Community Event (RESULTS OUT) Festival of the Bonfire '25 - Community Art Contest

Community Festival of the Bonfire Art Contest 2025

Heya everyone!
Bit of a quick and early post since I'll be going on a trip very soon and won't be able to post the contest when the festival drops. This time, the secondary theme is based on the new Emotes they introduced! Bonus points if it's both Bonfire and Emotes themed!

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Themes:
Main Theme - Festival of the Bonfire
Purposefully broad so anyone can pick any part of the festival to depict in their own style! Draw anything related to the festival: the mini-games, cosmetics, characters celebrating the festival, anything is on the table, just make sure it still remain themed around the festival itself!

Secondary Theme - Player Emotes
With the introduction of emotes as a new type of cosmetic, what better way to celebrate that than with some art of said cosmetic? Draw the player character/your OC performing an emote from or similar to the emotes in the update inside of the world of Wynn. Extra points if it's both themes!

End Date: September 6th 12:00 GMT-0, 2025

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Prizes

First place - 11 STX of LE
Second place - 8 STX of LE
Third place - 4 STX of LE

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Rules

1. Only fill out the form if you are competing in the Community Art Contest
2. Submissions must be an image if they want to compete, no music/text/video projects
3. Submissions must have Proof of Legitimacy if they want to compete
4. Submissions must be either from you or if you're posting for somebody else, have their consent and show it alongside the Proof of Legitimacy
5. Use of AI is strictly forbidden and will result in a ban from future contests
6. Every Submission must follow the theme that was chosen
7. Every Submission must be Safe For Work (PG13)

Additional note: Spam entries will not be legible for either main or secondary rewards.

Submission Process
To have a valid Submission that will be included in the contest, you must show a Time Lapse / Proof of Legitimacy for your Submission (video, gif, collage of WIP pictures, etc). You will be required to give links in the appropriate text boxes in the submission form: one for the image and one for the proof of legitimacy. Once the contest ends, I will collect every submission and order them in a Judging Form that will be given out to the people that have chosen or have been chosen to judge the submissions. Additionally, you will have to give a Name and Description to your work for ease of submission identification.

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Preferred Sites for Submission
You are free to use most sites for submitting your final image and proof of legitimacy, however the preferred options are imgur for images and youtube for videos. If you wish to not use those, Google Drive can be used to share files instead, just make sure anyone with the link can view the contents! You won't be disqualified for using other sites (wynn's forums, twitter/bluesky, etc), but it would make life way easier with the other options!

Scoring
Each submission will be scored on 4 categories by several judges, that being Theming, Creativity, Clarity & Style. How closely does it stick to the theme it's going for? How creative is the idea(s) in the art? How clear is the image and what it's saying? How consistent is your artwork's style throughout? Is it an actual submission or an MS Paint doodle? These categories help tally that! With a minimum of 1 point per category, and a maximum of the number of total submissions per contest.

The contest is over! Submissions closed!

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Thank you for your time, and I hope to see YOUR artwork!
Pleasant Drawing, and stay safe!
-Sone

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wrong. you will be disqualified if you use twitter, and a package containing a plastic explosive will be delivered to your address.

 

plastic explosive more like mastic mech snow sieve

 

Glhf to everyone who wants to all those participating! And thanks for hosting an art comp again!
(Also pelase, more poeple come participate, it’s fun.)

 

Good luck to everyone participating!

 

I've submitted mine already, so good luck to everyone and do your best!~

 

9 more days left for you to submit your art! Y'all can do it!

 

Can I use blockbench?

 

End date has been extended by a few hours to the 6th, after that judging will begin!

 

Were the winners ever posted?

 

judging has taken a while to begin

 

I'm REALLY REALLY sorry but as deus said, judging is taking really long, I'm still waiting on (and reminding) half of the judges to stop forgetting about the contest

 

The results are in!
For the 2025 Festival of the Heroes Art Contest!

Thank you everyone for participating in the contest! Apologies for it taking a bit longer, there were some really cool submissions, and judging was (slow) and a bit tough, we even have a tied fourth place which isn't away from third place!

Max score for every category is 59, with a total max score of 224.

Thank you to the following people for helping with the Judging process: me, Deusphage, Orphion_, jebbaks, pockt and 2 others!

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First Place - "Into Fire" by Lelody_
With a score of 156 (Theming 33 / Creativity 39 / Clarity 42 / Style 49 + 2 Bonus Points)

Second Place - "Of Flame and Dusk" by Noatun
With a score of 153 (Theming 44 / Creativity 33 / Clarity 35 / Style 38 + 3 Bonus Points )

Third Place - "Bonfire of the Wybels" by Willowsofwar
With a score of 139 (Theming 27 / Creativity 30 / Clarity 49 / Style 33 )

Artists, please get into contact to get your rewards!

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If any participant from the contest would like to know their full scores, they are free to contact me over discord (soneone.) and I will tell them freely. If you wish to see all of the submissions, click here.

Thank you, and I'll hopefully see you for the Festival of the Spirits!

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Congratulations to all the winners!!!

 

rigged because the best art won

 

Congrats to all the winners!

 

Congrats to all the winners!! Those submissions were so good!!