Hello everyone! We will be holding an Avatar Item Design contest for the 2025 Summer Festival! Please make sure to read the rules carefully!


Contest Rules

1. Design Avatar Items for this Festival. Please use the provided bases to draw your designs on.

Male Avatar Base
Female Avatar Base

The following can be included all in one entry for Avatars:

1-3 Avatar Held Items
1 Avatar Outfit Item (Male and Female options allowed)
1-3 Avatar Head Item
1 Avatar Cloak Item
1 Avatar Accessory Item
1 Avatar Tail Item
1 Avatar Wings Item
1-2 Avatar Aspect Items
1 Avatar Background Item

2. You must draw your new Items on the provided Avatar bases. If you feel that your drawing skills aren't great, then you can include a description in addition to your drawing in order to help us better envision your Items. If you are unable to draw something, then we are sorry, but there will be no exceptions. Your submission must look like it required some amount of effort to create. For example, drawing a few straight lines on a canvas and saying that they're "armor" will not count towards participation.

3. Avatar Items submitted must be Themed to this Festival. This means that it can be anything related to the season, such as any holidays that occur within the season, weather, etc.

4. Please do not reserve posts. If you reserve a post, we will delete your post.

5. Please do not Ping me with your submission. Please only Ping me if you have a question.

6. Before submitting your entry, please make sure to scan the thread to see if someone else has already done something similar. Try to make your entry unique and if someone has already done something that you were wanting to do, then we highly suggest that you pick something different. If you feel that someone has "copied" your design, please do not say anything to that person - especially in this thread. We will intervene ourselves if we see something that's suspicious.

7. You may only submit ONE official entry for the Items listed above. If you wish to submit more, then you can send me a PM with drawings of your ideas. However, all PM'd entries that are sent to me will not count for prizes.

8. IMPORTANT: By participating in this contest and submitting your designs to us, you agree that we, Sylestia Games LLC, will retain full rights to your submission to use as we see fit for the purposes of Sylestia.com and Sylestia Games LLC. You will not receive any royalties or reimbursement from us if we decide to use your designs, or otherwise. Any designs that we pick will be recreated from scratch by our art team; we will only be using your submission as a reference for said artwork. We reserve the right to alter your design in any way that we see fit and are not obligated to adhere to any specific depictions or descriptions that are provided.

9. DO NOT comment on someone's entry unless you have something nice to say. If someone copies your entry, then have faith in us that we will determine the correct winner. Please do not fight over entries. If we see anyone doing this in the thread, then whoever is fighting will be disqualified and potentially receive a Forum Strike.

10. The end date is June 22nd at 11:59 PM server. After that, there is no guarantee that we will see your entry and the thread will be locked once designs are picked.


Important Copyright Infringement Notice

We are very aware that it's typical to use Google and/or other providers to search for ideas when designing artwork. However, it is extremely important that all of your submissions are created entirely by you and are not copied from another's work. If you are using other artwork as a reference, please ensure that your submission is changed sufficiently to be clear and obvious that it is indeed your work. This is extremely important, not just for ethical reasons, but also for legal reasons when we are implementing something onto our site. Thank you!



Contest Prizes

The following are scheduled to be the prizes for this contest. Please note, these are subject to change. However, we would not do so without a good reason to change them.

Winners
(Players who have their designs picked)
Prizes: [Peerless Avatar Token] x1, 3-Visible Summer Festival Themed Pet of Choice (2-Visible if Majestic) x1, Re-Colorable Avatar Items of Winner's Entries if applicable, Pre-Colored Avatar Item Set of Choice of Winner's Entries if applicable

All Participants
(With valid entries)
Prizes: [Fabled Sculpting Catalyst] x1, [Mystery Sculpting Catalyst] x2, [Premium Clam] x3, [Box of Sculpting Supplies] x1, [Box of Sculpting Agents] x2, [Legendary Avatar Item (Summer - Retired)] x1, [Sun Token] x1,000

Street Animal
Themes: Spray Paint, Cyberpunk, Pride Parade

Sunset, Electric, Cyberspace

(so far)


Head


Outfit


Wings


Tail

I'm in that phase of art where everything I draw is in a new style- I personally blame it on trying out new brushes LOL. Without further ado, here is my submission!



I was inspired by the sea, and the creatures within. It's a sort of swimsuit dress mix, and I think the outfit gives mermaid/jellyfish vibes hehe. She's got a 'jellyfish' haircut. Get it? Because the haircut is named after a sea creature! I gave her pearls because they are in the sea, and because I love jewelry. The magic-ish thing is a water/bubble heart thing, idk what I was going for there.
Oh, yikes, I rambled. Sorryy!

I always say I'll make an attempt at a male version, but... I never end up doing it. Oops!
Please tell me if anything is wrong with the image or my entry :D

_{Edited for grammar}

Solar/Fire Guardian set




Will be updated soon

Head

Snorkel headpiece


Will continue when I have spare time^^

still a wip ~ will work on it more


hairstyle inspired by jellyfish haircut
sorry, i just scrolled up and saw someone elses submission based on the same hairstyle. i didnt mean to copy ><

I'll add the male version later, but for now-

Vaqueros Avi items!


The look is inspired by the Vaqueros of the 19th century. Though similar, we aren't talking American cowboys here- Vaqueros had a different cut to their jackets, and the pants weren't really chaps as much as they were dusters. I thought the distinction in appearance was cool, and I liked how the jackets were more decorated, like a Mariachi band- likely because Mariachi is a folk music tradition inside of a larger genre called Ranchera music (music from the ranch).



The horse would be an aspect item- it could have different patterns. I probably won't redraw it for the male sets just because it wouldn't look the same if I did it, and in theory it would be the same for both.



Both the kerchief around the neck and the sash around the waist would be separate items. The kerchief would likely be in the Cloak category, similar to the other scarf options. The sash would be an Accessory option. The idea there is that not only would it be fun to mix and match the colors of the sash with the outfit, but also that Vaqueros themselves didn't always wear sashes like that. In the image research I did, I found that some were wearing it while others weren't, and it increasingly seemed to fall out of fashion as the 19th century wore on.

The lasso is one of the held options I was thinking of- for the other, I was maybe thinking a calf? Since Vaqueros were cow herders.