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Advent Calendar Drawing Contest

Welcome one and all!
This year's Advent Calendar Drawing Contest is about to start!
. . . I know Halloween is lurking around the corner, but who cares about that??? Christmas is so much better and preparation is key! PokéHeroes traditions won't change that easily. So prepare for another, wonderful Advent Calendar Drawing Contest! 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 nook 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! This year the theme is "Starter Pokémon and their Christmas/holiday/Winter"! What is Litten up to with that tree? Why is Quaxly swimming under the ice? How did Bulbasaur get there? These and many more scenes can play out! Just make sure the Starter Pokémon is the focus (:
[As this gets asked every year - yes, PokéSonas/OCs count as pokémon. However, they cannot be the sole pokémon]
File Upload: Please upload it to a website that doesn't delete it within the next 30 days and allows third-party viewing. (Recommended: tinypic.com, 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

Please send your entries 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 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 4th, 23:59.
The winners will be chosen by us, the staff, based on quality.
The results will be revealed on the 1st of December.

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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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Just a quick question:
Does the starter pokemon we choose have to be the only starter in/interacting with the scene!
Warm, toasty regards from a Halloween fanatic way too excited for Christmas!

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Entry submitted ٩(＾◡＾)۶ (1)

I didnt want to forget to submit this year

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Two questions!

1. Are event starter pokemon allowed? Eg: Turzai and its evos

2. Are Pikachu and Eevee considered starter pokemon? (In Lets go games and Pokemon Yellow and some spin offs they are starter pokemon!)

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Halloween is the only good holiday, actually.

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@Cardboard_Spaghetti - There can be several starters in the scene (:

@Farigiraf - 1. They're technically not starters, but an event of a starter. So I'm gonna say 'no'.
2. If I allow Eevee and Pikachu, I'd also need to allow the possible starters from the Mystery Dungeon, which would kinda defeat the purpose of having Starters be center stage.
We're sticking to the elemental trio handed to you by the professor (or assistant) at the start of your adventure.

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Entering again this year!
Good luck to everyone :D who participates!

(Entries Submitted: 1)

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Entries submitted: 1

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Good luck to everyone participating! I'm looking forward to yet another amazing collection of artworks this year.

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Entries submitted: 3

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Entry submitted (1) ^^

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Entry Submitted: 1 ^w^

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Entries Submitted: 1 ^^

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One entry submitted :)