Community Event (RESULTS OUT) Festival of the Heroes - Community Art Contest

Community Festival of the Heroes Art Contest 2025

Greetings, everyone!
Welcome back to another Community Art Contest! The Heroes Festival is back, and thus comes back the contest! This time, with a little twist: TWO THEMES! If you're feeling overcome with choice as to what to draw, then don't worry, we've thought of a secondary theme that you can pick instead and STILL compete for the rewards!

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Themes:
Main theme - Wynncraft's Festival of the Heroes
The general theme that submissions must follow is the Festival of the Heroes. As always, it's purposefully broad so anyone can pick any part of the festival to depict in their own style! Anything from the heroes of Wynncraft and their feats, decorated Detlas, to the minigame, to whatever else might come to mind - just remember to be creative!

Secondary Theme - The Villains of Wynncraft
What are heroes without their villains? Sometimes they're just as important to the story, if not more, so why not show them some love? Be it them on their own, with their minions, in their boss arena or even clashing with the heroes we're celebrating!


End Date: April 5th, 12:00 GMT-0, 2025

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Prizes:
The current prizes are as follows. They may increase over time.
First place - 11 STX of LE
Second place - 8 STX of LE
Third place - 4 STX of LE

Additional Prize:
1st through 7th place: +46 Liquid Emeralds

Donation from punscake, the Top 10 submissions will be awarded an additional 32 LE!

Current Donors: punscake, Shots and soneone. (me!)

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Rules:
1. Only fill out this form if you are competing in the contest
2. Submissions must be an image of a drawing/painting/etc if they want to compete
3. 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
4. Submissions must have Proof of Legitimacy if they want to compete
5. Generative AI is strictly forbidden and will result in a ban from future contests
6. Every Submission must follow the general idea of the Festival/Theme
7. Every Submission must be Safe For Work (PG13)

Art will be scored on 4 categories (Theming, Creativity, Clarity, Style/Stylization) with the maximum points being the amount if submissions for the contest. Answers from each judge will be averaged out before landing on a final score for an artwork.

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


Submission Process and Form:

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 time lapse. 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.

Submissions Closed! View the Results in the comments!

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Thank you for your time, and I hope to see YOUR artwork!
Pleasant Drawing, fellow Heroes of Wynn!
-Sone

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Cant wait to see the art (i cant draw)

 

Yooooooo. Hopefully I have enough time to compete :3
Gl to everyone who is! And have fun :D

 

Thank you for your efforts organizing these!

 

~~ Reward Update! ~~

+5stx from Shots! Thank you for your donation!

 

i will throw a party bomb at the winner

 

End Date has been changed to the 3rd of April!

 

Just reading the requirements, it says that I'll need to put in the submissions (and timelapse) as links, what type of links are preferred or recommended?

 

imgur for the final image and youtube for a video timelapse work, otherwise you can give google drive links for both too

 

OKi! Thanks :)

 

End date has been extended to the 5th

 

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

Thank you everyone for participating in the contest! Future contests will announce the winners in the comments instead of as a separate post, just to keep everything condensed in one spot. As a reminder, this contest had 2 themes to choose between! This idea will be brought forward in future contests!

Max score for every category is 35! Total max score is 140 + 5 Bonus Points!

Thank you to the following people for helping with the Judging process: Deusphage, HelpIWasTakenn, Orphion_, jebbaks!

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First Place - "What we Protect" by Arikage
With a score of 128 (Theming 30 / Creativity 31 / Clarity 31 / Style 32 + 4 Bonus Points)

Second Place - "Aster's Book of Stories" by Meefy
With a score of 118 (Theming 32 / Creativity 26 / Clarity 31 / Style 29 )

Third Place - "Desperate Strife" by Gavins
With a score of 98 (Theming 20 / Creativity 29 / Clarity 21 / Style 28 )

All contest artists, please get in contact for when you'd like to receive your rewards!

(This includes ALL artists, not just the people who got first to third place!)

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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.

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

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Damm thats some good art

 

THANK YOUUUUU OML JUST WOKE UP YIPEEE
OML everyone’s art looks so cool what congrats to everyone!! And thank you so much for hosting! :>

 

Congrats to winners.