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The folks at MySoti and I can’t decide who should win our winter contest, so we’re asking you to vote on three finalists. We asked users to submit winter-themed artwork to MySoti for a chance to win 5 free shirts, 1 free poster print, and 1 free canvas print featuring any artwork the winner chooses. Here are the three we like best:

#1 - “Ruldulce” by user designsbygaunty:

#2 - “Winter Sucks” by user grootfontein:

#3 - “Winter” by user tmdurn7:

UPDATE:
The winner, with over 50% of the vote goes is grootfontein’s “Winter Sucks”

There are only a few weeks left to enter our winter contest with MySoti. Visit the original post for details, and check out all the current entries. The entry shown here is by user Grootfontein.

Think you can do better? Then submit your own winter-themed artwork for a chance to win some free t-shirts and poster/canvas prints featuring your art.

Our friends at Bountee, the fantastic print-on-demand t-shirt shop, have relaunched as MySoti. MySoti stands for “My Stuff On the Internet” and they’re expanding beyound just t-shirts. Currently they’re offering poster and canvas prints of your artwork, but expect other products soon.

Like Bountee, after uploading your art you can sell and share your creations, and you always retain the rights to your work.

To help celebrate we’re helping MySoti give away a prize pack including:

• 5 free shirts (of your choice)
• 1 free canvas print (any size)
• 1 free poster print (any size)

As it has started to snow here in Toronto, what could be a better theme for this contest than winter? To enter, simply create a product on MySoti with your winter-themed artwork or design and tag your entry ‘drawnblog’. It’s that simple. You have until January 31, 2008, after which myself and the crew at MySoti will pick our favourite entry as the winner. So get creating!

Mike Judge’s traveling theatrical animation festival, The Animation Show is enjoying its 4th year and to help celebrate we’re giving away some copies of the festival’s DVDs!

For a chance to win, simply send an e-mail to [email protected] with the subject line I Love Animation. Include your name and mailing address. Winners will be chosen at random.

The grand prize winner will receive The Animation Show Volumes 1-3 on DVD, and two runners-up will receive copies of Volume 3. Contest closes tomorrow, Tuesday September 16th at 8PM EST.

We have our winners from our t-shirt design competition with Bountee!

The grand prize goes to Ian D. Marsden who designed this great shirt, Can’t You See I’m Busy?. He takes home 31 shirts from Bountee, and a $75 gift certificate from BlueFlip Art.

Our runner up, winning 3 shirts and a $25 gift certificate from BlueFlip is Daniel M. Davis and his awesome whale.

We had such a great turnout, that we offered additional 3-shirt prizes to 3 of our favourite entries. Visit the Bountee Blog to see more of our winning entries.

As a thank-you, Bountee is offering a 15% discount on all shirt orders purchased with the code “drawn” on checkout (offer ends November 30).

Submissions are over for our t-shirt design competition with Bountee, but we’re going to leave voting open for 5 days to help determine a winner. Please visit bountee.com/drawn to vote — not only for your favourites, but the stinkers, too!

It should be noted that due to the nature of the submission-by-tagging procedure, we can’t stop new entries from being submitted, but entries submitted after October 31st will not be eligible.

Just a few days left to enter the T-shirt design competition we are running with out friends at Bountee!

You can check the original post for details, but here’s the skinny: you have until October 31st to submit t-shirt designs to Bountee based on the theme of creativity & inspiration, and tag them with drawn.ca for a chance to win a whopping 31 shirts from Bountee and a gift certificate from BlueFlip Art.

And please, even if you’re not entering, don’t forget to vote on the submissions! Visit bountee.com/drawn to see and vote on all the entries!

Here are a few great entries so far:

Clockwise from the top left: the work of lexillustrator, Puzon, Daniel M. Davis, and DottedMind.

Think you can do better? You have until 11:59pm, October 31st!

Just a reminder so you don’t forget about the crazy awesome contest we’re holding with our friends at Bountee in which you could win 31 shirts. You can check the original post for details, but here’s the skinny: you have until October 31st to submit t-shirt designs to Bountee based on the theme of creativity & inspiration, and tag them with drawn.ca.

Some entrants aren’t exactly following the “creativity” theme, but this design by Ian D. Marsden is simply wonderful. More stuff like this, please! I’ll be featuring some of my favourite entries every few days, so get to work. And don’t forget to vote!

Visit bountee.com/drawn to see the current entries. Think you can do better? DO IT!

This entire month of October, Drawn! and our friends at Bountee are teaming up to offer a fun contest to get your creative juices flowing. From now until October 31st we’re asking you to submit shirt designs to bountee.com based upon the theme of ‘creativity and inspiration‘. There’s no limit to the amount of times you can enter, and submitting a design is as simple as tagging your entry with the word ‘drawn.ca‘. The winners will be chosen based on the entries with the highest user ratings. Closing date for entries is 11:59pm, October 31st.

So what’s in it for you?

Grand prize: One t-shirt for every day of the month — that’s 31 t-shirts! PLUS a $75 gift certificate from BlueFlip Art

Runner-up: 5 shirts plus a $25 gift certificate from BlueFlip Art.

Submit your entries and vote for the winner at www.bountee.com/drawn/

Congratulations to the winners of last week’s Drawn! Giveaway, these fine folks will each receive the Animation Show DVD box set:

• Trevor Bassett, Seattle WA
• Simon Breslav, Eagan MN
• Janine Loomis, Riverview New Brunswick
• Michael Dashow, Oakland CA
• Susan Mitchell, Montréal Québec

Also, the fine folks at the Animation Show have just announced Montréal dates! Come see this fine program of independent animated shorts at the Nouveau Cinéma du Parc. The show opens May 18th and runs for a week only.

Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt’s The Animation Show, which is currently touring the US and Canada until June, is the one theatrical program I look forward to catching every year. With most theatrical animated screenings being of the slick, flashy celebrity-laden, three-dimensional variety, it warms my heart to know that Mike and Don are helping showcase some of the world’s best independent animated shorts.

Drawn! and The Animation Show are giving away 5 copies of The Animation Show Volumes 1 & 2 on DVD. The box set represents the first two years of the touring festival’s program and it’s a beauty. All the crowd-favourite pieces like Mike Judge’s original Milton short (which inspired his film Office Space) and interstitials by Don Hertzfeldt are on the discs, along with commentary on Don’s old-skool special effects wizardry. All my favourite shorts from the show are included, including Alex Budovsky’s Bathtime in Clerkenwell, Bill Plympton’s Guard Dog, and Koji Yamamura’s Atama-Yama, plus gobs more, and some new stuff that didn’t make the cut for the original tours.

For a chance to win on of the 5 sets of DVDs just send your name and mailing address to [email protected] by midnight EST Monday, April 16th. and make sure to include the words ANIMATION SHOW in the subject of the e-mail. Winners will be chosen at random.

Listen up, video game fans! As part of the European release of Every Extend Extra, a PSP game from Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Drawn! and Buena Vista Games is giving away an original, one-off piece of art taken from the game and designed by Mizuguchi. The artwork has been stretched onto canvas and Mizuguchi-san has signed it.

The work is described as synaesthesia — the union of sound, mood, and colour — and is completely original. To enter the draw to win, simply send your name and mailing address to [email protected] before midnight EST on Wednesday, March 7, and one lucky winner will be chosen at random.

The image at the top of the post is the artwork up for grabs. The picture of Mizugushi shows him holding a different, but similar, piece to give you an idea of the size.