The theme of the contest is : Happiness

What makes you happy?How do you feel when you're happy, what are your dreams/aspiration? Who are the people that means the most to you. What is your drive to get up everyday. Something that make you smile or your heart beat faster. Something that make you feel warm inside. Anything at all.

This contest is about you and what your interpretation of happiness is!


How will I be judge?

Judging criteria will be on:

vision - how you will inspire us
techniques - your style
creativity - your brilliant idea
execution - how you pull it all off

What kind of art do you accept?

Accepted entries has to be in relation to Anime style: traditional/digital, etc. You may use stocks but with appropriate credits when it is due.

You can use any characters you want!: OCs, Fan-art, etc.


How do I enter?

Participants may enter as many submissions as they like.
When submit entry, you must send me a note with a link to the entry and the title must be named " Happiness is...".
Also, the entry must mention and have a link to the contest.


When will the contest starts/end?

To help us set up with recruiting more judges and donors, the contest will not officially begin til Aug 1st, however, you can still start ; ).

All entries must be submitted/and received by Sept 15, midnight PST.

Judges :
(still more to come, we'd like to have some more judges so please message me if you're interested *note*: you cannot participate in the contest if you are a judge!)
Donors:

Prizes:

First Place:
1 month premium membership from =BaB-Jane
1 fully colored drawing from me
1 drawing from ~luminatefalls
journal features from =BaB-Jane
journal features from me
journal features from ~Meropa
journal features from `emmil


Second place:
1 colored chibi from me
colored chibi pokemon from ~Majykal-Melodi
journal features from =BaB-Jane
journal features from me
journal features from ~Meropa

Third place:
1 sketch from me
journal features from =BaB-Jane
journal features from me
journal features from ~Meropa


Honorable mention:

journal features from =BaB-Jane
journal features from me
journal features from ~Meropa

That's so far all the pooled prizes and they're subjected to change and sort out for each winner, if you are interested in donating to the contest, you can still enter! and I'd really appreciate it
Donation can be anything! Subscriptions, poems, art work, support stamps, journal features, Deviantdollars,prints, etc

How can I help with the contest?
become a judge, you will have to have a good standing on DA, and familiar with anime style.
become a donor, anything helps!
help us advertise! post link of our contest in your journal or tag, we'd appreciate it ^_^

Just put this stamp on your profile/journal!
If you have any questions, just send me a note!
Updates to the contest can be found here --> [link]

Thank you ^O^