Hello! As promised I will open a contest. Please read below for the descriptions. For the article: [link]

ATTENTION! PLEASE READ FIRST BEFORE STARTING TO DRAW!

THEME
I want to see a lot of creativity, so I'll give you two themes. You don't need to draw both of them, one is good enough for me, but as I stated before, creativity played a really great role.
First theme: School Life
Basically, draw your original characters during their school days. Any level of school (kindergarten, grade school, middle school, or high school, but NOT university) is fine but it must be clearly seen that they were still in school. (P.S.: I left university out because I think university life and school life are very different).
Second theme: Love
This will be a broader choice of theme, as the form of "love" does not solely represent "lovers". There are a lot of kind of "love" that you can see. Of course couples are allowed, but you can still expand the theme, such as siblings, parents, etc. So, draw your original characters with a lot of love in it.

There will be no limitations on the genre as long as it is still your own drawing. In other words, you can make illustration, comic strip, but NOT flash. Also it'd be better if you state in the artist's comments what actually they are doing, since I want to avoid misunderstanding as much as possible.

Sample entry:
Please note that I'm combining both of the themes. You don't have to do that, you can simply choose which theme would be best for you.

RULES
1. NO FANART since this is an original character contest.
2. Draw your OWN characters, at least one. More is better but not necessary.
3. Submission is limited to 2/participant.
4. Collab is not allowed.
5. Entries have to be colored
6. Entries have to be submitted AFTER July 1st
7. Entries doesn't contain yaoi/yuri/ecchi/porn/hentai.
8. Background is a must.
9. State in your artist's comment what they are doing. They have to do something together (not posing!)
10. Be CREATIVE

TIME
Start : July 1, 2008
[EDIT]End : August 16, 2008 | 00.00 AM (GMT+7) (NEW DEADLINE)
Submission AFTER August 16 will be rejected.
(Please refer to my latest journal: [link])

JUDGES
and (thank you!)

PRIZES
1st Prize : 3 months subscription OR 1 month subscription + free commission/request/collab of your OCs (up to 2)
2nd Prize : 1 month subscription OR free commission/request/collab of your OC (1 only)
3rd Prize : free commission/request/collab of your OC (1 only)

Had there are more than 50 entries, I will upgrade the prize into:

1st Prize : 6 months subscription OR 3 months subscription + free commission/request/collab of your OCs (up to 2)
2nd Prize : 3 months subscription OR 1 month subscription + free commission/request/collab of your OCs (up to 2)
3rd Prize : 1 month subscription OR free commission/request/collab of your OC (1 only)

Had there are more than 100 entries, I will upgrade the prize into:

1st Prize : 1 year subscription OR 6 months subscription + free commission/request/collab of your OCs (up to 3)
2nd Prize : 6 months subscription OR 3 months subscription + free commission/request/collab of your OCs (up to 2)
3rd Prize : 3 months subscription OR 1 month subscription + free commission/request/collab of your OCs (up to 2)
Also I will make a poll for the most favorite one outside from the winner and will get a prize of:
1 month subscription OR free commission/request/collab of your OC (1 only)

But remember, I will count the amount of entries per person (2 entries of a same person will be counted as one). In other words, the amount of people who have submitted the art that will be counted for the prize upgrade.
Hopefully you are still interested in joining

JOINING AND SUBMISSION DETAILS
If you're interested to join, just reply in this journal that you're interested in joining.

I encourage you to tell me as soon as possible after you have posted the picture (but remember, after July 1st!). Simple, send me a note with the link inside the note.
PLEASE start EARLY. DO NOT put your work behind, drawing more than one character in a page is not an easy work...

HELP ME
HELP ME!! Please help me to advertise this contest. You can post it on your journal, signature, whatever... Let's share this contest!! I would be delighted to see a lot of entries!

I hope you are interested, good luck pal

Thank you very much and I'm looking forward to see your submission!