May 2026 Contest: MOTHER GOOSE

May 2026 Contest: MOTHER GOOSE

Two challenges for illustrators. A lineart and a coloring challenge. The lineart is to make a mother goose, referring to a tale. The coloring is to take one of the lineart challenge entries and color it. Prizes for the winners.

from @hddeviant in @color-me-club

https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/May-2026-Contest-MOTHER-GOOSE-1289531986

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🌅 Mother Goose: May 2026 Contest 🌅

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Join @color-me-club in coloring or creating coloring pages about themes that enliven our spirits. Coloring can be meditative fun or a communal activity, open to anyone at any skill level. Making a coloring page is like making a ticket for another's imagination into a place they have never been. Get inspired to color a world you have never seen but isn't complete without your prismatic touch!

🎯 THE CHALLENGE

1. For the Line Art Creators: From Puss and boots, to old mother hubbard, to humpty dumpty, Mother Goose has entertained and taught lessons through her stories. Do you have a favorite one from her? Do you alone know a tale no one has heard of? Envision Mother Goose, and create line art depicting her, giving note to one of her legendary tales.

2. For the Colorists: Once the line art phase is over, you can color any of the LineArt contest entries to complete these worlds with your prismatic touch! If you want to color before the coloring contest time you must use my example image or your own entry.

If you need more inspiration for your imagination I provide some more tools at the bottom of this post

FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO THE COLORING CHALLENGE

After the Coloring page challenge is finished, see below for times, you will be able to use any of the entries of the coloring page challenge plus my example image to color Mother Goose.

FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DO BOTH CHALLENGES

Please go for it! But you must note the times for each.

📅 DATES & SUBMISSION

• Line Art (Submit to Contest Folder)

  • Starts: May 1 , 2026 | Ends: May 25 , 2026

• Coloring (Submit to Contest Folder)

  • Starts: May 25, 2026 | Ends: May 31 , 2026

👨‍⚖️ Winners selected at the sole discretion of @color-me-club group administrators; all decisions are final and non-negotiable

You can also share your creations in the comments below to get feedback form other group members or just start a conversation about your art

🏆 PRIZES & REWARDS

All prizes courtesy of @Community and @color-me-club Ambassadors

🖋️ Line Art Category

• 🏅 Winner: 1,000 pts + Hype

• 🥈 Honorable Mention I: 500 pts + Hype

• 🥉 Honorable Mention II: 500 pts + Hype

🎨 Coloring Category

• 🏅 Winner: 500 pts + Hype

• 🥈 Honorable Mention I: 250 pts + Quartz

• 🥉 Honorable Mention II: 250 pts + Quartz

📋 RULES & GUIDELINES

⚠️ IMPORTANT: Human illustration only. No AI-generated entries will be accepted. Visit @DeviantAI for AI contests.

• Originality & Copyright: The line art must be your own work. Ripped or "sampled" line art will be disqualified, this includes tracing. This doesn't include referenced images. You may use images for reference, as long as you don't trace it directly and provide credit in the artist's comments section of your entry.

• Requirements: Min. 1200px / 300 dpi. Traditional art must be clean and scanned.Need help? Use this website to check the pixel size and dpi of your image.]

• Traditional drawings must be cleanly scanned, in focus, adjusted to predominately black and white, and on plain white paper. [Need help? Check out this excellent tutorial by @BeckyKidus: How to digitally edit traditional line art.]

• Originality: Must be your own work created after April 31st, 2026. No tracing.

• All entries must abide by the DeviantArt Terms of Service, Fair Use rules for submissions

• Accessibility: Line art must be free to download.

• Membership: Join @color-me-club to be eligible! That's free too

📚 INSPIRATION

Need help with your imagination? Read or view the following

I can't wait to see the beautiful visions of MOTHER GOOSE you create or color!

@HDdeviant

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