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There are stories scattered through the traces of time, written by people and brought to life by imagination. Then there are pictures that bring these moments to life, capturing a place that is real only to the mind. These are the scattered pages of some of those stories, and these are the moments we seek to be preserved by art.

Welcome to Scattered Pages, an art contest hosted by myself, The Clockwork Mouse. I'm an author and an artist, and I have been on Gaia for gees, seems like forever now! This is my Second art contest! Well overdo, I believe. I have been saving up for this, and will continue to until the contest ending. I hope to hold monthly contests up until the end just to inspire some creativity along the way!

For this contest, there will be several 'Books', which feature characters from stories, RPGs, or characters from here on Gaia (like my beloved avatar!). I will keep tidying this up as I go along.




Annnd the boring part.

1) Please listen and respect people. This is more than a contest to me, it is like inviting a bunch of my friends over for dinner! While we can have fun, please don't get out of hand and trash the place! Use appropriate language, don't be mean to others, and have fun.

2) Don't steal my work!!!! I think that's a given. I put a lot of work into my characters and if I find out you took them I won't be very happy. I won't steal yours, so don't take mine!

3) Please read the character descriptions carefully. The challenge is to capture who they are, and the description can help you do that

4) Don't plagiarize! I feel this is a given, but give credit where credit is due. If you're using references, don't copy them, and let us know what you used. Keep in mind, photography is art too. If you're using pictures heavily to compose your piece, you are copying someones art so be careful about it.

5) I have the right to add to the rules. This rule is just because i don't think I covered everything, and I don't want to be caught without a loophole. ^-^ I'll try to let you know when there are new rules though. I'm not mean.

LAST CONTEST TO COME!

My Criteria:

My criteria for your drawings is on this:

Effort: I know some people do fast drawings, and won't be counted down for that. But effort is a big thing for me. How much work you put into it regardless of how it looks matters to me.

Likeness of Character: Who they are as a character is very important to me. I want to see you capture their true selves. ^-^

Presentation: Overal effect of the entry, sums up the other two. ^-^


And overal awesomeness. ^-^


Entering
First of all, feel free to watermark your entries, but do submit an unwatermarked one via pm. While I do support the right to protect your work, it is hard to judge with giant signatures stretched across the pieces.

Please also send 1 WIP with your entry, that way I can verify you drew your work. This is to help prevent some forms of cheating I have seen in past art contests

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