3 Apr 2018
Spring 2018 Fanart Contest
by Ephemeral

Spring 2018 Fanart Contest

by Ephemeral

We're ready to appreciate the blooming talents of our amazing artists once again, in 2018's first fanart contest, featuring spring! Like to draw and want some free osu!supporter? Check this out!

The seasons are changing once again, and that means we get a brand new opportunity for a new seasonal-themed fanart contest!

Spring is in the air, so put some spring in your step and hop over to your trusty drawing implement of choice and get to penning any of the osu! or community mascots in a spring-themed piece.

The intrepid artists up for the challenge will find they have 16 days from the date of this post to pull out their best work for the contest.

All valid entries will be placed up for a big community vote pretty much immediately after entry closes for 7 days of agonizing voting, and the top ten winners will receive 2 months of osu!supporter for either themselves, a friend, or two friends.

The top ten winners will also be included as 2018's 'seasonal' background pack for spring, and will remain live in the game client for several weeks - conveniently spanning all of the osu!taiko World Cup! Nice.

If you're planning to enter, make sure to read the rules below before you begin. Some have changed a little, as they tend to do from year to year.

Rules

  • Artists should use the custom templates provided (PSD template / PNG template) when composing their piece as a guideline to understand where the osu! cookie will be placed during the voting process, but they should ABSOLUTELY NOT LEAVE THE TEMPLATE VISIBLE IN THEIR FINISHED WORK. We won't explicitly reject entries if the template is visible so long as the dimensions are correct, but it looks reeeallly bad!
  • Entries MUST meet the resolution requirements for a main-menu piece - IDEALLY 2732x1536, or 1366x768. Entries that don't meet the resolution requirements exactly will be discarded. We do a little processing on entries before they hit voting stage, and this processing simply does not work if all entries are not of the same resolution. Please don't have your work lost by not paying attention to this!
  • All entries must be spring themed. Costume, setting, props - however you do it, it just has to be vaguely spring themed somehow. This is a seasonal fanart contest, after all.
  • Submit only your own work! This means NO TRACING! NO REDRAWING! Please don't be one of those people who submit someone else's work. We want to see your best, not the best of pixiv's hottest artist redrawn or traced.
  • Don't use copyrighted characters from other intellectual properties. You can freely use any of the osu! mascots (pippi, Yuzu, Mocha, Maria) and any of the community mascots (Tama, Aiko, Taikonator, so on), but stay away from using direct representations of characters from other worlds or franchises in your work. Remember that the community mascots are also someone else's creation, so make sure to treat them with the same respect that you'd like your work treated with.

Got all that? Great! Head on over to the Spring 2018 Fanart Contest listing and enter now!

—Ephemeral

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oh look time's up

Can I collab ?? Haha.

Mitto-kun rei - chan

I also want to ask that; if it's possible to collab with someone :>

does anybody knows what format should fanart be? (PNG, PSD,???)

It's sad that I broke my pen at the right moment, no bad art from me then... :,(

where can get the reference of characters?

Woot! Time to draw!

Question to Admis/Mods/Anyone really LOL.
Other than adding 1 of the mascots, can I even add one of my own characters? Like my OCs (Original Characters) with the Osu! logo? And some animals in the mix? Sorry this is the first time I'm considering entering this contest.
FYI:Super excited to see the cute fanarts this year! Especially since its Spring(mah fave season)! Plus another bait to lure my friend into the Osu! community! Nyahahaha~

snowyani2000 MafusukiStar

I've been doing that for the past 3 contests, and also doing it for this contest. So probably xD

Oooh, can't wait to see everyone's adorable art!

how am i sure i actually submitted, i think my submission is stuck or possibly i'm not submitting it correctly

It will be really fun =w=

i wait for some loli

Yesss can’t wait

i can draw a little bit but hell nah am i gonna be able to do something like this

time to draw dickbutt

Oddly enough I can't submit my entry :(
When I do upload my entry the website just dimmed a little and it stays like that until I click. Is this normal?

lilian653 Lunastia

Same, I'm trying to upload a faw days and the same happens :/

Lunastia lilian653

I think there's a size limit, I compressed my entry to 1.52MB and it uploaded just fine.

additional rule: Rule 34 -> Rule 35

Grim Rapper Grim Rapper

also: Rule 36

now is my chance to show my crap art skills

Afishyplayer Fighta123

heh same

Finally! I was wondering when the winter backgrounds are going to leave :D

wow

know what i’ll do instead of finishing other wips :’)

still remember those 2 traced fanarts from before e.e

*owwwwwwwwww intensifies*

Well i'm not a great artist, but count me in!

Cool ! I love these seasonal arts!

ok can i add camel racing into this?

I do not see in the rules that artwork should be SFW ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I'm afraid that you'll be asked to modify it

O O F

Gonna enter for the first time :)

my body is ready for thi
s

Good luck everyone

Nice, I've been waiting for this.

yeah me too

owwwwwwwwww ZheniCatBG

me three

Yess lets do this!

Im excited!

ME TOOO ^-^

is adding a character/mascot even needed?

Ephemeral Lyawi

Yes, since they're the principle focus of the contest outside of the spring element.

Lyawi Ephemeral

okie

Gotta add more this time.

aw yisss spriiiiing <3

yay cute art incoming

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yay cute art incoming