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The results are in! October 2024's theme was Nightmare Night. The community voted (and broke a tie) for their favorite submissions, which you can see below!

1st Place - @Luna the Great of all the Russias

 2nd Place - @Miss Price

 3rd Place - @Pixi-Pie

Honorable Mentions

@Livealarm

 @ComanderZhabikKlavik

 @Nitobit

 @Snow

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. 

We have a tie for 3rd place!! Go here to vote now and break the tie. 

Hi everyone, thank you so much for participating in voting for the winner of the October 2024 Art Contest!

Before we share out the final list of winners, we want to ensure that we have a single 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner. Right now we have a tie between Submission 1 and Submission 4 for 3rd place.

Please refer to those submissions below, and vote for which is your favorite to determine the 3rd place winner! 

 Submission 1

 Submission 4

This tiebreaker poll will run from 11/13 - 11/20. Please let us know if you have any questions!

Reminder that today is the last day to vote! Don't forget to get your vote in before midnight if you haven't already. Thanks so much to all who participated!

Thank you everyone for your fun and spooky submissions! Head on over to our voting thread to vote for your favorite!  https://mlpforums.com/topic/203460-october-2024-art-contest-voting/

 Voting for October 2024 Art Contest! 

Thank you so much to all who participated in the October 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!

I love seeing so many folks participating, and it's truly a joy to see every one of these beautiful, fun and spooky artworks. Thank you all for your time and interest in sharing your talents with our community.

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 October 2024 Art Contest will be open from 11/01/24 - 11/08/24! 

 Welcome to the MLP Forums October 2024 Visual Art contest 

Welcome to the October 2024 Visual Art Contest! Grab your favorite costume, think of your favorite candy and get ready for some spooky fun because...

The theme for this month is:

Nightmare Night!

Requirements

• Create artwork of ponies (and/or other canon creatures or OCs) engaging in Nightmare Night / Halloween activities
  • This can depict a wide variety of Halloween activities whether solo or a group, as long as it captures the spirit of spooky fun in some way. This can include Nightmare Night specific themes (like bobbing for apples -- the fun has been DOUBLED! ) or any Halloween activity such as but not limited to exploring haunted houses, adventuring through eerie locations, taking a hike through the misty woods at night, trick-or-treating, enjoying candy, dressing up in costumes, having mysterious encounters with anomalous phenomena or falling through an interdimensional warp only to find yourself wandering alone through a vast, ever stranger liminal network of increasingly surreal poolrooms.
• 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
• Photoshopping or editing images created by others to make your submission is not allowed
• Animations no longer than 10 seconds are allowed

Deadline

Submissions will close on October 31st, 2024.

Judging

Public voting will be open during November 1st - November 8th, 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 > October 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! 

Thank you so much everyone for your kindness and remembrance of my time here. Your kind words @Sir Hugsalot mean more than I can say, as it brings me genuine joy if I have made even the slightest positive impact on others.

Truly, I credit the team that came before me for building the foundation and nurturing the sapling that grew into the grand oak that stands today. An oak that could not have better caretakers than the team we have today.

As it stands, due to many challenges in my personal life I'm not able to contribute anywhere near as much time or effort to MLP Forums as I would like to. I am simply thankful for the grace and understanding of this community and the opportunity to be here, and contribute what I can. I am thankful for the presence and activity, but more importantly the hearts of all across the community who carry on the legacy of the meaning in finding common ground over the seemingly simplest things, and extending a hand in friendship.

14 hours ago, Sir Hugsalot said:

Some people say this actually IS Princess Luna in disguise. Is it true? No idea, but hopefully one day we will all find out  

 

I cannot confirm nor deny this

But truthfully, Princess Luna represents a very great deal to me. I would be but the echo of a specter banished to the gloom by the moonlit glow of her watchful spirit.

Thanks so much everyone for participating! I love all the submissions so much. Vote for your favorite at our voting thread!

 Voting for June 2024 Art Contest! 

Thank you so much to all who participated in the June 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!

I love seeing so many folks participating, and it's truly a joy to see every one of these beautiful artworks. Thank you all for your time and interest in sharing your talents with our community.

Here are the submissions we received. Please vote for your favorite using the poll above!

Submission 1

Submission 2

Submission 4

Submission 5

Submission 6

Submission 7

Submission 8

Submission 9

Submission 10

Submission 11

Voting for the June 2024 Art Contest will be open from 06/25/24 - 06/30/24! 

