Thank you all for your lovely entries! The winner will be announced by the end of the week. Only 7 entries were received in the end, but I by no means intend to cancel the contest. There will be 2 winners.
The Basics
Run Time:
January 17, 2018 through September 1, 2018
Judging happens:
Between September 1 and 15, 2018
Cash and Core will be distributed within 1 week of announcement, pending response from winners. Art will be completed at the availability of the artist(s) involved. If fewer than 10 entries are received, the contest may be cancelled at the discretion of the creator.
The Prizes
Winners will be featured on my profile through July AND have a permanent place in the Featured gallery of
!
All entries will be featured in a Contest folder in
KaiyaFC; after July, they will be copied to the appropriate group folder as their permanent home.
Plus actual prizes!Cash (PayPal), core, and art!
Want to donate a prize? Note me! Donors are welcome to enter as well!
1st Prize:
- $50 Cash (PayPal)
- 3 month Core membership (value: $15)
- 1 colored full-body single character OR 1 colored half-body couple (simple background) from KitsMits
- 1 Full-body (no background) from Itygirl
- 1 Semi-realistic graphite headshot (traditional) of a character on a cube paperblock paper from deidara1444
2nd Prize:
- $25 Cash (PayPal)
- 3-month Core membership (value: $15)
- 1 colored half-body single character (simple background) from KitsMits
- 1 half-body (no background)from Itygirl
WINNERS CAN ONLY BE FEATURED IN ONE CATEGORY EACH. No artist will win in more than one category.
To avoid conflict of interest, judges will not enter the contest.
Donors are welcome to enter as well!
How to Enter
1. Be a watcher - comment below that you're joining!
New watchers welcome! However, if you unfollow me within a month of the winners being announced, you will be disqualified from future contests and raffles.
2. Favorite this Journal.
3. Share this Journal in a status, poll, or journal post, and link the post in the comments below.
4. Submit as many as you want!
The more, the merrier, and the more chances to win! Please submit them to the
Draw My OC Contest folder. (You don't have to be a member of
KaiyaFC to do this!)
5. All submissions must be received no later than September 1, 2018, 11:59 PST.
Extension may be possible - we'll see what happens ^_^
What to Draw
All entries should be submitted to under the Draw My OC Contest" folder. Submissions to other folders will not be considered.
You do not need to be a member of the group to submit to that folder, but we'd love to have you ^_^
Accepted:
-Traditional, Digital, pixel, chibi (any style)
-crafty things/other mediums
-cosplay
-tasteful nudity/NSFW (think "Rated R" rather than "Rated XXX")
-Bases are allowed if properly credited!
-multiple entries ^_^
NOT accepted:
-Hentai/ecchi
-Screenshot edits, tracing, plagiarism, unaccredited bases
The Characters!
Fuumaki/Uzumaki/Namikaze Kaiya
The main character of
To Unravel the Night, Kaiya is (spoiler alert!
) the oldest child of Namikaze Minato and Uzumaki Kushina. Fuinjutsu specialist, user of Hiraishin and the Adamantine Sealing Chains, un-locker of Uzushiogakure, "Breaker of Seals," "Kaiya-nee-chan." See her
profile for more details, or better yet, read the story!
Ideas:
-Reference sheet, outfit re-design, wardrobe
-AU scenes or scenarios
-with other characters (including Naruto, non-Naruto, or other OCs)
-romantically paired with Itachi, Kakashi, or Creepy-Stalker Kabuto (or with your own choice
...just no incest, please)
-fashion/magazine/glamour
-battle against Danzo (either actual combat or "battle of wits")
-"Kaiya-nee-chan" - with Naruto, younger Sasuke, orphanage
-mentoring Sai in "emotional intelligence" and/or Fuinjutsu
-glamour/fashion type
...the possibilities are endless!
Team Recon
Kusato Hikaru and Date Gorou are Kaiya's teammates at the start of TUtN. Together since their Genin years, the three are practically family; even after promotions and reassignments wound up disbanding them, they keep in touch, often meeting up for hot pot or dinner at Hikaru's. Birthdays are usually spent at the Date residence, where Gorou's (surprisingly petite) mother makes a feast; his four older brothers are always in attendance to those.
Their late sensei, Yoshida Yuuma, had a great impact on their lives both individually and as a group. He was a father figure to the orphaned Kaiya (who at the time did not know who her family actually was); on off days he used to people-watch with her as a way to further train her in psychological profiling and to help her guard against manipulation. Tragically, he was found dead at the scene of the Uchiha Massacre, where he presumably was killed in action. (The team would have been 13-14 at the time.) Mysteriously, he had a past in Anbu - particularly in a faction called Root...
Ideas:
-Team dinner (hot pot or Hikaru cooking for them, or with Gorou's family)
-"old" pic of the team with Yuuma, including the "Hawk's Nest Mission"
-Funeral/memorial scene
-Any individual member of Team Recon, or any combination
-Hikaru playing "therapist" to Kaiya (including couch and hot cup of tea)
-Gorou teaching taijutsu at the Academy
-Hikaru at his desk job as a threat/defense analyst or assistant to Nara Shikaku
-Hikaru on a date with a guy
-Gorou flirting with a girl
-Group date! XD
-Alternate universe scenarios
For more images, as well as story snippets, profiles, and more TUtN goodness, check out and join the official group!
How Winners are Decided
Judges
Criteria
Entries will be judged on a scale of 1-10 in five areas:
Vision (does your intended "vision" come through in the art?)
Originality (in pose, situation, style, concept, etc)
Technique (general and within your chosen style)
Effort (...self-explanatory
)
Impact (the "Wow" factor)
Winners will be decided by total combined score.
If specific categories are added (ie, "Best ItaKai"), winners will be chosen from among the highest scoring pieces in the category. In the case of the highest score already having won 1st, 2nd, or 3rd prize, the winner will be the NEXT highest scored piece in that category.
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