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 annual Drawntlet activity, beginning July 1st and running throughout the month! :D We’ve once again made several adjustments based on last year’s feedback, and will continue to hone things as necessary going forward. There will be a feedback form available at the end of the activity, and we encourage all participants to share their thoughts with us there! 

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.

• Players who complete all 31 days of the Drawntlet will receive a Golden Picture Frame
• The ‘choice of GCS coat’ prize tier includes two newly added coats: Doodle Dog (by Plasma) and Middle of the Night (by Acydosis). These coats are also available from using a Glowing Changingshroom.

So, I think this is where we ask questions about the event? If it’s not, uh, sorry for what follows…

So, with Week Three’s challenge of “Tribute”: Does it have to be a different character for each day, or can it reuse the same smaller group of characters across the week?

And with Week Four’s challenge of “Redux”: Do we have to post the piece we’re redoing, or is it just a ‘take it at the poster’s word’ that it’s being redone?

ETA: Also, another subset of the Tribute question - Does it have to be OCs, or can we use other fandoms and their characters (with proper credit, naturally), such as pulling from a video game series I’m a fan of?

Coronae
Yes, this is where you’d ask! :D

Tribute - Does not have to be a different character every day, and can include non-OC fanart, as well!

Redux - You do not have to post the piece you’re redoing, though it would be really cool to show off your progress! If we find that people are trying to be sneaky and reposting art that hasn’t been reworked at all, we will have to make some changes, of course - but otherwise, we are taking the players’ word for it.

Coronae
Yes, writing is very much allowed! :D

POV - all of your pieces for this week should focus on the same scene or event, but viewed from different perspectives

Can we extend the meaning of “same event” in this weekly challenge to different moments across the same day, or events that happen on one day in succession? I have the mind to focus on a couple different characters over different moments that happen on a single eventful day, but don’t have a bunch of characters to spread out the points of view and keep it from just rehashing the same things.

Crow
Do I need to do/post the prompts in the order they appear? I had started working on my drawing for catch first, but the contents of the piece has spawned a story that would make way more sense if I can reorder some of them.

Hi, I have a question about the prize shop.
Do “activity” items also count as “event” items?

Example item I’d maybe be interested in: Glow Worm Lantern (which I guess was from an forum activity called the walk of three)

Or is this prize option more strictly limited to bigger event items?

talicinx
You may post them in any order you wish, as long as the dates align correctly on the submission page, and whatever you’re posting is for the current week!

Umbra
Activity prizes would also count as event items, yes!

raus
I think that would be fine for that challenge.

Thank you Crow!

I think I’m going to enjoy the weekly themes this time, being able to choose one vs the other. Gives more flexibility. The extensive prompt banks, too, look very helpful.

I’m having a bug! I submitted this guy for the 17th:

https://www.mycenacave.com/forums/permalink/469902

But it’s saying that I didn’t submit anything for week 3 yet— it’s totally empty. So when I try to resubmit the above link, it says it was already submitted — while also showing zero submissions for week 3. Any help? ^^;

Edit; it’s happening for all the submissions I’m making this week! Even the one I just uploaded!

Hi Meesh,

I suspect you’ve got the wrong link on your clipboard or something: from your post above I see you intend to submit a permalink ending in 469902, but all three of your requests to submit today are for a permalink ending in 459808.

You previously submitted this link for day 12, which is why it’s telling you “You have already submitted this entry”. If you submit the link in your post above, it should be accepted :)

glitch WELP

Somehow I made this same mistake multiple times, but of course a hard copy paste…fixed it xD thank you for looking into it! How silly!

Hi Crow now beginning to wonder if I read the theme submission right. Tribute, does it have to be someone like an individual person’s character(s), or can it be ones from cartoon movies?
Also wonder if since my one submission hasn’t been counted yet, if it’s not seen as ‘honor’ like enough. Like maybe the post I picked was too, plain.
https://www.mycenacave.com/forums/permalink/470047

LAsDarkFireWolf
Yes, Tribute can include characters from other existing media! And don’t worry about your entry - we just haven’t gotten around to grading it yet! We will be able to catch up on grading after the week’s thread closes.

Crycket
It’s probably a marking error on our end - I can’t look into it right now, but I’ll take a look tomorrow!

this very genuinely might be a case of me not knowing how to do math/misunderstanding something so I apologize in advance lmao

but I was looking at my point bank, and it says I have 27 points currently, with the first two weeks + their challenges, plus the two so far that have been graded for last week.  I thought full weeks were supposed to be worth 10 points?  or does that only apply if you complete the whole month? 

in any case, last week y’all!!!! woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

edit: Crow