User blog:ScottyBlue/Art Contest for fanfic

User blog:ScottyBlue/Artist Info (Character visual descriptions)]]nd I loved all the pictures that were sent in. It was very hard to pick a winner, but I enjoyed seeing all the various takes different users had on the same character and I hope that everyone enjoyed entering. That being said, I am holding a new art contest. Here is the information.

What to Draw
This will be the cover art for my fanfic GINGIVERIAN:A Tale of Redwall, and will be posted at the head of every chapter. I wish my main hero Sy Stoneclaw and her mortal enemy Enzi Grexx (a.k.a the Black Shade) to be on it, though if anyone wants to add any of my other characters the list of their descriptions is HERE. Sy looks like this:

''A young adult cat, thin but muscular of build. Has smoky fur patterened with blacks spots that converge to stripes on her head and tail; black ears, nose, and tailtip; and white paws with pink claws. Has somewhat scruffy short fur, marked all over with scars; some are pink, raggedly healed wounds, and others are black lines stiched up by Abbey healers. Wears a shortened, dusty purple-grey robe trimmed with white silk, sometimes with a long black cloak over it. Also wears a multi-colored braided cord headband, one wide black belt about her waist, two thinner black belts crossed in an "X" over her torso, and a musselshel-and-twine eyepatch over her scarred and blind left eye. There is a large gold hoop through the left ear; the right ear has a rip in it where the other hoop was once wrenched off. Has two scimitars, worn thrust through the "X" swordbelts; also wields a sling.

The Black Shade looks like this.

''A large, just short of middle-aged black wolf with bushy fur and flat yellow eyes. Wears an intricately carved, emerald-studded skull of a huge adder as a facemask, and the black and pale-brown hide as a toga and short cape. The long ribcage of the serpent is the belt, and a large adder fang serves as a cloak pin. He wields a long doubleheaded spear, both points of which have been replaced with enourmous curved adder fangs. Has a silver upper canine, where the original tooth was knocked out.

What the picture looks like is entirely up to you. One note: If you want to draw Sy and Enzi duking it out, it would be best to set them on a large rope-and-pank bridge suspended over the ocean, as that is where the final confrontation takes place; however, several conflicts will take place before this in the story so if you want to set it anywhere else in the REdwall world that's ok too.

The Rules

 * 1) MEET THE DEADLINE! THe Contest ends Christmas Day, 2011. Winners announced Jan. 1, 2012.
 * 2) NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT! If for some reason you have to use textures or backgrounds in your picture from an outside source, make sure they are free for public use.
 * 3) NO STEALING! Do not try to pass anyone else's art as your own.
 * 4) HAVE FUN! This is not a serious competition, this is just a little drawing contest on a computer website and I don't wish to see anyone upset or angry if at all paossible.

The Prizes (the Important part!)
Grand Prize(1 Winner)
 * Cover Art for your fanfic/profile page (you pick) by me, in color, to your specifications
 * Special Badge to go on profile page
 * Allowed to Create one character for my fanfic (some slight specifications here)
 * Picture on my profile page
 * Picture posted at the top of every chapter in my fanfic

2nd Place (2 Winners) 


 * Special Black and White chapter header for any chapter of your fanfic, or picture for your avatar, to your specifications
 * Allowed to name a character from my fanfic, which I will describe
 * Picture on my profile page

3rd Place (Everybody else)


 * Certificate allowing recipient to make one art or collaboration request of me for free, no trading required (please do not use right away; I will be busy drawing the first and 2nd place winners' prizes!)
 * Picture on my profile page

And finally
Hope everybody has a lot of fun with this. Remember, be creative, and keep smiling while you draw!

God Bless,

--Scotty Bluefleck O Sword of Truth! Fly swift and sure, that Evil die and Good endure! 03:54, October 8, 2011 (UTC)