The Dream Foundry - Emerging Artists Contest

Description

The Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Artists is an annual no submission fees contest with cash prizes! Every year our contest coordinator selects ten finalists from a pool of submissions from artists around the world. Then our pair of judges choose three winners. In addition to their cash prizes, winners get featured at Flights of Foundry, an annual convention where professionals from all over the industry come to discuss all things related to the speculative arts.

This contest is for artists who are relatively new to paid illustration work for speculative publications in English. To be eligible for this contest, all the following rules must apply to you:

* You are starting out as a speculative artist—someone who paints or illustrates anything that falls within the Fantasy or Science Fiction spectrum—, and your lifetime earnings for art are $1000 (USD) or less.
* You have never been nominated for any speculative fiction awards for art (Hugos, Locus, World Fantasy Awards, Ignyte, etc), including fan categories.
* You have not been published in art industry magazines such as Infected By Art, Spectrum, ImagineFX, etc.
* You are not a previous winner of the Dream Foundry art contest (previous finalists can submit again).
* You don’t use any AI program like MidJourney, Stable Diffusion or others to generate art.

Artists can submit with an existing portfolio, retain all rights to their work, and there is no submission fee for entry.