Competition: Sketchmas 2023: I - Holiday Decorations

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Sketchmas 2023: I - Holiday Decorations

This series of comps is to make sure that your sketchpads get at least a little love and your pencils stay dust-free this holiday season. With twelve quick holiday-themed prompts, put something down on paper to flex your creativity and maybe even your sense of humor.

A quick word, we’re not looking for hours of hard labor or masterpieces here. With a few days per prompt, we’re just looking for quick sketch work, simple drawings that keep the rust from forming on your hands. Feel free to use any references that you like, explain your abstract concepts (if any) in the comment box, and get some black marks on the side of your hand. If your submission contains more adult themes (anything beyond a PG13 rating), please mark your submission as private, otherwise feel free to go wilder than your surly uncle hitting the egg nog.

Also, feel free to post your submissions up on discord in #art-chat as well, just to show off and maybe even bring some levity to this holiday season. Other the wise, have fun and get to sketching!

Rules:
* Simple gestures and stick figures are acceptable, a simple dot or line is not.
* There’s no commitment to the whole series, pick just one or do them all if you like!
* Prompts listed below are by the day, for those days only.
* Traditional or digital, whichever you’re more comfortable with.
* PG13 or uncheck public, please.
* AI for reference only.

Scoring:
* No Harsh Judging, will be blind-graded
* Rubric will be used for placement
* Participation grants one point. Placement grants 4 points for 1st, 3 for 2nd, 2 for 3rd.
* Most points at the end of the series will win series awards!
* Overall Scoring Ties to be broken by number of 1st place finishes!

Prompts - Basic prompts are open to your artistic interpretation!
December 1-2 - Holiday Decorations
December 3-4 - Worst. Gift. Ever.
December 5-6 - A Silly Tradition
December 7-8 - Spoiling the children
December 9-10 - Best. Gift. Ever.
December 11-12 - Favorite Holiday Film
December 13-14 - a Wintry Treat
December 15-16 - Guilty Pleasure
December 17-18 - Houseguests
December 19-20 - Caroling
December 21-22 - Ridiculously Late Shopping
December 23-24 - Holiday Spirit

Competition Information
Parent Competition
Sketchmas 2023
Organized by
Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu
Running time
2023-12-01 until 2023-12-02 (2 days)
Target Unit
Entire DJB
Competition Type
Graphics/Multimedia
Difficulty Class
Easy
Awards
Second Level Crescents and 4 Clusters of Graphite as per Herald guidelines
Participants
11 subscribers, of which 10 have participated.
Results
Member
Alaisy "Aphotis" Tir'eivra
File submission
holiday1decoration.png
Textual submission

this is terrible

Placement
1st place
Member
Master Ruka Tenbriss Ya-ir
File submission
PXL_20231202_231236351.MP.jpg
Placement
2nd place
Member
Proconsul Diyrian "Diy" Grivna
File submission
PXL_20231202_235832729~2.jpg
Textual submission

Wooden orbak

Placement
3rd place
Member
Sivall Tenbriss Ya-ir Zoria
Submission
Sivall Tenbriss Ya-ir Zoria opted out of publishing her submission.
Placement
4th place
Member
Ashia Kagan Keibatsu
File submission
20231201_061855.jpg
Placement
5th place
6th place
Nora Olen
Member
Nora Olen
Submission
Nora Olen opted out of publishing her submission.
Placement
6th place
Member
Envoy Zuza Lottson
File submission
holiday decoration.jpg
Placement
7th place
Member
Combat Master "Aequitas" Anderson
File submission
Tie Fighter Ornament.png
Textual submission

Tie Fighter ornament

Placement
8th place
Member
General Socorra Tenebrosa Nhar’qual Erinos
Submission
General Socorra Tenebrosa Nhar’qual Erinos opted out of publishing her submission.
Placement
9th place
Member
Lord Muz Ashen Keibatsu
File submission
17015555543555659651221424620847.jpg
Textual submission

Participation only submission

Placement
Participation only