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[Smiter]

Introduction

It's contest time!

This time, we have decided to introduce a brand-new contest for Heaven & Earth - a doujinshi contest! All participants must create a 2 or 3 page doujinshi, containing at least one of the following keywords:

• Flowers
• Beach
• Camping
• Ice Cream
• Spring Clean

It must also be set in spring/summer, AND must contain both Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno.

Well, it wouldn't be a NaruSaku doujinshi contest without them, would it? You don't have to show romance (it doesn't hurt though!), but they must interact with each other in some way.

So, what will you get for your blood, sweat and tears?

The Prize

Just one prize... but what a prize.

A pair of 12" Naruto and Sakura Shippuden plushies!

Rules

Drawing and writing a doujinshi is a lot of work, so we're giving you a little over a month in which to do it. The final day for submissions is Saturday June 6th 2009! All entries must be in by 11:59pm British Summer Time. World Clock website

The doujinshi must be two or three pages long, and must be your own work. You can use any media (pen/pencil and paper, digital, etc.), as long as they are your own drawings. You are not allowed to use screenshots from the anime or panels from the manga. Anyone submitting work that is not their own will be ejected from the contest and may face disciplinary action.

No explicit sexual or violent scenes. A little citrus is fine, but keep it PG-13.

The maximum image size that can be displayed in the Gallery is 1000 pixels (width) by 1500 pixels (height).


Submit all your entries in the contest category on the Gallery (click to go there)!

Resources

We wouldn't give you such a task without a little help. Here are a few guides and websites to help budding mangaka!

TUTORIALS (highly recommended)

Making Manga - by mayshing
Manga Panelling Tutorial - by mayshing
Panelling, Pacing and Layout I - by lilrivkah
Panelling, Pacing and Layout II - by lilrivkah

Lots more drawing tutorials on DeviantArt!

Process Suggestion --Click here to view--

1. Think of a story - keep it simple, you only have 2/3 pages!
2. Draw very rough drafts. Don't worry about making it look good, just focus on how the story flows.
3. Keep tweaking the draft/story until you're happy.
4. Draw the doujinshi! Then - if you want - you can ink and/or colour it.

SCREENTONES AND BRUSHES (if you're going digital)

DeviantArt has lots of screentones.
And lots of manga brushes, too.

FONTS (again, if you want to use computer text instead of writing)

Blambot Fonts - Smiter approved! Many excellent free and pay fonts there.
DaFont - lots of free/shareware fonts!

If you would like to suggest a resource, tutorial, or tips, post here or PM me. Thanks!

Best of luck in this contest. Do your very best!

[Cloud]

Hah!

I knew you'd do this one day, Smiter! I'm looking forward to all the entries! Good luck to everybody who enters.

By the way, those prizes look awesome.

[Sakura Blossoms]

Looking forward to seeing all the kicka$$ entries!

[Kakebun-kun]

Looking forward to some great Doujins. 8D

I wish I could draw decently, I'd enter if I could. Dx

[Cloud]

Looking forward to some great Doujins. 8D

I wish I could draw decently, I'd enter if I could. Dx

Let's draw stick figures together! 8D

[Kakebun-kun]

Yes! Sakura can be pink and Naruto can be orange, and then we can make them kiss and go on dates and lub each other! 8D

[darthsoraXIII]

this sounds great! I only wish my drawing wasn't limited to two dimensions...

[Sora no Kitsune]

Ugh i have great ideas for stories but i can't draw to save my life Oh well.

[Cloud]

Sounds interesting. I'll see what I can come up with. Just don't judge me too harshly, please

What I'm really trying to say is give me first place, or THERE WILL BE BLOOD!!!

Use your own blood, dude.

You'll need it to get past us critics. xD

[RyrineaHaruno]

The plushies are so dang cute I wish I could darw really well but at least I cant . At least I can buy them yayz

[Sakura Blossoms]

That's the problem for many of us it seems
I would love to enter too, but I can't draw to save my life

[Nick Soapdish]

Wow, this looks awesome!

I've just posted a link for it at NarutoForums.com. Has anyone made a post about it at DA?

[Smiter]

To everyone, don't worry too much about the art! Story is a very important part of a manga/doujinshi, so if you have a story you want to tell, try it out!

You can use any style you like, even chibi-style is fine if you want to do a parody/comedy/cute doujinshi!

Here's an idea. If you want to go for it but have no confidence in your drawing skills, why not team up with someone who can draw but may not be confident in their own story making abilities? There are two plushies, which means the prize can be shared between two people who work equally hard. One could do the story, editing and dialogue and the other does the art. Just a suggestion off of the top of my head!

Wow, this looks awesome!

I've just posted a link for it at NarutoForums.com. Has anyone made a post about it at DA?

I haven't done that, no. Just at LiveJournal's NaruSaku community. I'm also considering sending out a mass PM to alert members who don't always visit regularly, I know there are a few artists amongst them!

Thanks for linking it at NF, Nick.

[Kakebun-kun]

That's a good idea, Smiter. I have a good story in mind, but I just can't draw.

[Nick Soapdish]

I haven't done that, no. Just at LiveJournal's NaruSaku community. I'm also considering sending out a mass PM to alert members who don't always visit regularly, I know there are a few artists amongst them!

Thanks for linking it at NF, Nick.

Yeah, I saw the LJ one. That's another one of my pages that automatically comes up when I open the browser.

You're welcome. I have a Favorites account at DA where I've tried to just fave all of the good NaruSaku fanarts that are around. It has a few watchers so I made a journal entry about the contest there, too. Maybe a few more people will notice it there and at least come to check out the entries, if not make some themselves.

[Onionhead Attacks]

Oh man... I think I've been watching too much dragonball/z because all of a sudden i have an idea of a cross-over naruto/dbz thing again!

[Nawheetos]

I WANT THOSE PLUSHIES!!

Must practice must practice... uh, this could take a while...

[Hysteria]

Looking forward to seeing all the kicka$$ entries!

Ditto!

[Saku-chan]

I'll give you a hint. Daffodils.

XD

I hope I don't royally eff this up.