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Jan 2021

Yo! It's my first topic of 2021, WOO!

One of the toughest things about being an indie creator is self promotion. Particularly finding places to promote your hard work.

This year I'm going to be entering a lot of art contests as a way of getting my art in front of people, and I thought, maybe it would be cool to share what contests I enter with the Tapas community. If anyone is interested, they can join up too.

I think contests are a great way to get your work seen, and also challenge yourself. It could be daunting, especially if you feel like you might not be 'good enough' but the way I see it, is that it's a learning experience either way. And who knows...there's always the chance that you might win. Also there's the added bonus of networking with other artists who post in the challenges, and seeing some cool art along the way.

Anyways, to the meat of the topic. If you know of contests, whereever they are hosted, whether on social media, or art sites, please feel free to drop the links here in this thread.

So starting out this thread with a link I found this OC Creation Challenge on Medibang/Art Street. Pretty sweet deal, you can even use existing OCs you have if you want.

But mainly, I wanted to make this thread to help my fellow artists out and shout out some of these contests.
I hope you all will join me in sharing. But as I'll be participating in quite a few contests this year, I'll be updating this thread semi-regularly with new ones as I find them.
So if you know of a contest, drop the link here in this thread!

See you guys out there, best of luck if you decide to participate too! :hype_01:

Edit:
For anyone who's hosting a contest (like for Fan-Art etc...) please feel free to drop a link to your contest announcement and comic. Only if you're hosting one. Don't just post links to your works please.

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Oh, the contest deadline for the one I posted above is in late March. Plenty of time to participate!

Got another Medibang contest! This one encourages you to draw a fairy tale badly xD I'll probably try make something cursed

19 days later

This is a contest that I'm participating in right now, it's line webtoon Indonesia. Before jump in, there are few things that you might consider:

  1. Need to be in Indonesian languages only.
  2. They have 4 categories: Romantic-drama, comedy-slice of life, action-fantasy, and horror-thriller.
    If you check webtoon Indonesia, they will have a very heavy romantic theme. Even their slice of life, fantasy, or etc,
    will still have a pretty heavy romantic feel. Because of this, I can't put my first story, GuArth, since it's fantasy-science fiction and not have a romantic thingy (yet, maybe I should put a little bit here and there.). So, I put a romantic, easy-going story, My last life, for this occasion.
  3. If the money you after, you might think the prize money not so high after convert to the dollar, compare International contest. There will be 3 stages. 16 people who passed to stage 2, will get more less about $700 each. Then 8 people who passed to stages 3 will get more less about $1800 each. Then finally, 4 people who win will get $2500 each.
  4. need to be a minimum of 40 panels for each chapter, and ready to 26 chapters (in case you win). I saw one of the candidates, putting the comic that he remake from 2019! SO, yeah, I who just make it will have no chance with those who prepared for long.
    oh yeah, 8 people who win from 2nd stage will plus contract. But, I really have no idea if there's different wages standard for each regional webtoons.

Thanks for clarifying they needed to be in Indonesian only. I thought they might have needed to be in a different language, but I couldn't read the website so I wasn't sure