Tekkoshocon X Needs Fan Art!

We are once again taking submissions of artwork to don the various badges and publications for Tekkoshocon. All art donated to Tekko will be credited in the program booklet with a link to the artists' websites and if they can be found in the Artists' Alley and/or Art Show & Auction! So if attendees like your stuff, they'll come and find you! The bragging rights are great too! It even looks great on an illustrator's resume.

You can submit as much as you want and we will try and use it all somewhere! Submissions can be in any medium. This year's theme is time travel!

Please submit the following, with your entry as an attachment to thepatches@gmail.com and jenn.blankenship@tekkoshocon.com. Yes, submit to BOTH of those emails so we both get all the artwork!

Your Real Name
If you have a nickname you would like to be credited as (let us know if you prefer to only have this name published please!)
A website URL to link to if applicable
What you’re submitting the art for (badges, cover, interior, whatever) - Note that we may use the art wherever we see fit if we think it will also work somewhere else!
The file(s) of the artwork you are submitting.

Artwork Due date is February 26th

Here's what we're looking for!

Badge Artwork

Badge art will be...well...used on BADGES! Everyone will be wearing someone's art! Most con attendees collect badges from al the cons they’ve been to so your art will be treasured for years to come! We need separate art for Staff, Minions, Dealers, General Admission, Preview, Matinee, Guests of Honor, Press, and Artists. That's a lot of artwork!!

Please keep in mind the dimensions of a badge. Horizontal art will do better on a badge than vertical art.

Full-color artwork.
4x3" horizontal, and at least 300DPI/PPI
TIFF or JPEG format please
No border or writing/typography

This means you can draw our mascot(s) at different points in history, as time travellers, or as a combination of themes from previous Tekkoshocons.

Art must feature at least one of our mascots, who are described below.

Fanart is not permitted. You may only draw our characters in generic or parody themes. For example, you can draw Miyako in the style of your favorite time traveler, but you cannot draw her careening through time and space in a white DeLorean, a blue police box, the DenLiner, or the Epoch... TL;DR:Don't put copyright or trademark stuff in your artwork. You don’t want Tekko getting cease and desist letters now do you? :d

All artwork must be your original work

Program Book Interior Artwork

This artwork will appear inside the program book. It's used to decorate the pages and make them more interesting and nice to look at. Some of this artwork may be used in other places besides the program book where black and white art is useful.

Black and white, gray-scale, color or screen-toned art. Character art without a background tends to look the nicest. If you provide us with color artwork, if you can also provide us with the lineart/black and while version of that art as well, that would be awesome!!!

No larger (it can be smaller than) than 5.5x8.5 or 4.25x11" and at least 300DPI/PPI
TIFF or JPEG format please
No border or writing/typography

If your artwork has a person in it, it must be at least one of our mascots, who are described below. It does not have to be in the time travel theme - it could just be our characters in their regular outfits being themselves - however, if we get an abundance of art, time travel art will take precedence.

Fanart is not permitted. You may only draw our characters in generic or parody themes. For example, you can draw Miyako in the style of your favorite time traveler, but you cannot draw her careening through time and space in a white DeLorean, a blue police box, the DenLiner, or the Epoch... TL;DR:Don't put copyright or trademark stuff in your artwork. You don’t want Tekko getting cease and desist letters now do you? :d

All artwork must be your original work.

Program Book Cover Artwork

Some consider this the holy grail. Getting your art on the cover of the program book everyone gets when they enter the convention! If your artwork is chosen for the Program Book Cover you will win a free General Admission membership to Tekkoshocon 2012! If you have already pre-registered and win, you have the option of transferring your prize to another person of your choosing or rolling it over and using it for yourself in 2013 instead!

Full-color artwork is a MUST.
8.5x11" vertical, and at least 300DPI/PPI. All artwork must be this size or larger in RATIO to this size.
TIFF or JPEG format please
No border or writing/typography.
Allow for space for our designer to place the Tekkoshocon logo and information. Take a look at previous convention programs, comic books, magazines, etc to get the idea.

Art must fit the theme of the convention which is time travel. This means you can draw our mascot(s) at different points in history, as time travellers, or as a combination of themes from previous Tekkoshocons.

Art must feature at least one of our mascots, who are described below.

Artwork must have some kind of background. Even if it’s just a flat color.

Fanart is not permitted. You may only draw our characters in generic or parody themes. For example, you can draw Miyako in the style of your favorite time traveler, but you cannot draw her careening through time and space in a white DeLorean, a blue police box, the DenLiner, or the Epoch... TL;DR:Don't put copyright or trademark stuff in your artwork. You don’t want Tekko getting cease and desist letters now do you?

All artwork must be your original work.

Meet the Mascots!

Here's a rundown of our mascots. What they look like, what they're into and all that jazz. We're going to leave it up to you to artistically interpret their descriptions because that's more fun right?!

The Main Mascots

Miyako Tekko - This hyperactive, cheerful blonde wants to be at the center of everything. Whether she's rocking out at the center of a dance circle, showing off her new cosplay at the masquerade, or arguing the merits of her favorite dub in line for autographs, you know she's giving 110 percent! Miyako is just as enthusiastic when she's not good at something, which often leads to disaster. She wants to be a voice actress.

Features: around 17-18 years old, long blonde hair with bangs, tall with blue eyes. Her accessory is a hammer.

Hagane Tekko - 15 years old. While Hagane's sister is outgoing and friendly, he tends to be a bit standoffish at first. However, the Tekko family hyper-enthusiasm shows up whenever he's around technology. A video game prodigy, he dabbles in programming in his spare time. He and Miyako overdo their fights just like they overdo everything else.

Features: Short black curly/messy hair, glasses, loves loud shirts, green eyes. His accessory of choice is an umbrella.

The Cousins!

The cousins were brought onto the scene for Tekko VI to complete the "Super Sentai" theme. Named after Pittsburgh's three rivers (Allegheny, Ohio, Monongahela), the cousins accompany Miyako and Hagane on their many convention adventures, as well as starting several on their own!

Al Migawa - 23 years old, the oldest of the group spends a lot of time quietly making or fixing things. You wouldn't think it to look at him - his body seems just a bit too big for the intricate work that he performs with a brush or a pen. At any rate, you'll usually find Al selling his wares in the Artists' Alley, entering a piece in the model competition, or taking in a leisurely panel.

Features - Strongly built, tall, light brown hair, brown eyes.

Oh Migawa - 15 years old, Oh was born within days of Hagane, and as a result the two are obnoxiously competitive with each other. While Hagane usually wins when they face off in video games, Oh counters this by editing together AMVs and viral videos that become Internet legends. Oh himself is a bit of a legend in the Online Tekko Island MMORPG, though he prefers to game in person. At least once during every Tekkoshocon he and Hagane get into melodramatic, ridiculously verbose shouting matches during a CCG tournament.

Features - Short black hair, blue eyes, relatively short.

Mona Migawa - 13 years old and the baby of the group, Mona doesn't have a lot of chances to speak her mind. Hagane and Oh pick on her constantly, and it's hard to get a word in edgewise when Miyako is around. As a result, Mona is both painfully shy and desperate to be noticed. She savors the few seconds of face time she gets with the guests during autographs and practices hard to be able to thank the Japanese guests in their own language. She's developing a sense of style with an eye for J-fashion that Miyako can't begin to duplicate. More than anything, she loves going to concerts and practices hard in the hopes that she'll be the one on stage some day.

Features - Mid-length black hair, loves Japanese street fashion, glasses, green eyes.