Update: We have now closed the contest. Please be patient while we take the time to judge and consider all your wonderful and beautiful entries! Thank you to everyone who has advertised, donated and participated. Judging will not be easy. Keep on the look out for the winners announcement!
Theme and Objectives
Create a visual or literature piece based on a fairy tale featuring one or more of our OC's. It must be an established fairy tale. However, you may add a twist to it, such as making it darker, setting it in a different time period, etc. Creativity with the theme will be considered in the judging.
Because there are 15 OC's to choose from, you will not be allowed to use any additional OC's from the worlds of the creators (i.e. Gar from Kherming, etc.) Also, for this contest, you may not use your own OC's. You may use established fairy tale characters, such as adding the dwarves to a Snow White piece.
Because there are 15 OC's to choose from, you will not be allowed to use any additional OC's from the worlds of the creators (i.e. Gar from Kherming, etc.) Also, for this contest, you may not use your own OC's. You may use established fairy tale characters, such as adding the dwarves to a Snow White piece.
This following list of fairy tales might be helpful: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…
The judges of the contest will be Endorell-Taelos, mirz333 and CristianaLeone. We will choose the best visual and literature entries, relying not only on quality, but first of all on the originality, storytelling and character fitting.
Characters to Choose From
From CristianaLeone
From mirz333
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From Endorell-Taelos
Important Things to Know
- The contest begins today February 1st and ends on April 30th NO EXTENSIONS!!!
- The entries must be created specifically for this contest and submitted to DeviantART not before February 1st.
- In the description please put the name of the fairy tale you chose, the link to this journal and the name of the OC or OC's.
- Maximum 2 entries per person, but you can win just with one.
- Digital or Traditional Drawings and Paintings are allowed. To give more free reign photomanipulations and cosplay photography are also allowed, but must look like the OC you are trying to show!
- For Literature Entries the word limit is 5000 words, and must be written in English.
- Our OC's must be recognizable! You can change their clothes and outfits, of course. Also try to respect their personality!
- Any style is more than welcome! Manga, chibi, realistic, cartoony, etc. Whatever your style is, let's show it!
- Mild Mature Content is allowed, but please refrain from making your entry too gory or too sexually explicit.
- All Entries must be submitted by commenting with a link or thumbnail on this journal.
- This Contest is hosted and will be judged by mirz333, Endorell-Taelos and CristianaLeone. To make things easy on everyone this is the official journal; all comments, entries and questions will be dealt with on this journal only. Do not send notes please! (Entries then will be accepted at our groups: RelativityComic, LoreithianChronicles and Kherming-Chronicles)
Aside from the Traditional Fairytales (that we linked to), you are allowed to do your own take on a Disney animated Fairytale, folk-tale or story with our characters. Such as Peter Pan, Aladdin (although this also comes from 1001 Nights), Mulan, Frozen, etc.
Prizes - Visual Art
3 Month Subscription from CristianaLeone
500 from CristianaLeone
400 from mirz333
A Digital painting of a couple (half body) from CristianaLeone
3 Pixel Portraits from mirz333
Portrait from LauraGalliArt
Digital waist up commission from Brokenfriendship
Full Colour Chibi from Jazzds
Month Long Journal Feature and Llama Badge from PurpleRedRose
A Feature in TheVoiceOfManips video show
Journal Features from Endorell-Taelos, CristianaLeone, mirz333, DameOdessa, Banjelerp, RaisloverSakura, TaleOfAutumn, MiaLuyando
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1 Month Subscription from CristianaLeone
200 from mirz333
250 from CristianaLeone
A Digital Portrait of 1 OC from CristianaLeone
2 Pixel Portraits from mirz333
Month Long Journal Feature and Llama Badge from PurpleRedRose
A Feature in TheVoiceOfManips video show
Journal Features from Endorell-Taelos, CristianaLeone, mirz333, DameOdessa, Banjelerp, RaisloverSakura, TaleOfAutumn, MiaLuyando
3 Month Subscription from Endorell-Taelos
Pixel Portrait from mirz333
Full Colour Chibi from Jazzds
Prize Stamps from dragondoodle
Pixel Avatar from happy-gurl
Watercolour cartoon from LaraInPink
Prize Stamps from dragondoodle
Pixel Avatar from happy-gurl
Watercolour cartoon from LaraInPink
Month Long Journal Feature and Llama Badge from PurpleRedRose
A Feature in TheVoiceOfManips video show
Journal Features from Endorell-Taelos, CristianaLeone, mirz333, DameOdessa, Banjelerp, RaisloverSakura, TaleOfAutumn, MiaLuyando
Prizes - Literature
<da:thumb id="245773686"/> First Place
Prize Stamps from dragondoodle
Colour Drawing from Drawing-Heart
Pixel Avatar from happy-gurl
Watercolour cartoon from LaraInPink
Colour Drawing from Drawing-Heart
Pixel Avatar from happy-gurl
Watercolour cartoon from LaraInPink
Month Long Journal Feature and Llama Badge from PurpleRedRose
A Feature in TheVoiceOfManips video show
Journal Features from Endorell-Taelos, CristianaLeone, mirz333, DameOdessa, Banjelerp, RaisloverSakura, TaleOfAutumn, MiaLuyando
3 Month Subscription from Endorell-Taelos
A Digital Portrait of 1 OC from CristianaLeone
Prize Stamps from dragondoodle
Black and White Drawing from Drawing-Heart
Pixel Avatar from happy-gurl
Black and White Drawing from Drawing-Heart
Pixel Avatar from happy-gurl
Month Long Journal Feature and Llama Badge from PurpleRedRose
A Feature in TheVoiceOfManips video show
Journal Features from Endorell-Taelos, CristianaLeone, mirz333, DameOdessa, Banjelerp, RaisloverSakura, TaleOfAutumn, MiaLuyando
All entries will be featured in a special article by Mirz123 at the end of the contest.
