Rules

Please check out the wiki article for a full set of rules.

Prizes

1st Place:

1. 6 months of osu!supporter
2. a profile badge, with a design based on the winning entry

2nd Place:

1. 4 months of osu!supporter
2. a profile badge, with a design based on the winning entry

3rd Place:

1. 2 months of osu!supporter
2. a profile badge, with a design based on the winning entry

Submission

Only the creator of a thread may submit their skin, it is not possible to submit someone elses skin. Every person can only submit a single entry.

To submit your thread to the contest please head over to the submission post and reply with the format specified there. You will be notified if there is a problem with your submission and you have time to fix it till 48hours after the submission deadline closes, otherwise your entry will be disqualified.
Please make sure that you attach an image representing your skin, this will be used on the contest listing to show off your skin. This image must be at least 1280 x 720 16:9

FAQ

Q: I have never touched skinning before, do I even have a chance participating?

You do still have a chance, there have been plenty of occasions where someone never touched skinning before but made a great skin on their first try, but this may not be the case for everyone.
And even if you do not end up winning any prizes you have made your first step into skinning and may have better chances in future skinning contests, everyone needs to start learning at some point. If you are looking for resources to start learning with check out the skinship website, where we host plenty of guides, templates and our own skinning tutorial and our Discord server with many people willing to help.

Q: How do I properly credit my assets?

This depends on your assets. Fonts, textures, stock images and icon sets usually have some sort of license or usage guideline clearly linked. Follow those instructions and you should be good.
If you are working with artworks you usually need to ask the artist for permission, but there are some rare cases of artists having usage guidelines in their image descriptions.

Q: Am I allowed to modify my skin after posting it / submitting it under the submission post?

Yes! You can continue working on your skin, no matter if its already submitted or not. It is highly suggested to post your skin a bit before the deadline closes, so you can receive feedback from the community and potentially improve your skin before voting starts. Screenshots and video recordings of your skin will be generated by the contest staff to showcase your skin during voting, these screenshots will be taken when the submission deadline is over.

Q: Can I collab with someone else?
No. Any sort of teaming/collaborating is forbidden, however you are allowed to ask other people for their feedback / opinion on your skin.

Q: Can I join the contest with a mixed skin that has its elements properly credited?

No you cannot. If the majority of a skin is not created by you it does not count as a new creation. You are of course allowed to reuse your own elements.

Q: When exactly does the contest end?

Please check the contest listing which shows a timer.

Q: How exact do I have to be with my color selection?

Since every program will give you a slightly different definition of what colours would be part of the palette, we are not too strict on this. If you want to be sure that the colours you use are allowed, you could take an image and run it trough a color blindness converter, which should spit out only colours allowed. Simply colour pick from the image and you roughly know where you are on the color wheel.

Q: Do I need to use all colours from one palette?

No, you do not have to use all colours equally. You can totally just use one colour for 99% of your design if you want to. As long as the colour is part of the palette it is fine