2 Apr 2020
Spring Indoors 2020 Fanart Contest
by Ephemeral

Spring Indoors 2020 Fanart Contest

by Ephemeral

Spring is here, and though a lot of us are currently stuck indoors for the most part, we're not going to let that dampen our artistic spirit!

Whether you're a new face or a grizzled veteran, these contests always start with just one question: do you like to draw?

If you do, draw any of the osu! mascots (official or community) in a cosy Spring indoor setting for a chance at getting your art featured in-game as a seasonal background, and more!

Yes, you read that right, Spring indoors. What this means is entirely up to you as long as it is cosy, Spring, and indoors. Bust out your shut-in getups, board games, movie backlog, books, or whatever else you can think of and put them in the hands of our mascots!

You've got 14 days from the date of this post to sneak your entry into our auto-magical contest system (after ensuring it fits all the rules below, of course) and once time is up, we'll be placing all the eligible pieces up for a big community vote lasting an entire week.

A top selection of the entries as voted by all of you will go on to become Spring 2020's seasonal background pack, and will award their authors a couple of months of osu! supporter and a shiny new profile badge to acknowledge their victory.

Interested? Check out the rules below:

Rules

  • All entries MUST be themed around enjoying Spring indoors and feature at least one (or more) of the osu! mascots (either official or community). Normally we do Spring as a whole, but this year we're taking it indoors. Don't get caught out(side)!
  • All entries MUST be suitable for all-ages viewing. No smut or anything particularly questionable (nudity, overly revealing clothing, etc), please. We will pull your entry and keep it for ourselves.
  • SUBMIT ONLY YOUR OWN WORK. REDRAWING AND COMPOSITE WORKS ARE NOT ALLOWED. People found to be plagiarising will be removed from the contest and forbidden from entering any others for the rest of the year.
  • ATTRIBUTION (artist names, Twitter handles, etc) must be limited to NO MORE THAN THREE LINES TOTAL and confined to either the bottom left or bottom right corners of your piece. Artists are entitled to plug their own links in their pieces, but we really want them to not be huge and just a marker for people to use to locate you in other places. Excessive attribution can also skew the voting results somewhat since we don't typically scrub it out.
  • Entries MUST meet the resolution requirements for a main-menu piece - namely 2732x1536. THIS IS CHECKED BY A SCRIPT AND ENTRIES THAT DO NOT MATCH THIS REQUIREMENT WILL BE DISCARDED AUTOMATICALLY. Not meeting the EXACT dimensions listed above is the #1 reason for entries getting left out. Check your export resolutions and make sure the actual file has the proper dimensions! Turn off auto-trimming in export settings.
  • 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 on the main menu and during the voting process. Please consult previous entries in the series to understand what we mean here. In smaller words, big osu! cookie takes up most of the screen. Design your piece accordingly.
  • DO NOT LEAVE THE DOTTED osu! COOKIE TEMPLATE VISIBLE IN YOUR SUBMISSION!
  • ACCOUNT FOR THE DOTTED osu! COOKIE TEMPLATE IN THE COMPOSITION OF YOUR WORK!
  • MAKE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE THE DOTTED osu! COOKIE TEMPLATE VISIBLE IN YOUR WORK!
  • DO NOT SUBMIT ENTRIES WITH THE DOTTED osu! COOKIE TEMPLATE VISIBLE! Get the message yet?
  • 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, any of the submissions from the Most Manic Art contest also apply), but avoid 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 their work with the same respect that you'd treat yours.

When you're ready to enter, head on over to the Spring Indoors 2020 Fanart Contest listing and enter today!

—Ephemeral

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What are the requirements to win this? Is it by ranking or to reach x amount of votes?

Karydza Himada

Only the number of votes count, I guess like the previous contest there will be 20 winners.

Rest in piece for those that drew in the center...

Karydza Himada

It's a shame, the drawings look like good. :/

The Conflicted Emu's ppy poster lol

<3

Wish you all best luck! It's my first time participating in this event :)

4r73m1s endezo

yea

Nonceeh_ endezo

Same!

Karydza endezo

Thanks you, good luck to you also. ^-^

let's move on to the voting boisss

OOOF made it, but with a lot of compromises. I'll make sure for next time I won't wait till the last possible second

Karydza TOYONDA

Good luck !

TOYONDA Karydza

Ayyy thanks!! good luck as well ^^

GOOD LUCK ya all artist, lets decorate this game <3

Karydza Quisper

the choice will still be so hard !

I barely made it, holy shit

TOYONDA Hecatia

LoL same

When will the voting system start?

Karydza Quisper

Usually, it takes 2 to 3 days for the voting system start.

Quisper Karydza

but, do you guys choose only best arts or the ones that match all req.

Himada Karydza

I see

Himada Quisper

I'm guessing once the timer hits 0, but might take some extra time to process the entries

good luck guys

Just to make sure; does the entry file needs to be named as something specific?

Karydza Himada

They change the name of file.

xxxxxx2800 Himada

no, it's up to you

I don't think I'm gonna make it

Himada TOYONDA

rip, well either ways there're 2 walls to go through; to draw before deadline and get to the votes(which is more rewarding/stressful imo)

Good luck everyone! We all worked hard, I believe in you! 💖

Yeah I think many people are paranoid about their artworks not being qualified to the voting session even though there SHOULD be nothing wrong xd. Two hours left, goodluck y'all!

