24 Sep 2023
Halloween 2023 Fanart Contest
by Ephemeral

Halloween 2023 Fanart Contest

by Ephemeral

As the mists of October draw ever closer, the artists of the osu! community have only one thing on their mind: spooky month. Turn your tablets to their true and terrible purpose in our latest Fanart Contest!

Chills and thrills abound during spooky month, and as always, we're throwing skills into the mix too by inviting any brave enough to put their work up for voting. It begins with just one question: do you like to draw?

If so, you're in luck! Draw any of the osu! mascots (or community mascots) in a Halloween theme or setting for fun and a chance at glory and possibly even some sweet profile loot to boot.

You've got 21 days from the date of this post to conjure up your harrowing Halloween spectacle, but only once you've CAREFULLY read the rules listed out below.

As always, a selection of the top-voted finalists will make it into the game client as our special Halloween 2023 seasonal background, and their artists will nab 3 months of osu!supporter to commemorate their effort. The top three voted entries will also have their pieces made into bespoke profile badges in honour of their grand victory.

Got all that? Great, time to get on to the rest:

Rules

  • By submitting your artwork to this contest, you grant us permission to use your artwork in the main menu client should it win, and to use it in promotional material for both the game (osu!) and the contest (Halloween 2023 Fanart Contest). You retain all rights to your creation and you can sell it and distribute it however you like — it is your work, after all. We're just saying here that if you submit your piece to this contest, you should be okay with us using it.
  • All entries MUST follow the contest theme (Halloween) and contain AT LEAST one of the osu! official or community mascots. Wouldn't be an osu! fanart contest without at least one of our beloved mascots, would it?
  • All entries MUST be suitable for all-ages viewing. Keep the actual gore out of your art pieces! Some blood is fine, just be reasonable with it.
  • SUBMIT ONLY YOUR OWN WORK. REDRAWING AND COMPOSITE WORKS ARE NOT ALLOWED. Plagiarism sucks. Don't do it. Someone in the comments will call you out for it as has happened every other time someone's tried and they're going to do more damage to your reputation than us removing your entry from the voting will do. Use only your own work — brushes and the like are fine, but that's it! Don't redraw someone else's work.
  • Generative art programs or methods (such as AI) are not allowed. This includes any kind of software that has you supply a written or visual prompt and fills in large amounts of details for you. We will know if you do this. If we somehow miss it, the community won't. Don't sully your legacy as an artist!
  • Artist attribution (names, social media handles, etc.) must be limited to no more than three lines total and confined to any corner of your entry. Being proud of your work is good, just do it in a reasonably small spot of your work. One thing unique to osu!'s history is that we really don't like forced advertisement, and attribution that is too large can come across like it.
  • 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. This remains the #1 reason for distressed emails sent after the contest about why an entry didn't make it in. Even ONE pixel off is enough. Export your creations at the correct resolution!
  • 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. The circular spot in the middle shows where the main-menu cookie will be when inside the game. Factor this in when designing your piece, as anything inside it is likely not going to be seen. This doesn't mean leaving a big circular hole full of nothing in the middle! Be creative. Make sure you don't leave it visible in your end result.
  • Do not leave the dotted osu! cookie template visible in your submission. Leave the meme in the grave, where it belongs.
  • If you're using characters from other intellectual properties, do so sparingly. All the official osu! mascots and the community mascots are fair game, but please avoid using excessive representations of characters from other worlds or franchises in your work - the contest is about osu! foremost, after all. Remember also that the community mascots are someone else's treasured creation, so please treat them with the same respect that you'd treat your own OCs and work.

When you think you're ready, head on over to the Halloween 2023 Fanart Contest listing and drag-drop your entry into the box with the plus sign in it.

You can delete and resubmit your entry at any time and as many times as you like before the contest closes and voting starts. This is ideal for the creative types who finish something then notice one pixel out of the four million, one hundred and ninety-six thousand, three hundred and fifty-two that they just placed is slightly off.

We look forward to seeing your creations!

—Ephemeral

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erm guys i think i messed up ngl, cuz i was like panicking and i put my signature NOT in a corner…hopefully im not disqualified.. mine is pretty well hidden imo😪

It says page missing

i already know im going to lose with my trash art skills but thats ok!!

Purpurinas ongy bongy

tbh same..... i think i did great but its so unpolished bc i decided to do it so close to the deadline lmao
i aint winning

Ikarii ongy bongy

me too but it was fun to do it! TvT

where is page with contest? (#°Д°)

ongy bongy _reptani

yeah idk why its taking so long ;(

Ikarii _reptani

thisss D:

i dont know what am i doing

i spent 6 hours on mine but its still hot trash lol but good luck all of you!

Didn't have time to do all the details I wanted but at least it's done:p

spent 2 days drawing mine, hope u guys will like it :D

halloween is not my favorite theme so it was kind of hard but i tried my best, good luck everyone <3

piss elawa

golgolgolgolgolgolgolgolgolgolgolgolgolgolgolgolgolgolgol

fihe elawa

You got this!!!

meow

Bruh... Idk. I think I don't have enough time... I'm almost done, but still...

HKC- HKC-

Ok, everything is done

Cerg3 HKC-

I'm glad you could finish yours! :D I couldn't finish mine... I was working on it for a week. Next time I'll start drawing with at least 3 weeks of time remaining... I am proud of what I did tho and you should be proud of your own work as well. :D

omg

I spent 10 hours in total doing mine, i hope yall like it c: <3

omg

Happy Halloween !万圣节快乐!!(用网易有道截图即可翻译)

ostia, joder tío

好好好

i put so much effort into mine hope you guys like it :)

gl

nice

gl to participants

ive got 4 days to finish mine..i am ignoring my assignments for this lol

Weebxtra eggyalksZ

i had 5 hours

kaitacular eggyalksZ

i procrasinated mine so now I have 3 days to finish lineart, color and render :sob:

elawa kaitacular

i had 9 hours to do those same things 😭 i was regretting my procrastination the whole time

eggyalksZ kaitacular

i finished rendering pippi yesterday at 11pm, im now going to finish mocha..rip to my java coding project </3

lmao

I not draw, but ok

cool

ggwp

good

cool

amazing!!!

Where can I find the Osu mascots ref sheets, or just a clear image, I don't want to get anything wrong

Oh nice!

Forttnite halowee n on top ghuyss!! xd literally PUMPkin rocket launcher i lvovee fortnie

My favorite theme of the year!

this is epic :3

Let's go. After years of doubting myself, I'll make some artwork for this event.

can i be in there plz

hit circle

excited to see everyone's hard work B)

Love these art contests. Can’t wait for voting

Is it okay if I insert my OC in it? Or does it have to be Osu! mascots exclussively?

AppleJuice127 Jeouviazelle

I think it is as the last rule says:
''If you're using characters from other intellectual properties, do so sparingly''
So in this case it would be your intellectual property, means yes you are allowed to but as the rule says, sparingly

Jeouviazelle AppleJuice127

Thank you, I just want to reconfirm and I will only insert one.

waza waza

waza

:v

@raybean

goodluck g's

yngwrld Vision305

just a question but your seasonal backgrounds are still summer because they havent updated to the halloween ones correct? i wanna make sure nothing is wrong with my osu!

i hope i finish mine before it ends

rezulia_ darkhim98

goodluck!!

yngwrld darkhim98

good luck ^^

pyonners darkhim98

good luck!

darkhim98 pyonners

thank you 😊

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thank you 😊