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Entering Prompts

Most prompts are designed to be used with your own tessarium character, but If you don't have one yet you can enter General & Mini prompts with the Group Mascots to earn TC and badges in the meantime. Other kinds of prompts you can do with a tessarium character are Questlines, which include Skill and Affinity prompts.

Check the Prompt Art Guidelines to understand what counts as a scene, fullbody, etc.

Please note you cannot combine prompts to claim 2 badges at once, except for mascot badges - You can earn these along with the prompt badge by drawing the corresponding mascot in any prompt.

Prompt Turn-in

Mini Prompts

​Mini prompts are simpler prompts that don't get you badges, but still earn TC. These can be done as many times as you like.
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Rewards

Colored Scene: 8TC (for each additional character pictured, up to 3 total: +2TC for grown characters, 1TC for hatchlings )
Colored fullbody without background: 3TC

Sunrise - Draw what your character does first thing in the morning. 
Munch - What's your character's favorite food?
Fun - What is your character's favorite way to have fun?
Hunt - Show your character scavenging for items, food, or treasure.
Nap - Draw your character having a nap somewhere.
Swim - Show your character going for a swim! (or maybe they hate swimming?)
Ouch - Show your character getting hurt or after they got hurt. How did it happen?
Alternate Universe- draw your character as a human, anthro, or gijinka! What do they do normally in this world?

General Prompts

General prompts earn you Badges and more TC than mini prompts!
​They are all character-focused prompts, so you'll need to use either your own tessarium character or the group mascots to earn the rewards. You are free to interpret the prompt how you like as long as you meet the prompt's art requirements. 
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Submitting: When you have everything ready, submit your prompt entries to the General Prompts folder, then turn them in for TC & badges here. 

Prompt Art Guidelines

What are Thumbnails?

Leaving Home

What was it like the first time your character left their home town? Were they moving out, going off on an adventure, or did they get kicked outta town for some reason? Draw a piece about their new experience! You can respond to the prompt however you like, for example, your character packing up to leave, on their way out, or maybe their first night away from home. 
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Reward: Leaving Home Badge, 10 TC
Art Skills: Drawing a Scene, thumbnails
Bonus​: +3TC for each additional charatcer pictured, up to 3

Submission Requirements:

1. Page of at least 5 sketch/value thumbnails
2. Finished colored art piece of your prompt response (scene/graphic)

Fairytale

Recreate a fairytale or myth of your choice! You can choose to do 1, 2, or 3 scenes.
If you do 1 scene, you can choose any moment that stands out to you. If you choose to do 2 or 3 scenes, Your scenes should tell a story when they are viewed together- beginning, middle, and end.

​The story/myth can be from any culture- you might like to browse a list of tales from around the world. You can include other characters, humans and animals in your scenes- you can include characters of other species as well but the bonus TC will only be counted for tessarium speciescharacters.

You're also allowed to dress up your character as you like or make them look different from how they look in canon- ie. if you're doing the gingerbread man, you can draw your character as if they were made out of gingerbread.

Rewards: 12TC per scene & Fairytale Badge (40TC total if you do all 3 scenes)

Bonus:
+3TC for each extra tessarium character per scene

Art Skills: Visual Storytelling, Adapting characters to an AU, Thumbnailing

Submission Requirements:

1. 3 composition thumbnails per scene- (ie if you do 3 scenes, a total of 9 thumbnails) Can link to these in the description of your piece(s). When you are thumbnailing, think about what parts of the story you want to show and the mood you want in the scene.
2. 1-3 full color pieces (scene or graphic) with your character + Background depicting a myth or fairytale. In your description, please say which myth/fairytale you chose with a link if necessary. 

Palette Challenge BAdge

Make 3 different color thumbnails from 3 of the palettes below, then pick one to finish into a scene. For the settings, you can choose anything- one idea could be to draw the kind of location the colors or name makes you think of.
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Reward: 15TC & Palette Challenge badge

Skills: Value, Using limited colors

Submission Requirements:

1. Full limited-palette scene or graphic with character & background
2. 3 different thumbnails with different palettes

Choose a palette from below, or from Palitra. 

SUIT UP Badge

Design wearable gear or an outfit for your character that helps them perform a task! This could be for holding gathered berries, delivering packages, performing, espionage, diving, lighting the way for others, time travel, etc! You could think about your character's job or hobby and go from there. It can be anything!

