Doodle City brawl has come to an end! pixiv Official Contest "Doodle Battle" Results Are Here!!

These are the results for Doodle Battle, the latest pixiv original contest which was held between June 8th ~ 26th 2017!

What's pixiv original contest "Doodle Battle"?

Overview:
In this pixiv original contest, participants challenge each other on the stage of Doodle City. Users can select their favorite faction among dark, vivid and pastel, each coming with its very own color scheme. The winning team is then chosen depending on the total number of bookmarks that the team members' submissions receive!

The Three Teams:

・Pastel Street, for those using pastel colors

・Vivid Park, for those using vivid colors

・Dark Town, for those using dark colors
Each user can affiliate with a team and post their submissions!

The Prizes:
Apart from the winning team, we are going to distribute a number of awards for many different categories!

The point of this contest was the opportunity to rearrange original characters from other users, redrawing them in your style and with your favorite color scheme. In other words, users had the chance to see fan art of their original characters! What an amazing experience, don't you think?

▲ This pixiv contest makes use of the pixiv function "Image Response" (let yourself be inspired by the original illustration and draw a new one)!

Rewarding not only teams, but also single illustrations!

Apart from the winning team prizes, we prepared many more in order to reward single illustrations as well.

Check out the awards here:

・Each team's MVP Awards

An award for the illustration that got the most attention/bookmarks in each team.

・Befriend Awards

An award for amazing renditions of other users' characters.

・Idea Awards

An award for works based on unique ideas.

・Special Awards

An award for... You'll find out at the end of the article!

Which submissions are going to receive the special awards? Which team is going to celebrate a well-deserved victory?

Are you ready for the results of pixiv original contest Doodle Battle?

Let's start by announcing the winning team, which brought home the highest number of bookmarks!

What's the winning team!?

3rd: Vivid Park

2nd: Pastel Street

1st: Dark Town

With a total of 1,455 submissions and 18,822 bookmarks, the winner is Dark Town!! It had both the highest number of submissions and the highest number of bookmarks: what an overwhelming victory!

We're delivering a victory declaration, directly from Dark Town.

▲ The image says: "Dark Town was the winner this year". This year? Does it mean there's gonna be another round...?

Congratulations to all users who affiliated with Dark Town!
Let's now announce the winner of the remaining awards, starting from each team's MVP!

You are the ace! What's the MVP submission from each team?

We will now announce each team's MVP, the submission that drew the most attention and got the highest number of submissions in each neighborhood.

Pastel Street MVP Award goes to...

Vivid Park MVP Award goes to...

Dark Town MVP Award goes to...

Roa

by 尾上廉

Congratulations to the winners of the MVP Award!

Let's proceed with the Befriend Award!

A retake that bursts with originality! Befriend Awards

We will now announce the winners of the Befriend Award, the submissions that feature characters which were taken from other teams and redrawn in the most brilliant way!

Dark Town character UsaTank, by コーヘーズ, was redesigned by members of the rival themes... But how?
Let's take a look at the two winners of the Befriend Award!

【ラクガキ大戦争】うさタンク【ぱすてるアレンジ】

by あおうさぎ/UKKO

The user 九州外伝 managed to equip the character with some unique weapons and successfully made it into a member of Vivid Park! User あおうさぎ/UKKO, on the other side, turned those weapons in food-dispensing cardboards and made the same character a proud member of Pastel Street.
Thanks to the amazing skills of these creators, the original illustration got plenty of amazing tributes. Congratulations on winning the Befriend Award!

Let's move on to the winners of the Idea Awards!

That's a good one! Introducing "Idea Awards" winners!

There were so many great ideas that the pixiv official contest team created a number of different awards, each with its very own name. Take a look!

Let The Feast Begin Award

【ラクガキ大戦争】いそべうさぎ

by 佐藤ザラメ

Never Thought This Would Win An Award

野ウサギ（ラクガキ大戦争）

by おぐらあん子FANBOXあり

Primadonna Award (multiple award)

Original illustration: affiliated with Pastel Street

【ラクガキ大戦争】プリム・リーナ

by 白田すみこ

Redrawn illustration: affiliated to Vivid Park

Coloring Award

【ラクガキ大戦争】シャボネット

by 柊之

Best Posing Award

拾い食いはしない

by 鶲

Best Scene Award

鎖亀

by CouldOH

Black & White Award

6/17

by 大志

Mysterious Design Award

歌に恋するランプさん

by VAVAA

Congratulations to all those who manage to bring home one of the many Idea Awards!

And now, for the Special Awards...

The total number of submissions in this Doodle Battle was 4,271, and users bookmarked these illustrations 53,488 times in total (※).
Thanks to all creators who posted their work and to all users who participated this contest, we managed to pull it off successfully.
We decided to assign a Special Award to the three users that posted the highest number of image responses. Check them out!

Special Award: Highest Number of Image Responses - TOP 3

1st place: かせいすみの

2nd place: ピュア純：( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

3rd place: H2(えいちに)

※ The total refers to submissions posted with the tag of any of the teams.

If you want to see more, head out to pixiv!

Thanks to all those who posted their original characters and participated to pixiv official contest Doodle Battle! It looks like, through this contest, people could pull off an amazing art exchange through image responses. If you want to learn more, please check out pixiv!

We are currently planning many more exciting contests to be held on pixiv, so please look forward to them! We hope you'll keep using pixiv in the future.

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