2023 MCA & Banner Art Contest

The MCA & Banner Art Contest was a community art contest that took place from 28th May to 30th June.

The contest aimed to update the official card images for the eight custom mini bosses of the Mystical Card Album. See below.

The contest also opened submission for Banner Art which could be used during streams or other advertisements.

Altogether there were nine categories.

Art Contest Rules

There will be 8 categories for MCA Art. One for each monster.

Second, we are also looking to showcase fresh banners on our platforms. Therefore, we are opening this as a category as well.

Below is an example of a banner.

A Community Favourite for each category will be determined by vote in the forum or Discord.

Prizes for each category:

1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place All other participants Event Point Coin x20 Event Point Coin x15 Event Point Coin x10 Event Point Coin x5 100 Point Coin x15 100 Point Coin x10 100 Point Coin x5 Pancakes x150 Famous Artist Title Famous Artist Title Famous Artist Title Costumer Voucher x1 Costumer Voucher x1 Costume: Artist Hat

If the GM Team are especially impressed with your artwork, we may select through staff vote for it to become our official in-game card image or as a banner in our platforms.

These will be independent of its placement in the Community Favourite vote.

The prizes for that are as follows:

Prizes for selected Card Art and Banner Art

Selected Artwork Costume: Artist Hat New Artist's Costume 100 Point Coin x15 Famous Artist Title

Criteria for MCA Art

• The artwork should have an acceptable level of finesse and completed-ness. Try not to rush it.
• There must be emphasis on the "Grand-ness" of the subject mobs to set it apart from regular mobs.
• If a new player compared the card image against that of a regular mob, without being told they are different, would they be able to differentiate a Grand Marin from a regular Marin?
• Creativity. While the mobs look exactly like a regular mob in-game, we allow and encourage players to add as much of their flair and creativity as possible to distinguish the Grand Mobs from regular ones. Art styles other than digital arts are accepted as well.
• The artwork has a strong focus on one of the eight mobs as the main subject of the art piece.
• As much as you can please curate the artwork to be able to fit within the dimensions of the card frame. The artwork must still look good and make sense when cropped to fit the card frame.
• As an example, the dimensions supplied below is 588 x 750 pixels.

Criteria for Banner Art

1. The artwork should have an acceptable level of finesse and completed-ness. Try not to rush it.

2. Whenever possible, the banner should showcase our server's unique-ness. What info & story can it convey that sets out server apart from others?

3. Our server's logo must be included in the banner. Attached below.

Please resize this to fit in the same format of our example banner.

4. As much as you can please curate the artwork to be able to fit within similar dimensions of the example banner supplied. The artwork should still look good and coherent when used across our platforms. (Such as streaming.)

As an example, the dimensions supplied below is 468 x 60 pixels.

We aren't too fussy with the dimensions for this category but do use our mentioned dimensions as a guide.

Submission Dates

    30th May - 30th June

How to participate

1. Post your artworks under this topic or Discord. Artworks posted elsewhere will not be counted. 2. When posting your artwork, please include:

   Title and short description for the artwork.
   The category of your artwork.
   Your IGN and Discord or some other means for us to reach you so we can easily contact and send the prizes to all participants.

Rules and requirements

• Each person may submit multiple artworks and under different categories.
• Be as creative as you can, be but it MUST be an ORIGINAL artwork of yours and has not been used elsewhere.
• Artwork submitted has to be in digital form. If it's hand-drawn, it has to be scanned.
• Fully coloured artworks are preferred. However, black-and-white or sketches are also welcomed.
• Sexually suggestive and NSFW arts are not allowed.
• Only artworks emphasising one of these eight mobs will be accepted.
• Please include your signature in the artwork.

Disclaimer

By submitting your artworks, you are considered to authorize them to be used by the server in any of their forms for in-game or promotional purposes.

Proper credits will be given to the artists.

If you do not agree to this term, please do not submit your artworks.