Illustrator’s Illusion

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Illustrator’s Illusion is organized every year in the month of May for all traditional illustrators by Writers Pouch.​ This year, illustration submissions should be based on the poem mentioned below:

Poem

​Look over your shoulder
For there is a friend waiting
To hold your hand in communion,
In the winding journeys of life
To turn every place you go,
A special space called home.
What brings us together?
We are what we are
Fallen leaves drifting with the wind,
Still clinging to the parent tree
Raindrops from the same cloud,
Flowing in unknown waters
Birds of the same nest,
Lost in the wilderness
Searching for an identity
Until we find someone
Who completes us!
We are but reflections
Mirroring each other
Parts of the same whole
Entwined like flowering creepers
Growing with each other
We are what we are
Distant stars in the sky
Spreading the same light.

What brings us closer?
Some bonds are made not in blood
Strangers yesterday, friends today
Separated by distances, united in spirit
To come alive in each other’s company
We drift apart only to come together
Because we are meant to be.​

- “Woven from the Same Fabric” by Santhosh Annabattula

Condition

1. The submission should represent the poem above.
2. No digital art allowed [There’s a Digital Art contest in July].
3. Contest submission last date is May 31st EOD IST.
4. The dimension should be of ratio 16:9.
5. Illustrators are requested to submit rough sketches.
6. The submissions should be clear scanned copies or a photographs
7. The submission can be of any art style like oil painting, pencil sketches, water colours painting etc [Traditional Art only].
8. The submission should be original.
9. The submission shouldn’t have been posted on any other platform or book or blog in the past.
10. Only one submission per person.
11. No watermarks on submissions. 
12. Age of the participant must be above 12 years.

Selection

​The best submissions are selected based on how relatable and creatively the idea of the poem is represented.

Reward

1. The best submission shall be awarded ₹ 1,500/- and a collaboration offer.
   
2. The second best shall be awarded ₹ 1,000/- and a collaboration offer.
   
3. The third best shall be awarded ₹ 500/- and a collaboration offer.
   
4. The runner-up submissions would be offered the chance to publish their work alongside being given an offer to collaborate on future projects.

Submission

Illustration by Sravani Dhulipala

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