Contest Haunted Desert Drawing Contest

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I haven’t hosted a contest in a while. I suppose it’s time.

I’ve been interested into mixing themes in drawings. This contest is on drawing haunted landscapes based on the Chihuahuan, Sonoran, and Mojave deserts. Your job is to draw and color a landscape set in the desert in the evening or at night. You can include an abandoned carnival, a ghost town, a haunted house, a cemetery, or whatever haunted elements you can think of, for as long as you’re in the desert.

You may also include Animal Crossing characters, which also includes your character or my character (see spoiler for references). My character likes to explore the desert.

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Rules
  1. You can only enter once. And entries are final.
  2. Your entry must be Mexican-themed, Southwestern-themed, or Western-themed. It should also include horror elements, and more importantly, it’s set in the desert.
  3. The only allowed horror elements are skulls, bones, skeletons, ghosts, zombies, and ravens. Dead trees are allowed for as long as they are natural and not monsters.
  4. Your entry must be set in the evening or nighttime.
  5. NO AI ART! There’s no beast more evil than AI-generated images.
  6. Your entry must be PG or PG-13 rated.
  7. Entries must be published before June 18th, 2025 at 11:59 PM EDT.


Voting and Prizes

As you submit your entries or view others’ entries, you must react with a ❤️ react to vote. The top three entrants who have the most votes by June 21st, 2024 at 11:59 PM EDT will receive the following prizes:
  • 1st Place - 2,000 TBT
  • 2nd Place - 1,750 TBT
  • 3rd Place - 1,250 TBT



With all that put down, your walk through the desert begins now!
 
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Want me to extend the deadline since not many participated? I don’t want to end it before others finish their projects if they’re working on it.
 
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We've had some pretty thunderstorms as of late, and they were my main inspiration for this piece. Thank you so much for the extended time, my laptop really hates windows 11 apparently, and I'll need to get that situated. Thank you -Apples- for such a fun event!
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Quick sketch as I thought I only had one day, so the final product changed.
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Bird I decided to scrap once I had more time. Also didn't like the sand so made some changes. Also added vegetation I remember from my trip to Az.
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Had so many crashes most of my files are recovered lol. Only one time the recovery was corrupted, but I saved recently so I was lucky that time.
 

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Hi everyone,

Unfortunately, Apples is unable to continue the contest at this moment. He asked me to close it for now, but said he likes to keep his promises so he may revive it in the future when he's able.

I'll lock the thread temporarily.
 
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