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 LONDON MCM EXPO CELEBRATES ANIME, ART & COSPLAY IN THE ANIME VILLAGE
Join the UK's top companies from the world of Anime & Manga in the London MCM Expo 'Anime Village'. For details on artists attending, check out the Comic Village section.
Over the course of the weekend we will be holding Cosplay competitions. Question & Answer sessions, exclusive footage of upcoming releases, competitions and much more!
You will have a chance to get some incredible EXCLUSIVE give-aways from the top distributors including, Manga, MVM, ADV Film, Revelation Films, BEEZ and many more.
Sweatdrop Studios are proud to present the MCM Expo Art Competition, in association with Letraset.
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Art Competition Entry Details
This Show's Theme is: Self Portrait. For details, click through to the Sweatdrop Forums .
Please read the rules below carefully:
Each MCM Expo, Sweatdrop, Letraset and some special guest sponsors give you the chance to get your work seen by expo attendees and stand a chance of winning some fantastic prizes. How can you do that? It's easy.
There are two parts to the Sweatdrop Expo competition, both offer prizes to the best under 16 and the best 16 and over images:
Best Artist Alley piece - This is for pieces created on the day in our busy drawing area. Paper and Letraset markers are provided, but make sure you bring along anything else you may need. If you want to draw an entry on your own paper, make sure you have the paper stamped by a member of sweatdrop before you start drawing, or your hard work will be for nothing!
Best Pre-Made - This refers to pieces you bring from home to enter, but not just any piece will make it. Each event, Sweatdrop will announce a new competition theme. To view it, simply head to http://www.londonexpo.com/www.sweatdrop.com/forum and look out for the London Expo Competition theme announcement. This is normally posted up one month before the event, to make it fair on everyone.
You can enter both categories, but of course will only be allowed to win one. We can't be greedy, can we? To enter either one, simply come to the Sweatdrop table and hand your entry into a sweatdrop member.
Oh, and we mustn't forget the special Young Star award, a prize offered to the best image received from our younger expo artists.
Best of luck to everyone who enters, we'll see you at the expo ^_^
~ A little note on entering with fanart: Unfortunately we've noticed too many entries recently that appear to have been copied from references. It also makes judging very difficult since we can never be sure to what extent an image has been copied. We wouldn't wish to ban fanart outright, but we do advise people to enter with caution. If in doubt, we strongly encourage you to create an original piece. The judges will take all this into consideration. |
Who are Sweatdrop Studios?
Though springing from humble beginnings (the desire to save a bit of cash when booking a table at a convention), it cannot be denied that Sweatdrop has made its mark on the UK manga scene. But what exactly is Sweatdrop, and who are the people behind the name?
Whilst named a UK "studio", Sweatdrop is in fact only a studio in a virtual sense. Its twelve members hail from across the UK and their main means of contact is the mighty internet; primarily their thriving forums.
It all began as a platform for the collective to print and sell original comics. eight years on, and the members of Sweatdrop have found themselves working in close contact with the likes of Tokyopop, Letraset, Wacom, e-frontier and more; even running their own manga school feature in the hugely successful Neo Magazine; all this whilst maintaining their day jobs!
Though several of its members are persuing succesful illustration careers independently, Sweatdrop remains a collection of dedicated manga/comics fans who use the group to print and distribute their own UK-grown brand of manga-styled comics.
For a full list of Sweatdrop comics and to access the forums, check out sweatdrop.com
Current members:
Dock (Haden Scott-Baron), Laura Watton, Emma Vieceli, Sonia Leong, Keds (Aleister Kelman), Selina Dean, Fehed Said, Bex (Rebecca Burgess), Sunkitten (Morag Lewis), Marbles (Jacqueline Kwong), Scorpio (Joanna Zhou), Wyldflowa (Chloe Citrine).
You should see a fair few of the above at the London MCM Expo. So, as some of their forum members have started doing recently, why not play Sweatdrop bingo and see if you can catch them all? |
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