June's Anime Fanart Contest - Just too

*** Thanks for all who participated in last month's contest ***

The results of the May fanart contest can be found in my May contest journal or this news article news.deviantart.com/article/81…

Before going further, there's two major announcements I would like to make.

The first is that for this month's fanart contest, has agreed to sponsor the contest and adding to the prizes given out to the winners (see contest description for more details) .

Secondly, I am thinking of featuring artists on this page (ie. about 3 per month). The artists that I would like to feature are ones that have nice artwork, but just don't seem to have many hits to their pages. Therefore, I would like to ask you all out there, to help me find these artists on DA that you think deserve more credit and page hits so that I can feature them here. I'm supposing that you're all now racing to let me know the names of those artists , but if not, here's another incentive I would like to offer to you:

If the artist that you suggest gets picked by me to feature, I will give you (ie. the suggester) a 1 month DA sub and will also give the artist being featured a 1 month DA sub.

The rules are simple and are listed below:

1) Limit of one (1) artist suggestion per person per month (ie. so don't submit more than 1 artist suggestion or give me a list of artists to choose from. You must only suggest 1 artist)

2) To send a suggestion, please send me a note with the subject: "Feature Artist Suggestion" that contains the artist that you're suggesting.

3) I will notify you if your selection is picked (ie. shortly after the end of the month) and if your suggestion is picked, I will give you and the artist a 1 month DA sub.

4) If your selection doesn't get picked, you can resubmit it the following month if you like (ie. possible that for one month I have a big list of candidates and just that there were some artists that month that seemed to need the feature more than others).

5) If there's a case where two people submit the same artist suggestion, then whichever submission was earlier will be the one counted.

6) Please don't send me suggestions for artists that already have lots of page hits as the whole point of this feature is to try to feature artists that are on the opposite side of the spectrum.


That's it. I think this is a win/win situation where Artists that deserve more credit can be featured, and suggesters can also benefit. Hope I will get many suggestions. ^__^

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is looking for an artist to draw out his story. Check out his page for more details.

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A big thanks to everyone that participated.  We were surprised at all the great entries that came in and trying to decide just 3 winners out of the whole list of candidates was very painstakingly difficult .

Anyway, here are the winners for this month's contest:

1st Place Winner

by KaelNgu

2nd Place Winner

by ryuusei-illusion

3rd Place Winner

by Seiorai

There were many other nice entries, so we decided to list the below honorary mentions:

by reirei18
by affeysshi
:thumb127675515: by horror-child
by Avaly
:thumb126843803: by Ehryel
by kino18
:thumb127317329: by lovely-roses
by GreatUFO
by pangketepang
by TheCAMCafe
:thumb125470008: by Dre00iz
by bloodink6

These honorary mentions will each receive a 1 month DA sub.  ^___^

And last but not least .... the 3 lucky numbers chosen by Mr. PR

301 - cupuDOTexe
1116  - jasonogayon
549 - pussycatdave

who will also each get a 1 month DA sub.


The 1st and 2nd place winners will receive notes from me shortly to verify the choice of the prize.

Thanks again for all that participated. We really enjoyed all the entries received and hope that everyone had fun.

And be sure to keep an eye out for next month's contest which will be posted up very soon.


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Recap of contest
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Hi,

      Welcome to June's fanart contest:

Please read through all the rules before submitting



*** Subject for this month is:


          Just too cute



*** Description:

Welcome to June's fanart contest.  For this month's contest, was kind enough to help sponsor this contest.   has two websites: an online store www.kawaii-me.com and a web portal dedicated to cute cartoons www.cute-factor.com.  Please check the websites out as he is offering coupons to the online store for the winners.  ^__^

So to celebrate this sponsorship, for this month, the theme is "Just too cute".  You can draw a fanart of an animé series (or your OC) as long as it somehow relates to the theme (and of course is cute ^___^ ).

I think that's it.  Have fun drawing and as always ... creativity is a plus.   





*** Contest start and end dates:

    Start Date: June 2nd, 2009

    End Date:  June 30th, 2009  (ie. June 30th is the last day to submit, so any entry that is submitted before July 1st is accepted)




*** Prizes (YAY!!!) :

1st Place Prize:

$30 Eur Coupon to shop at www.kawaii-me.com

and one (1) of the below choices:

$30 paid through paypal


OR


$30 gift certificate to shop in ebay
(Note that since ebay doesn't have a $30 gift certificate option, you will receive one $25 and one $5 gift certificate totaling $30) If you are thinking of selecting this option, please read the ebay terms outlining the use as ebay gift certificates can only be used if you have a valid paypal account.


OR


A one year subscription to DeviantArt.


OR


some other gift certificate service (ie. like amazon ...etc) in which the gift certificate can be emailed and can handle $30 increments. (very flexible in this matter.  If you're unsure if it works or not, drop me a quick note and I'll be glad to look into it and let you know)




2nd Place Prize:

$20 Eur Coupon to shop at www.kawaii-me.com

and one (1) of the below choices

$10 paid through paypal


OR


$10 gift certificate to shop in ebay
If you are thinking of selecting this option, please read the ebay terms outlining the use as ebay gift certificates can only be used if you have a valid paypal account.


OR


3 month DeviantArt subscription


OR


some other gift certificate service (ie. like amazon ...etc) in which the gift certificate can be emailed and can handle $10 increments. (very flexible in this matter.  If you're unsure if it works or not, drop me a quick note and I'll be glad to look into it and let you know)



3rd Place Prize:

$10 Eur Coupon to shop at www.kawaii-me.com

and

1 month DeviantArt subscription



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Also note that ebay gift certificates are only redeemable in ebay. If you have any questions about ebay gift certificates, please visit the ebay site




*** But WAIT!! , I think Mr. PR wants to continue his duties.   So let's let it do what it needs to do (if you don't know what Mr. PR does or is, please read below description)   


Description of Mr. PR

Just a quick recap of Mr. PseudoRandom  (let's call him Mr. PR for short).  Mr. PR is going to help me with a very important task that I think will be of interest to everyone reading.

