It is high time I held a contest. ‘Cuz, yanno, my ego isn’t bigger than it already needs to be, me getting nigh on 2,500 hits and all now. ._.;

Ok, so just saying! Contest! I need one, and there shall be loveliness and prizes that ensue from such a commission. As I know most of you are lazy bastards, just like me, and will not be bothered to give away your art just for lil’ ol’ me.

I was thinking something that would make me rather happy to hang on my wall. Something that will thrill me half to death, yanno? I’ve been wanting people to do fanart of my original characters for some time now, and more recently, I’ve done some art trades. That cured it for at least a little bit. But now, I want more….

And so, what’s the best way to get someone to do this for me? Bribe them horribly with a contest! So, the course is… I want you to draw one of my original character pairings for me. Yuri or Yaoi, it’s completely up to you. I have quite a few and will be posting character descriptions, history and pencil sketches of the following:

- Drujaelyn and Naux* : The lesbians, dark elf and the silver elf
[link] (Druj and her old girlfriend) [link] (Naux and her triplets) [link] (Druj somewhat revamped)

- Ap’zen* and Mendigo: Half-elf male-lovers. Not to mention that Mendigo was my first character to RP ever. I’d REALLY love some fanart of them.
[link] (the boys all cuddled up… )

- Ceelia and Vae*: Two chicky human knights.
[link] (Just Ceelie for now )

- Kei and Ty: My anthro bishies, a cat-boi and a fox-hawtie
[link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]
(<------ The Web-comic)
[link] (<---- The Kiriban picture)

[link] [link] (<----- *Napoleon-chan ‘s Fanart for the series. ^^V )

- Lazaros* and Ovid: A vampire and his *very* willing blood-doll.
[link] (Lazaros the Fourth) [link] (Ovid DiKadence)

- Madan and Nomiji: A succubus-mix demon and his sorcerer master from "The Talisman".
[link] (Just Madan here…)
[link] (<--- ~magictoadstool ‘s fanart for the series… for a while, she was Rping Nomiji to help me get a better grip on the character)
[link] (<----- Madan, ~Ice-Puppet style. ^^V )

OK! So, there you go! I shall be posting more on these in the week to come. Now, for the rules of the contest…

1) You can pick any one of the pairings above. That is WAY cool. You may also sift through my gallery and pick out two people of the same gender and pair them, should you so choose. (As long as they belong to me… otherwise, it’s not really the contest I want) …
2) …OR, you may pair any of the above of throughout my gallery with one of your own characters, should you so choose. Be warned, however, that with a pairing with your own original character, that I may get just a bit touchy.
3) The deadline is May 14th at midnight. Any entries submitted afterwards will not be disregarded, but will most likely piss me off for their lateness and not win. Final decisions come May 16th.
4) Be tasteful, please… I don’t want anyone getting banned over this, plus, I want to be able to hang the printed version of it on my "Wall-o-Art" in my living room, and my parents tend to visit from time to time.
5) Be creative! Take liberty with the idea, be cute, use a different style, mess around, go freehand, whatever! I love all kinds of art in all different styles and tones of emotion. Please, feel free to wow me, make me laugh, make me cry or make me just out-and-out love you for any damn old reason.

(* - Denotes one of *itainohime ‘s characters.)

- What you can win!! -

FIRST PLACE!!!
- A 3-month subscription
- An anything-and-everything-goes commission from me, penciled, inked, colored, printed and shipped free of charge.
- An entire journal post dedicated to you and how much I love you.

SECOND PLACE!!
- A 1-month subsciption
- One commission with up to 5 characters of your choice, inked and colored and shipped for free.
- Tons of love from me.

ALL ENTRIES!
- A commission of your choice, one or two characters
- A gooooood long mention about how much I adore you in my journal

Not to mention I will put everything up on my wall and make everyone look at it that I know and force them to check out your galleries. Plus, favorites around the house on me! Anyone can enter at all and all will be judged by the morning of May the 16th.

LET ME KNOW IF YOU PLAN TO ENTER! ^^V