked up painting almost 2 years ago and yet still cannot draw much more than a stick figure. I typically paint scenery like houses, trees, and flowers. I just find them easier than trying to create an accurate represenation of a person. Maybe this will be my incentive to learn how to actually draw a person

i'm better at plants and animals than I am at people too. (like, I could sell my animal and plant art, definitely not my people.) I only took art classes once for like a semester, so I'm mostly self taught. lots of people are though, so I wouldn't let classes/professional training stop you. All you need is a motivation. Mine is being better than a certain (not actually an artist) celebrity I keep up with who has become unreasonably good at art too fast XD. It's a friendly one sided competition on my part but it's fun

Sometimes celebrities can definitely be good inspiration. I actually was watching pewdiepie's art stuff a few weeks ago and was thinking I'd like to pick up art again. But he definitely improved too quickly for me to keep up. I think somr people have a natural talent for these things as well and I don't think I've got it :joy: But I still don't plan to let it stop me, I've just been putting my painting and art stuff on hold since I'm busy with school and my novels atm. I'm hoping that I'll be able to focus on my hobbies a bit more after I finish with finals

Yeah...priorities TT. How long do you have left (estimated) before you graduate? My goal is to graduate from high school this year so I can have that off my plate. But I have to go to the USA to be able to get my GED. Currently can't afford that, but I'm working and saving.

Like 2 weeks lol. I'm getting my associates degree first and plan to go back for my bachelor's within the next few years

ohh, well two weeks isn't that bad. what are you studying?

Nursing, it's technically a little over two weeks until I actually graduate. But the majority of our final assignments are due within the next two weeks. Which basically just means I am spending most of my free time studying and preparing for the next test.
On the bright side, I'm hoping my writing here will help me with writing my next paper. It is due in a week and I'm nowhere near done with it :sweat_smile:

Crossing my fingers for you. I have an Auntie who is a nurse, studying to become a doctor, but she's going to be taking a gap year soon cuz she's burned out. medical school is no joke

Yeah, I've been struggling at the end of nursing school, I could only imagine how hard medical school is. I definitely don't see myself continuing all the way to be a doctor, but nursing is full of so many different credentials and certifications, there is always something new to learn

Would you want to study anything in particular after you get your GED?

I'd like to take classes in art and dance, but I don't think i'd want to go to college/university for it. I might get a certificate to teach English as a foreign language because my parents suggest it, but I'm not sure yet.

That's really cool. Do you speak any other languages? I took spanish classes throughout middle and high school, but I'm pretty rusty because I haven't spoken any Spanish in around 4 years

no I don't. I live in the Dominican Republic, and am Dominican-American, but I don't speak Spanish, though I can read and understand it well enough to get around and live. Probably because none of my friends speak Spanish and I work online, so I just converse in English.

My father and brother both teach English professionally, and my parents suggested I get a certificate to do it too. If I do, all the adults in my family will have worked as teachers XD. But I'm not really interested in teaching English. I'm applying to work as a writing teacher.

Conversing in English definitely makes a lot of sense, most online things are already in English. I would love to improve my spanish-speaking skills but that's just another thing that I haven't had much time to work on. Although if you can read and understand it relatively well, I'd say you probably know more of the language than you are giving yourself credit for.
I took 6 years of Spanish and still struggled with speaking sometimes just because of the different grammar rules.
Being a writing teacher honestly sounds pretty cool! Would you prefer to teach online or in person?

I wouldn't mind teaching either way, but i'm applying online rn, because I speak English, and I couldn't teach in country in English XD.

I can only read enough to get around and buy things though, not like novels and stuff.

I took years of spanish classes and there is no way I'm reading a novel either without google translate :joy: Unforutunately, classes don't get into the intracacies of a lanugage like idioms, expressions or slang. Plus we mostly focused on words we'd need as a tourist.

Honestly me too, I could probably order some food without mispronouncing things too terribly. But that's about it

yeah, but i'm doing worse than you cuz I live here xd

It's all good, we're still young so we've got plenty of time to learn. maybe I'll start using Duolingo again, it is good to practice the basics