We thank everyone who has donated so far to the contest, we are still accepting prize donations and appreciate any help promoting the contest. Note, you MAY enter the contest if you donate a prize.
In addition, we will also be holding a special lottery for those who help promote the contest. Post a journal or poll linking to the contest and you will be entered into a special drawing. Please link to the journal or poll in the comments. The winner will receive a sketch portrait from CristianaLeone, pixel portrait from mirz333, and 250 from Endorell-Taelos.
Best of Luck Everyone!
Visual Art Entries
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Literature Entries
Mature Content
Contest Entry - Little Ria Riding HoodLITTLE RIA RIDING HOOD
By John Paul Dodds
The girl; Ria, skipped out of the village seemingly without a care in the world. Over her short peasant tunic-dress, belted at the waist with a stout rope, she wore an incongruously fine velvet hooded cape in brightest red. She whistled brightly and slightly out of tune as she skipped, and she carried a wicker picnic basket in her hand.
The path she took led across the fields and into the woods beyond. Bemused workers looked up from their toil in the fields at this colourful sight. She turned to wave gaily at them as she passed and some found themselves taken with the cheeky-eyed face under a short blonde-brown boyish haircut that looked out from beneath the voluminous red hood.
She skipped on down the path, entering the woods without a second thought. Coming out of the bright sunshine into shadowed paths thick with branches and overhanging growth didn't seem to worry her unduly. The path twisted and turned t
The Knave of HeartsOne day during the investigation of one his biggest cases Ravenswood Cadavre stumbled across something that would change his life forever. He was sitting there at his computer desk, scarfing down a filled bear-claw donut and going through his notes to make more notes. Hopefully more sensible ones as he was way over his head on this case, a sixty one year old man just up and disappeared out his basement while cataloging items he had purchased in an auction. The man's wife said he carried a big cedar chest to the basement which has no windows and only the one door and he never reappeared. When she went to look for him she found all the items lying on his workbench but he was nowhere to be found.
He sighed it was hard to concentrate on his job when his mind was filled with thoughts of his fiance Melody. They had a big row the night before and she was now ignoring his calls and texts. In her defense she has every right to be mad at him, he broke a promise and acted like an idiot. He spent
The Cunning ShoemakerOnce upon a time there lived a shoemaker whose joy in crafting shoes and patching worn pairs far exceeded his desire for fame or fortune. He lived a quiet solitary life, his beautiful wife having died many years before. He was known quite well around the village to be a man of somber intellect and few words, but also trustworthy in his own right. He never sought peril nor did peril aim to follow him.
His name was Emmanuel; he had dark eyes, almost black, and long luxurious black hair that hung down past his shoulders. To strangers his mere presence echoed authority and a deep ambivalence, but to others from the village he seemed an ordinary sort who just preferred a quiet life away from all things wicked. Not much was known of Emmanuel before he arrived with the intentions befitting a shoemaker, nor did anyone seek to ask. A man’s business is his own.
One morning, he was returning from the center of town having just bought himself a donkey. He had a hefty sum of money from doing
Mature Content
Contest Entry - Little Ria Riding HoodLITTLE RIA RIDING HOOD
By John Paul Dodds
The girl; Ria, skipped out of the village seemingly without a care in the world. Over her short peasant tunic-dress, belted at the waist with a stout rope, she wore an incongruously fine velvet hooded cape in brightest red. She whistled brightly and slightly out of tune as she skipped, and she carried a wicker picnic basket in her hand.
The path she took led across the fields and into the woods beyond. Bemused workers looked up from their toil in the fields at this colourful sight. She turned to wave gaily at them as she passed and some found themselves taken with the cheeky-eyed face under a short blonde-brown boyish haircut that looked out from beneath the voluminous red hood.
She skipped on down the path, entering the woods without a second thought. Coming out of the bright sunshine into shadowed paths thick with branches and overhanging growth didn't seem to worry her unduly. The path twisted and turned t
The Knave of HeartsOne day during the investigation of one his biggest cases Ravenswood Cadavre stumbled across something that would change his life forever. He was sitting there at his computer desk, scarfing down a filled bear-claw donut and going through his notes to make more notes. Hopefully more sensible ones as he was way over his head on this case, a sixty one year old man just up and disappeared out his basement while cataloging items he had purchased in an auction. The man's wife said he carried a big cedar chest to the basement which has no windows and only the one door and he never reappeared. When she went to look for him she found all the items lying on his workbench but he was nowhere to be found.
He sighed it was hard to concentrate on his job when his mind was filled with thoughts of his fiance Melody. They had a big row the night before and she was now ignoring his calls and texts. In her defense she has every right to be mad at him, he broke a promise and acted like an idiot. He spent
The Cunning ShoemakerOnce upon a time there lived a shoemaker whose joy in crafting shoes and patching worn pairs far exceeded his desire for fame or fortune. He lived a quiet solitary life, his beautiful wife having died many years before. He was known quite well around the village to be a man of somber intellect and few words, but also trustworthy in his own right. He never sought peril nor did peril aim to follow him.
His name was Emmanuel; he had dark eyes, almost black, and long luxurious black hair that hung down past his shoulders. To strangers his mere presence echoed authority and a deep ambivalence, but to others from the village he seemed an ordinary sort who just preferred a quiet life away from all things wicked. Not much was known of Emmanuel before he arrived with the intentions befitting a shoemaker, nor did anyone seek to ask. A man’s business is his own.
One morning, he was returning from the center of town having just bought himself a donkey. He had a hefty sum of money from doing