Hello everyone! We will be holding an Avatar Item Design contest for the 2024 Winter 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 October 20th, 2024 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 Winter 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 Frost Essence] x1, [Mystery Frost Essence] x2, [Premium Ice Water] x3, [Box of Ice Sculpting Supplies] x1, [Box of Ice Sculpting Agents] x2, [Legendary Avatar Item (Winter - Retired)] x1, [Frost Token] x1,000

Work in Progress!! (Please bear with me, this is my first time ever doing digital art, and I am doing it on a phone with no stylus)

Inspired by Daenerys Targaryen's winter coat look
- that is really what I am going for what it looks like texture-wise, although I am not great at adding that texture.


Outfit


Outfit and Cloak


Full design that I have thus far: (outfit, cloak, wings)

Hello! I haven't shaded this one, but it's something. I might expand on it a bit more later.



I think what I was going for is... somewhat there. I miiight make a boy version...? Idk, depends how I feel later. (Btw the blue in the background was just for visibility but I think it would be cool to have a big glowing snowflake behind the character as an aspect! :D)

winter wool dress (ice) and penguin pal (little blue)

Sweater dress with boots. The hat would be separate, but knit pom-pom hat. And the wings are entirely their own thing.


Glacier background.


Even though this outfit and background don't really go together, here they are anyway.

Frosty Wizard Avatar set

1 Avatar Outfit Item: Crystal Dragon Huntress Garb?
1-3 Avatar Head Item: Artic Light Crystal Veil
1 Avatar Wings Item: Artic Crystal Dragon Wings

link to view

items shown
held: glacial guardian's dragon (whitewind)
outfit: glacial guardian's armor (blizzard)
head: glacial guardian's quad-horns (blizzard)
wings: glacial guardian's wings (blizzard)

the short horns in front are darker and plain. the long horns behind have a faint auroral/shimmer effect. the hair is lightly blowing in an unseen wind and has an auroral coloring at the ends and the ears are plainly colored

the chestplate is meant to be faintly glittery like snowfall, with the bottom increasingly looking like it's covered in frost. the small diamond on the chest, the sleeves, and the diamonds on the legs are a translucent fabric with a faint auroral-type coloring. the silver points at the base are where the small cloak (part of the outfit, unless it's made separate) attaches; the cloak is glittery and begins to turn to frost/ice as it reaches the end

the leggings are meant to be more glittery as it reaches down toward the feet with faint frost effect over the entire thing. the boots are have a faint shimmer to them

the wings have a faint auroral/shimmery coloring and look increasingly covered in frost/turning to ice at the ends (forgot to do the little swoop at the bottom lol oops)

the held is a small cluster of glowing crystals with a dragon that has horns and wings similar to the avatar's and a faint auroral coloring that becomes more apparent at the front claws and tail. other helds could include frost runes/snowflakes and an ice scimitar/sickle

Wandering Caroler

https://postimg.cc/gallery/FHPv6VC



Male - Held (howl-along pal), outfit (Wandering Caroler attire), Head (Wandering Caroler fur Bonnet),Cloak(Wandering Caroler Fur Cloak) ,Aspect (one horse sleigh)

Female Held (SongGriffen Buddy ) , outfit ( Wandering Caroler attire) ,Head (Fured Cloak hood), Cloak (Wandering Caroler Fur Cloak) , Wings (Wandering Caroler wings)

Master List
Helds
Held 1 - songbook
Held 2 - howl-along pal (snowdog with a handbells )
Held 3 - SongGriffen Buddy
Outfit- Wandering Caroler attire
Head
Head 1- Wandering Caroler fur Bonnet
Head 2 - Fured Cloak hood
Cloak- Wandering Caroler Fur Cloak
Aspect- One Horse Sleigh
Wing - Wandering Caroler wings


Some colour palette (more in Gallery)

Gingerbread palette


Mistletoe palette
Male has missed held - Songbook