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Advent Calendar Drawing Contest

Welcome one and all!
This year's Advent Calendar Drawing Contest is about to kick of!
Another year is drawing to a close yet again, and what a weird year it's been. Let's hope we can go outside and enjoy a normal life again soon, but know that PokéHeroes traditions won't change! So prepare for another, wonderful advent calendar drawing contest! This theme was decided by your votes, so I hope you get struck by inspiration. Prepare yourself a lovely cup of hot chocolate, take your digital drawing supplies and let your fingers fly. It's time to get creative!

As some of you might already know, each December has an Advent Calendar. Every day, every user will have 24 doors, one for each day leading up to Christmas, with a small task and a reward waiting! If you manage to open each door through the task, you might even win a big prize!

Every year, we've been blessed with wonderful backgrounds and there's no reason that this year should be any different. There's just no going back to the same monotonous blue background on the Advent-page with all its doors. Which is exactly why we're organising this contest for all the wonderful artists lurking in every crook and cranny, waiting for their opportunity!

Reward
Drawing itself can be entertaining, drawing with a chance to win something, adds that little edge of excitement. Aside from the wonderful feeling of winning, the five best designs will, as every year, be available as a background for everyone's calendar. They will also get their pick of any shiny Advent pokémon, that has been released so far [legendary excluded].
Currently available Advent pokémon: Snowling, Santa Bird, Skugar, Frosty Kecleon, Pachirisnow, Gooseboarder, Woopice, Rudolph, Unown Flake
Anyone else who joined/qualified, but just missed out on the big prize, will get a participation prize as thanks for joining. You'll have to wait and see [and join] to know what it is ;)

Artwork Requirements
Accepted File Types: .PNG .JPEG .JPG
Image Size: 650 x 1000 px (width x height)
Artwork Type: Digital, no transparency [final product]
Artwork Design: Enjoy yourself! PokéHeroes is a website visited by users from all over the world, who all celebrate the winter holiday in their own way, so that's this year's theme. Show us how you celebrate the winter holidays! Imagine any location you'd like [real or pokéworld] and show us how you'd celebrate the winter holidays with friends or family there! (How is it celebrated in the pokémon world or locations in the real world? In the desert? At sea? in the sea? So many possibilities!) As always, make sure there is at least one pokémon in your entry.
[As this gets asked every year - yes, PokéSonas/OCs count as pokémon]
File Upload: Please upload it to a website which doesn't delete it within the next 30 days and allows third party viewing. (Recommended: sta.sh, imgur.com)
Copyright: The artwork has to be drawn completely by you. You are not allowed to include images from other artists, including official art. Entries from previous years also can't be (re)submitted, even if it would still fit the theme somehow.

How to Enter

Different from the past years, based on the poll on my user page, entries should be sent through PM to CatLady. Put "Advent Calendar Contest Entry" as the subject [without "]. Even if you have several entries, please don't change the title. I'll be able to see that you have several drawings (;

Also post a message in this thread saying "Entry/Entries submitted", indicating the number of drawings you submitted. This will help me keep track of who entered, without drowning in my PM-inbox ^^

Deadline
The deadline is November 20th, 23:59.
The winners will be chosen by us, the staff, based on quality.
The results should be revealed on the 30th of November.

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Please keep SPAM posts out of this thread :)

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Visual aid for the size :
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Most important of all, though, I hope you all HAVE FUN~

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Me making an advent calendar design in the sea because Im a big whale. XD

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Entry submitted :p (x)

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I'm a little new here and I don't really know how to send images through PM qwq

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@Firewhisper

Use:



In order to get the url though, you would need to first upload it to a site like Imgur.

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If we do multiple drawings, should we put them all in the same message, or in different ones?

You can put them all in the same message/post, but clearly say how many you've made.

"3 entries submitted" for example.

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Can we have a hint or clue of the winning prize? xP

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i think premium or something

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Why ask for a hint, when the prize is written in the post ^^'

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Already sent my entry! (x)

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hey i have a question

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You don't need to announce that, you can ask your question immediately (;

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oh ok and does pixle art count

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Possibly a dumb question, but does it have to be winter related? (the words "winter holidays" were mentioned a few times) Cause for some of the world the holidays happen in summer...

No, pixel art doesn't count.

The first name was "Christmas", but not everyone celebrates Christmas and that gave the wrong impression of the theme (':
I think the more correct name would be "December Holidays"?

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Ok, thanks for clarifying it CatLady

can it be realistic cuz I'm more of a realistic art kind of guy (as seen in my pfp)

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If it's actually drawn and follows all criteria, that's fine.

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When does it end?