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Contests and Projects are held all over the dA community, offering a wide variety of subjects, mediums and exposures to our deviants. Unfortunately, many fall through the cracks due to lack of exposure. It is our goal to be of help in this area. We are open to all contests and projects. Do drop us a note.


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2011 contest winners


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All of the Winners from our featured contests 2011. Enjoy the view!

09-10 contest winners

Visual Art Contests



:bulletgreen: All Breeds Welcome
By: #All-Breeds-Welcome
This is a contest with 2 different themes. You don't have to enter both themes, you can enter just one if you want to.
1: Design the most unique, fun, and creative breed you can image! Have fun and come up with an amazing new breed!
2: Make a masterpiece featuring a ABW approved breed! You will be assigned a random breed to work with, just comment below on what type of animal you'd like (canine, equine, feline, or other) and get to work!

Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, adoptables, llamas, and be made a co-founder of ABW.
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: The four horses of the apocalypse
By: ~Shralana
"Three things to draw, however you want. Not very many specifics:
The four horses of the apocalypse. JUST the horses, not the horsemen.
Second, the grim reaper. Just don't forget the scythe. And last, a ghost ship. Remember, you can draw one, or all, or whatever you want. But you have to at least draw one."

Info: [link]
Prizes: Gift art and llama's
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: Show your tools of the trade
By: #CRT-Creative
How many different ways can you think of to portray your Tools of the Trade? Can you portray them in a captivating way to capture the attention of your audience? Can you inspire us with your creativity?
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, faves, llama's, and features
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: Blaze of a Shinigami
By: *NinjaPineapple
For this contest you have to design a cover of NinjaPineapple's manga, "Blaze of a Shinigami"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, points and features
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: Camsen's OC contest
By: *Camsen02
"Theme: Draw these two persons: [link] "
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, llamas, watches, and more
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: Vampire vs. Fox
By: *Syrrhaal
"We are searching for our OC’s - how they would look like as real humans."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and artwork
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: OC Tournament
By: *StarwayProductions
"Miracon has secrets; shall you figure them out? Hush though...your mind probably hasn't fully gained its useful strength to figure out our terrible mysteries, great spirits, and dark places. Or can it? Will you fight for Miracon?"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, a place in the Hall of Fame, and artwork from *StarwayProductions
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: Draw Giga-Phoenix2011's OC
By: ~Giga-Phoenix2011
Draw Giga-Phoenix's HedgeEchidnaDragon OC in an anime style
Info: [link]
Prizes: Not yet specified
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: Sharisa's OC contest
By: =Sharisa97
"I want you to design my character Zerakus before the demon controlled him. But the image muste be a scene of the text which you can read at the bottom of the journal or match a part of it.
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and artwork
Deadline: After 7 people have joined

:bulletgreen: August "Ice Cream" coloring contest
By: #color-me-club
"It's that time again. Courtesy of the #color-me-club, another contest is being held, and it is open to the entire dA community! Last month, we held a lineart contest for the theme 'Ice Cream.' A winner was chosen, and now the winning two linearts will be the subject of this month's coloring contest!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and a group feature
Deadline: September 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Draw one of lolwolfz's wolf-OC's
By: ~lolwolfz
"Draw any one of my characters (even ones I haven't drawn) [link] "
Info: [link]
Prizes: Artwork & animated avatars
Deadline: September 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Long Little Doggies contest
:bulletorange: Drawing/Painting & Photography
By: #Long-Lil-Doggies
This is a contest for everyone who has or knows a dachshund and really loves this breed. The visual arts contest is divided in 2 categories (drawing/painting and photography) that each are again divided in 2 themes: love, and a seasonal theme.
Info: [link]
Prizes: Features and points
Deadline: September 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Beauty of everyday objects
:bulletorange: Photography
By: #take-a-photo
"The challenge is to take one everyday object from a list and put it in an enviroment to which you would never expect it to be, photographing it in a way you would never see it before"
Info: [link]
Entries per deviant: 2
Prizes: Subscriptions, points, features, and more
Deadline: September 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Worlds of Amarande
By: #Eleatell
Draw one or more characters from th e World of Amarande. Information about these characters can be found in the group gallery. When drawing these characters, please respect the OC's and the universe they live in.
Info: [link]
Entries per deviant: 2
Prizes: Subscriptions, features, and artwork
Deadline: September 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Draw a super epic rainbow dragon
By: ~kowalskigal
Draw for Kowalskigal a totally super, colorful rainbow dragon of epicness. It HAS to be a colorful and female dragon, and preferably one with wings and cool acsessories, such as headphones.
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, and have your dragon become one of her OC's
Deadline: September 4th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Create your own spirit guardian
By: #Anime-Lovers-United
"The Name of the Theme will be "Create Your Own Spirit Guardians"! You’ll be drawing your own character (OC) with his/her alter ego/spirit guardians.
An anime/manga series called "Shaman King" is a good example so watch it if you don't get it."

Info: [link]
Prizes: Features, points and artwork
Deadline: September 4th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Faai Gijinka
By: ~Brownie97
"If you've known me for a while, you might know what a Faai is, right? (If not, just check my gallery. ^^) And if you know what gijinka is, you should be fine with this contest. I want you to make a Faai gijinka!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and artwork
Deadline: September 5th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Small OC contest
By: ~music-love-fox
This contest is to help ~music-love-fox to make an OC of her own. She'd like it to be a girl with awesome hair and a colorful design.
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and artwork
Deadline: September 5th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Cute vs. Horror
By: #AnotherContestGroup
"Your entry must contain something that is cute and something that is horror... This can be two characters, it can be one cute character in a horror setting or visa-versa, it could be an animation of something cute turning into something horror... There's so many options."
Info: [link]
Entries per deviant: Unlimited
Prizes: Points, features, llama's, and more
Deadline: September 5th, 2011

:bulletgreen: OC Couples contest
By: *Kurama-chan
"Since the contest from the last year was a great sucess, I decided to make another one this year! All you have to do is draw one of the three couple requests below."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and artwork
Deadline: September 5th, 2011

:bulletgreen: The "Look-alike" Contest
By: #dAseniors
"If dA wasn't this world of individuality, how would it be? In your own style and art form, tell us how deviantART and your experience here would be if all art, all artists, all pages, EVERYTHING was the same! Make it as dark and nightmarish as you can!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, a print from your wishlist, and one devWear t-shirt
Deadline: September 7th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Stock contest
By: ~I-Love-Stock
"I've had my stock account over a year now and I have around 30 photographs you can use...but my stock has been used only twice! Then it hit me, most stockers hold contests frequently getting people to use their stock. Sooo...."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, points, and features
Deadline: September 8th, 2011

