Winter's icy grip has begun to loosen as Spring stands ready to take us into her arms, gently stroke our chilled faces, and bring the world to life once more. And while March may not be the warmest or reassuring of Spring's months, thanks to a certain Irish holiday, it is easily the GREENEST.

So in this greenest of months I have decided to take up my campaign...Nay!...my crusade to see more green-skinned women in the galleries of deviantART. It is to this end that I am pleased to announce THE EMERALD LASSES CONTEST!

THE RULES

Create, in any medium, a woman with green skin. Submit it to devART, and then note me, *Slovman, with the link to your entry before March 30th.

However, keep in mind these things:
1. Has to be green skin. A woman with green hair or green clothes is certainly nice, but doesn't qualify for this contest.

2. Your deviation cannot be of an existing emerald lass from popular culture. In other words, no She-Hulk, Jade, Poison Ivy, Xixa, World of Warcraft orcs, etc.

3. However, it can be of an existing non-green character or person turned green.

4. Has to be a new deviation, submitted anytime between now and the 30th.

5. Green women are beautiful too. While you are certainly free to submit some kind of horrid female green lizard beast with giant claws and her rows of teeth still dripping with the blood of her last victim...that's really not what we're going for here, so keep that in mind.

6. Adult content within devART's established guidelines is A-OK. I'd be a hypocrite of elephantine proportions if I said otherwise.

THE REWARDS

1st Place:
Chosen entirely by me, our big winner will (at the very least) receive a one-year subscription to deviantART, a custom stamp, and a small gallery of their works featured in my journal.

2nd Place:
Chosen by a panel of judges from the remaining entries, the runner-up will (at the very least) receive a 3-month subscription, a custom stamp, and a small gallery of their works featured in my journal.

Halls' Choice:
A select few of the remaining entries will be voted on at my website, The Halls of Hysteria and on my journal. The winner will (at the very least) receive a custom stamp and a small gallery of their works featured in my journal.

In addition, ALL entries to the contest will be featured in my journal as they are submitted!

If you would be interested in donating to the prize pool, serving as a judge, or have another question about the contest, please note me.

Also, please please please help me promote the contest, either by displaying this banner in your journal, linking to either my journal or the newspost, and also favoriting the newspost.

But most importantly, get to work on those beautiful emerald lasses!