Art Raffle '24 Closed

Name: Aston Beckett
Art for Which Character: Aston
Any specific Raffles: Uly (sorry just realised the form got updated)
Type of Art Requesting: Banners! Love your banners, but haven't been lucky enough to get on the list yet :[
Inspiration/Mood Requesting: Fantasy vibes with light colours, so light blue, gold, some whites. Though I'd trust that I'd be happy with damn near anything you make
Other: I'm super grateful for the way the community just welcomes everyone! This site really is a part of me opening up and being more social online and I am super grateful for that. Everyone here has just been so welcoming and made my time onsite so nice. And the official disc is great, had a lot of fun talking to people there, they made the OOC interaction just as enjoyable as the rp. Special thanks to @Cass Ito for helping me get on the site and get settled in, they are a big part of how I got to where I am now and I thank them for it

Name: Alyss Gilmour
Any specific Raffles: Nope, I’m good with anyone!
Art for Which Character: Alyss!
Type of Art Requesting: a portrait please!
Inspiration/Mood Requesting: Happy, carefree. Apothecary/herbology and cottagecore vibes if possible
Other: I’m not only thankful to the people who welcomed me just this June and July, but the group of friends that I’ve found myself a part of. Ev(praksiya), you are so kind and generous, always willing to listen and give. I will always be thankful for you and all you’ve done to help me. Without you, I absolutely would have given up on this site, but I feel like you have me a friend when I needed one most! Lena, Nova, Sang, Lio, Mozy, and Ollie (and Cirrus and Lumi and Eric and Mei): you guys never fail to lift me up and make me laugh. I am forever grateful for the advice you’ve given, companionship offered, and smiles I’ve gotten simply from reading the chats. You all are angels in my heart and I will try my best to remember you all as such. Everyone else who played a part in my journey thus far: thank you, and I hope you and I continue to interact, and that I can eventually pay you back for your kindness. I love you all, and thank you so much for all that you’ve done to help me belong

Name: Oliver Armani
Any specific Raffles: Xai
Art for Which Character: Oliver! :3
Type of Art Requesting: Headshot would be preferred
Inspiration/Mood Requesting: Little edgy, sad, angry, all about his house being Slytherin and not Gryffindor. Needing to match expectations. All that for the mood. And vibes sort of overgrown ruins and academic pressure
Other: Forever thankful for this site, along with the people on it for pushing me and helping me in my writing so so so much over the (I think?) years now. Even when I deactivated and came back, every time I had fun with my characters and that is all because of the people here. If it wasn't for you I wouldn't have come back as much as I did. Hoping to find a character I loved and stuck with to be with this community even more. Shout outs to @Colin McCoire My first RP partner ever on site, always there to RP be it on Quinn, Andre, Alexander or Oliver. Our RP's are always fun. @Kim Sato Again! Always fun to RP with. And everyone in the discord, y'all know who you are (bc I'm going to link this lol) there's just so many of you there all the plots I have with you all, and all the threads. Nova, Eric, Sandy, Ev, Sang, Gekko, Cirrus, Alyss. And more, You always know how to make me laugh in class when I shouldn't be laughing. Always respectful, always fun, and everyone is so very welcoming (everyone on site).

I truly mean it when I say you all have helped me in so many ways, not just in writing. And I love you all (platonically)

Name: Cirrus Nam
Art You're Offering: Headshots
How Many Pieces You're Offering: 5
Other: I just wanna say, that honestly I'm speechless. Speechless due to all the love and kindness I have been shown in a less than a month than I have ever felt with any other friends/community. I just want to say how thankful I am to have had the chance to have met all the people I have, all the creative and unique minds I have had the blessing of coming into contact with. I have always been on the up-tight side giving me nicknames like robot (Even google thought I was a bot for goodness sake), but ever since I have met these wonderful people I have felt at ease for once and like I can actually relate and talk to people. Though they always try to play it off they don't understand that really they are some of the most sweetest people with souls of gold. If any of them were to be shown what they looked like inside they would be sparkling stars amongst a dark sky. I just wish that they all have a happy healthy life and that they truly understand the gravity of what they've done for me and how deeply I appreciate every single one of them. Every single joke and idea has only uplifted not only me but everyone together, it gives you hope, that sacrifices made for others. It shows what true friendship is, and what it's meant to be. Not perfect, beautifully broken. The type to make you laugh even though you have bruises. I just thank God for all of this, and all of them. (Oliver Armani, Gekko Phillips, Alyss Gilmour, Eric Kim, Anella Vaughn, Aodhan Shaw, Evpraksiya Vinogradova, Meiyu Xiang, Sandy Thompson, Ula Takahashi, Sanguinius Demarest, Elena Clark, Oakleigh Bell, and Novalie Moon) TAROTS UNITE I appreciate you all.

Name: Rebecca Lark
Any specific Raffles: Nope, I'm happy to surrender myself to fate
Art for Which Character: Bex :3
Type of Art Requesting: Banner or headshot is preferred, but I'm also happy to leave this one up to fate.
Inspiration/Mood Requesting: growth and change, nature/plantcore, summertime, two roads diverged, moths??, brown and green color palette (unless it's Uly, in which case yes, you can make it your traditionally vibes); pinterest board
Other: Where can I even start? I'm grateful for all the incredible people I've gotten to meet here, especially the Goons, Circinus, the Swiftizens, and the Murder Hotel crew. I got to meet a handful of Hio friends at a convention this year, and it was an indescribable blessing. I'm grateful for how much my writing ability has grown just in the year of been here, and I'm grateful to everyone who has patiently closed their eyes while I was learning from my mistakes. I'm grateful for my family, my sister especially. I was lucky enough to have my best friend be born in the same household as me. I am grateful for how hard of come, and all the lessons I learned along the way. I hope to never stop being humbled by my own hubris, and spend my whole life growing from it. Finally, I'm grateful that there's a coffee shop on my way to work, as I'd be a miserable wretch every day of my life without it. Mwah. Love you.

