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The results are in! March 2024's theme was Winter Wrap Up. The community voted for their favorite submissions, which you can see below! 1st Place - @Rafa Stary 2nd Place - @Wizard Honorable Mentions @Brony Number 42 @Nitobit @Luna the Great of all the Russias @Lawyer Slip @ComanderZhabikKlavik Thank you everyone so much for all of your wonderful submissions, and thank you to all who participated in community voting! We are in the process of granting badges to winners, so please stay tuned for that. You can also check out our new April 2024 Art Contest!

Voting has closed! Thank you all so much for the great participation. Stay tuned for the results thread, which we will share as soon as possible!

Hey all, just a reminder that today is the last day to vote! Make sure to get your vote in before the poll closes tonight if you haven't already.

The voting thread is up and open from 3/27-4/1! https://mlpforums.com/topic/201998-march-2024-art-contest-voting/

Voting for March 2024 Art Contest! Thank you so much to all who participated in the March 2024 Art Contest! If you didn't get the chance to participate don't worry, we will be hosting a new art contest in the near future! Here are the submissions we received. Please vote for your favorite using the poll above! Submission 1 Submission 2 Submission 3 Submission 4 Submission 5 Submission 6 Submission 7 Voting for the March 2024 Art Contest will be open from 3/27/24 - 4/1/24!

Yeah I see both of your submissions in there! And thanks so much all for participating -- we're at the end of our submission window here so I'm going to lock this thread. Stay tuned, I'll post the voting thread tomorrow (3/27)!

3/26/24 11:59 PM EDT, but I'm not worried about it as long as it's reasonably submitted around end of day 3/26 at latest.

This is a good callout, thanks! I pushed the deadline (and voting period) back by 2 days.

Welcome to the MLP Forums March 2024 Visual Art contest Welcome to the first Visual Art Contest of 2024! We took a brief intermission to make space for MCM, but we're excited to jump back into monthly art contests. The theme for this month is: Winter Wrap Up! Requirements Create artwork of ponies (and/or other canon creatures or OCs) engaging in activities welcoming Spring This can depict Winter Wrap Up activities as seen in MLP G4, but by no means has to be limited to this: this was just the inspiration for the general theme You can depict your own interpretation of "Winter Wrap Up" activities, Spring cleaning, welcoming Spring or anything that you feel captures the spirit of Spring Some example ideas: waking up animals that hibernate, cleaning off snow, welcoming back birds that flew South for the winter Both canon and original characters are allowed, as well as any MLP generation All members of MLPF are eligible No AI art will be accepted, however it can be used for initial inspiration Animations no longer than 10 seconds are allowed Deadline Submissions will close on March 26th, 2024. Judging Public voting will be open during March 27th - April 1st, 2024. Afterwards, voting will be finalized within staff and results will be posted as soon as we are able to share them! Winners Winners will be granted the Canterlot Artist Rank and Badge. All entries will be eligible to receive an Art Achievement Bronze Badge. Future participation will count toward Silver and Gold Art Badges. Submit Here (select Art Contest Submissions > 2024 Submissions > March 2024 Art Contest) or you can use the top navigation menu to add a submission. If there are any additional questions, please feel free to ask!

In full disclosure, I didn't vote for any submissions and overall did not play any role in deciding the winners. I don't feel like it would be fair for me to do so, since it's my job to help operate the event and allow the community to decide. As a result, I can't offer any advice here since I want it to be fully in the hands of the community to decide each art contest's winner. Furthermore, there are no grading criteria or any other attempts at objective measurement: it's all up to each community member's subjective viewpoint, who chooses to participate in the poll. In general, I would say for everyone to just continue participating if you find enjoyment in the process of doing so. Likely, the more someone participates the higher their chance of winning at some point.

This is a truly precious banner, and I am thankful beyond measure to still be a part of this community and to play a small role in an event as impactful as this, and with such a long history over the years. I will always cherish this. I wish Jeric was still with us, and I've often found myself reading her posts and contributions to this event from years past. I regret many things, including not doing more for this particular event or any event in the past. Not being here when Jeric was still here. But I would like to believe that in a way, Jeric and all community members we have lost, in whatever way we have lost them, live on through the spirits of those here today and those we have yet to meet who will carry the legacy on.