1 Oct 2014
Official osu! Fanart Contest 4 Begins!
by yelle

Official osu! Fanart Contest 4 Begins!

by yelle

Hi there! New osu! staffer here. I'll soon be taking over the running of the osu webstore (yes, that means restocked osu! tablets soon!) but today I'm here to introduce the fourth Official osu! Fanart Contest! This time, things are getting spooky with the theme of...

We're talking skeletons, pumpkins, blood, ghouls and any other creepy crawly Halloween renderings of osu! and its characters that you can think up. Go crazy! Do you have the guts?

Well, I'm not going to stick around all day and make terror-ible Halloween puns, so let's discuss specifics....

Once again a full one year supporter tag is up for grabs, along with the osu! tablet, which should come in handy for drawing as well as playing. In addition to the grand prize winners, any artwork that gets used in any official format will win the artist a one-month supporter tag. Further compensation will be offered for any artwork that is used for official merchandise.

Rules

  • Artwork must fit theme. In this case, it must be Halloween-themed osu! artwork.
  • Everything in your image must be your own work! Don't steal anyone's art, and please don't "trace" anything either. Make your own pose.
  • Don't include any copyrighted characters from outside of osu! Including your own original characters alongside osu! characters is fine. Also, I know we only used Pippi examples in the banner, but we hope to see Yuzu and perhaps Pippidon represented this time around.
  • Images must be G-rated and safe-for-work.
  • Images must meet the size requirements.
  • Deadline for entries is October 27th, 2014.

How to Enter

  • Post a web-friendly (370px wide by 320px maximum) image in the official contest thread
  • Link to a much larger print-friendly image (at least 1200x1200, preferably higher, or vector, if possible) for possible printing.
  • You can upload the images on https://up.ppy.sh/ or https://puush.me/
  • You may enter more than one image, but you can only win one grand prize. If you have more than one entries, please keep them all in a single forum post.

By entering, you agree to let us use your art on the osu! website, social media accounts, and merchandise. We'll hopefully be using many of these entries in various web formats, and if we use your art in an official capacity you'll get a one-month supporter tag.

Only entries that follow all rules will be considered. There will be two grand prize winners for each contest theme: one chosen by public poll, and one chosen by osu! staff. Each winner will get a one-year osu! supporter tag and an osu! tablet.

If anything needs clarifying, let us know. Otherwise, post away!

Special thanks to Lichatte, Gingernut, Kunieda, and spongypuppet whose artwork is featured in the contest banner. Background Johnny Martin ecdl

—yelle

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Hi

Voting is up guys !

If you didn't see the announcement of yelle , you can click there for voting → https://osu.ppy.sh/p/art

Finally finished!

Waiting for the votes now :D

At what time exactly is the deadline? I have a crappy schedule (work and home stuff) and I really want to submit my entry very soon

first art contest i ever did ^-^ so excited

I can't wait to vote on a billion pictures of catgirls

um.. how to vote? sorry.. this is my first time ><

DX5536 Inazuma-Keion

after the deadline, there will be a link post by mod to vote the entries. You click on the arts you like, you can pick as many arts as you want.

wow :3

im sorry for being noob for this contest just wanna ask-
where should i upload my artwork?
i mean.. i know "click the link that show on the description u idiot"
the problem is, I DONT KNOW HOW TO USE THAT PUUSH THINGY

If you win this contest!!. You'll be given a title???

does the picture have to be so square or could i do more portrait like 2550 by 3300px?

What was the prizes ???
supporter tag and tablet???

KAKIFY WIN THIS 1 PLEASE I BET MY SUPPORTER ON YOU

kakifly AHASVER

i am not entering this one.. sorry lol

AHASVER kakifly

its ok

waw

goood

hmm---
i just-
wondering
never seen that blue haired boy(?) before-
who is he/she ?

dunkillmeplease-

Yangu VirusZeke

Pretty sure that's the CTB dude

DX5536 Yangu

It's Ryuuta's "replacement", Yuzu :D
dontkillmepls

wow NICE ! i'll try to join

Can I make a collab artwork?

where can i see the list of osu! character image, i dunno every single character appereance from the name only xD

Cool! I wonder whether's traditional art is okay too? Since I'm not good at digital drawing... ._.

Is there any estimate as to when the osu!mania mascot will be released? I was thinking of including that but I don't know what they look like yet

cool. So many vivid stickers!

may as well try joining this competition later :3 And may I ask? Can we use pictures from googles(like pumpkin, ect), and manipulate it into a fanart?

TheNekoNextDoor nobeledgarw

Good luck! And, in response to your question about Google Images - no, you're not allowed.

What defines "G-Rating?"
Like is putting Halloween Themed panties on top of Pippi's head not allowed?

Oh my gosh XD

peppy Noki

that sounds fine

Just asking, Yuzu is a boy right? :|

peppy shuyafay

yes

I better see some good spookes

spoopy

hmmm maybe

good luck guiz 3spooky5me

that blood in the banner tho

loving the new form, it looks so neat and tidy! can't wait to start sketching my entry :)

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I just realized... It's way more worth winning this rather than the MBC!

peppy rezoons

the prizes are roughly the same? except in MBC your map is made the most accessible map in the game.

rezoons peppy

<1 year of supp + a tablet for this one> against <6 months of supp + no tablet> for the MBC7. When you convert it to raw money the difference is far from being negligeable.

Also, if your art is used as an official art it reaches just as many people as a bundled map. Add to that the fact that it takes generaly less time to do a quality art rather than a quality map... Yeah, i'm still pretty convinced that it's more worth winning this rather than the MBC. (Based on my "Reward over time spent" criteria anyway.)

http://puu.sh/bVgb1.jpg better vote before it's too late
the dankest of 2014
following the recent trend of "that inappropriate coughSMOKINGBGcough map" rerankage

OOo I think I may enter this~

Traditional art is allowed,right?

yelle_old_1 Akari Akamine

Sirade is correct - traditional art is ok!

Someone may redirect the page for voting for the third fanart contest :

https://osu.ppy.sh/p/art

hahakomma1 Secretpipe

finally the vote for the last contest. It is weird to see your own works on it. of course I didn't vote for my things (I don't like self voting) . I voted for all those cute ones and there are so many of them >////< good luck for everyone.

Jazz Secretpipe

can I just ask when will the voting end?

Soon™
(What peppy said, basically.)

peppy Jazz

when we have enough votes :)

- Menma-deleted
deadbeat - Menma-

announcement is on the way

huu.... Hallowen >_<

GL everyone!~

Hi yelle

hello!

sry, i'm too sht for this

please bite me moe vampire-chan

mmmm

Stefan Flanster

close enough

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close enough