Karydza Himada

There are two peaks of stress, before the votes, before the results.

just finished mine^^ my file size was higher (4.70 mb) so i had to shrink it down by making it jpeg; good luck to those who still have to make their own version :>

Nonceeh_ qodkoa

mine was 4.20mb ;w;

qodkoa Nonceeh_

awe, i feel you bro :<

9 hours left, let's see if I can pull through

Karydza TOYONDA

good luck !

Je suis comme tout le monde, j'ai commencé un truc au début mais j'ai eu une autre idée donc j'ai recommencé y'a 3 jours. J'ai la haine ça manque de finitions, mais pas le temps..

Karydza Roro-san

Rester sur son idée de base est toujours très dur. :/

Spend so much time on my piece. Since I only started two days ago, I spend literally 6 hours today on cleaning things up. I just felt like sharing this like since I have nobody to speak to about this like pls dont think I'm trying to boost my piece up; you wont even know what my entry is since I wont sign it :D To anyone still working on this, its really easy to get carried away by stress so make realistic goals and listen to some good music ^^

Karydza Lucridential

More music, less stress always a good advice. ^-^

80% of my effort is already covered by the osu circle so why even bother..

Karydza broken-bun

Rip. :/

What a format i should to submit? JPG? PNG? Or JPEG?

Karydza tenshi23neko

All 3 function, just, the file must be less than 4 MB.

Is it save to share my art after countdown or should i keep it for myself till u you guys move to voting?

Karydza Quisper

I don't think it's forbidden to share your work before the end of the vote. But personally, I am waiting for the end of the votes to share my fanart.

Holy crap I was having an artblock for the whole 11 days and then I finally got an idea for my drawing when there's only 3 days left. Luckily I was able to finish my drawing and there's still a day left. I'm very paranoid that my art won't make it to the voting session even though I already checked everything lel.
Also, if the file size is too big, you won't be able to upload your art at all, right? For some reason I worry about that (my file size is below 2 MB tho)

Karydza KAITO thighs

the limit of size for file is 4 MB, it's good.

Quisper KAITO thighs

I think only 2732 x 1536 matters

My heart is racing since i put and submit my art with the name on the bottom middle side. Is anything wrong if i did that ? Please help me guys. I wasted 12 hours on this one and i don't wanna be DQ :(

Karydza Quisper

If your name is not too big or too visible, there is no reason to be disqualified. But if you can easily put your name in the bottom right or bottom left, do it.

Quisper Karydza

I cant chance my art since i submitted it. If there is any way to take it down and just fix a name would be really nice. Name is well visible. I can show u how is look like if you want.

finally finished mine with a day to spare

So happy I managed to pull trough, twas close - 2 days to spare. A broken collarbone ain't stopping me! What a relief, can't wait to see the entries! cheers' everybody who participated :)

lylyli Kondroel

Oh, I hope you'll get better as soon as possible! You are a real super hero for drawing like this ^^ Great job

Kondroel lylyli

already doing much better, and aww thanks for the kind words :) Having a chance to do this really helped my mental game, feels good to get back to the usual slowly!

Even if I dont get any votes or anything I'll still be kinda happy since this drawing literally destroyed my year long artblock :D

Karydza DiabolikCute

There will always be someone to appreciate your work. ^-^

2 more days to see the entries, can't wait man >:D

This event is beautiful in how its thoughtful. Enjoy drawing to forget for a while about whats going on in the world. Really good timing.

Man...can't wait to see all the entries .

i have artblock on the worst week :)

Karydza Araarashi

this always frustrating, courage to you !

I wonder if there will be more entries than ever before since more people are free now :thonk:
Like I entered since I had nothing to do haha, anyways, good luck to all artists entering this!

Karydza Himada

Me too, I can't wait to see the different entries ! ^-^

how many entries per person?

Himada Abyssigh

From what I tried, it seems like it only allows just one entry

Karydza Abyssigh

One entry per person.

sound nice!

wait for a second. what's that mean spring indoors?

arknes_33 arknes_33

I'm drawing outdoors btw

Ikira arknes_33

i drawed outdoors too.. but i drawed indoors new.. if you draw outdoors you failed the theme and i think your drawing will not be accepted

Karydza arknes_33

It's this rule that Ephemeral should have written four times. ^^'

Is there a way to confirm our entry went through? I just submitted mine in but I'm paranoid something went wrong lol, double checked resolution n everything

Karydza MikasaSerket

If you respect more or less the above rules your entry will be present for voting, there is only the format of 2732x1536 that must be respected.

just making sure but is there a limit to how many mascots we can draw in our artwork?

Karydza epictime70

the limit is the number of osu ​​mascots! (official or not), counting those of the Most Manic Art contest, that makes a big lot. ^-^

epictime70 Karydza

ight thankyou good gamer

omg i drawed outdoors... i hate myself.. let's go 2nd pic ;-;

i wanted it

i wanted it

nice

ah yes,

kk

want to join

Ephemeral is horny on main smh

yo o/

hi

Que le meilleur gagne (:

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Que le meilleur gagne (: