Anime Expo Announces Amateur Art Contest

Anime Expo’s Manga Café will hold its first amateur art contest from June 29th through July 1st. Three winning entries will be chosen, and those winning artists will have their work displayed on the Anime Expo website and the Manga Café Wall of Fame at future conventions. In addition, each winner will receive an import artbook of his/her choice.

Requirements to compete:

• Create two original characters – one bishoujo (beautiful girl) and one bishounen (pretty boy)
• The characters must advertise the Manga Café
• The art must be hand-drawn
• The art must be in color
• The drawing may be no larger than 8 1/2″ X 11″
• The drawing must be created in the Manga Café during the convention