Hey fellow Steemians,

it´s time for this weeks #designacharacter contest!
As I already announced, I made a few changes to the contest.

Design A Character Contest - Week 5

The Contest

This contest is open to artists of any level, background and drawing style.
Traditional Art will be accepted as well as Digital art.
Every week I will post a new challenge and want you to design your own character based on the given theme.

Every weeks contest will have one challenge of the following themes:

Theme	What is it all about
Shape Challenge	Design one (or more) character(s) based on one (or more) given shapes
Style Challenge	Design a character in the style of an given artist, series or studio
Color Challenge	Design a character based on a given color sheme
Theme Challenge	Design a character based on a given theme
Reimagine Challenge	Reimagine a given character

The judging

One of the main changes I talked about, is the time span for working on the entries and the time span for user votings.

I think every participant will be happy to have more time to create their entries.

So this weeks Contest begins on Thursday 18th of January.
On Tuesday 23rd of January I will post the Top 3 and allow steemit users to vote for the final placements.
The Winners will be announced on Thursday 25th of January.

The Prizes

prize

Another change to make the contest more attractive is that from now on all Top 3 entries will get a reward.

The winners will be announced on next Thursday and will be rewarded with
70% of all SBD raised on that weeks #designacharacter contest-posts.

The prizes will split up as follows:

Place	Rewards
🥇 1st	40% of the SBD Rewards of this weeks #designacharacter contest-posts + 1 @trophy-token
🥈 2nd	20% of the SBD Rewards of this weeks #designacharacter contest-posts + 1 @trophy-token
🥉 3rd	10% of the SBD Rewards of this weeks #designacharacter contest-posts + 1 @trophy-token

So keep upvoting and resteeming the contest-posts, to make the prizes as big as possible ;)

The Rules

rules

HAVE FUN!!
That´s the most important thing ;)
Upvote and Resteem this post
Design a character based on the theme given
Make a post of your own for your entry
Maximum 6 entries/posts per person
Make sure to add #designacharacter as your first tag
In your post describe the medium/the process a bit if possible
Post the links to your entries in comments of this post, so other participants and myself can find it.
All entries must be submitted before Tuesday 23rd of January at 7PM UTC.
No Fan Art
If it's a character that you did not create it will not be accepted.
No Pre Existing Original Characters
Every artwork must be new and made for this contest.
All entries must be original works of art

Additional Info

If you have suggestions for this contest, or want to be a sponsor and/or guest judge, I´d be happy if you contact me via discord (w0olf#9231) or Steemit-Chat!

But now to this weeks Challenge:

This weeks theme is the Style Challenge:

The Style Challenge works like this:

In the Style Challenge, I will give you three different Styles.

1.) One cartoon/manga/comic Artist, Series or Studio Style
_{(e.g. The Simpsons, Bill Watterson, Disney, Frank Miller...)}

2.) One Modern Days Artist Style
_{(e.g. Luis Royo, Jean Giraud, H.R. Giger, @beekart ;) ...)}

3.) One Classic Artist Style
_{(e.g. Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol...)}

You can make up to Two characters/entries per given Style.
Bonus in judgement will be considered if you try to make one character in all three different styles!

Here are some examples how your character could look like:
1.) These examples show one Character in different cartoon styles:_{via jetvein@deviantart}
2.) A Character made in Louis Royo´s Style_{via vengador6969@deviantart}
3.) A Charcter made in Salvador Dali´s Style: _{via artofdrum@deviantart}

And this weeks Styles to choose from are:

1. Disney´s "Gravity Falls"

Just because I love the style of this Cartoon show! :)

Google Pics for inspiration

2. Marko Djurdjevic

One of my favourite modern days artist and character designer.
(Have a look at what he has done for the Pen and Paper RPG "Degenesis") It's AWESOMESAUCE!)

Google Pics for inspiration