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***Drakaina Anime Fan art contest***

Contest will run from September 01, 2014 until October 31, 2014.

To celebrate my 13 years in the industry as the first European Fantasy art Muse (read more about my career and how I went from a regular girl to an international published muse here ), as well as the 11 years anniversary of the very first Drakaina contest (which led to 2 internationally published art books here and here), I am launching a new Drakaina artworks contest. This time around, the contest will be focusing on Anime artworks, from Chibi to Ecchi, both in modern as well as dark/Fantasy settings, inspired by yours truly 😉 My official website is drakaina.com

The idea is to publish a 2015 calendar featuring the 12 best fan arts from the contest.

I am not doing this because anime is the thing to like right now.. I am actually quite the anime fan myself (can you say binge watch?!? LOL) and I am choosing my next calendar to feature (Drakaina) anime artworks only, both for my personal enjoyment, as well as to expose my “Fans” to a style they might not necessarily go look for on their own..

*** 3 categories to choose from: ***

Kawaii/seinen: action/adventure/fighting scene, fantasy/dark Fantasy, vampire, humor, nosebleeds ect

Ecchi (oiroke manga): very light or playful erotic content (This involves the back, buttocks or even breasts and panchira/pantsu), fan-service, scenes in a shower, onsen, or fighting scenes in which clothes are torn apart by weapons or magic.

Chibi/Mascot: A younger version of Drakaina (with or without her pup). This category will be judged on cuteness, details and originality. Can be submitted with or without a background (=transparent background is ok).

You can participate in one or more categories.

The prizes are as follow :

*1rst Prize: $125.00 cash prize (paypal)

*2nd Prize: Your artwork on a T-shirt Drakaina will be wearing at her convention guest appearances and a signed T-shirt sporting your design sent to you (choose between 3 designs regular T-shirt, tank top or camisole)

*3rd Prize: your design as the new Drakaina.com mascot

Type of art accepted:

Traditional, digital, animation. No photo manipulation please.
Soft shade and cell shade are accepted but a combination of both would be ideal, full body artwork preferred but knee high artworks are accepted too.
The full bleed size of the artwork should be as follow 282 x 219 mm (1666 x 1294 pixels)

**The 12 best artworks will be featured in a 2015 Drakaina calendar. Artists’ names and credits will be featured on calendar. Each one of the 12 artists will also receive a signed copy of calendar**

The submission is open to all tasteful, beautiful, controversial, unique, and technically assured artworks.

You can enter as many images you want. Any or all of them may be chosen for publication.

Contest entries should be submitted in the following format:

*.jpg format;

*Max 1024 pixels on either side at 72dpi;

*Less than 800kb

If chosen, you will be expected to provide us with a 300 dpi, CMYK Tiff version of your artwork(s).

COPYRIGHTS

Important: All artists shall be in possession of ownership and copyright of the submitted artwork, and have no legal objection to Drakaina publishing the selected winning image(s) in the 2015 Drakaina calendar as well as on the Drakaina.com website (The mascot winner grants Drakaina the right of use on Drakaina.com and related promotional material). Drakaina, nor the publishers will be held responsible for false copyright claims. No other rights, print, electronic or other are granted to Drakaina. However, we may wish to use selected images in the promotions and marketing of the calendar only.

All copyright ownership stays with the artist for this publication and in no way will your professional integrity as image owners be compromised. We may wish to use selected images for the promotion of this calendar in the press and media; however no works will be printed on any other literature for sale other than the calendar without your prior consent. By submitting your artwork you agree to this permission.

Character details

Who is Drakaina:

A warrior queen in a dark fantasy realm, she is reborn as a young feisty woman in her late teens when her soul is cast away by the spell of her sworn Enemy, hoping to destroy her once and for all. She awakes in modern day earth lost and confused, to the kisses of a stray female shiba-inu puppy, and without a clue of whom nor where she is…

You can take it from there; I do not want to slow down your imagination by giving you a full story. You can chose to portray Drakaina in her Fantasy realm, or on modern day earth. For the same reason I am not providing a description of what she would wear now that she’s “landed” on modern day earth. It’s totally up to you. Same goes for your artwork, it can be based on the beginning of the story or months following Drakaina’s unfortunate landing on earth.. Maybe now she is a student? Or a mercenary? is she trying to get back to her own world and reclaim her previous life or did she adapt to this new life and decided to leave her old one behind? It’s your call, have fun with it

Physical Description:

Modern day Drakaina

Long bright (candy apple) red hair
98-57-90
Big soulful blue eyes
Fit
Always has her shiba pup by her side
Uses magic (spell casting) in Modern day earth

Drakaina the warrior Queen

Long curly red hair
98-57-90
Big bright piercing blue eyes
Fit
Always has her wolf by her side
Uses a 2 handed sword

You can view the reference pics for this contest here

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