Contest | Design Ideas.

Second time writing this.  >.> Forgot to click 'remember me' when I logged in.  Ugh.

In short, I'm looking for written descriptions of character designs, and figured that Equiverse is always willing to help.  c:  And since it's not only us who make art who need money, I thought a bit of a monetary incentive would be nice.

To clarify: These are descriptions for NEW characters that I will turn into art pieces and characters for my own use.  I don't want descriptions of your characters, I want you to create an entire new one that you are okay with selling to me (technically, winning the prize from me) in exchange for the written design.  The example below is of my own character, and only used to show the level of detail in the description I would like.  The design idea for the character will be credited to whomever creates it, but I will own the character.

Rules:
- Don't steal designs that you've seen.
- Three designs per person, I don't want to be flooded with designs, but I'd like everyone to have their chance.
- I like descriptions.  I want to visualize what these characters look like without an image.
- Anything goes so long as it's equine-based.  Any color, horns, three tails, extra hair, wings, etc.  Do it.  I like stuff.
- Additions are fun too.  Crowns, cloaks, knives, jewelry.  All appreciated.
- Basic color characters are fine for entry, but they are less likely to be chosen if they down have something to make them unique.  Example:  I would rather chose a bay horse with sabino markings that has ink bubbling out of his back over a plain bay sabino horse with nothing else. 

Characters of Mine:
Novakaine | Dhormon | Phenex | Seraphim | Saique

Prizes:
1st & 2nd Place: 50k and one free tag recolor at my next sale.
3rd, 4th, 5th Place: 50k
There could be more or less placings, depending on the number of designs entered.

Form:
Base Coat Color:
Mane/Tail Color:
Markings:
Eye Color:
Physical Additions: Wings/Horns/Spikes/etc
Clothing: Crowns/Cloaks/Jewelry/etc
Anything Additional:

Example of a Good Design Description:
** This is just to show the types of detail I would like in a character depiction.  These are to be brand new character descriptions, that I will turn into my own characters.**
For Phenex:
Base Coat Color: Blood Bay
Mane/Tail Color: Black
Markings: Coat looks as if dusted with gold.  It moves beneath the surface of the skin so the pattern is never the same.  The molten gold color is shown closely along the jaw in the shape of sharp teeth, around the eye and nose, and in striping along his upper legs.
Eye Color: Crimson
Physical Additions: Two blackbuck horns measuring 16" in length.  The left horn is broken jaggedly halfway to half it's height.  Tail bone runs entire length of tail, making it completely poseable.  Dark grey/Black wings.
Clothing: Wears a golden bangle in tail on occasion. 
Anything Additional: Unbroken horns, wing tips, and end of tail is on fire at all times.

Last edited on 2017-12-13 at 17:06:17 by Nittrous

Is this for characters we already had, or are we supposed to make up a new one?

New ones, for my use.  I've been having a character design block for more in-depth characters, and thought people who like to come up with them might like to enter.

Are they supposed to be what they look like now? Or new?

Form:
Base Coat Color: Blue Roan Tobiano
Mane/Tail Color: white with streaks of blue and black
Markings: Tobiano markings. Bald face and 3 socks. Both front legs and off hind.
Eye Color: dark blue
Physical Additions: huge black feather wings with white diamond shapes on the base of the wings. Head has 10 inch antlers it. Antlers have 8 points each with Ruby's in each point. Tail looks like a lions tail 
Clothing: wears a necklace with a horse skull on it. The chain is good with Ruby inlay. Horse skull eye sockets have Ruby's in them. 
Anything Additional not that I can think of

Form:
Base Coat Color: Lemon Yellow
Mane/Tail Color: Orange and Red
Markings: Red brindle markings. White snip on nose and white socks. both on off legs. 
Eye Color: fire engine red
Physical Additions: Horse has a unicorn horn that splits in the middle with one in front and one on back. ( I hope that makes sense) The back horn is blood red and the front horn is pumpkin orange with the base jet black. Hooves are all red with yellow stripes up the front and have yellow feathers. Mane and tale are normal horse mane and tail but are very long. Horse has black spikes that go from the withers tomthe base of the tail.
Clothing: horse has a cloak on with holes to expose spikes. Cloak is dark yellow with a red pinstripe around edge. Cloak is not worn at all times 
Anything Additional: feathers on legs can change color when cloak is worn. Turns color of cloak. 

Form:
Base Coat Color: very dark cream, like a gold, very dark shade
Mane/Tail Color: black with rose gold tips fading into the main (pun intended) part
Markings: black marking on the rump that covers the majority of the flank and goes in a thinner line up the back and comes back down in a band (not solid, kind of like a bloody shoulder marking) around the stomach. A bloody shoulder (also black) that covers about 2/3rds of the lower neck and goes down the very front of the forelegs (both sides of the horse)
Eye Color: red with gold flecks
Physical Additions: Wings/Horns/Spikes/etc
Face armor that is made of bone that has a spiral that goes around the eye . its not connected to anything its just kindof attached, almost like part of the horse. Each foot has a bit of bone, like a hooklike claw that comes from the pastern
Clothing: Crowns/Cloaks/Jewelry/etc
None
Anything Additional it could always have 3 heads if you wanted it toXD

Last edited on 2017-12-15 at 09:28:49 by TheSessa of X-MasPresent

Form

Base coat: a silver black that seems to shine under the moon
Mane/tail: a creamy like color with slightly dark baby blue high lights here and there
Markings: a white dorsal stripe going across it's back stoping just before the tail with parts reaching out toward it's stomach stoping half way (almost like a rib cage). It has a strip of white on it's face shaping into a hook as it nears it's snout, stoping just before it hits the bottom lip
Eye color: both eyes are an emerald green
Physical additions: N/A
Clothing:  it wears a off white goat skull along with a pendant around it's neck shaped as a spear, the spear changes colors by mood.
Anything additional: three of the hooves are a dark silver while the forth right hoof is a white creamy color ( kind of like the mane but lighter in color)