23 hours ago, Lawyer Slip said:

@SCS Does enjoying a starry summer sky count?

Agreed with Wizard, that's definitely fine  

14 hours ago, Evil Pink One said:

@SCS i passed it. did it went through? 

 

Yeah I see your upload.

17 hours ago, Lawyer Slip said:

@SCS Is it ok if I dedicate my submission to someone and put them in it? A friend of mine recently had to leave the forums because their mom said "this site probably has internet dangers" and while their account is still active, I'm not sure we'll ever see @Octavia Scratch again. (At least not for two years because by then she'll be an adult.)

My time with her was short, but I would like to dedicate my submission to her in memory, and make an OC of her name (Essentially a fusion of Octavia and Vinyl). If that is ok with you of course. I still miss her a lot 

I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. I can relate to how you feel because I have lost many friends who I still think about all the time. I also can understand where their parents are coming from as a result of how many years I've spent dealing with the darker sides of humanity.

I agree with Silky -- I definitely have no problem with you dedicating your entry to your friend, and drawing it anyway you see fit.

When I was a child, I often felt as if someone were watching me. This feeling intensified in relation to my perceived threat level of my environment: when I watched a scary movie and then turned the lights off to go to bed, I felt as if I were surrounded by unblinking eyes.

Occasionally this feeling manifested itself in dreams, and typically associated unwanted watching with gravitational pull. Such as the dream wherein I saw a disembodied cyclops eye staring at me from within the bushes by the side of the road, which upon being identified halted my movement, drew me in gravitationally and instantaneously teleported me to a dimly lit, empty and silent yet prepared banquet hall with the somber implication that I was on the menu. Or the dream in which I was futilely fleeing some ambiguous threat, until an invisible force knocked me flat on my face and pinned me to the ground as a sea of disembodied eyeballs surrounded me from every imaginable angle, freezing time and staring eternally.

As an adult, I no longer feel as if I'm being watched. Rather, I tend to experience a shifting of definition and perception around the concept of being alone. Liminal spaces feel imbued with some manner of unseen aether causing a paradoxical sensation of presence within the absence. As I walk empty and abandoned corridors, desolate alleyways, humming forests and sweeping beaches I feel as if the crushing weight of endless emotion and intention is knocking at the door, forever just around the corner and barely out of sight. The sensation of people have been here, or will be here entangles and challenges our convenient narratives of linear time built on the wobbling foundations of our experiences and perceived reality.

Sometimes I feel as if the gust of primordial wind outside of time would unstick my frame of reference, dissolving any comprehended notion of causality. Almost as if I am looking back on myself thinking ahead and living yesterday and tomorrow's moment at all points about the now.

This place is evil
Is there an answer?
This world is vile
We are the answer
Oh!

How long until we die?
Die from the inside out
How much is enough for us to see the light?
How much blood must be spilled?

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 Welcome to the MLP Forums June 2024 Visual Art contest 

Welcome to the June 2024 Visual Art Contest! Remember to stay hydrated while enjoying fun in the sun this summer.

The theme for this month is:

Summer Leisure!

Requirements

• Create artwork of ponies (and/or other canon creatures or OCs) engaging in outdoor summertime activities
  • This can depict a wide variety of outdoor activities, as long as it captures the spirit of having fun in the sun in some way. This includes but is not limited to outdoor sports, swimming, hiking, picnics and outdoor lounging in the sun: whether solo or with a group.
  • Some example ideas: playing baseball, going for a swim at the beach, taking a hike in the woods during a bright sunny day, having a picnic with friends on a sunny hilltop.
• 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 June 24th, 2024.

Judging

Public voting will be open during June 25th - June 30th, 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 > June 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!  

I build a dynamic levitated megastructure from attotechnological psychotronic metamaterials, serving as living art piece, nature preserve and perpetual free energy machine. The structure reacts to the emotions of its visitors, engineering unique experiences tailored for inspiration and education, while nurturing hypergeometric flora unbound from spatial and temporal axes. The metaphysical dance between heart and quantum reconfigurations perpetually generates energy powering the megastructure and siphoning out as nutrients across a tree to the city across divergent timelines.

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Nitobit

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.

Where earth and spirit unite
An opposition to the visible
A call of the purified souls
Emerges beyond, breaks free

Deliverance - an acroamatic halo
Deprivation - in particular obedience
Eclipsed - shackled and torn apart
Emptiness - devoid of heart and soul

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