:bulletgreen: The Colorful Contest
By: #All-For-Art
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, features, artwork and more
Deadline: September 8th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Grandma Thunderpants!
By: *sarah-chan
"Recently I finally had a friend of mine design and draw out a big pair of frilly pink grandma panties to be my logo. Ever since then I've been thinking... I really want to see what people think thunderpants even are! "
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, features, and a handmade chibi charm (worth $12- $15)
Deadline: September 9th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Summer and Winter Wars
By: #TheDeviantARTGallery
"Summer and Winter Wars - Two seasons, locked in an epic battle since the dawn of time. One boiling hot, the other freezing cold. The final show down is upon us. Who do you think will win?"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, features and artwork
Deadline: September 9th, 2011

:bulletgreen: End of Summer
:bulletorange: Photography
By: *Miss-Nefer
"The theme is "End of summer". How do you feel when it gets colder? The days shortening? Sad? Nostalgic? Happy? It's up to you! "
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions and features
Deadline: September 9th, 2011

:bulletgreen: The Beyond
By: #Photoshop-and-Beyond
"Since this is the groups first contest and the name of the group is photoshop and beyond we thought it would be nice for the contest to be about what you think the beyond is."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, features, llamas and more
Deadline: September 9th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Dead memories
By: =starscoldnight
"The memory is the organism's ability to store, retain, and recall information and experiences.
This theme is very emotional and important so is your job to create an art that shows,makes you feel or express this..For example a lost of somebody, the end of a relationship of any kind, a happy moment you treasure, etc.. Anything to do with memories that are gone,lost, remembered always or saved away"

Info: [link]
Prizes: Features, points and artwork
Deadline: September 10th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Design a new OC
By: =WhiskyMutt
"Your job is to create an original character for me c':
Bc I suck at character designs."

Info: [link]
Prizes: Points or subscriptions
Deadline: September 10th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Day of the Dead Art Contest
By: #DayOfTheDeadArt
"Create a tribute work of art to your favorite deceased artist with the incorporation of Day of the Dead art elements."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and a group feature
Deadline: September 11th, 2011

:bulletgreen: COBRA / Transformers Crossover Contest
By: #CobraFanClub
"At least one COBRA character and one Transformers character must be featured in the submitted entry in order to qualify. Both Transformers factions – the Autobots and the Decepticons - are acceptable. All versions of the characters are accepted."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, points, a copy of Action Force Red Dawn #1, and more
Deadline: September 12th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Legend of Zelda: Before Crisis
By: ~WolfenAmphithere
"To those that don't know me, awhile ago I started a short fan-comic series to the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. In this series, I focus on Ganondorf and what happened before the game began. I've been wanting to create a cover page for the series. However, I can't decide on what characters or a composition to go with. Here's where you come in! Tell me what you'd like to see on the cover of LoZBC. You can specify compositional elements, characters, anything."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Winner will see their design on the cover
Deadline: September 15th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Color me-contest
By: *punkbune
Color this lineart: [link] supplied by Punkbune.
Info: [link]
Prizes: All the points that have been donated to the winner, features and artwork
Deadline: September 15th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Shakiisueshadow's OC contest
By: *SHAKIISUESHADOW
For this contest you have to draw at least one of the four eligible OC's for this contest, and draw them with the chosen theme, which is "I am not alone".
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, artwork, llama badges
Deadline: September 15th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Free Resources Fantasy Contest
By: #StockandResources
"All entries should somehow relate to our theme of fantasy. This is a very broad spectrum, since fantasy encompasses the realms of dreams, magic, and fiction. It blends reality with the impossible."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions and points
Deadline: September 15th, 2011

:bulletgreen: "The Death" OC contest
By: *MroczniaK
"Draw one of two my Ocs (Nanami, aka False Death, and Untrue Death (doesn't have a name yet) and win free commissions!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and artwork
Deadline: September 15th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Intense feelings through color
By: =Sc1r0n
"Show intense feelings through your deviation.Try to make your submission personal, create it with your heart and soul, not just your logic and talent."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, artwork and features
Deadline: September 16th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Draw LatinaDIVA's OC's
By: *LatinaDIVA
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points
Deadline: September 16th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Colours of summer
:bulletorange: Photography
By: *katherinebaker
"Basically, it has to have the happiness and the lightness of summer, with bright colours (rainbow etc.) & it has to make us smile! Easy, huh?"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, features, artwork and more
Deadline: September 16th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Woodlands contest
:bulletorange: Photography
By: #dAPN
"Our group is your number one stop for everything APN, with contests, critique nights, live chat interviews and much more. We've even organised our submissions so that you don't get flooded by endless amounts of deviations! To celebrate their success, they're organizing a contest around the theme "Woodlands""
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions and features
Deadline: September 16th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Back to school
By: #Paint-Tool-Sai-Users
"So the theme that is going to be for the group contest: Going back to School (If you go to work do it based on work then school)"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Commissions, features, llama badges and more
Deadline: September 18th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Twins
By: *deadlulu
"Twins. Can be humans, can be animals, objects, can be all that you want. But they must be twins. Use your imagination."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, features and a support stamp
Deadline: September 18th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Original Character Contest...With a Twist
By: ~8-Bit-Artist-2000
"The point of this contest is to draw the two twin main characters of the book im writing, but theres a twist. you only get their description!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Llama badges and artwork
Deadline: September 21st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Pinup contest
By: #DrawSumCircles
You have to draw one of *MASSIFESTO's female characters as a pin-up: [link]
DrawSumCircles is a group for men (and women) who like asses, so if you decide to enter, make sure it fits that criteria as well!

Info: [link]
Prizes: $100 for the first place winner, and 4 more cash prizes
Deadline: September 21st, 2011

:bulletgreen: MPR'US'A MASCOT
By: #Movie-Posters-R-Us
Design a new mascot for Movie Posters 'R Us! It can be anything from a symbol, to a prop or an animal, or they could be holding a movie prop that has a significant meaning. It's up to you, but remember: It's a group about movie posters!
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and artwork, the list might be updated later
Deadline: September 25th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Two-theme OC contest
By: *13jessi13
"THEME ONE: Draw one of both of my OCs (Lilith or Victoria: [link] please excuse my crappy sketch).
THEME TWO: Create a NEW OC for me. (If you win my contest, then you’re giving me permission to use him/her to my liking, excluding commercial use.) "

Info: [link]
Prizes: Any set of Copic Markers OR a 1 year sub, OR 300 points. Other places win points
Deadline: September 27th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Four Theme OC contest
By: =Xia22
"Choose one or more of Xia's OC's and draw them in one of the following themes:
WEDDING: Pick one or more of my OCs and well, marry them.
FUNERAL: Pick one or more of my OCs. It can be an OC that dies or a canon that they knew that died.
BIRTHDAY: Pick an OC of mine or a canon they know and draw their birthday party
SUMMER: Draw one or more of her OC's having fun in the summer"

Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and artwork
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Illustrate a short story
By: #Mangaka-office
"`ll tell you a short story and you have to illustrate it. Whoever makes the picture that best describes the story will win. I believe it`ll be a good practice to see how well can you present to others something you just read and how much can you get them interested with just a picture. And it`s also a good practice for mangakas who intend to work as artists with the writers together."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, llamas, faves, and more
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Portal 2 contest
By: ~OkamiArtist
"Make your own test robot, core or turret"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Artwork of your OC's
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: The megal random contest!
By: #TheRandomz
"Anything you think is funny or random!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Not yet specified
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: OC challenge: Magic
By: =izka197
"All what you have to do in this challenge is to draw your own Original Character representing the theme MAGIC. Basically, it can be anything that comes to your mind and is magic-related, be creative!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, points, features, and more
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Draw EquineGraphics' Fursona's
By: *EquineGraphics
Choose one out of three available fursonas that EquineGraphics has made available for this contest, and interpret them in any way you want.
Info: [link]
Prizes: Bobbing Journal Doll of your choice, features, support stamp, and more
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Rio contest! Design Your Own Carnival Based Parrot
By: ~OkamiArtist
Rio has a wide selection of colourful birds in the movie, but I think people here on DeviantART could create some colourful carnival based parrots. The carnival has plently of feathers and big over the top costumes, that I think would look brilliant if turned into a parrot.
Info: [link]
Entries per deviant: Not specified
Prizes: A4 Coloured digital picture of your parrot
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Phobias
By: *riku4
Info: [link]
Prizes: Artwork, features and llamas
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Reinvented Fairy Tales Line Art Contest
By: *manic-goose
"The inspiration for this theme came from all the reinventions that Hollywood has been getting involved in, and the simple realization that remaking fairytale in one's own personal vision is a lot of fun. For this line art contest, feel free to pick any fairytale you like, whether it is Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, or Peter and the Wolf."
Info: [link]
Prizes: A subscription, having your lineart be used for the coloring contest, a fairy tale book (maybe), and more
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Swimming dogs
:bulletorange: Photography
By: #CaninePhotography
"Water MUST BE PRESENT in the submission. Dog must either be wet, or jumping in about to be wet"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, llamas, features, and more
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Sailor Moon in Poland
By: #SailorMoonFansPL
"Sailor in Poland- How girls survive in country with the "most beautiful" roads in the world. Just show us their trip to Poland."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Group feature, and the 2012 Sailor Moon Calendar
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Animamundi's OC contest
By: ~AnimaMundi113
"Contest time! It's just a basic draw my OC contest. All characters were chosen due to personality, design, and variety."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Various kinds of artwork, and +watches
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: The seasons of the forest
By: =MissSandR
"This contest will be one that will showcase the various seasons of the forest through all mediums of artwork! We are looking for artwork that is inspired by Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, features, and llamas
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: MDK-Fanbase group contest!
By: #MDK-Fanbase
"The challenge is that you have to draw a picture where the characters from the MDK video game series are all at the beach, either having a good time or beating the tar out of each other."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, artwork, having a character of your choice featured in Dragonwarrior's LOTR madness, or a status upgrade in the group.
Deadline: October 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: The Fullmetal Alchemist Crossover Contest
By: *fantasysangel
"Simply put, you can choose your favourite Fullmetal Alchemist characters and make them crossover with another anime, film or TV show etc. There is a list of media you can choose from, to ensure that entries can be judged fairly."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, features and artwork
Deadline: October 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Millennium Contest
By: *Shimaira
This contest is about Shimaira's horror story "Millennium", and the goal of the contest is to give your own interpretation of it. Two seperate contests are run, for both visual art and literature.
Info: [link]
Prizes: Premium memberships or points
Deadline: October 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Album cover
By: !NonChocco
"Hey all, I am holding a contest with the challenge to design me an album cover for my band! My band plays a selection of mainly rock, blues and punk. My band is called 'Red Skull Residents'!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, llama badges, a logo commission, and more
Deadline: October 2nd, 2011

:bulletgreen: Photo Manipulation Contest
:bulletorange: Photomanipulations
By: =nikkidoodlesx3
"The goal of this contest is to manipulate my stock photo that can be downloaded here: [link] "
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions and features
Deadline: October 3rd, 2011

:bulletgreen: "Will you draw my photo?" Cool summer contest
By: *Egil21
"All Traditional and Digital work is allowed - you can draw, paint, sculpt, whatever you want, you just have to mention on your artist's comments which work/ works has/have inspired you."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions
Deadline: October 7th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Fursona contest
By: ~DunGwenfangirl
You have the choice of drawing her OC Aimee [link] or Gwen [link]
Info: [link]
Prizes: Artwork and a place on her devID
Deadline: October 10th, 2011

:bulletgreen: xxEtnaxx's OC contest
By: *xxEtnaxx
For this contest, draw any of the 4 OC's in the news article
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, features and requests
Deadline: October 15th, 2011

:bulletgreen: WildWolvess Contest #2
By: *WildWolvess
Emily and Abrin (wolf OC's) hanging out like best buds
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and artwork
Deadline: October 15th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Sound of Music contest
By: *HannahBoul
"So my challenge for you guys is to take something from The Sound of Music whether it'd be a character/scene or both and to add some blatantly obvious product advertising"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions
Deadline: October 18th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Crossover OC contest
By: *Rukia509
"You want to do a try at drawing my oc's? Maybe with your own? Well lets give it a try c:!there will be 5 based themes so there might be 3 top winners and 3 runner ups
The themes are:
Cuteness, Gore love, Summer to school, Cosplay, and Lovechild (bonus theme: Birthday)

Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and artwork
Deadline: October 20th, 2011

:bulletgreen: I'll always protect you
By: ~freezingfeathers
In honor of Freezingfeathers' upcoming 2-year anniversary on deviantART she's organizing an OC contest. You have to draw 2 of her OC's, Kai Liang Ting, and Xue Yu Min together. The theme is "I'll always protect you".
Info: [link]
Entries per deviant: Unlimited
Prizes: Subscriptions, points, features, and more
Deadline: October 25th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Halloween contest
:bulletorange: Traditional art
By: *dreamarian
"This contest celebrates all that is Halloween. It is open to all traditional drawing artists. So grab your wand of choice and conjure up anything you can think of that represents this fabulous holiday. From black cats, the full moon, bats, pumpkins, scarecrows, creepy creatures to witches and warlocks."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, points, artwork, and more
Deadline: October 24th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Centauran
By: *Centauran
"My eleventh gay-oriented novel, 'Centauran', is about to reach its serialised ending, so I have decided to set you a task: you will 'paint' for me the 'knife' which Teshshin makes for David."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions and features
Deadline: October 31st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Llama contest
By: ~JamesSteele
"Tired of your Super Albino Llama? Or want a new llama for a number of llamas greater than a Golden Llama? Draw me your own vision for a new llama in all of its splendor! Any media is allowed!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Not yet specified
Deadline: October 31st, 2011

:bulletgreen: OCxCanon contest
By: *cookiemotel94
"My OC Jen with Edward Elric
Romance and pervyness is allowed!"

Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, points, and artwork
Deadline: October 31st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Create a pet for Kronos
By: *kish88
"Create a pet for Kronos. Be it a large riding style creature, or a small shoulder pet..or a small pocket pet. Create it's powers, be it a species out there, or a new species. Have fun with it! The darker the pet, the better, however. Kronos would not like something that constantly cuddles with him."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, features and artwork
Deadline: October 31st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Design a Desorian!
By: *xMegami-Vixenx
What is a Desorian? Well, Desoria is a planet that I have created! The planet is populated with colourful characters across the land, all with their own individual features, and are known to be more evolved then the average human, meaning they are taller, stronger and more intelligent (however you can make your character as small, weak and as dumb as you want).
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, points, features, and more
Deadline: November, 2011

:bulletgreen: Angels and demons
By: #Pointy-Eared-Bishies
For this contest you have to draw either angels or demons, or angels with demons. Your entry will be judged on how demonic your demons look, and how angelic your angels.
Info: [link]
Prizes: Features, artwork, winner's package from #AnotherContestGroup, and more
Deadline: November 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Time After Time Mythical Pairs
By: #MythicalPairs
"Draw two beings reincarnated as two different mythical creatures and these will serve as our group mascots."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Artwork, and the winner will have their characters be used as the group's mascot
Deadline: November 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Design your own gang
By: #Jet-Set-Radio-Club
"For this contest, you get to design your own gang and gang Gaffiti! it's pretty straight forward guys! all you have to do is create one design for your whole gang to look like (so pick one member to represent the whole gang - no names for individal members required- you just need one character int he outfit you design) and one Large graffiti tag that defines the gang's turf and territory."
Info: [link]
Prizes: 2 Jet Set Radio CD's and subscriptions
Deadline: November 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Monochromatic Color
By: *axhnanh
"The main idea of the contest is to use color to accent an otherwise monochromatic picture."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, points, artwork, and more
Deadline: November 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Design a book cover
By: ~miruame
"The book is called "Don't look behind door number 3" it's by Eva Warren. It's the first book in a 4 book series called the Mysteries of Malerie Grace.
The book genre can be classified as : Supernatural, mystery, young adult/youth. Send me a note if you need more details."

Info: [link]
Prizes: Not yet specified
Deadline: November 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: 700 pageviews contest - Pikachu
By: ~Striksette
Info: [link]
Prizes: Features, faves and a +devwatch
Deadline: November 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Vibrant colors
:bulletorange: Photography
By: ^Anoya
"This contest is all about Natural Colours in Animals, Plants & Nature (APN) photography. For example; butterflies with vibrant colours, rainbows, gorgeous flowers with vibrant pink and yellow, the most colourful birds, sunsets, etc. As long as it's colourful and qualifies for Animals, Plants & Nature photography! "
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, points, dA photography packs
Deadline: November 4th, 2011

:bulletgreen: OK Go Fan Art Contest
By: #okgofanart
"If you browse our single member portraits section you'll see A LOT of Damian, and decent amount of Tim and a couple of deviations of Andy (where's Dan guys?) which gave me the idea for our first contest. I want Andy and Dan fan art."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions and features
Deadline: October 26th, 2011

:bulletgreen: That's my girl OC contest
By: ~Ritsukochan
"You can draw any of the 5 girls described below in any way you want! There are suggestions in each of the descriptions because personality/character obviously plays a part in this but you are free to do what you desire, just try to match the personalities!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions and chibi drawings
Deadline: November 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Ginger and Scarlett's Apocalypse Fun!
By: *snappapple
"Ginger and Scarlett (along with their companions Rover the wolf and Flick the Raven) have found themselves in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world run by rabid fangirls in worship of the newly resurrected King Edward. The world isn't what it once was, but between kick-ass leather boots and dangerous amounts of alcohol Ginger and Scarlett are bound to save the day!".
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, artwork, and features
Deadline: November 31st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Vamp & Doom's OC contest
By: *VampireWonderland
Both VampireWonderland and Doomalicious have a set of OC's they would like you to draw for this contest, and a seperate set of themes they'd like you to interpret their characters in. Make sure you read the character and theme descriptions!
Info: [link]
Prizes: Cash prizes, subscriptions, points, and more
Deadline: December 12th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Sanguem Deus Contest 15: Angelic & Holy!
By: `touchedvenus
"Create a deviation with a character or characters from my husband and I's story, Sanguem Deus, depicting them as Angelic and/or Holy or reacting to another character or entity that is Angelic and/or Holy"
Info: [link]
Entries per deviant: 2
Prizes: Subscriptions, art, & features
Deadline: January 13th, 2012

:bulletgreen: Cosplay Boobedgeeks' mascots
By: *Naomi-Bomb
"My name's Naomi and I represent the Facebook group, BoobedGeeks: [link] And, here are our 2 mascots, Cat and Luna: [link]
Cat has the red hair, and Luna has the brown!
So, what we want YOU to do, is draw or cosplay them!"

Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, a Boobedgeeks t-shirt, artwork, and more
Deadline: January 31st, 2012

:bulletgreen: Wannabe's OC contest
By: ~WannabeTheBloodyFoxy
Wannabe has an idea for an OC in mind, but she's not very good at drawing anime. So hse's asking the people on DeviantART to draw her for her!
Info: [link]
Prizes: Artwork
Deadline: April 13th, 2012

Miscellaneous



:bulletgreen: Design a line-art border
:bulletorange: Borders
By: #BeautifulBorders
"Everyone in the deviantArt community is invited and encouraged to design and submit a black and white line art border, that is allowed to be coloured at a later stage."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, features, and having your border art converted into a journal skin/free installable for all to use from =GillianIvy
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: Win some jewelry!
:bulletorange: Commenting
By: *BeadLightning
"To enter the contest this is what you need to do. Go through my gallery and tell me what background my jewelry looks best on and which it looks worst on. That is it!"
More details on extra entries can be found in the journal

Info: [link]
Prizes: A piece of custom-made jewelry
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: Wolf Mascot
:bulletorange: Mascot design
By: #WolfzArtistz
Info: [link]
Prizes: Having your mascot be #WolfzArtistz's official mascot
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: Avenging Angel: Darkness Within
:bulletorange: Character sheet
By: ~zaracat
Create a character for ~zaracat and ~Pureflame4444's comic book "Avenging Angel: Darkness Within". Zaracat has provided a template that you must make use of.
Info: [link]
Prizes: Having your character be included in ~zaracat's comic
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: Vocaloids
:bulletorange: Cosplay
By: *BittersweetObsession
Alright all ye Vocaloid Cosplayers, here is the long awaited contest for all of you! As summer continues onward, we've entered already the month of July. Don't you want to remember these great times? So do the Vocaloids! Snap a photo of your favorite Vocaloids enjoying their favorite summer activities so we can all remember the fun in the sun!
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and artwork
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: A cup of cute?
:bulletorange: Various / Group founding
By: ~Peacerrr
Peacerrr plans on making a group called "Cup of Cute", a group for Chibi adoptables in small coffee cups. In order for this to work, she needs 4 people to help her:
- Someone to make the icon
- Someone popular to promote the group
- A lineartist for the chibi's
- A blogger

Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and a status as co-founder in the group
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: Contest for Dreamcatcher's FF
:bulletorange: Comic
By: ~AGlimpseOfBlue
"So,it is officially open the contest for the fic "Dreamcatcher" available for you to read here: [link]
So in essence this is pretty simple: if the fic calls for you, I dare you all who like it and have a thing to draw, to make a comic out of it. There is no minimum or maximum lenght - it's all up to you."

Info: [link]
Prizes: The comicbook itself in real format for free
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: Dancing business mouse
:bulletorange: Icons
By: ~kayleero
"So, with all the dancing buisiness cats going around, I was very surprised to see that there is no dancing buisiness MOUSE to go with it! So, here's a bit of a competition. I challenge YOU (yes, you) to make a dancing buisiness mouse avatar."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Having your icon turned into a plz account, a chibi, and have your username be advertised in ~kayleero's signature for at least a week.
Deadline: After 10 people have entered

:bulletgreen: The EvilArtForm Submitted Music Video Contest
:bulletorange: Video
By: ~EvilArtForm
"Such Records and EvilArtForm are currently looking for animators and filmmakers to create interesting and wacky video content to go with Evilartform songs. After we reach over 40 submissions we will hold a contest and give out some prizes. The contest will be judged on number of views, creativity, and voted on by the viewers."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Not yet specified
Deadline: After 40 people have entered

:bulletgreen: I'd buy this hoodie contest
:bulletorange: Hoodie design
By: *calgarycosplay
Download the contest entry form and design a hoodie from multiple angles. The best design/designs will be custom made and sold with a $40 discount!
Info: [link]
Prizes: Your hoodie design custom made and sold for a discount, OR a feature
Deadline: September 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: The Face of the Better Life Campaign
:bulletorange: Icons
By: =PrincessAngel13
"The Better Life Campaign is just that - a campaign dedicated on making life better, and I want YOU to design our icon. And it will not just be used as the Better Life Campaign's dA Group icon, but also our icon for EVERYTHING - website, Facebook account, EVERYTHING. It will be the face of the Better Life Campaign.
Info: [link]
Prizes: To have your entry chosen to be the permanent face of the Better Life Campaign
Deadline: September 2nd, 2011

:bulletgreen: Tattoo Design Contest!
:bulletorange: Tattoo design
By: ~AllcE-0n-Acld
"am now old enough for my dad to allow me to get a tattoo. The problem is, I have no idea what to get. Now you get to decide for me. Maybe."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Custom artwork to the best of ~AllcE-0n-Acld's abilities
Deadline: September 2nd, 2011

:bulletgreen: The most epic old man fight ever!
:bulletorange: Link submitting?
By: ~Mire-a-las-nubes
" [link] 16:04 TuT is where it starts if u dont wnat to watch the whole family guy episode XD-
I DEMANDS JOO WATCH THE MOST EPIC OLD MAN FIGHT OF ALL TIMES!
I dare you guys to find another one! It can be your own artwork but doesn't have to be!"

Info: [link]
Prizes: One completely inked drawing with up to 2 chars including bg
Deadline: September 10th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Design me an avatar
:bulletorange: Icons
By: `uae4u
Its time to change my avatar. I like the one I am using now, but well, its time for a change, so I am announcing to you today this contest!
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, points, and the 11th birthday devWear t-shirt
Deadline: September 20th, 2011

:bulletgreen: JayxCinderforever's group icon
:bulletorange: Icons
By: #JayxCinderForever
Info: [link]
Prizes: A small amount of points, and requests
Deadline: September 21st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Help me make a Business card
:bulletorange: Business card design
By: =darkmaya
I've been making all kinds of business cards for advertising my arts it just didn't fit me. So now i am looking for someone that can make one for me so heres a contest.
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and artwork
Deadline: September 25th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Fashion Fever School Daze
:bulletorange: Fashion design
By: #FashionFever-Contest
School Uniforms are a common practice but sometimes lack a small hint of fun for the younger generations. Create a school uniform design that would make any kid feel fashion ready. You may design for any age group between K-12.
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Tattoo design contest
:bulletorange: Tattoo design
By: ~Inu-Girl-Kagome
"I'm planning to get another tattoo soon. Several, actually. There's one design, however, that I haven't nailed down yet. I want a tattoo that shows how far I've travelled with diabetes, and all the things I've overcome. I want a tattoo that says something about having conquered my seizure issue. However, I don't want any text."
Info: [link]
Prizes: A three-year sub for the winner
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Unicorn journal skin!
:bulletorange: Journal skin
By: =InLoveWitEdwardC
"Make me a journal skin! Not just any old skin though. I want a really cute, unicorn one!!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, a large feature, and her undying affection
Deadline: October 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: House of Kolor Australia
:bulletorange: T-shirt design
By: ~Boof05
"We want YOU to capture the essence of Kustom Kulture in a design that will represent House of Kolor on the back of our T-shirts. All that needs to be included is the House of Kolor Scarab."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Your design be used for House of Kolor's t-shirts, and a winner package including vouchers and merchandise.
Deadline: October 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Design UKdAMEET's Mascot
:bulletorange: Mascot design
By: #UKdAMEET
"We're a newly founded group, #UKdAMEET, whose purpose is to organize an event for local deviants near St. Albans in UK. You don't have to be English, nor from England at all, if you're nearby that area in the end of October, you're more than welcome to join us!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: A plushie of your winning design, commissions, and points
Deadline: October 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Contest-Crazy's first contest!
:bulletorange: Banner ad
By: #Contest-Crazy
As you all may have noticed, our amazing group has long since been missing a vital element: A Banner! Banners not only make a group easily recognizable, but it is an advertisement for wandering DA artists. I know that I, myself, am always prone to check out groups with an intriguing banner much more often than groups without one. So that is the basis of this contest, #Contest-Crazy is in need of a great banner!
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, points, features, and more
Deadline: October 15th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Ergo-Equidae's Mascot Contest
:bulletorange: Mascot design
By: #Ergo-Equidae
"Design the mascot! Show us an equine that can represent our club. We are about exposing equine art of every kind and encouraging growth amongst each other."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Artwork, and having the winning design be used as the group's mascot forever.
Deadline: October 16th, 2011

