Pretty much what the title says. I love creating, and I love winter, so I'm holding an art contest about creating your own creature, race, monster, or whatever that's specially adapted to bitterly cold climes. Here's the rules and criteria, broken down:


~ Can be any sort of living thing, from a monster, to some sort of feral animal, to a mythical humanoid race. Use your imagination!
~ Cannot simply be a hybrid of two or more things. e.g. don't combine a polar bear and a ptarmigan and call it done. Put thought and creativity to your unique creation! You can however, use specialized adaptations that arctic animals may have to help inspire your own creature.
~ Must be your own work.
~ How this race or creature was able to adapt to the cold is up to you, be it evolution, the result of a prolonged science experiment, supernatural causes, or any other combination you can think of.
~ Can be either art, or writing, or a combination of the two. If I get enough writing entries, I'll judge them separately from the art entries.
~ Have fun dammit!

Criteria I'll be looking for:

~ Must be an original creation of yours made especially for this contest; don't simply "winterize" an existing character, and don't submit a creature or concept you've already done.
~ I'll be judging on how thorough, interesting and well-thought out it is; the art itself is secondary to the concept. Naturally though, the more effort you spend on the product is going to improve your chances.
~ Nothing that would require an Adult tag, please.
~ As stated earlier, can either be visual art, writing, or a combination of the two. Can be a sort of reference to the creature, an image of the creature or race in its natural habitat with accompanied text, etc.

1st place gets either a detailed inked greyscale picture of one or two characters w/ partial background, or a detailed colored picture of whatever they want w/ partial background, and two icons. (these icons will be 100x100 and 150x150, mind you).

2nd place gets either the detailed inked greyscale or colored picture of one character (whichever one 1st place doesn't choose), and an icon.

3rd place gets a one character detailed sketch.

Note: the subject of the prize can also be the creature you created.

Deadline is New Year's Eve, at midnight in EST.

Either comment on this journal with your entry, or note me instead. If you need anything clarified or have a question where I didn't address it here, make sure to ask! I really want to see what you guys come up with!


Hope thats everything. Happy creating! Make sure to spread the word to anyone that you'd think would be interested in this!