Name: Sage Willows
Any specific Raffles: Xai
Art for Which Character: Sage
Type of Art Requesting: Full body character art
Inspiration/Mood Requesting: Sort of a vintage cottagecore, greens & grays & blues, open to chatting about this and whatever the creator wants to do
Other: I joined this site nearly 2 years ago and I never thought I'd have stayed here this long. For that, I'm grateful for every single person I've met here on site because they have given me a gift to tell Sage's story and improve my writing (really hope I get to meet some of y'all for real someday). HiO helped me find my community. I'm grateful for my best friends (who know how obsessed I am with this site) because they never get tired of my endless ranting about this place and writing and whatever crazy things have happened. I'm so thankful to my parents because they've supported my writing since I was little and loved everything about me no matter what it is (like wasting a lot of ink to print stuff). Love you all thank you for putting up with me

Name: Kim Sato
Any specific Raffles: Uly
Art for Which Character: Kim Sato
Type of Art Requesting: Character Banner
Inspiration/Mood Requesting: Surprise me! But please don't use too much white. Something that has snakes in it! Maybe nature and paint brush colors/streaks? I'm not entirely sure how you'd do the raffle thingie as in whether you enter by character or just 1 per person. Kim's faceclaim is Hyunjin Hwang from Stray Kids. My iNPC Tone Bakugo's faceclaim is Felix Lee from Stray Kids. If I do win and the person wants to do Tone's or Kim's more, that's fine too. You can pick between my characters if you have to pick just one.
Other: Thanks for doing this btw, I only just saw this yesterday! Or whenever it was I posted this! Once I get some free time and $ if you do this again, I'll join as an artist and make people things again! Thanks so much! It's so great that you came up with this idea, sometime next year I'll probably try and do something like this too. So many great artists are out there and it's just so awesome that you guys can do this kind of thing!
Notes: Here's a board that has some chosen pictures for you!

Name: Tone Bakugo
Any specific Raffles: Uly
Art for Which Character: Tone Bakugo
Type of Art Requesting: Character Banner
Inspiration/Mood Requesting: Surprise me! But please don't use too much white.
Other: Tone's faceclaim is Felix Lee from Stray Kids. For inspiration/mood, surprise me it can be anything! Maybe put some cats in it?
Notes: Here's a board that has some chosen pictures for you!

Name: Aodhan Shaw
Any specific Raffles: any!
Art for Which Character: Aodhannie
Type of Art Requesting: i leave this to fate
Inspiration/Mood Requesting: bang!
Other: some of the NERDS above me got all cute and thankful so now i have to return the favor since i finally got home.

first and foremost, uly thank you one million times over for inviting me. even with my reservations, so far, it's been some of the most fun i've had roleplaying because of the wonderful folks here. everything i'm able to talk about in this post is because of you (:

the people i've interacted with for the past few months have been some of the most talented, kindhearted, and funny individuals i've had the pleasure of meeting. truly, they all have such beautiful minds and it's an honor to see them bring so many ideas to life on this site. they inspire me to do better and get more involved with my own character's story, to really expand and try making him come alive in different ways, and that's such a blessing considering my general issues with motivation. they've helped me smile on bad days, and helped build my confidence when it comes to my own writing/attempts at making graphics.
so yeah. to all the people active in the tarot group, thank you. y'all really make my experience here, and i wouldn't have it any other way (no matter how deranged the lot of you are /j).

also, a big thanks to ula for being one of the first people willing to roleplay with me here. that holds a special place in my heart, especially when they're such an excellent writer like??

Name: Mellani Miller
Any specific Raffles: Any
Art for Which Character: Mell and Reuben both work, upto you
Type of Art Requesting: Either banner, coded post template or full body character art(again, upto you)
Inspiration/Mood Requesting:
Mell: Something a little on the darker rebellious side if that makes sense, dark greens, blacks, dark shades of red, maybe a night type of vibe. FC is Sarah Hyland
Reuben: Total opposite of Mell, cheery, with lots of flowers and bright shades of orange, yellow, pink, purple etc. Very daytime vibes. FC is Ivan Zhvakin
Other: Ty all of you for doing this raffle!

Name: Mellani Miller
Art You're Offering: Banner
How Many Pieces You're Offering: 3
Other: Please note, I am not the fastest artist, and have many OOC things atm, so it might take some time to complete everything.

Name: Sabrina Lyons
Any specific Raffles: Not picky, I'll let the fate decide for me
Art for Which Character: Sabrina
Type of Art Requesting: Character banner is prefered (as I am completely helpless with those myself), but anything would be really appriciated
Inspiration/Mood Requesting:

I've never been the type for pinterest moodboards or aesthetics in general which - yeah, not helpful right now. Sabrina's whole vibe is kinda blue-ish, silver, night sky, lots of feather and stars stuff for whatever reason, tea, old books smell, sweets (especisally dark chocolate) cozy- she's overall a really happy bean so that also.

Other:

In assosiation with this site specifically - I am really greatful for the opportunity of meeting and connecting with new people. Internet can be a scary, dark place so it makes me even more happy that such positive and creative community can strive in this place.

Name: Sabrina Lyons
Art You're Offering: Character Portraits, Headshots, Full Body Character Art (basically anything drawing based)
How Many Pieces You're Offering: It depends on how busy I'll be, but even then I should handle 2-5
Other: Right now, i don't have many recently done things to show as examples - school has been taking the creative toll on me for a while now - but I'll try to put together a post of my older stuff up in the art gallery in a bit and link it here.