Next contest: Spring and Summer

CONTEST START!

Timeline: April 1st (submissions open) - June 1st (submissions close).

Theme: Spring/Summer

Medium: drawings and paintings (traditional or digital)

Requirements:
The artwork has to contain something clearly related to spring or summer, e.g. a portrait with some random flowers would not qualify, but a portrait with snow drop or other typical spring flowers and some strategically placed melting snow drifts would qualify.
Draw something typical. Natsume and friends during a typical summer activity, like at a festival, watching fireflies, going to the beach (with Youkai XD)...I hope you get what I mean.
   
You can submit either a Spring or a Summer picture, or both, or ten of each. Do as many as you like.

How to submit:
Create artwork and upload it to Deviantart.

Please include in the Deviations subcription the following: that the artwork is intended for the contest, whether it's a submission for the Spring or the Summer category. A sentence or two how it relates to the theme and why you drew what you drew.

Submit to the Contest folder.

You can submit as many artworks as you like, but you can win only once.

This contest is intended to produce NEW artwork, so only artwork created and uploaded after March 1st 2012 will be accepted.


Prizes:
There will be one winner and one runner-up picked for Spring and Summer each.

The winner in the Spring category will win a full color (but no/limited background) multiple character drawing commission from .

The winner in the Summer category will win a single character portrait (eg from shoulders up) commission with a simple background from .

The runner up in each category will recieve a small surprise.


Have fun!