:bulletgreen: YoungLion42's Mascot
:bulletorange: Mascot design
By: #YoungLion42
"
YoungLion42 is a new group that gives critiques and feedback to whoever would like it! We share every kind of artwork and collect great tutorials! We've recently decided to hold a contest for our mascot. This is a chase for everyone who becomes a member or who is a member to submit a mascot piece that includes a lion to be our avatar! "

Info: [link]
Prizes: Points
Deadline: October 31st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Real Life Comedy's Logo
:bulletorange: Logo design
By: *J0s41yn
"Yeah...I need a logo for Real Life Comedy. It may be animated or static. Pixel or traditional. Anything you want. The main colors of Real Life Comedy are red and yellow. Here are the characters from RLC: [link] "
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and (permanent) features
Deadline: November 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Be Seen
:bulletorange: Features
By: *anstellos
"Here is the idea: Every friday we will PROMOTE FOR FREE one artist ! To enter this FREE contest its very easy just send a portfolio link on our Facebook page. If you are not confortable with it you can just send a Tweet with your portfolio link @Cosmepix"
Info: [link]
Prizes: A feature
Deadline: Every friday

Welcome/General Info

Journal Entry: Fri Feb 11, 2011, 2:17 PM







WELCOME TO THE CONTEST CLUB





Update - read this first

As of Oct 1, I'm on hiatus from updating this group, so I won't be updating the front page and blogs for a while.



Our Mission

Contests, Projects and Challenges are held all over the dA community, offering a wide variety of subjects, mediums and exposures to our deviants. Unfortunately, many fall through the cracks due to lack of exposure. It is our goal to be of help in this area. We are open to all contests, projects and challenges. Do drop us a note.
:heart:



What We Offer

:bulletorange:Promotion of your contests/projects/challenge through our regularly updated blogs/news articles/twitter.
:bulletorange:Collection of your winners/participants in our FAVES Gallery.
:bulletorange:Features of Winners or Participants.
:bulletorange:We are open for suggestions on how to improve!



TO HAVE YOUR CONTEST/PROJECT/CHALLENGE PROMOTED

:heart: Please NOTE us with the following information
:bulletblack: The name of the contest/project/challenge and host
:bulletblack: A brief description
:bulletblack: Submission categories included
:bulletblack: Number of entries allowed per participant
:bulletblack: Condensed Prize list
:bulletblack: Deadline
:bulletblack: And any other information you would like to include.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND MULTIPLE NOTES FOR THE SAME CONTEST. IT WILL BE POSTED AS SOON AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.


:star: Membership is OPEN and AUTOMATIC
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More to Come!

There are so many contests and projects out there, and obviously we cannot cover them all. So if something doesn't strike your fancy here, feel free to check out our sister groups!
Some are generalized, while others are specific to a certain type of contest.
If you are a member or a part of a contest group and would like to see your group feature here, please let us know!



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Holiday themed contests....(And not just the usual) 

50%
162 deviants said Sorry... don't know of any
33%
105 deviants said I just wanted to see the results.
12%
38 deviants said I'll look around and let you know (Link)
5%
16 deviants said I know of one (Link, Link, Link)

All Media Contests



:bulletgreen: Anthrophobia-Art promotion
By: #Anthrophobia-Art
"#Anthrophobia-Art, a group I had made for people that wanted to escape other people. The phrase "social" does not apply to this group, we merely exist to have a phat gallery filled with the feelings you get when your parents are up you ass about everything or those times you get rejected by that cute guy. A (planning to be) wide selection of emotions, and nobody is there to bother you.
We only had one problem.
There was no one around to submit anything to our gallery. This is where I need YOU.
Help us help others by creating you own piece of art, especially for #Anthrophobia-Art, or especially for yourself. Who knows? Of course, the possibilities are endless."

Info: [link]
Prizes: Not yet specified
Deadline: September 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Creating what you can't see
By: ~Cowacupacoco
"This is a contest to see if you can create something that has to do with the short story Achieving Happiness. You can find the story in my submitted art. The art can be new or old."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Not yet specified
Deadline: September 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: SxZ OC Contest
By: *akatsukigirlz
"The theme of the contest are my two characters Sparky [link] and Zane [link] They're a couple so the contest is theme around.. uh.. couple-ly stuff? XD haha~"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Artwork
Deadline: September 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: For the love of Pokémon
By: *TheLastUnknown
"I want you to represent your favorite Pokemon through drawings, photography, crafts, writing, or anything else that you could possible think of!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions and points
Deadline: September 2nd, 2011

:bulletgreen: Rainbows
By: =ClefairyKid
In honor of Clefairykid gaining a 1000 +devwatches, she's organizing a contest. Even people who don't watch her are invited to join! The theme of this contest is "Rainbows" and anything goes - for as long as it fits the theme.
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, features, lots of different kinds of custom artwork, and more
Deadline: September 11th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Summer Fun
By: ~leiaah
"What is summer to you? How do you see Kiba and Ino spending it together? Going camping, to the beach, having an ice cream, strolling in the park, cruising the streets with the windows down, etc... ?"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions and artwork
Deadline: September 16th, 2011

:bulletgreen: 2nd Fall Art Contest: Electricity
By: ~ElectricPhantom
This is a contest of best representation; what do you think best represents your interpretation of the characters, as a whole. Specifically, draw/write/represent Cole and Bolt (they are a team, and for this contest should both be included) in which ever forms you prefer (human or true- or a mix therein).
Info: [link]
Prizes: $60 in prize money and various kinds of artwork
Deadline: September 17th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Autumn joy
By: *whatonearth
I'm going to go to college and I'd like something to cheer myself up. As long as it has an autumn feeling and a happy mood it will count.
Info: [link]
Prizes: Features, and a winner's package from #AnotherContestGroup
Deadline: September 19th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Summer Memory
By: *Katiepbug11
"Summer is almost over and school's about to start again. This contest is about your best memory from the summer, it could be a vacation you went on, a party, being with family/friends, etc. "
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, points, a feature of your submission, and artwork
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Spirit Guides
By: #Fantasy-Characters
"You must show a spirit guide and give us a short description of it. That means you have to submit your entry to the contest folder and send us a note with your description. Without the description, your entry will be declined. If you write a poem, story or something like that about a spirit guide and you want to enter the contest with this piece of literature, you don't have to give us a description."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and features
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Naruto Bleach Crossover
By: *queenjazz225
"Theme: Naruto Bleach Crossover- The first time we met...
-Can be fan art or fan fiction.
-Must at least have 1 naruto character and 1 bleach character meeting in the picture or story. you can have more characters meeting if you want."