Include a moodboard (in an image, photo album, stash, on pinterest) of things that would be helpful reference & inspiration for designing your outfit. Look at your moodboard as inspiration to generate ideas, & do some loose exploratory sketches to design your outfit. Take your favourite sketches & refine those ideas to develop an idea you really love!

Reward: Suit Up badge, 14 TC
Skills: Moodboarding & referencing


Submission requirements

1. Moodboard & sketches: a sketchpage with at least 4 source images you took inspiration from (from pinterest/google etc) and at least 4 sketches of outfit possibilities. (You don't need to submit this as a deviation and can upload it to sta.sh, just add a link to it in the description for your finished piece/requirement #2)
2. A finished colored art piece (scene) of your character wearing the outfit in a scene with a background, performing the task the outfit is for.​ 

Submit these to General prompts and leave a comment with your deviations at Badge claim to get your badge and TC!

Style CHameleon

Draw your character in at least 6 different art styles from animated shows or other artists! You can also transform your character to make it fit into the world of the show more- ie. if you're drawing a dragon character to fit into spongebob, you could draw it as a sea dragon. 

When you're analyzing the style you'll be adapting, pay attention to the following:

• Posing & expression- What's the norm or range for these in your source?
• Shapes: Are the characters very geometric, or very soft and rounded?
• Line style and weight: Are the lines precise or sketchy, thick or thin? Do they vary in thickness, and where? 
• Color use: style comes through in color choices as well. What kind of color choices does the source make? Are they usually muted, darkened, high-contrast, or oversaturated more than what you would use? Try to experiment with using color-picked colors from the source.
• Think about how the source might be drawing and how you'll imitate it- will you need to use bigger, looser strokes than normal? Will you need to work in blocks of color instead of line?

Rewards:
Style Chameleon badge
14TC

Bonus:
Include a 7th drawing in your own style. +2TC

Art Skills:
Studying stylisation
Adapting to styles
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Submission Requirements:

1. A sheet with 6 fullbodies of your character in different styles other than your own. You can include a 7th drawing of your character in your own style for comparison to the others for a bonus +2TC.

Snack Badge

Design Packaging for a snack themed around your character! It could be candy, flavored milk, juice box, soda, treats for draphibi, bettabo fish food, etc. Should have a new brand name/snack title on the label. Include a moodboard or pinterest board of at least 5 examples of packaging designs you like. (Drawing the character themselves on the label is optional but the overall design should at least be inspired by them)

You can draw the bottle/packaging itself, or use a Mockup Asset if you're able. A mockup asset is usually a realistic template complete with shading you can insert your design into to make it look legit. You can google "free _ mockup" to find almost anything. You will usually need to use a program that can handle PSD's. 
Chocolate & candy Mockups
Soda, milk, champagne etc Bottle Mockups


Reward: 10tc and Snack Badge
Art Skills: Packaging Design, Using Mockups

Bonus:
+3tc for at least 3 thumbnails of your design
+2tc for using a mockup asset for the final image, or one of the final images. You can also put this in the deviation description instead as an extra if you prefer your Drawn design. (please link to the one you used in your description)
+2tc for including full wraparound/both the front and the back design of the label (must have nutrition table but you can write joke values & numbers in it. check google for a nutrition label generator or template.)

Submission Requirements:

1. Design for a food or drink product packaging/label based on or featuring your character.
2. moodboard of at least 5 images of existing packaging you like

Sloppy Badge

Draw a picture ENTIRELY with your non-dominant hand (everything- sketch, line, color, bg) including at least 2 characters.  If you are ambidextrous you can do it with your foot/mouth. GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!

Reward: 11TC, Sloppy Badge
Art Skills: None

Submission Requirements:

1. A colored, lined scene with bg including 2 characters.

Mini DioRama Badge

Show your character in a mini diorama environment you made! This can be a scene, terrarium, paper theatre, etc. It can be physical media, or digital 3d. The material can be anything (sculpey, paper, foam or paperclay, wood or stone carving, paper folding, etc) as long as it depicts your character in an environment you created. It can be 3d or flat-3d (like a paper theatre)


Reward: 15TC
Bonus:  +4tc for each extra character (up to 3)

Art Skills: Model Making

Submission Requirements:

1. Diorama (miniature scene) of your character in a 3d environment (physical or digital) 
2. 3 small thumbnail sketches planning your model
3. Your diorama must have 3 different background elements (these don't all have to be in 3d) The example below has a tree, rocks, pond, flowers, and fish.

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