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43RD INTERNATIONAL ILLUSTRATION CONTEST: THEME- FANTASY CREATURES

Application Deadline: April 9, 2025, 23:59 UTC

LOCATION: Japan

The 43rd International Illustration Contest is open for application. The theme of this contest is Fantasy Creatures! Please show your original creatures from your imagination.

ELIGIBILITY:

Enter via X, Instagram, or Facebook is free

Make sure you include the hashtag in the text caption for your video post.

If possible, please let us know what app(s) you used to create your entry when you post. Your choice of app will not affect the selection process.

Video format: mp4, mov Length: around 1 minute

Any format that can be posted on social media will be accepted.
#cspcontest43: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cspcontest43&src=typed_query&f=live

#cspcontest43: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/cspcontest43/

#cspcontest43: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cspcontest43/

Contestants must post their entries using their own accounts on X or Instagram with the #cspcontest43 hashtag during the submission period. If entering via Facebook, contestants must join and post their entries to the group below. For entering the Timelapse Prize, please post with both #cspcontest43_timelapse and #cspcontest43 hashtags.
For any entry, please make sure your post is visible to the public.
Contest Facebook group

We cannot accept entries by X, Instagram, Facebook message.

Entries posted with the wrong hashtag(s) will not be accepted for the contest.

Entries will be judged on quality, thematic relevance, and originality. Although not a deciding factor, retweets and likes of entries will also be taken into consideration during the judging process.

BENEFIT:

Grand Prize: USD $2,000 cash prize and Clip Studio Paint EX Activation Code 
2nd Place: USD $500 cash prize and Clip Studio Paint EX Activation Code
3rd – 5th Place: USD $200 cash prize and Clip Studio Paint EX Activation Code
6th – 10th Place: USD $100 cash prize and Clip Studio Paint PRO Activation Code
Honorable mentions (5 winners): Clip Studio Paint PRO Activation Code

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BDFIL – CARAN D’ACHE PRIZE

Application Deadline: Monday, June 16, 2025

LOCATION: Switzerland

In 2025, BDFIL is partnering with Caran d’Ache and le Musée de la Machine à Écrire for its BDFIL – Caran d’Ache Prize for emerging comic artists competition. The theme of the 2025 edition is “Working Blues”.

ELIGIBILITY:

The competition BDFIL – Caran d’Ache Prize is open to anyone 15 years of age or older, living in Switzerland or abroad, whose work has never been published in the form of an album, regularly in a large-circulation
newspaper or magazine, or an expert-reviewed online platform or under any editorial license.

Participants whose work is being published when the jury deliberates (June 23, 2025) will be disqualified.

Each participant may enter only one project. The competition aims to encourage and reward complete artists; collective entries will not be accepted.

Winners of previous editions of the competition, except for special mentions, are not allowed to participate. READ

BENEFIT:

Three BDFIL prizes:

1st Prize CHF 2,000.- and the drawing of the 2026 Prize flyer
2nd Prize CHF 1,500
3rd Prize CHF 1,000

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