Info: [link]
Prizes: Points and artwork
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Insanity
By: ~Foxfur-Starfire
"I want to see how people interpret the concept of "insanity". Years ago I was said to be crazy but functionally crazy. Multiple personality disorder. so now I am curious as to how people interprit this word. So please I hope some will take this offer up!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: None really, maybe a llama badge
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Brave Police contest
By: #Brave-Police-Central
There will be two main themes to choose from:
Theme 1: What makes you love the show.
Theme 2: Advertising (make an ad that will make people want to watch the show)

Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, drawings and llama badges
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Your vision of the 22th century.
By: #21st-Century-Artist
"Until someone invents the machine to travel back in time, we can only imagine our beautiful planet Earth in 2111... And as artists, we can share with other our post-apocalyptic or idyllic visions. All media are accepted as long as they reflect your personal vision of the 22nd century. You can deal with any aspect of this universe, you have free choice."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, features and artwork
Deadline: October 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Jail contest
By: #DAChainGangs
"The entry to the contest can be any media - photography, drawing, sculpture, even literature. But whatever it is, it must have the central theme of "jail". Now this can be a literal meaning, such as a jail cell, or it can be a figurative "jail" that involves something else. Get creative."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, features and artwork
Deadline: October 7th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Creepy contest
By: ~emokitty-chan
"Create a creepy kind of artwork using any medium you want. Though no zombie animals, Emokitty will only go as far as to tolerate red eyes and sharp teeth."
Info: [link]
Prizes: The winner gets 5 commissions, a feature, a llama, and more
Deadline: October 24th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Curiosity Contest
By: *MintLilac
"cu•ri•o•si•ty
1. The desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness
2. A curious, rare, or novel thing
3. A strange, curious, or interesting quality
This contest is all about representing curiosity in its various forms. It could be the inquisitiveness someone possesses or a curious object or even a curious attribute or characteristic of someone. Your challenge is to represent at least one of the definitions above."

Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions and features
Deadline: October 29th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Gore and Torture
By: *kish88
"What I want you to do is to draw a picture or write a story of Kerberos Draemoore torturing Kronos and/or Vortex. The gorier the better! You may add in your own OCs, but the main focus Has to be Kerberos torturing Kronos and/or Vortex."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Points, features and artwork
Deadline: October 31st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Across the Wavering Landscape
By: *kojika
"In celebration of the completion of book two in the Fall of the Dragon Trilogy, Across the Wavering Landscape, I'm holding a contest. For this contest, you have to "create" one of the characters from the book, and you can use any medium available to you"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, artwork, and a signed copy of the book "Across the wavering landscape"
Deadline: November 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Collaborative Contest: Red
By: `Rogue-Of-The-Night
This is a collaborative contest, meaning you have to create an entry together with another deviant in order to enter. The theme of this contest is "Red", interpret this in any way you want, be creative!
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, features, points, and more
Deadline: December 12th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Heartfelt competition
By: *Goldenwolf18
For this competition, you can draw a comic, a single drawing, write a short story, what ever you want!! But it must depict you either stealing the heart, convincing/fighting either Ele or placing the heart on Ele's chest. I'm not going to lie, if you do all three, you will get bonus points ;) Though this is not a romance-based competition, romance is allowed too!
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, features, points, and more
Deadline: December 15th, 2011

Literature Contests



:bulletgreen: Commission: Schmidty
By: ~RPAkita
"Schmidty here is gazing at the clouds looking at the shapes they're making. A free commish by me will go to the best quote for the picture."
Info: [link]
Prizes: One commission for the winner
Deadline: Not yet specified

:bulletgreen: Poetry Competition Magnificento
:bulletorange: Poetry
By: ~Senalda
The first-ever Poetry Competition Magnificento starts! This! Instant! Competitors must summon all their talent and write the best poetry they can muster. Remember, the Grand Judge will only accept the first ten poems into the competition, so make sure yours is in the first few ten entered or it will not be accepted, no matter how amazing it may be!
Info: [link]
Prizes: Not specified
Deadline: After 10 people have entered

:bulletgreen: Memories long gone
:bulletorange: Poetry
By: =Christianonfire7
Info: [link]
Entries per deviant: 1
Prizes: Not yet specified
Deadline: September 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Long Little Doggies contest
By: #Long-Lil-Doggies
This is a contest for everyone who has or knows a dachshund and really loves this breed. The contest is divided in 2 themes: love, and a seasonal theme.
Info: [link]
Prizes: Features and points
Deadline: September 1st, 2011

:bulletgreen: Rad the Delightfully Bad
:bulletorange: Prose
By: ^Halatia
"A first sentence is a first impression. If it's off, then the rest of the story will be out of beat. And if it's bad enough, then that first sentence might dissuade a reader to call a cease-and-desist right there and not read a single word more.
Unless that first line is so terribly and utterly bad that it is actually perfect-prose gold."

Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, devWear, prints, and more
Deadline: September 5th, 2011

:bulletgreen: The "Get Crazy at Seniors' Party" Contest!
By: #dAseniors
"We invite all Literature writers to write a piece about how seniors get crazy at their party. However, you have to use senior members as your characters! You can find a list at #dAseniors (Operators and Members). Your piece can be a short story, a poem or anything you prefer - but make it fun!"
Info: [link]
Prizes: Subscriptions, a print from your wishlist, and one devWear t-shirt
Deadline: September 7th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Take Flight!: A Historical Fiction Writer's OCT
By: *mippins
"As an entrant, you and your aviation team will travel from city to city around the globe, battling your way through the competition. Your journey begins in London, and from there you're off to exotic lands such as Morocco, Egypt, and India. Enjoy aerial battles around the Eiffel Tower, set booby traps in the Roman Colosseum as pleasant surprises for your opponents, partake in thrilling knife fights in the alleyways of Chicago! Adventure of questionable legality is at your fingertips."
Info: [link]
Prizes: Not yet specified
Deadline: September 20th, 2011

:bulletgreen: Millennium Contest
By: *Shimaira
This contest is about Shimaira's horror story "Millennium", and the goal of the contest is to give your own interpretation of it. Two seperate contests are run, for both visual art and literature.
Info: [link]
Number of entries per deviant: 3 in each category (max. 6 total)
Prizes: Points. List will be updated if more than 5 people enter.
Deadline: October 1st, 2011

Off-site



Art-related contests held outside of DeviantART.
Sometimes an entry fee or sign-up to another website is required, check the contest's terms & conditions for more info.



:bulletgreen: MTV Comics And Stan Lee's "The Seekers" contest
By: MTV
"Have you ever dreamed of writing or illustrating a comic under the tutelage of the legendary Stan Lee? Well, here's your chance True Believer! MTV Comics and POW! Entertainment are offering you the chance to write or illustrate the digital graphic novel "The Seekers!"
Over the next 3 weeks we'll be accepting submissions from artists and writers for an opportunity to earn approximately $10,000.00 to do just that. You read that right, that's 10-Gs."

