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Oct 17

Announcement Time!

We are back baby! As we near the “Damsel in the Red Dress,” 1 year anniversary it’s time for another DTIYS challenge.

So, in honor of the title of the first book, the theme of this challenge is simple:

Draw Alicia in a red dress. This dress doesn’t have to fit the description of the red dress in the book, so have fun with it. The only stipulation is that she must be wearing a red dress in the picture.

Now for the rules and other nitty-gritty details:

  1. The competition starts today, and ends on Friday the 30th of November, as we’re doing a whole celebration weekend for the novel’s anniversary.
  2. The art must be sfw and no AI art.
  3. Please keep in mind Alicia’s features (body type, figure, complexion, hair texture etc.) Reference images of her are available below along with a description.
  4. You can share your submissions by posting them on IG and tagging me (@leyellethecreator) with the #ditrdanniversarydtiys or by sharing it on the Tapas forum and tagging me (@Leyelle)

Up to two winners will be chosen. These aren’t inherently first and second place, I just don’t want to only be able to pick one if I really like more than one. I had a hard enough time with that the last time XD. Pieces will be judged both on the art itself and also on the design of the dress you give her/create.

And for the prizes:
The prize is a digital sketch of one of your OCs AND
A cameo of your character in my new comic “Sketchy Business”

All entries will be shared on my instagram, tagging/crediting the creators.

Alicia’s description:

Alicia is 4'9, with a small, round face, and a round nose. She has full lips and dark chocolate brown, curly (but not kinky) hair. The texture is similar to loose ringlets (large curls in the 3A-3B hair texture range (Using Cosmopolitan as the point of reference, since nobody seems to be able to agree on anything.)

Her hair reaches nearly to her knees and she has a cinnamon brown complexion.

She’s slightly chubby which mostly shows in her waist And thighs which are on the thicker side. Her figure is hourglass shaped.

She also has thick, dark eyebrows, very thick eyelashes, and rather large ambery -golden brown eyes.


No, neither of these pictures are of her in a red dress because I didn't want to influence and/or stifle people's creativity:

And now some reference of my other digital drawings:

Meanwhile, even if you don't intend to compete, please leave any Q&A questions below for the 1 year anniversary special episode. These could be questions for me (the author) or for the characters, which will be answered BY the characters.

literally just made an account and have no idea how to do this but here goes I guess… (had to crop the picture so it fits…)
btw I don’t really read novels on here and much less so romance novels, but Damsel in the red dress got me HOOKED. I read like half of it yesterday alone. Still have quite some chapters to go, so this is inspired by the first arc of the story because even though I thought “let’s finish the novel and then draw”, my inspiration said “NO you have to do this RIGHT NOW”.
So here we are. I hope you like it.

Oh MY goodness! this is stunning! thank you SOOO much I love it. Oh, but as far as sizing is concerned, you can use canva to resize an image so you don't have to crop out any of your hard work

OMG!!! I’m SO glad you like it!!! And you replied so fast too! I’ve actually been lurking around the forums a lot for writing advice, and you always seemed like a nice person and your characters were SO interesting, I’m really hyped I even get to “meet” you lol
sorry if I’m not making any sense, I’m just an introverted little goofball that gets too excited when people actually talk to me

Xd, no problem. You make sense to me so don't worry about it. Goofballs are some of the most fun people to hang around imao. And thank you very much for the compliments. I appreciate it xd

Alright, here’s the full picture!

Thanks so much again!! I was worried I might have made her not short enough, or not brown enough, or not chubby enough, or not curly enough… or just not enough, period. But since you like it, I guess it’s fine!!
As for the Q&A, I will return when I’m finished with the novel lol
Editing this because tapas isn’t letting me reply anymore: unfortunately I don’t have an ig account because my phone has the quality of a potato rn and my tablet isn’t technically mine… but if you want to share it you can use my tapas name, I’ll be delighted either way

I think you did great. And her dress design is so cute. I love it. Also do you have an it where I can tag you when I share the entry?

Looks like it’s finally letting me reply again. I’m done reading so far and ready for the Q&A!!
My question would be, are Andrew and Jinho really just “business partners” or is there something more to them? :eyes:
Also, what did Aunt Miguelina do? Or was that already explained and my brain was just too tired to understand?
Oh, I almost forgot: what does Alicia’s and Melissa’s infamously atrocious taste in clothing look like?

Ooh, one of those questions is kind of a spoiler, but I can definitely answer two of those. As for Tia Miguelina, it wasn't explained in detail, so that will be explained later, don't worry,

I’m back with more questions, for the characters this time!
Melissa, what is your favorite Jewish holiday?
Kattar, have you ever tried Korean food? If so, which dish is your favorite?

Ooh, good questions I'll sure to have the cast answer these

Just a reminder that there is a little more than a month left for this challenge!

11 days later

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