Kingdom of Knuffel

Welcome to this contest! I'm glad you found your way here!
I recently finished my studies and started into my first full-time job and I decided to celebrate this with a big contest with delicious prizes.
Go right ahead to the next post if you're curious to see them! Spoiler: There's lots of and Treasure Trove and even Queen's items!



First of all I want to say that there's a chance to win great prizes for everyone. You don't have to be the greatest artist out there, I will have prizes to be raffled among all who enter as well. And don't feel like your art has to meet certain standards to even enter - I'll be happy about every single person who decides to draw something for me. Even those who are like me and can't draw at all. I want to give you a reason to try anyway and have a shot at a cool prize for your effort.



This contest will run until January 2nd extended to February 2nd!
But: There will be additional random prize drawings for early entrants on December 1st!
And some small prizes for the first few entrants!



The winners have been announced! Check them out here: WINNERS



Thread Layout
Prizes
Prompts / Categories
Rules
Entries

Raffle Prizes
Entrants Raffle
1 per every 10 entrants I get
I'll round up though - so there's one FC in the raffle immediately and it will be two once we hit 11 people.
Everyone who submits at least one entry will get 1 ticket.

Entries Raffle
1 pick from the item prize pool per 5 entries I get
Same rounding rule as above, as soon as we hit 6 entries, two of these will be raffled.
Every entry counts! For each entry you submit, you'll get 1 ticket to this raffle, so if you make multiple entries, you have higher chances in this one!

Both of these will happen twice, once for the early entrants on the first of December and once at the end!



Category Prizes
For each category that reaches 3 entries, the following prizes will be given out
(all categories with less than 3 entries will be merged into one)
First Place
2 + 3 item picks from the pool
Second Place
1 + 1 item pick from the pool
Third Place
1 item pick from the pool



Category Raffles
Once we reach more than 5 entries in a category, I will additionally raffle 1 item pick among all entries in the category!



Special Christmas Prize
In the Skeletal Unicorn category, if I get an entry by December 1st that I end up using for a Christmas gift, the entrant will receive a completely independent of all the other prizes.
This is not guaranteed to happen, only if there happens to be an entry that feels right for that to me.



Early Bird
The first 5 entrants will get 2500 !
After that at least until we reach 10 entrants, every entrant will get 1000 - I might extend this for a while longer, depending on how quickly we get there, but only the first 10 are guaranteed ;)

Item Pool
I will give the picks an order in which they resolve, probably by drawing it randomly. So I'll ask you to give a list of items you'd like in order of preference if you win an item pick. No first come first serve that is unfair for people in different timezones!
I'll probably need a few days to go through my wardrobe and put all the prizes here, so check back for more, I only just started!
Clothing

Abezethibou Top, Amethyst Ribbon, Aries Robe, Asteriai Top, Bagiennik Collar

Butterfly Lair Top, Casino Top, Chinatown Top, Chondrodite Top, Coltish Kitsune Top

December Kimono (Red), December Kimono (Gray White), December Kimono (Blue), Earth Gen 20 Top (Soft Blue), Flower Power Top (Ginger)

Fluffball Collar (Black), Joseon Hanbok (Light Sand), Joseon Hanbok (Crimson), Lost Seashells (Fuchsia), Meliae Top

Onyx Garment, Purple Mage Robe, Queen's Kimono Obi, Rapunzel Dress (Lilac), Rapunzel Dress (Peach)

Rococo Revival Neckribbon, Slumber Party Night Gown, Spring Festival Sash, Spring Festival Top, Water Gen 1 Top

Head Stuff

Aeni Hair (Lavender), Aeni Hair (Fuchsia), Aeni Hair (Lilac), Aeni Hair (Dark Pink), Air Gen 18 Hair (Amethyst)

Air Gen 18 Hair Extension (Amethyst), Amethyst Hair (Black), Aries Hair, Asteriai Hair, Bat Momma Hair (Cold Gray)

Bride To Be Hair (Blue Iris), Carmilla Hair (Soft Blue), Casino Hair, Cherubim Halo, Dahlia Hair (Powder Blue)

Earth Gen 20 Hair (Soft Blue), Evergreen Hair Chaplet, February Flower Wreath (Light Pink), February Flower Wreath (Rose Gold), February Flower Wreath (Crimson)

February Flower Wreath (Periwinkle), February Flower Wreath (Plum), Fire Gen 13 Hair (Beige), Flower Power Hair (Ginger), Flower Power Hair (Maroon)

Forest Gargoyle Hair(Silver), Forest Gargoyle Hair(Black), Heart's Desire Wig (Maroon), Hippocampi Hair, Ifrit Hair

Ifrit Hair Extensions, Joseon Flower (Light Sand), Joseon Flower (Crimson), Joseon Flower (Azure Blue), Joseon Flower (Midnight Blue)

Leopard Hair, Light Gen 17 Hair (Cold Gray), Lost Bommel (Blush), Lost Hair (Bright Berry), Lost Hair (Denim)

