Black City Mascot Design Contest

[Jilly]

Black City needs a mascot!

Please read all guidelines and rules before submitting.



Guidelines:

- All entries must be drawn or edited (no written submissions).

- Entries must include a name of the mascot, and a description of its appearance and personality. These can be written or visual.

- A designed mascot means that the Pokemon must be distinguishable in some way from other members of their species. This should be through appearance, accessories and personality.

- Shinies and color changes are allowed, but please don't stray too far from the originals.

- Digital and traditional are the accepted mediums.


Contest Rules

- You must be a member of the Subeta cult 'Black City' to enter.

- You may choose whichever Pokémon you would like, from any generation and any evolutionary form, to use as a mascot with only one exception: It cant be a legendary.


How to Submit and End Date

- Submit your entry by posting with a link or picture of it here in this thread.

- You may enter as many times as you would like.

- There is no end date as of yet, keep your eye out for one!

- You must be a member of the Subeta cult 'Black City' to enter.


Prizes

Who gets what will be decided by how many donations we get.

There will be one winner and two runner ups. The winner, ideally, will have prizes worth three times (or more?) as much as the runner ups. This also is to be decided.

Please note sP and items are not necessarily what we have as prizes for this particular contest. This is what we have available to us. Official prizes will be decided upon, but for now, be teased. (:

View donated sP here.
Currently: 21,000,000 sP

View donated items here.
Currently: 23 items


Donated art services by:
Jilly
Choco
Gary


That's all, guys! Cant wait to see your entries. (:

[Nicholas]

@jilly
I want to be able to ping.
But, you need to change the link to the items to this link
and now you can change the sP and items donated.

And good luck to anyone entering. I can't draw so I don't really have a chance. xD

[Jilly]

whoops thanks for catching that. (:

aw everyone has a chance!

[shift]

Can the entry use original Pokemon art as a base - for example, this image but recoloured, and with accessories added? Or do you want the art to be 100% original?

Then Nicholas could enter ;P

[Jilly]

That's a great idea. I'll volunteer to draw bases if anyone would like to do that. (:

[shift]

Pip!

Appearance: a Starly with a dark grey base, black accents, and white bib/face/middle tail feather.

Personality: Sociable, vocal, adventurous, easily excited. A lovable fellow whose foolhardy nature often gets him into humorous scrapes. He enjoys the company of his fellows, especially when they're listening to stories of his escapades.

Rationale: Starly seemed like the logical choice. Just as our cities are filled with sparrows, Pokemon's cities - and Black City - must be filled with Starly. Starly's Pokedex entries say that they "flock in great numbers" and socialize, just like Black City's members! Starly is cute, easy to draw, and full of attitude. What more could you ask for?

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There's entry #1! I might be entering a Blitzle later if I come up with a personality for her.

[Fine]

@jilly (wait , there's no pinging in here )

So what do you think of a blank base like this :
i929.photobucket.com/albums/ad137/Fluxep/biggerstarly2.png?t=1301902198

It's a blank Starly base traced by using Paint Tool Sai.
I'm Volunteering this to anyone.

[lantern]

I have an idea, just gotta draw it :'D

I'll be back to edit this post with my entry/entries.

EDIT: ugh, I thought I could do this, but I just can't draw right now |D
That and I've been busy with stuff.

[steffi]

I can't wait to see everyone's entries! I can't draw pokémon, otherwise I'd definitely enter c:

[lilanie]

I'd love to do this, if I could draw at all. xD

[metal]

This is a great idea xD
I'll have to see if I can think up which pokemon I think would be perfect

But for now, I'd love to volunteer to help draw some pokemon bases for people to colour and use? Since we can't ping uh, I'll just check back to see. If anyone wants a specific pokemon done, just let me know c:

[Finch]

NAME "Queen" Barley (She's actually a Princess, but.)
APPEARANCE Barley is a bit more... chocolate-shaded than her brothers and sisters. As her mother is a Pidgeot and her father a shiny Staravia, it was almost certain their chicks would come out a bit brighter than purebreds, but she in particular has the most striking color pattern of her many siblings. Barley has hazel eyes and a likewise shaded, slightly stunted beak, with a mix of dark and milk chocolate tones coloring her feathers. She's a bit fluffier than the others, with a slightly wider build than her other sisters. Her tail feathers and single crest feather are rather abnormally long, streaming along behind her during flight. Her wings are a bit stumpy, but still do their job, although the heavy pendant she often borrows (read: steals) from her mother can slow her down! It's carved out of mother-of-clampearl, with an amber gem set in it's middle. Resting on a flattened pearl chain, it is quite expensive, so Barley tries her best not to get it messy - along with the rest of her! Her 'crown', however, is all her own. All of her siblings have one, but hers was made especially to accent her colors, specifically her eyes. It is small but sturdy, and she often has a bit of a rough time keeping it from slipping off her head. Because of this, it rests around her feather, the tough barbed crest helping to keep it in place. Finally, to round off this (rather eccentric) ensemble, Barley has a strange love of glow sticks. It began when she was only a chick, and now she almost always has one in her beak or talons. She loves the orange ones best!
PERSONALITY QB, as her siblings teasingly call her, is, as one would gather from her upbringing and appearance, rather vain. She adores attention, almost craves it, and will do anything to get it - including some rather... nasty pranks that she now regrets. She tries not to offend others, but really, who wouldn't be jealous of how wonderful, talented, smart and pretty she is?! Or at least, that's what she thought. However, recent run-ins with 'commoners' have changed her mind a bit. Brought down to their level of living, Barley has realized how prissy and unseemly she's been behaving lately. Therefore, her new goal is to be kind, helpful, and a good figurehead for the entirety of Pokemon kind.
HISTORY Barley was raised as - you guessed it! - royalty. She was pampered all her chick-hood, and because of this grew to be a rather nasty adolescent. However, one day she had a bad run in with a stray gust of wind, tumbling her from her treetop palace to the strange and dangerous world bellow. Faced with this new and slightly dirty lifestyle, Barley began to grow, strengthened by her run-ins with danger, terror and not a bit of mud. Spending a few nights on the ground with no-one to depend on but a tiny Rattata that had stumbled upon her injured form changed Barley somehow, made her more mature. As soon as she could fly again, she found that she almost didn't want to leave! After all, this one tiny being had changed her views on life as she knew it. Feeling a bit overwhelmed, she flew up to her palace and informed her family of her travels. To her great surprise, they were overjoyed to hear of her personal growth! Bolstered by this acceptance, Barley set out toward a new goal:
to be a better person.

[abhorsen]

Would a sprite be considered an adequate visual representation for this contest?

[Jilly]

it needs to be edited in some way, but sure. (: