Hello everyone! We will be holding an Avatar Item Design contest for the 2025 Fall 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 August 31st, 2025 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 Fall 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 Brew Catalyst] x1, [Mystery Brew Catalyst] x2, [Premium Vial Holder] x3, [Box of Brewing Supplies] x1, [Box of Brewing Agents] x2, [Legendary Avatar Item (Fall - Retired)] x1, [Chocolate Coin] x1,000

Bewitched Kitty

that's a cute design

WIP
Color themes: psychedelic, fleshy horror

^ body, long hair, wings ^

^ aspect, short hair, wings ^

Clean(er) Individual pieces:
Head:


Body:

(put fur on torso assuming color picking in wardrobe would work oddly if I made the moved torso flesh)
(there is a mane starting between the shoulder blades into a short tail to hide the torso)
(ribs are visible on the bottom torso)

Wings:

(plan on adding more abstract anatomy like eyes to mess with the reality/line work - if I end up not finishing a clean line piece example I was gonna go for crosshatching and different shaped eyes on and becoming part of the line borders)


Accessory:

will add more when my hand doesn't feel like it's going to fall off




demonic harpy avatar set:
helds: demonic harpy's vulture (1st image), demonic harpy's flail (2nd image)
outfit: demonic harpy's garb
head: demonic harpy's feathers (1st image) demonic harpy's horns (2nd image)
wings: demonic harpy's wings
aspect: demonic harpy's griffi

forgive the sketches on the last two images, i haven't had time to do lineart and coloring ^-^'

a cloak could be one of feathers to match those on the outfit, an accessory potentially a sheathed sword. the griffi is also meant to have more chains on it and be very scruffy looking but i don't have the time to work on it more; the wings are meant to be the manticore wings mutation and the tail is the unicorn tail mutation.

Work in Progress More to come .... Im also having an issue with imgur deleting my images and deeming them as inappropriate even though they are hidden and not for public viewing I assume its cause of the nude body. Also having issue with app combining layers when saving. Im working on it ....

First time drawing on PC With Mouse lol.. >_< (no Stylus) Please excuse the roughness Im not experienced with Art on PC.Quite tricky but I think I get the idea across. I am having a go. :)

Spanish Dancer Out fit Female And Held Item

Flamenco Dancer ( Bailaora -Female Bailora- Male)


The fan and the frills at the bottom of the dress are to be autumn colours like a maple tree with red and gold trimings on the Hat and dress possibly with lace. The Female's Hat has more height than the male.

The Fan Featured Could be for both the male and female it has a maple leaf design with those colours

Spanish Dancer (Matador) Male Outfit and Head Item



The Males out fit with red and gold trimings on Jacket and pants with black lapels (large) on Jacket and gold tassels coming off them. There could be some lace on these too. The male Hat is a flatter version spanish style hat

Mask with autumn coloured feathers




Matador Cape Held item


Background

Maple Tree lined Road




Scarf (Autumn Mape leaf design or Paler scarf with ivory overlay) Could be a Cloak item


OR


Aspect Autumn Maple leaves Carpet Covering Mushrooms

Autumn's Carpet



Aspect Item Ivy Covered Granite Archway



Accesory Item - Ivory Vintage Parasole with Lace Had to re draw this as my app combined layers with avatar base when saving and had issues with imgur.


Wings Black Ivy / Autumn feathers

:D

how do you attach files? I've been trying to figure it out on my own, but this website seems to hate my .png import attempts

You'll need to upload your img to a place like imgur and then right click to copy the image address from there. Then you'll add it to your post like [ img]*paste url here*[ /img]. Just with no spaces.