Lost Hair (Bright Green), Lost Mailim Hair (Lilac), Lost Mailim Hair (Violet), Meliae Hair, November Hair Loop (Blush)

November Hair Loop (Powder Blue), Onyx Hair, Queen's Messy Hair Extension (Auqa), Queen's Messy Hair Extension (Gray White), Rapunzel Hair (Peach)

Seraph Hair, Snow Queen Hair, Spell Wielder Hair (Soft Blue), Taurus Hair, The King Hair (Blue Iris)

Accessories

Angel Ring, Bollywood Nose Ring (Aqua), Indian Dream Earrings (Dark Pink), Natsu Matsuri Mask, Piratesse Dagger

Snow White Hair Ribbon (Coffee)

Hand Items

Bastet Staff, Chopsticks (Gray), Heartflower Staff, Lost Winged Sword (Violet), Slumber Party Blanket

Body Parts

Angelica Headwings (Cream White), Arctic Fox Mouth, Aries Sign, Asteriai Eyes, Asteriai Headwings

Bagiennik Lips, Bat Momma Ears (Denim), Capricorn Horns (Bright Green), Carmilla Wings (Magenta), Carmilla Wings (Cream White)


Carmilla Wings (Apricot), Cherubim Eyes, Cherubim Lower Wings, Chondrodite Headwings, Dark Butterfly Headwings (Light Sand)

Finch Headwings (Crimson), Fire Gen 15 Ears (Denim), Fluffball Paw (Black), Hippocampi Ears, Hippocampi Headwings

Hippocampi Tail, Hippocampi Wings, Light Gen 17 Headwings (Cream White), Lost Gigi Eyes (Lavender), Lost Gigi Eyes (Teal)

Lost Gigi Eyes (Magenta), Merope Headwings, Onyx Eyes, Porcelain Doll Eyes, Queen of Diamonds Tiles

Queen's Heart Bunny Ears (Soft Ruby), Queen's Rabbit Ears (Aqua), Rapunzel Eyes (Pastel Pink), Rococo Revival Eyes (Fuchsia), Scorpius Sign

Slumber Party Lips, Spell Wielder Eyes (Plum), Spell Wielder Eyes (Gold), The King Eyes (Blue Iris), The King Eyes (Midnight Blue)

Animals

Arctic Fox Pet, Cherubim Pet, Magic Macy Pet (Fuchsia), Spring Festival Dragon

Backgrounds

August Window Background (Scarlet), August Window Background (Denim), Hanging Flowers (Teal), Hanging Flowers (Light Sand), Hanging Flowers (Gold)

Hanging Flowers (Midnight Blue), Hanging Flowers (Red), Hanging Flowers (Royal Purple), Hanging Flowers (Ecru), Hanging Flowers (Cream White)

Hanging Flowers (Aqua), Hanging Flowers (Topaz), Hanging Flowers (Cool Gray), Hanging Flowers (Blue White), Hanging Flowers (Lavender)

Joseon Background (Orange), Joseon Background (Gray White), Joseon Background (Midnight Purple), July Flower Power Flowers (Fuchsia), July Flower Power Flowers (Bright Berry)

March Trees (Lime Green), March Trees (Bright Green), March Trees (Emerald Green), March Trees (Jade Green), March Trees (Light Green)

Princess Xin Background (Maroon), Rococo Revival Background (Ecru), Summer '18 Beach (Denim), Summer '18 Beach (Gold)

I only listed very few older troth token, candy caravan or event items (only those that I remembered being expensive or that I noticed had a high price in the market as I was grabbing the images of the items from there). If you have anything on your wishlist that is not a TT or Queen's item, don't hesitate to ask me if I have it and might add it to the pool (or just put it on your list once you win a pick with a little note that you added it and I should check if I can give it out)!



Depending on how many entries we get, I might add more prizes as we go along!

Skeletal Unicorn
Draw me a unicorn skeleton!
Ok, this one might need a bit of explaining :D
My boyfriend came up with the perfect sigil and house words - a skeletal unicorn rampant and the words "No sparkles, only death!".
Unfortunately, neither of us can draw, so it only exists in our heads.
There's basically two things I'm looking for here:

1. Whatever comes to mind
general art of skeletal unicorns in any style, they could look cool, cutesy, chibified, whatever. Surprise me! May or may not sparkle ;)
Could include the words as well, but doesn't have to. Feel free to take inspiration from the words, I could for example imagine a chibi unicorn wearing a cloak like death or something along those lines...
If I like something from this category enough, I might have it printed on a T-shirt as a gift for my bf. (See special christmas prize above...)