Info: [link]
Prizes: Winners will be presented the opportunity to write or illustrate MTV Comics’ The Seekers (and earn approximately 10k)
Deadline: September 23rd, 2011

:bulletgreen: Faces of the great Pumpkin
By: [link]
"OK, Pumpkinauts, it's time to show your love for The Great Pumpkin through art! The Cult of the Great Pumpkin, in association with Sinister Visions inc., is sponsoring its very first contest: Faces of The Great Pumpkin.
The concept is simple: Draw, paint, sculpt or otherwise create a portrait of The Great Pumpkin. That is, YOUR VISION of The Great Pumpkin. Since nobody's ever seen him (and lived to tell about it, anyway), his appearance is completely open to interpretation, and that's what we want to see! Let your imagination run wild, commit your ideas to paper, screen, sculpt or pumpkin pulp, and send it in!"

Info: [link]
Prizes: Each prize will be a pack of horror and Halloween collectibles, goodies and bits of spooky awesomeness, provided by Sinister Visions inc.
Deadline: September 30th, 2011

:bulletgreen: 6th International Arte Laguna Prize 2011
By: Arte Laguna
"Arte Laguna Prize presents the 6th International Arte Laguna Prize 2011, dedicated to visual artists worldwide.
No age limits are required, topic and techniques are free.
The total cash prize amount is 170.000 EUR (245191 USD), 7.000 EUR per section, but besides money Arte Laguna Prize offers many opportunities to artists, such as art residencies, personal exhibitions in galleries, collective exhibitions, attendance at international Festival."

Info: [link] [link]
Prizes: 7000 EUR per section (170.000 EUR total), and artistic project offered by STILE Original Design
Deadline: November 11th, 2011

Challenges



:bulletgreen: Character design
Host: #Design-A-Character
One of the most popular groups on dA, this group organizes monthly challenges that help you train your character design skills. The themes are varied and open to people from different skill levels.
Current active challenge:
:bulletblue: [link]
"This summer saw the release of the “Cowboys and Aliens” movie, which got me thinking how that might be a fun concept to play with. So for this challenge we're going to revisit Luigi's "Versus Challenge," this time using the theme of... Cowboys vs. Aliens!"

:bulletgreen: Six word story challenge
Hosts: #SixWordStories #theWrittenRevolution #devLIT
Each week, a challenge is set with the results of the previous week featured in a news article. Everyone is encouraged to participate. Even if you're not a writer, that's totally fine! If you can string six words together into a story and follow some rules, then you are very welcome to join us.
Current active challenge:
:bulletblue: Write a six word story in which one determinate vowel cannot be used in any word (e.g. the "e" is forbidden to use).

:bulletgreen: Fashion Fever Design Challenges
Host: #FashionFever-Contest
"This group is meant to bring together individuals who love to draw, appreciate, and want new challenges in creating Fashion Design Illustrations in a fun and relaxed environment."
Fashion Fever has at least one challenge open at all times, so make sure you check this group out often!
Current active challenges:
:bulletblue: [link] Quick draw - All wrapped up
:bulletblue: [link] Cycle One: DejaVu - Monthly Challenge

:bulletgreen: Animal OC challenges
Host: #FluffyOC
"If you are a lover and/or creator of animal OC's (original characters) then pop on over to the group #FluffyOC! We are currently holding weekly contests that are aimed at keeping your imagination running even when you're in an artists block. Each week the winner is rewarded with a group feature that is to be admired by all members all week long."
Current active challenges:
:bulletblue: Create a pokemon of your choosing eating or doing something with a heart shaped cookie.
:bulletblue: Create an original character, digimon or pokemon planting a tree.
:bulletblue: This weeks new theme is to create an original character, digimon or pokemon playing with a balloon

Projects



:bulletgreen: The cancer connection
Host: #LungCancer-Awareness
The goal of this project is to raise awareness and connect people through their personal stories and encounters involving lung cancer - or any other kind of cancer. Share your story with text or a visual medium, about the battle or how you felt when you first encountered it, the sky is the limit.
Also, know that for every submission, $5 will be donated towards the Lung Cancer Alliance.

Info: [link]

:bulletgreen: Plush Totoro Campaign
Host: Eshi no Sumika
"Eshi no Sumika (Artists' Home) is a website in development that connects Japanese businesses with foreign enthusiast consumers. It is being developed in response to the struggles of local Japanese stores located in the Tohoku area in the wake of March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. Our goal is not only to maintain awareness of the plight of Japanese people, but to help provide an opportunity for people to reestablish their businesses and their lives."
Info: [link]

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:iconprincessbetty1:
I'm hosting a contest! :) [link]

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:iconaqua9870:
Having a contest [link]

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My OC!!! [link]
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I am not the best at drawing, but I do know that if I practice I will get better.
:police: Stop the art theft! Put this in your signature if you are against art theft!
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:iconeirene-is:
Could you feature my Contest, please! [link]

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:icondark-fantasy:
I am unable to send a note to the group... not sure why. How this is ok?


:bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ CONTEST BASICS ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue:

:bulletblue: Accepting Entries Through: March 15th, 2012
:bulletblue: Host: *dark-fantasy
:bulletblue: Judges: Your deviantART Community via polls
:bulletblue: Click to View Current Contest Entries


:bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ RULES ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue:

:bulletblue: Use any visual medium of your choice: drawings, paintings, digital paintings, photo-manipulation, etc. (no screen-shots or photos pulled from the internet without manupulation)
:bulletblue: Anything Vampire Diaries related is accepted; no theme restrictions!
:bulletblue: Up to 4 entries allowed per person.
:bulletblue: Use old or new deviations.
:bulletblue: To submit your artwork, send me a note with links to the deviation(s).
:bulletblue: In your "Artist's Comments" mention the contest & link to this journal.



:bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ PRIZES ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue: ~ :bulletblue:
Comment or note me to donate a prize - Thanks! FREQUENT CHANGES - CHECK BACK FOR MORE GREAT PRIZES

:bulletblue: 1st Place Winner will receive:
    *dark-fantasy will donate a Marker Commission, 1 Character
    *dark-fantasy will donate a 18” x 36” Vampire Diaries Poster: [link] (delivered to continental US address)
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    *dark-fantasy will donate a Journal Feature

:bulletblue: 2nd Place Winner will receive:
    *dark-fantasy will donate a Marker Commission, 1 Character
    *dark-fantasy will donate a 8" x 10" Vampire Diaries Print: [link] (delivered to continental US address)
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    *dark-fantasy will donate a Journal Feature

:bulletblue: Host's Choice Winner will receive:
    *dark-fantasy will donate a Vampire Diaries Coffee Mug (delivered to continental US address)
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    *dark-fantasy will donate 1 4x6 Print from her Gallery (delivered to continental US address)
    *dark-fantasy will donate a Journal Feature


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:iconelsapenguin:
Can you feature my contest?
[link]

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