In honour of the Inksgiving event that’s right around the corner, and the fact that I’m counting down to my 100th episode on Tapas for my fantasy romance novel Water Mirrored Moon, I’m doing an art contest for my characters.
The contest will be open for 5 weeks or until my 100th episode is released on Tapas, and the Grand Prize is $200 USD for the best drawing out of the 3 categories listed below.
Here are the contest categories/conditions:
1) DTIYS: Taking the 3 main characters, Zhao Ling Ye, Wu Cui Xi, and Zhao Ling Xian, from my novel cover, draw them in your own style. Here’s the link to the novel:
2) Taking the character descriptions below, draw Xiao Hei, Xiao Yu, and Murong Yan.
Xiao Hei
Male
Occupation: Cui Xi’s loyal guard
age: 19 Height: 189 cm
Appearance: Slender and still boyish looking. He is light skinned, dark haired and dark eyed with wide eyes that are slightly tilted. He dresses in black and wears his hair either in a bun with a simple wood hair pin or in a pony tail. Highly trained in martial arts, he wields the family’s great sabre, the Nine Suns Sabre.
Xiao Yu
female
Occupation: medical practitioner
Age 15. Height: 167cm
Appearance: Dark haired and dark eyed with a heart shaped face, milk colour skin, and red lips. She often wears her hair tied up in two buns on either side of her head tied with ribbons. When she reaches the capital, she always wears her mother's pearl hair stick. She likes to wear the colour purple.
Murong Yan
male
Occupation: Vice General of the AnXi army
Age 27 Height: 192cm
Appearance: Generally wears his hair in a long loose braid with headband or braided leather thong with a single bead worn across his forehead. He is dark haired and dark eyed, his skin tone is light tan. Highly trained in martial arts, his weapon is the Black Snake bow. Made of dark wood and decorated with jade, it has a draw weight of over 150lbs.
3) Taking the character descriptions below, draw Crown Prince Ashina Atil, Crown Prince Zhao Ling Feng, and Luo Yi Tian. (You can BL this all you want )
Ashina Atil
male
occupation: Crown Prince of Xiyu
Age 27. Height 191 cm.
Appearance: He has Eurasian features with warm sandy coloured skin. His eyes are green and his hair is wavy and a sand brown colour. He wears his hair long, with small braids interspersed here and there that are clipped with gold. He normally wears a head band or sometimes he covers his hair with a shawl or headcloth. He prefers green and black, but occasionally wears bright colours like scarlet. He often goes about with his shirt open with fine gold chains either criss-crossing his chest or across his belly. He wears a single black leather thong around his neck with an large uncut green emerald on it.
Luo Yi Tian
male
Occupation: moneylender/merchant
Age 23, Height 187cm
Nickname/Alternate: Yi Tian
Appearance: tends to overdress because of an inferiority complex. He is heavy browed but has handsome features. He is dark haired with grey eyes.
Zhao Ling Feng
Male
Occupation: Crown Prince of Tiansheng
Age 27, Height: 190cm.
Appearance: He has lighter brown hair and light brown eyes. . He tends to wear elegant, but muted colours to go along with his rather scholarly appearance.
***Conditions:
- Limit of 1 entry per person
- Format: PNG or JPEG, 1 MB max. For those not on Tapas: size guide for covers might help: 960 x 1440 px
- No NSFW, AU, chibi. Check out the cover art, if you’re unsure about style.
- Final submissions cannot be WIPs. Drawing must be in colour and from the torso up. Can be characters only; no background required.
- Payment of the prize money is through Paypal. The $200 USD is a flat amount and includes any and all fees you may be charged to receive it.
- If are selected as the winning entry, you agree to allow your drawing to be posted on Tapas/Wattpad and on my social media (insta/twitter). Please include your social media handle with your submission as I will definitely be tagging/crediting you.
- If you post your drawing (WIP or not) on social media, I’d appreciate a tag/share.
- Please send all entries to tempestdancer@gmail.com with the title: WMM 100 Episode Contest
- I reserve the right to disqualify entries without notice if they do not meet these conditions.
Hope you like it and have fun!! Thank you in advance to all those who participate!