In celebration of deviantART’s eighth birthday CEA is sponsoring a deviantMON contest.

The contest is obviously based upon the wondrously odd AdminMON inside joke which was launched weeks back in order to deliberately goof on our fellow staff members.

If you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about you can find the current AdminMON here:



Since we need to standardize the inside joke we're not asking you to lampoon specific staff members or deviants.

Everyone knows about the Deviant Type selection on your settings page where you can choose to label yourself as a certain kind of deviant and the selections range from the upstanding right on through to the downright weird.

In this contest you will get to illustrate these deviant types in the form of a deviantID badge, assign strengths, weaknesses, abilities and right a quick description of how they act, where they come from or any other weird and wondrous fact about them.

To enter is simple; just choose one of the following Deviant Types to illustrate;

All entries must use the official template

Entries will be judged based upon originality, humor, the quality of the artwork and writing, and most of all the humor. The contest judges will be $realitysquared, $damphyr and $y2jenn.

Submit to the deviantART related/ deviantART Birthday/ 8th category and should contain the keyword deviantMON Contest

Prizes will be awarded for the best three designs with judging commencing on midnight August 8th and the winners being announced shortly thereafter;

First prize: $100 devCASH
Second prize: $60 devCASH
Third prize: $30 devCASH

To clarify, the deadline is August 8th at midnight

To keep the contest focused the five types were chosen to illustrate because the full listing of types is well over 100 and not all types are "fun" or inspiring.

Having said that, this contest is about being creative, thinking outside the box, having fun with concepts and it's all about deviants so if you have an idea for a different type then go for it and it'll be considered

You may name your deviantMON, but make certain that the type is in the little box called 'type'. If you cannot come up with a name then don't sweat it- that's why "deviant" is the default.

You may use the template as your deviantID, you may personalize it and make a deviantMON to represent you. The template will remain up long after the contest.
If you go beyond the contest and insert yourself into the strange adminMON/deviantMON world I want to see so link me!