The Drawntlet is a month-long activity that encourages artists and writers to challenge themselves as well as develop positive creativity habits. The goal is to create a unique piece each day, based on one of the provided prompts. This activity welcomes both art and writing, and will run in lieu of our usual Creative Circles this month.

We are excited to announce our second annual Drawntlet, beginning September 1st and running throughout the month! :D We’ve made several changes this year based on the feedback gathered from last year’s activity, and will be very appreciative of the feedback we receive this year as well.

You can find the full rules and guidelines on the Town Square page, and the forum for this year’s activity is here.

Below you can read through the more notable adjustments we’ve made, as well as take a peek at the new coats and item prize created for this year’s activity.

• There are no weekly theme challenges this year.
  These were omitted for two main reasons: the difficulty of creating challenges that encompassed both artwork and writing, and a general desire to simplify the point breakdown and deadlines. However, if you wish to stick to a theme or create a player-organized list of challenges, you are more than welcome to do so!

• Prompt banks have been added.
  Each week has a total of 10 prompts to choose from, and they are not assigned to specific days. This will hopefully allow players who might not connect with a certain prompt to choose one that inspires them a bit more, as well as add some flexibility for those days when you might have found yourself more excited for tomorrow’s prompt than today’s.

• The point scheme has been adjusted.
  Last year we assigned points weekly, which players found complicated and potentially disappointing, were they to miss a single prompt in any given week. Thankfully, September has 30 days, which is a nice round number to assign points to. Each submission is worth 1 point, and the prize shop prices have been adjusted accordingly.

• The prize shop has been improved.
  We’ve made adjustments to the prize shop this year. It now closely resembles the prize shop for Bin-GO RP, which feels like a fair comparison effort-wise. Of particular note, instead of having the choice only between the two new secret coats created for the Drawntlet, players may now select their choice of any of the discovered secret coats for the grand prize tier. A simple run-down of the prizes is below:

  • 30 points: discovered gcs coat of choice
  • 25 points: GCS mushroom ; gold medallion
  • 20 points: choice of past oots set (mushroom + items) ; choice of seasonal coat
  • 15 points: choice of past oots item set ; choice of BoW item ; driftshroom
  • 10 points: september oots set (mushroom + items) ; choice of cave capsule ; bag of wonders ; driftshroom
  • 5 points: forever coat ; random cave capsule ; september oots item set
  • 1 point: golden ticket

   

• We’ve added a prize for completing all 30 days.
  Another request that stuck out from last year’s feedback was the desire for an overarching prize for those who completed the entire challenge, aside from those included in the prize shop. So, this year, we made one! Players who complete all thirty days of the Drawntlet will receive a Spirograph Frame! We figured an avatar frame was a great choice, since avatar items are the one thing most players don’t desire more than one of.

• We will be utilizing an on-site submission form.
  This was a common request from last year’s feedback, too. The submission forms will be weekly, and be similar to the ones used in the Soup, Stones, and Snakes event that recently concluded. Essentially, you will be asked to submit the permalink to each submission’s post, and staff will record your credit accordingly.

• Players who complete all 30 days of the Drawntlet will receive a Spirograph Frame
• The ‘choice of Secret Coat’ prize tier includes two newly added coats: Troutrageous (by Myla) and Glimmering Kiss (by Plaid). These coats are also available from using a Glowing Changingshroom.

i’m very excited for these changes, i love drawntlet this will be fun!!!! the first one allowed us to choose our gcs coat and i really liked that, im happy to see the option back!!

also the spirograph frame is so beautiful and i agree, an avatar frame is a perfect prize for something like this!!!

I’m really excited about the changes :D Pretty much everything about Drawntlet I didn’t love last year has been tweaked, and I love the frame and the new coats!

Can’t wait >:3c

I’m gonna cry……. my own lil Finnegan……… this is a dream come true

honestly though thank you guys for making all these tweaks.  I feel like this year is gonna be so much more fun and chill and the avatar frame really was a stroke of genius.  I can’t WAIT to get started!!!!

Mmmmm yeessss, I like these new changes! =3c

Especially the prompt bank, week themes, and the lack of the weekly deadlines. It feels like the barrier for entry (having ideas that go along with prompts, potential struggle with the themes, and having to remember two sets of deadlines) have been reduced a whole lot.

I’d be interested to see what people think about the points ; prize ; nuggets route ratio, just because I remember that being something that was brought up a fair bit last year.

Man, apparently I’m the odd one out in that I absolutely hate this ‘here’s a bunch of prompts, pick the ones you like for the week’ change made this year instead of a set list. I really don’t like having to pick between things and what made it fun to me was the lack of choice in prompt and needing to work with whatever was put down. I’m not very good at picking things from lists, I tend to waffle over it and then end up a puddle of procrastination that doesn’t get anything done because I can’t decide. XD I dunno, maybe I can figure out some way to do some sort of random picker on the prompts or something.

Ah well, hopefully I can manage to get my indecisiveness under control enough to actually manage some things this month because I still really want an Inkling! Good luck everyone and have fun! Thanks as always for the creative events!

I was waiting so much for a repeat of this event!
I hope that this will again break my laziness and give me an incentive to draw more often :D

Dracogryph
I’m happy to make a set list from the provided prompts if it would help you! (and, of course, anyone else who feels the same way)

Dracogryph
Here you go! :D

Celestine
As long as your submissions otherwise fit the guidelines (no duplicate prompts, etc), I don’t see why not! They’d still count as a single prompt and wouldn’t get you any sort of extra credit or anything though, just to be clear.

Airadea
As long as you’re following whatever usage guidelines the base’s creator has outlined and the edits made to it are your own work, then sure thing!

Nonnavlis
You could certainly do that, yes!

Ok, so maybe this is in a really obvious place, but I cannot for the life of me find the on-site submission form???
I found it somehow yesterday but can’t seem to find it again ;-;