Form:
Base Coat Color: A hunter green color
Mane/Tail Color: A blend of different shades/tints of green, some strands of a metallic silver, but an overall dark look 
Markings: High concentration of flecks of silver on his/her hindquarters that make the horse look almost a "green roan", with the roan fading out over the rest of the body. High concentration of silver flecks on the ear tips, in the white hooves, and on the legs (create a "roan sock" or a "roan stocking" if you know what I'm saying)
Eye Color: Darker hunter green with silver flecks making up pupil (The flecks are floating in the eye and form together when the eye is focused)
Physical Additions: Very small and straight horns, silver, and less than 10 inches, (like a giraffe's horns if that makes sense)
Clothing: I'm not sure, but I could see this horse having silver necklaces wrapped around the legs or horns.
Anything Additional: I imagine the hooves as looking like normal hooves, but with silver flecks suspended in them. Might be a bit too graphic, but I also imagine this horse having a very metallic silver blood (Not even sure if this is relevant lol)

Base Coat Color: Palomino
Mane/Tail Color: White
Markings: Aqua blue streaks in mane and tail; same color blue coronet on front right hoof
Eye Color: green
Physical Additions: n/a
Clothing: a shimmering silver cloak
Anything Additional: Seaweed is tangled in the mane and tail and wraps around legs; fish friend floats in a bubble above her head [fish is optional lol]

Description one:

Form:
Base Coat Color: A very shiny buckskin.
Mane/Tail Color: Cream coloured (white). It always floats around the body (imagine the horse is underwater).
Markings: Imagine that you have a paintbrush with paint on it, then you flick the hairs on the brush so that paint is scattered everywhere. That is all along the back and it is browny tinged. Also, white markings like tear shapes are underneath the eyes.
Eye Color: White irises with brown flecks and black pupil.
Physical Additions: Wings/Horns/Spikes/etc Two horns (where antlers would be on a reindeer), that only have one point. So they are curly and are pointing straight up.
Clothing: Crowns/Cloaks/Jewelry/etc Two plumes (six feathers on each horn) streaming off the back of the horns. The feathers are whitey cream (same colour as mane/tail) at the base, blending into brown (same shade as the markings) at the tips. These feathers are very fluffy and very long, reaching all the way back to the base of the tail.
Anything Additional: The build is Akhal-tekey.

Description two:

Form:
Base Coat Color: Seal brown.
Mane/Tail Color: A Charcoaly black
Markings: Trickles of red running down the flanks and side (think blood with the wound on the back). Also, grey roaning all over the body, except the legs.
Eye Color: Fiery red with black pupils.
Physical Additions: Wings/Horns/Spikes/etc A small crater (bear with me) on the back at the root of all the red streaks. (I'm going for a volcano themed charrie here). The crater is charcoal black. 
Clothing: Crowns/Cloaks/Jewelry/etc A small locket on the end of a chain hanging around the horse's neck. This is always surrounded by smoke and the chain is bright red with the ruby red locket at the end. It is very close to the neck, like a choker.
Anything Additional: The build is Shetlandy.

Description three:

Form:
Base Coat Color: Bay, but half greyed out.
Mane/Tail Color: Dark green with stone grey streaks.
Markings: A darker green star on face. Strange shapes of leaves like ivy and holly are strewn around over the legs and loire body. 
Eye Color: Startlingly blue but wise-looking and sorrowful.
Physical Additions: Wings/Horns/Spikes/etc This charrie has spines all along its back. They are about 30cm long and are stone grey with gold at the tips. There are about ten of these, from the poll of its neck to the base of the tail.
Clothing: Crowns/Cloaks/Jewelry/etc I guess the undergrowth (see below).
Anything Additional: This is going to be confusing, but hear me out. The idea is that the horse got stuck in some vines/leaves and couldn't get out. There are leaves and climbing plants all around its legs, entangling it so that it will never get away (this is also enforced with the leaf - shaped patterns on the legs/lower body). There are plants caught all along the spines, too. Sad, innit? Build I thought maybe drafty.


Last edited on 2017-12-16 at 12:54:23 by 🎁 It’s Snowing On Io

Form:
Base Coat Color: Silver Dapple
Mane/Tail Color: Silver grey
Markings: Rabicano
Eye Color: Light blue
Physical Additions:  Spikes along the back, either a braided mane and tail or a trojan mane and tail 
Clothing: Silver cuff around one or both front legs, earring bar on one ear, silver chain dropped over one of the spikes that connects to the tail
Anything Additional: N/A

Last edited on 2017-12-17 at 12:32:29 by Zest

Can we use the design ideas we submitted to make our own characters?

Form:
Base Coat Color: Gold with green rust lines
Mane/Tail Color: Rusty Gold
Markings: Tribal tattoos/Runes
Eye Color: Ruby
Physical Additions:  Elongated mouth, spike on the end of the muzzle and fangs. Unicorn tale with spikes along the top edge and Cloven hooves
Clothing: N/A
Anything Additional: This creature is an old guardian from a lost civilization with thick hair and sharp teeth/spikes. It appears to be made out of metal, you can hear the beast coming from a distance because of the telltale rattle of metal on metal. The Ruby eye practically glows as if there is a hidden light inside this ancient monster.

@WalkTrotCanter - any designs that don't win/aren't bought are free to be used by their original creators.

Contest will end on 12/20/2017 at 12pm EV time.  c:


Last edited on 2017-12-17 at 15:23:19 by Nittrous