The voting was overwhelmingly in favor of me holding the 2nd annual Halloween Costume Contest! :dance:
I'm really excited to do this again! I was very happy with all the support the first contest got last year. There were quite a few good pics that were entered in and many excellent costumes.

So here's the details:

You will have until the week before Halloween (Oct. 23 to be exact) to enter in a single piece of art featuring either one of my characters, one of your characters, someone else's characters (with their permission of course) or any combination of the three. Your pic can feature any number of characters, but they must all be in costume and their costumes can be anything:

-Classics: Witch/Wizard, Vampire, Clown, Cop, King/Queen
-Movie Characters
-Videogame Characters
-Anime/Manga Characters
-Comic Book/Graphic Novel Characters
-TV Show Characters
-Literature Characters
-Celebrities/Real People
-Anything else you can think of (BE CREATIVE! :D)

All I ask is that you be reasonable, respectable and tasteful with your choices. Something that's fun and most people can appreciate would be a good idea. After all, people will be voting on these pics/costumes.

The pic can be drawn by you or by someone else if you can convince them to draw it for you (as a gift or commission, doesn't matter).

As mentioned your, pic can feature any number of characters, but only one is going to voted on for their costume unless it's a group theme. I want to give everyone a fair chance, so whether there's one person in costume or a dozen, you have an equal chance at winning.

When the contest ends no more entries will be accepted and everyone will vote on the contestants.
Votes will be sent to me via notes and each person will vote once for each of the following categories:

-Best Costume/Group Costume (If applicable)
-Best Pic

It is possible for someone to win both of these categories.
It is important to note that you CANNOT vote for your own entry. You MUST vote for someone else. The idea is that if only the people who entered pics ended up voting and everyone only voted for themselves, we'd have a tie. There will be no ties! I have spoken!

Voting will end the night before Halloween. The winners will be announced on the day of Halloween with the top three costumes and best pic receiving prizes including:

Best Costume/Group Costume:
-1st Prize: $75 - $100 towards a commission or commissions from the artist or artists of your choice
-2nd Prize: $50 -$75 towards a commission or commissions from the artist or artists of your choice
-3rd Prize: $30 - $50 towards a commission or commissions from the arist or artists of your choice

Best Pic receives $30 - $50 to use as they see fit. Putting it towards a commission would be prefered. ;)

Notice how there is a price range for the prizes? This is based on two factors:
1.) What my funds are like for the coming weeks and how much I can save up to distribute to the winners.
2.) If your commission features at least one of my characters. (I'm happy to shell out a little more if you want to do a pic with one of my OC's ^_^)

A couple other notes I'd like to add:
-This contest is meant to be fun so please have fun with it. ^_^
-Even though bondage and mature themes are featured quite heavily in my gallery I'd like to keep nudity and adult themes out of the contest. -Bondage themes are limited to light bondage
-I want the focus to be on the costumes, so let's keep our sights on that please. ;)
-Horror scenarios are fine so long as they revolve around the theme of a Halloween party like a group of friends get jumped by vampires or the zombie apocalypse breaks out. Keep the violence and gore to minimum. Think PG-13.
-You may submit your own entry into the contest even if you have drawn an entry for someone else. However, in the event that more than one entry was drawn by a given artist only one of those pictures can be voted on. Artist's choice.
-Finally, all entries MUST be made specifically for this contest or at least were not made before this contest began.

Here is an example of what I'm thinking of as well as all the entries from last year to give all of you some ideas:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4386875/ (Not an entry, but a good scenario idea)
Last year's entries:
http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....41323#/d3246uy (Last year's best pic!)
http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....41323#/d3248hr (Last year's best costume!)
http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....41323#/d3247u5
http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....41323#/d32476e
http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....41323#/d32463s
http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....41323#/d32453m
http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....41323#/d32444q
http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....41323#/d3243mt
http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....41323#/d32436p
http://bngjessie.deviantart.com/gal.....41323#/d31jd8k

So send me your entries by attaching the pic to an email and send it to:

jessie_all_tied_up[at]hotmail.com

Good luck everyone! :D