2. Craft Basis for me
Simple, stylized art that I can use as a basis for embroidery or other clothing decoration (like the lions on here, for example). This should ideally be in a medieval-ish style. Preferably not the goat-hoof kind of unicorn but rather the horse with a horn kind.
Some unicorn sigils for inspiration: click - Just remember, ours shouldn't have flesh on ;)
This subcategory is also eligible for the Christmas prize. Here it will just mean that if I decide your artwork will be the one to grace our clothing, you win it. Even if I won't (which is likely) manage to make something based on it in time for christmas. I might also give it out multiple times if I end up doing both a shirt and/or getting one or more craft bases I want to work with!

If there are enough entries of both kinds, I might even split up this category into two, so there will be twice as many prizes!



Me!
Draw me! Yes, that simple ;)
This is the vanity category I suppose.
I guess you'll need some pictures to know what I look like, though, right?
I'll put them as links so the post doesn't get so big:
Me at a medieval faire
Me at a fairytale themed ball
Aaand, one professional one in which I don't look like a weirdo for once
Öhm, yes, I mostly have pictures of myself taken when I dress up in funny ways. Feel free to draw me in crazy clothes as well though! I love everything long, flowy, with crazy sleeves.
Favourite clothing colours are reds and greens as well as a general autumny palette.
Sometimes I also take pictures when I make my own clothes - usually my head is not in those though. Let me know if you'd find these useful or head over to my crafty corner hangout and click on the links of the completed projects section on the front page. Do also feel free to check that thread out for inspiration as to what clothing I like to make and wear :)
I also have an instagram, but I never post my face on there, only my hair :D
So not sure if it's helpful at all, but here it is: click



Cuties
Draw me some cute animals!
My favourites are pandas, cats and horses. But I'll take anything with up to 4 legs, really ;)
Also, go wild with styles or media, as long as it makes me go "Awww" I'll be happy about any kind of entry in this category!
I would be really excited about a picture of a panda and a cat in a cutesy lovey-dovey way together, if you need something more concrete...



More to Come
If I have some more ideas, I might add more categories! Let me know if none of these really interest you and tell me what you like to draw and maybe it'll inspire me to make a whole new category!

Be respectful to each other!

Don't steal art from anywhere - I look forward to seeing what you can do!
If you find some ressources that their creator has given out for others to use and you use them to make your own thing, that is completely fine with me though. Just mention what you used and what you did yourself in that case.

I want to be able to use the entries for private purposes, including potentially printing one on a T-shirt as a personal gift. So by entering, you give me the rights to use your art in this way. If you have concerns about this, feel free to shoot me a message!
Please do not put huge watermarks, but do definitely sign your art if you like!

To enter, just send me a pm with the category you want to enter and a link to your artwork on your preferred hosting site.
I sometimes have trouble with some hosters, but if that occurs, I'll let you know and I'm sure we can figure something out to get your entry to me!
Include the word Shark in your pm so I'll know you read the rules! (If you don't I'll just ask you to read the rules and then expect you to answer with Shark)

You can enter as many times as you want, in multiple categories as well as multiple times in one. Every entry gives you a shot at a prize, particularly the entries raffle prize.
You can win place prizes in multiple categories in principle, but only one in each, unless there's less than three entrants but more than three entries in a category. I might favour someone who has not won another category yet over someone who won in another one already though if the decision is close.

Any media is fine in general (although for a chance at the special Christmas price via me printing your art on a T-Shirt, it would have to be good quality digital or a good scan, so the print will come out nice). But if you do conventional, do make an effort to make the final digital thing you send me pleasant to look at, so either a scan or a decent photo with sensible lighting. And no sketches on lined paper please!

Spread the word! There are more prizes as more people enter! The raffles scale and there's the category raffles that only happen if there are enough entries, as well as the categories needing a minimum number of entries to get their own place prizes. Also, if there's many entrants, I'll have to donate more to cover my FC expenses, so you'll be helping the site funding by making me do that ;)

jacobgrey
Skeletal Unicorn

PastelWitch
Skeletal Unicorn

Death Candy
Me!

Ashiya
Me!

Nankuii
Me!
Cuties

Skeletal Unicorn & Cuties
First Place
PastelWitch: LOOK AT THIS GORGEOUSNESS!
2 + 3 item picks from the pool
Second Place
Nankuii: OMG, WHAT A CUTIE!
1 + 1 item pick from the pool
Third Place
jacobgrey: ISN'T THIS JUST ADORBS?
1 item pick from the pool

Me!
First Place
Ashiya: LOOK TWICE, IT'S NOT THE PHOTOGRAPH!
2 + 3 item picks from the pool
Second Place
Death Candy: I WANT THIS DRESS, NOW!
1 + 1 item pick from the pool
Third Place
Nankuii: NO WAY TO NOT GET HAPPY FROM LOOKING AT THIS
1 item pick from the pool


Raffle Prizes
Entrants Raffle
1 - raffled once

jacobgrey


Entries Raffle
1 pick from the item prize pool - raffled twice

PastelWitch & Ashiya

Also, everybody gets the 2500 early bird prize, some of you have already received it, the rest will get it together with the rest of their prizes!

Spoiler: Disregard, just notes for me