What Mr. PR will do is that at the end of the contest, he will choose 3 numbers randomly and at least 3 participants of the contest (excluding the first and second place winners) will get a chance to win a 1 month DA subscription.

So how does this work you ask?  Well, of course since it came from my wacky mind, the whole thing is pretty wacky ... haha, but there is logic to this madness (at least I hope).  So here is how this whole system works:

1) When a person submits a piece of artwork to this contest, they would send me a note when they have posted their entry on DA (ie. see submission instructions below).  So using this note, I will take the hour and minutes of the time that the note was sent and use that as the person's "lucky" number.  So say the person sends me the note at "7:31:57 PM" then his/her lucky number is a combination of the hour and minutes (ie. 7 is the hour and 31 is the minutes, so the lucky number is 731 , and if the time is say "11:43:50 AM" the lucky number will be 1143 .... etc )

2) At the end of the contest, Mr. PR will do his job and start selecting random numbers (3 in total).  Now Mr. PR is very persistent and therefore he will continue to choose random numbers until all three numbers chosen matches with some participant's lucky number.  These participants that have the lucky numbers that were chosen will each get a 1 month DA sub. (see below for special cases/exceptions)

*** Special cases/Exceptions:  

- In the case that there is equal to or less than 3 participants left after choosing the 1st and 2nd place winners, then all 3 people will automatically get 1 month DA subs.  ^_^  (Poor Mr. PR ... he might lose his job if this happens )
- And the other special case is if two or more people hold the same lucky number.  If two or more people hold the same lucky number, then those two or more people will also get 1 month DA subs.  In short, every participant who has a lucky number that matches what Mr. PR picks at the end of the contest will get a 1 month DA sub.   ( so the number of 1 month subs given out can be range from a minimum of 3 to a max of ??  <== I guess depends on how lucky you are ^___^ )




        

*** Full Rules

Below are the rules of the contest (Please read them BEFORE submitting to the contest) :

1. The fanart must be animé and should be related to the topic/series listed
2. The image should NOT be a picture that has been previously posted or shown before.
3. No hentai or suggestive images, so please don't submit any of that nature.  (If you submit any pictures classified in this category, it will be dis-regarded and will not be entered in the contest.)
4. No COPYING.  I understand if you maybe use a picture of the subject to be drawn and gather information (ie. clothing, drawing style ... etc) so that the picture that YOU draw will have the necessary recognizable features of that particular subject, BUT directly tracing, or just directly copying of a picture from a magazine or person does not constitute valid fanart for this contest (or any contest for that matter, so don't submit copied art because it will just be dis-regarded!)
5. To be fair, only one entry per person please.
6. Artwork submitted after the last day is not accepted
7. By submitting artwork for this contest, you are giving me permission to display your artwork on this site and on my "Animé Deviation" website.(Don't worry, proper credit will be given to you. I'm not stealing your picture, just putting it on display)
8. Winners will be picked by my sisters and I from the eligible entries.
9. The winners of the contest will be posted no later than 1 week after the last day of the contest
10. Winners will receive a note stating that he/she has won.

By submitting a picture to this contest, it means that you have read the above rules and agree to abide to them.


How to Submit


All that needs to be done to submit is to post up your picture, and send me a note with the link to your picture.   I will respond saying that the picture has been accepted and will then display a thumbnail of the picture here.

Thanks for reading all the rules and getting up to here.    Please keep in mind that the objective of this contest is not just to win (ie. although winning is nice if I don't say so myself ), but to have fun drawing interesting and imaginative artwork.  So I hope everyone participating will enjoy drawing the artwork and have lots of fun.

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Current Submissions:

:thumb124639433: by cupuDOTexe
by yumiMitsuki
by Xadrea
by Maads
by SillyHippo11
by kino18
by NickUicreh
by Albinowolf54
by nintendo-junkie
by Iseetheevil0fearies
by sakuyasworld
by PixieEars
by affeysshi
by Punyu
:thumb125470008: by Dre00iz
by cgart4u
:thumb125667764: by Sennel
by Blaaaaaaaah
by Sinbadkid
by Ritzueli
by elicoronel16
by TheCAMCafe
:thumb126179508: by darkrosex3
by Chibi-Fukurou
by Ishyhara
by YunaSakura
:thumb126535154: by marimilk
by Kumie-san
by QuantumEldrAg
:thumb126650140: by FoxElie17
:thumb126683427: by JennyFra
by KaelNgu
:thumb126834092: by lyneri
by MuEnLi
:thumb126843803: by Ehryel
by Lyonsb
by Avaly
by BananaChan
by 5ammay
:thumb127130064: by azwi16
by Shangri-LaZuko
by Kurama-chan
:thumb126807523: by Fujimoto00100
by zapphy
:thumb127306155: by jasonogayon
:thumb127317329: by lovely-roses
by bloodink6
by the-inuzuka-master
by Seiorai
by PoisonTonicLX
by RomanticFae
:thumb127670128: by sakuravampire
:thumb127675515: by horror-child
:thumb127690593: by TheFortuneKookie
:thumb127698442: by pussycatdave
by Leadmare
:thumb127736402: by Aiyai
by GreatUFO
by Little-Miss-Mello
by reirei18
by ALA69
by BraveBeat
by airinia
by kirei-rc
by LINHhocas
:thumb127838704: by danielledemartini
by pangketepang
by yes-what
by ryuusei-illusion
by Jeneko
:thumb127872038: by arcticfox68
by Salcybercat

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