Welcome To @mettatonmay 2025! (Day 01 - Live) (see Yall Again On The Weekend Haha)

Welcome to @mettatonmay 2025! (Day 01 - Live) (see yall again on the weekend haha)

★ CTHALIA FANART CONTEST ★

Welcome to the official CTHALIA fanart contest!

This contest is to celebrate the impending release of Cthalia's final act, and the creativity of the fan community! You join by drawing characters from the story, and winners will receive custom made art of their OC or favorite fandom character!

The contest will be running for just under three weeks through the month of April, and will be accepting entries across Toyhouse, Tumblr, and the Cthalia Discord server. Winners and prizes will be announced on a livestream at the end of May.

All contest submissions will be uploaded to a temporary gallery on Toyhouse, and added to individual character profiles once the contest is over. If you would like to view the gallery at any time, you can do so here!

Please read the following contest information thoroughly before choosing to enter. If you have any questions, you are free to ask them in the comments of this post or the blog's ask box. Good luck!

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★ CONTEST RULES ★

The rules for this fanart contest are as follows:

1) All art entered in this contest must be created ENTIRELY by yourself. The usage of bases, tracing, and/or AI is strictly prohibited. 2) Drawings submitted to this contest must be started and finished within the contest's time frame. Submitting old/pre-made pieces, or drawings that were already a work-in-progress before the contest started, is prohibited. 3) Your drawing/s must contain AT LEAST ONE member of Cthalia's main cast (Alice, Gretel, Shinrin, Hugo, Louise). You may draw them in any canon outfit-- such as their finale designs or Alice's infiltration gear-- but do not create new outfits for them for the sake of this contest. You may include side characters, but they cannot be the sole focus of the drawing. 4) Be a good sport, and be respectful to all contest participants (including yourself). 5) Submitting hateful, sexual, or otherwise inappropriate art to this contest will result in immediate disqualification. 6) In regards to sensitive or dark content: if it happens in the book, you can draw it, just provide a warning. 7) You can enter as many times as you like, but each entrant is only eligible to win one prize maximum.

The deadline to enter this contest is April 27th at 11:59 PM EST.

Any entries submitted past that point will not be counted in judging.

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★ PRIZES ★

This is the list of available prizes for the contest. The contest will begin with only first and second place prizes available, but more will unlock if the contest reaches certain entry milestones.

FIRST PLACE: Will receive a fully rendered fullbody illustration of their chosen character in a detailed scene environment. SECOND PLACE: Will receive a cel shaded, pop art-style fullbody of their chosen character with an abstract/pattern background.

Milestone goals: Third place - Pop art style halfbody (Unlocks at 20 individual contest participants) Runner-up 1 - Flat colored chibi (Unlocks at 30 participants) Runner-up 2 - Flat colored chibi (Unlocks at 40 participants)

All prizes will be drawn by Ekholocation during the month of May and revealed with the contest winners on a livestream after the novel release ends.

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★ JUDGING CRITERIA ★

Entries will be judged based on character accuracy, story accuracy, and effort. Individual artistic skill levels will NOT be taken into account when judging in order to keep the contest completely fair.

When choosing winners, I will be looking for pieces that are accurate to the character designs, follow all rules of the contest, and achieve one or more of the following: -Strongly represent individual main cast characters from Cthalia -Creatively depict specific scenes from Cthalia -Capture relationships between characters in Cthalia

You are welcome to use these basic criteria as a guide, but don't let them hinder your creativity!

★ HOW TO ENTER ★

All entries to this contest must include a filled out version of the following prize form to be counted in judging. The prize form does not guarantee you a prize, but it will guarantee your eligibility for one. This form is in place to make it possible to start drawing prizes immediately after the contest ends. Please ensure that the character you link has a fullbody reference.

The prize form template is as follows: Your username: Link or attach the character you would want drawn as a prize: Briefly describe their personality: (Optional) Provide some scene ideas that they can be drawn in:

For Tumblr, the entry process is as follows:

Post your entry and tag @cthaliaofficial, or reblog this post with your entry. Include the finished prize form somewhere in your post or reblog, such as underneath a read more cut.